Andrei Lopatenko
VP, Engineering & Head of Search and Conversational AI
Zillow
As Vice President of Engineering at Zillow Group, Andrei leads the teams responsible for the company’s search and discovery engines, including search science, development, infrastructure, and operations. As part of this role, he heads Zillow Group’s conversational AI efforts, which consist of initiatives around natural language processing platforms, speech analytics, call center AI, and conversational interfaces, with the goal of improving Zillow’s business and customer services using natural language processing and speech understanding.
Before joining Zillow in 2019, Andrei led search science teams within eBay and Walmart. Prior to Walmart he worked at Google and Apple, serving as a core contributor to products like Google web search, Apple Maps, Apple’s AppStore, and iTunes search engines. He previously led engineering efforts for Recruit Holdings’ AI Lab. He sat on the advisory board of Ozlo, a Conversational AI startup acquired by Facebook in 2017.
Andrei earned a Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Science from The University of Manchester, United Kingdom and Master of Science Degree from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology.
Krishna Sankar
Distinguished Engineer, AI
US Bank
Jianpeng Xu
Staff Data Scientist
Walmart Labs
Gregory S. Kopf, PhD
Director, Research and Development, Contraceptive Technology Innovation
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RNAi as a platform technology for animal health hosted by TechAccel
In this webinar, we will discuss:
- A general overview of RNAi
- Benefits and challenges of using RNAi
- Potential RNAi applications in animal health
- Focused next steps.
Feed additive and health ingredient co-development hosted by Nutreco
During the Animal Health Innovation Europe Summit, Nutreco and ViAqua hosted 2 roundtables on corporate-startup collaboration and co-development of Nutritional Health / Feed Additive solutions. After outlining the example of the Nutreco-ViAqua partnership, participants from both start-ups and corporates provided their perspectives.
Key takeaways on the ingredients for successful collaboration in this space:
Elad Verbin
Lead Scientist & Founding Partner
Lunar Ventures
Senior Representative, The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Senior Representative,
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation