2020

Nicole Moldovan

Nicole Moldovan

Nicole helps companies turn data into answers through actionable AI programs. Utilizing NLP technologies, Nicole assists clients in extracting value from their structured and unstructured data (documents, contracts, chat logs, reports, emails, text repositories, relational and graph databases) for the purpose of regulatory reporting, question-answering, chat, search, email classification, and other applications. At Lymba, she…

Jim Short

Jim Short

Dr. Short is Lead Scientist and co-founder of the Center for Large Scale Data Systems (CLDS) at the San Diego Supercomputer Center. He has taught business strategy, management information systems, and communications theory at the London Business School, Theseus Institute, and the MIT Sloan School of Management. He was also a Belfer Fellow at the…

Helen Nissenbaum

Helen Nissenbaum

Helen Nissenbaum is a Professor at Cornell Tech and in the Information Science Department at Cornell University. Her research takes an ethical perspective on policy, law, science, and engineering relating to information technology, computing, digital media and data science. Topics have included privacy, trust, accountability, security, and values in technology design. Her books include Obfuscation:…

Julia Stoyanovich

Julia Stoyanovich

Julia Stoyanovich is an Assistant Professor at New York University in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the Tandon School of Engineering, and the Center for Data Science. Julia’s research focuses on responsible data management and analysis practices: on operationalizing fairness, diversity, transparency, and data protection in all stages of the data acquisition…

Rumman Chowdhury

Rumman Chowdhury

Rumman Chowdhury’s passion lies at the intersection of artificial intelligence and humanity. She holds degrees in quantitative social science and has been a practicing data scientist and AI developer since 2013. She is currently the Global Lead for Responsible AI at Accenture Applied Intelligence, where she works with C-suite clients to create cutting-edge technical solutions…

Pieter De Leenheer

Pieter De Leenheer

Pieter leads Collibra Research. With 20 years experience translating science in product and business, he is responsible for envisioning and developing technological and scientific research capabilities. Pieter writes, teaches and advises on computing and management aspects of data innovation, accountability and citizenship. He published five books and dozens of journal articles on these topics. Pieter…

Amit Weitzner

Amit Weitzner

Amit Weitzner is CEO and co-founder at timbr.ai, the SQL Knowledge Graph Company. He has over 10 years of experience developing big data solutions, graph databases, and Semantic Web technologies and is the development team leader at Israel’s 8200 Intelligence Corps unit. Weitzner is a graduate of Mamram Israeli Army software development program.   2020…

Bethany Sehon

Bethany Sehon

Bethany leads a team of product managers, ontologists, data scientists, and data analysts, enhancing Capital One’s data management capabilities around metadata collection, quality and best practices. Bethany is also responsible for establishing the Ontology practice, a capability that is being used to facilitate a common understanding of the data and analytics across the Capital One…

Brian Donohue

Brian Donohue

As an Ontologist in Enterprise Data Management, Brian is responsible for leveraging semantic technology to mitigate data risk and promote a shared understanding of data across Capital One. Prior to joining Capital One, Brian spent 3 years at a Research and Defense company as a developer and curator of the Common Core Ontologies: a suite…