Datamass Gdańsk Summit
28.09.2018

Jakub is University of Bristol graduate where he obtained PhD in Engineering Mathematics. On the daily basis he utilizes his analytical and development skill working as a Data Scientist and Engineer. He is mostly interested in distributed processing analysis of big data sets and machine learning. Jakub originally has C/C++ background but currently works mostly in JVM and Python world.

Data enthusiast, architect and designer of BI and Big Data solutions. Together with the TIDK team – Data Scientist as a Service, where he is a president, he implements projects related to advanced analytics and data science, in particular machine learning and artificial intelligence. Since 2010, he has been awarded by Microsoft MVP in the Data Platform category. From July 2018, he is one of the 50 MVPs in the world in the AI category. Scientifically connected with the Faculty of Computer Science at the Poznan University of Technology. Member of the board of PTI Wielkopolska and Polish Society of Artificial Intelligence.

Dawid is specialised in analysing and predicting sport results. Currently, the biggest emphasize put in gathering and predicting speedway results. Personaly NBA fan and former long distance runner. Active member of R community, author of two R packages “sport” and “runner” available on CRAN.

Balázs Gáspár is a Sales Engineer at Cloudera, covering the countries of Central and Eastern Europe, helping customers identify use-cases and find the right technical solution to turn their data into business value. Balázs has eight years international presales experience in enterprise IT solutions.

Maciej Godek is a philosopher of programming languages.He spends most of his evenings hacking in Scheme andanswering programming questions on [Quora](https://www.quora.com/profile/Panicz-Godek).

You can also catch him on Twitter(@PaniczGodek)[https://twitter.com/PaniczGodek].

Lead software developer and researcher studying the field of business management using Cool Stuff (a.k.a. machine learning, simulated environment, etc). Member of Polish Association of Economists. Loves travelling with a backpack, collecting adventures and creating things. Does not like people who think there is only one good programming language in the world.

Manager, Architect and Transformer having almost 15 years of experience in various IT and Security
global roles in operations, transitions, designs, strategies and continual improvements. Having
DevOps principles at heart, constantly focused on creating value for clients.
In the current role, responsible for end-to-end transformation of all cybersecurity services for big
global client, including advanced security analytics based on big data technologies, which is also
known as prescriptive security or Prescriptive SOC.

Ewa Tułodziecka is a Data Scientist in Atos where she is currently working on building prescriptive security and user behavior analytics capabilities. Prior to Atos she was engaged as a Data Scientist developing real-time bidding and optimization algorithms for a performance marketing agency. She holds an MSc in Business Information Management from Erasmus University Rotterdam.

Sebastian Kacza is a senior technical product manager for the RelativityOne Staging Explorer at Relativity. Relativity is the on-premise and SaaS platform that helps organizations around the world to manage and analyze unstructured data during litigation and investigations. Sebastian is also a co-organizer of the Krakow Product Tank meetup, a part of Mind the Product, the world’s largest community of product managers, designers, and developers. Before joining Relativity, Sebastian led product management strategies at Oracle and Sabre Corporation.

Dr Piers Campbell leads data science within the Data and Analytics capability at Kainos. Piers has significant experience in data driven decision making and predictive models across multiple domains. Piers has designed and delivered advanced analytics solutions for Government, Telecos, Financial Services and Professional Sports Teams.  He is currently engaged with DVSA transforming their services through Machine Learning and Analytics, with a particular focus on risk and compliance. Before joining Kainos Piers worked with both Accenture and Deloitte having previously spent eight years in academic roles at universities in the UK, Middle East and Australia.

Emily Sommer is a senior data engineer at Etsy. She has worked on Etsy’s internal A/B testing and experimentation platform and is currently helping to build out Etsy’s streaming data analytics platform.

Whenever there is a need to answer difficult, data-driven business questions or build data science prototypes, Marcin with his IT savvy colleagues are ready to tackle the challenges with cutting edge technologies.
His role is to lead end-to-end proofs of concept that always have two things in common: data and innovation.
Prior to Roche, Marcin was an advanced analytics back-end in strategic consulting at McKinsey & Co. and a scientific researcher at Medical University in Rostock, Germany. He holds a PhD in applied mathematics.

Stanisław Raczyński has been working with data and signal processing and analysis since 2006, where he experimented with ICA and NMF, and R as an early adopter of that language. He obtained his Ph.D. from the prestigious University of Tokyo in 2011 and since then he was working at different research institutions: the University of Tokyo (2011), INRIA (France; 2011-2013) and now Gdansk University of Technology and a non-public research institute PICTEC. He is mostly interested in applying novel methods in the fields of ML, optimization, signal processing, NLP and DLT to innovate business and industry in the region.

In 3Soft Kamil is responsible for analyzing technological trends and implementing them into the projects realized at the edge of IT and business, with special concern for Big Data technologies (including Apache Hadoop and Apache Spark). Kamil is leading the teams of architects and analysts as well as is operationally engaged in architecture design and technology recommendation. He has hands-on experience in designing, implementing and delivering complex Big Data architectures that are leveraged to automate advanced analytics, including deep learning, for customers from financial services, telco, industry, social media and healthcare.

Creator and Chief Everything Officer at SaaS Manager – an enterprise software that uses Artificial Intelligence to help telecoms, insurance, and B2C subscription-based services reduce churn and multiply Customer Lifetime Value. 10+ years experience in the IT, portfolio built of Cloud, Big Data and AI for the Fortune 500 companies. Creator of a system scalable to thousands of machines and supporting 32 000 requests per second. Experienced in distributed systems, predictive analysis & AI, Cloud & API development. Enthusiast of microservices architecture and DevOps culture.

Grzegorz Gawron is a lead software engineer/manager with interests in advanced analytics and a taste for theory (that makes him a computer scientist surely!).

He acts as the Head of Data Science at VirtusLab. Previously doing data engineering at Base CRM. Before that trading systems for banking (PRM). … It all started with a :joy: of having the first Commodore 64 program stored securely on a magnetic tape.

He holds an MSc in computer science and an MSc in economics from the University of Warsaw.

Interests in data, algorithms, software engineering, distributed systems, machine learning.

Bill heads up the Kainos Data and Analytics Capability and has a leadership role across a number of engagements, as well as defining policy around data ethics. By profession he is an Enterprise Data Architect and has spent 20 years been wrestling with data challenges in commerce, government and the third sector.