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Founder and regular speaker of the Ukrainian Microsoft Azure community. Over 15 years of experience in the IT industry. Worked as a developer, devops and architect. Participated in global projects with millions of users. He currently works as an architect with various companies. He has his own consulting practice, helping organizations of various sizes to be more effective by investing in their own modernization. Microsoft Regional Director and Microsoft Azure MVP.

# CEO at DevRain

I am co-founder and CEO of DevRain, a custom software development company with a specialization in creating web/cloud, mobile and artificial intelligence solutions. In 2013 company became a "Lead partner in creating mobile solutions on Windows Phone 8 platform" by Microsoft Ukraine. In 2019 DevRain joined the Microsoft AI Inner Circle Program, designed for partners who provide custom services or enhanced AI product solutions utilizing Microsoft AI technologies. This program recognizes a partner's unique expertise in specific industries and their ability to drive business transformation using the power of AI and data. AI Inner Circle partners champion Microsoft AI technologies and deliver cutting edge AI solutions for customers.

# CTO at DonorUA

I am co-founder and CTO of award-winning social startup DonorUA - automated blood donors recruitment and management system. We won several competitions such as Stockholm Startup Weekend: Social Innovation, IDCEE Hackathon, "Ukraine is looking for startups" and others.

# Education

I am PhD. in Computer Science. My work was connected with Data Mining, information search, NLP, AI/ ML.

Lector in Kyiv School of Economics.

# Awards and certifications

1. Microsoft Certified: Azure Data Scientist Associate.

2. Microsoft Regional Director from 2008.

3. Microsoft Artificial Intelligence Most Valuable Professional from 2010.

4. Telerik Developer Expert(2014 - 2016).

5. The Best Professional in Software Architecture - Ukrainian IT award.

# Social responsibility

Open data expert in Ukrainian state agency of e - government, ex - community lead in Kyiv Smart City initiative, ex-coordinator of EGAP Challenge(contest for e - democracy IT startups), mentor of 1991 Open Data Incubator, Apps4Cities, EGAP Challenge etc.

Speaker, blogger and community lead.

15+ years of experience in Technology industry and Business Development, from setting up company operations and distribution/partners network in country to building brand perception in the market to managing cross group, cross-border sales and marketing strategy and execution. Experienced public speaker and technology expert and enthusiast, especially focusing on Artificial Intelligence.

Cloud Architect at Solidify AB, Microsoft Azure Most Valuable Professional, Microsoft Certified Trainer

Chander Dhall, CEO of Cazton, is a ten-time awarded Microsoft MVP, Google Developer Expert and world-renowned technology leader in architecting and implementing solutions. He's not only rescued software development teams, but also implemented successful projects under tight deadlines and difficult business constraints. His company has a proven track record of not just saving the client millions of dollars, but also providing an expedited delivery time. His clients include Thomson Reuters, AT&T, Dell, Bank of America, Thomson Reuters, NBC Universal, American Express, Fandango, LinkedIn, VMware, Capital Group and many other Fortune 500, mid-size and startup companies.

As an Azure Advisor, ASP.NET Insider, Web API Advisor, Cosmos DB Advisor, and an MVP for Visual Studio and Development Technologies, Chander has insight into new releases on technologies used by millions of developers. His critical advice, impeccable vision, futuristic strategy backed with creating and establishing best practices in the industry are some of the reasons for his unparalleled success. He has a breadth of experience in multiple different technologies: Cloud (Azure, AWS and GCP), Full-Stack Web Development (.NET Core, Java, Angular, Blazor, React and Node.js) and Big Data and AI (TensorFlow, Spark, Hadoop, Ignite etc.).

At the same time, he's a voracious and highly-respected speaker. He has keynoted and delivered hands-on workshops at top conferences including Microsoft TechEd, Google DevFest, Azure Dev Days, NDC London, DevSum Sweden, BuildStuff, Lithuania, MVP Mix (Toronto, San Francisco and Dallas). He has been invited as a technical judge and mentor at top universities like MIT, Harvard and UT Austin. He is the author of two books: Scalability Patterns and Building Single Page Application Using ASP.NET Core & Angular. He has utilized his amazing business sense having started Cazton with zero funding and turned it into a multi-million-dollar company in less than two years.

Chander has been trained in the rare Himalayan style of yoga, pranayama and Ayurveda since the age of four. He has written books on improving immunity and incorporating ancient eastern wisdom in a western lifestyle. When he’s not working, he enjoys traveling the world with his wife and three kids. When in Austin, they spend their time hiking, kayaking and boating with their dog, Friday.

Ihor Leontiev has been into Microsoft for more than 10 years and currently combines a role of Practice Manager of Cloud department and Cloud Solutions Architect at VISEO, French Solutions Integrator. He is a great fit for translating business need into a long-lasting architectural blueprint with the most efficient resource use. Ihor specializes in application migration, DevOps and optimization in Cloud with core expertise in such industries as transportation, manufacturing and professional services.
Since 2016, Ihor has been recognized as Microsoft’s Most Valuable Professional. His passion to technology drives him to keep working as a volunteering professor in Ukraine, writing his PhD and still being able to keep it with last Xbox releases. Check out his LinkedIn page to connect and know more on the current projects.

Dr. Adam Grzywaczewski is a senior deep learning data scientist at NVIDIA, where his primary responsibility is to support customers in scaling and deployment of their deep learning workloads. Over the last four years, Adam has specialized in large-scale training, focusing not just on deep learning system and software design, but also on algorithms that allow for large batch data/model/pipeline parallel training. Adam works with customers with high computational needs, including key automotive customers and organizations with the need for large scale NLP and conversational AI. Adam also focuses on techniques for computationally efficient inference, including parameter/compute efficient model design and model pruning and quantization. Prior to joining NVIDIA, Adam was responsible for building up the UK government’s machine-learning capabilities while at Capgemini, and worked in the Jaguar Land Rover Research Centre, where he worked on the self-learning car project.

Trained as a mechanical engineer with degrees from Virginia Tech, MIT, and Georgia Tech. A research position in a Computer Engineering department inspired him to shift focus to AI.
Contributes to the NVIDIA Deep Learning Institute (DLI) as a Master Instructor, conducting workshops and supporting certified DLI instructors in the EMEA region. Uses his previous academic experience as a teacher and researcher to make the student experience in DLI workshops interesting and informative. Areas of expertise include artificial intelligence, deep learning, computer vision, robotics, and autonomous systems.

Freelancer Data Scientist working with and teaching SQL Server and Azure. Since 2006 invariably been awarded the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional title, one of two Polish AI MVPs. Speaker at many European conferences. University teacher and author of books and articles about the Microsoft data platform. Member of the program boards of the PWN publisher and the Polish Association of Artificial Intelligence in Medicine.

Data Scientist with more than three years of commercial experience, formerly Software Engineer. Occasional gamer and jogger, sometimes a bookworm. Interested in modern applications of artificial intelligence, especially in military, energy and healthcare fields. Medium blog author.

Catalin Gheorghiu is a solution architect from Romania. The current interests are in the area of (I)IoT, industrial mobile and cloud solutions. In addition to addressing the software development and architecture, is a trainer and consultant. In his spare time is member of the technical community, contributing with articles and blogs (signed MrSmersh), presentations to several user groups/meetups (also is RONUA Timisoara user group leader), and lecturing all over Romania and abroad. Since 2011, every year he was awarded the Microsoft MVP Award. Is also a current awardee of the Intel Software Innovator Award. Is a current Microsoft Certified Trainer.

I am interested in large scale computer vision, natural language processing and machine learning. I dealt with wide range of machine learning project. These projects includes 2D object detection and tracking, object recognition and scene classification, stereo imaging, camera calibration, 3D reconstruction, multi cameras systems interface and calibration, and human action recognition from 3D which was my MSc thesis. I employed in this research the state of the arts machine learning techniques in supervised, self-supervised, semi supervised learning, active learning, multi-instance multi-label learning and multiple classifier systems. I also worked in graphics in medical data visualization, natural language processing and GPU computing. Moreover I dealt for period of almost one year with building quad rotor.

René Schulte is Director of Global Innovation at Valorem Reply and leader of the Spatial Computing practice at Reply working with teams across the globe on emerging technologies like 3D volumetric video streaming, Remote Rendering, the AR Cloud Real-World Metaverse enabling large, cross-platform user experiences with real-world persistence. Being a trusted advisor for our clients and providing business value by supporting project execution ranging from discovery, envisioning and strategic consulting to technical implementation. He is a creative developer, thought leader and digital content creator with a passion for UX, (Edge) Cloud computing and deep technical knowledge from more than 15 years in VR/AR/MR/XR/Spatial Computing technology and 3D programming, developing for the Microsoft HoloLens since 2015 pioneering many Mixed Reality innovations being a recognized leader in the Mixed Reality field. He was featured on Forbes, is listed as dev influencer. He coded AI deep learning neural networks before it was cool and is leveraging modern AI to empower humans and applied Quantum Computing for today's impact. He is invited as expert to global TV stations and a frequent keynote and session speaker and panelist at conferences like //build, Ignite, Global XR, Univ. Heidelberg, Unite, Vision VR/AR Summit, VRDC (GDC), AWE, ESA, RTC, VRARA, MR Dev Days and more. Blogs about many topics. He also created popular open source libraries like WriteableBitmapEx and the AR library SLARToolKit. He was honored several times for his dev community work with the Microsoft MVP award, recognized as Microsoft Regional Director and Advisory Board member for the VR/AR Association and XR Bootcamp. He is an avid cyclists and lives in Dresden, Germany with his wife and their 5 children.

Michal Marusan is a senior cloud solution architect at Microsoft, focusing on Data & AI services, responsible for adoption and design of solutions and projects for the enterprise customers starting AI & ML workloads on Azure. He drove adoption of Azure ML and related AI services in various industries - Telco, Banking, Gaming, Retail.

Harmke Alkemade supports customers in various industries with Data Science and AI use cases that leverage the Azure services, in the role of Specialized AI Cloud Solution Architect in a global team at Microsoft. Previously she worked as a Cloud Solution Architect Data & AI in the Dutch subsidiary of Microsoft. Before joining Microsoft, Harmke followed a graduate program in Artificial Intelligence and worked on various data science and programming projects.

As a Microsoft Solution Architect for AI and Data Science, Andreas Kopp advises enterprise customers on the planning and implementation of AI based business solutions. He is focused on Azure Machine Learning, Cognitive Services and Applied AI solutions including medical imaging and responsible AI frameworks and tools.