Physical & Life Sciences

Scholars dedicating their careers to the study of living organisms and non-living systems

Erin Howard

Erin Howard

Erin joined Charles River Laboratories in March 2021, tasked with building their first-ever user experience design function. During her time at CRL, Erin has built an enterprise scale design function and now leads a combined customer-focused team delivering experiences end-to-end for the customer. Her team of Product Management, Product Design, and Organizational Change Management builds and implements products for CRL customers and internal teams based on an MVP mindset focused on the most impactful challenges. Erin has nearly 20 years of experience in building high-caliber product design teams that deliver world-class design solutions aligned with the user and business goals. She has held leadership roles in business consulting, data analytics and consumer app-based organizations, where she’s transformed design from a service-delivery mind-set to influential and deep rooted within the culture.
Erin enjoys crocheting, gardening, and building her hobby farm. She lives on 20 acres in Central Virginia with her husband, two daughters, two dogs, and eight chickens.

Erin joined Charles River Laboratories in March 2021, tasked with building their first-ever user experience design function. During her time at CRL, Erin has built an enterprise scale design function and now leads a combined customer-focused team del... Show more

Eve Cogan

Eve Cogan

News producer @ ABC News 🎤 Multimedia producer @ SSW TV 🎥 Graduate of journalism and innovation

News producer @ ABC News 🎤 Multimedia producer @ SSW TV 🎥 Graduate of journalism and innovation Show more

Dan LeFebvre

Dan LeFebvre

Dan LeFebvre was the first Certified Scrum Coach in New England with over forty years in product development as a developer, manager, director, and coach. He has been applying agile practices to successfully deliver products since 2003. He has worked with Dr. Sutherland since 2009.

Dan spent two years as the internal agile coach for Kronos, a Boston-based Software Company, where he coordinated and implemented Scrum within the 700-person engineering organization across all sites including Massachusetts, Atlanta, Chicago, Oregon, Montreal, British Columbia, Belgium, and India. This resulted in increased visibility into the development process and a reduction in defects by 60% in 18 months.

Dan has consulted and coached organizations across various industries including finance, automotive, medical devices, IT, oil & gas, and manufacturing. Dan has coached software teams, hardware product teams, IT operations teams, and executive leadership.

Dan holds a Master’s degree in Computer Science from Boston University. He is a Registered Scrum Trainer Fellow.

Dan LeFebvre was the first Certified Scrum Coach in New England with over forty years in product development as a developer, manager, director, and coach. He has been applying agile practices to successfully deliver products since 2003. He has worked... Show more

Jonathan Romano

Jonathan Romano

Jonathan is a full stack software developer and devops engineer, currently working at Howard Hughes Medical Institute in the Das Lab (part of the Stanford University Department of Biochemistry) leading development of the Eterna citizen science game and open science platform. His interests focus around UX, DX, and software architecture in domains including R&D, arts & digital media, HCI, information management, collaboration, and education.

Jonathan is a full stack software developer and devops engineer, currently working at Howard Hughes Medical Institute in the Das Lab (part of the Stanford University Department of Biochemistry) leading development of the Eterna citizen science game a... Show more

Adam Scott

Adam Scott

Adam is an accomplished IT leader with over 15 years of experience driving cloud adoption strategies and digital transformation initiatives. As Director of Cloud and Transformation at Tata Consultancy Services, he leads engagements with C-level executives at major healthcare, life sciences, energy, and utilities enterprises.

Leveraging deep technical expertise in cloud platforms, DevOps, and emerging technologies, Adam provides strategic guidance and tailored solutions to help clients migrate legacy systems to the cloud. He has delivered complex cloud implementation and change management programs, shaping technical roadmaps and operations to enable business innovation.

Known for his passion for technology, Adam has driven major modernisation initiatives across industries. He advises senior leaders and key stakeholders on how digital capabilities can increase efficiency, reduce costs, and unlock new revenue opportunities.

With strengths in long-range strategy planning, solution architecture, and governance, he is a trusted advisor for enterprise cloud adoption and digital transformation. Adam thrives on staying ahead of technology disruptions to drive positive impact through innovation.

Adam is an accomplished IT leader with over 15 years of experience driving cloud adoption strategies and digital transformation initiatives. As Director of Cloud and Transformation at Tata Consultancy Services, he leads engagements with C-level execu... Show more

Reza Azimi

Reza Azimi

The speaker has 9 years of MS BI experience. However, it is his first time conducting an on-person session on the BI topic. Therefore, he may lack some experiences but he will do his utter most to make it a success.

The speaker has 9 years of MS BI experience. However, it is his first time conducting an on-person session on the BI topic. Therefore, he may lack some experiences but he will do his utter most to make it a success. Show more

Isaac Johnston

Isaac Johnston

Isaac Johnston is a self-taught kiwi software engineer who has worked with Clojure(Script) for the past eight years and has a continuous self optimisation mindset. He is the owner-operator of Superstruct Ltd, a Clojure(Script) consultancy. Johnston is also the father of two incredible children, a 2 year old boy Amani ('peace and harmony' in Swahili) and 10 year old girl Keza ('beautiful' in Kinyarwanda). He is married to an amazing wife Sharon from Kenya.

Isaac Johnston is a self-taught kiwi software engineer who has worked with Clojure(Script) for the past eight years and has a continuous self optimisation mindset. He is the owner-operator of Superstruct Ltd, a Clojure(Script) consultancy. Johnston i... Show more

Kübra Selçuk

Kübra Selçuk

Hi, I am an Software Engineer. Likes to Communicate with people and develop my self to code mobile apps.

Some personality facts: I was born in Amsterdam came in 2012 to Turkiye ,since then I visit the Netherlands.

Behalve my Engineering career , I am singing and writing songs and dancing since 8 years old it relaxes me. Dancing to R&B and POP
I have an Youtube Channel an a Soundcloud account I upload my covers there.

At least, I like to watch Romantic, Comedy movies and Animal Documentaries.

Hi, I am an Software Engineer. Likes to Communicate with people and develop my self to code mobile apps. Some personality facts: I was born in Amsterdam came in 2012 to Turkiye ,since then I visit the Netherlands. Behalve my Engineering career ... Show more

Dave Bostock

Dave Bostock

Over 25 years of Software development experience in Business applications, PaaS and bespoke solutions. Dave has a long history in many different industries- computer games, personal finance, local government, resources, education, insurance, utilities and energy providers. He has enjoyed steady progression up the layers from machine code and Assembly to C and C++, finally to SQL, c#, javascript and PowerFX. He says that you learn by mistakes. Dave prefers to learn from other peoples. Having made enough mistakes of his own to learn a lot..... His epitaph would read "What's the worst that can happen.....oh...yeh... I hadn't thought of that."

Over 25 years of Software development experience in Business applications, PaaS and bespoke solutions. Dave has a long history in many different industries- computer games, personal finance, local government, resources, education, insurance, utili... Show more

Scott McCue

Scott McCue

- 35 years experience in airline aircraft maintenance
- Elite sportsperson in rowing, cycling and motorcycle racing
- Mentor and coach in high human performance
- Conference speaker

- 35 years experience in airline aircraft maintenance - Elite sportsperson in rowing, cycling and motorcycle racing - Mentor and coach in high human performance - Conference speaker Show more

John Michael Egana

John Michael Egana

Mike is a Bioinformatician in the Philippine Genome Center (PGC). He obtained his BS degree in molecular biology and biotechnology in the University of the Philippines and currently pursuing MS degree in Computer Science in the same university. His work in PGC is mainly in the genomic biosurveillance of COVID-19 but later delved into developing scalable pipelines of different bioinformatics analyses in-house. He also works in data engineering and management of genetic and clinical data. Being part of the local bioinformatics community in the Philippines, he also teaches in trainings and internship programs to build the capacity of other local bioinformaticians. Before working at PGC, he worked on transcriptomics of insects and coconuts; and viral metagenomics of mosquitoes.

Mike is a Bioinformatician in the Philippine Genome Center (PGC). He obtained his BS degree in molecular biology and biotechnology in the University of the Philippines and currently pursuing MS degree in Computer Science in the same university. His w... Show more

Christina Lunn

Christina Lunn

An Human Resources professional with experiences in HRIS, People Analytics and change management. Driven by curiosity and passion learning, Christina is a self-taught PowerBI user, leveraging new technologies to transform HR data into actionable insights. With experience in implementing multiple HR system and processes, Christina combines technical expertise with strategic HR knowledge to drive innovation and improve business outcome.

An Human Resources professional with experiences in HRIS, People Analytics and change management. Driven by curiosity and passion learning, Christina is a self-taught PowerBI user, leveraging new technologies to transform HR data into actionable ins... Show more

Craig Dent

Craig Dent

Craig Dent works as a Senior Solutions Engineer for Snyk APJ, helping developers adopt cloud native technologies, while empowering them to stay secure.

He has 20+ years of experience working in senior presales, customer success and solutions architecture roles with global software vendors and start-ups, both proprietary and open source, delivering on-premise and cloud-based solutions. He provides technical and strategic advice with regard to security for public cloud, code, open source, IaC and container.

Craig Dent works as a Senior Solutions Engineer for Snyk APJ, helping developers adopt cloud native technologies, while empowering them to stay secure. He has 20+ years of experience working in senior presales, customer success and solutions archi... Show more

Tom Siebeneicher

Tom Siebeneicher

Having worked worldwide, Tom has gained experience in many different cultures and fields of expertise. Nowadays, focusing on transforming large-scale companies into agile organizations and designing future operating models for these organizations. Speaking at conferences like the Atos DREAM Conference in Vianen, NL, the Agile Leadership Day in Zürich, Switzerland, and the TED XKE by Xebia, Tom proved to be an engaging speaker.

Having worked worldwide, Tom has gained experience in many different cultures and fields of expertise. Nowadays, focusing on transforming large-scale companies into agile organizations and designing future operating models for these organizations. Sp... Show more

Craig Shallahamer

Craig Shallahamer

Having worked with Oracle technology since 1989, Craig Shallahamer is a leader in the fields of machine learning, artificial intelligence and Oracle database performance tuning.

Craig has extensive experience in constructing and teaching predictive modeling methods, notably developing a Reinforcement Machine Learning bot in 1990. He has launched several specialized generative AI conversational assistants, each with distinct personalities. As an Applied AI Scientist at Viscosity and the founder of OraPub, Craig is also the author of two acclaimed books: "Oracle Performance Firefighting" and "Forecasting Oracle Performance".

He has received recognition as an Oracle ACE Director for his valuable contributions to the Oracle community through his technical expertise and leadership. Craig is an active participant in Oracle user groups, frequently presenting at conferences and serving as a board member and volunteer.

Having worked with Oracle technology since 1989, Craig Shallahamer is a leader in the fields of machine learning, artificial intelligence and Oracle database performance tuning. Craig has extensive experience in constructing and teaching predictiv... Show more

Nattapong Nunpan

Nattapong Nunpan

Stupid software engineer

Stupid software engineer Show more

Rick Hutten

Rick Hutten

Rick Hutten is a Java software engineer based in the Netherlands, currently working at Ordina. He specializes in event-driven microservices and Domain-Driven Design and is also interested in the fields of artificial intelligence, statistical analysis, and home automation.

Rick Hutten is a Java software engineer based in the Netherlands, currently working at Ordina. He specializes in event-driven microservices and Domain-Driven Design and is also interested in the fields of artificial intelligence, statistical analysis... Show more

Robin Yeman

Robin Yeman

Expertise spanning over twenty-five years in software engineering with focus on Digital Engineering, DevSecOps, and Agile building large complex solutions across multiple domains from submarines to satellites. She advocates for continuous learning with multiple certifications including SAFe Fellow, SPCT (Candidate), CEC, PMP, PMI-ACP, and CSEP. She is a Systems Engineering PhD candidate at Colorado State researching best practices to deliver complex safety critical solutions using Agile and DevSecOps.

Expertise spanning over twenty-five years in software engineering with focus on Digital Engineering, DevSecOps, and Agile building large complex solutions across multiple domains from submarines to satellites. She advocates for continuous learning wi... Show more

Rahul Valiya Veettil

Rahul Valiya Veettil

Rahul is a senior data scientist at Evotec, where he uses data science and bioinformatics to support global in-vitro and in-vivo biology teams. Rahul received a PhD from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev studying resistance mechanisms in cancer and therapy. When not being an overenthusiastic data scientist, you'll find him playing with his son, penning insightful blogs, or indulging in his favorite podcasts.

Rahul is a senior data scientist at Evotec, where he uses data science and bioinformatics to support global in-vitro and in-vivo biology teams. Rahul received a PhD from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev studying resistance mechanisms in cancer and ... Show more

Giovanni Ferrannini

Giovanni Ferrannini

Membro del primo team studentesco italiano a tema Quantum Computing, QubiTo. Il nostro obiettivo è la divulgazione delle tecnologie quantistiche e delle loro applicazioni.
Studente magistrale Physics of Complex Systems Politecnico di Torino

Membro del primo team studentesco italiano a tema Quantum Computing, QubiTo. Il nostro obiettivo è la divulgazione delle tecnologie quantistiche e delle loro applicazioni. Studente magistrale Physics of Complex Systems Politecnico di Torino Show more

Sameesh Kher

Sameesh Kher

As a bioinformatician at the German Human Genome-Phenome Archive (GHGA) and the Stegle Lab at DKFZ, I build automated data pipelines and analyze spatially resolved datasets. I integrate multiomics approaches to understand medical conditions, aiming to bridge the gap between theoretical understanding and dry lab techniques to uncover deep patterns in biological data. Additionally, I participate in consortium projects focused on infrastructure building, creating standardized and reproducible workflows to facilitate downstream data analytics.

As a bioinformatician at the German Human Genome-Phenome Archive (GHGA) and the Stegle Lab at DKFZ, I build automated data pipelines and analyze spatially resolved datasets. I integrate multiomics approaches to understand medical conditions, aiming ... Show more

Martin Beracochea

Martin Beracochea

Martin is the MGnify Production Project Lead, responsible for overseeing technical operations. His responsibilities include managing the development of new web services and bioinformatics pipelines for production environments.

Martin is the MGnify Production Project Lead, responsible for overseeing technical operations. His responsibilities include managing the development of new web services and bioinformatics pipelines for production environments. Show more

Vicky Fieschel

Vicky Fieschel

Vicky Fieschel is a registered nurse and has been in the healthcare industry for 26 years. Her background includes critical care, management, and long-term care. She served as a manager for ICU and PCU for five years throughout the COVID pandemic but is currently the Restorative Care Coordinator for her facility's community living center. She serves as an adjunct facility educator for various programs throughout her organization. She believes that providing ongoing continuing education to nursing is essential to ensure the growth and development of the profession.

She had her Associate Degree in Applied Science in Nursing at Mountain Empire Community College, Bachelor of Nursing from the University of Virginia College at Wise and Master of Science in Nursing degrees from University of Phoenix. She is currently enrolled in the Doctor of Nursing Practice program at Old Dominion University. She is a registered nurse and is Six Sigma Lean Yellow belt certified. She holds a certificate in Health Informatics from American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA). She is currently the co-chair for the Professional Practice and Quality Council. She is a member of the American Nurses Association and Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society.

When she’s not taking care of patients, she loves to travel with her husband and read. She helped to coordinate a large medical mission, over 20 years ago, in southwest Virginia that continues to operate providing services for the underserved. She is a lifelong learner and loves to educate herself on anything new and upcoming in the world of nursing.

Vicky Fieschel is a registered nurse and has been in the healthcare industry for 26 years. Her background includes critical care, management, and long-term care. She served as a manager for ICU and PCU for five years throughout the COVID pandemic but... Show more

Samah Choudhury

Samah Choudhury

Samah Choudhury is Postdoctoral Researcher and Lecturer with the Department of Race, Diaspora, and Indigeneity at the University of Chicago. She is at work on her first book, American Muslim and the Politics of Secularity, which asks how a “sense of humor” came to be a prized trait of the modern secular subject and why present-day Muslims are consistently configured as lacking this comportment. Through a study of the American Muslim standup comedians, she contends that Muslim legibility depends on situating Islam and within the logics of model secular subjecthood and the register of race. Her work has been supported by the Asian American Religions Research Initiative, the Center for Islam in the Contemporary World, the UNC Chapel Hill Asian American Center, the Institute for Social Policy and Understanding, and the Pauli Murray Center for History and Social Justice. She previously taught at Ithaca College and earned her PhD in Islamic Studies from UNC Chapel Hill in 2020.

Samah Choudhury is Postdoctoral Researcher and Lecturer with the Department of Race, Diaspora, and Indigeneity at the University of Chicago. She is at work on her first book, American Muslim and the Politics of Secularity, which asks how a “sense of ... Show more

John Akello

John Akello

John Akello has over 14 years experience in the field of
Technology and Innovation. His areas of specialization are
Ideation, Web Development, Design, Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality.

Over the course of his career, he has completed over 200 projects for both local and
international clients. His attention to detail, business acumen and distinguishable mark of
excellence make him among the highly sort after Creative Technologists in the region.

His philosophy of being an ‘Intern for Life’ has fueled his love of learning. This has seen
him attain over 150 professional certificates in the areas of: Technology, Business
Management, Leadership and Finance.

His book Creative Thinking - A Journey through the 8 Facets of Intelligence is the first of
its kind. A creative amalgamation that combines the fields of Personal & Professional
Development, Technology and Publishing. It was born out of his exploration of how to
optimize his performance as well as that of his team members over the past decade
while solving the age old dilemma of overcoming the challenges of the Publishing
Industry.

John Akello has over 14 years experience in the field of Technology and Innovation. His areas of specialization are Ideation, Web Development, Design, Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality. Over the course of his career, he has completed over 20... Show more

Ijeoma Ezeokoli

Ijeoma Ezeokoli


I'm Ijeoma Jennifer, Chief of Staff at Tunjio Labs LLC. I lead operations, talent management, and serve as the Lead Investor Relations Officer. Additionally, I offer strategic support to drive organizational success.

I'm Ijeoma Jennifer, Chief of Staff at Tunjio Labs LLC. I lead operations, talent management, and serve as the Lead Investor Relations Officer. Additionally, I offer strategic support to drive organizational success. Show more

Julio Olivos

Julio Olivos

Magíster de Ingeniería en Seguridad de la Información, Ingeniero Informático, Postgrado en Auditoría de Sistemas y TIC´s de la Universidad de Chile.
Certificaciones CEH Ethical Hacking, Ciberseguridad PECB e IoT Cisco.
Perito forense informático reconocido por la Corte de Apelaciones de Santiago de Chile, Ex miembro de la Brigada Investigadora del Cibercrimen Policía de Investigaciones de Chile, Miembro del Comité Espejo del Instituto Nacional de Normalización (INN) y Profesor de catedra de la Universidad Mayor de Chile. Con más de 15 años de experiencia en temas forenses.
Publicación científica sobre metodología y peritaje de drones en: www.forensedigital.cl

Magíster de Ingeniería en Seguridad de la Información, Ingeniero Informático, Postgrado en Auditoría de Sistemas y TIC´s de la Universidad de Chile. Certificaciones CEH Ethical Hacking, Ciberseguridad PECB e IoT Cisco. Perito forense informático r... Show more

Tolga Kaya

Tolga Kaya

Dr. Tolga Kaya is a Professor and Director of Electrical and Computer Engineering programs at the School of Computer Science and Engineering. Dr. Kaya’s research primarily focuses on sports data analytics on wearable devices to monitor athletes’ physiology. He currently incorporates machine learning techniques to predict athlete performance and injury. He is well-known in the field of hydration research and sports data analytics. Besides his Ph.D. in Electronics Engineering, Dr. Kaya also has an M.A. in Education Technology and an MBA.

Dr. Tolga Kaya is a Professor and Director of Electrical and Computer Engineering programs at the School of Computer Science and Engineering. Dr. Kaya’s research primarily focuses on sports data analytics on wearable devices to monitor athletes’ phys... Show more

Cesar Morales

Cesar Morales

Ingeniero mecatrónico de formación, techie de profesión. Me defino como un apasionado por la tecnología lo que me llevó a hacer de mi pasión, mi profesión. Empecé en IT en 2018 y desde entonces he trabajado desde el desarrollo de chatbots, implementación de DevOps, desarrollo de software en Vueling, especialista y tech lead de IoT ...hasta mi actual posición donde apuesto por AWS y la aplicación del Big Data a la genómica.
Como se puede apreciar me desenvuelvo en la tecnología que se necesite, si no la sé la aprendo y si la sé trato de exprimirla al máximo.

Ingeniero mecatrónico de formación, techie de profesión. Me defino como un apasionado por la tecnología lo que me llevó a hacer de mi pasión, mi profesión. Empecé en IT en 2018 y desde entonces he trabajado desde el desarrollo de chatbots, implementa... Show more

Daniel Carril

Daniel Carril

Ex-amazonian, I use my secret knowledge to solve problems and make life easier for those working with me.

Ex-amazonian, I use my secret knowledge to solve problems and make life easier for those working with me. Show more

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