Announcing the First Speakers for ODSC Europe 2021

ODSC - Open Data Science
4 min readApr 9, 2021

Europe has a diverse cohort of AI professionals that are constantly redefining the field as a whole. Between unique startups, established companies, and research universities, there’s plenty of work being done. At ODSC Europe 2021, we’re aiming to showcase everything that’s being done in the realm of AI in 2021. As such, here are the first ODSC Europe 2021 speakers so you can get a taste of more to come this June 8–10, virtually.

David Talby, PhD | CTO | Pacific AI, John Snow Labs

David Talby is a chief technology officer at Pacific AI, helping fast-growing companies apply big data and data science techniques to solve real-world problems in healthcare, life science, and related fields. David has extensive experience in building and operating web-scale data science and business platforms, as well as building world-class, Agile, distributed teams.

Srujana Kaddevarmuth, PhD | Director Data Science & Value Realization | Walmart Labs

Srujana is a Data Science & Analytics evangelist and advocate of using data science for social good. She has expertise in using applied intelligence techniques of machine learning for marketing & customer analytics. As a Director of Data Science & Value Realization at Walmart Labs, she leads data science portfolios to solve unique business use cases to drive quantifiable data value.

Diego Galar, PhD | Professor of Condition Monitoring | Luleå University of Technology

In his current role, Dr. Galar is coordinating several H2020 projects related to different aspects of cyber-physical systems, Industry 4.0, IoT or Industrial AI, and Big Data. He was also involved in the SKF UTC center located in Lulea focused on SMART bearings and also actively involved in national projects with the Swedish industry or funded by Swedish national agencies like Vinnova.

Daria Stepanova, PhD | Research Scientist | Bosch Center for AI

Daria Stepanova is a research scientist at Bosch Center for Artificial Intelligence. Her research interests include Knowledge Representation and Reasoning with a special focus on the automatic acquisition of rules from structured knowledge. Previously Daria was a senior researcher at Max Planck Institute for Informatics (Germany), where she was heading a group on Semantic Data.

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Stefan Jansen | Founder & Lead Data Scientist | Applied Artificial Intelligence

Stefan is the founder and Lead Data Scientist at Applied AI. He advises Fortune 500 companies, investment firms and startups across industries on data & AI strategy, building data science teams, and developing machine learning solutions. Before his current venture, he was a partner and managing director at an international investment firm where he built the predictive analytics and investment research practice.

Nisha Muktewar| Research Engineer | Cloudera Fast Forward Labs

Nisha Muktewar is a Research Engineer at Cloudera Fast Forward Labs, where she spends time researching the latest ideas in machine learning, builds prototypes that showcase these capabilities when applied to real-world use cases, and advises clients in this space.

Hugo Bowne-Anderson, PhD | Head of Data Science Evangelism and Marketing | Coiled

Hugo is the Head of Data Science Evangelism and VP of Marketing at Coiled, a company that makes it simple for organizations to scale their data science and machine learning in Python. He has extensive experience as a data scientist, educator, evangelist, content marketer, and data strategy consultant at DataCamp, the online education platform for all things data.

Marta Markiewicz | Senior Data Scientist, Lecturer | InPost, Wrocław University of Economics and Business

For almost 10 years, she has been discovering the potential of data in various business domains, from medical data, through retail, HR, finance, aviation, real estate, logistics, and so on. She deeply believes in the power of data in every area of life. Article writer, conference speaker, and privately — passionate dancer and hand-made jewelry creator.

Register for now and see these ODSC Europe 2021 speakers!

These are only a few of the many speakers expected to speak at the conference. This year, there will be over 50 training sessions and workshops, 140 speakers, and 250+ hours of content. If you’re ready to see everything that the event has to offer, then register now for 40% off all ticket types.

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