Spark + AI Summit 2020
Spark + AI Summit is the largest data and machine learning conference. Join over 7,000 data scientists, engineers and analysts to collaborate at the intersection of data and ML.
There’s never been a more important moment for data teams. Together, we can solve the world’s toughest problems — and it starts with Spark + AI Summit. We’ve transformed this year’s Summit into a global event — totally virtual and open to everyone, free of charge. And Summit is now even bigger: extended to five days with 200+ sessions, 4x the training, and keynotes by visionaries and thought leaders. Join tens of thousands of engineers, scientists, developers, analysts and leaders as we shape the future of big data, analytics and AI.
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Speakers

Nate Silver
Founder, FiveThirtyEight.com

Prof. Hany Farid
Digital Forensics Pioneer, Berkeley University

Kim Hazelwood
West Coast Head of Engineering of FAIR, Facebook

François Chollet
Creator of Keras, Google

Adam Paszke
Maintainer of PyTorch

Prof. Jennifer Chayes
Associate Provost, Division of Computing, Data Science, and Society (CDSS)

Ali Ghodsi
Co-founder & CEO Original Creator of Apache Spark

Matei Zaharia
Co-founder & Chief Technologist, Databricks; Original Creator of Apache Spark & MLflow

Michael Armbrust
Principal Engineer, Databricks

Clemens Mewald
Director of Product Management, Databricks

Amy Heineike
Principal Product Architect, Primer

Rohan Kumar
Corporate Vice President, Azure Data, Microsoft

Vish Subramanian
Director of Data and Analytics Engineering, Starbucks

Timo Mechler
Product Manager, MavenCode

Thunder Shiviah
Solutions Architect, Databricks

Thomas Graves
Distributed Systems Software Engineer, NVIDIA

Terry Kim
Principal Software Engineer, Microsoft

Tao Li
Full Stack Data Engineer, Microsoft

Takuya Ueshin
Software Engineer, Databricks

Supun Nakandala
Ph.D. Student in Computer Science and Engineering Department, University of California, San Diego

Sumanth Venkatasubbaiah
Software Engineer, Intuit

Sudha Viswanathan
Senior Software Engineer, Walmart Labs

Dr. Stephen Galsworthy
Chief Data Officer, Quby

Stefan van Wouw
Resident Solutions Architect, Databricks

Sonjia Waxmonsky
Senior Data Scientist, Blue Cross / Blue Shield of Illinois

Simson Garfinkel
Senior Computer Scientist, U.S. Census Bureau

Simeon Simeonov
CTO & Founder , Swoop

Shone Sadler
Principle Scientist, Adobe, Inc
Shiran Algai
Senior Manager, Software Development, Blackbaud

Shengsheng Huang
Senior Software Architect, Intel
Sheila Stewart
Solutions Architect, Databricks

Shawn Benjamin
Chief of Data and Business Intelligence, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration

Sharad Varshney
VP, Head of Data Science, Publicis Media-COSMOS

Sean Owen
Data Scientist, Databricks

Scott Haines
Full Stack Engineer, Twilio

Scott Black
Solutions Architect, Databricks

Sarah Hantosi Albertsson
Development Engineer, Scania CV

Sandhya Raghavan
Senior Data Engineer , Virgin Hyperloop One

Sailee Jain
Senior Software Engineer, Informatica

Saigopal Thota
Principal Data Scientist, Walmart Labs

Ryan Murray
Principal Consulting Engineer, Dremio

Russell Spitzer
Software Engineer, DataStax

Ruihui Zhao
Research Scientist, Tencent

Rose Toomey
Software Engineer, Coatue Management

Rong Ou
Principal Engineer, NVIDIA

Robert Evans
Distinguished Software Engineer, NVIDIA

Richard Zang
Software Engineer, Databricks

Reema Kuvadia
Software Engineer, Microsoft

Rashmina Menon
Senior Data Engineer, GumGum

Rajesh Shreedhar Bhat
Data Scientist, Walmart Labs

Rahul Potharaju
Principal Engineering Manager, Microsoft

Raghu Nakka
Front Store Data Engineering Team Lead, CVS Health

Qingbo Hu
Machine Learning Engineer, Intuit

Priyanka Gomatam
Software Engineer, Microsoft

Preetam Joshi
Senior Software Engineer, Netflix

Praveen Pratury
Sr. Technology Leader, Samsung Research America

Prasanth Lade
Sr. Data Mining Engineer, Bosch
Pramod Singh
Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Walmart Labs

Prabhakar Gouda
Senior Software Engineer, Informatica

Prabha Rajendran
Technical Lead of Data and Business Intelligence, Office of Information Technology, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration

Phan Chuong
Data Engineer, T-Mobile

Peter Tamisin
Tech Lead, Databricks

Peter Stadlinger
Director of Product Management, Salesforce

Peter Kraft
Graduate Student, Stanford University

Perry Stephenson
Senior Data Scientist, Atlassian

Patryk Oleniuk
Data Engineer, Virgin Hyperloop One

Patrick Halina
ML Engineering Team Lead, Zynga

Omkar Joshi
Senior Software Engineer, Uber, Inc

Oliver Lewis
Sr. Data Engineer, Tubi Inc

Nima Nooshi
Customer Success Engineer, Databricks

Nikhil Simha
Senior Engineer, Airbnb

Nick Pentreath
Principal Engineer, IBM

Niall Turbitt
Data Scientist, Databricks

Nedra Albrecht
Senior Data Engineer, Zillow Group

Navdeep Gill
Senior Data Scientist/Software Engineer, H2O.ai

Nathan Buesgens
Data Architecture and ML Engineering Consultant, Accenture

Moty Fania
Principal Engineer, Intel Corporation

Moritz Meister
Software Engineer, Logical Clocks AB

Mohammed Salim Sayed
Principal Data Engineer, Optum

Min Shen
Tech Lead, LinkedIn
Ming Yuan
Technical Architect, Zurich North America

Mike Dias
Data Engineer, Atlassian

Mike Del Balso
Co-Founder, Tecton.ai

Michelle Un
Director of Data Engineering, CVS Health

Michael Chen
Software Development Engineer, Workday

Michael Tong
Machine Learning Engineer, Quantcast

Michael Shtelma
Solutions Architect, Databricks

Miao Wang
Engineering Manager, Adobe, Inc
Meaghan Kosmatka
Senior Engineer, Deere & Company
Mayank Bansal
Staff Engineer , Uber, Inc

Maximo Gurmendez
Chief Engineer, Montevideo Labs

Max Thone
Associate Resident Solutions Architect, Databricks

Max Schultze
Senior Data Engineer, Zalando SE

Max Cantor
Programmer, Conde Nast

Maureen Teyssier
Chief Data Scientist, Reonomy

Matthew Proetsch
Lead Data Scientist, U.S. Navy
Matteo Merli
Senior Principal Engineer, Splunk

Maryann Xue
Software Engineer, Databricks

Mary Grace Moesta
Customer Success Engineer, Databricks

Mark Paul
Engineering Manager, Healthdirect Australia
Marcelo Zambrana
Cloud Solution Architect, Microsoft

Manju Vijayakumar
Lead Software Engineer, Salesforce

Manas Ranjan Kar
Associate Vice President, Episource LLC

Madhav Agni
Lead Software Engineer, Cerner

Macarious Abadeer
Senior Software Engineer, IQVIA

Lysandre Debut
Machine Learning Engineer, Hugging Face

Luke Heinrich
Analyst, Atlassian

Li Jin
Software Engineer, Two Sigma Investments

Li Gao
Tech Lead, Lyft Inc

Lee Rhodes
Distinguished Architect, Verizon Media

Lara Minor
Senior Enterprise Data Manager, Columbia Sportswear

Kris Mok
Software Engineer, Databricks

Krish Kuruppath
SVP, Global Head of AI Platform, Publicis Media-COSMOS

Kris Skrinak
Global Machine Learning Technical Lead, AWS

Kirby Prowting
Data Engineer, Mars

Kira Lindke
Data Specialist, IBM

Ke Jia
Software Engineer, Intel Corporation

Kazuaki Ishizaki
Senior Technical Staff Member, IBM

Kaushik Tadikonda
Software Engineer, IBM
Karthik Vasudevan
Senior Software Engineer, T-Mobile
Karthik Ramasamy
Senior Director of Engineering, Splunk

Kamil Bajda-Pawlikowski
CTO, Starburst

Kai Huang
Software Engineer, Intel Corporation

Justin Murray
Technical Marketing Manager, VMware

Justin Hoffman
Senior Lead Data Scientist, Booz Allen Hamilton

Junping Du
Chief Architect, Tencent

Junjie Chen
Senior Software Engineer, Tencent

Jun Song
Senior Engineer, Alibaba

Jun Ma
Engineer, Adobe, Inc

Jun Guo
Head of Data Engine Team, Bytedance

Julien Dumazert
CTO and Co-Founder, Data Mechanics

Josh Gillner
Detection Engineering, Apple

Joseph Bradley
Solutions Architect, Databricks

Joe Spisak
Product Lead, Facebook

Jintao Zhang
Software Engineer, Machine Learning, Lyft Inc

Jing Pan
Sr. Staff Data Scientist/User Experience Researcher, eHealth Inc

Jim Forsythe
Product Analytics & Behavior Science Team Lead, Comcast

Jim Dowling
CEO, Logical Clocks AB

Jianneng Li
Software Development Engineer, Workday

Jianhua Huang
Staff Data Scientist, Visa

Jian Zhang
Senior Software Engineering Manager, Intel Corporation

Jesse Whitehouse
Customer Success Engineer, Redash

Dr. Jeffrey Yau
Head of Data Science, Walmart Labs

Jeff Pang
Principal Engineer, Databricks

Jean-Yves Stephan
CEO and Co-Founder, Data Mechanics

Javier Buquet
Senior Software Engineer, Montevideo Labs

Jatinder Assi
Data Engineering Manager, GumGum

Jason Lowe
Distinguished Software Engineer, NVIDIA

Jason Dai
Senior Principal Engineer, Intel Corporation

Jason Brown
Senior Data Scientist, Astraea, Inc

James Verbus
Staff Machine Learning Engineer, LinkedIn

James Nguyen
Principal Cloud Solution Architect, Microsoft
James Hibbard
Data Engineer, Seattle Childrens

James Evers
Software Engineer, Conde Nast

Jacques Nadeau
CTO, Dremio

Jacek Tokar
Advanced Analytics Lead Solution Architect, Procter & Gamble

Ivan Nardini
Customer Advisor, SAS Institure srl

Itai Weiss
Information Solution Architect, Databricks

Ira Cohen
Co-Founder and Chief Data Scientist, Anodot

Imran Qureshi
Chief Data Science Office, Clarify Health Solutions

Iman Haji
Senior Data Scientist, Clarify Health Solutions

Hyukjin Kwon
Software Engineer, Databricks

Hongchan Roh
Team Leader, SK Telecom

Holden Karau
Software Engineer, IBM

Han Wang
Staff Engineer, Lyft Inc

Gustav Rånby
Developer, Scania CV

Grace (Jie) Huang
Engineering Director, PayPal

Gokul Prabagaren
Capital One

Goktug Cinar
Senior Data Mining Engineer, Bosch

George Claireaux
Data Engineer, Mars
Geoff Sims
Principal Data Scientist, Atlassian

Fuwang Hu
Data Engineer, PayPal

Fernando Ortega Gallego
Data Engineer, Plain Concepts
Fabio Buso
Head of Engineering, Logical Clocks AB

Eugene Mandel
Head of Product, Superconductive

Erni Durdevic
Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Quby

Erik Erlandson
Software Engineer, Red Hat

Eric Yatskowitz
Data Scientist, T-Mobile

Enrique Corro
Staff Engineer, VMware

Emilie de Longueau
Senior Software Engineer, LinkedIn

Egor Pakhomov
Spark contributor and Senior Software Engineer, Airbnb

Eduardo Matallanas de Ávila
AI Team Lead, Plain Concepts

Douglas Moore
Solutions Architect, Databricks

Doug Carson
Solutions Architect, Illuminate Technologies

Dongjoon Hyun
Software Engineer, Apple

Dominique Brezinski
Apple

Dilip Biswal
Software Architect, Adobe, Inc

Derrick Higgins
Senior Director of Data Science, Blue Cross / Blue Shield of Illinois

Derek Gorthy
Software Engineer, Zillow Group

Denny Lee
Developer Advocate, Databricks

Dean Wampler
Head of Evangelism, Anyscale

DB Tsai
Open Source and Big Data, Apple

David Talby
Chief Technology Officer, Pacific AI

David Cunningham
CEO, DataFactory
David Carlson
Data and Engineering Manager, Zurich North America

Daniel Tomes
Lead Resident Solutions Architect, Databricks

Daniel Imberman
Software Engineer, Astronomer

Daniel Galinkin
Technical Leader, ML Platform Team, iFood

Daniel Dai
Software Engineer, Pinterest

Daniel Coelho
Senior Product Manager, Microsoft

Dan Corbiani
Operations Researcher and Data Scientist, Pacific Northwest National Lab

Daili Zhang
Senior Tech Advisor, Halliburton

Cristine Dewar
Data Scientist, Affirm

Cindy Mottershead
Software Architect, Blackbaud

Christopher Miller
Data Scientist, U.S. Navy

Chris Klaczynski
Marketing Data Analyst, Databricks

Cheng Lian
Sr. Software Engineer, Databricks

Charles Adetiloye
Lead ML Platforms Engineer, MavenCode
Calvin Hung
Co-Founder, CEO & CTO, WASAI Technology, Inc

Brad May
Principal Systems Engineer , Starbucks

Zoe Lin
Software Engineer, LinkedIn
Zeashan Pappa
Technology Executive and Architect, Privacera

Zack Schwartz
Deputy Division Chief, U.S. Census Bureau

Yuri Bogdanov
Director of Engineering, Capital One

Yuhao Zhang
Ph.D. Student in Computer Science and Engineering Department, University of California, San Diego

Young Bang
Chief Growth Officer, Atlas Research

Yong Liu
Principal Data Scientist, Outreach Corporation

Yingnan Zhu
Principal Engineer at SRA, Samsung Research America

Yeshwanth Vijayakumar
Project Lead/Architect, Adobe, Inc

Yaron Haviv
Founder and CTO, Iguazio

Xin Yao
Tech Lead, Pinterest

Xiao Li
Engineering Manager, Databricks

Xiang Huang
Data Scientist, Affirm

Willem Pienaar
Data Science Platform Team Lead, GOJEK

Wenlei Xie
Data Platforms, Facebook

Wendao Liu
Senior Data Scientist, eHealth Inc

Wenchen Fan
Software Engineer, Databricks

Weiwei Yang
Staff Software Engineer, Lyft Inc

Weiting Chen
Senior Software Engineer, Intel Corporation

Wayne Madhlangobe
Director, AI, Air Canada

Vladimir Feinberg
Head of Machine Learning, Sisu Data

Vivek Kaushal
Senior Software Engineer, Netflix

Vishakha Sharma
Principal Data Scientist, Roche

Vinoo Ganesh
Chief Technology Officer, Veraset

Vini Jaiswal
Customer Success Engineer, Databricks

Victoria Morris
Senior Systems Specialist, Atrium Health

Veysel Kocaman
Senior Data Scientist, John Snow Labs

Tristan Arbus
Data Scientist, Devon Energy

Travis Addair
Software Engineer, Uber, Inc

Trace Smith
Lead Data Scientist, ExxonMobil

Tomer Shiran
CEO and Co-Founder, Dremio

Tomas Vantuch
Data Scientist, Stora Enso

Tom Lous
GraphIQ, hired by Shell

Ting Chen
Engineering Manager, LinkedIn
Bo Yang
Sr. Software Engineer II, Uber

Blake Becerra
Software Engineer, IBM

Bilal Obeidat
Solution Architect, Databricks

Ben Weber
Data Scientist and Engineer, Zynga

Balaji Venkataraman
Engineering Manager, Starbucks

Badrish Davay
Sr. Manager of Engineering, Capital One
Arvind Hosagrahara
Chief Solutions Architect, MathWorks, Inc

Arun Kejariwal
Independent

Artem Glazkov
Senior Consultant, SAS Institute
Arjit Dhavale
Engineering Manager, Starbucks

Arif Wider
Lead Developer, Thoughtworks

Anurag Tangri
Lead Data Scientist, Visa

Anup Segu
Senior Software Engineer, YipitData

Anthony Moi
Technical Lead, Hugging Face
Anshul Bajpai
Data Engineer, Healthdirect Australia

Ankur Pathela
Software Engineer, Facebook

Andrii Rosa
Data Platforms, Facebook

Andrew Brooks
Senior Data Scientist, Outreach Corporation
Andrew Bauman
Scientist, Seattle Childrens

Amir Kermany
Health and Life Sciences Solutions Architect, Databricks

Amarjot Singh
CEO and Founder, Skylark Labs LLC

Alvin Henrick
Staff Data Scientist, Clarify Health Solutions

Alon Rosenthal
Co-Founder and CEO, SecuPi Security Solutions Ltd

Alexander Thomas
Data Scientist, Indeed

Abhishek Roy
Research Engineer, Microsoft

Abe Gong
CEO & Co-Founder, Superconductive

Abdulrahman Alfozan
Data Platforms, Facebook

Abdulla Al-Qawasmeh
Engineering Manager, LinkedIn

Aaron Feldman
Data Platforms, Facebook
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