Dr. Susan Wegner is responsible for the innovation field “Smart Data Analytics & Communications” of Telekom Innovation Laboratories. The focus areas within this field are strategically derived from the key drivers of future telecommunication business: Future Communication, Big Data and User Driven Innovation. "Data Analytics" is an important area within this field, with considerable activity going towards establishing Deutsche Telekom as a safe and transparent innovation partner in this emerging market. To ensure that new innovative solutions go quickly to market, smaller companies like "Motionlogic" have been established in the form of new ventures. Dr. Susan Wegner studied Computer Science and Mathematics at the Technical University of Berlin and at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is married and has over 10 years’ experience in designing and managing innovation development within the Deutsche Telekom group.

Ben Chamberlain is a senior data scientist at ASOS.com where he leads the Customer Understanding team. He holds a Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851 Industrial Fellowship, which funds his PhD studies in statistical machine learning at Imperial College London. Ben has previously worked as a data scientist in the social media, defence and security industries. He is a graduate of the University of Oxford.

Olmo is a Data Scientist, entrepreneur and change maker. He was one of the first joiners of ZXVentures (AB-Inbev) as Head of Data & BI for all European operations. ZXVentures is a disruptive growth organisation part of AB-Inbev set to disrupt the beer industry and wider beverage & experiences industry. Olmo's responsibilities include leading and developing the data roadmap: from asking the right questions and designing the data architecture, to in-house development of innovative data products and democratising data across the entire organisation. Olmo's past achievements include inventing an unsupervised multidimensional clustering algorithm; he was the first Data Scientist at TripAdvisor CPC; and he developed a process to optimise AdWords bidding. He collaborated with various not-for-profit organisations and worked as a strategy consultant. Studied finance and marketing at ICADE, CBS and McGill University and worked for three years in China. Olmo loves developing data models that are able to explain reality and bring value to users, and creating collaborative environments to help talent grow within the organisation. He taught himself how to code in Python, regularly joins Python & Data conferences and you will likely find him coding early in the morning while sipping a coffee and listening to music.

Harvinder Atwal leads a team of Data Scientists to deliver data-driven personalisation; develop the Data Strategy to support Advanced Analytics and define Data Science best practise in MoneySuperMarket. Moneysupermarket.com is the UK’s most visited Price Comparison Website and has one of the largest customer databases in the UK with records for 23 million unique individuals. Harvinder was previously Insight Director for Tesco Clubcard at Dunnhumby and Senior Manager for Customer Strategy and Insights at Lloyds Banking Group. He is passionately interested in Data Science, Machine Learning, Big Data technologies and how they can be used to improve Customer Experience.

Pradeep has more than 15 years of experience in the technology industry supporting cutting edge sales organizations. He founded SalesBI to help sales and marketing teams succeed through greater use of business intelligence. Prior to founding SalesBI, he was part of the founding team of PlanetPro Inc. a Silicon Valley Tech Startup. During his tenure, here he was credited with growing the business from zero revenues to millions annually. Highly regarded in the industry, he has consulted with companies such as Cisco and Symantec as a channel management expert defining incentive programs and strategy for channel partners.

Markus is driving Advanced Analytics on network and service data in Vodafone Germany to improve customer experience and operational performance. He leads a team of data scientists for predictive/big data analytics as well as a BI developer team to productize analytical results into KPIs, reports and dashboards. By developing a real time correlation software, the data science team is able to proactively find network and service deteriorations and automate the corrective maintenance process, delivering every year multi-million OPEX savings. Employing the typical data science methods to correlate network and customer data, they also continuously provide levers to improve customer service experience. 

Before his role at Vodafone, Markus held various positions in Product Management, Sales and Management Consulting at various companies in the communications sector. He holds a diploma and a PhD in physics from LMU Munich.

Mike Hyde leads Data Science and Data Engineering for Workplace, Facebook’s new enterprise product for companies of all sizes to collaborate and communicate in new ways. Prior to this he built and lead the global data analytics team at Skype, managing one of the world’s largest data sets and exploring communication habits of people all around the world. His experience spans data architecture through to data science and culture, and he is passionate about using data and insights to create a company culture focused on innovation and growth. Prior to Skype, Mike spent over a decade in consulting, using data to solve businesses’ problems across many industries and countries.

GoCardless is creating a new international payments network to rival credit and debit cards. It is breaking down barriers so businesses can quickly and easily take payments from anyone, anywhere in the world. Having recently joined the company, Jim is building a team of data scientists & analysts to take data from £4 billion worth of transactions for over 30,000 organisations across the UK and Europe and build the data-heavy products that will underpin GoCardless’s rapid growth plans.

Chris is Head of Customer Data Science at Rank Group, working across Rank’s brands and channels, having previously looked after BI and Analytics for Grosvenor Casinos. Chris is tasked with the delivery of incremental revenue through data science.

Currently leading marketing analytics at Hotels.com (an Expedia Inc. brand), Tim has built the BI and Analytics capacities of some of the most innovative enterprises and charities across three continents. His team at Hotels.com currently looks after all strategic and cross-channel/functional optimization activities across any inbound digital media. He resides in London and possesses a Bachelors of Science from Indiana University and a Masters of Arts degree from the University of Washington.

Dr. Alexander Borek is responsible for Marketing Science, Smart Data and Analytics in the Group Digitalization of the 12 automotive brands of Volkswagen AG. Before, he worked as a consultant at Gartner and IBM, where he had advised Global Fortune 500 executives in multiple industries with regards to their digital transformation, data governance and analytics innovation strategy. He is a recognized international thought leader in data strategy and the author of the books “Total Information Risk Management” and "Marketing with Smart Machines"

Claire heads up the data science team looking after revenue growth and customer at Liberty Global. Since joining Liberty Global in 2015, Claire has been working with various parts of the organisation to transform how Liberty Global uses its data to drive the business forward. Claire has over 15 years’ experience within the Telco industry working with companies in both the UK and the US. Focusing on analysis to understand customer needs, the key drivers of customer behaviours and the latest modelling techniques to deliver actionable data driven strategies helping grow revenue and market share for businesses.

Vanessa Galvany is on a mission to help companies grow profitable businesses by delivering best in class insights and data analytics capabilities, while acting as a change agent to transform the role of business intelligence within the organization. Vanessa held a variety of BI and marketing roles at Dell Technologies prior to becoming the “Director of Market and Business intelligence” at Royal Philips in 2014. In January ’17 Vanessa joined Liberty Global (telecom industry) as the new Global Director for their BI and Advanced Analytics unit, focused in driving operational excellence through cutting-edge data science. Specialties: BI and Information Systems, CRM, Strategic Consulting/Analytics, Program Management, Executive Engagement, Change Management and People Management. Vanessa is originally from Barcelona, Spain and holds a BSc in Business Administration and an Executive MBA from IESE Business School.

As head of the Data Science at Capital One UK I Dan lead’s an 18-strong cross-functional team that is changing the way Capital One do business. Dan and his team use the latest distributed computing technologies and operate across many billions of customer transactions. The models and data products that his team builds, unlock big opportunities for the business and help UK consumers save money and reduce friction in their financial lives. We have recently implemented a new open source analytic environment for model building/deployment as well as a sandpit for testing new analytic approaches. The last 6 months have seen the launch of major new credit risk models, leveraging the latest machine learning approaches to optimise our decisions. We have also made recent strides in understanding and mining customer contact data to better meet their needs and help them succeed. I have over 15 years of experience in analytics within the Finance industry. I have looked to build and lead highly-skilled, engaged teams focused on using data to solve real business problems.

Olivier has 15 years of Experience in Data Mining, Project management and integrated business forecasting system delivery. Olivier is in charge of the analytic capability within Bank of Ireland and coaches and develops teams of Econometricians and Management Scientists to impact the bottom line through advanced predictive analytics. He has delivered tangible competitive advantages to Insurance Companies, Financial Institutions and Utility Companies within countries like Philipinnes, Thailand, Mexico, Russia, Ireland, France, UK and Saudi Arabia.

Amin works as principal data scientist at Booking.com, web marketing department, where he leads an analytic team to build scalable analytic data-driven solutions in order to drive performance and improve the profitability of online advertising channels. Amin has put his focus on e-commerce problems since his PhD at Durham University utilising advanced quantitative methods based on click stream data. In past five years, he has developed an award-winning analytic engine using predictive models and algorithmic optimisation routines for paid search advertising media such as Google and Bing. His main interest recently is in high-performance computing machine learning methods with the goal of extracting meaningful and actionable insight from big data and creating analytic engines.

Paul Laughlin is an international speaker, at conferences across UK, Europe & USA. He has been speaking professionally for over 15 years. Paul is also the founder of Laughlin Consultancy, a business that enables companies to maximize the value of their customer insight. Paul has added over £10m to the bottom line of blue chip companies annually, by removing common barriers to realising that value. Clients maximise such value by using data, analytics & research together, to intelligently interact with their customers. Services, that are achieving this, include training & consultancy. Paul also provides executive coaching, to ensure leaders can sustain such performance themselves. He helps customer insight teams, especially their leaders, to have the knowledge and skills they need to sustain this improvement. Paul is also an active blogger on the CustomerInsightLeader.com blog.

Danielle’s main interest and passion is how organizations are adopting changes in their strategic learning and decision making while embedding Big Data & Analytics. Professionally, she leads the Global Brand Analytics team of Philips shaping the overall Brand strategy based on Brand perceptions around the world. 

Besides her experience, she is performing an Executive PhD in the faculty of Management in the VU University in Amsterdam.

Gael is a seasoned global leader in Analytics and Data Science with 15+ years of experience. He has a solid track record of combining a strong business sense with analytical expertise and result focus to deliver significant value. He has demonstrated his high adaptability thorough his career, having lead several multicultural and multifunctional teams across the world, directly and remotely in various industries (financial services, banking, e-commerce), in high growth and mature environments alike.Gael deep expertise covers a wide range of analytics applications ranging from credit risk to marketing, customer and web analytics, X-selling and pricing.He has a solid track record of enabling quantifiable improvements by developing teams, bringing technical innovation, improving processes or instilling rigour. Specialties: Ecommerce, Pricing, customer analytic, web analytic, credit card, statistical models, valuation models, data mining, design of experiment, testing, credit policy, statistical training, credit risk, statistical governance, SAS

Ryan leads Dyson's Global Data & Analytics team, who are tasked with designing and building the company’s next-generation analytical capabilities. From marketing to research, their work spans the breadth of the company, with a strong focus on data-as-a-service. Prior to Dyson he spent four and a half years at Google, where he laid the foundation for the Global Business Organisation's analytical curriculum. Most of his work focuses on the practical application of big data analytics, and how demystifying these technologies can help deliver impact on the front line. Prior to completing his MSc in Social Science of the Internet at the University of Oxford he worked on a number of digital media startups. In his spare time he enjoys hiking, cycling, and travelling.

Mike has been working in Business Intelligence for 17 years, from creating his first integrated Decision Support System for Birkbeck College, through to full marketing database and Business Intelligence systems for Ads dot com Ltd (InterCasino), LloydsTSB Business Lending Taskforce to his current role in heading up marketing analytics and decision sciences for eBay in Europe. Mike leads teams of Data Scientists and Analysts to enhance the Customer experience at eBay, to maximise revenue and ensure the highest degree of decision quality.

Enrique García is a Director of Digital Solutions at Carrefour Spain. He heads the development of Carrefour’s digital platforms as well as the construction of data capability (data architecture and data science). He also leads the overall digital transformation program of Carrefour Spain. Before joining Carrefour in early 2016, he spent most of his professional life as a management consultant and was a partner at McKinsey & Company's Madrid office. Enrique holds a BsC in engineering by Ecole Polytechnique de Paris, a MsC in Physics by Université d´Orsay and a MBA by Stanford GSB. He is married to Patricia and has two daughters, Isabel and Sofia. He spends part of his free time swimming and doing MOOCs on programming (he loves Python and Scala) and Data Science.

Laura started her career in 2003 at dunnhumby fresh out of Cambridge University with an M Sci in Biochemistry. She worked on analytics and solutions for 8.5 years, spending time in the UK, Mexico and France and across Retailer such as Tesco, Gigante, Best Buy and Casino and top CPGs brands. Laura has a deep knowledge across the spectrum of Loyalty, segmentations, personalised offers and Insight led Retail tools both on and offline. Laura has worked several years as freelancer, and also client-side on the ecommerce space: managing customer value and Loyalty in Linio, LATAM’s largest online retailer. Since 2017 Laura is based out of Spain as an independent business providing services to dunnhumby helping connect Retail needs with Insight led solutions.

Peter is Head of Data at Southern Water a new post within the organisation tasked with developing and delivering a data strategy for the organisation which supplies 524 million litres of drinking water from 89 water treatment works along 13,793 kilometres of water mains to customers’ taps and treats and recycles 718 million litres of wastewater at 365 treatment works after it is pumped through a network of 2,375 pumping stations and 39,600 kilometres of sewers each day. Previously Peter was Head of Data at The Pensions Regulator (TPR), which regulates the pensions and automatic enrolment in the UK . Before joining TPR Peter spent 17 years providing Data Strategy consultancy across the not for profit sector, financial services and FMCG working with large multi-national organisations and blue chip brands. Peter is a specialist in Data Strategy, Data Technologies, Master Data Management Strategies, Data Governance Frameworks and Data Science Strategies.

Detlef is the head of data science research in BT's Research and Innovation Division located at Adastral Park, Ipswich, UK. He is leading a group of international scientists working on Intelligent Data Analysis and Autonomic Systems. His interest is making data analytic techniques more widely available by automating analytics and embedding them into systems and processes. His research focusses on developing new ways of analysing data to achieve better insights and how to conduct analytics professionally and responsibly. Detlef is a Visiting Professor at Bournemouth University and a Private Docent at the Otto-von-Guericke University of Magdeburg, Germany. He has also published over 120 papers, holds 6 patents and 30 active patent applications.

Steve Taberner has been the Group Head of Business Intelligence & Analytics at Travis Perkins since 2015, building a capability from scratch. He has held a number of IT roles ranging from Head of Business Improvement to Head of Service Management at a variety of Global organisations such as Elsevier, Vodafone.

Following the completion of Alliance Boots merger with Walgreens Martin is responsible for the development of the new groups customer analysis & data capabilities, developing advanced analysis & tools which build a deep understanding of individuals and their customer behavior. This team merges existing in country teams to create a global center of excellence.

Gloria Macías-Lizaso is an Expert Partner in Advanced Analytics at McKinsey & Company which she joined in 2001. During 2002-2004 she transferred to Denmark and Belgium before settling back in Madrid. She has more than 15 years of experience within McKinsey having worked in more than 40 countries across strategy, organization, marketing/sales and network topics. Gloria is a member of the McKinsey Analytics Global Executive Committee and leads McKinsey’s Center of Excellence in Machine Learning supporting clients globally across industries. Before joining McKinsey, Gloria worked for France Telecom, Mitchell Madison Group and BNP Paribas. She helds a MS in Business Administration from Universidad Pointificia de Comillas and a BS in Law from UNED.

Marcin Detyniecki is Head of Data Science at the Data Innovation Lab recently created by AXA. Additionally, he is professor at the Polish Academy of Science (IBS PAN) and associate researcher at the computer science laboratory LIP6 of the University Pierre and Marie Curie (UPMC). Currently, his research focuses on the emerging challenge popularly named big data. Today he is member of the research and academic council of UPMC University, member of the executive board of laboratory SMART, elected member of the LIP6 laboratory council, and member of the editorial board of the International Journal of Uncertainty, Fuzziness and Knowledge-Based Systems (IJFUKS). He also funded and animated until 2014 the UPMC – Sorbonne Universités Computer Science Colloquium. Dr. Detyniecki has over 100 publications in journals and conference proceedings, including 6 keynotes.

An experienced Web Analytics Architect and Digital Marketing consultant with years of professional experience in leading global firms. As Digital Analytics Solutions Manager at Direct Line Group, I am leading design and implementation of digital analytics across Direct Line Group’s web estate. I started my career in Digital Marketing and then specialised in Web Analytics. Before joining DLG I worked for Hertz International as their Web Analytics Manager for EMEA. It was an interesting challenge to be the only Web Analytics person for entire EMEA market. Prior to which I was part of Visual IQ as a software engineer and helped clients attribute their marketing spend and improve ROI. I am a computer science engineer and I did my masters from Manchester University specializing in Data Management and Artificial Intelligence.