Physical & Life Sciences

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

Darlene Kilian

Darlene Kilian

Darlene Kilian is a seasoned English for Specific Purposes instructor and project leader at TU Bergakademie Freiberg’s International University Center (IUZ), specializing in academic and professional English language training and intercultural communication. She co-leads the Professional Communication curriculum, develops tailored courses for students and staff, and continues to drive Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL) projects connecting TUBAF learners and educators with their peers abroad. Kilian also spearheads initiatives linking alumni and current students to showcase global English use in engineering and sciences, combining language pedagogy with digital and intercultural competencies to prepare participants for international academic and professional environments.

Darlene Kilian is a seasoned English for Specific Purposes instructor and project leader at TU Bergakademie Freiberg’s International University Center (IUZ), specializing in academic and professional English language training and intercultural commun... Show more

Blessing Agbor

Blessing Agbor


Blessing Agbor is an API Security Engineer with 2 years of experience in application security, specializing in the emerging threat landscape where artificial intelligence meets traditional API vulnerabilities. Operating at the intersection of OWASP API Security Top 10 and OWASP Top 10 for LLM Applications, she addresses the critical security gaps that most organizations miss when deploying AI agents and LLM-powered systems. Her research focuses on cross-framework vulnerability analysis, demonstrating how attackers chain traditional API flaws (BOLA, broken authentication, excessive data exposure) with LLM-specific vulnerabilities (prompt injection, insecure plugins, excessive agency) to achieve complete system compromise. This work emerged from conducting real-world security assessments of AI agent deployments in fintech, e-commerce, and SaaS platforms across multiple continents.

Throughout her career, Blessing has conducted security assessments for organizations and identified 5+ critical vulnerabilities. She holds CompTIA Certs as well as APISEC and actively contributes to the security community through technical blog posts and local security meetups. Based in Lagos, Nigeria, Blessing Agbor is committed to elevating cybersecurity expertise across emerging markets. She believes that advanced security knowledge should be accessible to all practitioners, regardless of geography or organizational size. When not breaking AI agents, she enjoys vlogging, reading books, and documenting her memories.

She has served in technical and leadership roles for major community-led events, including Google Developers Group's Build with AI, DevFest, TechSafe, and STEMCON Tour, and regularly speaks on how security, ethics, and human behavior intersect in tech development. Currently, she’s working on API security projects—deepening her expertise in securing APIs, understanding real-world attack surfaces, implementing threat modeling, and integrating security seamlessly into CI/CD pipelines. Her focus is on building resilient, developer-friendly security workflows that align with modern DevSecOps practices.

Blessing Agbor is an API Security Engineer with 2 years of experience in application security, specializing in the emerging threat landscape where artificial intelligence meets traditional API vulnerabilities. Operating at the intersection of OWASP... Show more

Bonny Mcclain

Bonny Mcclain

Highlighting place and location as memory, audiences explore our interactions with ecosystems revealing that what appears completely factual is often, not factually complete. Recognized as a leading voice in thinking beyond words to illuminate climate science and the human impact on our planetary boundaries, Bonny describes storytelling as where perception and truth create friction. Her expertise transforms raw data into compelling narratives that drive impactful decision-making.

Highlighting place and location as memory, audiences explore our interactions with ecosystems revealing that what appears completely factual is often, not factually complete. Recognized as a leading voice in thinking beyond words to illuminate climat... Show more

Yassine El Yousfi

Yassine El Yousfi

PhD in Applied Geosciences (Hydrogeology & Hydrochemistry)

PhD in Applied Geosciences (Hydrogeology & Hydrochemistry) Show more

Kristopher Sandoval

Kristopher Sandoval

Kristopher Sandoval is a Product Marketing and Developer Relations expert with over a decade of experience across industrial, biomedical, and artificial intelligence development. To date, Kristopher has written over 700 books and articles on development, product marketing, and future technologies.

Kristopher Sandoval is a Product Marketing and Developer Relations expert with over a decade of experience across industrial, biomedical, and artificial intelligence development. To date, Kristopher has written over 700 books and articles on developm... Show more

Shana Sumers

Shana Sumers

Shana Sumers is a keynote speaker, community builder and former HubSpot leader who teaches organizations and professionals to develop strategic relationship capital that drives career advancement and business growth. Known as "The Mayor" for her ability to connect everyone with anyone, she delivers high-energy sessions on building relationship capital, personal branding and authentic connection. With a track record of scaling communities by 400%, hosting 5 star working events and launching multiple communities in startup and corporate organizations, Shana brings proven frameworks, real-world stories, and actionable takeaways that help audiences turn connections into opportunities.

Shana Sumers is a keynote speaker, community builder and former HubSpot leader who teaches organizations and professionals to develop strategic relationship capital that drives career advancement and business growth. Known as "The Mayor" for her abil... 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

Alessandra Ginsburg

Alessandra Ginsburg

Swiss-based therapist specialising in women’s hormonal and digestive health, with a particular focus on gut health and hormonal balance. I run my private practice, Nutrition-Therapy.ch, in Zurich, where I integrate clinical nutrition with advanced diagnostic testing—including hormonal, metabolic, stool, microbiome, and DNA analyses—to restore gut function, hormonal balance, and metabolic resilience. My training includes the Stanford Center for Health Education, the Institut Français de Micro-Immunothérapie, a CAS in Eating and Behaviour from the University of Geneva, and the Functional Nutrition Alliance. Accredited by ASCA and RME, I work in French, Italian, English, and German with a multicultural client base and regularly speak at conferences and professional events on women’s health, hormones, and the gut microbiome. Alongside my practice, I collaborate with Swiss online clinics on cases using an interdisciplinary approach and diagnostic testing. I have also contributed a forthcoming scientific chapter on the gut microbiome for a multidisciplinary book on health.

Swiss-based therapist specialising in women’s hormonal and digestive health, with a particular focus on gut health and hormonal balance. I run my private practice, Nutrition-Therapy.ch, in Zurich, where I integrate clinical nutrition with advanced di... Show more

Shan Zhang

Shan Zhang

Shan Zhang is a PhD candidate from Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences. Her research uses prospective life cycle assessment to assess potential environmental impacts of emerging battery technologies. She holds a master degree in Environmental Sciences, from Wageningen University. Her research interests lie in prospective life cycle assessment and metal criticality assessment.

Shan Zhang is a PhD candidate from Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences. Her research uses prospective life cycle assessment to assess potential environmental impacts of emerging battery technologies. She holds a master degree in Environmental... Show more

Michelle Ann Richards

Michelle Ann Richards

Michelle Ann Richards BSHA, CPC, CPCO, SHRM-SCP, CPMA, is a quality-driven transformational healthcare executive leader. She has gained respect nationwide as a speaker, educator and subject matter expert (SME) on Compliance, HR Management, Revenue Cycle Management, Business Development, Meaningful Use, DSRIP, Chart Auditing, Practice Management, Leadership training and much more.

She is the proud owner of Coding & Compliance Experts since 2009 where she provides on-site Risk Assessments, Operational Analysis, Medical Insurance Credentialing, HR Audits, Compliance Program Effectiveness Reviews, HIPAA Privacy & Security Audits, Compliance Program Implementations and much more. Her passion, drive and charisma gets others motivated on becoming proactive vs reactive with regard to health care operations. She builds HR programs, HIPAA Privacy & Security awareness and more. She builds policies & procedures that are necessary for physicians to remain viable in their communities served.

Her passion, besides her family, is building sustainable development programs for healthcare organizations, educating employees on complex healthcare topics, such as compliance and human resources, by writing educational articles, conference presentations, webinars and providing consulting services. She has been a SME for DEA, KEPRO, and FCA cases.

Michelle sits on several college advisory boards, sits on the board of directors for YWCA and is active with the Relay for Life (She has written and produced a song in 2004, which has raised thousands of dollars) http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/micheller

Michelle Ann Richards BSHA, CPC, CPCO, SHRM-SCP, CPMA, is a quality-driven transformational healthcare executive leader. She has gained respect nationwide as a speaker, educator and subject matter expert (SME) on Compliance, HR Management, Revenue Cy... Show more

Sheetal Kaul

Sheetal Kaul

Sheetal Kaul is a seasoned Senior SOC Design Engineer at Intel Corporation with over 10 years of specialized experience in digital IP and System-on-Chip (SOC) design. Based in Hillsboro, Oregon, she has established herself as a leading expert in low-power design technologies and digital IC development.
Sheetal holds a Master of Science in Electrical & Computer Engineering from Portland State University (2015), specializing in Digital IC Design, and a Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics & Communication Engineering from the University of Jammu, India (2006). Her strong academic foundation, reflected in her 3.78 GPA, has served as the cornerstone for her distinguished career in semiconductor design.
At Intel Corporation, where she has progressed through multiple engineering roles since 2015, Sheetal has made significant contributions to power optimization and SOC integration. Her expertise encompasses developing low-power features including Dynamic Frequency Scaling (DFS), Dynamic Voltage Scaling (DVS), and Dynamic Voltage and Frequency Scaling (DVFS) to improve Power, Performance, and Area (PPA) metrics. She has successfully designed FPGA acceleration platforms, implemented APB protocol specifications, and managed comprehensive quality flows including Clock Domain Crossing (CDC), Reset Domain Crossing (RDC), and Unified Power Format (UPF).
Her technical proficiency spans multiple programming languages including Verilog, System Verilog, C, TCL, and Perl, along with industry-standard tools such as VCS, Design Compiler, and Quartus. Sheetal's role as a partition owner has given her end-to-end responsibility for backend flows, from synthesis through place and route to timing convergence.
Prior to her semiconductor career, Sheetal gained valuable experience in software development across the telecom domain, working with prestigious organizations including Nokia, Renesas Mobile Corporation, and HSBC Global Technology. This diverse background has enriched her understanding of system-level design and cross-functional collaboration.
Sheetal is an active contributor to the engineering community, holding senior memberships in IEEE and fellowships in multiple professional organizations including IETE and NIPES. She has authored several publications on low-power design techniques and telemedicine applications, demonstrating her commitment to advancing the field through research and knowledge sharing.

Sheetal Kaul is a seasoned Senior SOC Design Engineer at Intel Corporation with over 10 years of specialized experience in digital IP and System-on-Chip (SOC) design. Based in Hillsboro, Oregon, she has established herself as a leading expert in low-... Show more

S. Muhammad Hossein Mousavi

S. Muhammad Hossein Mousavi

Seyed Muhammad Hossein Mousavi is an advanced AI researcher and innovator with a strong focus on optimization, multimodal learning, and emotion recognition. With over 50 peer-reviewed publications and a Google Scholar H-index of 12, he is ranked among the top 6% of active researchers in AI globally, according to ResearchGate metrics.

Mr. Mousavi is known for his pioneering work in emotion recognition from various modalities, synthetic data generation, and meta-heuristic optimization algorithms. His research bridges theory and real-world application, from emotion recognition using body motion and physiological signals to VR-based stimulus systems, depth estimation, pose optimization, and hardware-integrated multimodal AI systems.

As the founder of Cyrus Intelligence Research, he has led several independent projects combining Kinect motion capture, Arduino-based sensors, VR protocols, and AI pipelines involving techniques like PSO, GA, GCNs, ANFIS, and GANs. He has also contributed to open-source research and published reproducible codebases on GitHub.

Mr. Mousavi’s work spans multimodal fusion, emotion-driven synthetic data, graph neural networks, and real-time optimization for health and affective computing, with datasets and frameworks designed for academic and industrial AI use.

In addition to research, he is passionate about scientific transparency, hands-on experimentation, and democratizing access to AI knowledge through tutorials, pipelines, and public datasets.

Seyed Muhammad Hossein Mousavi is an advanced AI researcher and innovator with a strong focus on optimization, multimodal learning, and emotion recognition. With over 50 peer-reviewed publications and a Google Scholar H-index of 12, he is ranked amon... Show more

Isaac Adariku

Isaac Adariku

Isaac is a Lead Software Engineer, Google Developer Expert, Mentor and Community Organizer. He is currently Co-founding AnyApp Technologies, Leading Engineering at Reflection.app (A Guided Journal for wellness and growth), Mentoring Flutter and Dart Interns at the HNG Internship & Flutter Kaduna.

Isaac is a Lead Software Engineer, Google Developer Expert, Mentor and Community Organizer. He is currently Co-founding AnyApp Technologies, Leading Engineering at Reflection.app (A Guided Journal for wellness and growth), Mentoring Flutter and Dart ... Show more

Raquel Thompson

Raquel Thompson

Raquel Thompson joined Barbados Community College and completed her degree. She is 13 years experienced architecture professional with involvement across a wide range of project types and sizes. Barbados Community College Raquel Thompson has experience in planning, designing, and constructing major and minor renovation and architecture projects inclusive of Institutional, recreational, commercial, and residential facilities.

Raquel Shaheda Karimah Thompson has a background in directing all project phases, from design through completion of construction. Raquel Thompson is a motivated designer with excellent interpersonal communication skills, relationship management, and execution skills. It can be noted that Raquel works well under pressure.

Raquel Thompson joined Barbados Community College and completed her degree. She is 13 years experienced architecture professional with involvement across a wide range of project types and sizes. Barbados Community College Raquel Thompson has experien... Show more

Patrick Drechsler

Patrick Drechsler

Dr. Patrick Drechsler is a software developer at MATHEMA GmbH. His current focus is on Testing, TDD, Domain-Driven Design and Functional Programming. You have a good chance of meeting him at regional software crafting events such as Softwerkskammer or other local meetups.

Dr. Patrick Drechsler is a software developer at MATHEMA GmbH. His current focus is on Testing, TDD, Domain-Driven Design and Functional Programming. You have a good chance of meeting him at regional software crafting events such as Softwerkskammer ... Show more

Bandana Kaur

Bandana Kaur

Bandana Kaur is a recent high school graduate and cybersecurity researcher passionate about securing technology at every layer - from networks and APIs to AI systems and the humans behind them. Currently working as a Security Research Engineer at APISec, she investigates real-world vulnerabilities and explores the offensive side of cybersecurity, with a growing focus on AI red teaming.

Bandana has been discussing the impact of AI on the cybersecurity workforce since she was 15 and now serves as a board member at the UN Dynamic Teen Coalition, where she brings a youth perspective to global digital safety policy and leads their cybersecurity discussions. Her work bridges technical research and public impact, whether through hands-on testing, policy engagement, or speaking at international conferences and podcasts on topics ranging from OSINT and Social Engineering to attacks against LLM APIs.

An influential speaker, she's delivered talks on international forums while blending deep technical insight with clarity and simplicity. Through her online persona HackWithHer, Bandana is building a reputation as part of a new generation of researchers who see security not just as a profession, but as a responsibility.

Some of her previous talks include:
'Talk to Hack: Why the future of API abuse is conversational' at APISec | Con 2025
'OSINT and Social Engineering for CISOs' (2x) at the CISO Deep-Dive training programme, MeitY, NeGD & IIPA, 2024
'The Hackers Among Us: The Gen-Z guide to Cybersecurity' at NICE Cybersecurity Career Week 2024
STEAM Speaker Series Inaugural Speaker representing Technology at AWIS Washington DC, 2024
Also a guest speaker on various podcasts...

Her guiding motto as HackWitHer is “making the cyberspace liveable for all” - a vision that drives her to build safer, more inclusive systems. Blending curiosity with responsibility, she represents a new generation of security thinkers shaping the future of ethical hacking, AI safety, and internet freedom.

Bandana Kaur is a recent high school graduate and cybersecurity researcher passionate about securing technology at every layer - from networks and APIs to AI systems and the humans behind them. Currently working as a Security Research Engineer at API... Show more

Caio Beleza

Caio Beleza

Caio co-founded NP Digital Brazil and worked with Neil Patel for over a decade. After scaling the agency in Brazil, he moved to the U.S. to help grow NPD's SMB division as COO. Now, he leads International Growth, supporting NP Digital’s expansion across over 20 countries.

Caio co-founded NP Digital Brazil and worked with Neil Patel for over a decade. After scaling the agency in Brazil, he moved to the U.S. to help grow NPD's SMB division as COO. Now, he leads International Growth, supporting NP Digital’s expansion acr... Show more

Shawn Kyzer

Shawn Kyzer

Shawn is passionate about harnessing the power of data strategy, engineering, and analytics in order to help businesses uncover new opportunities. As an innovative technologist with over 15 years of experience, Shawn removes technology as a barrier and broadens the art of the possible for business and product leaders. His holistic view of technology and emphasis on developing and motivating strong engineering talent, with a focus on delivering outcomes whilst minimising outputs, is one of the characteristics which sets him apart from the crowd.

Shawn’s deep technical knowledge includes distributed computing, cloud architecture, data science, machine learning, and engineering analytics platforms. He has years of experience working as a consultant practitioner for a variety of prestigious clients ranging from secret clearance level government organizations to Fortune 500 companies.

Shawn is passionate about harnessing the power of data strategy, engineering, and analytics in order to help businesses uncover new opportunities. As an innovative technologist with over 15 years of experience, Shawn removes technology as a barrier a... Show more

Shruti Tiwari

Shruti Tiwari

Being actively involved with the SaaS and Open Source industry, Shruti has a good hold on everything eCommerce and has expertise in framing content, including web content, web marketing, and guest posts. Staying updated with industry activities, she delivers the right content to help the end audiences grow their ecommerce sales. Ms. Tiwari Shruti is a proud Ambassador at Women Techmakers and leads the content marketing and partner collaboration between CedCommerce and the Grow Big Initiative.

Being actively involved with the SaaS and Open Source industry, Shruti has a good hold on everything eCommerce and has expertise in framing content, including web content, web marketing, and guest posts. Staying updated with industry activities, she ... Show more

Bidyut Sarkar

Bidyut Sarkar

I am an IT professional specializing in the Life Science and Industrial Manufacturing industry. Over my 20-year career at IBM, I have developed a blend of industry experience, a comprehensive understanding of AI and Analytics, and strategic solutioning skills. My journey is marked by achievements that reflect my role in IT solutioning functions, and I have been honored with awards like IBM's 'Client and Partner Success Award – 2023' and 'Growth Award -2023'. My work has impacted large pharmaceutical companies and industrial manufacturing industries, particularly in the United States. I have been part of efforts to provide IT solutions against counterfeit drugs and implement AI/ML-powered predictive demand and automated replenishment capabilities. Through AI-driven technologies, I have contributed to solutions that enhance cybersecurity and guarantee the authenticity and safety of medications worldwide. My professional experience has taken me to various parts of the world, including the USA, Netherlands, Saudi Arabia, Brazil, and Australia. This multicultural experience has given me insights into global organizational challenges, reinforcing my commitment to addressing critical issues.

I am an IT professional specializing in the Life Science and Industrial Manufacturing industry. Over my 20-year career at IBM, I have developed a blend of industry experience, a comprehensive understanding of AI and Analytics, and strategic solutioni... Show more

Shivlal Sharma

Shivlal Sharma

DevOps Engineer at OpenXcell and a CNCF Ambassador for the Gujarat region. With over 3 years of hands-on experience, I specialize in building scalable, secure, and cloud-native infrastructure using Kubernetes, Docker, and observability tools like Prometheus and Grafana.

I’m a certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA), Security Specialist (KCSA), and also hold certifications in AWS and Azure cloud platforms. I actively contribute to the developer ecosystem as a Docker Captain, and I organize community events under CNCF Ahmedabad, Docker Ahmedabad. Recently, I hosted sessions covering topics like GitOps, runtime security with Falco, and hands-on Docker workshops.

I’m passionate about sharing real-world learnings from my DevOps journey—from automating deployments to securing production workloads—and I love sparking conversations that bring practitioners and learners together.

DevOps Engineer at OpenXcell and a CNCF Ambassador for the Gujarat region. With over 3 years of hands-on experience, I specialize in building scalable, secure, and cloud-native infrastructure using Kubernetes, Docker, and observability tools like Pro... Show more

Ellen Shapiro

Ellen Shapiro

Ellen Shapiro is an iOS and Android developer who's been building native apps since late 2010. She works for Figma on their iOS app. She lives in Rochester, New York. When not coding or talking about coding, Ellen can generally be found traveling, biking and kayaking all over the place, playing sous-chef to her wife Lilia, and relentlessly Instagramming their cats.

Ellen Shapiro is an iOS and Android developer who's been building native apps since late 2010. She works for Figma on their iOS app. She lives in Rochester, New York. When not coding or talking about coding, Ellen can generally be found traveling, bi... Show more

Elsa R. Flores

Elsa R. Flores

Over the course of her career, Elsa R. Flores, Ph.D., has drawn a wide range of professional honors that reflect her standing in cancer research. Her early recognition came in the form of fellowships from the National Institutes of Health, the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society, and the American Cancer Society. She was later named a Rita Allen Foundation Scholar and an American Cancer Society Research Scholar, and she held the NCI Outstanding Investigator Award from 2016 to 2024. She has been named a Moffitt Distinguished Scholar for the years 2016 through 2026, was appointed the Kaul Foundation Endowed Chair in 2022, and was selected as a V Foundation All Star for 2026 through 2031. In 2017 she delivered the AACR-Boston Ruth Sager Memorial Lecture, a distinction extended to leading cancer biology researchers.

These honors rest on a research program that Dr. Flores has led for more than two decades. Her work centers on the p53 family of tumor suppressor genes, with a particular emphasis on the roles that p63 and p73 play in cancer development, metastasis, and treatment resistance. Through this research she has advanced scientific understanding of how these genes control stem cell maintenance, metabolism, and tumor progression, and her findings have been published in some of the most prominent journals in the field.

Currently, Dr. Flores is a Senior Member in the Department of Molecular Oncology at Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa, Florida, and she holds secondary appointments in the Departments of Cutaneous Oncology and Thoracic Oncology. She is also a professor in the Department of Oncologic Sciences and the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the University of South Florida (USF) Health Morsani College of Medicine.

Her education combined engineering and the life sciences. She received a Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1994, then earned a Ph.D. in Cancer Biology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1999, completing her doctoral research at the McArdle Laboratory for Cancer Research. She returned to MIT for a postdoctoral fellowship in Cancer Biology.

Dr. Flores began her independent career at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, where she was appointed Assistant Professor in the Department of Molecular and Cellular Oncology in 2004. She earned tenure as an Associate Professor in 2010 and became a full Professor with tenure in 2015. Her leadership there included serving as Co-Director and then Director of the Genes and Development Graduate Ph.D. Program and as Co-Leader of the Metastasis Research Program under the institution's NCI Cancer Center Support Grant.

Over the course of her career, Elsa R. Flores, Ph.D., has drawn a wide range of professional honors that reflect her standing in cancer research. Her early recognition came in the form of fellowships from the National Institutes of Health, the Leukem... Show more

Luigi Brancati

Luigi Brancati

Physicist by training, I've been working in the Data Science and AI/ML space for the last few years in the fintech and insurance sectors. Passioned about AI/ML, software engineering, electronics/embedded systems and birds.

Physicist by training, I've been working in the Data Science and AI/ML space for the last few years in the fintech and insurance sectors. Passioned about AI/ML, software engineering, electronics/embedded systems and birds. Show more

Daita Serghi

Daita Serghi

Drawing from a scientific background and over 20 years of experience in higher education and sustainability as an educator, researcher, and staff member, Daita has a profound interest in education programs that foster improved human connections, communication, and learning on a broad scale. In her current role as a Senior Education Manager, she is responsible for developing, innovating and advancing AASHE’s education vision and strategy, overseeing professional learning initiatives encompassing virtual and in-person workshops, webinars, and other educational programs. Prior to joining AASHE, Daita was the first Interim Sustainability Coordinator for the University of Hawai‘i System, and also taught courses and integrated sustainability in the curriculum at the University of Hawai‘i. Daita is a LEED Green Associate, an ISSP Sustainability Excellence Professional (SEP), and holds a BS degree in Molecular Biology and Biosciences from the University of Bucharest, Romania and MA, MPhil and PhD degrees in Biological Sciences from Columbia University in the City of New York.

Drawing from a scientific background and over 20 years of experience in higher education and sustainability as an educator, researcher, and staff member, Daita has a profound interest in education programs that foster improved human connections, comm... Show more

Víctor Mayoral Vilches

Víctor Mayoral Vilches

Víctor has spent more than a decade building and advancing the field of robot cybersecurity, leading pioneering projects in which Artificial Intelligence is applied to cybersecurity automation across large-scale attack surfaces such as robots. His work includes internationally award-winning publications that helped pioneer the field of AI Security, notably PentestGPT (USENIX 2024, Distinguished Artifact Award Winner). He holds two engineering degrees (EE and CS) completed simultaneously, and a PhD in Robot Cybersecurity from the University of Klagenfurt (Austria).

He is a researcher and an investor in robotics and is regarded as one of the world’s leading experts in robot cybersecurity and computing architectures for robots, following his contributions to the creation of the Robot Operating System 2 (ROS 2), which powers 95% of the commercial robots worldwide. He has delivered talks at security forums across the globe, including Black Hat Europe, Black Hat USA, USENIX, and others.

Víctor has spent more than a decade building and advancing the field of robot cybersecurity, leading pioneering projects in which Artificial Intelligence is applied to cybersecurity automation across large-scale attack surfaces such as robots. His wo... Show more

Laura Morales

Laura Morales

Soy Dra. en Física por la Universidad de Montreal (Canadá). Trabajé durante algunos años en la Agencia Espacial Canadiense hasta que volví a Argentina a trabajar como Profesora en la Universidad de Buenos Aires e investigadora en CONICET. He participado en numerosas actividades en el Planetario de BA: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zPsVrCafnA y también en conferencias AgroTech: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iU9T1_mOWeg.

Soy Dra. en Física por la Universidad de Montreal (Canadá). Trabajé durante algunos años en la Agencia Espacial Canadiense hasta que volví a Argentina a trabajar como Profesora en la Universidad de Buenos Aires e investigadora en CONICET. He particip... Show more

Raphaela Seeger

Raphaela Seeger

Platform Engineer at Puzzle ITC with a passion for CI/CD, automation, and cloud-native technologies.
I am committed to create scalable and secure software delivery pipelines for our customers. I love to implement modern, cutting-edge technologies such as Kubernetes and Dagger are driving the current innovations in software development and deployment processes.

Platform Engineer at Puzzle ITC with a passion for CI/CD, automation, and cloud-native technologies. I am committed to create scalable and secure software delivery pipelines for our customers. I love to implement modern, cutting-edge technologies su... Show more

Brian Daza

Brian Daza

Brian is a skilled data professional with a strong academic background. During his career, he has always dealt with data in some way or the other. With a degree in Pharmaceutical Sciences (Utrecht University), he originally focused on developing drug discovery tools but shifted his focus to data analytics.

During his PhD at KU Leuven Brian developed 3D-printed chips that allowed to grow of stem cells on a chip, that could further be analyzed using state-of-the-art sequencing tools. He had to integrate many different types of data (microscopy images, genetic sequencing, etc.) to be able to validate the results. He often used scripting tools (R, Python) to develop and integrate these pipelines.

He always had an affinity with information technology and he decided to follow his passion for data with a focus on data engineering. Brian worked on multiple projects since then with Immoweb, Accenture, and Orange Business to grow further in data engineering. He implemented orchestration tools for ELT client workflows and co-developed a prediction application.

Brian has experience in Microsoft Azure, extensive expertise in open-source tooling (Python, R, Airflow, Kubernetes, etc.), and is a (AWS) certified cloud practitioner.

He enjoys spending time outdoors, climbing, and playing his bass guitar outside of work.

Brian is a skilled data professional with a strong academic background. During his career, he has always dealt with data in some way or the other. With a degree in Pharmaceutical Sciences (Utrecht University), he originally focused on developing drug... Show more

Nicolás Moroni

Nicolás Moroni

Nicolás Moroni es un estudiante de ingeniería en informática y aficionado a la astronomía, con una gran pasión desde niño. Desde pequeño se enfocó en aprender todo lo posible de las diversas ramas científicas, centralizándose en astronomía, informándose a través de libros, artículos e investigaciones científicas.
Hoy en día es divulgador científico en redes sociales, donde habla de diversos temas de ciencia y actualidad, teniendo un enfoque en la astronomía.

Nicolás Moroni es un estudiante de ingeniería en informática y aficionado a la astronomía, con una gran pasión desde niño. Desde pequeño se enfocó en aprender todo lo posible de las diversas ramas científicas, centralizándose en astronomía, informánd... Show more

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