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The AI/ML Advisory Board is a group of experts and industry executives who specialize in topics including: artificial intelligence best practices, machine learning technologies, Bots & Language Processing, Neural Networks, and emerging AI innovations.
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From 2000 to 2018, Anshu was a founding member or early executive heading product and marketing of four successful Silicon Valley B2B startups.
Anshu received a B.E. in E&C from the Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee, an MS in EE from Rutgers University, and an MBA from Kellogg, Northwestern University.ev
I have worked at diverse companies and in various environments including startups and am currently at CarGurus.
I have experience in delivering products in the enterprise application space to small businesses by scaling technology teams.I have experience in delivering products in the enterprise application space to small businesses by scaling technology teams that effectively facilitate software development from prototype through hyper-growth curves that enable successful acquisitions.
I'm also one of the original creators of Apache Wayang (incubating), an open-source platform for cross-platform data processing. I have held executive data leader roles at Cloudera, Allianz, Evariant, e.on., and X, where I built big data cloud solutions, IoT, or AI to drive business outcomes.
Alexander is currently founder and CEO for Databloom, the Data Mesh company. Alexander operates at the crossroads of data driven enterprises, AI and computer science to deliver solutions that people remember.
In his entrepreneurial journey at Avataar, Gaurav has set out to deliver meaningful & delightful enhancements to visual experiences by deploying 3D Computer Vision and AI technological advancements. His passion for the consumer tech space started early and he desires to foster a nurturing ecosystem for the next generation.
Tim’s passions include Robotics, CPU/GPU Competitive Overclocking, Blockchain, Immersive, and Game Development.
Jeff has launched new ventures and models as a tech foudner and consulting companies such as Omnicom, Google, Boston Beer, Nissan, Publicis Groupe, Unilever and AT&T. He spent several years as Centrica's senior advisor to deregulate state energy markets.
Jeff earned his MBA in Strategy from Kelley School at Indiana University Bloomington and a BA from Purdue University. He currently resides in Barrington, Illinois with his three sons and two rescue dogs.
She spent 20 years in leadership roles across engineering, product and data science, founded her own Fintech, and lead product roles for three acquired companies. She led engineering and product for financial web applications globally at Oracle.
Michelle serves on the Advisory Board for Northwestern’s MBAi program. She received an MBA from Kellogg and an undergraduate degree from Northwestern.
Alpesh focuses on delivering solutions with emerging technology and digital transformation. He advises on how to leverage the use of Data and Artificial Intelligence (AI) across all parts of a business and helping companies transform their business models. Specifically focused on Sustainability, Artificial Intelligence and Data. Areas of focus include architectures such as Data Meshes, and Cloud Native applications.
Together with Juliet Kelso and Grace Ng, she has co-founded Oasis Collective, a Women In AI Community which holds private brunches, dinners, and demo days.
To learn more about Gloria Felicia, please visit her website at www.gloriafelicia.com.
- Executive experience in startups, having led product and engineering teams
- 1x successful exit two startups ago
- Experience in product strategy, roadmap development, and shipping software products from ideation to MVP to PMF
- Scaled teams at various stages of growth (4 to 10, 20 to 40 and 50 to 85)
- Super enthusiastic about the potential of AI and what it will bring to the future.
Engineering and Product leader with over two decade of experience building and launching products at high technology startups and companies. Led startups to successful acquisitions, customer and tremendous revenue growth. Acquired startups and led to successful integration and business growth. Founding member of four successful startups - Arkin acquired by VMWare, FrontRange acquired by Ivanti, DBO2 acquired by Industrial Scientific, and RIOTT.
I am passionate to build novel products with customer centric innovative mindset, making complex problems simple.
She earned her Masters in Computer Science at University of Pennsylvania, with research interests in Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing. She has delivered 50+ talks and workshops at conferences and universities globally.
She enjoys mentoring and teaching for using data and code to drive change. She is a Fellow of the Python Software Foundation, a Women in Data Science ambassador, and a Society of Women Engineers - Golden Gate leader.
She earned her Masters in Computer Science at University of Pennsylvania. Her research interests are in Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing. She has delivered 45+ talks and workshops at 20+ conferences and universities globally.
She enjoys mentoring and teaching new concepts and help people use data and code to drive change. In her free time, she enjoys traveling, cooking, and writing.
Mr. Johansson has earned an MSC, Engineering Physics from Chalmers University of Gothenburg, Sweden.
1. Product leader with 20 years experience leading product management & software development initiatives for New Product Development with major customer & financial impact. Led multi-functional teams across geographies - USA, UK, Europe & India.
2. Championed multi-product strategy & roadmap – security, on-prem & cloud data integration platforms, API platform & public REST APIs, authentication & authorization services, e-sign solutions
3. Successfully developed & launched products in fast paced cloud SaaS startup. Went IPO with Anaplan.
4. Owned & scaled up collaboration with high visibility customers, wider product team, engineering teams, marketing, customer success, sales, UX, support teams & external partners. Guided product development via customer research, alpha, beta, early access & general availability (GA) to achieve business objectives.
5. Impactful stakeholder management, cross functional team alignment & talent development.
6. Experienced in Sales enablement, business analysis and consulting at Cognizant. Led finance chartered accountants & engineering teams for implementing CPM (Corporate performance management) projects.
7. Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) in Computer Science, Post-Graduate in Management (Finance, Marketing).
Companies worked for:
1. Anaplan - Principal Product Manager (USA)
2. Cognizant - Product Owner (USA, UK, India)
3. SAP Labs India - Engineering (India)
4. Infosys - Engineering (India)https://www.linkedin.com/in/chanaveer-kadapatti-b-e-computer-eng-pg-management-4995215/
A graduate of the MIT Engineering Systems Division, Kaya was previously a strategy/analytics lead at CloudLock and Cisco Systems. Kaya has a proven track record of translating complex data into actionable insights and leading cross-functional teams towards analytical excellence. In addition to her corporate roles, Kaya is a frequently sought-after keynote speaker and panelist at leading industry events.
He later open-sourced Featureform’s virtual feature store. Featureform's declarative python framework allow ML teams to define, manage, and serve their model features.
He’s also an avid surfer, a mixed martial artist, a published astrophysicist, and ran the SF marathon in basketball shoes.
He is the co-founder of Got It AI. In addition to developing products, he invests in and serves on the boards of cutting-edge technology companies.
Prior to Got-It, Chandra led a number of AI teams at Amazon (AI, Alexa Prize), Uber (Multimodal AI, Conversational AI), and eBay (Recommendation Systems).
He brings over 25 years of experience as Technology executive, Business visionary, and Servant leader - leading Enterprise Architecture, Transformational Change Management, and Delivery Practices with expertise in building world-class Technology and Consulting organizations, Lean business strategies, and digitizing multi-billion-dollar portfolios.
Founder & CEO Doc-E.ai - Grow Developer Adoption by aligning Community Support, Advocacy, Content and Education.
CEO/CTO @Clearedin [acquired by Barracuda Networks]
Software Architect @BladeNetwork [acquired by IBM]
Sr. Software Engineer @AndiamoSystems [acquired by Cisco]
Software Engineer @SycamoreNetworks
B.Tech(H) IIT Kharagpur
Mario’s work consists of the application of the most recent technologies to improve and solve the various problems that big companies face across a range of sectors, to ensure the success of their projects.
Carlos has a degree in Computer Science from ITESO and a Master’s in Technology Commercialization from UT Austin. He has 20+ years in IT with a solid experience in technology, systems, problem solving, research and business strategy.
Carlos is the author of the upcoming book “The Efficient Enterprise”, a business book that brings these technologies closer to the business user.
A featured speaker at CES, Money 2020, Shop.org, CTIA, and other industry conferences, Maya has been highlighted in outlets such as Bloomberg, Forbes, CNBC, Business Insider, and others. She has authored articles for TechCrunch and Quartz. She has also been an Adjunct Professor at NYU, lecturing on mobile technology.
Jeremy enjoys teaching through his popular tech blog and YouTube channel as well as contributing to open source as a .NET Foundation Member, and DevOps Institute Ambassador.
In the past years, I've founded and sold a startup, built the digital lab of a German Mittelstand company, and now combine both aspects as the CTO of the Venture Builder wattx. Since we're building digital solutions and ventures for other (traditional) companies, I've been part of a team that tackles challenges from building a healthy food store online to engineering an IoT solution that reduces scrap in wet-milling processes.
In the past, they led the non-Latin script Kindle rendering team to deliver millions of books on billions of devices in Japanese, Indic, Arabic, and Chinese. Giorgio also had the opportunity to lead the engineering effort to implement new payment methods and regulations for Amazon Brazil.
Giorgio organized Droidcon Boston, SwiftFest, and spoke to over 100 international conferences.
In my role as Principal Engineer at Microsoft Ads (formerly Xandr Inc.) I spearhead a multitude of strategic engineering initiatives across the Microsoft Advertising Org on Audience & Identity, Ad Attribution & Measurement through privacy compliant, AI/ML based solutions at scale. Xandr conducts over 400 billion daily real-time Ad auctions world-wide with an average response time below 250 milliseconds. Currently I’m leading Engineering on Advertiser First-Party Audience Modeling product suite for extending reach by 3-5x using Graph Neural Network (GNN) & LLM (GPT) embeddings and contextual modeling to address Ad-campaign under-spend. Apart from this, I’ve focused on building advanced ML-driven features like an innovative frequency management product that enables Advertisers to control the number of impressions seen by non-addressable users, Xandr’s Buy-side ML Product Suite for click & conversion prediction helping Advertisers to achieve their Ad-campaign KPIs across digital, mobile, video and CTV inventory, and an Identity Graph for Cross-Device Targeting with 11 Billion Nodes & 16 Billion Edges using a proprietary Household Resolution Algorithm based on HashMin and modified Gale-Shapley algorithm.
Prior to AdTech, I worked in Fintech to build a low-latency stock trading system that handled 3% of all US stocks traded daily by volume and an industry-first trading-fraud detection system that performed ML based trading-pattern detection on streaming order data. I worked on PTZ camera-based systems to perform real-time motion detection and facial recognition.
I have presented my work at conferences, including DeveloperWeek NYC, PAPIs LATAM Data Science conference, and Graph+AI ML conference. I have actively participated in industry panels, sharing insights on Machine Learning Engineering and Graph technology. I ran the Xandr’s Tech blog and had over 50 blog posts published by employees over two years. I’m a Senior Member of IEEE, an at-large member of Upsilon Pi Epsilon international honor society for computing disciplines and Program Chair for AdKDD ACM conference on knowledge discovery and data mining. Furthermore, I have played a key role in mentoring and guiding the career growth of engineering managers and individual contributors, fostering a culture of innovation and continuous improvement.
I hold a Master of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from New York University and a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering from the University of Mumbai.
Magith Noohukhan holds a Master's degree in Robotics Engineering from the University of Applied Sciences in Darmstadt, Germany, and a bachelor's in Electronics and Communications Engineering.
• Demonstrated expertise in maximizing product value through Agile, Lean and SDLC
• Voice of customer evangelist driving product, placement, pricing, and promotion specifically to demonstrated customer buying preferences.
• Experienced in logistics, pharma/medical device, manufacturing, retail, hi-tech, and transportation verticals.
• Focused on building and then commercializing new, emerging technologies to the mass market.
• Specific experience building/using technology to establish, grow and optimize development and product teams supporting corporate initiatives and sales efforts.
Azmath with prior ""BIG 4"" high-performance technology consulting experience, had key responsibilities including help drive value/business initiatives for several large programs and projects across various industries.
Prior to that he led the engineering and R&D groups at 3 start ups and was a captain in the Israeli military intelligence.
He is a father of 3, who likes to travel and read whether he has time for it or not.
Currently she is heading everything tech related at a Stealth Mode startup, organizing tech conferences (Security, SRE, AI and Go), and the Berlin chapters of the Go and Women Techmakers user groups.
She worked in 4 continents as a Lead Developer Advocate, Engineering Manager, Software and Hardware Engineer, and a Co-Founder of a mobile start-up. In her free time, she is wondering if there is life on Mars.
With more than 16 years of experience in Engineering across multiple companies including IBM and Microsoft, Payal is passionate about the intersection of Cloud, ML and Cybersecurity. At Microsoft, she wore many hats - shipped security features for Windows 10 as a TPM, breached some of the foundational services at Microsoft as a Red teamer, strengthened Azure platform security as Software Development Engineer, and shipped features in Microsoft Sentinel as Applied Machine Learning Engineer.
I have an extensive knowledge in natural language processing, machine learning, information retrieval, web search engines, data mining, personalization, and distributed large-scale systems. Recently, I've been focusing on developing generative AI for financial transactions to explore its applications beyond text and images.
In my free time, I enjoy reviewing machine learning books, papers, and conferences for select publications and events.
I bring over 10 years of hands-on experience as a product professional, having successfully launched products from scratch and grown portfolios valued at $100M+ for esteemed companies across the US and APAC regions.
My background spans both B2B and B2C products, and I thrive in designing both hardware and software solutions, catering to the needs of private and government clients alike.
We are exploring cutting-edge GenAI, NLP, and Computer Vision technologies, paving the way for groundbreaking use cases and positioning ourselves as industry leaders in the IDP space.He holds an MBA from the prestigious Ivy league Columbia Business School, US, and a Master's equivalent in Industrial Management from NITIE, India. He is also a trained Computer Science Engineer having done a Bachelor of Technology from India.
Asit has advised publicly listed company CEOs, industry association leaders, and other C-level executives to turn around businesses and consulted startups on creating new products and business lines in India. He not only co-founded an e-commerce company but also scaled the business 4x year on year in 3 years while setting up strategic partnerships with firms across India and China. He has led multimillion-dollar M&A integrations and launched new innovative products and led the growth strategy for a $100+ Mn business catering to 3500+ businesses in the US.
Asit specializes in 0 to 1 products taking them from concept to launch (drawing from my Startup experience which I had cofounded in India) and is an expert on Growth scaling (drawing from experience at Equifax, EY & Nomura). Currently he works for Flexport ( TIME's Most Influential Companies of 2022 and a CNBC Disruptor Company) where he leads an entire new product line to make Global Trade easy starting with the Fortune 500 companies in the US. At Equifax Asit led the Product Growth and New product innovations for US’s Commercial businesses.
Some of his accomplishments :
International Jury:
Edison Awards
Stevie Awards - Judge at Middle East North Africa Stevie Awards, Sales & Customer Service
Globee Award - Judge at the CEO World Awards, Women World Awards, and Business Excellence Awards.
Webby Awards
Codie Awards
Brandon Hall Group Excellence Awards
Membership:
MLE℠ – Member of Leaders Excellence awarded by Leaders Excellence at Harvard Square
Academy member -International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences
AICRA-All India Council for Robotics & Automation
Patent Filed
Patent 1 - 360 degree real-time risk assessment of business for reliable supply chain operations - Business Credibility Product
Patent 2 - CSRA Score – Multidimensional risk assessment including alternative risks for onboarding, portfolio monitoring, and collection purpose
When not working, he pursues his passion for the Climate change mission. He is always looking out for moonshot ideas and pragmatic actionable to not feel inspired but also to make an outsized impact on society.
Mohamed Co-Authored the G20 policy brief on AI and its impact on the labor market. Previously, Mohamed Held senior technical positions at Nokia, HERE, Yahoo! and Symantec. He is an avid reader, enjoys learning new things, teaching himself music composition and playing strategic board games.
Akram has done cutting edge AI/ML early stage startup work with DL, tinyML along with EDA, fabless semiconductor companies globally.
He specializes on different wireless protocols, IoT software stacks, AI/Machine learning, Enterprise WiFi, IoT architectures, and the Cloud networking domain.
Akram is also a frequent presenter in many Internal Cisco Live, Devnet , APJC SecCon -2020 and external conferences in topics related to AI/ML, Wireless Networking , IOT and Cloud technologies.
Have always been working on data-problems from an ML/AI and analytics point of view. Extracting insights from the data and enabling users to get answers for various questions on the data is my expertise.
Vivek has worked in the tech industry for top global companies, such as IBM, AT&T and Schlumberger. He is currently a Co-Founder at CellStrat (www.cellstrat.com) – a leading AI firm that is developing cutting-edge Generative AI products for global enterprises.
Vivek runs one of the largest AI research communities via CellStrat, focussed on GenAI, NLP and Computer Vision.
Vivek holds a B.E. from IIT Roorkee and an MBA from Georgia State University, Atlanta.
• 10+ years of experience as a Lead Data Scientist
• Expertise in Forecasting, Natural Language Processing (NLP), Fraud Detection and Prevention, and Risk Assessment
• MSc. Computer Science
In her role as the Head of Delivery of Cognitive Solutions at Tonomus NEOM , she is focused on AI, IOT & Metaverse driven Cognitive Cities.
Vijji was the Founder, CEO & CTO of CareerWaze an AI driven Future of Work startup and Founder & CEO of BPA Technologies, a VC funded Content management startup which was acquired by a Moody’s group company.
Vijji is also the founding director of nonprofit SeemandhraForum.org and nonprofit initiative Shespeaksbureau.org.
My mission is to bridge the gap between digital and physical worlds, and to understand how people make decisions in different environments, such as online, offline, and AR/VR.
As CTO, and Technology VP, Richard brought new technologies to market, and was responsible for strategy, partnerships and product research.
Richard served on Splunk’s Technology Advisory Board through their Series A, and more recently co-chaired the ONUG Monitoring & Observability Working Group.
Richard holds three patents, and is considered dangerous with JavaScript.A former CTO, and Technology VP, Richard brought new technologies to market, and was responsible for strategy, partnerships and product research.
Richard served on Splunk’s Technology Advisory Board through their Series A, providing product and market guidance.
He served on the Advisory Boards of RedSeal and Meriton Networks, was a charter member of the TMF NGOSS architecture committee, Chaired a DMTF Working Group, and recently co-chaired the ONUG Monitoring & Observability Working Group.
Richard holds three
Previously, Scott was both the Chief Innovation Officer and first CTO of SXSW where he developed the web and mobile software, IT, digital marketing, and video production necessary for producing the world renowned SXSW Interactive, Music, and Film conferences and festivals held every March in Austin, TX.