Evan Sussman
Evan is the Chief Executive Officer and a Co-Founder of Granata Bio, a US based biopharma company focused on women’s health and fertility. In his role, Evan is responsible for Granata Bio’s corporate, customer, and commercial strategies.
Before founding Granata Bio, Evan spent nine years at EMD Serono/Merck KgAA. Most recently, he served as the Marketing and Business Unit Head for the US Fertility/Fertility Technologies businesses. During this time, Evan spearheaded the creation of innovative programs aimed at expanding access to care for under-recognized patient groups. He has previously served on the corporate council of RESOLVE: The National Infertility Association and the American Society of Reproductive Medicine.
Evan is a graduate of Brown University and received an MBA in Healthcare Leadership from Yale University. He lives in the Boston area with his wife and daughter.
Peter Grabowski
Frédéric Desbiens
Frédéric Desbiens is working at the Eclipse Foundation as the program manager for IoT and Edge Computing. His job is to help the community innovate by bringing devices and software together. He is a strong supporter of open source. In the past, he worked as a product manager, solutions architect and developer for companies as diverse as Pivotal, Cisco and Oracle. Frédéric holds an MBA in electronic commerce, a BASc in Computer Science and a BEd, all from Université Laval.
Nic Lane
Peter Buckingham
Simon Wiedemann
Venkatesh Wadawadagi
Venkatesh is a senior data scientist, practice leader, author and speaker. As a solution consultant at Sahaj Software Solutions, he helps businesses solve complex problems using AI-powered solutions.
He specialises in Deep Learning, Computer Vision, Machine Learning, embedded-AI and business intelligence. He has extensive experience in building algorithms, leading the teams/efforts, architecting the solution and research. He has worked on a variety of solutions ranging from building brand monitoring systems, building a Deep Learning Inference Engine for an e-AI chip, implementing Adaptive Traffic Control System to research and development in the area of ATM surveillance.
He also has experience of working across other areas like Video Codecs, embedded systems, FPGA subsystems and Linux programming & development. Earlier he has worked with the Uncanny Vision Solutions and Pathpartner Technology.