• Speakers

    • Ted_Bailey640x474
      Dataminr
      Founder and CEO

      Ted Bailey is the Chief Executive Officer, Founder and Chairman of Dataminr.

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    • rob_bearden640x474
      Hortonworks
      CEO

      Rob Bearden – CEO Rob is the former chief operating officer of both SpringSource and JBoss, two of the most commercially successful open source companies in history.

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    • Ron_Brachman640x474NEW
      Yahoo
      Chief Scientist, Yahoo and Head, Yahoo Labs

      Ron Brachman is Head of Yahoo Labs and Chief Scientist of Yahoo.

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    • Eric_Brewer640x474
      Google
      VP, Infrastructure

      Eric is a vice president of infrastructure at Google.

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    • Julie_Brill640x474
      U.S. Federal Trade Commission
      Commissioner

      U.S. Federal Trade Commissioner Julie Brill has been one of the nation’s leading advocates for protecting consumer privacy in this era of rapid technological change.

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    • andrew_brust640x474
      Gigaom Research
      Research Director

      Andrew Brust is Research Director for Big Data and Analytics at Gigaom Research.

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    • barb_darrow640x474
      Gigaom
      Senior Writer

      Barb has covered technology and high-tech companies for longer than she’d care to admit.

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    • Krish_Dasgupta640x474NEW
      ESPN
      VP, Data Platforms

      Krish Dasgupta is Vice President, Data Platforms at ESPN.

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    • Paul_Duan640x474
      Bayes Impact
      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.

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    • Don_Duet640x474
      Goldman Sachs
      Co-Head, Technology Division

      Don is Co-Head of the Technology Division.

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    • Rob_Fergus640x474NEW
      Facebook
      Research Scientist

      Rob Fergus is a Research Scientist at Facebook AI Research.

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    • cormac_foster640x474
      Gigaom Research
      Research Director

      Cormac Foster is a Research Director at Gigaom Research covering Mobile Technologies and Enterprise Operations.

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    • George_Gilbert640x474NEW
      TechAlpha Partners
      Principal

      George Gilbert is an Analyst for Gigaom Research and Principal of TechAlpha Partners, a management consulting and research firm.

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    • Ahna_Girshick640x474
      Enlitic
      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.

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    • Michael_Greene640x474
      Intel Corporation
      VP, Software and Services Group and General Manager, System Technologies and Optimization

      Greene is responsible for delivering software and solutions that enable Intel and its customers to accelerate their software development, speed up the adoption of new Intel-based platforms, and optimize enterprise and client applications. His team is charged with providing efficient

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    • derrick_harris640x474
      Gigaom
      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.

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    • Jeff_Hawkins640x474
      Numenta
      Co-Founder

      Jeff Hawkins is co-founder of Numenta, a leader in machine intelligence.

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    • Nancy_Hersh640x474NEW
      Opower
      VP, Analytics

      Nancy Hersh leads the Opower Analytics team, which utilizes quantitative techniques to drive energy efficiency.

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    • stacey_higginbotham640x474
      Gigaom
      Senior Writer

      Stacey is happy when immersed in SEC filings, tech specs or poking through a data center.

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    • Steven_Horng640x474NEW
      Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School
      Associate Director of Emergency Informatics

      Dr. Horng is dual board-certified in emergency medicine and clinical informatics with degrees in computer science and biomedical informatics.

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    • Ravi_Hubbly640x474
      Lockheed Martin
      Senior Technology Manager, Growth and Innovation

      Ravi Hubbly has 20+ years of Information Technology experience in supporting various business missions.

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    • Ann_Johnson640x474
      Interana
      CEO and Founder

      Ann Johnson is Co-Founder and CEO of Interana.

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    • Jane_Kelly640x474
      BuzzFeed
      Data Science Lead

      Jane Kelly is BuzzFeed’s Data Science Lead. Starting as a Information Designer in 2012, Jane now leads a growing team of Data Scientists to develop the company’s analytics tool and product integrations with social platforms.

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    • Lynn_Langit640x474
      Lynn Langit Consulting
      Architect

      Big Data and Cloud Architect – AWS Community Hero, Google Developer Cloud Expert, Microsoft MVP, MongoDB Master, Cloudera Certified Instructor. Advisory board member – Codenvy, AlgebraixData Co-Founder (non-profit) – Teaching Kids Programming

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    • Kalev_Leetaru640x474NEW
      GDELT Project
      Founder

      Kalev H. Leetaru founded and leads the GDELT Project, which monitors the world’s broadcast, print, and web news media in over 100 languages in realtime and identifies the people, locations, organizations, counts, themes, sources, emotions, narratives and events driving global society, creating a free open platform for computing on the entire world.

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    • Kif_Leswing640x474
      Gigaom
      Staff Writer

      Kif is a staff writer at Gigaom based in New York covering mobile technology.

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    • Anthony_Lewis640x474
      Qualcomm
      Senior Director of Technology

      Dr. Anthony Lewis, Senior Director of Technology for Qualcomm, in biologically-inspired robotics.

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    • Jens_Ludwig640x474
      University of Chicago Crime Lab
      Director

      Jens Ludwig, the McCormick Foundation Professor of Social Service Administration, Law and Public Policy at the University of Chicago, directs the University of Chicago Crime Lab and Urban Education Lab.

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    • Jock_Mackinlay640x474
      Tableau Software
      VP, Visual Analysis

      Jock is Tableau’s Vice President of Visual Analysis.

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    • Gary_Marcus640x474
      Geometric Intelligence
      CEO

      Gary Marcus, scientist, bestselling author, and entrepreneur is Professor of Psychology and Neural Science at NYU and CEO and Co-Founder of the recently-formed Geometric Intelligence, Inc.

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    • Hillary_Mason640x474
      Fast Forward Labs
      Founder

      Hilary is Founder and CEO of Fast Forward Labs, an independent data technology research lab, Data Scientist in Residence at Accel Partners, and Scientist Emeritus at bitly.

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    • Seth_Mcquire640x474
      Twitter
      Senior Business Development Manager

      Seth McGuire is a Senior Business Development Manager at Twitter, focusing on channel partnerships.

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    • William_McKnight640x474NEW
      McKnight Consulting Group
      President

      William is an internationally recognized authority in information management.

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    • Paul_Miller640x474
      Cloud of Data
      Founder

      Paul Miller is an analyst and consultant, based in the East Yorkshire (UK) market town of Beverley and working with clients worldwide.

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    • Neha_Narkhede640x474
      Confluent
      Head of Engineering

      Neha Narkhede is Co-Founder and Head of Engineering at Confluent.

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    • Matt_Ocko640x474
      Data Collective
      Co-Managing Partner

      Matt Ocko has three decades of experience as a technology entrepreneur and VC, in the US and globally.

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    • Laura_Owen640x474
      Gigaom
      Managing Editor

      Laura oversees news production in the mornings from the Gigaom East office in Manhattan, assigning, editing, and writing stories as needed.

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    • Andy_Palmer640x474
      Tamr
      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.

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    • Naveen_Rao640x474
      Nervana Systems
      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.

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    • Lee_Redden640x474
      Blue River Technology
      CTO and Co-Founder

      Lee Redden is the Co-Founder and CTO of Blue River Technology, a computer vision, machine learning, and robotics company working in agriculture which builds machines that “Make Every Plant Count”.

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    • Tom_Reilly640x474
      Cloudera
      CEO

      Tom has a distinguished 30-year career in the enterprise software market.

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    • jeff_roberts640x474
      Gigaom
      Senior Writer

      Jeff reports on legal issues that impact the future of the tech industry, such as privacy, net neutrality and intellectual property.

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    • William_Ruh640x474
      General Electric
      VP and Corporate Officer, GE Software

      William Ruh is vice president for GE Software, an advanced software technology and shared services organization that serves more than 30,000 engineers across GE business divisions, giving customers capabilities required to connect intelligent machines, data and people, and to run industrial-scale analytics.

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    • Ashutosh_Saxena640x474
      Cornell University and Stanford University
      Assistant Professor

      Ashutosh Saxena is an assistant professor in the Computer Science department at Cornell University, currently at Stanford University, where he is the director of RoboBrain project.

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    • John_SchroederNEW640x474
      MapR
      CEO

      John has served as MapR’s Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board since founding the company in 2009.​

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    • Julie_Shah640x474
      MIT
      Assistant Professor

      Julie Shah is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics and the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.

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    • Joseph_Sirosh640x474
      Microsoft
      VP, Corporate, Information Management and Machine Learning

      Joseph Sirosh is the corporate vice president of the Information Management and Machine Learning team in the Cloud and Enterprise group at Microsoft Corp.

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    • Bill_Squadron640x474NEW
      STATS
      Executive VP, Pro Analytics

      Bill Squadron has been an executive, government official and attorney in the telecommunications, sports and media fields for more than 25 years.

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    • Jen_Stirrup640x474
      Data Relish
      Principal

      Jen Stirrup is a Gigaom industry analyst, an author, SQL Server MVP, a data strategist and practitioner in Business Intelligence, Big Data and Data Visualization.

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    • Ion_Stoica640x474NEW
      Databricks
      CEO

      Ion Stoica is the CEO of Databricks, which he co-founded in 2013 to commercialize Spark and other related big data technologies developed at AMPLab (UC Berkeley).

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    • Jonathan_Vanian640x474
      Gigaom
      Staff Writer

      Jonathan Vanian covers all things enterprise from San Francisco, with a focus on startups.

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    • Davide_Venturelli640x474
      NASA Ames Research Center, Universities Space Research Association
      Science Operations Manager

      Davide Venturelli is a scientist at the Intelligent System Division of NASA Ames Research Center.

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    • joe_weinman640x474
      Author, Cloudonomics
      Analyst, Gigaom Research

      Joe Weinman has held executive leadership positions at Bell Labs, AT&T, and HP in areas such as corporate strategy, business development, product management, operations, and R&D.

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    • brian_whitman640x474NEW
      Spotify
      Principal Music Scientist

      Brian leads existing music intelligence efforts and directs R&D for future products.

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    • Matt_Wood640x474
      Amazon Web Services
      GM, Data Science

      In his role at Amazon Web Services, Matt Wood helps teams of all sizes bring their ideas to life through technology.

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    • Dan_Zigmond640x474
      Hampton Creek
      VP, Data

      Dan Zigmond is VP of Data at Hampton Creek, a technology company pioneering in food and with a mission to make better food choices easier for everyone, everywhere.

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