Oded Margalit
Prof. Oded Margalit, has a Phd in Computer Science from Tel-Aviv University, worked for years on Machine Learning, optimization and cyber security. Worked at Haifa research lab of IBM. He is currently the CTO of Citi’s cyber-security innovation center and computer science department of Ben Gurion University of the Negev.
Mimoza Dimodugno
One of the Leaders on the Data, Privacy and AI Governance team, Mimoza is primarily focused on building governance at scale products involving data sources and AI models. Together with her team at MassMutual she is driving democratization of enterprise data for better insights and usage consistent with our principles and regulations.
Prior to joining MassMutual, Mimoza held key positions with other investment and hi-tech companies in Boston, where she was a leader on Data Governance, Data Quality and Business Analytics. She has utilized AI tools and techniques to integrate information, analyze data, and use the resulting insights to improve decision-making process.
Mimoza holds a master’s degree from Harvard University in Information Technology and she is a candidate of PhD in Information Technology with concentration on Data Science and Predictive Analytics. She enjoys working for MassMutual, a company that fosters innovations and advancements in the field of technology.
Mike Bursell
Mike Bursell joined Red Hat in August 2016 in the Office of the CTO, following roles working on security, virtualisation and networking. After training in software engineering, he specialised in distributed systems and security, and has worked in architecture and technical strategy for the past few years. His responsibilities at Red Hat include security strategy, external and internal visibility, and thought leadership. He is one of the co-founders of the Enarx project (https://enarx.dev). He regularly speaks at industry events in Europe, North America and APAC.
Professional interests include: Linux, confidential computing, open source software, security, distributed systems, blockchain, NFV, SDN, virtualisation.
Mike has an MA from the University of Cambridge and an MBA from the Open University.
Jack Warnock
Jack is a Senior Vice President at Dellin USA, LLC, a company actively investing in, among other things, early stage technology companies, acquisition search fund opportunities, and lower middle market funding opportunities. As such Jack analyzes companies for investment purposes and serves as advisor to CEO’s and Boards of portfolio companies helping them develop and implement strategies and tactics for optimal liquidity, growth and profitability. He has over 40 years of diverse corporate development and financial experience having worked for JW Strategic Advisors, McIsaac Risk Solutions, Safeguard Scientifics (Bridge Tech Partners), Arthur Andersen (M&A), FTP Software (CFO), Thinking Machines (CFO) and Towers Perrin Administration Solutions (CFO), Verizon (Bell Atlantic) (M&A) and W.H. Newbold’s (M&A/investment banker). He currently serves on the Board of Directors of STASH America, the World Affairs Council of Philadelphia, and the Augustinian Fund Development Council.
George Lawton
George Lawton began his journalist career after helping sail a Chinese Junk to Antarctica, working on a 200,000 acre cattle ranch in Australia, and helping to build Biosphere II.
Over the last 30 years he has written thousands of articles about technology and business. He is currently focusing on how digital transformation is scaling beyond IT into the physical world.
Recent stories on Privacy Enhanced Computation:
https://searchcio.techtarget.com/feature/The-future-of-trust-must-be-built-on-data-transparency
https://www.theserverside.com/feature/Encrypted-computing-approaches-practical-app-development
https://searchcloudcomputing.techtarget.com/tip/Confidential-computing-promises-secure-cloud-apps
Gene Zafrin
Gene Zafrin is Vice President and Chief Information Security Officer of RenaissanceRe, where he is responsible for global information security.
Prior to joining RenaissanceRe, Mr. Zafrin was Head of Information Security for Oscar Insurance, where he built information and physical security functions of the company. Before Oscar, Mr. Zafrin was with Bridgewater Associates and Goldman Sachs, where he held several senior information security roles.
Mr. Zafrin holds a Bachelor of Science in Math and Computer Science Moscow Gas and Oil Academy, as well as an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. In addition, Mr. Zafrin holds a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) certification.
Enrico Santus
Enrico Santus is a Data Science Leader at Bayer. After obtaining his PhD at the Chinese and Bilingual Studies department of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, he worked in several academic institutions, including CSAIL (MIT), in the group of Regina Barzilay. Enrico has published over 50 papers on topics related to the application of Artificial Intelligence to Precision Medicine, Epidemiology, Oncology and Cardiology. His work includes research on natural language processing approaches for the automatic fake news detection and sentiment analysis.
Enrico collaborated to the creation of The Prayer (artist: Diemut Strebe), a mouth-shaped robot which produces original prayers and that was exposed at the Centre Pompidou of Paris. He is the first author of a fact sheet about Artificial Intelligence for the American Congress (https://www.belfercenter.org/publication/technology-factsheet-artificial-intelligence) and, in 2019, he was invited speaker at the Record Management Office of the White House.
Claim to fame: From art to science, from politics to healthcare, Enrico has shown how natural language processing and machine learning will be impacting our lives in the years to come.
Daniel Franke
Daniel Franke is a Senior Associate in the Technology Investment team at M Ventures, the corporate venture capital arm of Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany. Daniel obtained his Bachelor’s and Master’s in Chemistry at RWTH Aachen University before moving on to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for his Ph.D. studies. At MIT, Daniel developed functional materials for display technologies and advanced biomedical imaging applications, leading to a pending patent application for a novel biomedical imaging platform on basis of shortwave infrared light. At M Ventures, Daniel is primarily focused on investment in the semiconductor and advanced computing space.
Aleksandra Kovacevic
Aleksandra is leading privacy-by-design efforts at HERE Technologies. After a decade R&D and product management in the area of Big Data analytics, fascinated by the conflicting needs to preserve the data value while protecting privacy, she started working on anonymization technologies for location data and expanded to privacy- and ethics-by-design enabling product differentiating capabilities.
