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Based in the UK, but practice lead for Cognitive & AI across Europe, Wayne is responsible for all AI & Cognitive Automation deployments across EMEA, either building on existing RPA deployments or moving straight into AI & Cognitive.
Working with clients across the UK and Europe, Wayne is very hands on, in this new and exciting tech space, making use of technologies like Virtual Agents/Chat Bots, Intelligent OCR & Image recognition or Prediction & Automated Decisioning tools to increase the reach of automation tech into new areas of the business, delivering business value as well customer experience benefits when applicable.
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ISG (Information Services Group) (NASDAQ: III) is a leading global technology research and advisory firm. A trusted business partner to more than 700 clients, including 75 of the top 100 enterprises in the world, ISG is committed to helping corporations, public sector organizations, and service and technology providers achieve operational excellence and faster growth.
The firm specializes in digital transformation services, including automation, cloud and data analytics; sourcing advisory; managed governance and risk services; network carrier services; technology strategy and operations design; change management; market intelligence and technology research and analysis.
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Mali is one of the People Shaping Female Founders Future and opportunities at the startups Ecosystem in Berlin and Germany, recently announced raising a new fund of funds, Magda Group FoF in Berlin with focusing on EU technology diverse team, building more success stories and uplifting the tech ecosystem in Europe and beyond.
Born in Tel-Aviv, Living in Berlin. Mali has 20 years’ experience of founding companies. Started her first business in 2007 and followed this up with a global educational toys business, in Tel Aviv, which sold products in the US, Asia and across Europe. The products won numerous awards for innovation and design.
Finalists for the ‘Digital Female Leader Award’ for 2019. Mali is a regular speaker at conferences, a mentor and jury member of startup’s competitions, mentor at Techstars and other accelerators, actively involved in governmental activity and Corporate’s M&A to promote the local tech ecosystem globally and locally. Lecturer at universities on entrepreneurship, diversity and international business in Berlin,
Business angel, Mali has a lot of investments knowledge as a business angel and growth in startups.
Mali is an instrumental in creating the business and technology ecosystem in Berlin, connecting it with the her global network from Tel Aviv, New York, Silicon Valley, EU markets and Beijing, Bringing opportunities for the local startups and corporations.
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Before joining AniCura, Emma has been active as a start-up entrepreneur and CEO within digitally native companies within travel & telecom and as Head of Innovation for a major Swedish bank.
Emma holds a Master of Science degree (MSc) in International Business Administration and has lived in eight different countries. She is a dedicated horse-owner that competes in show-jumping and cross country.
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AniCura is a European family of animal hospitals and clinics. AniCura was born out of the idea that sharing resources creates opportunities for better veterinary care. The company was established in 2011 as the first merger of companion animal hospitals in the Nordic region.
Managing Director Why Consult, Co-Founder net4tec + Head of the Board Working Moms Munich. After studying in Spain and France Begonia began her career in the brand management of large international corporations on different continents.
Her pioneering spirit of experiencing and developing new things has shaped her career to this day. After 20 years of management experience, she founded Why Consult in 2011. Since then, her expertise in innovation and organizational development, cross-cultural competence and passion for corporate diversity has been key to more innovation and growth.
This year, she was awarded as one of the “Inspiring Fifty” Women in the DACH region, in 2017 by the IHK Munich as a businesswomen Role Model.
Nikhil is a Business Development Manager at AWS focusing on the Startup AI and ML ecosystem. He has a background in AI and ML with a strong focus on computational linguistics.
He started his career in research with a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Pennsylvania, followed by a role as a scientist at SRI International in the Bay Area. He then moved to London to work at a start-up building a Natural Language Generation service, primarily as a product manager with a B2B SaaS focus. Nikhil joined Amazon in 2017 and was a part of the Alexa team prior to his current role with AWS.
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Ambuj is the world leading expert in Artificial Intelligence and Robotic Process Automation. He has received numerous innovation awards from Citibank, Imperial College London, Ministry of Justice UK, Bristol University, among others. He is also one of the youngest recipients of the “Exceptional Talent Visa in Digital Technology” by the UK Government for expertise in Compiler Design and Machine Learning.
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Zappy is the Cognitive – Robotic Process Automation Software that provides office employees the ability to automate their manual business processes in minutes. Zappy learns user behaviour at work, identifies business processes and automatically creates automation for these processes.
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Dr Yonit Hoffman is a Senior Data Scientist at Windward, a world leader in maritime analytics, where she leads core projects and research in Machine Learning and Deep Learning. With more than a decade of experience in both business and academia, she gained her PhD in Bioinformatics from the Weizmann Institute. Yonit also holds an MSc and BSc in computer science and biology from TAU and Weizmann.
Company
Every day, decision-makers across the maritime ecosystem want to do what they do best: protect their interests and optimize their performance. Windward’s data, maritime expertise, and Artificial Intelligence deliver the insights they need, wherever and whenever they need them.
We capture, clean and analyze data from multiple sources and then apply artificial intelligence to see how vessels are being operated. This allows you to understand patterns of activity in context and work out what they mean for your organization, so that you can take smarter, swifter decisions.
Understanding the relationship between your organization and what happens at sea is becoming more critical and more complicated. We are committed to ushering in a new era of maritime insights – backed by deep domain expertise, data, and artificial intelligence – to help you navigate those complexities. That’s the Windward way.
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Guy was previously the CTO and co-founder of SignifAI, a startup acquired by New Relic in February 2019 that integrates machine intelligence to increase uptime, strengthen systems and make day-to-day life easier for DevOps teams. Guy has more than 20 years of experience innovating and leading the development of highly scalable, global software solutions.
Through that time, he’s worked with international companies, such as Tango and Vonage, and overseen the development of more than 20 patents. Guy received his B.B.A in software and information technology from The Interdisciplinary Center and completed Stanford Business School’s executive management program in organizational leadership.
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New Relic is the industry’s largest and most comprehensive cloud-based observability platform built to help customers create more perfect software. The world’s best software and DevOps teams rely on New Relic to move faster, make better decisions and create best-in-class digital experiences. If you run software, you need to run New Relic. Learn why more than 50% of the Fortune 100 trust New Relic to make the world’s software run at newrelic.com.
Hristo is co-founder and CEO Payhawk, a business spending platform that controls expenses for growing companies with innovative technologies such as Computer Vision.
In the field of AI, Hristo has a patent-pending technology for CognitiveFlow™ which uses declarative programming techniques to create conversational intelligence for a chatbot without the need to build decision trees.
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Chris has built Europe’s fastest-growing and largest community of mobility innovators at the Drivery. He is also involved in scaling the AI practitioner community with theguild.ai
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The history of mobility within Europe has a legacy of its own but has fallen behind in the digital era. Fast forward to March 2019 when The Drivery opened as a Marketplace for Mobility Innovators to provide the modern infrastructure needed for rapid innovation and the meeting place for the European mobility community.
Now, The Drivery is home to over 60 startups that are focused entirely on mobility within the European tech ecosystem. It’s a perpetual motion machine that brings together futurists, makers, thinkers, and doers who are all passionate about shaping the future of mobility.
Located in Berlin with over 10.000 m² (and growing) space in the historic Ullsteinhaus building, The Drivery includes high-tech prototyping maker garages, a GPU farm that provides excessive processing power for AI development, and coworking, office and event spaces. Come to the place that’s working to put Europe back on the map as the center for mobility innovation.
