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Flynn Coleman, Author, International Human Rights Lawyer, Educator, Harvard University

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Toby Walsh, Professor of AI, UNSW Sydney

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Melanie Boylan, Journalist, Irish Tech News

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Claudia Pohlink, Head of Artificial Intelligence, T-Labs - Telekom Innovation Laboratories

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Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Professor, Northeastern University

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Mircea Geoana, Deputy Secretary General, NATO

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David Ruau, VP, Head of Global Data Asset & Decision Science, Bayer Pharmaceuticals

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Archit Goyal, Solutions Architecture Lead, Snowplow Analytics

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Adam Janes, JavaScript Instructor, Zoom Code Camp

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Corinna Balkow, Founder, Kommunikatorin

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Johannes Starlinger, Cross-disciplinary Digital Health Consultant, starlinger⁺ digital health architects

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Clemens Meyer zu Rheda, Data Scientist, Foundamental

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Oliver Arafat, Senior Solution Architect, Alibaba Cloud Intelligence International

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Antje Barth, Developer Advocate, AI and Machine Learning, Amazon Web Services

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Christoph Sollich, The Pitch Doctor & Startup Comedian, The Pitch Doctor

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Christian Contarino, CTO, Computational Life Inc

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Gretchen O’Hara, Vice President AI & Sustainability, Microsoft USA

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Roxana Nasoi, CCO, Aimedis B.V.

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Stephanie Cleijpool, Developer Relations Lead EMEA, IBM

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Shaista Sultana, Software Developer and Researcher, Acrolinx GmbH

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Lily Ray, SEO Director, Path Interactive

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Lisa Chen, Lead Design Strategist, IBM

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Vince Madai, MD, PhD, MA, Senior Medical AI Researcher at Charité Berlin, Chief Scientific Officer (CSO), ai4medicine

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Jonas Wenke, Co-Founder, 33A

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Joanna Kirk, Founder / co-founder, JKPR / Startup Sesame

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Dick Darden, Engineer IBM Data and AI Expert Labs and Learning North America Government , IBM

Howard Stone, Professor in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Princeton University

Stephanie Mortimore, Principal Piccolo, Metropolitan Opera Orchestra

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Seth Dobrin, PhD, Chief Data Officer (CDO), IBM

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Ayse Elvan Aydemir, Chief Data Scientist, Amplify Analytix

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Jesus del Valle, Pharma R&D, Head Open Innovation Stranger Things, Bayer AG

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Angeli Moeller, Bayer AG, Head Global Data Assets

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Dr. Sabine Joseph, EdTech Co-Founder & AI Consultant, Emerald AI

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Greg Ameyugo, Head of Division - AI and Interactive Systems, CEA

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Sarianne Gruber, Analyst, SG Healthcare Analytics LLC

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Ari Kamlani, Principal Data Scientist, ThoughtWorks (most recent), currently Independent Consultant

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Denis Rothman, AI Author, Developer, Instructor and Consultant, Denis Rothman

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Mia Shah-Dand, CEO, Lighthouse3 and Founder, Women in AI Ethics

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Brittany Salas, Board Member, Active Giving

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Nancy Nemes, Founder, #humanAIze and Ms. AI

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João Paulo Apolinario Passos, Product Lead, World Data Lab

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Andrea Martin, IBM Distinguished Engineer, IBM Watson Center Munich

Konstantin „CoCo“ Prochorowski, Brand Ambassador Hendrick's Gin, William Grant & Sons

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Stefanie Stanislawski, CEO, Predictive People

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André Loesekrug-Pietri, Director, Joint European Disruptive Initiative (J.E.D.I.)

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Thorsten Dittmar, Founder, Polypoly

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Prof. Dr. Klaus Diepold, Professor Machine Intelligence, Technical University of Munich

Tina Woods, Founder & CEO, Collider Health

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Shreya Agrawal, Data Scientist, FREE NOW

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Florian Grüning, Head of Product, Kuwala.io

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John C. Havens, Executive Director, IEEE Global Initiative on Ethics of Autonomous and Intelligent

Eve Logunova, Ambassador at Women AI Netherlands and Initiator, WaiACCELERATE

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Aaron Baughman, Distinguished Engineer - AI and Emerging Technology Leader, IBM

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Ana Echeverri, Data and AI Expert Labs Learning Leader , IBM

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Noah Syken, Vice President, Sports and Entertainment Partnerships, IBM

Agostino Calamia, Data Scientist, N26

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Katrie Lowe, CEO, Co-Founder, Domi Labs

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Elizebeth Varghese, Partner & Norht American Market Leader: Talent & Tranformation Innovation Unit IBM Partner, Talent & Transformation, IBM

Elisebeth is a global leader for HR Reinvention Client services. Market leader for five high priority, businesses at IBM North

Andy Jankowski, Partner, Talent & Transformation, IBM

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Katie King, Board Advisor | Author | Management Consultant | Keynote speaker on AI, AI in Business

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Michael Ionita, CTO, Walls.io

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Idil Serifoglu, Creative Producer, betahausX

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Alexander Szanto, Research Fellow, Brandenburg Institute for Society and Security (BIGS)

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Vuk Popovic, Group CIO, Argus Data Insights

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Kim Dressendörfer, Technical Specialist AI, Data & Watson Platform , IBM

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Larkin Ryder, Product Security, Slack

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Marisa Tschopp, Researcher @ scip AG | Women in AI Ambassador Switzerland | Lecturer @ HSLU | AI & Psychology, scip AG, HSLU

Marisa Tschopp is a researcher at scip ag, a cybersecurity and tech company in Zurich. She is conducting research about

Andrea Martin, IBM Distinguished Engineer, Leader IBM Watson Centre Munich, IBM

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Scott & Lila, Musicians, Scott & Lila

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Jordan French, Executive Editor, Founder, Grit Daily

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Kyle Roof, Co-Founder, PageOptimizer Pro

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Noel Yuhanna, VP, Principal Analyst, Forrester Research

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Luisa Verdoliva, Associate Professor, University Federico II of Naples

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Kip Yego, Product Marketing Manager, IBM Cloud Platform, IBM

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David Stodder, Senior Director of Research for BI, TDWI Research

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Beate Porst, Program Director Offering Management, IBM

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Bharath Chari, WW Product Portfolio Marketing Manager, IBM Data Integration and Information Server, IBM

Bharath’s Professional Skills are Product Management,Product innovation, SaaS, Go-To-Market strategy/launch, Tactical and strategic analysis, Product lifecycle management, Product roadmaps/Sprint backlogs,

Carlvin Paris, IBM Data Science Segment Leader, IBM

Carlvin is a business development & sales execution professional with +25 years experience in technology and services solutions for business. Skilled

Yoav Katz, IBM Debating Technologies, IBM

Yoav’s Specialties: NLP algorithms, Engineering of NLP systems  

Iveta Lohovska, Principal data scientist, HPE

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Ariana Ivan, CEO, 108 Forests

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Matthias Biniok, Lead AI Architect, IBM

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Genefer Baxter, Designer, IMRSV Arts

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Steve Tattum, Research Assistant, polypoly

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Stewart Rogers, Managing Editor & Editor-in-Chief, Grit Daily and Badass Times

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Victor Pan, Principal Marketing Manager, SEO, HubSpot

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Alexandra Garatzogianni, Head of Knowledge & Technology Transfer & Coordinator of EU projects, Leibniz University Hannover & Leibniz Information Center for Science & Technology, University Library (TIB)

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Laurent Mesnier, FP&A Information Systems Manager, L'Oréal

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Nicholas Borsotto, Economist and MD, Archgriffin Consulting

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Dr. Tim Stuchtey, Executive Director, BIGS - Brandenburgisches Institut für Gesellschaft und Sicherheit

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Madeline Le Botlan, Head of Product, Civocracy

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Rachel Su, Offering Manager, IBM Cognos Analytics

Rachel has over 10 years of experience in different areas of Cognos. Her current area of focus is Cognos Analytics reporting.

Brian Loveys, Offering Management, IBM

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Jennifer Sukis, Director of Design, AI Transformation, IBM

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Daria Minksy, Entrepreneur, publisher and data explorer, AllWomen

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Mo Haghighi, Developer Ecosystems Leader, IBM

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Rick Vermeer, Metadata Manager at ING Wholesale Banking Data Management, ING

Rick is all about Data, Data Quality Management, Metadata Management, Data Lineage and Data Governance.

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