Speaker Category: SoCal-2018
William Karnes
I am a gastroenterologist with a primary interest in colorectal cancer prevention. After several years as Director of Research in the Colorectal Neoplasia Clinic at the Mayo Clinic, I was recruited to UCI in…
Cesar Acosta
Dr. Acosta is the program director of the MS in Analytics program at the University of Southern California. A faculty member of Viterbi School of Engineering at USC, Dr. Acosta is a data analyst…
Tom Plunkett
Tom Plunkett is an Author, ICO Advisor, Patent Attorney, and Software Expert. He is a Consulting Solutions Director with Oracle. He has written several books related to Big Data and Cloud Computing. He is…
Jongwook Woo
Dr Jongwook Woo received his Ph.D from USC and went Yonsei University. He is a Professor at CIS Department of California State University Los Angeles and serves as a Technical Advisor of Isaac Engineering,…
Thuc Vu
Dr. Thuc Vu is the CEO and co-founder of Kambria and OhmniLabs. He previously founded Katango and Tappy which were acquired by Google and Weeby.co, respectively. Thuc has deep expertise in game theory, machine learning,…
Sugath Warnakulasuriya
Dr. Sugath Warnakulasuriya, Managing Director of Thalamus Labs, is a strategic advisor and entrepreneur with 25+ years of experience in innovation and growth for enterprises and startups. He has been a consultant with McKinsey &…
Lawrence Spracklen
Dr. Lawrence Spracklen leads engineering at SupportLogic, where he leads a team applying AI to the enterprise technical support space. Prior to joining SupportLogic, Lawrence lead engineering teams at two other ML startups; Alpine…
Erika J. Steele
Erika is Executive Producer of over 15 internationally acclaimed global films and series, as well as CEO, COO of companies, promoter, engineer, business adviser, futurologist, strategist, and Certified in Artificial Intelligence Organizational Strategy from MIT.…
Erik Saberski
I am the lead mathematician and data scientist for XYO Network and a PhD student in Biological Oceanography studying nonlinear dynamics, complexity theory, and data-driven theory at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO). I…
Zia Khan
Passionate about developing solutions based on customers’ needs and requirements . I help provide customized solutions to help organizations transition from traditional data centers to virtualized data centers and/or cloud environment (Public, Private or…