I'm Josh Grant, a test automation professional with over 13 years experience. I've worked at all levels of the test automation pyramid and have worked with customer-facing teams and engineering teams. I currently reside in lovely Toronto, Ontario.

I'm Josh Grant, a test automation professional with over 13 years experience. I've worked at all levels of the test automation pyramid and have worked with customer-facing teams and engineering teams. I currently reside in lovely Toronto, Ontario. Show more

Senior Microsoft Data Platform Professional with a masters in business analytics, and multiple Microsoft/AWS certifications. Kristina has provided Leadership and Data Solutions for over 20 years for domestic and global organizations with a special passion in health informatics, finance, and manufacturing. Nicknamed "Data Generalist" for her ability to quickly pivot, Kristina has held data roles across the spectrum including Data Architect, Data Engineer, DBA, Developer, Consultant, Data Analyst, Manager, Coach, and more. Her current role is Lead Data Architect for Kent Worldwide's Data and the Analytics & Data Management Team, as well as serving on their Center of Cloud Excellence (CCoE) board. Her current technical passion is Microsoft Fabric and Machine Learning Technologies.

In her free time, Kristina organizes/co-organizes several user groups, travels globally, sometimes blogs, rambles on various social media, takes pics of her dog, and runs around to her kids' events. She has spoken at large conferences and small user groups both internationally and here in the US on topics including AI, the Microsoft Data Platform, and neurodiversity. She has a special passion for WIT and co-leads the DATAWIT group.

Senior Microsoft Data Platform Professional with a masters in business analytics, and multiple Microsoft/AWS certifications. Kristina has provided Leadership and Data Solutions for over 20 years for domestic and global organizations with a special pa... Show more

I’ve worked in IT for over 25 years with jobs in helpdesk, systems, SQL dev, data architecture, and management. The one thing all of these roles have in common is people. I love the technical and puzzle elements of the job, but people are a part of everyone’s journey. It has become my mission to find ways to bring the personal touch to everything I do. I am part of the Microsoft Certified Trainer Alumni program, I love teaching, and because of this I have been honored to speak at industry events and corporate training venues such as WebMD Academy, PASS Summit, SQL Saturday, and Spiceworks conferences.

I’ve worked in IT for over 25 years with jobs in helpdesk, systems, SQL dev, data architecture, and management. The one thing all of these roles have in common is people. I love the technical and puzzle elements of the job, but people are a part of e... Show more

Jennifer has shared her insights at conferences around the world, both in-person and virtually, covering topics like communication, change management, and work-life balance. She loves to inspire people to be a positive influence in their teams by sharing her personal experiences. She describes herself as “annoyingly optimistic” (but she is also human so she has her moments of being less than optimistic).

Jennifer enjoys viewing the world from multiple perspectives, a trait that likely contributed to her career progression in her younger years and her ability to find connections in almost any situation.

Jennifer has shared her insights at conferences around the world, both in-person and virtually, covering topics like communication, change management, and work-life balance. She loves to inspire people to be a positive influence in their teams by sha... Show more

Oana likes to call herself an Agile Business DJ, who mixes whatever practices of collective intelligence, from Agile to TheoryU help people, teams and organisations to become proud of their outcomes and delight their customers.
After 15 years of experience in Software Development and System Management has driven Oana to embrace Agile and Lean mind set, principles and practices, that she believes are the most effective approaches for 21st century lead organizations willing to focus on quality products with high impact on the market.
Oana acts as an Agile Transformation facilitator at Reacteev, by using Creative Solution Definition. She trains and coach Agile teams (from core Business to Software Development and Support Services), so they are able to adopt the set of practices, from Scrum to Kanban and Lean improvement techniques, that are most adapted to their context and goal. A key focus is building cross-organizations Product Ownership awareness to align their mission alignment toward User Value creation.

Oana likes to call herself an Agile Business DJ, who mixes whatever practices of collective intelligence, from Agile to TheoryU help people, teams and organisations to become proud of their outcomes and delight their customers. After 15 years of ex... Show more

Jennifer McGee is a Water Resources Engineer (PE) at WSP USA E&E in the Herndon VA office. Possessing a diverse interdisciplinary background, including expertise in GIS analysis, database design, and python programming, she serves as a consultant, providing a range of flood risk analysis services to meet the regulatory needs of clients. Utilizing Microsoft Office 365 and other digital technologies, she develops data science solutions for both business operations and engineering projects. In addition, Ms. McGee plays a leadership role within the company, heading WSP's "Low Code: Apps, AI, and Workflow Automation" Practice Area Network (PAN), to share training and project applications for the Microsoft Power Platform across the organization.

Jennifer McGee is a Water Resources Engineer (PE) at WSP USA E&E in the Herndon VA office. Possessing a diverse interdisciplinary background, including expertise in GIS analysis, database design, and python programming, she serves as a consultant, pr... Show more

Rakesh is a visionary, innovator, and technical leader, who has worked in the computer software industry for around 14 years. After completing his bachelor's in engineering from India and Master's from the USA, he worked for big enterprises like Zscaler, Microsoft, CISCO, Dell, and others, where he led multiple product development in the networking space. He loves to call himself a 'full-stack network software engineer', as he has worked on all the layers of networking; be it VOIP, Secure Calls, WebRTC, Switch NOS, SDN, Programmable data plane, data center underlay network, network observability and many more. At present, he is leading an 'industry-first' network security product development at Microsoft. He is also a security researcher and was awarded by Facebook in 2013, for exposing a deep vulnerability in their stack. Rakesh is also an innovator and researcher. He collaborates closely with universities, IEEE, and open-source communities and gives back his wealth of knowledge and ideas in terms of technical contributions and papers. Rakesh is an avid painter and a people person who endorses best practices and great culture in the workspace.

Rakesh is a visionary, innovator, and technical leader, who has worked in the computer software industry for around 14 years. After completing his bachelor's in engineering from India and Master's from the USA, he worked for big enterprises like Zsca... Show more

Patrik studied medicine and worked in neuroscience research. He later moved into cybersecurity, joining Microsoft, where he worked on the Assume Breach program. For nearly two years, he has been an AI researcher at Aisle, focusing on methods for detecting Trojaned and backdoored machine-learning models. His work sits at the intersection of neuroscience, cybersecurity, and AI safety, with a particular interest in understanding and identifying hidden or adversarial model behavior.

Patrik studied medicine and worked in neuroscience research. He later moved into cybersecurity, joining Microsoft, where he worked on the Assume Breach program. For nearly two years, he has been an AI researcher at Aisle, focusing on methods for dete... Show more

Software Engineer at Meta, previously at Atlassian and Microsoft, with experience building large-scale distributed systems and AI-powered solutions. Her work spans cloud migrations, scalable backend systems, and applying AI to solve real-world engineering challenges. Passionate about exploring emerging technologies, she enjoys sharing practical insights on software engineering, system design, and the evolving role of AI in modern applications. A strong advocate for women in tech, she is committed to mentoring, fostering inclusive communities, and inspiring the next generation of engineers.

Software Engineer at Meta, previously at Atlassian and Microsoft, with experience building large-scale distributed systems and AI-powered solutions. Her work spans cloud migrations, scalable backend systems, and applying AI to solve real-world engine... Show more

Michelle Gines is a leadership and authority strategist, TEDx speaker, and Founder and CEO of Purpose Publishing. With more than two decades of experience in corporate leadership, digital strategy, and entrepreneurship, she helps leaders recognize their value, communicate with confidence, and turn expertise into meaningful impact. Her signature messages explore purposeful leadership, the quiet extrovert advantage, and building authority through the knowledge and experience people already possess. Michelle brings calm conviction, relatable storytelling, and practical tools that move audiences from reflection to intentional action.

Michelle Gines is a leadership and authority strategist, TEDx speaker, and Founder and CEO of Purpose Publishing. With more than two decades of experience in corporate leadership, digital strategy, and entrepreneurship, she helps leaders recognize th... Show more

Kewir Jewel is a full-stack developer passionate about building web applications that solve real-world problems. He works with React, Node.js, PHP, Django, and APIs, and enjoys turning ideas and designs into functional, user-focused products. He is also exploring Generative AI and AI agents while continuously developing his technical skills. Jewel is passionate about learning, collaboration, and sharing knowledge with other developers, with a strong interest in using technology to create meaningful impact in Africa.

Kewir Jewel is a full-stack developer passionate about building web applications that solve real-world problems. He works with React, Node.js, PHP, Django, and APIs, and enjoys turning ideas and designs into functional, user-focused products. He is a... Show more

Natalia Orlandi è Co-fondatrice di A.M.A. – Acqua in Movimento Academy, associazione sportiva che porta movimento e benessere in acqua e a terra, con attenzione a inclusione e accessibilità. Segue come Project Manager marketing, comunicazione ed eventi dell'associazione, tra cui Trasformazioni in Movimento.
Inoltre vive quotidianamente il mondo tech come Senior Product Owner e Business Analyst in Spiagge.it, con una formazione in informatica, guida un team di PM e designer.

Natalia Orlandi è Co-fondatrice di A.M.A. – Acqua in Movimento Academy, associazione sportiva che porta movimento e benessere in acqua e a terra, con attenzione a inclusione e accessibilità. Segue come Project Manager marketing, comunicazione ed even... Show more

AI engineer with five years of experience building distributed, production-ready AI systems across crypto, wealth management, and institutional finance. Expert in real-time pipelines, agentic AI, and high-volume, low-latency systems.

AI engineer with five years of experience building distributed, production-ready AI systems across crypto, wealth management, and institutional finance. Expert in real-time pipelines, agentic AI, and high-volume, low-latency systems. Show more

Shanaya Fernandes is an entrepreneur and the founder of The Creative Orbit. She also built Mail in Waves, a product that was later acquired.

Over the years, she has worked with more than 70 brands across different industries like HDFC Life, Food Darzee, Cetaphil baby. She has also worked at Sony Music Entertainment, and her work has been featured in The Entrepreneurs of India and DailyHunt.

Shanaya enjoys building things, exploring new ideas, and understanding how people think and make decisions. She is especially interested in how technology and human behaviour come together to shape the way we live and work.

Shanaya Fernandes is an entrepreneur and the founder of The Creative Orbit. She also built Mail in Waves, a product that was later acquired. Over the years, she has worked with more than 70 brands across different industries like HDFC Life, Food D... Show more

Himanshu Rajak is a Project Associate at the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC), Mohali, and an AI/ML researcher with a background in Computer Science and Engineering. His experience spans the foundations of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning to emerging deep-tech areas including Generative AI, Computer Vision, Graph Neural Networks and Quantum Machine Learning.

His technical work covers the AI/ML pipeline, from mathematical foundations, data processing and classical machine learning to deep learning, Large Language Models, multimodal AI and hybrid quantum-classical machine learning. He has hands-on experience with Python, PyTorch, TensorFlow, Qiskit and PennyLane, and has worked on research and projects involving medical imaging, graph-based learning, generative models and intelligent AI applications.

Alongside his research and technical work, Himanshu currently mentors a postgraduate certification program in Artificial Intelligence at C-DAC. The program is a six-month, national-level certification course focused on developing practical and industry-relevant skills in AI and Machine Learning. He actively teaches and mentors learners across programming, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Generative AI, LLMs and emerging AI technologies.

He is particularly interested in bridging the gap between fundamental AI concepts and cutting-edge deep-tech research, making complex technical ideas accessible through practical demonstrations, experimentation and hands-on learning.

Himanshu Rajak is a Project Associate at the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC), Mohali, and an AI/ML researcher with a background in Computer Science and Engineering. His experience spans the foundations of Artificial Intelligence ... Show more

Magesh T. Rajan, Ph.D., P.E., MBA, is Vice President for Research & Innovation at Prairie View A&M University, where he leads the university’s research, innovation and economic development enterprise. His leadership has focused on expanding research capacity, strengthening faculty competitiveness and creating pathways that connect students to research, mentorship and workforce opportunities. Under his leadership, PVAMU achieved Carnegie R2 classification, expanded undergraduate and graduate research opportunities and developed programs such as Faculty RISE and Panther RISE to support faculty scholarship and student engagement. Dr. Rajan is a licensed Professional Engineer, professor and higher education executive whose work centers on building institutional systems that strengthen research excellence, student success and long-term public impact.

Magesh T. Rajan, Ph.D., P.E., MBA, is Vice President for Research & Innovation at Prairie View A&M University, where he leads the university’s research, innovation and economic development enterprise. His leadership has focused on expanding research ... Show more

Biostatistician by training, time-series crystal-ball operator at Google and protein-knot entangler at Masaryk University. Petr now teaches cheap LLMs to distrust their own vulnerability reports at AISLE. This experiment has somehow put his name on 37 CVEs across OpenSSL, libpng, PostgreSQL, OpenEMR, and OpenClaw. The bugs apparently did not check his résumé. Co-author of HoF-Bench and an ICML 2026 workshop paper on stochastic scanner failures.

Biostatistician by training, time-series crystal-ball operator at Google and protein-knot entangler at Masaryk University. Petr now teaches cheap LLMs to distrust their own vulnerability reports at AISLE. This experiment has somehow put his name on 3... Show more

Dr Ashwin Mehta is a keynote speaker and AI consultant, and winner of eight awards. He is Founder and CEO of Mehtadology, an AI and technology consultancy specialising in agentic AI transformation. He works with organisations on hybrid workforce architecture, agentic technology strategy, systems development and the practical adoption of agentic systems. His qualifications include a Master’s in Chemistry, an MBA and a PhD in learning technology adoption. He pioneered the Agentic Readiness Framework, and his career spans innovation strategy, data science, technology architecture, machine learning and artificial intelligence. He is the author of the upcoming book The Human Imperative: Systems and Skills for the Agentic Revolution, which sets out how organisations can design machine and human skills together, each doing the work it suits best.

Dr Ashwin Mehta is a keynote speaker and AI consultant, and winner of eight awards. He is Founder and CEO of Mehtadology, an AI and technology consultancy specialising in agentic AI transformation. He works with organisations on hybrid workforce arch... Show more

Vinod has spent the past decade working in cybersecurity across financial services, government, and tech sectors. Currently a Staff Security Engineer at PIP Labs, he navigates the intersection of traditional enterprise security and the emerging world of Web3 and blockchain infrastructure.

His journey has taken him through companies like Amazon, Zapier, and HackerOne, where he's gained hands-on experience in penetration testing, cloud security architecture, and application security. He works with AWS, GCP, and Azure environments, focusing on threat modeling and secure DevOps practices while approaching security as an enabler rather than a blocker.

He shares his experiences and lessons learned through writing on Medium, breaking down complex security topics and exploring practical approaches to building security programs that work in real-world environments. Outside of his day job, he participates in bug bounty programs, mentors aspiring security professionals, and continues researching emerging threats and technologies in both traditional and Web3 security landscapes.

Vinod has spent the past decade working in cybersecurity across financial services, government, and tech sectors. Currently a Staff Security Engineer at PIP Labs, he navigates the intersection of traditional enterprise security and the emerging world... Show more

Dr. Rania Khalaf is Chief AI Officer and GM, Agent Platform, at WSO2, where she leads the company’s AI roadmap. Previously, she was Chief Information and Data Officer at biotech unicorn Inari and Director of AI Engineering at IBM Research, where her teams shipped award-winning Watson products including Wastonx Orchestrate and open-source projects like Istio and the Fabric for Deep Learning. She holds degrees from MIT and a PhD from the University of Stuttgart, with 90+ publications.

Dr. Rania Khalaf is Chief AI Officer and GM, Agent Platform, at WSO2, where she leads the company’s AI roadmap. Previously, she was Chief Information and Data Officer at biotech unicorn Inari and Director of AI Engineering at IBM Research, where her ... Show more

Hi, I'm Júnior Fernandes, a professional with 15 years of experience in graphic design, creative direction, and digital solution development. I specialize in brand design, web design, UI/UX, and web application development, with a passion for minimalism, technology, and creating solutions that bring together aesthetics, functionality, and purpose.

Throughout my career, I've worked on the conception and development of projects that combine creative thinking, design, and programming. I'm interested in how these disciplines complement one another to transform ideas into functional digital products, intuitive experiences, and meaningful solutions for people.

I believe creating great solutions requires more than technical expertise or creativity. It requires understanding problems, challenging assumptions, thinking strategically, and making intentional decisions. This perspective guides my work at the intersection of design, technology, digital product development, and artificial intelligence.

Hi, I'm Júnior Fernandes, a professional with 15 years of experience in graphic design, creative direction, and digital solution development. I specialize in brand design, web design, UI/UX, and web application development, with a passion for minimal... Show more

Alisha Gupta is a Staff Security Engineer with 10+ years building enterprise security at scale. She specializes in AI Security, Cloud Security, and AppSec — operating at the frontier of Shadow AI, one of enterprise security's fastest-growing blind spots.
Her work includes architecting AI asset discovery frameworks to detect unauthorized agents across multi-cloud environments, embedding AIBOM pipelines into CI/CD, and defining governance models for secure AI adoption. She has designed security systems spanning cloud automation with Terraform, IAM governance, secure SDLC, vulnerability management at scale, and supply chain security — always making security the default shape of systems.
She holds an M.Tech in Cybersecurity from NIT Kurukshetra and has published research on DDoS defense at IEEE. She speaks for practitioners with implementation depth, hard-won enterprise lessons, and zero generic advice.

Alisha Gupta is a Staff Security Engineer with 10+ years building enterprise security at scale. She specializes in AI Security, Cloud Security, and AppSec — operating at the frontier of Shadow AI, one of enterprise security's fastest-growing blind sp... Show more

Sam Foreman is an Assistant Computational Scientist at Argonne National Laboratory's Leadership Computing Facility. He works on scaling AI workloads on Aurora and contributes to AuroraGPT and the torchtitan/ezpz training stack. His background spans HPC/AI co-design, large-scale ML training, and lattice QCD. He maintains ezpz, a portable launcher for distributed PyTorch training that runs on Intel, NVIDIA, and AMD across PBS and Slurm sites.

https://samf.sh

Sam Foreman is an Assistant Computational Scientist at Argonne National Laboratory's Leadership Computing Facility. He works on scaling AI workloads on Aurora and contributes to AuroraGPT and the torchtitan/ezpz training stack. His background spans H... Show more

Praneeth Mangala is an AI Lead Engineer at Orbis AI Technologies Inc., working on AI-native enterprise software and intelligent systems. His interests include agentic AI, AI governance, persistent memory, runtime policy enforcement, and secure software architecture. His research experience includes Physics-Informed Neural Networks (PINNs) for solving scientific and hydrological partial differential equations. With a background in Electronics and Communication Engineering, software development, and scientific machine learning, he is passionate about building reliable, scalable, and controllable AI systems.

Praneeth Mangala is an AI Lead Engineer at Orbis AI Technologies Inc., working on AI-native enterprise software and intelligent systems. His interests include agentic AI, AI governance, persistent memory, runtime policy enforcement, and secure softwa... Show more

Paul Ivanov currently works at Google DeepMind and owns and operates Stoic Hedgehog LLC. He has previously worked at Mechanize, Sage AI Labs, Citadel, Noteable, Bloomberg, Disqus, and UC Berkeley.

Paul is a long time open source scientific Python ecosystem participant: most recently as a member of the Jupyter Software Steering Council, program co-chair of the SciPy conference, and has previously served as a core developer of Matplotlib, IPython, and Jupyter projects.

Away from the keyboard, you'll find him either biking or beekeeping.

Paul Ivanov currently works at Google DeepMind and owns and operates Stoic Hedgehog LLC. He has previously worked at Mechanize, Sage AI Labs, Citadel, Noteable, Bloomberg, Disqus, and UC Berkeley. Paul is a long time open source scientific Python ... Show more

Wanjun Gu is a PhD student in bioinformatics at UCSF, working in the Baranzini Lab, Department of Neurology, and the Bakar Computational Health Sciences Institute. Wanjun develops Biorouter, an open-source research agent that lets institutionally hosted models operate on protected health data. Current work spans statistical genetics, multi-omics, electronic health records, biomedical knowledge graphs, and bioinformatics AI coding agents.

Wanjun Gu is a PhD student in bioinformatics at UCSF, working in the Baranzini Lab, Department of Neurology, and the Bakar Computational Health Sciences Institute. Wanjun develops Biorouter, an open-source research agent that lets institutionally hos... Show more

Michał is a software engineer with background in computer science, a PhD in computational biology, and 5+ years of professional experience. In his current role he is focusing on enhancing the support for batch workloads in the Kubernetes ecosystem. Outside of work he enjoys playing chess.

Michał is a software engineer with background in computer science, a PhD in computational biology, and 5+ years of professional experience. In his current role he is focusing on enhancing the support for batch workloads in the Kubernetes ecosystem. O... Show more

AI Engineer Intern at CredX Group with hands-on experience in building AI/ML-driven solutions and modern Android applications. A 3× National Hackathon winner and GDG Android Lead, passionate about Kotlin, Jetpack Compose, and applying AI to solve real-world problems. Always exploring scalable, impactful tech.

AI Engineer Intern at CredX Group with hands-on experience in building AI/ML-driven solutions and modern Android applications. A 3× National Hackathon winner and GDG Android Lead, passionate about Kotlin, Jetpack Compose, and applying AI to solve rea... Show more

My background spans 13+ years building scalable, real-time, high-throughput, and data-intensive systems for developers and researchers in computer vision, machine learning and LLMs.
Earlier work includes HPC/CUDA for published spatial AI research in Science and Nature Neuroscience and Gossamer, an award-winning CPU/GPU-optimized 3D computer vision pipeline.

My background spans 13+ years building scalable, real-time, high-throughput, and data-intensive systems for developers and researchers in computer vision, machine learning and LLMs. Earlier work includes HPC/CUDA for published spatial AI research i... Show more

Patrick R. Coyle is a pharmaceutical commercialization and Gross-to-Net advisor with more than 25 years of finance leadership, 18 of them in the pharmaceutical industry at companies including Bayer, Novartis, Insmed, Eisai and IQVIA. He served as Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Eisai Americas and led Gross-to-Net risk advisory at Baker Tilly.

He is founder and CEO of Novus Proximus, a healthcare commercialization advisory firm, and the creator of Patients + Profitability™, the philosophy that patient outcomes and sustainable profitability depend on each other. His frameworks include The 10 Exits of Therapy™, the ten points where a patient can delay or stop between diagnosis and a sustained start on therapy, and The 5 Layers of GTN™, taught through NextGen GTN™.

Patrick has spoken, moderated or served on panels at more than 25 industry conferences and hosts the Patients + Profitability™ podcast. More at patrickrcoyle.com.

Patrick R. Coyle is a pharmaceutical commercialization and Gross-to-Net advisor with more than 25 years of finance leadership, 18 of them in the pharmaceutical industry at companies including Bayer, Novartis, Insmed, Eisai and IQVIA. He served as Vic... Show more