Adam Gibson
Co-Founder and CTO
Skymind
Adam Gibson leads Skymind, a deep learning startup focused on enterprise solutions in banking and telco, as the CTO and cofounder.
Akira Shibata
Data Scientist
DataRobot
As Data Scientist at Data Robot, Akira Shibata is perfecting the art of applying machine learning to a diverse range of businesses. He contributed to the Higgs Boson discovery at the Large Haldron Collider particle accelerator of CERN, through statistical modeling during his post-doctoral work at New York University. Shibata was formerly CEO of Shiroyagi...
Andy Palmer
Co-Founder and CEO
Tamr
Data management start-up Tamr was co-founded by Andy Palmer. Tamr simplifies and automates data preparation for spend analytics, clinical data integration, and other business problems, so businesses can ask big questions and get to business insights faster.
Catherine Havasi, Ph.D.
Founder and CEO
Luminoso
Dr. Catherine Havasi co-founded artificial intelligence (AI) text analytics company Luminoso, that transforms the way organizations interpret and act on large-scale customer, employee, and marketplace feedback.
Christopher Ahlberg
Founder and CEO
Recorded Future
Dr. Christopher Ahlberg is the CEO of Recorded Future, Inc. and Chairman of Hult International Business School. He advises a series of start up companies. Earlier Ahlberg was the president of the Spotfire Division of TIBCO, which he founded in 1996 and in 2007 sold to TIBCO (Nasdaq: TIBX) for $195M.
Clint Wheelock
Managing Director
Tractica
As founder and managing director of Tractica, Clint Wheelock leads all research operations at the firm, including management of its analyst team as well as client interactions and consulting engagements. His personal research focuses on artificial intelligence and user interface technologies.
Dai Ike
CEO
Global Project Design Japan
Ike Dai has over 30 years experience within the IT industry and has participated many IT related projects as an SE, a consultant, and a project manager.
Daniel Pitchford
Commercial Director
AI Business
As Commercial Director of AI Business, the world’s foremost online news publication focused on how artificial intelligence is impacting the business landscape, Pitchford's experience in enterprise IT space has positioned him at the centre of a business community focused on future technology adoption.
David Rose
Founder and CEO
Ditto Labs
David Rose founded Ditto Labs, which uses deep learning networks to automatically discover what people share in social media photos and video. Using these affinity signals, the company helps marketers infer who precisely will be interested in which products and services. Ditto’s APIs power the world’s leading software platforms.
Ingo Mierswa
Founder and President
RapidMiner
RapidMiner—the industry’s top open source predictive analytics platform that is empowering organizations to include predictive analytics in any business process—began as a project of company founder Ingo Mierswa, when he was at the Artificial Intelligence Division of the TU Dortmund University in Germany.
Ira Winder
Research Scientist
MIT Media Lab
Ira does end-to-end design, development, and implementation of tangible-interactive, augmented reality decision support systems at the MIT Media Lab. Ira works with industry, academia, and public agencies to build executive-level tools for solving complex spatial problems.
Jonathan Epstein
Japan Country Manager
Credorax
Jonathan Epstein is country Manager for Credorax, a global acquiring bank that facilitates credit card transactions. He is also an active angel investor in Tokyo-based start-ups. Epstein has held senior positions in technology, banking, and payments and recently served as GM for PayPal Japan.
Jun Ohtani
Developer Advocate and Developer
Elastic
Jun Ohtani is Developer and Developer Advocate at Elastic and Japanese User Group creator.
Kazunori Sato
Staff Developer Advocate on the Cloud Platform Team
At Google, Kazunori Sato leads the developer advocacy team for machine learning and data analytics products, such as TensorFlow (an open source software library for machine intelligence), Vision API (cloud-based image content analysis), and BigQuery (data warehouse for interactive analysis of enormous datasets).
Koichiro Tsukamoto
Data Business Consultant
Most recently, Koichiro Tsukamoto led the digital strategy department at Ignition Point, which helps clients solve challenges with digital transformation strategies.
Koji Sekiguchi
Founder and CEO
Rondhuit
Koji Sekiguchi is deeply involved in the search engine industry and natural language processing community in Japan. He founded Ronduit in 2006, which offers consulting on search-based solutions, and offers training and technical support for Apache Solr and related technologies.
Lukas Biewald
Founder & Chief Data Scientist
CrowdFlower
Lukas Biewald founded CrowdFlower, a data enrichment and data mining leader that combines the best of human and machine intelligence, leveraging crowdsourcing to collect, clean, and label data.
Mateusz Dymczyk
Software Engineer
H2O.ai
Mateusz is a software engineer at H2O.ai, the maker behind H2O, the leading open source machine learning platform for smarter applications and data products. He works on distributed machine learning projects including the core H2O platform and Sparkling Water, which integrates H2O and Apache Spark.
Mathieu Dumoulin
Data Engineer
MapR Technologies
As Data Engineer at MapR Technologies, Mathieu Dumoulin works a lot with Hadoop (MapR's distribution), Apache Spark, Apache Drill, Elasticsearch/Kibana, and Kafka/MapR Streams for real-time event-driven processing.
Meri Rosich Ph.D.
Chief Intelligence Officer
DataWise division of Oak Lawn Marketing
Meri Rosich has built a career in marketing innovation and strategic business transformation, leading teams for top global firms such as American Express, Bertelsmann, and Samsung.
Michael Chang
Founder and CEO
Kyper Data
Michael Chang founded Kyper Data to provide a cloud-based data-as-a-service platform that connects individuals, organizations, data publishers, and developers, making standardized datasets of any type and any size available all in one place.
Michiaki Ariga
Sales Engineer & Field Data Scientist
Cloudera
As Sales Engineer and Field Data Scientist, Michiaki Ariga leverages machine learning and data science to enable Cloudera customers to create value from big data using Hadoop/Spark and Python.
Nenshad Bardoliwalla
Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer
Paxata
Paxata, co-founded by Nenshad Bardoliwalla, turns raw data into trustworthy information at the speed of thought, enabling business analysts to support the business data needs for analytics, operations and regulatory requirements.
Sheamus McGovern
Founder
Open Data Science Conference (ODSC)
The Open Data Science Conference (ODSC) is an organization committed to making data science more accessible. Beginning in early 2014, it has held major data science conferences in Boston, San Francisco. Santa Clara and London. It also hosts numerous meetups, data science for good hackathons, code sprints, and other events to help grow the international...
Stephen Jones
General Partner
SineWave Ventures
SineWave is an early stage VC investing firm that aligns top enterprise startups with commercial and public sector partners to drive scale and growth. Stephen's current investments at SineWave focus on data analytics, software-defined solutions, and cyber security.
Steve Bassi
CEO
Narf Industries
Steve Bassi is the Founder and CEO of Narf Industries, a boutique information security company which researches, designs, and develops new information security solutions for a diverse range of clients from casinos to governments.
Takafumi Kusano
Co-Founder & Representative Director
BrainPad Inc.
Takafumi Kusano is an active figure in data analytics in Japan both as Representative Director/Co-Founder of BrainPad Inc.—providing services for implementation of big data analytics and digital marketing—and as representative director of the Japan Data Scientist Society.
Takuho Mitsunaga
Research Associate Professor
Interfaculty Initiative in Information Studies at University of Tokyo
While Dr. Takuho Mitsunaga serves as Associate Professor of the Research Group for Cybersecurity in Public Policies at the University of Tokyo, he is also involved with the Japan Computer Emergency Response Team Coordination Center (JPCERT/CC).
Takuya Matsutani
CEO
Project Nippon
Leading Project Nippon, Takuya Matsutani is actively involved in bringing innovation to the world through collaboration with large companies and startups. He founded Project Nippon Co., Ltd., which launched a service to register over 200,000 entrepreneurial-oriented people in its first year。
Tetsuro Ito
Personal Financial Management Department
Money Forward, Inc.
Tetsuro Ito has been at Money Forward, Inc. since 2016, where he has been engaged in work including the development of apps for the analysis of household budget management, and contributing to the direction of development work.
Tim Rowe
Founder and CEO
Cambridge Innovation Center
Tim Rowe is the Founder and CEO of Cambridge Innovation Center (CIC) which operates the largest facility in the world dedicated to housing startups. More than US $2B has been invested in companies that grew up at CIC.
Yasuo Tanida
Director of the Research Planning Office
SynergyMarketing
At Synergy Marketing, Yasuo Tanida is working to construct a social knowledge (knowledge model) network and to establish technology that predicts consumer behavior, while integrating research results related to marketing science and communication mining. Through comprehensive IT technology, Synergy Marketing provides an support service integrating CRM functions with a domestic cloud service to make marketing...
Yuichi Tanaka
Spark Specialist
IBM
As a specialist of Spark / Hadoop, he is supporting the construction of many customers' analysis infrastructures. He has many experience as an engineer to play an important function in a variety of business, such as financial system, embedded system, community service, games, advertising system, and online shop system.