PETER NYMAN

JOURNALIST, TV-HOST

Peter Nyman is a well-known, charismatic and experienced TV-anchor and business event moderator. He is a journalist,  news-anchor and media professional that coaches on three languages. Peter  has run communication trainings for business directors- and experts for years, but speaks about communication skills also to bigger audiences. 

Laura van Beers

CHIEF DATA OFFICER, INTEGRATED GAS | SHELL (NL)

Laura van Beers is an experienced business executive with a strong focus on data driven value delivery. She has a track record in (award-winning) digital product development. Laura enjoys leveraging the power of new digital technologies and Artificial Intelligence to create new value streams. Laura has held a variety of digital roles in (multi)nationals and in the start-up environment and currently works as Chief Data Officer for Shell’s Integrated Gas business.

MAJ. Gen. John M. Olson

CHIEF DATA AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE OFFICER | UNITED STATES AIR FORCE (US)

Maj. Gen. John M. Olson is the Mobilization Assistant to the Chief of Space Operations (CSO) and Chief Data and Artificial Intelligence Officer for the U.S. Air Force. He supports the CSO with responsibility to organize, train, and equip space forces; develop and acquire military space systems; and conduct space operations to advance and protect U.S. and allied interests. He is the Space Force lead for Joint All Domain Command and Control and the Advanced Battle Management System. As the first Chief Data and Artificial Intelligence Officer for the Department of the Air Force, he leads both Air Force and Space Force data and AI initiatives in operations, technology, innovation, personnel, mobility, logistics, maintenance and finance. He also serves on the Office of the Secretary of Defense Operational Energy Innovation Technical Advisory Group and flies as an Airborne Emergency Action Officer on the Looking Glass Airborne Nuclear Command Post leading strategic deterrence missions.

ANGEL HORVAT

DIRECTOR EMEA - DIRECT CONSUMER DATA STRATEGY | NIKE (NL)

Angel is an experienced business executive with a focus on leveraging data and AI to better the world we live in.

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Angel is currently the EMEA Director for Consumer Data Strategy at Nike where he leverages his passion and knowledge of data and AI to have an impact in the world of sports. Previously, Angel worked at Gartner Consulting where he led AI Services practice shaping the global consulting AI offerings and leading tier one clients to Data & AI Ethics vision and strategy, Responsible AI and AI Governance frameworks, Explainable AI, MLOps, and AI strategy and execution.

ANNE-LAURE CEBILE

DATA SCIENCE TEAM LEADER | DANONE (FR)

I have a master degree in theoretical physics. I spent the first 6 years of my career working for an airline, to develop Data Science for marketing and commercial applications. I joined Danone 2 years 1/2 ago, and I am now the manager of the global Data Science team. I'm fascinated by how Machine Learning and mathematics can modelize business problems and help improve our operations.

DANIEL ENGBERG

HEAD OF AI, DATA AND PLATFORMS | SAS - SCANDINAVIAN AIRLINES (SE)

Daniel is passionate around how technology can be used to drive value, starting out as a consultant in the IT strategy field helping companies maximize their use of technology before transitioning into SAS. He started the SAS AI journey in 2018 and is now responsible for AI & Automation, Data & Integration, Cloud and developer tooling at SAS.

KRISTEN BENNIE

DIRECTOR OF INNOVATION AND PARTNERSHIPS | NATWEST GROUP (UK)

Kristen is a creative leader with a wealth of experience in innovation and transformation programs. She is the Director of Innovation and Partnerships at NatWest where she helps bring the future into focus through strategy, design, technology and cultivating a culture of openness, creativity and collaboration.

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Her career has always involved the development and delivery of new products, services and software to drive sustainable growth and positive customer outcomes. She has created and leads NatWest’s award winning innovation studios in London and Edinburgh and is a recognised leader in her domain and was named as one of the top 35 women leaders by IBM for her work using AI to power digital transformation.

Muhannad Alomari

EUROPEAN AI HUB LEAD | ROLLS-ROYCE  (UK)

Muhannad leads a brilliant team of Data Scientists and developers, working on introducing state of the art AI/ML algorithms into Rolls Royce.
He completed his PhD in AI & Robotics from the School of Computing, University of Leeds. His  thesis was awarded the highly prestigious EurAI Dissertation Award 2017, by the European Association for Artificial Intelligence; and awarded the Research Excellence Award from University of Leeds. His research interests are in Natural Language Processing, Deep Learning, Robotics, and Computer Vision.

KIAN ABOLFAZLIAN

HEAD OF DATA TRANSFORMATION | PHILIPS (NL)

For the past 20 years, Kian has been a Principal Digital Strategist and Trusted Advisor to boards of directors, C-Suites and senior stakeholders in knowledge-intensive organization, across Europe, Americas and Asia. He has specialized in design and delivery of large scale E2E Customer-centric Digital Transformations for institutions within both Public and Private sectors, Design of National ICT and AI strategies. He has as well been an advisor on projects financed by World Bank, IADB and UNDP among others. He is passionate about designing People-literate technologies, as well as People-centric Digital-First solutions in the context of Smart Spaces for manufacturing, global logistics, buildings & shops, and homes.

ANN-ELISE DELBECQ

DATA SCIENCE AND AI ELITE TEAM, CLIENT ENGINEER EMEA- PROGRAM DIRECTOR | IBM (BE)

Ann-Elise is currently leading the IBM Data Science and AI elite team in EMEA. She is focused on Data Science, Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence for IBM in EMEA enabling clients to successfully apply Data Science and deploy trustworthy, scalable and resilient AI into business processes. Ann-Elise has wide industry experience, in sectors ranging from Telco to Finance.

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​Ann-Elise holds a Master in Business Engineering and an advanced Master in Financial Economics (MS) from  KU Leuven, Belgium, where she delivered a final dissertation on machine learning in the space of Fraud Detection.

HENRIK WARFVINGE

DATA AND MACHINE LEARNING ADVISOR | GOOGLE CLOUD (SE)

Henrik is currently a technical advisor and technical lead for Google Cloud Data Analytics and Artificial Intelligence team in Sweden. He has a general passion for data and the innovation power behind it. He works cross-industry to help organizations to raise their data maturity level and to realize specific use cases. He likes to evangelize around MLOps and does not shy away from diving deep into code. Besides data, he is also a basketball fanatic and enjoys exercise by practicing racket sports.

JANNE FLINCK

AI AND DATA LEAD | CODENTO (FI)

Janne joined Codento from Accenture 2022 with extensive experience in Google Cloud Platform, Data Science, and Data Engineering. His interests are in creating and architecting data-intensive applications and tooling. The main technologies used include BigQuery, GKE, Cloud Run, Airflow, Docker, R, Python, and Ansible. Some minor scripting with Bash for automation purposes. Janne have two professional certifications and one associate certification in Google Cloud and a Master’s Degree in Economics.

PER LÖJDAHL

Sales Executive

M-Files

HUGO GÄVERT

Chief Data & AI Officer

DAIN Studios

KARTHIK SINDHYA

AI Strategist

Solita

MIKAEL RUOHONEN

Data Science, AI & Analytics

Solita