Physical & Life Sciences

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

Joshua Brenneman

Joshua Brenneman

I currently work as a Bioinformatics Software Developer for Nationwide Children's Hospital and have been since 2017. I have experience in both clinical and research teams. Since I have been here, I have worked on projects including Fullstack web development, database, machine learning, and most recently containerized/serverless compute. CDK is the latest toolkit that we have incorporated for automating our devops.

I currently work as a Bioinformatics Software Developer for Nationwide Children's Hospital and have been since 2017. I have experience in both clinical and research teams. Since I have been here, I have worked on projects including Fullstack web deve... Show more

Phillip Alexander

Phillip Alexander

Phillip Scott Alexander is the director of PR & Marketing at IPMD, Inc. He became a bioinformatician after his father passed away due to renal cell carcinoma. He has done work in the area of drug-drug, drug-protein, and drug-gene expression interaction for curing cancer for the last three years. Phillip has experience with developing effective models for predicting drug efficacy on the lymphoma cancer cell line OIC-Ly3. He has also contributed to the research for models to predict drug induced neuropathy. His latest work is on assistance through developing models to predict drug effectiveness for preventing preterm labor and preeclampsia.

Phillip Scott Alexander is the director of PR & Marketing at IPMD, Inc. He became a bioinformatician after his father passed away due to renal cell carcinoma. He has done work in the area of drug-drug, drug-protein, and drug-gene expression interacti... Show more

Ignacio Marrero

Ignacio Marrero

Mis orígenes son la Física Experimental, concretamente la Astrofísica. Esta fue mi pasión durante muchos años por lo que cursé estudios de doctorado con la intención de dedicarme a la investigación.

Finalizado este período continué con otra de mis grandes pasiones, la ingeniería de software y datos. En ella he estado desde hace más de 25 años, desempeñando labores principalmente de arquitecto de sistemas y aplicaciones.

En los últimos 11 años tengo el placer de trabajar en un ámbito apasionante y prometedor: las transformaciónes data-driven. En este periodo he estado vinculado a los ecosistemas de innovación y emprendimiento en los que afronté durante 3 años el reto de crear y liderar una startup.

Desde 2015 he desempeñado el role de Head of Data, Analytics & AI en diferentes consultoras globales. En este tiempo he estado trabajando con clientes de múltiples sectores en sus transformaciones data-driven. Además de liderar la práctica he tenido otras responsabilidades como la definición de arquitecturas, offerings, desarrollo de prototipos innovadores y creación de nuevas líneas de trabajo en ámbitos como Hiperautomatización, IoT, Edge Computing y Quantum Machine Learning.

Mis orígenes son la Física Experimental, concretamente la Astrofísica. Esta fue mi pasión durante muchos años por lo que cursé estudios de doctorado con la intención de dedicarme a la investigación. Finalizado este período continué con otra de mi... Show more

Dr. Sarah Kaiser

Dr. Sarah Kaiser

Dr. Sarah Kaiser has spent much of her career developing new quantum hardware in the lab, from building satellites to hacking quantum cryptography hardware. Communicating what is so exciting about quantum is her passion, and she loves building new demos and tools to help enable the quantum open source community to grow. When not at the keyboard she loves kayaking, laser cutting everything (safe), and writing books about engineering for all ages.

Dr. Sarah Kaiser has spent much of her career developing new quantum hardware in the lab, from building satellites to hacking quantum cryptography hardware. Communicating what is so exciting about quantum is her passion, and she loves building new de... Show more

Ben Elsworth

Ben Elsworth

I have a background in evolutionary biology, bioinformatics, data science, cancer informatics, NLP and software engineering. I'm now focusing on predicting causal mechanisms using multivariate data and graphs.

I have a background in evolutionary biology, bioinformatics, data science, cancer informatics, NLP and software engineering. I'm now focusing on predicting causal mechanisms using multivariate data and graphs. Show more

Daniela Chiru

Daniela Chiru

AntiFragile Mindset and Leadership Professional/Adaptive Organisation Design/Brain-Based Learning Expert/Plenary Speaker International Conference Soft Skills Development/ Motivation at Play in Institutional Contexts Author/ EODF member/Community Agile Marketing Italia

AntiFragile Mindset and Leadership Professional/Adaptive Organisation Design/Brain-Based Learning Expert/Plenary Speaker International Conference Soft Skills Development/ Motivation at Play in Institutional Contexts Author/ EODF member/Community Agil... Show more

Joscha Wirtz

Joscha Wirtz

Joscha Wirtz is project lead of the RRI Hub at the Technical University in Aachen (RWTH). The hub initiates and supports projects in the fields of "social innovation", "impact architectures" and "social responsibility of universities". His research focuses on complex systems engineering and the traceability of digital and non-digital resource flows to accelerate the circular transition on a European level.

Joscha Wirtz is project lead of the RRI Hub at the Technical University in Aachen (RWTH). The hub initiates and supports projects in the fields of "social innovation", "impact architectures" and "social responsibility of universities". His research ... Show more

Hüseyin Bilgen

Hüseyin Bilgen

I was born in North Cyprus and living in Istanbul/Turkey. I have one daughter and one boy. I enjoy taking photos, reading books and cooking.
As a result of being using comupters since I'm 12, I studied Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering and then jumped to SAP Basis area in 1999. Done lots of projects and conducted technical trainings around Europe and Middle East area between 2005-2012.
In 2013, I founded CoreToEdge with 5 consultants to do SAP on Cloud business. For this purpose, we've signed Partnership with SAP, AWS and then Microsoft to do SAP business on Cloud.
We're providing Private Cloud for Global companies (40 companies inc. Apple, Shell, Amazon, Google) since 2013 and also deployed many S/4HANA GreenField or BrownField projects on Private and Public Clouds. Penti Giyim and Mopas are some of our Global Success Stories we deployed in 2018 and still providing Managed SAP and Cloud.
In 2019, my company CoreToEdge is acquired by GlassHouse ( Mediterra Capital PE Company) to accelerate their Cloud and SAP adoption and I'm currently working as a Lead SAP Architect and Business Development Executive at GlassHouse.

I was born in North Cyprus and living in Istanbul/Turkey. I have one daughter and one boy. I enjoy taking photos, reading books and cooking. As a result of being using comupters since I'm 12, I studied Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering a... Show more

Shannon Rollins

Shannon Rollins

Shannon Rollins is a Performance Coach with more than eight years of experience enabling individuals to improve their mental health and physical wellbeing through one-on-one coaching, group wellness programs, corporate workshops, and health education services.

Through her corporate workshops and motivational speaking engagements, companies turn to Rollins to help increase their employee productivity and engagement. With experience developing solutions for thousands of employees nationwide; her end goal is to help individuals live happier, healthier, and more fulfilled lives.

Rollins possesses a Master of Science degree in Health Education & Behavior from the University of Florida. To complement her professional experience, Rollins is a Certified Health Education Specialist, a Master Certified Life Coach, a Certified Integrative Health Coach, and a Certified Career Coach. Rollins currently resides in Orlando, Florida, where she spends her time enjoying the sun, reading books, and developing new wellness programs.

Shannon Rollins is a Performance Coach with more than eight years of experience enabling individuals to improve their mental health and physical wellbeing through one-on-one coaching, group wellness programs, corporate workshops, and health education... Show more

Jannis Born

Jannis Born

Jannis is a first-year PhD. student jointly between the Computational Systems Biology group at IBM Research in Zurich and the Machine Learning for Computational Biology group at ETH Zurich. His main Ph.D. topic intersects systems biology and drug discovery using deep learning methods. His current research also involves explainable medical image analysis of ultrasound.

He received a BSc. in Cognitive Science and a MSc. in Neural Systems and Computation (both with highest distinction). In 2019, he was awarded the FXH Scientific Excellence Award from Roche, a scientific excellence award about the future of healthcare. He received several scholarships, is an iOS developer and co-founded a summer school in computational neuroscience.

Jannis is a first-year PhD. student jointly between the Computational Systems Biology group at IBM Research in Zurich and the Machine Learning for Computational Biology group at ETH Zurich. His main Ph.D. topic intersects systems biology and drug dis... Show more

Marina Ivasic-Kos

Marina Ivasic-Kos

Marina Ivasic-Kos is an Associate Professor at the Department of informatics, University of Rijeka. She earned her Ph.D. in Computer Science at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing in Zagreb in 2012. She was involved in several business and research projects in information and computer science fields as well as several ICT COST and Erasmus+ projects. She is the leader of the research project Automatic recognition of actions and activities in multimedia content from the sports domain and principal researcher at project Knowledge-based approach to crowd analysis in video surveillance both funded by National Research Agency.
Her research interests are focused on artificial intelligence, computer vision, knowledge representation, and soft computing. She is a technical committee member and reviewer for numerous scientific conferences and reviewer for high-cited journals such as Elsevier Pattern Recognition Journal (PR), Expert Systems with Applications (ESWA), IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, Transactions on Cybernetics, Signal Processing and Access, International Journal of Uncertainty, Fuzziness and Knowledge-Based Systems, MDPI Sensors, and Entropy.

Marina Ivasic-Kos is an Associate Professor at the Department of informatics, University of Rijeka. She earned her Ph.D. in Computer Science at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing in Zagreb in 2012. She was involved in several busines... Show more

Calistus Igwilo

Calistus Igwilo

Calistus Igwilo holds an MSc from the University of Nottingham. He has practical experience in managing cloud infrastructure and deploying apps in Docker containers.

Calistus Igwilo holds an MSc from the University of Nottingham. He has practical experience in managing cloud infrastructure and deploying apps in Docker containers. Show more

Shruti Sharma

Shruti Sharma

Shruti Sharma has been part of the BI team at Ingram for 3 years, where among other things she was involved in designing and execution of a sales and operations reporting dashboard for publishers. She is extending her skill set by doing a Data Science Bootcamp at the Nashville Software School. She also holds a PhD in Cellular Biochemistry from Max Plank Institute for Biochemistry, Munich, Germany.

Shruti Sharma has been part of the BI team at Ingram for 3 years, where among other things she was involved in designing and execution of a sales and operations reporting dashboard for publishers. She is extending her skill set by doing a Data Scienc... Show more

Chantelle Fitzgerald

Chantelle Fitzgerald

Chantelle Fitzgerald is the Founder of Mindset Strategies, LLC a leadership development consulting firm that helps to train and support leaders in becoming the best version of themselves. Mindset Strategies, provides training and tangible tools that help with increase of attention, focus, productivity, resiliency and more. Chantelle is a certified mindfulness and emotional intelligence trainer through a program called Search Inside Yourself -- a program founded out of Google that blends mindfulness with emotional intelligence and neuroscience.
Chantelle is also a host of an online TV show called Mindset on RVNTV.TV where she interviews industry leaders to learn about challenges they faced and their “Mindset” to push through.
Prior to starting her own company, Chantelle has had a wealth of experience in the private/corporate, non-profit and higher education sectors, which expands over a 15 years. She has lead business development efforts, sales, marketing, that resulted in being recognized as the top sales rep for Pfizer Pharmaceuticals, raised over $1M dollars for the American Heart Association, created international study abroad programs in the midwest for EF Education First and more. Throughout her career and across sectors, Chantelle has seen a need for the enhanced skill set of emotional intelligence and mindfulness in the workplace. Thus, Chantelle is thrilled to provide trainings to leaders companies and organizations.
Chantelle holds a Master’s in Nonprofit/NGO Leadership from the University of Pennsylvania and BA in French with Secondary Certification from Muhlenberg College. She has served as board chair for the Young Professionals Network of the Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce, board member for the International House of Philadelphia, iPraxis and IMPACT Philadelphia. Chantelle also loves to travel internationally, enjoys cooking, reading, meditation and salsa dancing.

Chantelle Fitzgerald is the Founder of Mindset Strategies, LLC a leadership development consulting firm that helps to train and support leaders in becoming the best version of themselves. Mindset Strategies, provides training and tangible tools that ... Show more

Emily Kearney

Emily Kearney

Emily Kearney is the Project Director of Tech & Biotech at the Unconscious Bias Project. She is also pursuing her PhD in Environmental Science at UC Berkeley and is passionate about data science, open source, and chocolate pollination.

Emily Kearney is the Project Director of Tech & Biotech at the Unconscious Bias Project. She is also pursuing her PhD in Environmental Science at UC Berkeley and is passionate about data science, open source, and chocolate pollination. Show more

Jake Litwicki

Jake Litwicki

A pretty nice guy

A pretty nice guy Show more

Andrei Luchici

Andrei Luchici

I am the co-founder of a consulting company helping mid-size companies on the road to AI and IoT. I spend most of my time building products and services using data, advanced analytics and machine learning algorithms.

When I am not creating data solutions, I write code that helps researchers in cell motility to understand how cells move and interact with each other or I blog about data science, machine learning, and other related topics.

I am the co-founder of a consulting company helping mid-size companies on the road to AI and IoT. I spend most of my time building products and services using data, advanced analytics and machine learning algorithms. When I am not creating data so... Show more

Christian Buckley

Christian Buckley

Christian is an award-winning product marketer and technology evangelist, and both a Microsoft Regional Director (RD) and Most Valuable Professional (MVP). Christian's 30-year tech career has included Chief Marketing Officer and Chief Evangelist for several leading SharePoint ISVs, and he was part of the Microsoft team that launched the hosted SharePoint platform in Office 365. He has worked with some of the world’s largest technology companies to build and deploy social, collaboration, and supply chain solutions, and sold his first software startup to Rational Software in 2001. Co-author of books on both SharePoint and software configuration management (SCM), Christian is one of the most widely published names within the Microsoft ecosystem, and can be found online at www.buckleyplanet.com and @buckleyplanet

Christian is an award-winning product marketer and technology evangelist, and both a Microsoft Regional Director (RD) and Most Valuable Professional (MVP). Christian's 30-year tech career has included Chief Marketing Officer and Chief Evangelist for ... Show more

Vivian Voss

Vivian Voss

Vivian Voss is a Microsoft Business Applications and M365 MVP who loves to help organizations transform their processes with Dynamics 365 and Power Platform. Vivian has around 10 years of experience in creating solutions within the Dynamics 365 suite and extending it with the tools from the Power Platform. She is also a co-organizer of various user groups and a frequent speaker at community events.

Vivian Voss is a Microsoft Business Applications and M365 MVP who loves to help organizations transform their processes with Dynamics 365 and Power Platform. Vivian has around 10 years of experience in creating solutions within the Dynamics 365 suite... Show more

Travis Roberts

Travis Roberts

Travis Roberts is a Cloud Architect, Microsoft MVP, and Microsoft Certified Trainer based in the Minneapolis area. With over 25 years of experience in IT across industries, including legal, pharmaceutical, and marketing, Travis brings deep technical expertise and a strong focus on Microsoft Azure technologies.

Travis is an international speaker on topics such as Azure Virtual Desktop, Windows 365, Entra ID, and other Azure services. He shares insights and technical guidance through his blog at www.ciraltos.com and his YouTube channel, where he creates educational content for IT professionals and cloud enthusiasts.

Travis Roberts is a Cloud Architect, Microsoft MVP, and Microsoft Certified Trainer based in the Minneapolis area. With over 25 years of experience in IT across industries, including legal, pharmaceutical, and marketing, Travis brings deep technical ... Show more

Kiah Imani

Kiah Imani

Kiah is a developer who advocates and evangelizes about all things cloud at LocalStack.

She is a public speaker who regularly presents at conferences and trade shows and is a self-proclaimed opinionated knowledge seeker. Kiah also moonlights as a co-founder of canna tech startup C-Trax.

Kiah has 13 years of experience covering both engineering and business roles and prides herself on bringing a unique perspective to building products from idea to deployment and navigating product-market fit.

In her spare time, Kiah enjoys blogging about community, tech, and startups at blkgrlcto.com

Kiah is a developer who advocates and evangelizes about all things cloud at LocalStack. She is a public speaker who regularly presents at conferences and trade shows and is a self-proclaimed opinionated knowledge seeker. Kiah also moonlights as a ... Show more

Felicia Sephodi

Felicia Sephodi

Felicia is a Software Engineer passionate about making tech accessible and empowering developers. She drives innovation, fosters continuous learning, and challenges conventions to help others unlock their potential in tech and beyond.

Felicia is a Software Engineer passionate about making tech accessible and empowering developers. She drives innovation, fosters continuous learning, and challenges conventions to help others unlock their potential in tech and beyond. Show more

Nelson Calero

Nelson Calero

Nelson Calero is a senior data engineer with 20+ years of extensive experience in Oracle, PostgreSQL, Google Cloud, and other database technologies. A seasoned presenter and community leader, he shares his insight and expertise on database products at various events globally. Nelson works as a Principal Consultant for Pythian - as the last technical team escalation point handling the Pythian client's most challenging and serious database technical problems.

He is an Oracle ACE Director and Oracle Certified Professional, a member of the Board of the Latin American Oracle User Community (LAOUC), and a leader of the Uruguayan Oracle User Group (UYOUG).

Nelson Calero is a senior data engineer with 20+ years of extensive experience in Oracle, PostgreSQL, Google Cloud, and other database technologies. A seasoned presenter and community leader, he shares his insight and expertise on database products ... Show more

Simi Olabisi

Simi Olabisi

Simi Olabisi is a Director, AI Specialist (Global Black Belt Team) at Microsoft responsible for accelerating market adoption of AI and driving some of the most strategic and innovative customer AI projects leveraging Azure AI/ML products and services. She boasts an impressive career in the technology sector. Her journey commenced with notable stints at Cisco, Google (GCP), and Amazon Web Services where she helped customers enable innovative technologies such as Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning.

Simi is the Founder of Project Omoverhi (Featured on ABC News), where she invented an innovative, cost-effective solar powered infant incubator for premature infants in developing countries. She also embarked on a two-year venture in the startup arena, where she dedicated her efforts to empowering African software engineers through training and forging connections to international opportunities in Europe, Canada, and the United States.

Her profound insights and career expertise led to her being featured in Glamour Magazine (print, podcast, and YouTube) as a prominent thought leader, particularly in the realm of women's salary negotiation. Simi's educational background includes a Bachelor of Science in Biomedical Engineering from Santa Clara University. She is currently based in Austin, TX, was born in Lagos, Nigeria, and grew up in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia before moving to the United States.

Simi Olabisi is a Director, AI Specialist (Global Black Belt Team) at Microsoft responsible for accelerating market adoption of AI and driving some of the most strategic and innovative customer AI projects leveraging Azure AI/ML products and services... Show more

Elder Moraes

Elder Moraes

Elder helps Java developers to build and deliver secure, available, and fast server-side applications. He is a published author of six books and a board member at SouJava, one of the biggest JUGs in the world. As a Developer Advocate, Elder shares experiences and best practices through online content and at international events like JavaOne, The Developers Conference, QCon, Oracle Code One, Campus Party, and Devnexus.

Elder helps Java developers to build and deliver secure, available, and fast server-side applications. He is a published author of six books and a board member at SouJava, one of the biggest JUGs in the world. As a Developer Advocate, Elder shares ex... Show more

Rif Kiamil

Rif Kiamil

As a Google Developer Expert, I teach and educate minorities and marginalised groups on Data, SQL & Google BigQuery using sports and blockchain data.

As a Google Developer Expert, I teach and educate minorities and marginalised groups on Data, SQL & Google BigQuery using sports and blockchain data. Show more

David Amorín García

David Amorín García

Me llamo David Amorin Garcia, tengo 32 años y me dedico a la comunicación desde los 15. Como amante de las tecnologías y de transmitir conocimiento, me gradué en Teatro a la par que me formaba en aspectos relacionados con el SEO y los datos. Aproveché durante varios años la ventana que me ofrecía YouTube y Twitch para mostrar las aptitudes que iba adquiriendo y compartirlas con la audiencia. A principios de 2022 decidí entrar en el mundo empresarial para aportar todo lo que había aprendido durante todos estos años y así poder ayudar a los demás.

Me llamo David Amorin Garcia, tengo 32 años y me dedico a la comunicación desde los 15. Como amante de las tecnologías y de transmitir conocimiento, me gradué en Teatro a la par que me formaba en aspectos relacionados con el SEO y los datos. Aprovech... Show more

Kevin Smyth

Kevin Smyth

Kevin Smyth has a PhD in genetics and has helped thousands of scientists communicate their work. He is now building AI tools for science communication.

Kevin Smyth has a PhD in genetics and has helped thousands of scientists communicate their work. He is now building AI tools for science communication. Show more

Samzong Lu

Samzong Lu

- Samzong is Product Manager (Focus on AI/LLMOps, Muti-Cluster, Cluster LCM, Microservice, ServiceMesh )
- Kubernetes / Kubernetes-sigs active Contributor
- Karmada active Contributor, member
- Istio active Contributor, member
- CNCF Multiple Project Contributors
- CNCF Open Source Enthusiast

- Samzong is Product Manager (Focus on AI/LLMOps, Muti-Cluster, Cluster LCM, Microservice, ServiceMesh ) - Kubernetes / Kubernetes-sigs active Contributor - Karmada active Contributor, member - Istio active Contributor, member - CNCF Multiple P... Show more

Sébastien Goodwin

Sébastien Goodwin

Agile Coach and Kanban expert (certified Kanban trainer and coach, AKT, KCP), Sébastien has a solid experience in supporting organizations in their Agile and Lean transformation.

He helps teams of all sizes, from the smallest to projects of +150 people, and works daily in collaboration with geographically distributed teams both in France and internationally. Sébastien also has expertise in complex project management, problem solving, and continuous improvement.

After 20 years of experience in a large company, in 2023 he launched his training & consulting company - Kudja.fr - to share his expertise on Kanban.

Agile Coach and Kanban expert (certified Kanban trainer and coach, AKT, KCP), Sébastien has a solid experience in supporting organizations in their Agile and Lean transformation. He helps teams of all sizes, from the smallest to projects of +150 p... Show more

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