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Javier de la Torre

Javier founded CARTO with a vision to democratize data analysis and visualization. Under his leadership, it has grown into one of the fastest growing geospatial companies in the world.

Anita Graser

Anita is a spatial data scientist, open source GIS advocate, & author. She's the developer of MovingPandas, a Python library for analyzing movement data & has published several books about QGIS, including “Learning QGIS” & “QGIS Map Design”.

Minori Matsuda

Minori is currently Data Scientist Manager at Coca-Cola Bottlers Japan Inc. He is a speacialist in Machine Learning, Linguistics, Statistics & Data Analytics with an MBA in Business Administration. He has been recognized as a Google Developpers Expert (Machine Learning) by Google.

Martin Fleischmann

(He/Him)

Martin is a member of the Geographic Data Science Lab at the University of Liverpool. Researcher in urban morphology & geographic data science focusing on quantitative analysis of urban form & open-source software.

Bilal Lodhi

Bilal Lodhi is a director in Bain & Company's Advanced Analytical Group. He has extensive experience in customer segmentation, predictive modeling, white space analysis, complexity reduction, pricing research and big data analytics.

Jonathan Americo

Jonathan has more than 10 years of experience working with tech products, location data & mobility solutions for different international companies across the globe. He is currently at TomTom focusing on smart mobility.

Claire Byrne

Claire has a background in GIS and spatial analysis, applying these skills in the environmental sphere for over 14 years, & adjusting toward spatial data science more recently.

Dan Baeder

Dan is a data scientist at Deloitte focusing on transportation & human mobility. He leads the data science team on FutureScape, an analytics initiative merging cloud-scale, agent-based simulations with spatial data science.

Pelayo Arbués

Pelayo is Head of Data Science at idealista. Previously, he worked as an Applied Economics researcher in Academia & in 2015 he started his career as a Data Scientist in the private sector.

Denise Pearl

Denise is an experienced sales leader capable of building teams & processes to support strategic opportunities from exploratory conversations to the negotiation of highly complex deals. Striving in every organization to be a corporate polymath connecting internal & external teams to help build value chains between customers & solutions.

Fletcher Berryman

Fletcher is a geographer & remote sensing specialist currently working in product at SafeGraph. Previously, Berryman held roles at dataPlor, CARTO, and Apollo Mapping, & he continues to work as a research assistant at the University of Chicago.

Andrea Gorrini

Andrea is an environmental psychologist with experience in human behavior in transport systems, crowd dynamics and walkability. Since 2019, she collaborates with Systematica as Transport Research Consultant.

Jan Benetka

Jan is a research scientist at Unacast where he works on deriving insight about human mobility. During his PhD studies at NTNU he focused on intelligent assistants and their ability to proactively provide information based on user's context (such as location or time). Currently, he is most passionate about ((spatial) knowledge) graphs.

Giulia Carella

Giulia holds a PhD in Statistical climatology from the University of Southampton (UK) and previously she worked as a researcher at the Le Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l’Environnement (FR) & at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center.

Miguel Álvarez García

Miguel is CARTO's lead data scientist with more than 9 years of experience in desiging, implementing & delivering optimization & machine learning solutions to enable data driven decision making in organizations.

Iacopo Testi

Iacopo works at the intersection of data science, sustainability & urbanism applying artificial intelligence models to the urban domain. Specifically, he develops supervised & unsupervised artificial neural networks.

Gerardo Lastra

Gerardo is a Team Leader Data Scientist at Vodafone Business. He leads the development of a solution called Vodafone Analytics that turns network data into mobility insights & is live in many markets across Vodafone's international footprint. He holds a MEng in Computer Science & a MSc in Artificial Intelligence, he is also passionate about applying software engineering principles & devops practices in his day-to-day.

Dr. George Panteras

George is a Lead Data Scientist at Deloitte’s Applied AI, leading efforts in FutureScape, an AI-based simulation. He previously worked for Allstate and The World Bank as a Spatial Data Scientist and holds a PhD in Geoinformatics.

Rosalie van der Maas, MSc

(She/Her)

Rosalie is co-founder and CEO of Ellipsis Drive. She was accepted into Dutch Design school at age 15, organized her own events on Big Data & society at age 20, & founded her first company at age 22. The journey goes on!

Parker Ence

Parker Ence is the CEO of Veraset, a leading geospatial data-as-a-service company providing population movement data to over 100 data science teams who are solving problems in advertising, financial services, public health, city planning, transportation, mobile networks, & more.

Eva Murray

Eva Murray is a recognised expert in data visualization and has published two books on data visualisation and community building. Eva helps Snowflake’s customers drive user adoption and increase the role data plays in decision making.

Nik Hengel

(He/Him)

Nik is an experienced marketing analytics & optimization leader with a demonstrated history of working in the retail marketing & web analytics industries. He is skilled in media planning analytics, integrated marketing performance, Test-and-Learn optimization & has a BS focused in Marketing from University of Minnesota-Twin Cities.

Geoff Michener

Geoff is an entrepreneur, international business executive & outdoorsman with 10+ years of experience providing successful outcomes for global enterprises. His specialities include geospatial data, business development & counterterrorism.

Taylor Reich

(They/Them)

Taylor (they/them) leads ITDP's global analytics program, measuring urban mobility and emissions in cities around the world. Their background is in biochemistry & Middle Eastern housing policy.

Carlos Carrión

Carlos is currently a Senior Advisor for the Santiago Bernabeu Stadium remodelling project at Real Madrid CF. He previously worked at Telefónica as a Corporate Marketing Director focusing on sport content (F1, MotoGP, Football) & BBVA as Head of International Communications & Marketing focusing on Liga BBVA, the largest online football community at that time.

Joe Karlsson

(He/Him)

Joe Karlsson is a software engineer turned Developer Advocate at SingleStore. He comes from the frozen tundra of Minneapolis, Minnesota (& yes, it does get really cold here, & no, not everyone here has the accent from the movie, Fargo). Joe has been primarily a Node & JavaScript engineer. He has been writing, teaching, and talking about code his entire career.

Alejandra Aranzadi

Alejandra is a Data Partnerships Manager at CARTO, establishing and coordinating our relationship with top class location data providers worldwide.

Antonio Cotroneo

(He/Him)

Antonio is the Director of Technical Content Strategy at OmniSci. He has spent his career helping people around the world maximize their geospatial data, mapping technology, & spatial analyses to make critical decisions for their customers and community. Antonio has a M.S. from the University of Southern California in GIS & Technology & worked as Esri for over 5 years.

Alaina Sliwinski

(She/Her)

Alaina is a Location Intelligence Specialist at CARTO. Previously, she was honored as a Brooke Owens Fellow in 2020 & currently serves as Board Member & Treasurer to nonprofit, SciAccess. She is passionate about making STEM inclusive for all. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration & a certificate in Data Analytics & Data Science.

Gregg Verutes

With a diverse background in environmental science & management, Gregg's research blends the fields of geography & technology to empower others in protecting the planet. He is passionate about environmental education, data visualization, & machine-learning to make better use of existing data & turn info into action in data-limited areas.

Satya Basu

Satya is a Digital Innovation Strategist in the Perkins and Will i/o lab. He is a designer, strategist & technologist who utilizes his diverse background to respond to design challenges with inventive problem-solving. He holds a bachelor’s degree in philosophy & social thought from the University of Chicago and a master’s of Architecture from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Jonathan Cook

Jonathan first studied Theoretical Physics at university & loves to use its ‘first principles’ approach to problem solving in his data science work. He is now a DeepMind scholar at the UCL Centre for AI & has recently been working with the UN to map the world’s offline populations.

Tova Perlman

(She/Her)

Tova has a Masters in Urban Spatial Analytics and loves working primarily on urban related issues like housing and economic development. She was thrilled to be part of the Data Science for Social Good fellowship, working with the UN to map internet connectivity throughout the world.

Argyrios Kyrgiazos

Argyrios is holding a PhD on Satellite communications from University of Surrey and has worked as a researcher in many projects modelling the space-time channels and rain fields. He is currently working as a Data Scientist at Carto focusing on spatial algorithms and applications.

Saif Ahmed

Saif Ahmed leads Developer Relations at Kinetica. Saif served as Chief Quantitative Technologist at AIG Asset Management, where he directed investments for a $230B real-estate portfolio driven by geospatial features. Saif holds a B.S. in Computer Science from Cornell & an MS at UC Berkeley.

Sina Kashuk

Sina leads the advancement of Foursquare’s powerful new geospatial analytics & visualization technology. He holds a PhD in Civil Engineering & has spent his career applying data science to the geospatial industry. Sina co-founded Unfolded & has worked across sectors for organizations like Uber, DataKind and New York University’s Center for Urban Science & Progress.

Andrew Zolli

Andrew works at the intersection of global innovation, foresight, social change & resilience. Today, he oversees the sustainable development, humanitarian, & human rights Impact portfolio at Planet a breakthrough geospatial imaging organization that has deployed the largest constellation of Earth-observing satellites in history.

Jamie Herring

Ryan Ferriman

Ryan is a Sr. Data Scientist on Charter’s Mobile Product Strategy Team. His focus is on spatial analysis of new and evolving projects.

Simone Torino

Simone leads the Utility practice at CKDelta, data specialists within the CK Hutchison Holdings group. As Head of Product and Business Development, Simone focuses on delivering value and innovation by combining global scale, diverse data sets and multi-category expertise from sectors such as mobile telecoms, utilities, retail, transport and energy.

Matt Forrest

As Director of Spatial Data Science at CARTO, Matt works on complex problems such as transaction analysis, data monetization, and branch consolidation, combining tools for analysis and visualization.

Kendra Lord

Results driven business intelligence & geospatial engineering professional with 10+ years of experience driving strategic & operational initiatives utilizing intelligence and data analytics.

Ryan Rembert

Ryan is an engineer, geoscientist, and consultant with 15+ years experience developing leaders and delivering products to market.

Alexander Romero Diaz

Alexander is graduated in Mathematical Engineering from the University Complutense of Madrid, right now he is finishing a Master Degree in Big Data. Although he has a background in AI, Alex is currently a Data Scientist within the Analytics team of Securitas Direct Verisure, where they focus on reporting & improving the Business contributing with new ideas after certain analysis.

Eugenie Chen

Eugenie Chen is the Vice President of Data & Analytics at Vistar Media, where she leads the strategic growth and development of the company’s data & analytics functions globally. Partnering with the industry's leading data providers, Eugenie & her team continuously build and enhance data & measurement solutions to make digital out-of-home easier to buy & measure for today's omnichannel marketers.

Roberto Cruz

Roberto, who leads the Data team at Ontruck, has extensive experience as an engineer specializing in Advanced Analytics, Machine Learning Big Data, and the data world in general, having developed his career in companies such as IBM and HAVAS Media among others.

Bryan Stiekes

Bryan has more than 20 years of experience in edge computing, enterprise systems development, software defined networking, & security. At Google, Bryan works with customer engineering & executive leadership teams to identify emerging themes and prove innovative solutions are viable and valuable.

Lydia Martin

Lydia Martin is a Strategy Manager in Technology Strategy, Business Transformation at TELUS. She primes the wireless GIS roadmap for applications requiring coverage & other wireless spatial datasets. Lydia has a Geography degree from McMaster University & a GIS Applications Specialist diploma from Fleming College.

Peter Duong

Peter is a Design Specialist in Technology Strategy, Business Transformation at TELUS. His focus is on technical lead cloud technology, location intelligence and data analytics.

Haiku Sky

Haiku Sky is a Product Portfolio Manager within the Geospatial Data Science Group at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL). His role entails overseeing strategic design & development on a suite of over 40 geospatial data visualization web applications for users across the world. Each application focuses on providing comprehensive data & analytical capabilities to support researchers, industries, & governments achieve goals for the transition to renewable energy.

Jake Freivald

Freivald’s twenty-five year career in software has covered multiple technologies with a focus on data management and analytics, placing particular emphasis on helping people understand the practical requirements of modernization.

Raphaël Huser

Raphaël Huser is an Assistant Professor of Statistics at the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), where he leads the Extreme Statistics (extSTAT) research group. His research mainly focuses on the development of novel statistical methodology for the modeling, prediction & assessment of risk related to spatio-temporal extremes arising in a wide range of geo-environmental applications.

Keith Chen

Keith Chen is a Professor of Behavioral Economics at the UCLA Anderson School of Management. His research blurs traditional disciplinary boundaries in both subject & methodology, bringing unorthodox tools to bear on problems at the intersection of Economics, Psychology, & Biology. Professor Chen also advises numerous companies on topics at the intersection of behavioral economics, business strategy, & dynamic pricing. Most recently he was the Head of Economic Research for Uber, where among other projects he designed Uber's current "Surge" pricing model.