Season 2

Gianni Rosa Gallina

R&D Senior Software Engineer @ Deltatre

Ekaterina Marinova

Microsoft MVP AI / Data and Innovation Strategist

Tania Allard

Co-director Quansight Labs

Tania is the co-director at Quansight Labs and previous Sr. Developer Advocate at Microsoft. She has vast experience in academic research and industrial environments. Her main areas of expertise are within data-intensive applications, scientific computing, and machine learning. Tania has conducted extensive work on the improvement of processes, reproducibility and transparency in research, data science and artificial intelligence. She is passionate about mentoring, open source, and its community and is involved in a number of initiatives aimed to build more diverse and inclusive communities. She is also a contributor, maintainer, and developer of a number of open source projects and the Founder of Pyladies NorthWest. In her free time she likes tinkering with electronics, nerding with mechanical keyboards, reading all the books and lifting heavy weights.

Leila Etaati

Co-Founder RADACAD

Matthew Renze

Data Science Consultant - Author - Public Speaker

Matthew Renze is a data science consultant, author, and public speaker. Over the past two decades, he’s taught over 400,000 software developers and IT professionals. He’s delivered over 100 keynotes, presentations, and workshops at conferences on every continent in the world (including Antarctica). His clients range from Fortune 500 companies to small tech startups around the globe. Matthew is a Microsoft MVP in AI, an ASPInsider, and an author for Pluralsight, Udemy, and Skillshare. He’s also the president of Serenze Global, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization whose mission is to improve access to technology education for under-represented individuals in the IT industry. His focus includes artificial intelligence, data science, and machine learning.

Bea Stollnitz

Principal Cloud Advocate at Microsoft

Laura da Silva

Capability Lead for ML & AI @ Cognizant

Buck Woody

Principal Applied Data Scientist, Microsoft Azure Data

Ben Fishman

Senior Algorithms and Data Science Team Manager