Speaker Category: socal-2017
Ben Johnson
Ben Johnson is CTO and co-founder of Obsidian Security. Prior to Obsidian, Ben co-founded and was CTO of Carbon Black. At Carbon Black, he led efforts to shift endpoint security to being data-driven and…
Rayaan Arif
Rayaan is the Founder of FundingTree.com. He is a serial Entrepreneur with a passion for tackling difficult problems. This passion has to lead him to find better ways to deliver Capital and Deal Flow…
Mike Yung
An economist by education, a data scientist by trade- I helped write the algorithm that powers ed-tech startup AdmitSee’s essay matching NLP tool. I’m now writing my next chapter with PlutoTV, working on all…
Dani Traphagen
Dani Traphagen is a solution architect at GridGain Systems. She confesses that she’s fascinated by the world of distributed databases and how this technology is shifting a decent chunk of the RBDMS paradigm. Specifically,…
Samuel Berger
Fintech entrepreneur and developer as well as a data scientist working with financial mass data projects since 1989. He started in these fields in 1989 with SBIC. Used technology and massive amounts of data…
Peter Voss
Peter Voss’ careers include being an entrepreneur, engineer, and scientist. His experience includes growing a computer solutions company from zero to a 400-person IPO. For the past 15 years, his focus has been on…
Ajay Gopal
Ajay is a DTLA resident who’s building his second FinTech Startup Data Science team as Chief Data Scientist at SelfScore. Before that, he built and grew the data science & digital marketing automation functions…
Alexandra Damsker
I am an experienced corporate and securities attorney (SEC and international law firm trained). I’ve written a practitioners’ text on trusts and taxation, coedited a securities treatise, as well as numerous articles on various…
NEAL FULTZ
Neal Fultz is the Principal Data Scientist at System1 (a Venice ad-tech startup), the Owner-Operator of NJNM Consulting (a boutique statistical consultancy), and the author of several open-source R and Python packages for Bayesian…
Kyle Polich
Kyle Polich is the host of Data Skeptic, a podcast about data science, statistics, machine learning, and artificial intelligence, all through the eye of scientific skepticism. Outside of the show, he’s an advisor for…