Physical & Life Sciences

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

Charlotte Zetsche

Charlotte Zetsche

Raising awareness on irregular menstrual cycles in women's endurance sports: Why does it happen and how to regain a regular menstrual cycle while still doing the sports we love.

Certified Personal Trainer and Nutritionist by NFE
Founder of femtech app EVOA
Startup Showcase at WebSummit Lisbon 2025

Raising awareness on irregular menstrual cycles in women's endurance sports: Why does it happen and how to regain a regular menstrual cycle while still doing the sports we love. Certified Personal Trainer and Nutritionist by NFE Founder of femtec... Show more

Volkan Özçelik

Volkan Özçelik

Hi, I'm Volkan 👋,

As a software engineer with over two decades of experience, I've been deeply involved with the SPIFFE community, helping to expand its adoption across diverse systems.

I've had the privilege of leading the architecture for projects like SPIKE and VMware Secrets Manager, both built on SPIFFE identity principles.

My journey has taken me into fascinating territories, including active participation in the O-RAN Alliance's Security Focus Group (Working Group 11). I've collaborated with telecom operators worldwide to help integrate SPIFFE into O-RAN's identity management framework. This work has helped extend strong identity practices to the challenging edge environments of telecommunications networks.

I'm passionate about making complex security concepts accessible to everyone, which has led me to author articles, conduct live streams, and speak at various events. Good security should be understandable, implementable, and fun—that’s what I believe at heart.

When I'm not exploring new ways to implement zero-trust architectures or experimenting with concepts like human SPIFFE IDs, I'm supporting our community in the SPIFFE Slack channels or organizing onboarding events for newcomers.

Currently, I serve as Lead Principal Engineer at VMware Cloud Foundation, where I continue to advocate for identity-first security approaches in cloud-native environments.

Hi, I'm Volkan 👋, As a software engineer with over two decades of experience, I've been deeply involved with the SPIFFE community, helping to expand its adoption across diverse systems. I've had the privilege of leading the architecture for ... Show more

Z. Hamilton Avery, LCSW, BC-TMH, CMT, CYT-1,000, TIYT

Z. Hamilton Avery, LCSW, BC-TMH, CMT, CYT-1,000, TIYT

Z. Hamilton Avery, LCSW, BC-TMH, CMT, CYT-1,000, TIYT, is an interdisciplinary speaker, educator, psychotherapist, clinical social worker, coach, and integrative wellness practitioner with more than 15 years of professional experience spanning mental health, healthcare, crisis services, education, bodywork, yoga, meditation, coaching, and complementary and alternative medicine.

Z develops presentations, classes, workshops, trainings, retreats, and multi-part educational programs on mental health and well-being, trauma and PTSD, suicide prevention, stress and burnout, anxiety and depression, chronic illness and pain, grief and loss, coping skills, mindfulness and meditation, self-compassion, resilience, 2SLGBTQIA+ affirming care, and integrative approaches to health and wellness.

Their interdisciplinary perspective is informed by experience in outpatient psychotherapy, integrated primary care, community mental health, hospice and end-of-life care, mobile crisis services, 911 emergency communications and first response, health education, coaching, bodywork, yoga, meditation, and community-based care. Z is also a Certified Massage Therapist, Certified Reiki Master trained across multiple lineages, and Certified Yoga Teacher with more than 1,000 hours of accredited training (much of which was completed in India).

As an educator, Z translates peer-reviewed research, theory, and professional knowledge into accessible learning without stripping away the complexity that makes the material meaningful. Programs can incorporate visual materials, discussion, reflection, experiential exercises, guided practices, practical skill development, and take-home resources.

Z brings structure to the learning environment without treating the agenda as a rigid script. Questions and interaction are welcomed. Programs are adapted to the audience, setting, and level of prior knowledge. Introductory programs can establish foundational concepts. Advanced and clinician-focused trainings can move deeper into research, theory, assessment, diagnosis when relevant, treatment, interventions, and clinical application.

Z's teaching style is warm, genuine, curious, and appropriately humorous. Trauma-informed facilitation, accessibility, informed participation, and individual choice are important throughout their educational work, particularly when addressing difficult or emotionally demanding subjects.

Z wants audiences to leave with greater understanding, practical resources, and enough curiosity to keep learning after the session ends.

Z. Hamilton Avery, LCSW, BC-TMH, CMT, CYT-1,000, TIYT, is an interdisciplinary speaker, educator, psychotherapist, clinical social worker, coach, and integrative wellness practitioner with more than 15 years of professional experience spanning mental... Show more

Ian Y. Choi

Ian Y. Choi

Ian leads various open source and community efforts:
- Kubernetes SIG-Docs Korean L10n team (approver & reviewer)
- OpenStack I18n SIG lead and former Project Team Lead
- OpenInfra Korea user group organizer (OpenStack Korea leader, 2017-2019)

As a Containers Specialist at Amazon Web Services, he drives GTM for EKS, ECS, Fargate, and App Runner, while supporting AWS Korea DevRel to grow the cloud-native ecosystem.

Ian holds a Ph.D. in Biomedical Science (Feb 2025) and brings 10+ years of experience as software developer, sales engineer, and product marketing manager at Microsoft and APAC startups.

Ian leads various open source and community efforts: - Kubernetes SIG-Docs Korean L10n team (approver & reviewer) - OpenStack I18n SIG lead and former Project Team Lead - OpenInfra Korea user group organizer (OpenStack Korea leader, 2017-2019) ... Show more

Amy Gutman MD, FACEP

Amy Gutman MD, FACEP

Dr. Amy Gutman, MD, FACEP, is a board-certified emergency physician, global keynote speaker, best-selling author, and executive performance coach helping leaders optimize the biology behind high performance. Founder of ToughLoveMD and author of the best-seller "Powerhouse Living: Lead Your Life Like a Resuscitation", Dr. Gutman teaches organizations how sleep, stress, metabolism, recovery, and cognitive load drive decision quality, resilience, retention, and results. A keynote favorite across healthcare, technology, cybersecurity, business, and leadership events, she consistently earns outstanding feedback from attendees and organizers for her high-energy, science-backed, conference-favorite sessions that leave audiences thinking differently — with immediately actionable personal and professional impacts. Her mission is simple: most leadership development treats performance as a mindset problem. She treats it as a biological operating system. Using her Cellular Leadership and Powerhouse Physiology frameworks, Dr. Gutman turns emergency medicine, executive leadership, and human performance science into practical strategies for clearer decisions, faster recovery, stronger teams, and sustained high performance.

Dr. Amy Gutman, MD, FACEP, is a board-certified emergency physician, global keynote speaker, best-selling author, and executive performance coach helping leaders optimize the biology behind high performance. Founder of ToughLoveMD and author of the b... Show more

Daniel Liezrowice

Daniel Liezrowice

For 20+ years I have worked at the intersection of software engineering, verification, DevOps/DevSecOps, embedded systems and regulated software, leading 350+ projects in Static Code Analysis, Dynamic Testing, Unit Testing, Code Coverage, ALM and compliance automation.
Over the last two years, my focus has expanded into AI-native software engineering and Agentic AI: AI coding agents, agentic SDLC workflows, AI-assisted verification, automated code review, compliance agents and AI-driven DevSecOps.
My technical work includes LLM coding agents and harnesses, RAG, MCP, local/offline LLMs, multi-agent workflows, SBOM/SCA, formal methods, Lean 4, Wolfram Mathematica and Yocto/Embedded Linux BSP engineering. I research and publish on agent reliability, token efficiency, self-evaluation bias, security, code quality and transforming research into verified executable systems.
I have conceived, architected and overseen specialized DevSecOps products: Assemblomator, a commercial multi-architecture Assembly Static Code Analysis platform; FixCreator, bridging SAST/SCA with air-gapped local AI remediation for defense and high-security environments; SBOMator, for air-gapped SBOM/SCA and software supply-chain analysis; TSscrutinizer, combining multiple SAST engines with local-LLM analysis; and Yocto BSP Studio, a guided BSP engineering platform codifying expert Yocto workflows from configuration through build, simulation, testing, security and release evidence.
My objective is to bridge deterministic software verification and AI while retaining the isolation, traceability, reproducibility and auditability required by critical systems.
I completed the DevSecOps program at Bar-Ilan University and professional training in ISO 26262 Tool Classification and Qualification, backed by field experience in verification, compliance and tool qualification.
Standards include DO-178C, ISO 26262, ISO 21434, ISO 8800, IEC 61508, FDA/IEC 62304, MISRA C:2025, MISRA C++:2023, AUTOSAR C++14 and CERT C/C++.
Platforms include Linux, Windows, macOS, Yocto/Embedded Linux, VxWorks, INTEGRITY, ThreadX, FreeRTOS/SafeRTOS, µC/OS and Zephyr.
I have been programming since 1981, from the original IBM PC, BASIC, x86 Assembly and Lattice C to today's AI coding agents and formally verified software workflows. responsible as technical lead for ~250 successful integrations projects of various Static Code Analysis systems.

For 20+ years I have worked at the intersection of software engineering, verification, DevOps/DevSecOps, embedded systems and regulated software, leading 350+ projects in Static Code Analysis, Dynamic Testing, Unit Testing, Code Coverage, ALM and com... Show more

Maya Nicks

Maya Nicks

Maya Nicks leads U-Topia's technical architecture and engineering orchestration across a team spanning blockchain, full-stack, and AI. Her background spans aeronautical engineering, commercial aviation, and cybersecurity. She pivoted into machine learning in 2015 while researching muscle loss in microgravity, and has built AI systems ever since, alongside over a decade in crypto dating to 2013. She architected U-Bot, the AI orchestration system powering U-Topia's agentic banking and commerce layer, built on Visa Intelligent Commerce.

Maya Nicks leads U-Topia's technical architecture and engineering orchestration across a team spanning blockchain, full-stack, and AI. Her background spans aeronautical engineering, commercial aviation, and cybersecurity. She pivoted into machine lea... Show more

Pérolla Rodrigues

Pérolla Rodrigues

Pérolla Rodrigues atua há mais de 15 anos com liderança estratégica, governança, inovação e transformação organizacional, conectando cultura, estratégia, alta performance e desenvolvimento organizacional em ambientes de alta complexidade e constante mudança. É vencedora do Prêmio Nacional de Excelência em Gestão e Inovação. Possui experiência na condução de iniciativas estratégicas, implantação de modelos de governança, PMO, BPMO, planejamento estratégico e gestão de operações voltadas à transformação sustentável e inovação aplicada.

Atualmente é Diretora de Estratégia, Operações & Inovação no IATI – Instituto Avançado de Tecnologia e Inovação, liderando iniciativas relacionadas à estratégia, inovação, PD&I e transformação organizacional. Sua atuação inclui projetos de inovação com alto grau de incerteza, integrando tecnologia, sustentabilidade e impacto de mercado em áreas como transição energética, hidrogênio verde, mobilidade elétrica e biotecnologia.

Também atua como conselheira de startups de impacto, mentora de líderes, consultora e speaker em temas relacionados à liderança, inovação, governança e organizações adaptativas.

Pérolla Rodrigues atua há mais de 15 anos com liderança estratégica, governança, inovação e transformação organizacional, conectando cultura, estratégia, alta performance e desenvolvimento organizacional em ambientes de alta complexidade e constante ... Show more

Kunal Kumar Sahoo

Kunal Kumar Sahoo

Kunal is a Ph.D. student at IIT Delhi, where he is developing and improving foundation models for robotics applications. His research focuses on physically grounded reasoning, causal world modeling, and combining multimodal foundation models with deep reinforcement learning to build safe, general-purpose robotic agents that truly understand the real world.

With hands-on experience in embodied AI, LLM-guided RL, and edge-optimized multimodal robotics, Kunal works at the intersection of large-scale AI and physical intelligence. A former research intern at IISc Bangalore and IIT Gandhinagar and recipient of multiple government grants, he is dedicated to turning today’s powerful foundation models into tomorrow’s intelligent machines.

Kunal is a Ph.D. student at IIT Delhi, where he is developing and improving foundation models for robotics applications. His research focuses on physically grounded reasoning, causal world modeling, and combining multimodal foundation models with dee... Show more

Stephanie Colores

Stephanie Colores

Stephanie Colores Bueno is a former Fortune 100 HR executive with over 23 years at Procter & Gamble, where she led global leadership development, culture transformation, and enterprise change initiatives. In her final years, she played a key role in shaping the growth and restructuring of the Information Technology function, supporting enterprise digital transformation and the adoption of AI. She is the Founder of Strategic Connexus, a boutique advisory firm focused on strategy, transformation, and leadership development, helping founders and mid-sized organizations connect strategy, people, and technology to drive adoption, transformation, and growth. She is currently completing the Chief Human Resources Officer Executive Program at Wharton, University of Pennsylvania.
Stephanie is a sought-after speaker, facilitator, and executive coach who equips leaders and teams to navigate complexity, lead through transformation, and build high-performing, human-centered cultures. Drawing from over two decades of global experience across three countries, she brings a practical, business-driven perspective grounded in real enterprise transformation. Her sessions combine leadership, change management, and storytelling to create engaging, actionable experiences that resonate from emerging leaders to C-suite executives. Known for translating strategy into people-centered execution, she helps organizations close the gap between vision and results in today’s fast-evolving digital environment. Her work focuses on enabling founders and leaders of growing, mid-sized organizations to lead at the pace of transformation—aligning strategy, people, and technology to accelerate adoption, strengthen execution, and deliver measurable business results.

Stephanie Colores Bueno is a former Fortune 100 HR executive with over 23 years at Procter & Gamble, where she led global leadership development, culture transformation, and enterprise change initiatives. In her final years, she played a key role in ... Show more

Lisa R. Triggs

Lisa R. Triggs

The Menopause Queen, Lisa R. Triggs is a Certified Menopause and Neuroscience Coach, Best-Selling Author, Motivational Speaker, and host of The Menopause Mindshift Self-Love Podcast. After improving more than 30 menopause symptoms through lifestyle changes, stress regulation, and neuroscience-based strategies, she developed The Menopause Mindshift methodology to help women work with their brain and body together. Lisa empowers women with practical, sustainable tools to lower stress, improve mental clarity and build the confidence to write their own story, define their own journey, and ulitmately unleash their inner queen.

The Menopause Queen, Lisa R. Triggs is a Certified Menopause and Neuroscience Coach, Best-Selling Author, Motivational Speaker, and host of The Menopause Mindshift Self-Love Podcast. After improving more than 30 menopause symptoms through lifestyle c... Show more

Petr Andreev

Petr Andreev

Specializes in CPython internals, optimization, and high-performance computing. Driven by GPU acceleration, CPU vectorization. Evolved from ML systems to CPython core research engineer. 8+ years leading teams in AI, maths, and physics. PyCon speaker: Free Threading: Future of CPython. Lecturer at Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology – top 1 Russian university. Open to talks and collaboration.

Specializes in CPython internals, optimization, and high-performance computing. Driven by GPU acceleration, CPU vectorization. Evolved from ML systems to CPython core research engineer. 8+ years leading teams in AI, maths, and physics. PyCon speaker:... Show more

Raj Kumar

Raj Kumar

Tech Lead at Sycamore Informatics, shipping production LLM agents across an 8-product ecosystem for regulated clinical-trial data. Sycamore is the market leader in clinical trial data science, serving 10 of the Top 20 Global Pharma — AbbVie, BMS, Bayer, Daiichi-Sankyo, CSL, Genmab, Alcon. Scale: 2,000+ TB, 10,000+ active users, 100+ regulatory submissions.

15+ years across platforms, AI-driven engineering, and technical leadership. Former Director of Engineering at Safyre Labs, where he ran the multi-brand B2C ecommerce platform behind Jewlr, Lee Fiori, and ONE+ONLY (1M+ customers). Earlier: AI-driven initiatives at Mars, Inc., Etsy, and IKEA; Rails/AWS delivery for Bossa Nova Robotics, HackerRank, Agero, etc.

Currently focused on the intersection of LLM agents and regulated production Rails — fails-closed customer-environment resolvers, idiom-aware skill-layer invariants, version-pinned code reads. SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, HIPAA, ICH-GCP, CDISC, FDA/EMA/PMDA-aligned.

International conference speaker & tech paper author. Recent: PHUSE EU Connect 2025, PHUSE SDE Shanghai 2025, CDISC US 2025, Toronto Ruby 2024, Toronto DevOps Exchange 2023.

Tech Lead at Sycamore Informatics, shipping production LLM agents across an 8-product ecosystem for regulated clinical-trial data. Sycamore is the market leader in clinical trial data science, serving 10 of the Top 20 Global Pharma — AbbVie, BMS, Bay... Show more

Don Petsche

Don Petsche

Don Petsche is the founder and President of 1TEN, where he is building practical systems that help small defense contractors manage CMMC compliance. A Lean Six Sigma Black Belt, Lean Sensei, and experienced operating executive, Don specializes in translating complex requirements into clear, repeatable processes that organizations can actually sustain. His work focuses on control ownership, operational discipline, and closing the gap between written policies and everyday execution. He is also the author of *The Pattern Reader*, a book about recognizing the systems and organizational patterns behind persistent business problems.

Don Petsche is the founder and President of 1TEN, where he is building practical systems that help small defense contractors manage CMMC compliance. A Lean Six Sigma Black Belt, Lean Sensei, and experienced operating executive, Don specializes in tra... Show more

Christoph Kofler ⛰️

Christoph Kofler ⛰️

I started as a developer. I automated thousands of tests — because I had no interest in testing manually.
At some point I realized: the biggest problems in software teams are not technical. They are habit problems.

Today I guide companies through software modernization at Gepardec — and I give keynotes on the habits behind code quality, stress, and long-term performance.

My book FutureHabits is out fall 2026.

🎤 https://futurehabits.at/keynotes

I started as a developer. I automated thousands of tests — because I had no interest in testing manually. At some point I realized: the biggest problems in software teams are not technical. They are habit problems. Today I guide companies through... Show more

Erica Burgess

Erica Burgess

Erica is an AI cybersecurity architect and consultant, and was a software engineer and cybersecurity hobbyist for several years before becoming an application security red-teamer in 2018. Since then, she has been earning bug bounties, releasing new CVEs and original exploit techniques, training penetration testers and conducting R&D projects as a cybersecurity technical lead. Erica organizes 2600, a local hacker meetup, and has spoken about hacking, bot writing, and more at many conferences, including Black Hat Europe, SkyTalks, CactusCon, SnowTalks and DEF CON, the world's largest hacker conference. Find her on the DEF CON contest floor designing puzzles to create Lonely Hard Drive, Wall of Bribes, and Lonely Air Tag, or volunteering at Red Team Village. Erica holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from the University of Southern Maine.

Erica is an AI cybersecurity architect and consultant, and was a software engineer and cybersecurity hobbyist for several years before becoming an application security red-teamer in 2018. Since then, she has been earning bug bounties, releasing new C... Show more

Sangeetha Rai

Sangeetha Rai

Sangeetha Rai is a senior transformation executive and keynote speaker who helps leaders and teams navigate the human side of change, so transformation actually sticks instead of stalling out or burning people out along the way.

She has spoken at TEDx, Grace Hopper Celebration, and Customer Contact Week (CCW). Her TEDx talk, How to Conquer Stress and Do Hard Things, has been viewed more than 288,000 times. Her perspective is shaped by years of leading complex transformation across customer experience, operations, technology, and AI, inside large enterprises and growth-stage companies alike.

Sangeetha has led global organizations through the kind of change that looks straightforward on a strategy slide and gets hard fast in execution: new operating models, new technology, and new ways of working, all landing on real teams who have to make it work. Her focus is on closing that gap between what leadership announces and what actually happens on the ground.

Her talks explore navigating uncertainty, adopting new technology without losing the people meant to use it, building organizations that can scale, and the more personal side of change: how to keep moving through it without losing momentum or burning out.

Whether speaking to executives, frontline teams, or conference audiences, Sangeetha brings real operating experience, a candid style, and a practical perspective on what it really takes to make change work.

Sangeetha Rai is a senior transformation executive and keynote speaker who helps leaders and teams navigate the human side of change, so transformation actually sticks instead of stalling out or burning people out along the way. She has spoken at ... Show more

Rahul Saluja

Rahul Saluja

Rahul Saluja is a board member, Forbes Technology Council member, and enterprise AI strategist focused on the gap between technically successful AI systems and measurable business outcomes.

He works with business and technology leaders on the ownership, investment, governance, and operating decisions required to move AI from experimentation into production. His work spans complex and regulated environments, with a particular focus on AI accountability, autonomy boundaries, and how organizations decide what to scale, redesign, or stop.

Rahul Saluja is a board member, Forbes Technology Council member, and enterprise AI strategist focused on the gap between technically successful AI systems and measurable business outcomes. He works with business and technology leaders on the owne... Show more

Sheng-Wen (Colin) Cheng

Sheng-Wen (Colin) Cheng

Sheng-Wen (Colin) Cheng is currently a graduate student at The University of Texas at Austin with a background in system software, robotics, and embedded systems.

He holds a master’s degree in Robotics and has conducted research on quadrotor flight control systems using nonlinear control and sensor fusion techniques. His work has been licensed to the Taiwan Space Agency (TASA) for scientific research purposes.

His technical interests include unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), real-time systems, hardware–software integration, and virtualization systems.

Sheng-Wen (Colin) Cheng is currently a graduate student at The University of Texas at Austin with a background in system software, robotics, and embedded systems. He holds a master’s degree in Robotics and has conducted research on quadrotor fligh... Show more

Rebecca Solano

Rebecca Solano

Rebecca is a hands-on, human-centered, collaborative organizational change leader interested in developing great teams and culture, co-creating large-scale strategic vision, driving value nimbly, and a believer in integrating change strategies to develop organizational resiliency and competitive edge. She has 5+ years in cross-industry OCM for ERP implementations and tech adoption, as well as over 10 years in strategic and business communications, including 6 years of bilingual business communication & advocacy.

Rebecca is a hands-on, human-centered, collaborative organizational change leader interested in developing great teams and culture, co-creating large-scale strategic vision, driving value nimbly, and a believer in integrating change strategies to dev... Show more

Leah Zitter

Leah Zitter

Dr. Leah Zitter researches the neuroscience of human hacking. She holds a PhD in Research Psychology (behavioral neuroscience) and is CISSP-certified, with over a decade of experience researching and writing for FinTech and cybersecurity leaders including Google, AWS, and Yale Law School.

Reported by The Daily Mail to be the only female survivor of Judaism's most extreme religious community, Neturei Karta, Dr. Zitter draws on this lived experience alongside her doctoral training to bridge psychological deconditioning and cybersecurity. She is now building a specialized CogSec consulting practice, using her proprietary "As-Is" methodology to help organizations develop cognitive resilience against social engineering, deepfake scams, disinformation, and other human-centric threats.

Dr. Leah Zitter researches the neuroscience of human hacking. She holds a PhD in Research Psychology (behavioral neuroscience) and is CISSP-certified, with over a decade of experience researching and writing for FinTech and cybersecurity leaders incl... Show more

Daniel Antonio García Escobar

Daniel Antonio García Escobar

My name is Daniel Antonio García Escobar, I am 33 years old, and I go by the alias Dialéktico. I am an enthusiast of many disciplines and activities that have brought to life the still young project dialektico.com, my science communication website focused on machine learning topics.

Academically, I am a biomedical engineer with a focus on computing and mathematics, and currently a master’s student in Data Science at the University of Guadalajara. Professionally, I work as a Senior Data Scientist with more than nine years of experience in business intelligence, in both national and international companies. I also serve as a volunteer Communications Coordinator at AMEA, the Mexican Agency for Antarctic Studies.

I am a lover of literature, with several science fiction short stories published in magazines and books; a musician, gamer, and philosopher. My goal is to help people understand the theoretical foundations that underlie all the emerging magic of artificial intelligence.

My name is Daniel Antonio García Escobar, I am 33 years old, and I go by the alias Dialéktico. I am an enthusiast of many disciplines and activities that have brought to life the still young project dialektico.com, my science communication website fo... Show more

Jen Ryan Galantowicz

Jen Ryan Galantowicz

Jennifer Galantowicz is an executive leader, business development strategist, and keynote speaker with over 20 years of experience driving growth across healthcare operations, technology consulting, and senior living. Known for her engaging and actionable speaking style, Jennifer helps organizations, executive teams, and emerging leaders navigate complex growth, prevent burnout, and build high-performing cultures.

She specializes in translating high-level organizational strategy into human-centric leadership practices. Her signature presentations focus on sustainable leadership momentum, the psychology of incremental progress, and strategic cross-functional alignment.

Beyond her corporate leadership, Jennifer serves on the Board of Directors for NAMI St. Louis and is an active community advocate. Whether delivering an intimate workshop or addressing a ballroom, she blends data-backed frameworks with real-world executive storytelling to leave audiences energized, equipped, and ready to execute.

NAMI St. Louis - Board Member, NAMIWalks St. Louis co-chair (namistl.org)
Jewish Family Services - NORC volunteer
Marcy's Project - volunteer
Society for Information Management (SIM) member, SIM Women, #SheLeadsTech
Women We Admire (WWA) contributor, member, presenter

Jennifer Galantowicz is an executive leader, business development strategist, and keynote speaker with over 20 years of experience driving growth across healthcare operations, technology consulting, and senior living. Known for her engaging and actio... Show more

Ehud Bahat

Ehud Bahat

Ehud Bahat is a technology consultant and fractional product leader with over 20 years of experience in software engineering and R&D management. Holding an MBA certification, Ehud specializes in bridging the gap between technical execution and business value. Previously at Binah.ai, Ehud led a live webinars, drove innovative strartegic solutions, and spearheaded integrations with Polar and other wearables. Passionate about individual accountability in the data space, he empowers professionals to transition from passive analysts to proactive business leaders.

Ehud Bahat is a technology consultant and fractional product leader with over 20 years of experience in software engineering and R&D management. Holding an MBA certification, Ehud specializes in bridging the gap between technical execution and busine... Show more

Witthawin Sripheanpol

Witthawin Sripheanpol

Data scientist and AI Engineer expert with over 5 years of experience in the AI, Data & Robotics fields. A developer behind various national-level AI & Data Solutions innovations, including Generative AI technologies such as Large Language Models, Multimodal, and Multi-Agent systems.

Data scientist and AI Engineer expert with over 5 years of experience in the AI, Data & Robotics fields. A developer behind various national-level AI & Data Solutions innovations, including Generative AI technologies such as Large Language Models, Mu... Show more

Akaash Tripathee

Akaash Tripathee

Akaash Tripathee is an AI Engineer and Community Organizer at TFUG Ghaziabad. He helped grow TFUG Ghaziabad into one of the largest TensorFlow communities in Asia, reaching 10,000+ members and earning recognition from Google for Developers as a highly impactful community. An AWS Summer School scholar (250 out of 80,000 applicants), Akaash has organized 20+ community events, delivered 10+ technical talks and workshops, and mentored developers across hackathons and innovation programs, including the Guinness World Record–winning Agentic AI Day, TreeHacks, GSSoC, and Cyber Utsav. His work focuses on Generative AI, Gemini, Vertex AI, Agentic AI systems, and developer education

Akaash Tripathee is an AI Engineer and Community Organizer at TFUG Ghaziabad. He helped grow TFUG Ghaziabad into one of the largest TensorFlow communities in Asia, reaching 10,000+ members and earning recognition from Google for Developers as a highl... Show more

Shadi Elyafi

Shadi Elyafi

Senior Backend Engineer building scalable backend systems for data-intensive products. Сurrently at Fullinfo, he develops the backend for a B2B intelligence platform serving more than 1 million company profiles, using Go, TypeScript, GraphQL, and AWS. Previously, led a microservices transition for Metro Cash & Carry and architected a high-load baggage search backend for regional airports. Alongside his industry work, Shadi has a scientific publication in physica status solidi and holds an MSc in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics.

Senior Backend Engineer building scalable backend systems for data-intensive products. Сurrently at Fullinfo, he develops the backend for a B2B intelligence platform serving more than 1 million company profiles, using Go, TypeScript, GraphQL, and AWS... Show more

Michelle Storm

Michelle Storm

Michelle is a multipassionate portfolio careerist who intentionally lives on cross-boundary intersections, bringing together innovation, creative expression, and human well-being. As an Innovation Designer and Human Well-Being Insight Designer, she explores how people live, work, and thrive, translating complex insights into meaningful everyday practices and solutions. Her work as a Vision-to-Experience Curator connects ideas to real-world impact, helping individuals and organizations bring purposeful concepts to life.

She has led workshops, trainings, and sessions focused on leveraging creativity and technology to drive innovative thinking, collaborating with diverse teams to tackle complex challenges. Committed to building bridges between different perspectives, she thrives on turning bold ideas into actionable strategies that yield meaningful, sustainable impact in both the short and long term. Her aim is always to bring people together in ways that spark self-discovery, creative expression, and personal liberation—ultimately empowering every individual to step fully into their potential.

Alongside these roles, Michelle is an author, artist, and podcaster, using storytelling and creative expression to explore themes of purpose, resilience, and modern innovative work. Her multidisciplinary path reflects a commitment to curiosity, integrity, and designing a life that aligns with her values, vision of success, and purpose.

With experience across multiple sectors and creative fields, Michelle brings a grounded, integrated perspective to conversations about wellness, innovation, and entrepreneurship, offering insights shaped by both lived experience and intentional design.

Michelle is a multipassionate portfolio careerist who intentionally lives on cross-boundary intersections, bringing together innovation, creative expression, and human well-being. As an Innovation Designer and Human Well-Being Insight Designer, she e... Show more

Itunuoluwa Olowoye

Itunuoluwa Olowoye

Itunuoluwa builds data, ML and AI-powered solutions that drive business value. She trained first as a geologist, then pivoted to data science at Deloitte, completed an M.Sc. in Data Science at the University of Calgary, and is now working as a technology consultant at BDO Canada. Her work includes applied ML, data engineering, and LLM deployment with hands-on experience for clients across energy, telecoms, finance, and manufacturing industries.

Itunuoluwa builds data, ML and AI-powered solutions that drive business value. She trained first as a geologist, then pivoted to data science at Deloitte, completed an M.Sc. in Data Science at the University of Calgary, and is now working as a techno... Show more

Mathis Lucka

Mathis Lucka

Mathis Lucka has more than 8 years of experience in building AI applications. He co-founded Blue Guardrails, where he focuses on detecting and preventing hallucinations in generative AI applications. He's an expert in agentic AI systems and RAG applications.

Mathis Lucka has more than 8 years of experience in building AI applications. He co-founded Blue Guardrails, where he focuses on detecting and preventing hallucinations in generative AI applications. He's an expert in agentic AI systems and RAG appli... Show more

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