Data Natives Speakers

Dan Merly-Sobovitz, Co-founder, Speechwriter & Digital communication Stragetist, European commision, Dialog & Diversity, Ceci n'est pas une crise

Raffaela Rein, Founder & MDVitalute, Vitalute, CareerFoundry

Jazmin Medrano, Transformational Coach, Consultant, Speaker, Event Producer, Marketing/Brand Strategist, Connector, Performance Artist, Unfettered Living

Holger Kyas, Enterprise Architect, Helvetia

Romeo Kiezler, Chief Data Scientist, IBM

Daria Markova, Startup Founder, Head of University Course, Coach & Consultant, DashTooMuch, TU Berlin

Stefany Barker, Co-Founder, Team Leader, Palandir Technologies, TechFace.ch

Tilo Bonow, Founder & CEO, PIABO

Samuel King, Senior Data Engineer, Streem.ai

Samuel King is a senior data scientist at Streem.ai. He has over five years of experience deploying machine learning solutions across a range of industries from finance to green technology…

Maximilian Nowottnick, Data Scientist, Supper & Supper GmbH

Bernardo Caldas, Head of Data Science and AI , Novo Banco

I am a data science & AI leader, passionate about powering digital transformation in companies and promoting social good in society using data…

Felipe Duarte, Facilitator , DAOstack

Originally an artist and activist, Felipe’s experience on the ground during the social upheavals of Brazil over the last decade have shifted his reflections towards society and organizations…

Nicole Büttner, CEO, Merantix Labs

Nicole Büttner is an entrepreneur, tech optimist and economist. She is CEO at MerantixLABS, a leading AI firm building bespoke machine learning products for its clients. She also founded DataQuotient, an artificial intelligence expert platform helping companies bridge shortages in talent and implement new technologies to create real value…

Samuli Pöyhtäri, CEO, Co-founder, Haja Networks

Samuli, “Haad”, is the CEO and co-founder of Haja Networks and the creator of OrbitDB – a peer-to-peer database for the decentralized web. As an early employee at Protocol Labs, he worked as a core developer on IPFS and on solving the dynamic content-with-immutable-data problem…

Christophe Bourguignat, CEO, Co-founder, Zelros

Christophe is an entrepreneur, senior Data Scientist, and blogger. He worked at AXA Data Innovation Lab, and then co-founded Zelros, a Parisian startup developing an intelligent technology dedicated to insurers…

Oliver Fromm, Responsible partner for data, BPM and development project, Cimt

Tanay Pant, Developer Advocate, Crate

Tanay is an author, speaker, developer, and tech enthusiast. He currently works at Crate.io as a Developer Advocate. He is best known for his books “Learning Web-based Virtual Reality”, “Building a Virtual Assistant for Raspberry Pi” and “Learning Firefox OS Application Development…

Asif Kabani, Founder and CEO, Next Generation Leaders, Europe

Asif Kabani MBA Mentor Hatch CoLab, Founder & CEO Next Generation Leaders (NGLs) and Fellow an Economist, Social Entrepreneur, International Trainer, Public Speaker, Motivation Coach and Mentor based in Europe, with a passion for the Internet of Things (IoT)…

Tizian Kronsbein, Founder, Dlighted

Tizian is the founder of dlighted and an active data strategist in the field of Digital Product and Service Design working with customers from different domains in order to make their offerings more efficient and develop the necessary skillsets of their employees…

Frederic Stallaert, Solution Engineer, ML6

Frederic is a versatile, broad minded data engineer, passionate about machine learning and artificial intelligence. As a Machine Learning Engineer and AI Strategist at ML6…

Benjamin Seeber, Head of Big Data and Data Science, Five1

Ben is a graduate of physics from the University of Freiburg. On completion of establishing causality models in reasoning and inference in understanding how information flows through the brain…

Samantha Edds, Senior DataScientist, Bunch.ai

Sam is a passionate leader with a successful track record in using statistics and data modeling to help organizations uncover insights and tell a story to grow their business…

Alaa Elhadba, Head of Analytics & Insights, Native Instruments

Angeli Möller, Head of IT Business Partnering Research , Bayer Business Services

Dr. Angeli Möller has two roles at Bayer Pharmaceuticals, she leads the artificial intelligence work stream and is responsible for the research digital investment strategy…

Cara Baestlein, Implementation Engineering Lead, Snowplow Analytics

Karol Przystalski, CTO, Codete

Peter Fedichev, CEO, GERO

Danko Nikolic, CDO & CEO, Savedroid/RobotsGoMental

Alistair Nolan, Administrator at Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, OECD - OCDE

Sandra Wrinkler, Country Marketing Manager , Mindspace

As a home office pioneer – Sandra started working from home in 2010 – working for a supportive employer, where remote work was already a standard practice. Therefore, her interest in that topic was sparked before any coworking spaces even existed…

Tim Bauer, Geospatial Data Scientist, Supper und Supper GmbH

A long-time programmer and environmental scientist by training, my journey into data science began with analyses of satellite imagery, climate data, and material flows…

Jay Krall, VP Product , Socialgist

Joe Harris, Data Scientist, DataKindUK

As Chapter Lead for the Programme’s Committee, Joe’s focus is instilling a rigorous delivery approach to ensure DataKind’s UK’s output is both top notch and on schedule…

Timothy Oriedo, Chief Data Scientist and Founder, Predictive Analytics Lab

An MIT Certified Data Scientist, Founder and Big Data instructor at 3 Academic Institutions. Licenced Executive Business Coach and designed tools to operationalize utilisation of Data by organisation for decision making. Seasoned and sort after international keynote speaker.

Narayan Prasad Nagendran, Senior Advisor, SatSure

Researcher focussed on the use of satellite big data analytics to drive positive socio-economic outcomes in developing countries.

Simon Stiebellehner, Head of AI, craftworks GmbH

Omayma Said, Data Scientist, Trivago

Omayma is a Senior Data Scientist who worked on developing algorithms and analyzing data at a tech company providing an online marketplace for jobs and career services…

Alisa Kolesnikova, AI researcher and educator, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Chloe Pahud, CEO, Civocracy

Chloe Pahud is the CEO and Co-founder of Civocracy, a CivicTech organisation focused on improving governance structures using digital citizen participation…

Katy Campbell, Co-Founder and CEO , Amplify

Katy Campbell is the co-founder and CEO of amplify. Living with ADHD and PTSD, Katy has developed a deep understanding of how to deal, communicate and educate society about mental health…

Kaoutar Chennaf, Master student-Researcher, TU Berlin

Yet, another person trying to unravel the mysteries of the world and reach the ultimate truth. I happened to find that the best way to do so would be through the lenses of a data scientist…

Markus Feigelbinder, Managing Director & Co-founder of Fineway, Fineway GmbH

Markus Feigelbinder is founder and managing director of the Travel Tech start-up FINEWAY.

Daniel Reppel, Scrum Master KI Team, IAV GmbH

Francesco Lo Sterzo, Data Scientist, Natural Cycles

Francesco is a Data Scientist at Natural Cycles, a healthcare company providing the first contraceptive app. He has a PhD in physics and spent many years working at CERN as a researcher before leaving academia to seek new challenges in industry…

Himanshu Ardawatia, Global Reporting and Analysis Advisor, Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC)

Himanshu Ardawatia currently works as Global Reporting and Analysis advisor in Monitoring & Evaluation at the Norwegian Refugee Council…

Michał Dębski, Founder, C'Mon Data - Foundation

Michał Dębski- Data Manager and Consultant with more than 7 years of experience in multicultural environments. I believe the right usage of the data is necessary for the development of our civilization…

Gregorio Ameyugo, Deputy Director, CEA LIST

Carina Walter, Data Scientist, Boehringer Ingelheim Pharma GmbH & Co KG

Carina is a Data Scientist at Boehringer Ingelheim Pharma GmbH & Co KG. She has a strong background in Computer Science and likes to drive innovative ideas and approaches forward….

Bart de Witte, Founder, dHealth Academy

Bart de Witte hails from Antwerp, Belgium and lived in Brussels, Zürich, Vienna before calling Berlin his home in 2016…

Diane Drubay, Founder, We Are Museums

Mark Turrell, CEO, Vork & Orcasci

Abel Archundia, Global Head of IT, Bayer Pharmaceuticals

Stefan Wittmann, Product Manager, InterSystems

Agnieszka Michalik, Solution Architect, HERE Technologies

Stefan Urbanek, Data Engineer, Facebook

Roman Rittweger, CEO, ottonova

Dr. Roman Rittweger is the founder and Chairman of the Board at ottonova Holding AG since its founding in late 2015…

Nils Fortmann, Head of Innovation & Activation, antwerpes ag

As Head of Digital Innovation & Activation at antwerpes, keywords such as AI, AR, IoT, VR, SEO, SEA, CTR and KPI are part of the daily life of Nils Fortmann…

Alexander Schabel, Head of Sustainable Business Development, iFood

Alexander Schabel is Head of Sustainable Business Development at the Borderstep Institute for Innovation and Sustainability…

Niklas Goby, Co-Founder, Geospin

Niklas Goby is Co-Founder and CDO of Geospin, a startup specializing in urban Data Science and Automated Geo-Deep-Learning…

Elif Schaefer, Head Of Business Intelligence, Quandoo

Currently Head of Business Intelligence at Quandoo, working to transform the world’s dining-out experience…

Axel Morgner, Founder and Managing Director, Structr

Axel Morgner is initiator of the Structr Open Source project and Managing Director at Structr GmbH in Frankfurt/Main.

Susan Wegner, VP Data, Artificial Intelligence and Governance (CDO), Deutsche Telekom

Dr. Susan Wegner (CDataO) is responsible for Artificial Intelligence, Data Architecture, models and governance at Deutsche Telekom…

Martin Ocker, Data Scientist, XING

Martin is developing the member recommendation system at XING…

Nilesh Jain, Co-Founder, Clinivantage Healthcare Technologies Inc

An Alumni of Carnegie Mellon University, Nilesh Jain, is a serial entrepreneur and a strategy advisor for emerging entrepreneurs and start-ups…

Roi Shternin, Health Entrepreneur, keynote speaker, Revolutionary, Valero Clinical

After Being Ill for years, Roi has diagnosed himself with a rare condition (POTS Syndrome), Starting a medical revolution, saving lives…

Adrien Philippe, CEO, Juniper medical computing

Adrien is the CEO of Juniper emdical computing, a startup leveraging AI and genomics to personalize oncology treatments based on the patient’s biomarkers.

Kirell Benzi, Creative Data Scientist, ekino

Kirell Benzi is a data artist. He holds a Ph.D. in Data Science from EFPL (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) where he teaches data visualization…

Katharina Rasch, Freelance data scientist / computer vision engineer, Self Employed

Bartosz Mikulski, Data Scientist, Pub Ocean

Bartosz has recently become a Data Scientist at Pub Ocean. Previously, he had been working as a backend engineer for over eight years..

Andreas Dewes, Co-Founder, KIProtect

Adam Janes, Co-Founder, F35

Adam is a former Harvard Economist, programmer, and early-stage startup founder, who has taught data visualization to over 8,000 students on Udemy.

Azadeh Dindarian, Co-Founder, WasteLedger

Azadeh holds a PhD in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from the University of Manchester and has more that 10 years experience…

Mattias Arro, Founder, Subspace AI

Mattias is the Founder of Subspace AI. He is a Machine learning engineer with more than ten years of software engineering experience…

Caroline Sinders, Principal Designer and Founder, Convocation Design+Research

Caroline is a user researcher and UX designer who loves to design for communities and digital platforms. She divides her practice…

Gunay Kazimzade, Doctoral Researcher on AI, Technical University of Berlin

Gunay Kazimzade is a Doctoral Researcher on Artificial Intelligence at the Weizenbaum Institute for the Networked Society in Berlin…

Ellen König, Senior Data Scientist, Humanitec

Ellen is currently establishing data science at the sister startups Humanitec and TolaData in Berlin. Her background includes…

Alana Range, Founder, Principal and Creative Director, Radish Lab

An award-winning journalist turned digital media producer, storyteller, and project manager of all things pixelated, Alana’s been in the industry for over 12 years…

Sophie Brüggemann, Data Analyst & Technology Consultant, Spinnin' Records (Warner Music Group)

Sophie Brüggemann is a Data Analyst and a PhD candidate at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich….

Zinayida Kensche, Data Masseur, Dropnostix GmbH

Zinayida is a Data Scientist that has fun while digging the data and making customers happy supporting their insights with relevant data…

Fabian Abel, Director Data Science, XING

Fabian is developing recommender systems and other data-driven products at XING. In the past, he tried to make sense of Social Web data…

Sandra Rendgen, Author & consultant, freelance

Sandra is an author and editor with a focus on visual culture and technology. She has published four books about information graphics…

Carsten Roland, Founder, Earth Ratings

Carsten grew up in Namibia and moved to Europe in 2014. Looking for purpose in his work. he moved from Audit to Fintech but found much…

Christopher Brian Currin, Founder, With Intelligence

Passionate about understanding intelligence, Chris researches both artificial and neurobiological intelligence by pursuing the perfect blend…

Thais Ruiz de Alda, Director and Founder, Digital Fems

Teach Advisor, Digital Transformer since 1999, more Women in Tech activist and founder of Digitalfems an ngo supporting tech and gender.

Aragats Amirkhanyan, GeoSpatial Team Lead / Lead Software Engineer, Yara International

Aragats holds a Diploma degree in ICT from St. Petersburg State University of Telecommunications. Since 2011 he worked as a software engineer at several IT companies…

Stephen Kovats, Director, Agency for Open Culture and Critical Transformation gGmbH

Stephen Kovats is founding co-director of r0g_agency for open culture and critical transformation, a Berlin based non-profit and internationally networked agency…

Ole Bossdorf, Head of Business Intelligence, Project A Ventures

Ole is heading the Business Intelligence team of Project A, where he and his team turn raw data into real insights…

Uri Goren, Head of AI, Nym

An experienced data scientist, specializes in natural language processing. Organizer of PyData Tel-Aviv.

Filipa Peleja, Data Scientist, Vodafone Portugal

Filipa Peleja has always been enthusiastic about technology.She first stepped into the tech world as an undergrad in Computer Science and later Ph.D…

Vince Madai, CSO, ai4medicine

Vince is a senior medical AI researcher at Charité with an M.D., a Ph.D. in Medical Neuroscience and an M.A. in Medical Ethics, and I am also CSO at ai4medicine. His focus includes AI-research, AI-ethics, data science, neuroimage post-processing and clinical research. He has been the scientific lead of the “Predictive Modelling in Medicine” research

Lior Barak, Managing Partner, Tale about Data

Lior is the Managing Partner at Tale About Data and his focus has been on delivering holistic user-centric marketing data-driven reporting for easy decisions as well as business growth and improving interface ultimate driving customer satisfaction under the tight timelines and uncertainty constraints. He is passionate about transforming ‘big data’ into actionable insights, data automation,

Shlomi Hod, Data Scientist | AI Ethics | Educator, ethically.ai

Shlomi is a data scientist and educator. He works on the use of artificial intelligence technology for the social good, primarily as the developer of Ethically…

Marc Weimer-Hablitzel, Principal, etventure

Marc Weimer-Hablitzel empowers customers in their digital transformations in the areas of data analytics…

Lea Dias, Co-Founder, Quaefacta

Lea is the Co-Founder of Quaefacta and has previously worked as a Strategy Consultant and Project Manager for tertiary healthcare facilities, achieving a proven track record…

Markus Zürn, Executive Director Marketing & Digital, A.T.U / Groupe Mobivia

Markus Zürn from South-West Germany graduated from the International Business School, IDRAC, in Paris. He continued to expand and deepen his expertise…

Thilo Kölzer, CEO, antwerpes ag

Thilo is an experienced board director with a demonstrated history of working in the digital healthcare marketing and advertising sector. Internet explorer since 1995. Skilled in Forward Thinking, Digital Strategy, Medical Advertising, User Experience, Advertising, Search Engine Marketing, Healthcare Marketing in general and leadership. Strong business development professional with a Diplom-Betriebswirt (FH) focused in Economics,

Jon Geater, Chief Technology Officer , Jitsuin

Jon Geater, is the Chief Technology Officer at Jitsuin. He is also a board member at Hyperledger and has served as a Director…

Tjasa Zajc, Business Development and Communications Manager, Better by Marand

A former journalist, still the author and host of the Faces of digital health podcast, she worked as a business developer for the healthcare blockchain startup Iryo…

Markus Winard, SQL Renaissance Minister, winand.at

Markus Winand is an independent author, trainer and consultant on all things SQL…

Christoph Raethke, Founder, Berlin Startup Academy

Christoph is the founder of Berlin’s boutique accelerator program Berlin Startup Academy, and has been a startup founder, investor…

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.

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…

Alistair Croll, Author, Lean Analytics, and founder of Solve for Interesting, Fwd50

Alistair is an entrepreneur, author, and event organizer. He co-founded Real User Monitoring pioneer Coradiant and has authored four books…

Frederike Kaltheuner, Programme Lead, Privacy International

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