Speakers

Joe Reis, a "recovering data scientist" with 20 years in the data industry, is the co-author of the best-selling O'Reilly book, "Fundamentals of Data Engineering." He’s also the instructor for the wildly popular Data Engineering Professional Certificate on Coursera, in partnership with DeepLearning.ai and AWS.

Alec Sharp, a senior consultant and acclaimed teacher with Clariteq Systems Consulting, has deep expertise in a rare combination of fields – business analysis and requirements specification, data modelling, strategy development, facilitation, and, of course, business process modelling, analysis and design.

Jos is the director of the Erasmus Data Collaboratory – House of AI, where data & AI come to life. The EDC is part of the Erasmus Centre for Data Analytics, in which Jos serves as a member of the management team.

Suzanne Kraaij has almost 15 years of testing experience for a wide variety of clients and industries. Within Sogeti she is the guild leader of the BI & Testing Guild, and she is also a member of the testing community's Core Team where she is responsible for the BI & Data testing portfolio.

Linda Terlouw is a versatile computer scientist with both technical and legal expertise. She obtained her degrees in Computer Science and Business Information Technology at the University of Twente. In 2009, she founded the company Icris, where she focuses on IT architecture, artificial intelligence, and data science.

Winfried is an accomplished professional with nearly 15 years of expertise in Data and Information Management. His career focuses on various critical areas such as Document & Content Management, Metadata Management, Data Governance, Organizational design for data teams, and Data & AI Strategy.

Victor de Graaff began his career as a software engineer, but during his PhD research on Geosocial Recommender Systems, he discovered that learning from patterns is the most effective approach for generating quality recommendations. This insight led him into data science, where he developed impactful solutions for clients such as ING (fraud models), Heineken and Unilever (predictive models and promo optimizations), and Rijkswaterstaat (forecasting for asset management).

Dennis van Gelder works at Sogeti as an expert in the field of data, data management, analytics and digital transformations. He is an experienced consultant who enjoys helping organisations become smarter.

Tanja Ubert is Lecturer at Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences at the CMI department, regarding all sorts of methodology, Design, Data engineering and Business Intelligence. She is co-author of the new Bachelor Applied Datascience & Artificial Intelligence and Researcher in the Research team for Education and Learning Technology.