Conversations

“Finding a relevant, trustworthy dataset can be like finding a needle in a haystack” – Interview with Satyen Sangani
Satyen is the CEO of Alation. Before Alation, Satyen spent nearly a decade at Oracle, ultimately running the Financial Services Warehousing and Performance Management business where he helped customers get insights out of their systems. Prior to Oracle, Satyen was an Associate with the Texas Pacific Group and an Analyst

“German companies are behind on the trend of using data to solve business challenges” – Interview with Dr. Jonathan Mall – Data Natives Berlin 2016
Data Natives Berlin speaker Dr. Jonathan Mall is a computational Neuropsychologist turned entrepreneur. Seduced by the opportunity to optimize consumer experience using machine learning, he led the Science team in a IBM Big Data Venture (gumbolt.com). Afterwards, he founded Neuro-Flash.com, a market research institute, using online experiments that illuminate the

Q&A with Startup Expert, Maren Lesche – Data Natives Tel Aviv 2016
Maren Lesche is the Communications Manger and Startup Expert at the European Innovation Hub, a Mentor for Startupbootcamp Digital Health Berlin and a notable blogger with a focus on startups. Maren has years of experience working with startups and will serve as a speaker and a judge for Data Natives

“Smart Data Is The Future of FinTech” – Speaker Spotlight: Q&A with Patrick Koeck – Data Natives Berlin 2016
Patrick Koeck is a Chief Operating Officer and a previous Chief Risk Officer in European Smart-data powered lender Creamfinance. Before coming to Creamfinance he tested his mettle in companies such as Alkoe GmbH, the Coca-Cola Hellenic Bottling Company and KPMG Austria, where he focused on database management and Financial Controlling.

Speaker Spotlight: Q&A With Dr. Stefan Kühn – Data Natives Berlin 2016
Data Natives Speaker Dr. Stefan Kühn is Lead Data Scientist at codecentric. Together with his team he is developing robust, fast and intelligent algorithms and is applying modern machine learning methods for analyzing large datasets. Before codecentric he was a researcher in the Scientific Computing Group at the Max Planck

“The market still needs a little more time to get ready for autonomous driving.”- Interview with Christian Bubenheim
Since January 2015 Christian Bubenheim has been Senior Vice President Marketing & Product of AutoScout24. Before that he was part of the management team of Amazon Deutschland GmbH and responsible for the business unit „Consumables“ including health & beauty as well as foods. From 2003 to 2008 he was General

Speaker Spotlight: Q&A With TU Wien’s Allan Hanbury – Data Natives Berlin 2016
Data Natives Berlin speaker Allan Hanbury is Senior Researcher and Privatdozent at the TU Wien, Austria. Since 2010, he has coordinated EU-funded research and development projects on analysis and search of medical text and image data. This led to the recent founding of a start-up, ContextFlow, which is bringing the

“Security is the big issue to solve around IoT.” – Interview with Cesanta’s Anatoly Lebedev
Anatoly Lebedev is the CEO and Co-Founder of Irish company Cesanta. Together with his team, he helps define the future of embedded communication technologies. He believes that if we want to get to 20 billion connected devices by 2020, then IoT integration needs to be made simple, secure and fast.

“Precision medicine is going to play a key role in the future of healthcare…” – Interview with Constant Therapy’s Veera Anantha
Dr. Veera Anantha is an experienced hands-on tech entrepreneur. He has held executive positions at tech startups and Fortune 100 companies with 2 successful startup exits (Apple and Motorola). Veera has founded and launched several award winning enterprise software and consumer oriented tech products in the past decade. Veera has

“Fashion needs ‘datafication’ that clearly benefits fashion.” – Interview with Data Scientist Jessica Graves
Jessica Graves is a Data Scientist who currently works on fashion problems in New York City. She’s worked with Hilary Mason at Fast Forward Labs and keeps in regular contact with the London startup scene. She shares her unique perspective on the datafication of Fashion. She comes from a background