Description
Project Management World’s Fourth Mini-Conference will be online. It will feature three presenters with AI project experience. These 30-minute presentations will be followed by a panel discussion.
SPEAKERS
Ravi Aacharya
R&D Project Manager Hologic, Inc.
Ravi is an R&D Project Manager at Hologic, Inc. in the medical device industry for Breast and Skeletal Health. This innovative medical technology company seeks to enable healthier lives everywhere, every day. He is passionate about working alongside healthcare technology products to better improve quality of life.
Ravi is PMP-trained Project Manager and Agile-driven Certified Scrum Master with more than five years of experience in leading projects, developing products, and driving PMO effectiveness within the medical device industry. He loves developing strategies in product marketing and analyzing the most efficient and effective way possible. He has a Bachelor’s degree in Healthcare Technology and Management with a Minor in Computer Science and Business from San Jose State University.
Ravi is also an active volunteer in his community.
Patrick D. Bangert, PhD
Vice President of Artificial Intelligence Samsung SDS America
Patrick heads the AI Engineering and AI Sciences team at Samsung SDS America. He is a visionary for the future of AI at Samsung and believes AI must serve humanity beyond mere automation of routine tasks.
At Samsung Patrick is responsible for Brightics AI Accelerator, a distributed machine learning (ML) training and automated ML product, and X.Insights, a data center intelligence platform. Prior to Samsung, he spent 15 years as CEO at Algorithmica Technologies, a machine learning software company for chemicals and oil and gas industries, and as assistant university professor of applied mathematics and researcher at Los Alamos National Lab and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. He has a machine learning PhD in mathematics and Masters in theoretical physics from University College London.
He is a German native and has lived in many countries. He is an avid reader of books and lives in the Bay Area with his wife and two children.
Martin Stanley
Branch Chief, Strategic Technology Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency
Martin is in the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and focuses on emerging security technologies as the Branch Chief. He directs efforts to build information security capabilities in Federal agencies and achieve objectives with security consulting and assessments.
Ajita John, PhD
Vice President of Artificial Intelligence Koopid
Ajita is the Vice President of Artificial Intelligence and a Founding Engineer at Koopid. She leads the company’s efforts to bring the latest, relevant developments in natural language processing and deep learning to conversational AI and the backend data architecture to support real-time data analytics.
Prior to joining Koopid, she was a research scientist at Avaya Labs and Bell Labs, where she worked on social computing and collaboration systems. She holds 30+ patents, has published extensively in leading peer-reviewed conferences such as AAAI, WWW, CHI, CSCW, and ICWSM, and has served on the program committees of several scientific conferences. Ajita is also an Adjunct Professor at Rutgers University and holds a PhD in computer science from the University of Texas at Austin.
Mitchell Levy
Global Credibility Expert
ThiNKaha and Credibility Nation
Mitchell is an author, entrepreneur, TEDx speaker, Global Credibility expert, and Thought Leadership Evangelist based in Silicon Valley. His purpose in life is to serve those who want to be seen as credible.
He has interviewed over 500 global thought leaders, which led him to uncover amazing insights on what credibility really is and why it’s important in today’s world, making him the go-to expert on credibility.
He is an international best selling author of over 60 books and has created twenty businesses in Silicon Valley, including four publishing companies that have published over 750 books.