Emil Matsakh

Managing Partner and Co-Founder of FinMain, a FinTech as a service (FTaaS) platform

He has most recently served as a Chief Analytics Officer at the Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) where he was accountable for developing the group's competitive advantage in data and analytically driven insights and delivering value from this advantage through digital transformation. Previously, he was an Executive General Manager at CBA where he created and led the Group Decision Sciences and Portfolio Risk Management divisions and built digital banking businesses in EMEA and APAC.

Eugene Roytburg

Ph.D. Managing Partner, Fractal Analytics

Thought leader in bringing Science, Foresight Analytics, and Consulting to business problem solving and decision making. Over 25 years of experience of developing predictive and foresight analytics based solutions, processes and technologies to address variety of problems, from engineering to social to business. Managing Partner of Fractal Analytics (4i was acquired in June 2017), leader in foresight driven growth strategy and analytics helping clients identify, develop and sustain future growth and innovation. Ph.Ds. in Systems Engineering from Minnesota and Applied Mathematics from Moldova University.

Igor Halperin

Fidelity Investment on AI Asset Management & Reinforcement Learning

Igor Halperin is an AI Research Associate at Fidelity Investments. His research focuses on using methods of reinforcement learning, information theory, neuroscience and physics for financial problems such as portfolio optimization, dynamic risk management, and inference of sequential decision-making processes of financial agents. Igor has an extensive industrial and academic experience in statistical and financial modeling.

Greg Abbott

Senior Vice President, Travel & Hospitality, DataArt

A recognized expert in the Travel Industry, with 15 + years expertise in retail travel, travel technology, and tour operations. Greg joined DataArt in 2010 as a Senior Vice President in charge of Travel & Hospitality practice, having relocated from Europe, where he was most recently Commercial Officer and Product Director at Nexgen Travel Distribution.
His experience extends to domestic and international travel organizations, product direction, development & distribution, and content management systems.

Eric Engel

Accenture’s Strategy group

Eric is part of Accenture’s Strategy group with an industry focus in Communications, Media, and Technology (CMT). His experience includes targeted analytics, digital transformation, AI, talent and org analytics, and operational analytics. He has spent over 6 years enabling and leading business transformational efforts by leveraging big data and analytic insight. Eric holds a Masters in Management of Technology from New York University. He is also an Adjunct Professor at NYU where he teaches Data Visualization and Tech Strategy.

Dr. Peter S. Temes

Founder and president of the ILO Institute.

Peter began his career as a full-time member of the Harvard University Faculty of Arts and Sciences, and went on to found Enterprise Interactive, a consulting and research firm. Peter has led research initiatives for Goldman Sachs, ExxonMobil, Microsoft, Disney, EY, Pfizer, GM’s autonomous vehicles group and many other companies in the technology, finance and consumer marketing sectors. Peter has also served as Dean and Campus Chief Executive for Northeastern University, President of the Antioch New England Graduate School and President of the Great Books Foundation. He is the author and editor of several books, including Teaching Leadership, The Just War, and Against School Reform. Peter holds a Ph.D. and three master’s degrees from Columbia University.

Amy Radin

an independent advisor, former Chief Innovation Officer, Citi and at E-Trade, former Chief Marketing Officer at AXA

Anna Jaffe

CEO, Mobi Systems

Arnold Bramnick

CTO, Norwegian Cruise Lines

Andy Owen Jones

CEO, B4DTravel

Jakub Dziwisz

CTO, AirHelp

George Roukas

Co-Founder & Partner, Hudson Crossing

Richard Harris

CEO & Founder, Black Crow Ai

Sergey Shebalov

Vice President and Head of Research at Sabre Corporation

Alex Trotta

Experience Labs, MasterCard

Aleksandr Izumov

Senior Solutions Architect, AWS

Technical manager with extensive experience in SaaS cloud business applications, integration, product development across multiple platforms and technology stacks (Java, C#/.Net, MS Azure, DB: NoSql, MS SQL, Oracle).

Darko Meszaros

Senior Developer Advocate, AWS

Darko is a Senior Developer Advocate who is focused on Central and Eastern Europe. He shares his passion and technological know-how with Engineers, Developers, and communities across the world. Most of his focus is towards DevOps and Management Tools, where automation.
He has a long IT career in various areas, from retail, to government, to even large telcos.

Alexey Gravanov

Solutions Architect, AWS

Solutions Architect at AWS with a focus on the Ukrainian market. Before joining AWS, Alexey worked for about 20 years as a software developer and an architect in international companies of different sizes. His areas of interest include the automation of everything, DevOps, and the development of distributed systems based on microservice architectures in the cloud.

Mariya Davydova

Head of Product, Neu.ro

I've been in software development for over 15 years. I worked at JetBrains for a long time as a full-stack developer, then switched to developer advocacy, and for the last year and a half I have been the Head of Product at Neu.ro, creating a platform to support the full lifecycle of machine learning projects. I believe that software developers and ML engineers need quality tools, and now I promote ideas and tools for MLOps. I have also been organizing and developing various professional communities for many years, including MLOps.community, and writing technical blogs.

Allan Wellenstein

Head of Solution Design consulting group, DataArt

Allan joined DataArt in 2014 through the acquisition of AW Systems where he was a founding partner and a Chief Solution Designer. Allan now leads DataArt’s Solution Design consulting group. With over 15 years of experience and several international awards, Allan brings a distinguished blend of penetrating analysis and broad technical knowhow.

Eugene Kolker

Executive VP, Global Enterprise Services & Co-Director, AI/ML Center of Excellence

Eugene “Gene” Kolker, PhD, is a highly accomplished enterprise visionary who specializes in developing, scaling, and selling innovative digital solutions across diverse industries.
His areas of specialization include AI, economics, machine learning (ML), technology innovation, digital transformation, business strategy.
Over 20 years of experience in AI, ML, data science, technology, economics, and digital strategy, working with start-ups, consulting and advisory firms, Fortune 100, and governmental agencies.

Helen Gerasimova, Netology

Head of Data Science faculty, Netology

Customer analytics startup co-founder, ex-business analyst in TOP-5 international petrochemical companies.

Ihor Leontiev

Chief Cloud Solution Architect, Viseo

Started as a .NET developer for a mechanical engineering company in Ukraine, but moved to a new direction as part of the French-Ukrainian master's program in France. Lead Architect in all Blockchain projects of the Viseo Group. An active participant and a regular speaker in the Ukrainian community Microsoft Azure and Azure User Group France.

Alexander Kondufurov

Head of Data Science, AltexSoft

A software engineer, architect and data scientist with 15 years of experience. Co-founder of Kharkiv AI club. Organizer of the AI Ukraine conference.

Andrii Latysh

Machine Learning/Data Science Engineer and Consultant, Founder and Coordinator of the Odyssey

Founder and Coordinator of the Odyssey — Odessa Data Science Community. Lecturer at Mechnikov University and Hillel IT School. Public Speaker. PhD student in Applied Mathematics.

Pavel Knorr

Senior Developer, DataArt

Spent the last ten years working in outsourcing companies, participated in a dozen projects already, has a solid experience in various technologies. Over the previous three years he has been focused mainly on ML related projects and Bayesian methods specifically.

Lyudmila Dezhkina

ML and AI Expert, DataArt

Specialist in Machine Learning (Deep learning, Bayesian methods and more), data scientist, a researcher in the area of machine learning and computational intelligence. She has a strong background in mathematics and statistics, predictive models and complex data visualization.

Andrey Silchuk

Moderator, Head of DataArt's R&D Center, Odessa

Andrey Dereza

Head of DataArt Dnipro

Andrey joined DataArt in 2012 as the head of the R&D center. He is in charge of operations, production and hiring. Prior to joining DataArt, Andrey worked in different roles from software developer to CIO. Andrey holds Masters in Computer Science and PhD in Automated Systems and IT.

Maxim Bastion

Chief Coordinator, Talent Management Program, Chief Coordinator of Business Development Backoffice, DataArt

20 years of experience in IT. Experience in building teams from 3 to 100+ people. Participated in the management of teams of 1000+ people. Experience in service and product companies.

Dmitry Selishchev

Senior Python Developer, DataArt

Has more than 5 years of experience in IT. The technological path is PHP -> C ++ -> C # /. NET -> Python. For the last couple of years, Dmitry has been responsible for architecture/search and implementation of technical solutions in projects. Experience in startups: e-commerce and provision of services by presubscription.

Max Zavgorodny

Senior Developer, DataArt

Experience with ML/AI in the financial and healthcare industries, data analysis, classification, regression, supervised and unsupervised learning, etc.

Konstantin Izotov

QA Engineer, DataArt

Has been working in QA automation for 8+ years. His main language is Java. He is convinced that everything can be automated except for the automation itself (though there are doubts about that as well). Konstantin collects metalworking machines and loves to take motorcycles apart.

Irina Tretyakova

Moderator, PR Manager, DataArt

Marcos Mauro

Moderator, Head of DataArt’s R&D Center, Buenos Aires

Olga Denisenko

Moderator, PR Manager, DataArt, Lviv

Vasyl Barna

.NET Developer, DataArt

My career in IT began 6 years ago in Ternopil. After 3 years of programming, mostly in C++ (with a slight splash of C#), I moved to Lviv and completely retrained in C#. During this time, I worked on both large and small projects, had experience working with microservices (to some extent) and with monolithic architecture. I was even lucky enough to develop a small social network based on one of Graph DB.
Also, I worked for 2 years as a C++ teacher at a local Ternopil gymnasium, which helped me during my mentorship in DataArt.

Eugene Kolker

Executive VP, Global Enterprise Services & Co-Director, AI/ML Center of Excellence

Vladislav Bessmertnyy

Leader of Financial AI team in DataArt

Lyudmila Dezhkina

ML and AI Expert, DataArt

Alexey Rybakov

Deputy Head of Office DataArt Kharkiv

Pavel Knorr

Senior Developer, DataArt