The emerging festival for all data practitioners.

Bongani is a data engineer working in personalization and recommendations for Adevinta's central team for the online classified markets across Europe and North America. He has a background as a full-stack software engineer but swapped to Data Engineering as it allowed him to follow his passion for large-scale distributed systems and related topics. Bongani obtained his MSc in Computer Science from the University of the Witwatersrand in 2014, focusing on peer-to-peer infrastructures for online gaming.

With a background in Aerospace Engineering, Guilherme entered the ML world as a Research Engineer at a French startup called LightOn. While at LightOn, he was part of the Falcon team and was in charge of creating the pretraining dataset for the Falcon LLM: the RefinedWeb dataset. After working on the Falcon project, he joined HuggingFace, where he maintains the open-source data processing library "datatrove" and works on improving pretraining datasets as a member of the HuggingFace Science Team.

Hubert Dulay is an O'Reilly author of "Streaming Data Mesh" and "Streaming Databases" (early access). He is a veteran engineer with over 20 years of experience in big and fast data. Hubert has compiled his experiences with data from his time while consulting for many financial institutions, healthcare organizations, and telecommunications companies, providing simple solutions that solved many data problems. With the massive growth in ML/AI, Hubert helps data practitioners understand how existing data pipelines can be altered for ML/AL.

As a full-stack ML engineer, Jules is interested in the entire development process, from state-of-the-art research to data pipelines and web development. To stay at the forefront of innovation, he continuously monitors the latest research and enables applications built on top of the latest advancements. Using his technical expertise and drive for perfectionism, Jules translates business needs into high-quality, scalable, and performant data processing solutions.

Pedro Azevedo is a mechanical engineering graduate from the University of Aveiro who researched Autonomous Driving Assistance Systems (ADAS) in the Laboratory of Automation and Robotics at the Department of Mechanical Engineering. After completing his master's degree, Pedro transitioned to the industry, where he worked on real-time ML applied to the manufacturing industry and now works on large-scale machine learning systems, developing end-to-end ML pipelines through use cases in world-class fashion brands such as Adidas.

Shawn is an innovative technologist and data strategist with over 15 years of experience. He is passionate about harnessing data strategy, engineering, and analytics to help businesses uncover new opportunities. His holistic view of technology and emphasis on developing strong engineering talent, focusing on delivering outcomes while minimizing outputs, sets him apart. Shawn's deep technical knowledge includes distributed computing, cloud architecture, data science, machine learning, and engineering analytics platforms. He worked as a consultant for prestigious clients, from secret-level government organizations to Fortune 500 companies.

Shikhar Chauhan has worked with Deep Learning for images and text throughout his entire career, from solving fake news with AI to automating electronic waste recycling to automating document processing for a bank and optimizing internal processes using GenAI. Shikhar has also been a contributor to Transformers, Torchvision, and spaCy. He loves to share knowledge and keep up to date with the industry and the latest in the field. Shikhar is fascinated by NLP, Images, and Multi-Modal AI.

Sofia Bourhim is a Research Scientist. She is working on Graph Machine Learning and its interdisciplinary applications to AI for Good problems. She recently obtained her Ph.D. in the field of AI. She previously interned at Microsft research lab (MARI) as a Research intern and is a recipient of the Microsoft PhD Fellowship. Sofia's contributions extend to receiving recognition for the best research papers at various conferences and notable events like NeurIPS'23 and Gitex'23.

Vivek Kumar is a Senior Researcher/Scientist and the Chair of Open Source Intelligence at the University of Federal Armed Forces under the Federal Ministry of Defence, Germany. He coordinates STELAR, an EU's Horizon 2020 program targeting "Artificial Intelligence, Data, and Robotics" in agri-food. Dr. Kumar won the Marie Sklodowska-Curie fellowship in 2019 for the EU's Horizon 2020 ITN network program PhilHumans & worked with Philips Research, Netherlands, and the University of Cagliari to receive a doctorate in 2023. His current research focuses on NLP, Knowledge Graphs, LLMs, AI Fairness & Bias.

Wojtek Kuberski is an AI professional and entrepreneur with a master's in AI from KU Leuven. He founded Prophecy Labs, a consultancy specializing in machine learning, before getting his current role as a co-founder and CTO of NannyML. NannyML is an open-source library for ML monitoring. At NannyML, he leads the research and product teams, contributing to novel algorithms in the model monitoring space. Wojtek was featured in the Breakout Session at Web Summit for "some of the world's most exciting early-stage startups".