Agenda

Data Natives took place online for the first time in 2020. More than 100 speakers from the fields of AI, machine learning, data science, and technology for social impact – including experts from The New York Times, IBM, Bayer, and Alibaba Cloud – talked on our virtual stages. 

 

While we polish the 2022 agenda for the big event (August 31 to September 2), take a look at the 2020 agenda to get a feel for the amazing content on offer.

Dn Unlimited Schedule

Main Stage
Data Economy
Data Science
Future Society
IBM
Workshops

Moderation: Stewart Rogers

Moderation: Caroline Harth

Moderation: Steve Tattum

Moderation: Idil Serifoglu

13:00 - 14:15

Opening Words: "Morgen ist die Frage"

By Elena Poughia
Founder & CEO, MD at Datanatives, Dataconomy
14:00 - 14:15

Opening Words: "Morgen ist die Frage"

By Elena Poughia
Founder & CEO, MD at Datanatives, Dataconomy
14:00 - 14:15

Opening Words: "Morgen ist die Frage"

By Elena Poughia
Founder & CEO, MD at Datanatives, Dataconomy
14:00 - 14:15

Opening Words: "Morgen ist die Frage"

By Elena Poughia
Founder & CEO, MD at Datanatives, Dataconomy
14:20 - 14:50

How to put AI to work

By Ann-Elise Delbecq
Data Science and AI elite team-Program Director at IBM
14:20 - 14:50

How to put AI to work

By Ann-Elise Delbecq
Data Science and AI elite team-Program Director at IBM
14:20 - 14:50

How to put AI to work

By Ann-Elise Delbecq
Data Science and AI elite team-Program Director at IBM
14:20 - 14:50

How to put AI to work

By Ann-Elise Delbecq
Data Science and AI elite team-Program Director at IBM
14:20 - 14:50

How to put AI to work

By Ann-Elise Delbecq
Data Science and AI elite team-Program Director at IBM
15:00 - 15:20

Data Science at The New York Times

By Christopher Wiggins
Chief Data Scientist at The New York Times
15:00 - 15:20

Alibaba Big Data and Machine Learning Technology

By Qiyang Duan
Senior Big Data and AI Solution Architect at Alibaba Cloud Intelligence
15:00 - 15:20

Medical Record Mapping and Applications

By Fernando López Bello
Big Data Practice Leader at Quanam
15:00 - 15:20

Ice Breaker Games brought to you by Tbilisi fest

15:00 - 17:00

Guidelines for Monitoring Algorithmic Systems

By Corinna Balkow
Founder at Kommunikatorin
15:25 - 16:15

Panel: Social media's dead: "From deepfakes to fake news and/or the path to data soveireighty"

With Jordan French, Thorsten Dittmar, Kathrin Steinbichler
Executive Editor, Founder at Grit Daily
15:25 - 16:15

Panel: Ending Culture Fit- HR’s role in creating truly inclusive environments

With Eve Logunova, Sola Osinoiki, Moojan Asghari, Stefanie Stanislawski
Ambassador at Women AI Netherlands and Initiator at WaiACCELERATE
15:25 - 15:45

Building a strategic data capability

By Archit Goyal
Solutions Architecture Lead at Snowplow Analytics
15:25 - 16:15

Networking Activity brought to you by tech2impact

15:50 - 16:15

Limits of intelligence: How far can we go?

By Danko Nikolić
Head of Data Science and AI at evocenta GmbH
16:20 - 16:40

From Twitter to TikTok: Mining political communication on social media

By Juan Carlos Medina Serrano
Political Data Scientist at Technical University of Munich
16:20 - 16:40

Using Data Science to disrupt the banking industry

By Agostino Calamia
Data Scientist at N26
16:20 - 16:40

Networking Activity brought to you by Omdena

16:20 - 16:40

The Future of work is online

By Oussama Ammar
Co-founder & Director at The Family
16:45 - 17:10

Networking Game

16:45 - 17:10

Networking Game

16:45 - 17:50

Networking Game

17:15 - 17:55

Panel: Deepfakes

With Areeq Chowdhury, Zoltan Kovacs, Luisa Verdoliva, Kathryn Harrison, Rosana de Oliveira Gomes
Director at WebRoots Democracy
17:15 - 17:35

Panel: data-driven decision making across sector

With Shamala Hinrichsen, Katrie Lowe, Charlie Ballard
CEO at Hanai
17:15 - 17:35

Propaganda Analysis with NLP: What Can We Possibly Learn from "Fake News?"

By Weifeng Zhong
Senior Research Fellow at Mercatus Center at George Mason University
17:15 - 17:55

Networking Activity brought to you by allwomen.tech

17:40 - 17:55

Fireside chat with John Graham-Cumming

With John Graham-Cumming, Monty Munford
CTO at Cloudflare
17:40 - 17:55

How to Stop Worrying and Start Monitoring Your Models

By Emeli Dral
CTO and Co-founder at Evidently AI
18:00 - 18:30

Monopolies, not mind-control

By Cory Doctorow
Author at Craphound.com
18:00 - 18:30

Monopolies, not mind-control

By Cory Doctorow
Author at Craphound.com
18:00 - 18:30

Monopolies, not mind-control

By Cory Doctorow
Author at Craphound.com
18:00 - 18:30

Monopolies, not mind-control

By Cory Doctorow
Author at Craphound.com
18:35 - 18:55

Networking activities

18:35 - 18:55

Networking activities

18:35 - 18:55

Networking activities

18:35 - 18:55

Networking activities

18:35 - 20:30

Opening the pandora's box of learning to code

By Adam Janes
JavaScript Instructor at Zoom Code Camp
19:00 - 19:20

Speak-Up Culture in Innovation

By Erika Cheung
Executive Director at Ethics in Entrepreneurship
19:00 - 19:20

Creating Value with Machine Learning in Manufacturing, Production, and the Process Industry

By Ralf Klinkenberg
Founder & Head of Research at RapidMiner
19:00 - 19:40

Panel: Cybersecurity

With Claudia Pohlink, Alexander Szanto, Avi Shaked, Hartej Sawhney
Head of Artificial Intelligence at T-Labs - Telekom Innovation Laboratories
19:00 - 19:20

A Human Algorithm: How Artificial Intelligence Is Redefining Who We Are

19:25 - 19:40

Data, people and robots - avoiding dystopia

By Greg Ameyugo
Head of Division - AI and Interactive Systems at CEA
19:25 - 19:40

Using Data to drive Urban Mobility

By Shreya Agrawal
Data Scientist at FREE NOW
19:45 - 20:05

The Next Tech Frontiers

By André Loesekrug-Pietri
Director at Joint European Disruptive Initiative (J.E.D.I.)
19:45 - 20:05

Networking

19:45 - 20:05

PySyft – an Open-Source Framework for Privacy-Preserving Distributed Machine Learning

By Daniele Gadler
Data Scientist at Südtiroler Informatik AG
20:10 - 20:30

Combat loneliness: How can Hackathons help revolutionize our society

With Bente Acking
Founder & CEO at TheHeroLoop
20:10 - 20:30

Networking

20:10 - 20:30

Personal Genome Sequencing: Unlocking the big data within ourselves

By Dennis Grishin
Co-Founder at Nebula Genomics
20:10 - 20:30

Actionable Hunger data for impact

By João Paulo Apolinario Passos
Product Lead at World Data Lab
Main Stage
Data Economy
Data Science
Future Society
IBM
Workshops

Moderation: Stewart Rogers

Moderation: Ari Kamlani

Moderation: Steve Tattum

Moderation: Idil Serifoglu

10:00 - 10:01

Second Day Kick-Off

By Elena Poughia
Founder & CEO, MD at Datanatives, Dataconomy
10:00 - 10:01

Second Day Kick-Off

By Elena Poughia
Founder & CEO, MD at Datanatives, Dataconomy
10:00 - 10:01

Second Day Kick-Off

By Elena Poughia
Founder & CEO, MD at Datanatives, Dataconomy
10:00 - 10:01

Second Day Kick-Off

By Elena Poughia
Founder & CEO, MD at Datanatives, Dataconomy
10:01 - 10:25

The Diversity and Ethics Crisis in AI; from unconscious bias to conscious coding

By Mia Shah-Dand
CEO, Lighthouse3 and Founder at Women in AI Ethics
10:01 - 10:25

The Diversity and Ethics Crisis in AI; from unconscious bias to conscious coding

By Mia Shah-Dand
CEO, Lighthouse3 and Founder at Women in AI Ethics
10:01 - 10:25

The Diversity and Ethics Crisis in AI; from unconscious bias to conscious coding

By Mia Shah-Dand
CEO, Lighthouse3 and Founder at Women in AI Ethics
10:01 - 10:25

The Diversity and Ethics Crisis in AI; from unconscious bias to conscious coding

By Mia Shah-Dand
CEO, Lighthouse3 and Founder at Women in AI Ethics
10:23 - 10:48

Trust in AI: It starts with the data foundation

With Noel Yuhanna, Kip Yego
VP, Principal Analyst at Forrester Research
10:23 - 10:44

Data is a team sport: Designing and delivering customized data experiences

With Rick Vermeer, Dr. Liz Pratt
Metadata Manager at ING Wholesale Banking Data Management at ING
10:28 - 10:40

It needs to be us! How CivicTech can become the safeguard of ethical data strategies

By Madeline Le Botlan
Head of Product at Civocracy
10:28 - 10:40

Data Insights for Success

By Vuk Popovic
Group CIO at Argus Data Insights
10:28 - 10:54

Blockchain Governance

By Joe Petrowski
Research Analyst at Parity Technologies
10:28 - 10:40

ICE Breaker!

10:42 - 10:54

Startup Comedy: O.F.F.I.C.E. - The Future of Work(place)

By Christoph Sollich
The Pitch Doctor & Startup Comedian at The Pitch Doctor
10:42 - 10:54

ICE breaker!

10:46 - 11:15

As big as the ocean: The UN Environmental Programme unifies data to eradicate beach pollution

With Kunal Sawarkar, Dick Darden
Principle Data Scientist, IBM Data Science and AI Elite at IBM
10:49 - 11:04

Automating the AI Lifecycle

With Jennifer Sukis, Dr. Robin Langerak
Director of Design, AI Transformation at IBM
11:00 - 11:20

What Makes or Breaks a Data Engineer?

By Dániel Molnár
Co-founder at Pipeline Data Engineering Academy
11:00 - 11:20

what3words: A voice-first address system

By Clare Jones
Chief Commercial Officer at what3words
11:00 - 11:20

Networking Activity

11:00 - 11:20

The Nature of Information: How we learn from biology to build the new generation platforms.

By Joerg Geier
Sustainability strategist, Connector, Project director, Partner at NOW Partners at COBIOM
11:00 - 13:05

Design led AI solutions to supercharge innovation: Experience the AI Design Sprint™ method

With Dr. Sabine Joseph, Mike Brandt
EdTech Co-Founder & AI Consultant at Emerald AI
11:06 - 11:32

Need a better Data Strategy? Apply 5 Steps to increase agility and trust in your data

With David Stodder, Beate Porst, Bharath Chari
Senior Director of Research for BI at TDWI Research
11:17 - 11:31

The rhythm of music and science with the MET Orchestra

With Stephanie Mortimore, Seth Dobrin, PhD
Principal Piccolo at Metropolitan Opera Orchestra
11:25 - 12:20

Panel: The European Union as a Regulatory Superstate: Regulation of the Digital economy, Data protection and GDPR

With Anu Bradford, Alexander Juengling, Sebastien Toupy
Henry L. Moses Professor of Law and International Organization at Columbia University
11:25 - 12:20

Networking Activity with SIBB

11:25 - 11:50

Putting your Machine Learning on Autopilot

By Antje Barth
Developer Advocate, AI and Machine Learning at Amazon Web Services
11:25 - 11:50

Using Art to democratize AI

By Kirell Benzi
Head of Research at ekino
11:33 - 11:52

How The Weather Channel Built a COVID-19 Data Lake in a Week

With Travis Smith, Torsten Steinbach
hief Architect, Consumer Products at The Weather Company
11:34 - 11:57

AutoAI: The trusted brain behind faster and smarter machine learning

11:54 - 12:07

Score a Touchdown with Watson Fantasie Insights

With Noah Syken, Aaron Baughman
Vice President, Sports and Entertainment Partnerships at IBM
11:55 - 12:20

Target-aspect-based sentiment analysis (TABSA): an overview of the task, its challenges and the state of the art

By Núria Bertomeu Castelló
Director of Natural Language Processing at YUKKA Lab AG
11:55 - 12:20

Mindsets for Creativity & AI

12:00 - 12:18

Combat loneliness: how hackathons can help revolutionize our society

With Bente Acking, Stephanie Cleijpool
Founder & CEO at TheHeroLoop
12:09 - 12:35

Building AI Skills: A How-To Guide

By Ana Echeverri
Data and AI Expert Labs Learning Leader at IBM
12:20 - 12:47

Inside the Science Behind Your Biggest Decisions

12:25 - 12:40

Fireside Chat: Privacy Concerns Around eHealth and the e-Patient

With Roxana Nasoi, Melanie Boylan
CCO at Aimedis B.V.
12:25 - 12:40

Global Burden of Disease Study: A data-driven comparative health assessment as a prerequisite for global health equity

By Tomislav Mestrovic
Collaborator / Assistant Professor at Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (Washington, US); University North (Croatia); Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek (Croatia)
12:25 - 12:40

Twitter analysis of the current political situation in Belarus

By Daria Minksy
Entrepreneur, publisher and data explorer at AllWomen
12:25 - 12:40

Networking Activity brought to you by Enpact

12:37 - 13:02

Infuse Your Talent Strategy with AI that Ignites Your Workforce

With Elizebeth Varghese, Andy Jankowski
Partner & Norht American Market Leader: Talent & Tranformation Innovation Unit IBM Partner, Talent & Transformation at IBM
12:45 - 13:15

Networking Lunch with Café Lust from Groningen

12:49 - 13:01

Project Debater – From Competitive Debate to Business Applications

With Yoav Katz, Matthias Biniok
IBM Debating Technologies at IBM
13:03 - 13:22

L’Oreal’s finance transformation: achieving a harmonized, centralized, dynamic view of a global data

With Laurent Mesnier, Rachel Su
FP&A Information Systems Manager at L'Oréal
13:04 - 13:52

Interview with CEO and Author Katie King

With Katie King, Kim Dressendörfer
Board Advisor | Author | Management Consultant | Keynote speaker on AI at AI in Business
13:20 - 13:35

Hacking the Hackathon! A panel discussion on the importance of Hackathons as a form of Innovation during the COVID-19 crisis

With Michael Ionita, Urska Jez, Jesus del Valle
Author of No-Code, Blockhain YouTube Channel & Board Member at Austrian Startups
13:20 - 14:00

PANEL: The truth about AI

With Denis Rothman, Jose Esteves, Joanna Kirk, Ayse Elvan Aydemir
AI Author, Developer, Instructor and Consultant at Denis Rothman
13:20 - 13:40

Predict who lives or dies on the Titanic - without a single line of code

By Lorenz Lehmann
CTO at Health Care Systems GmbH
13:20 - 13:35

Biostory - Rethinking biometric data through speculative design

By Genefer Baxter
Designer at IMRSV Arts
13:24 - 13:45

How voice capabilities create a trusted, accurate, and efficient customer experience

With Brian Loveys
Offering Management at IBM
13:40 - 14:00

Data Feminism

By Lauren Klein
Associate Professor at Emory University
13:40 - 14:00

Digital avatar to support critical clinical decisions in cardiovascular diseases

By Christian Contarino
CTO at Computational Life Inc
13:40 - 14:00

Networking Activity brought to you by Kairos Society

13:54 - 14:42

Interview with Researcher and Ambassador Marisa Tschopp

With Marisa Tschopp, Kim Dressendörfer
Researcher @ scip AG | Women in AI Ambassador Switzerland | Lecturer @ HSLU | AI & Psychology at scip AG, HSLU
14:05 - 14:35

Fireside Chat: Digital Transformation

With David Ruau, Aline Noizet
VP, Head of Global Data Asset & Decision Science at Bayer Pharmaceuticals
14:09 - 14:07

Designing for trust in your AI experiences

With Jennifer Sukis, Dr. Robin Langerak, Lisa Chen, Dillon Eversman, Mary Kim
Director of Design, AI Transformation at IBM
14:09 - 14:35

Trust: Hard to build, easy to break

With Ritika Gunnar, David Cox
VP, Data & AI Expert Services & Learning at IBM
14:37 - 14:58

Inside the most effective ways regulated domains employ NLP

With Dr. Sean Goltz
Advisor to the CEP at Global Regulations Inc
14:40 - 15:00

Networking Activity

14:40 - 15:00

Networking Activity

14:40 - 15:00

Networking Activity

14:40 - 15:00

Networking Activity

14:40 - 16:35

Everything they don't teach you in data science boot camp

By Clemens Meyer zu Rheda
Data Scientist at Foundamental
14:44 - 15:11

Interview with Watson Centre Leader Andrea Martin

With Andrea Martin, Kim Dressendörfer
IBM Distinguished Engineer, Leader IBM Watson Centre Munich at IBM
15:00 - 15:47

Build a trading bot with Deep Reinforcement Learning using Ray and RLlib

By Romeo Kienzler
CTO and Chief Data Scientist at IBM
15:05 - 15:25

Quantifying, Visualizing, and Forecasting Global Human Society: What it Looks Like To Compute on the Entire Planet

By Kalev Leetaru
Founder at GDELT Project
15:05 - 15:45

Networking

15:05 - 15:45

PANEL: The Ethical Implications of SEO

With Jamie Alberico, Victor Pan, Lily Ray, Kyle Roof, Gianna Brachetti-Truskawa
100% Human Technical SEO Consultant at Not a Robot
15:05 - 15:25

Communication Post Telehealth Adoption

By Sarianne Gruber, Nabia “Bia”Malouf
Analyst at SG Healthcare Analytics LLC
15:13 - 15:34

Data is a team sport: Designing and delivering customized data experiences

With Rick Vermeer, Dr. Liz Pratt
Metadata Manager at ING Wholesale Banking Data Management at ING
15:30 - 15:45

Why collecting socially responsible/socially just race-based data is critical to data science?

By Roberta K. Timothy , Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Program Director : Health Promotion at Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto
15:30 - 15:45

Networking Activity

15:36 - 16:05

As big as the ocean: The UN Environmental Programme unifies data to eradicate beach pollution

With Kunal Sawarkar, Dick Darden
Principle Data Scientist, IBM Data Science and AI Elite at IBM
15:49 - 16:19

Tech Talk : Cloud Native Covid-19 Data Analytics with Kubernetes and OpenShift

By Mo Haghighi
Developer Ecosystems Leader at IBM
15:50 - 16:10

Recommendation Mechanism For Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) Methods

By Kaoutar Chennaf
Master student-Researcher at TU Berlin
15:50 - 16:10

How moving to digital communication impacted different aspects of work

By Agnieszka Michalik
HERE Technologies, ESMT at Solution Architect
15:50 - 16:10

Networking Activity

15:50 - 16:10

How AI helped in tracking domestic violence during Lockdown

By Harini Suresh
Lead Machine Learning Engineer at Omdena
16:07 - 16:21

The rhythm of music and science with the MET Orchestra

With Stephanie Mortimore, Seth Dobrin, PhD
Principal Piccolo at Metropolitan Opera Orchestra
16:15 - 16:35

Computer Vision APIs & Gender Bias in the Age of COVID-19

By Ilinca Barsan
Director of Data Science at Wunderman Thompson
16:15 - 16:35

Data Storytelling

By Vijay Pravin Maharajan
Data Analytics Expert at Siemens AG
16:15 - 16:35

Networking Activity

16:15 - 16:35

Geolocation and AI challenges in disputed territories or partially recognized states

By Renato Losio
Principal Cloud Architect at Funambol
16:20 - 16:45

Trust in AI: It starts with the data foundation

With Noel Yuhanna, Kip Yego
VP, Principal Analyst at Forrester Research
16:23 - 16:42

How The Weather Channel Built a COVID-19 Data Lake in a Week

With Travis Smith, Torsten Steinbach
hief Architect, Consumer Products at The Weather Company
16:40 - 16:50

Networking

16:44 - 16:57

Score a Touchdown with Watson Fantasie Insights

With Noah Syken, Aaron Baughman
Vice President, Sports and Entertainment Partnerships at IBM
16:47 - 17:02

Automating the AI Lifecycle

With Jennifer Sukis, Dr. Robin Langerak
Director of Design, AI Transformation at IBM
16:55 - 17:15

Bias in Recommender Systems

By Ricardo Baeza-Yates
Professor at Northeastern University
16:55 - 17:15

Networking

16:55 - 17:15

Networking Break

16:55 - 17:40

Panel: The Power of Belonging in times of uncertainty and a better normal.

With Ariana Ivan, Giulia Motteran, Luciana Carvalho Se
CEO at 108 Forests
16:55 - 17:40

Networking

16:59 - 17:25

Building AI Skills: A How-To Guide

By Ana Echeverri
Data and AI Expert Labs Learning Leader at IBM
17:04 - 17:30

Need a better Data Strategy? Apply 5 Steps to increase agility and trust in your data

With David Stodder, Beate Porst, Bharath Chari
Senior Director of Research for BI at TDWI Research
17:20 - 17:40

Individuals, collectives, and the tradeoffs of transhumanism

By Alistair Croll
Founder at Solve for Interesting
17:20 - 17:40

Live Healthier, Longer and Better with AI

By Tina Woods
Founder & CEO at Collider Health
17:20 - 17:40

What it needs for a liquid data economy - On data integration of external data

By Florian Grüning
CMO at Kuwala.io
17:27 - 17:52

Infuse Your Talent Strategy with AI that Ignites Your Workforce

With Elizebeth Varghese, Andy Jankowski
Partner & Norht American Market Leader: Talent & Tranformation Innovation Unit IBM Partner, Talent & Transformation at IBM
17:32 - 17:55

AutoAI: The trusted brain behind faster and smarter machine learning

17:45 - 18:05

Circus Show by Codarts Students

17:54 - 18:42

Interview with CEO and Author Katie King

With Katie King, Kim Dressendörfer
Board Advisor | Author | Management Consultant | Keynote speaker on AI at AI in Business
17:57 - 18:15

Combat loneliness: how hackathons can help revolutionize our society

With Bente Acking, Stephanie Cleijpool
Founder & CEO at TheHeroLoop
18:10 - 18:40

LIVE MUSIC

With Scott & Lila
Musicians at Scott & Lila
18:17 - 18:44

Inside the Science Behind Your Biggest Decisions

18:45 - 19:15

Data not Drama, creating a better world with Quantum Computing

By Whurley
CEO at Strangeworks
18:45 - 19:15

Data not Drama, creating a better world with Quantum Computing

By Whurley
CEO at Strangeworks
18:45 - 19:15

Data not Drama, creating a better world with Quantum Computing

By Whurley
CEO at Strangeworks
18:45 - 19:15

Data not Drama, creating a better world with Quantum Computing

By Whurley
CEO at Strangeworks
19:20 - 20:00

PARTY with DJ Mr. Purple

19:20 - 20:00

PARTY with DJ Mr. Purple

19:20 - 20:00

PARTY with DJ Mr. Purple

19:20 - 20:00

PARTY with DJ Mr. Purple

Job Fair
Matchathon
12:30 - 13:30

Data Natives Networking Party

14:00 - 18:00

Job Fair