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DataFest Online is a special digital edition of DataFest Tbilisi - an annual international conference about data, technology, and communications, bringing together the data community from Eastern Europe and Central Asia, to inspire and encourage, and to create meaningful connections.
Speakers
Sopo Ckhoidze
Sopo Ckhoidze was originally hired at the AI startup PulsarAI as a right-hand doer and partner to the founders. Now, Sopo is heading up operations for the company-at-large. Sopo’s role is finding the opportunities in the business and ensuring the company executes against its ambitions. Since Sopo joined in 2017, the company has grown to ~3x the team size and earning ~10x the revenue. Now, Sopo serves as the Chief Operating Officer focused on broadening its offerings across the United States. Before coming to Pulsar, Sopo worked in Sales, Marketing, and Analytics with Bank of Georgia, Liberty Bank, and eMoney.
During DataFest Online, Sopo will discuss the AI startup PulsarAI's background along with the milestones they hit in less than 5 years.
During DataFest Online, Sopo will discuss the AI startup PulsarAI's background along with the milestones they hit in less than 5 years.
Vince Madai
Vince Madai is a senior healthcare AI researcher at Charité Berlin with an M.D., a Ph.D. in Medical Neuroscience, and an M.A. in Medical Ethics.
His research focuses on the translation of AI, predominantly in the areas of healthcare and neuroscience.
Vince is also the Chief Scientific Officer at ai4medicine, a company focused on medical AI data analytics and personalized mobile medical AI solutions. Vince also organizes a seires of "Machine Learning in Healthcare" meetups in Berlin and contributes to community building and knowledge sharing.
Artificial intelligence (AI) in healthcare is a potentially revolutionary tool to achieve improved healthcare outcomes while reducing overall health costs. While many exploratory results hit the headlines in recent years there are, however, only few certified and even fewer clinically validated products available in the clinical setting. This talk will focus on realistic expectations for the application of AI in healthcare. After this talk you will know in which areas we should have hope, and what is only hype.
At Datafest online, Vince will talk about AI in Healthcare and he will distinct the actual use cases from the hyped ones.
His research focuses on the translation of AI, predominantly in the areas of healthcare and neuroscience.
Vince is also the Chief Scientific Officer at ai4medicine, a company focused on medical AI data analytics and personalized mobile medical AI solutions. Vince also organizes a seires of "Machine Learning in Healthcare" meetups in Berlin and contributes to community building and knowledge sharing.
Artificial intelligence (AI) in healthcare is a potentially revolutionary tool to achieve improved healthcare outcomes while reducing overall health costs. While many exploratory results hit the headlines in recent years there are, however, only few certified and even fewer clinically validated products available in the clinical setting. This talk will focus on realistic expectations for the application of AI in healthcare. After this talk you will know in which areas we should have hope, and what is only hype.
At Datafest online, Vince will talk about AI in Healthcare and he will distinct the actual use cases from the hyped ones.
Levan Andronikashvili
Levan Andronikashvili is a Data Scientist working as part of Bank of Georgia's Data Research Lab. He is greatly interested in all things AI and he can’t wait to share all he has learned so far.
During DataFest Online, Levan will explain the basics of AI for beginners. No experience necessary!
During DataFest Online, Levan will explain the basics of AI for beginners. No experience necessary!
Paula Mosera
Paula Mosera is the Head of Experimentation in the Accelerator Lab of the UNDP in Uruguay. She is a graduate of the London School of Economics, having studied an MSc. in Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship. She also studied a postgraduate degree in economics and management for inclusion in Uruguay and an executive program of Global Competitiveness and Leadership at Georgetown University. She holds a degree in business administration.
Paula has experience working in the private sector and with NGOs. She has been working on the development of projects focused on social innovation and social entrepreneurship.
She is the former Executive Director of Socialab Uruguay, a social incubator in Latin America, that supports social enterprises at early stages.
She is an alumni of Teach For Uruguay of the Global Network Teach For All. She co-founded an NGO that supports children with non-formal education in Montevideo. She was a professor of social entrepreneurship at the University of Montevideo and a mentor of different entrepreneurs in Latin America.
At Datafest online, Paula will talk about social listening for social good – a topic she has devoted her whole career.
Paula has experience working in the private sector and with NGOs. She has been working on the development of projects focused on social innovation and social entrepreneurship.
She is the former Executive Director of Socialab Uruguay, a social incubator in Latin America, that supports social enterprises at early stages.
She is an alumni of Teach For Uruguay of the Global Network Teach For All. She co-founded an NGO that supports children with non-formal education in Montevideo. She was a professor of social entrepreneurship at the University of Montevideo and a mentor of different entrepreneurs in Latin America.
At Datafest online, Paula will talk about social listening for social good – a topic she has devoted her whole career.
Irakli Gogatishvili
Prior to joining the Bank of Georgia, Irakli Gogatishvili worked as a data scientist at CSOB in Prague. He was in charge of predictive modeling, management information system development, and building rules for the credit decision engine. Irakli obtained his Master’s and Ph.D. degrees in Economics from the University of Turin, where he also worked as a research fellow. His interests in artificial intelligence development focus on speech and reasoning technologies for business and social good.
During DataFest Online, Irakli will talk about Cognitive Business for Social Good, specifically discussing Banking Use Cases.
During DataFest Online, Irakli will talk about Cognitive Business for Social Good, specifically discussing Banking Use Cases.
Dr. Philipp Hartmann
Dr. Philipp Hartmann serves appliedAI as Director of AI Strategy. Prior to joining appliedAI, he spent four years at McKinsey & Company as a strategy consultant. Philipp holds a Ph.D. from the Technical University of Munich where he investigated factors of competitive advantage in Artificial Intelligence.
During DataFest Online, Dr. Philipp will discuss all of the necessary elements of a comprehensive AI strategy
During DataFest Online, Dr. Philipp will discuss all of the necessary elements of a comprehensive AI strategy
Kyrylo Zakharov
Kyrylo Zakharov has a Master's degree in engineering and psychology. Since 2007 he has been working with the statistical, election, and government data, social surveys, and legal information. In 2018 he co-founded the startup ""Court on the Palm"" (conp.com.ua). His main goal is to use open data of the Ukrainian judicial system to create AI-powered services. "Court on the Palm" is an analytical tool to search, explore and visualize lawsuits. Its byproduct "Wincourt" can process a text of the complaint to predict the lawsuit outcome and give advice on legislation to use in the litigation.
During DataFest Online he will discuss the tools used to build AI that predicts lawsuit outcomes, and the challenges accompanying it.
During DataFest Online he will discuss the tools used to build AI that predicts lawsuit outcomes, and the challenges accompanying it.
Triin Mahlakoiv
Triin Mahlakoiv has more than 10 years of marketing and product management experience in tech startups in the domains of fintech and cybersecurity to health tech. She is the co-founder of North Star AI, a community-driven organization with a mission to solve the AI talent shortage and raise the application of AI technologies in Estonia and in the region. She is also the product manager at Reconeyez, a market-leading video verification system helping companies and individuals to prevent crime.
Triin is a marathoner, avid reader, self-learner, interested in design, sustainability and green tech, nature and tea lover.
Triin's talk will give you an overview of the global artificial intelligence landscape; the regional strengths, threats, opportunities; and share examples of how to alleviate the talent shortages through education and community effort.
At Datafest online, Triin will talk about The Race to the leading position of AI: the importance of education and community.
Triin is a marathoner, avid reader, self-learner, interested in design, sustainability and green tech, nature and tea lover.
Triin's talk will give you an overview of the global artificial intelligence landscape; the regional strengths, threats, opportunities; and share examples of how to alleviate the talent shortages through education and community effort.
At Datafest online, Triin will talk about The Race to the leading position of AI: the importance of education and community.
Alex Lobzhanidze
Alex Lobzhanidze has Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Missouri and has been working at Amazon as a Software Engineer for over seven years. He specializes in recommendation systems, specifically using Machine Learning to generate personalized recommendations for customers.
At Datafest online, Alex will talk about what AI actually is, and what it isn’t.
At Datafest online, Alex will talk about what AI actually is, and what it isn’t.
Nikoloz Mamisashvili
Nikoloz Mamisashvili is a data scientist and practitioner with economic background. He studied Econometrics at Tbilisi State University, Georgia, and Data Science at Sapienza University, Italy.
Nikoloz's main experience stems from the finance industry. He worked as Data Scientist at OPPA, Liberty Bank. He recently joined the Bank of Georgia and now he is Senior Data Scientist and Solution Architect.
He specializes in the study of customer behavior with traditional and novel data science methods.
Currently, Nikoloz is focused on Deep Learning and Natural Language Processing models for business use cases at the Bank of Georgia.
At Datafest online, Nikoloz will talk about Data preparation for Natural Language Processing (NLP) models.
Nikoloz's main experience stems from the finance industry. He worked as Data Scientist at OPPA, Liberty Bank. He recently joined the Bank of Georgia and now he is Senior Data Scientist and Solution Architect.
He specializes in the study of customer behavior with traditional and novel data science methods.
Currently, Nikoloz is focused on Deep Learning and Natural Language Processing models for business use cases at the Bank of Georgia.
At Datafest online, Nikoloz will talk about Data preparation for Natural Language Processing (NLP) models.
Azamat Omuraliev
Azamat Omuraliev is a data scientist at a leading Dutch bank ING, working on personalization and recommender systems. He is originally from Kyrgyzstan where he co-founded School of Data, a non-profit bringing data science and data journalism education to local organizations and students.
Azamat was a co-host of DataFest Tbilisi 2019 and has been an active DataFest community member since the first days of the festival. At DataFest Online, Azamat will share his knowledge of recommender systems with our community.
Recommender systems fuel some of the most well-known digital platforms around the world. With their help, Netflix and YouTube recommend relevant and personalized content to millions of users. In this talk we will walk through the basics of how recommender systems work and cover use cases in the industry, showing that organizations with any amount of data can leverage this technology to provide a better customer experience.
At Datafest online, Azamat will talk about Recommender Systems for Everyone.
Azamat was a co-host of DataFest Tbilisi 2019 and has been an active DataFest community member since the first days of the festival. At DataFest Online, Azamat will share his knowledge of recommender systems with our community.
Recommender systems fuel some of the most well-known digital platforms around the world. With their help, Netflix and YouTube recommend relevant and personalized content to millions of users. In this talk we will walk through the basics of how recommender systems work and cover use cases in the industry, showing that organizations with any amount of data can leverage this technology to provide a better customer experience.
At Datafest online, Azamat will talk about Recommender Systems for Everyone.
Nikita Lukianets
Nikita Lukianets is a Founder of the Open Ethics (www.openethics.ai) initiative that fosters the inclusive dialogue between experts and citizens to design systems where humans and AI successfully work together. Nikita is also a Founder and CTO at PocketConfidant AI (www.pocketconfidant.com), a 24/7 coaching technology powered by artificial intelligence. Nikita received an MBA in innovation management from Politecnico di Milano School of Management and an M.Sc. in Applied Physics from Kyiv Polytechnic Institute. While working in Microsoft at Developer and Platform Evangelism Division, Nikita was leading a startup support program helping young technology companies to develop their products for scale.
In his talk, Nikita will share with us what our snack, fridge, and lightbulb have in common and what our AI might be missing - the talk should not be missed by any manager or product owner, working on AI projects.
In his talk, Nikita will share with us what our snack, fridge, and lightbulb have in common and what our AI might be missing - the talk should not be missed by any manager or product owner, working on AI projects.
Ana Chubinidze
Ana Chubinidze is a founder of the non-profit organization AI Governance International and an independent consultant in the field of AI Ethics and Governance. She is also a founding editorial board member of Springer Nature’s AI and Ethics journal. Ana worked for Big 4 consulting firms in AI Governance. Prior to that researched foresight regulations for Artificial Intelligence with the project Regional Academy on the United Nations. Her academic background is in international relations with a focus on international law and economics; non-academic interests in Data Science and neuroscience. Ana is passionate about engaging various disciplines in AI development and unleashing its best potentials to serve everyone on earth.
Ana's keynote at DataFest Online will discuss major ethical questions raised from AI technologies and introduce basic concepts that are covered in current AI Ethics guidelines and policy frameworks internationally.
Ana's keynote at DataFest Online will discuss major ethical questions raised from AI technologies and introduce basic concepts that are covered in current AI Ethics guidelines and policy frameworks internationally.
Dmytro Rizdvanetskyi
Dmytro Rizdvanetskyi is a Data Science Manager and all-around professional with his portfolio spanning Data Science and AI projects in Marketing, E-Commerce, Logistics, and Operations. He is most regarded for his hands-on knowledge in building Data Science teams and organizing Data Science products delivery process, policy and routines.
He is a holder of a Master's degree in Supply Chain Management from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and an independent electronic musician. Dmytro has more than 5 years of working experience in the most innovative Ukrainian retail company "Fozzy Group (Silpo, Fora)"
In his presentation, Dmytro will give tricks and tips for creating a Data Science function in traditional business from the Head of Data Science viewpoint. We will cover the preparation phase, opportunities analysis, strategy development, a potential organizational unit structure, talents acquisition, data science process government and delivery, operationalization of results, scaling, and delegation.
The talk will be useful for non-technical managers working on AI products/projects, as well as for the business owners willing to start AI projects in their ventures.
During DataFest Online, Dmytro will talk about How to Develop Data Science Function in Traditional Business.
He is a holder of a Master's degree in Supply Chain Management from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and an independent electronic musician. Dmytro has more than 5 years of working experience in the most innovative Ukrainian retail company "Fozzy Group (Silpo, Fora)"
In his presentation, Dmytro will give tricks and tips for creating a Data Science function in traditional business from the Head of Data Science viewpoint. We will cover the preparation phase, opportunities analysis, strategy development, a potential organizational unit structure, talents acquisition, data science process government and delivery, operationalization of results, scaling, and delegation.
The talk will be useful for non-technical managers working on AI products/projects, as well as for the business owners willing to start AI projects in their ventures.
During DataFest Online, Dmytro will talk about How to Develop Data Science Function in Traditional Business.
Irakli Beselidze
Irakli Beselidze is a founder of Calen.ai. Irakli helps brands build custom, multimodal AI Assistants for Google Assistant, Alexa, Call centers, SMS, FB Messenger, Google Business Messenger, Instagram, Whatsapp, and other conversational channels. They can perform routine marketing tasks like FAQs answering, customer qualification, Appointment booking, and others with the machine's speed, predictability, and scalability.
During DataFest Online he will talk about how conversational AI can help brands forge closer connections and personalized customer experience
During DataFest Online he will talk about how conversational AI can help brands forge closer connections and personalized customer experience
Casey Bennett
Casey Bennett’s work focuses on artificial intelligence and biomedical informatics, including the areas of robotics, human-robot interaction, data warehousing, machine learning, clinical decision support, and personalized medicine. He has also led teams developing robotic sensor systems to monitor in-home patient health, as well as interactive robotic faces.
He is currently working on projects using artificial intelligence to augment clinical decision-making in chronic illness, utilizing robotic pets for therapeutic purposes with elderly patients, and developing interactive robotic systems to study social cognition.
Bennett is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computing Intelligence at Hanyang University in Seoul (Korea), and an adjunct professor at DePaul University in Chicago. He was formerly a senior data scientist at several major healthcare organizations: Cigna, CVS Health, and Centerstone Research Institute.
At Datafest Online, Casey will discuss where we’ve come in regards to AI in Healthcare during the past 15 years, and where we may find ourselves over the next.
He is currently working on projects using artificial intelligence to augment clinical decision-making in chronic illness, utilizing robotic pets for therapeutic purposes with elderly patients, and developing interactive robotic systems to study social cognition.
Bennett is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computing Intelligence at Hanyang University in Seoul (Korea), and an adjunct professor at DePaul University in Chicago. He was formerly a senior data scientist at several major healthcare organizations: Cigna, CVS Health, and Centerstone Research Institute.
At Datafest Online, Casey will discuss where we’ve come in regards to AI in Healthcare during the past 15 years, and where we may find ourselves over the next.
Sidney Minassian
Sidney Minassian is the CEO of Saasyan, a leader in AI-powered Student Safety and Wellbeing solutions that enable schools with advanced detection and intervention against student cyber-bullying, self-harm, suicide, and threats of violence.
Headquartered in Australia, Saasyan is expanding globally. A serial entrepreneur, Sidney has founded and led numerous ventures in Silicon Valley and Australia and has served customers across the USA, Europe, and the Asia Pacific. Prior to Saasyan, Sidney was the Founder & CEO of Contexti, a data analytics and AI company which he founded in 2012, built into a multi-million-dollar, 80% annuity business serving 100+ enterprise customers including Seven West Media for the Rio Olympic Games and Australian Open Tennis, Caltex, SAI Global, Suncorp & Woolworths. Contexti was acquired in 2019.
In his talk, Sidney will share with us how Saasyan is using AI to prevent cyberbullying, self-harm, suicide, and threats of violence at schools and improve student digital citizenship, classroom productivity, and learning outcomes.
Headquartered in Australia, Saasyan is expanding globally. A serial entrepreneur, Sidney has founded and led numerous ventures in Silicon Valley and Australia and has served customers across the USA, Europe, and the Asia Pacific. Prior to Saasyan, Sidney was the Founder & CEO of Contexti, a data analytics and AI company which he founded in 2012, built into a multi-million-dollar, 80% annuity business serving 100+ enterprise customers including Seven West Media for the Rio Olympic Games and Australian Open Tennis, Caltex, SAI Global, Suncorp & Woolworths. Contexti was acquired in 2019.
In his talk, Sidney will share with us how Saasyan is using AI to prevent cyberbullying, self-harm, suicide, and threats of violence at schools and improve student digital citizenship, classroom productivity, and learning outcomes.
Hani Vahabi
Hani Vahabi is the CEO and Co-founder of DefaultAI AB and the director of the AICenter in Sweden. DefaultAI is an AI company developing cutting-edge AI technologies, and AICenter is a global business ecosystem which is present in more than 10 countries on 4 continents.
Hani has been selected to be a business mentor at Founder Institute, one of the world’s leading tech start-up accelerators. She is also a member of different international AI-related advisory boards.
Hani has deep interdisciplinary academic knowledge, studied Master's programs in Swedish universities in different fields: software engineering & management, IT, humanities, social and cultural sciences.
During DataFest Online, Hani will talk about diversity and inclusion in AI.
Hani has been selected to be a business mentor at Founder Institute, one of the world’s leading tech start-up accelerators. She is also a member of different international AI-related advisory boards.
Hani has deep interdisciplinary academic knowledge, studied Master's programs in Swedish universities in different fields: software engineering & management, IT, humanities, social and cultural sciences.
During DataFest Online, Hani will talk about diversity and inclusion in AI.
Malkhaz Suladze
Malkhaz Suladze always strives to broaden his knowledge in conjunction with his ever-changing interests. Recently he’s been fascinated by the achievements of Natural Language Processing (NLP) modeling techniques and since then he’s been practicing various techs and methods to real-world NLP-related problems.
Currently, Malkhaz is tackling Georgian speech recognition which turned out to be one of the most challenging tasks he has faced so far.
At Datafest online, Malkhaz will talk about Audio Processing For Speech To Text.
Currently, Malkhaz is tackling Georgian speech recognition which turned out to be one of the most challenging tasks he has faced so far.
At Datafest online, Malkhaz will talk about Audio Processing For Speech To Text.
Uri Eliabayev
Uri is consulting companies that want to add AI capabilities to their services/products. Uri is working with big organizations and helps them to choose and implement the best AI solution for
their needs. Also, Uri has founded the biggest AI community in Israel called “Machine and Deep Learning Israel”. The community has more than 23,000 members who are the leading AI
talents in Israel. Moreover, Uri is part of the national committees, which are responsible for establishing the Israeli strategy in the field of AI.
During DataFest Online, Uri will talk about AI for decision-makers.
their needs. Also, Uri has founded the biggest AI community in Israel called “Machine and Deep Learning Israel”. The community has more than 23,000 members who are the leading AI
talents in Israel. Moreover, Uri is part of the national committees, which are responsible for establishing the Israeli strategy in the field of AI.
During DataFest Online, Uri will talk about AI for decision-makers.
Vojtěch Nosek
Vojtěch Nosek has Master’s and doctoral degree in Human geography and regional development. In the last ten years, Vojtěch has been focusing on technology transfer (he used to be a technology transfer manager at the Czech Technical University), cooperation between academia and business, and innovative technologies. He co-founded and managed University Centre for Energy Efficient Buildings (focusing on applied research). He has co-founded, and is acting as CEO, in the UNICO.AI company.
UNICO.AI is focusing on technology transfer and innovation technology incubation. The AI in the name of the company reflects its focus on the using AI (artificial intelligence) to enhance technology transfer.
During DataFest Online he will talk about university-business cooperation and spin-out potential in the AI field.
UNICO.AI is focusing on technology transfer and innovation technology incubation. The AI in the name of the company reflects its focus on the using AI (artificial intelligence) to enhance technology transfer.
During DataFest Online he will talk about university-business cooperation and spin-out potential in the AI field.
Zakaria Babutsidze
Dr. Zakaria Babutsidze is an Associate Professor, co-founder and Director of MSc in Digital Business and Artificial Intelligence at SKEMA Business School (FR). He is also an Economist at OFCE, Sciences Po Paris (FR). He holds degrees in Economics from Tbilisi State University (GE), Central European University (HU) and Maastricht University (NL). He has held visiting positions at the Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland (US) and Griffith Business School, Griffith University (AU). Dr. Babutsidze's research spans multiple disciplines and revolves around the topic of individual decision-making.
During DataFest Online, he will talk about interacting with artificially intelligent agents.
During DataFest Online, he will talk about interacting with artificially intelligent agents.
Reza Moussavi
Reza Moussavi is an intelligence analyst and tech innovator who has been selected as the top 10 innovators of Europe at Innovact Campus Award in 2011, France.
Reza is a software engineer with more than 20 years of experience in project management and team leadership while working on several national and international software projects.
Reza was an elected director of the Free Society Conference and Nordic Summit (FSCONS), business mentor for one of the world's leading tech accelerators: Founder Institute, as well as an industrial mentor, thesis supervisor, and teacher assistant at the University of Gothenburg. Currently, he is the director-general of the AICenter Sweden, CTO of DefaultAI AB, and a member of the European AI Alliance.
During DataFest Online Reza will talk about AI for Managers and Executives
Reza is a software engineer with more than 20 years of experience in project management and team leadership while working on several national and international software projects.
Reza was an elected director of the Free Society Conference and Nordic Summit (FSCONS), business mentor for one of the world's leading tech accelerators: Founder Institute, as well as an industrial mentor, thesis supervisor, and teacher assistant at the University of Gothenburg. Currently, he is the director-general of the AICenter Sweden, CTO of DefaultAI AB, and a member of the European AI Alliance.
During DataFest Online Reza will talk about AI for Managers and Executives
Brian Gillikin
Brian Gillikin is a Project Lead and Data Scientist at IBM, where he works with U.S. Government clients on AI/ML, cloud, and information management projects. He is also an open-source contributor to Egeria, a Linux Foundation AI & Data project.
During DataFest Online, Brian will talk about how to increase data and AI understanding: How to make metadata do 80% of the work.
During DataFest Online, Brian will talk about how to increase data and AI understanding: How to make metadata do 80% of the work.
Christophe Zoghbi
Christophe Zoghbi is a Software Engineer with over 10 years of experience in Software development and various fields of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence.
He is the founder of Beirut AI, the applied Artificial Intelligence community in Lebanon, where he organizes community events and technical workshops to help people understand and apply AI.
He’s also the founder & CEO of Zaka, an Artificial Intelligence consulting company that aims to develop the AI sector in the local community and abroad.
During DataFest Online, Christophe will talk about the need for AI education and the power of communities.
He is the founder of Beirut AI, the applied Artificial Intelligence community in Lebanon, where he organizes community events and technical workshops to help people understand and apply AI.
He’s also the founder & CEO of Zaka, an Artificial Intelligence consulting company that aims to develop the AI sector in the local community and abroad.
During DataFest Online, Christophe will talk about the need for AI education and the power of communities.
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