• Senior Writers from the editorial team will present their selections of the best and brightest big data startups with an award and the chance to talk about how they are changing the game.

    Speakers

    Eugenio Culurciello — CTO and Founder, Teradeep
    Paul Duan — President, Bayes Impact
    Ahna Girshick — Head of Product and Partnerships, Enlitic
    Ann Johnson — CEO and Founder, Interana
    Neha Narkhede — Head of Engineering, Confluent
    Andy Palmer — CEO and Co-Founder, Tamr
    Naveen Rao — CEO, Nervana Systems
    Sven Strohband — CEO, MetaMind

    Moderated by

    Derrick Harris — Senior Writer, Gigaom

    About the Speakers

    President

    Paul Duan is the President of Bayes Impact, and is an award-winning data scientist recognized by the Wall Street Journal and the Economist. More…

    Head of Product and Partnerships

    Ahna Girshick is a Head of Product and Partnerships at Enlitic where she oversees the application of deep learning technology to solve high-impact medical problems such as the early detection of lung cancer. More…

    CEO and Co-Founder

    Andy Palmer is a serial entrepreneur and angel investor who has helped start, fund or advise more than 50 innovative companies, many involved with big data. More…

    CEO

    Naveen brings a unique perspective to Nervana Systems being at the intersection of semiconductor design, machine learning, and computational neuroscience for the past 17 years. More…

    About the Moderator

    Senior Writer

    Derrick has been a technology journalist since 2003 and has been covering cloud computing, big data and other emerging IT trends for GigaOM since 2009. More…