Data Natives Speakers

Thomas Hartwig, Founder, CEO, LEOGANT

Thomas Hartwig is Founder and CEO of the company LEOGANT. Since 2009, his label LEOGANT has developed and sold the best filtration and vitalization systems for water treatment. These days, private households aren’t the only ones running his systems, which can increasingly be found in restaurants and sustainable businesses. Trained as a restaurateur, his interest

Lubomila Jordanova, CEO & Founder, PlanA.Earth

Lubomila Jordanova is the founder and CEO of Plan A, the first data-driven action platform in the ght against climate change. Prior to Plan A she worked in the investment banking, venture capital and fintech in Asia and Europe. She holds a Master in Management degree from the London School of Economics and Political Science.

Nasir Zubairi, CEO, the LHoFT Foundation - Luxembourg House of Financial Technology

Nasir is CEO of The LHoFT – The Luxembourg House of Financial Technology, a public/private sector initiative to drive fintech innovation in Luxembourg. He is also Non-Executive Director at SEB S.A., a leading European wealth manager. Nasir has worked in Financial Services for 20 years. He spent 13 years working within Capital Markets at RBS,

Viola Llewellyn, Co-Founder & President, Ovamba Solutions

Ms. Viola Llewellyn Co-founded Ovamba Solutions, Inc. in 2013 and serves as its Global President and Cameroon General Manager and served as its Chief Operations Officer. Ms. Llewellyn oversees the execution of strategy, daily operations, marketing and new business development for Ovamba. She served as an Executive Assistant and Manager of Secondary Life Capital LLC.

Daniel Molnar, Data Engineering Lead - Product Sourcing , Shopify

Daniel Molnar is a data nerd and startup specialist. With over 19 years of experience in startups and nine years of expertise in data related topics…

Michelle Tran, Data Science Lead, Zalando SE

Michelle leads the data science team at Priori Data, a SaaS platform provider of mobile app market data across keywords…

Videesha Kungulagunta, Founding Partner & Managing Director, signals Venture Capital

Videesha Kunkulagunta is Partner of a new fund focussed on an investment thesis of “Risk”. As technology impacts the way we live and work…

Martin Lopatka, Senior Manager: Research Engineering , Mozilla

Martin Lopatka is a Senior Staff Data Scientist at Mozilla and Technical Lead of a research engineering team working on the strategic…

Iveta Lohovska, Principal Data Scientist, HPE Centre of Excellence

Iveta Lohovska is a creative engineer and aspiring entrepreneur with a passion for Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language Processing…

Johannes Starlinger, Health Data Scientist & Digital Health Architect, Charite

Johannes Starlinger is a Health Data Researcher at the Department of Anesthesiology and Operative Intensive Care Medicine at Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin…

Stewart Rogers, Analyst-at-large, VentureBeat

Stewart Rogers has over 25 years of experience in sales, marketing and mentoring for the software and IT industries…

Hans Uszkoreit, Chief AI Advisor, Lenovo

Hans is Chief AI Advisor in Lenovo and Scientific Director and Head of the Language Technology Lab at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence…

Alexandra Deschamps-Sonsino, Founder, The Good Night Lamp

Alexandra Deschamps-Sonsino is an internet of things author, consultant, public speaker and entrepreneur with a background in industrial and interaction design…

Katharine Jarmul, Co-Founder, KIProtect

Katharine Jarmul is a pythonista and data lover. She recently co-authored an O\’Reilly book Data Wrangling with Python and has been working…

Francisco De Sousa Webber, CEO, Founder, Cortical.io

Francisco Webber is co-founder and general manager of Cortical.io, a company that develops natural language understanding solutions….

Trent McConaghy, Founder & CTO, Ascribe

Trent McConaghy, is an AI researcher and blockchain engineer. He is the founder & CTO of BigchainDB. He started doing AI research…

Ludwig Ensthaler, Technology Investor, Slack

Jeremy Waite, Chief Customer Officer, IBM iX

Jeremy works at IBM iX where he celebrates the work of their customers in media, entertainment, energy and utilities…

Alistair Croll, Founder and content chair, Fwd50

Alistair is an entrepreneur with a background in web performance, analytics, cloud computing, and business strategy…

Peter Grosskopf, Strategic Advisor and Blockchain Evangelist , solarisBank AG

Peter Grosskopf is Chief Technology Officer of solarisBank and former Chief Development Officer at HitFox Group and the Fintech Company Builder Finleap…

Frederike Kaltheuner, Programme Lead, Privacy International

Frederike heads Privacy International’s work on corporate exploitation. As a representative of Privacy International…

Suzy Moat, Professor of Behavioural Science, University of Warwick

Suzy Moat is an Associate Professor of Behavioural Science at Warwick Business School, where she directs the Data Science Lab…

Mike Gualtieri, VP & Principal Analyst, Forrester

Mike’s research focuses on software technologies, platforms, and practices that enable technology professionals to deliver digital transformations…