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Nazar, as a specialist in machine learning, has experience in computer vision, natural language processing and healthcare. He is currently working with generative models on the Reflect project to transfer facial features.

Engineering manager at work and geek at heart, Igor’s primary expertise is building teams that develop cutting-edge products. Since 2016, Igor manages organizations providing technology consulting in AI and process automation areas.

Last three years been busy developing next generation e-commerce search for a huge retail company. Interested in simplicity, fan of HWE. Favourite quote: “Once you start thinking more about where you want to be than about making the best product, you’re screwed. Linus Torvalds”

12+ years in IT.

• Manage the R&D department. Lead 2 directions: IoT (Retail, HealthCare, Industry 4.0) and AI (DeepLearning, NLP, Chatbots, Scientific research).

• Technical consulting and ideation.

• Strong analytical skills and scientific background.

• 1 year of experience in Data Science, DeepLearning.

• 6 years of experience in Android software development.

• 5 years of experience in embedded and hardware development.

CEO DevRain Solutions. He owns the awards of Microsoft Regional Direcor and Microsoft Artificial Intelligence Most Valuable Professional, ex-Telerik Developer Expert, The Best Software Architect (Ukrainian IT Award). Chief Technical Officer at DonorUA – the automated system for recruiting and search of blood donors. Candidate of Sciences The expert in the field of Open Data at the State Agency dealing with electronic government, he participated in the “Kyiv Smart City” initiative, the coordinator of the first cycle of IT startups competition in the sphere of e-democracy and Open Data EGAP Challenge, the mentor at 1991 Open Data Incubator, Apps4Cities, EGAP Challenge.

Candidate of Physics and Mathematics, senior researcher of the V.M. Glushkov Institute of Cybernetics of NAS of Ukraine. I have been teaching at the Institute since 2009, actually in IT he is from student years. The last 2 years is working at Videogorillas.

A professional with 4 year experience in Information Technology including two years specializing in Data Science. Oleksandra has a solid background in Mathematics/ Specialist in optimization, machine learning and predictive modeling.

During last 8 years Kyryl held multiple positions in data science field in finance/banking, retail and gaming industries. He is a certified by GARP as a Financial Risk Manager. Also, earlier Kyryl participated in mathematical olympiads. He knows from his own experience how much business needs and DS techniques differ in these domains. At the same time, each decision should be verified and often AB tests are used for this. Kyryl has observed a lot of issues in design and implementation of AB tests, that is why he can explain how to omit them and also eliminate when its made.

I`ve been working 2.5 years as a Python software developer, but than decided to switch to new field and chose Data Science. It became my passion and now I work in one of the largest Data Science office in Eleks

Dmytro is a machine learning engineer strongly interested in the field of deep learning and its applications in computer vision. Currently he works with machine learning both in applied tasks and in academic research.

Machine learning expert and public speaker with experience in time series modeling and forecasting, image recognition and computer vision. Currently, AI Solution Architect in a SMART business, where is responsible for the architecture of machine learning solutions and team development in the direction of using the most up-to-date and effective approaches in various areas of artificial intelligence. Has a number of successful projects in the areas of demand forecasting, supply chain optimization, object detection, image segmentation, face recognition, people tracking, OCR. Creator and mentor of SMART Data Science Academy and Data Science for Business course.

PhD. in Computer Science and Applied Mathematics. Expert in Artificial Intelligence, Neural Networks, Computational Neuroscience, Machine Learning and optimization. Experience as a Senior Research Fellow in US (University of Massachusetts)

Bohdan combines academic theories and practical approaches in the data science area. He is a Data Scientist at SoftServe company and and a postdoctoral researcher at Electronics and Computer Technologies Faculty at Lviv National University and has more than 50 scientific publications. His current scientific interest lies in the area of quantitative linguistics, machine learning, predictive analytics, computer vision, social network mining, business intelligence, time series analytics, numeric modeling, risk assessment, reliability theory, financial modeling. He has practical experience in retail and supply chain analytics, customer’s behavior analytics, fraud detection. In predictive analytics models, he combines machine learning and Bayesian inference that is an effective approach for forecasting and risk assessment in the business processes with non-Gaussian statistics. He works on the state-of-the-art predictive analytics solutions, taking part in Kaggle competitions where he has a Master degree and 3 gold medals for top positions in leaderboards. As a teammate, he won one Kaggle competition (“Grupo Bimbo Inventory Demand”) among nearly two thousand teams where his team proposed the best solution for sales forecasting in the chain of nearly 800 thousand stores.

Oles has been involved in active research and development of computer vision and natural language processing systems for the last 7 years. He is the author of Machine Learning course on Prometheus and Deep Learning course in ARVI Lab. Oles has a strong background in video processing using deep learning methods for object and action detection, image and video captioning for Hollywood movie studios. He has a number of projects in the field of multilingual news representation, named entity recognition, concept drift analysis and unsupervised knowledge mining. Last year he worked on high quality 4x video super-resolution for movie studios and human face and pose transfer.

Big Data engineer with experience in Data Engineering, Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing. Worked in companies of different scale: from below 30 people all the way up to big international organisations employing tens of thousands of people. Active member of the Ukrainian Data engineering Community. Have experience in steering teams using agile methodologies.

Data Scientist, Google Cloud Certified Professional Data Engineer at Techsvit. In general, Mykola has more than 10 years of academic and business experience and a scientific degree – PhD, has taught at the Institute of Applied Systems Analysis at NTUU “KPI”. During this time,Mykola has implemented commercial Data Science and ML projects, participated in the development of software applications and implemented mathematical models of marketing processes in the telecom, banking, IT and entertainment sectors. And, he is fond of history – he chooses a separate country and breaks its history from the moment of its creation to the present day and makes an analysis with the further construction of forecasts for it.

25+ years of experience in database development: development data-centric applications from scratch, support of legacy databases/applications, data migration tasks, performance tuning, consulting, database trainer. I have experience with wide range of databases such as FoxPro for DOS (Fox Software), MS SQL (6.5 – 2017), Oracle, Sybase ASE, MySQL, PostgreSQL. Co-Leader of PASS Local Chapter in Lviv. Speaker at PASS SQLSaturday conferences (since 2013); PASS Lviv/Vinnitsa/Virtual SQL Server User Group, EPAM IT Week (2015-2017).

Eugene is the Senior Software Developer at Eleks, inc. He has over 7 years of experience with SQL Server. He is mainly focused on BI projects (SSAS, SSIS, PowerBI, Cognos, Informatica PowerCenter, Pentaho, Tableau). Eugene is a passionate speaker and SQL community volunteer presenting regularly at PASS SQL Saturday events and local user groups around Ukraine and Europe. Eugene is PASS Chapter Leader and he has a status MVP Data Platform

He is a Data Architect and Data Platform Competency Manager with hands-on experience in different technology stacks, like .NET and databases, and broad technology background. He has over ten years of commercial experience in IT, which resulted in numerous successful projects and valuable practical experience.

He takes a keen interest in non-classical databases such as NoSQL and NewSQL. Also, he is a big fan of functional programming (ML-based languages), and programming languages experiments, as well as cryptography and information security.

A multi-skilled expert with comprehensive experience of designing, developing and deploying Cloud and Hybrid architectures and infrastructure for software applications. Having over 10 years of IT experience Azure and SharePoint infrastructures. Possessing a proven ability to lead project teams to successfully deliver agreed upon solutions of the highest quality, often in complex and challenging customer environments. He has managed SharePoint Competence Center working in MS partner company. He organizes events in the community group, writes articles in the blog, participates in the conference as a speaker. He leads of Ukrainian IoT and SharePoint Community. He was a speaker at such conferences as TechEd Russia, Local community, SQLSaturday, MS Swit etc.

Head of Enterprise Cloud Solutions, CTO Office Eleks I’ve been designing data-centric systems for last 20 years and have gained huge experience in developing BI, AI and Big Data solutions. For the last 5 years I’ve mostly been focused on enterprise platform designing and implementing different innovative approaches for Fast Data Processing. At the moment my responsibility is to building Cloud Solutions for Enterprise Customers.

Taras certified database administrator and developer with 7+ years experience (working with SQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL) and database performance tuning expert. With many years extensive experience in the IT and other business industries in a variety of roles. A passionate speaker and SQL community volunteer. At the moment he responsibility is to develop data warehouses and reporting solutions for high-load systems.

Dov has 35+ years of R&D experience and spend 17 years in the High Tech Israel industry. First Image recognision system build in 1989. Dov leads his own programming courses, 20+ publications, USA patent, 10+ conference speeches.

Over 7 years experience in IT, Software Architect at SoftServe, founder of the Severenity project, author of Exchange Bot in Telegram, and a blogger. Loves to learn everything new, create something and to share experience and knowledge with others.

I am an explorer and entrepreneur and I believe that innovation will drive humanity’s progress. Nazar Fedorchuk is the founder and CEO of Senstone. He is the visionary of the concept behind Senstone, a sensitive voice tracker for capturing thoughts and life experiences on the go. The idea of Senstone came to him in summer 2014 when he was trying to tackle his personal problem of forgetfulness and recording random thoughts. It started as a simple Reminder Button, soon eloped to the device with quite a few functions and soon Nazar left the paid job to pursue his dream. He bootstrapped the company, raised pre-seed Angel investments in July 2016. He also manages all the business development and reaches executive level decisions. Nazar is an Oxford graduate and for 7 years prior to starting his own business, Nazar lead the drafting government legislative group towards the success of legislation — identified the problem, researched the scope, built a team, and executed it to the success of legislation and freedom for fake prisoners. Received Chevening Open Society Institute and Foreign Commonwealth Office scholarship in AY 2003-04, Eagle Award and a number of US Government Awards for Superior Performance.

Tech entrepreneur and investor, with a deep background in computer games. Now focused on AI research. Co-Founder of iLogos. iLogos is a leading independent game production company in Europe providing first-class game production and co-production services since 2006. iLogos has several divisions/studios for game development, art production, live ops, porting. 400+ successfully finished projects. Angel investor in early-stage tech startups, primarily AI-focused. Founder and CEO of company AI Forge – Combining cutting edge AI research with real business needs.

Max Slobodyanyuk is tech executive, serial entrepreneur, investor, and startup mentor who has more than 12 years of experience. He’s the founder at Nika Tech Holding that unites 10 fast-growing innovative companies, the Limited Partner at Aventures Capital venture fund. He has also served as the founder and CEO at iLogos Game Studios, the leading co-production gaming company, and the founder and CEO at Nika Entertainment, the global mobile and canvas games self-publisher and developer with 60+M players worldwide. Maxim is the Honorary Inventor at the World in WIPO (World Intellectual Property Organization) with MBA and PhD degrees.

Alex is a СEO and co-founder of Raccoon.World Ukraine, a graduate of the international business program Crowd Inc., resident of Startupbootcamp Berlin, a member of the innovation community of Upload VR, ARBA, VR / AR Association (USA). Raccoon.World works in the gaming sector, VR / AR and Digital health.

CTO in DatAI. We are building a product that examines the behavior of visitors and store employees based on computer vision. In 2009 he defended his doctoral dissertation at Strasbourg University. After that, he built teams and processes in several high-end businesses. The last few years he worked in outsource data science teams and Ad tech.

Eugene is a leading business development specialist with 12 years of experience in IT and analytics. He is a fan of blockchain and crypto-economics, who participated in the promotion of the most successful Ukrainian IT projects. Eugene is a business analyst with a critical mindset. He has a high level of communication and an experienced negotiator.

Entrepreneur, business analyst and sales strategist who is interested in innovative technologies. He has more than 10 years experience working with digital products and startups. Anton is also engaged in the implementation of artificial intelligence, machine learning, neural networks and Big Data in the Ukrainian IT field. In professional circles he is known as a business evangelist, blockchain guru and crypto-enthusiast.

Nazar, as a specialist in machine learning, has experience in computer vision, natural language processing and healthcare. He is currently working with generative models on the Reflect project to transfer facial features.

Andy has 25 years experience in software development. He built his first Artificial Neural Network in 1986, worked on various IT projects related to big data and data analytics, from 2016 switched on data science projects and set up a company MindCraft fully dedicated to creating data-driven solutions to bring new ideas from data insights and reduce staff costs.