H2O.ai CEO and leadership

Arno Candel is the CTO at H2O.ai, the open-source leader in AI. Arno is the main committer of the industry-leading machine learning and data science platforms H2O-3 and Driverless AI and has been designing and implementing high-performance machine-learning algorithms since 2012. Previously, he spent a decade in supercomputing at ETH and SLAC and collaborated with CERN on next-generation particle accelerators.Arno holds a PhD and Masters summa cum laude in Physics from ETH Zurich, Switzerland. He was named "2014 Big Data All-Star" by Fortune Magazine and featured by ETH GLOBE in 2015. Follow him on Twitter: @ArnoCandel.Github: https://github.com/arnocandelJIRA: http://tinyurl.com/arnojiraTwitter: https://twitter.com/ArnoCandelKaggle Master: https://www.kaggle.com/arnocandelSlides: http://www.slideshare.net/0xdata/presentations?order=popularVideos: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Arno+CandelPublications: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Arno_CandelPublications: https://indico.cern.ch/search?categId=0&sortOrder=d&p=candel&f=&startDate=&endDate=Chai Time Data Science interview: https://youtu.be/72nXl0tvgc0Named Big Data All Stars by Fortune Magazine:http://fortune.com/2014/08/03/meet-fortunes-2014-big-data-all-stars/ETH GLOBE Featured Profile: https://www.ethz.ch/content/dam/ethz/common/docs/media/globe/2015/eth-globe-3-2015-en.pdfH2O.ai is a leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant: https://www.h2o.ai/gartner-magic-quadrant/Wired.com article: https://www.wired.com/2017/01/move-coders-physicists-will-soon-rule-silicon-valley/KDNuggets interview: http://www.kdnuggets.com/tag/arno-candel

Maker at @h2oai, proud father of twins, maintainer of Sparkling Water, contributing into open source AI projects, and still believing that coding is beautiful!

Raman Kapur is an Indian medical acupuncturist, author and the president of the Indian Society of Medical Acupuncture. He heads the Department of Acupuncture at Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, New Delhi and chairs the Institute of Acupuncture and Natural Medicines, an institution which runs acupuncture courses in affiliation with the Beijing University of Chinese Medicine. He is the author of three books on acupuncture; A Guide to Acupuncture and Tissue Cleansing System, Soft Lasers in Medical Practice and Acupuncture — Cure for Common Diseases and is a collaborator of the Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) for a postgraduate diploma course in acupuncture (PGDACP).

Eyal is joining us after his time at PerimeterX a web security company, where he was the VP of Client Services, Eyal managed Support, Customer Success, Professional Services and training. Previously, he was VP of Client Services and Customer Success at Aerohive. Prior to joining Aerohive, Eyal served as VP of Worldwide Technical Support at Proofpoint Inc., a security and compliance company. While at Proofpoint, he helped ready the company for an IPO, managed worldwide technical support, and built and launched premium enterprise support and training programs. Prior to joining Proofpoint, he served as Director of Services for LogLogic and held various positions at Postini, Inc. Eyal holds a bachelor’s in e-business from the University of Phoenix.