Thorsten works at NVIDIA on optimizing scientific codes for GPU based supercomputers. His main focus is on providing optimized deep learning applications for HPC systems.

I am an Associate Professor at Dedan Kimathi University of Technology where I lead the Centre for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence (DSAIL). I serve as the board chair of Data Science Africa.

Leonardo works in Thomson Reuters as VP of Labs and also provides external advisory. His experience includes heading AI at Bumble, and leading the team through acquisition and an IPO.

I am a researcher, and the head of the Social Computing Group, where our work focuses on how digitization affects people and society, especially problems that arise in automated decision-making.

Hendrik Strobelt is the Explainability Lead at the MIT-IBM AI Lab and Sr. Research Scientist at IBM Research, focusing on (X)AI, visualization, NLP, and multi-modal data/models for language, bio, etc.

Associate Professor of Computer Science at the University of Utah. Data Visualization and Human Computer Interaction Expert.

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I am a Senior Deep Learning Research Scientist in the ADLR group at NVIDIA. I am currently interested in designing and building software systems to efficiently train and perform inference over LLMs.

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Xiaozhe Yao is a doctoral student at Systems Group, ETH Zurich advised by Prof. Dr. Ana Klimović. His research direction is to build systems that support large-scale machine learning.

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Dr. Patrick Hauf, FRM, is a Senior Lecturer at the Institute of Wealth & Asset Management at ZHAW and is Programme Director of the CAS for “AI Management and Strategy in Financial Services”.

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Adrian Ott is EY Switzerland’s Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer and a Partner in the Forensic department. He joined EY in 2017 and has over 15 years of professional experience within the area of digital innovation, solution design and Artificial Intelligence - especially in the context of analyzing large amounts of data in Investigations and Compliance related projects.
https://www.ey.com/de_ch/people/adrian-ott

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Rita is a PostDoc in the Interactive Visualization and Intelligence Augmentation lab at ETH Zurich, where she develops visual analytics methods to uncover properties encoded in large language models.

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Nathalie Klauser, Co-founder Intersections - empowering for responsible AI/ Board member of future city alliance and CH++/ ethics board member of city of lucerne and midata.

Maximilian Böther is a Ph.D. student at ETH Zurich, Switzerland. He is part of the Systems Group and the Efficient Architectures and Systems Lab (EASL), supervised by Ana Klimovic and Gustavo Alonso.

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Head of the degenerative knee team since 2012, with a MAS in Strategic Management of Health Institutions and the Venia Legendi at the University of Geneva.

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Maria Brbić is an Assistant Professor at EPFL, focusing on machine learning for biology and biomedicine. Her work supports global cell atlas projects like HuBMAP. A former Stanford postdoc, she earned her Ph.D. from Zagreb and was named an MIT EECS Rising Star in 2021.

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Dr. Abdel Labbi is an IBM Executive, a Distinguished Engineer (DE) and Distinguished Research Staff Member (DRSM), two of the highest distinctions in both Engineering and Research at IBM. He is currently leading the global IBM Research strategy and development of the next generation Hybrid Cloud Data Fabric.

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specializing in financial services with over a decade of experience in digital transformation, analytics, and AI. Prior to Unit8, he worked at UBS and A.T. Kearney, and holds an MBA from INSEAD and an MPhil from Cambridge University.

Research scientist at DeepMind, working at the intersection of physics & ML. Previously studied physics simulation for graphics at ETH Zurich (PhD) and UC Berkeley (postdoc).

Peter Pietzuch is a Professor at Imperial College London, leading the Large-Scale Data & Systems (LSDS) group. He was a post-doc at Harvard and holds PhD/MA degrees from Cambridge.

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Mara is a Research Scientist at IBM Research Europe, focusing on multimodal generative models. She won the 2023 Latsis Prize for her work on deep learning model reliability and interpretability.

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Research Scientist/Manager at Google in Computer Vision and Machine Learning. Lecturer at the Technical University of Munich (TUM).

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Sihui’s research uses interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary approaches to explore how technology shape the future of work, enabling socially sustainable transformation of the construction sector.

Raphael von Thiessen drives advancements in technology and innovation. He is programme manager of the Innovation-Sandbox for AI and Co-Founder of the consultancy Momentum Collaboration.

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Dr. Carrillo specializes in translational research surgical technologies with a strong focus on robotics and innovation technologies for improving clinical outcomes and medical education.

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Islam is the AI Lead at Internet Computer, enabling AI hardware acceleration for smart contracts. Previously, he co-founded Elk, a blockchain hardware startup, and developed ad systems at TellApart (acquired by Twitter).

Markus Christen is Research Group Leader at the Institute of Biomedical Ethics and History of Medicine and Managing Director of the UZH Digital Society Initiative of the University of Zurich.

Noah Bubenhofer is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Zurich and researches digital methods and language.

Philipp has a Math PhD from UZH and did ML Research as a PostDoc at Stuttgart University. In 2017 joined D ONE as Managing Consultant, specializing in GenAI, spatial and cloud computing.

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Pierre, Lead Data Scientist at Modulos, focuses on AI governance and responsible AI. With 15+ years in data science across industries, he holds a Ph.D. from ETH Zurich and an MSc from EPFL.

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Engineer and Physicist doing a PhD in medical technology at ETH Zürich, working on inclusive technology development.