Julien Simon

2:00 pm – 3:00 pm

As the Global AI & Machine Learning Evangelist, Julien focuses on helping developers and enterprises bring their ideas to life. He frequently speaks at conferences and he's also actively blogging at https://medium.com/@julsimon. Prior to joining AWS, Julien served for 10 years as CTO/VP Engineering in top-tier web startups where he led large Software and Ops teams in charge of thousands of servers worldwide. In the process, he fought his way through a wide range of technical, business and procurement issues, which helped him gain a deep understanding of physical infrastructure, its limitations and how cloud computing can help.

Jayshree Kottapalli

2:00 pm – 3:00 pm

Jayshree is an experienced industry AI and technology expert and evangelist who believes in embedding Analytics and Emerging cutting edge technologies into today’s business culture for enabling them to be a data driven company. With over 25 years of experience in all aspects of business including business & technology strategy, design & delivery, she brings experience along with expertise to the area she handles. She lead companies across industries like Citibank, Vodafone into successfully transforming as a data driven organisation. She was the Global Head for Analytics & AI Vodafone, successfully leading a number of Analytics, AI, Automation and Machine Learning initiatives. She currently advises Telco companies strategically to implement enterprise scale AI and Analytics which involves extracting value through analytics, starting with identifying business value, build business use cases, set strategy, provide advisory guidance, delivery & operations utilising new technology to businesses as well as mentoring teams of data Scientists on subjects such as Machine Learning, AI, NLP, Biometrics and RPA.

She is an active member of EU commission for AI ethics shaping the future of AI implementation, on Steering committee for TMForum AI division, Oxford University member of Steering council for Data Science and IEEE Fellow. Through industrial bodies like these she contributes towards shaping of the future of AI and Analytics and its proper implementation.

Kshira Saagar

2:00 pm – 3:00 pm

Kshira Saagar (Shee-Rah Sa-Ga) has been with the Analytics/Decision Sciences industry for almost a decade now having worked across Americas, Asia, Europe and more importantly Australia. The bulk of his work has been focussed on developing solutions for the Analytics problem spaces of the Retail, Telecom and Insurance marketing departments at some of the leading Fortune 100 clients. In his other roles, he has enabled decision making through data for clients from the Media, Healthcare, Aviation, Logistics and FMCG organisations.
In his current role at The Iconic, as the Head of Analytics and Data Sciences, he's responsible for understanding and enabling data driven decision making. Previously at Datalicious & prior to that at Fairfax, he was responsible for institutionalising data-driven analytics across the company’s core competencies and building new-age analytical products for the organisation.

Aric Dromi

2:00 pm – 3:00 pm

Aric Dromi is a futurologist, digital philosopher and professional troublemaker. He is on the advisory board of the NTT innovation Institute Inc. Aric considers new ways of thinking about how things work. He helps advance philosophical research and related fields through innovation, philosophy and technology. Aric sees an essential part of capturing the future is being able to explain it, make it tangible and, most important, make it relevant. NTT's aim is to uncover ambitious ideas from the vast global network on NTT Group’s R&D labs and engage in a collaborative approach to R&D with Silicon Valley start-ups and major corporations.