SESSION SPEAKERS

Abdulrahman Alfozan

Data Platforms, Facebook



Adam Barth

Team member, Facebook



Adrián González Martín

Machine Learning Engineer, Seldon Technologies



Akhil Dhingra

Senior Product Manager of Data Solutions, Zalando



Alessio Basso

Chief Architect—PayMe from HSBC, HSBC



Alex Bush

Data Engineer, KPMG Lighthouse



Alfonso Roa Redondo

Functional Architect, Habla computing



Ali Ghodsi

Co-founder & CEO
Original Creator of Apache Spark, Databricks



Alicia Frame

Senior Data Scientist, Neo4j



Amanda Moran

Solutions Architect, Databricks



Amogh Margoor

Senior Staff Engineer, Qubole



Ana Maria Martinez Fernandez

Data Specialist, Vestas



Andre Jasiskis

Software Engineer, Nubank



Andreas Neumann

Software Engineer, Databricks



Andreu Mora

Senior Data Scientist, Adyen



Arnoud de Munnik

Data Scientist, Wehkamp



Avrilia Floratou

Senior Scientist, Microsoft



Bartosz Konieczny

Software Engineer, Canal+



Bas Geerdink

Technology Lead, Rabobank



Ben Sidhom

Software Engineer, Google



Benyue (Emma) Liu

Product Manager, TigerGraph



Bhoomika Sharma

Data Scientist, Megh Computing, Inc.



Bill Chambers

Product Manager, Databricks



Bogdan Ghit

Software Engineer, Databricks



Boudewijn Braams

Software Engineer, Databricks



Brad Miro

Developer Programs Engineer, Google



Brooke Wenig

Machine Learning Practice Lead, Databricks



Burak Yavuz

Software Engineer, Databricks



Carson Wang

Big Data Software Engineer, Intel



Charmee Patel

Product Innovation Lead, Syntasa



Cheng Su

Software Engineer, Facebook



Chenzhao Guo

Big Data Engineer, Intel



Chongguang Liu

Technical lead, Société Générale



Chris Stevens

Software Engineer, Databricks



Christian Grant

Deep Learning Engineer, Demant



Christina Lee

Program Manager 2, Microsoft



Christopher Crosbie

Product Manager, Google



Christopher Hoshino-Fish

Solutions Architect, Databricks



Clayton Doige

Senior Solutions Architect, WANdisco



Corey Zumar

Software Engineer, Databricks



Daniel Tomes

Lead Resident Solutions Architect, Databricks



Danilo Nogueira Machado

EMEA Solutions Architect, Amazon Web Services



Dave Goodhand

Solution Engineer, Unravel Data



Dave McDonnell

Manager, Storage Business Development, IBM



David Mariassy

Data Engineer, GetYourGuide



David Vrba

Data Scientist, Socialbakers a.s.



Davit Bzhalava

Principal Data Scientist, Swedbank



Deepak Pai

Software Engineer, Adobe, Inc.



Denis Dubeau

AWS Partner Solution Architect, Databricks



Denny Lee

Developer Advocate, Databricks



Dooyoung Hwang

Software Engineer, SK Telecom



Elena Boiarskaia

Data Scientist, H2O.ai



Eliseo Papa

AI Engineering Lead, AstraZeneca



Ellissa Verseput

Data Scientist, Quby



Errol Koolmeister

Lead Data Scientist, H&M



Evgeny Shapiro

Software Engineer, Airbnb



Felix Moeller

Enterprise Architect, Avanade, Inc.



Gaël Varoquaux

Creator of scikit-learn
Brain Imaging Research, Inria



Ganesh Chand

Data Engineer, Databricks



Gengliang Wang

Software Engineer, Databricks



Georgia Koutrika

Research Director, ATHENA RESEARCH CENTER



Gheorghe Pucea

Big Data Engineer, BMW Group



Giselle van Dongen

Lead Data Scientist, Klarrio



Greg Willis

Global Technical Lead in Technology Alliances, Dataiku



Guglielmo Iozzia

Associate Director, MSD



Harish Kumar

Director of Data Engineering and Architecture, RB



Hendrik Frentrup

Founder, Systemati.co



Himanshu Gupta

Lead Consultant, Knoldus Inc.



Holden Karau

Software Engineer, IBM



Hongchan Roh

Team Leader, SK Telecom



Hyukjin Kwon

Software Engineer, Databricks



Itai Yaffe

Big Data Tech Lead, Nielsen



Jacek Laskowski

Independent Consultant, Development and training services



Jacques Pierre Francois Doux

Data Scientist, Elsevier



Jakub Masek

Head of Data Squad, MONETA Money Bank



Jakub Sanojca

Security Researcher, Avast



Jakub Stech

Senior Data Scientist, DataSentics



Jasper Groot

Senior Data Engineer, Eventbrite



Javier Luraschi

Engineer, RStudio



Jean-Yves Stephan

CEO and Co-Founder, Data Mechanics



Jennifer Reinelt

Self-Driving Car Engineer, BMW Group



Jerry Vos

Data Scientist, Wehkamp



Jim Dowling

CEO, Logical Clocks AB



Jiri Kremser

Developer, Red Hat, Inc.



Joao Da Silva

Senior Data Engineer, Avast



Johan Vallin

Global Head Of Data Science, Electrolux



John Haddad

VP, Informatica



Jonathan Chin

SVP, Product Management, ARM Insight



Jordan Martz

Partner Solutions Architect, Databricks



Josef Niedermeier

Cyber Security Big Data Team, Hewlett Packard Enterprise



Julien Dumazert

CTO and Co-Founder, Data Mechanics



Julien Peloton

Software Engineer, CNRS



Juliusz Sompolski

Software Engineer, Databricks



Justin Brandenburg

Resident Machine Learning Engineer, Databricks



Karen Feng

Software Engineer, Databricks



Katie Bouman

Assistant Professor in Computing and Mathematical Sciences, California Institute of Technology



Keven Wang

AI Architect, H&M



Kevin Doyle

Lead Architect, IBM



Kia Eisinga

Senior Data Scientist, TomTom



Kim Hammar

Software Engineer, Logical Clocks AB



Kim Laine

Researcher, Microsoft



Kyle Weller

Program Manager, Microsoft



Layla Yang

Solutions Architect, Databricks



Louis Polycarpou

Technical Director, Data Engineering EMEA, Informatica



Luca Canali

Data Engineer, CERN



Lucas Partridge

Software Engineer, GE Aviation Digital



Luke Pritchard

Global Data Leader, Avanade, Inc.



Mario Juric

Data Science Professor, University of Washington



Mark Hamilton

Software Engineer and Researcher, Microsoft



Martin Junghanns

Software Engineer, Neo4j



Mary Grace Moesta

Customer Success Engineer, Databricks



Matei Zaharia

Assistant Professor of Computer Science; Original Creator of Apache Spark & MLflow, Databricks



Mats Rydberg

Software Engineer, Neo4j



Matthew Cheah

Software Engineer, Palantir



Matthew Powers

Software Developer, Prognos



Matthijs van Dorth

Data Scientist, ABN AMRO



Maurits van der Goes

Data Engineer and Scientist, RTL Netherlands



Max Kießling

Software Engineer, Neo4j



Mayur Bhosale

Member of Technical Staff, Qubole



Michael Armbrust

Principal Software Engineer, Databricks



Michael Destein

Director, Tech Alliances, Talend



Michael Seddon

Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Clifford Chance



Michael Shtelma

Solutions Architect, Databricks



Michal Gancarski

Software Engineer, Zalando SE



Miguel Martinez

Deep Learning Solution Architect, NVIDIA



Mike Vedomske

Senior Data Scientist, PetSmart



Milan Berka

Data Scientist and Engineer, DataSentics



Mirko Bernardoni

Head of Data Science, Clifford Chance



Moritz Meister

Software Engineer, Logical Clocks AB



Mukul Murthy

Software Engineer, Databricks



Nagaraj Sengodan

Senior Manager, HCL Technologies



Niall Turbitt

Data Scientist, Databricks



Nick Pentreath

Principal Engineer, IBM



Nishant Thacker

Sr. Technical Product Manager, Microsoft



Nitin Raj Soundararajan

Technical Consultant, Cognizant Worldwide Limited



Oliver Tupran

Software Engineer, Devoteam



Omar Hommos

Data Scientist, Adyen



Oriol Vinyals

Principal Scientist at Google DeepMind, Google



Patrick Caldon

Director, Morningstar Inc



Petar Zecevic

CTO, SV Group d.o.o.



Peter Knight

, GE Aviation



Peter Webb

Big Data and AI, GlaxoSmithKline



Petr Pluhacek

Digital Marketing Manager, Ceska sporitelna



Prakhar Jain

Technical Staff, Qubole



Pranav Prakash

VP of Engineering and Co-Founder, Quartic.ai



Qi Xie

Senior Architect, Intel



Rahul Potharaju

Principal Engineering Manager, Microsoft



Ravi Gawai

Resident Solutions Architect, Databricks



Rodel van Rooijen

Data Scientist, Adyen



Rodrigo Ney

Data Engineer, Nubank



Rose Toomey

Software Engineer, Bloomberg



Roy Levin

Senior Researcher, Microsoft



Ruben Berenguel

Big Data Engineer, Consultant



Rupal Shah

Director of Cloud Services, StreamSets



Saurav Verma

Senior Data Engineer, Zalando



Scott Lutz

Applied Data Science Associate, DataRobot



Sebastian Herold

Big Data Architect, Zalando SE



Sergio Ballesteros Solanas

Data Scientist, TomTom



Shaheer Mansoor

Service Delivery Manager, Swedbank



Shobhit Gupta

Sr. Manager, Asurion



Simeon Simeonov

Founder and CTO, Swoop



Songting Chen

Chief Architect, TigerGraph



Sören Reichardt

Software Engineer, Neo4j



Srilakshmi Chintala

Product Manager, Microsoft



Dr. Stephen Galsworthy

Chief Data Officer, Quby



Subru Krishnan

Principal Architect, Microsoft



Takuya Ueshin

Software Engineer, Databricks



Tathagata Das

Lead Developer, Databricks



Taylor Hess

Senior quantitative analyst, Morningstar Inc



Terry Kim

Principal Software Engineer, Microsoft



Thiago Rigo

Data Engineer, GetYourGuide



Thimo ten Veen

Solution Architect, ABN AMRO



Thomas Graves

Distributed Systems Software Engineer, NVIDIA



Thunder Shiviah

Solutions Architect, Databricks



Tim Hunter

Software Engineer, Databricks



Tomasz Magdanski

Director of Engineering, Asurion



Urvashi Kohli

Big Data Support Engineer, Qubole



Varant Zanoyan

Software Engineer, Airbnb



Venkata Krishnan Sowrirajan

Software Engineer, Qubole



Vicky Avison

Data Engineer, Cox Automotive UK



Victor Cuevas-Vicenttin

Postdoctoral Researcher, Barcelona Super Computing



Vijay Srivastava

Staff Data Engineer, Adobe, Inc.



Vishnu Vettrivel

Data Scientist, Cloudcircle



Vishwa Belur

Manager, Informatica



Vitaly Khudobakhshov

Project Lead in Big Data IDE, JetBrains



Will Manning

Senior Architect, Palantir



Xingbo Jiang

Software Engineer, Databricks



Yannick Radji

Data Architect, Sodexo



Zhichao Zhong

Data Scientist, Wehkamp



Zoran Stipanicev

BI Engineer, GetYourGuide