Conversations

“The future of humanity is to direct one’s own evolution” – An Interview with Amal Graafstra
Amal Graafstra is a double RFID implantee, author of the book RFID Toys, and TEDx speaker. His interest in biohacking, RFID, and NFC began in 2005 as a simple solution to a problem. He wanted easy access to his office. He explored biometric options only to find they were too

“Technology can free people from wage slavery” – An Interview with Xavier Damman, Open Collective
Xavier Dammanis is an entrepreneur working on a new form of association that enables the Internet generation to fund communities in full transparency: Open Collective. He founded Tribal in 1999, a site that gathered student content from around Belgium that was published in a 30,000-circulation magazine distributed nationwide to high schools.

“I look forward to working on a Sunday evening” – Scala development with Tobias Johansson
Tobias Johannson is technical lead developer for Valo.io in London. Tobias has nearly 15 year’s experience developing in .NET and Scala. He has a background in the financial sector as a front-office developer but changed track in 2013 to be part of a team building Valo, a new real-time analytics

“You can’t stop the device from getting hacked, you have to defend your data” – A Primer with Kevin Mahaffey
Kevin Mahaffey is an entrepreneur, investor and engineer with a background in cybersecurity, mobile and machine intelligence. He is CTO and Founder of Lookout, a cybersecurity company dedicated making the world more secure and trustworthy as it becomes more connected, starting with smartphones and tablets. He started building software when

“Before big data and all the buzzwords, it was all data mining” – Kathleen Kennedy, MIT Technology Review
Kathleen Kennedy is the president of MIT Technology Review and the MIT Enterprise Forum. MIT technology review is MIT’s media platform and it covers emerging technologies and their impact. Their job is to help the audience understand the world shaped by technology, and obviously data is one of those huge

“AI is the next step for robots” – A Conversation with Nicolas Boudot
Nicolas Boudot is the EMEA Director at Softbank Robotics, where he has been responsible for partnerships and for promoting the use of humanoid robots in the B2B, educational and consumer markets, since 2001, when Aldebaran Robotics, the makers of Nao humanoid robots, was acquired by Softbank Mobile. He has

“Companies are finally able to start a data culture” – Interview with Frank Bien, CEO of Looker
With over 20 years growing and leading technology companies, Frank Bien built his career on nurturing strong corporate culture and highly efficient teams. Prior to Looker, Frank was SVP of Strategy for storage vendor Virsto (acquired by VMware) and VP of Strategic Alliances at big-data pioneer Greenplum, leading their acquisition

“Machine intelligence is the next step in the evolution of machine learning” – Data Natives 2016
Francisco is the Founder and CEO of cortical.io, a machine learning company that develops Natural Language Processing solutions for Big Text Data. Francisco’s medical background in genetics combined with over two decade’s of experience in Information Technology, inspired him to create a groundbreaking technology, called Semantic Folding, which is based

5 Reasons to Attend Data Natives 2016: #1. Building A Strong Professional Network
Go to datanatives.io and get instant access to speaker and ticket discount information on Data Natives Berlin 2016. The second edition of Data Natives is coming soon, and it will focus on the intersection of key trends in the Data Science realm, to make sure you’re in the loop and ahead of

Q&A with Angel García, Managing Director of Startupbootcamp – Data Natives Tel Aviv 2016
Meet Angel García, Data Natives Tel Aviv 2016 Judge and Speaker You can register for tickets to Data Natives Tel Aviv here. Angel García is the Managing Director of Startupbootcamp Internet of Things & Data Tech, the Barcelona based acceleration program. Angel has years of experience working with startups and will