Speaker Category: socal-2019-speakers

Mark Donsky leads product management at Okera, a software provider that provides discovery, access control, and governance at scale for today’s modern heterogeneous data environments. Previously, Mark led data management and governance solutions at…

Tess is a Data Scientist at Dig Insights, a Toronto-based market research company focused on providing clear, data-driven recommendations. Her current work is largely in developing the AI functionality of their technology-based research methodology,…

With a Ph.D. in mathematics from Rice University, Malco has years’ experience in machine learning, deep learning, and data mining. He has been working as a senior staff data scientist consultant for diversified industries.…

Dr. Irina Kukuyeva is a Principal at Kukuyeva Consulting, advising companies on data strategy, collection, implementations, and hiring. She has 10+ years of experience collaborating with technical and business/clinical stakeholders, developing and productionalizing machine…

Sonali Sharma a data engineer on the data personalization team at Netflix, which, among other things, delivers recommendations made for each user. The team is responsible for the data that goes into training and…

Dr. Shilpa Balan is a professor in the Department of Information Systems at California State University-Los Angeles. Dr. Balan is very passionate about Data Analytics and Machine Learning, and has teaching and research interests…

Michael A. X. (Max) Izatt is the chief scientist for the Applied & Industrial Mathematics division of the Insights & Analytics Group of Hitachi Consulting Corporation. He was trained as a statistical physicist in…

Mark Scardina has been with Oracle for 20+ years and is currently the Director of Product Management of Oracle’s Applied Machine Learning Technologies group responsible for Oracle’s Autonomous Health Framework and Autonomous Health in…

Pavel Ferreri is a Global Strategy & Sales Leader, specialized in leading go-to-market sales strategy at a global scale to help organizations innovate and accelerate their digital transformation by leveraging innovative technologies. He is…