Andrew Wise
William Barry
Satnam Tumani
Claire Cross
Basha Galvin
Manu Hanspal
Adrian Leung
Adrian is presently Equifax UK’s Group Data Protection Officer where he is responsible for leading its privacy program and developing its privacy capabilities and function. Prior to Equifax, Adrian was Head of Information Security and Data Protection at Catalyst where he built its security and privacy functions. Adrian has more than 20 years of privacy and information security experience gained through a variety of roles across different industry sectors including as a security consultant for Deloitte where he provided specialist security advisory and assurance services to his Financial Services & Telco clients. He adopts a pragmatic approach to privacy and security and strongly believes it to be a business enabler. Adrian also led a security awareness programme which won the 2018 Peer Award for Excellence in Information Security – Security Training Category.
Adrian holds a Ph.D. in Information Security from Royal Holloway and has contributed to the development of international security standards. He is regularly invited to speak at privacy and security conferences.
Vikas Chandra
Vikas Chandra is Senior Director at Meta Reality Labs where he works on AI research focusing on AR and VR products. Prior to Meta, he was Director of Applied Machine Learning at Arm Inc. He received his Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University. He held the positions of Visiting Scholar (2011 – 2014) and Visiting Faculty (2016 - 2017) in the EE department at Stanford University. He has authored 120+ research publications and is an inventor on 40+ US and international patents. Dr. Chandra received the ACM-SIGDA Technical Leadership Award in 2009 and was invited to the 2017 Frontiers of Engineering Symposium organized by the National Academy of Engineering. He is a senior member of IEEE.
Suqiang Song
As engineering director, Suqiang leads multiple teams of ML infrastructure engineers, driving machine learning platforms and infrastructure solutions for all product and engineering teams in Airbnb.
As a senior AI leader, he works closely with senior partners in product and engineering to shape Airbnb’s vision in AI and ML, streamline innovations, and ensure Airbnb has a complete set of AI infrastructure that meets long-term needs.
Previously, Suqiang served as Vice President, Data Platforms and Engineering Services at Mastercard, as one of the Data / AI commit board members to identify strategies and directions for Data Enablement, Data and ML platforms across multiple product lines and multiple deployment infrastructures. He has led worldwide engineering teams of data engineers, Machine Learning engineers, and data analysts to build unified data and ML platforms both on-premise and on-cloud for Mastercard
Sravanthi Rajanala
Sravanthi Rajanala is the Director of Data Science and Machine Learning in Walmart's Search Technologies. She began her career in telecom and worked for Microsoft and Nokia before joining Bing Search in 2011 to work in machine learning and search. Sravanthi has led initiatives in query and document understanding, ranking, and question answering. In 2021, she joined Walmart and now leads the Search Core Algorithms, Machine Translation, and Metrics Science. Sravanthi holds a Master's degree in Computational Science from the Indian Institute of Science and a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from Osmania University.