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Christine Deschemin
Christine Deschemin is a Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence enthusiast with experience coding artificial intelligence applications for voice user interfaces. She completed the Artificial Intelligence nanodegree at Udacity, has two masters of Science and an MBA from Harvard Business School. She speaks four languages.
Scott Penberthy
Director, Applied Ai of GoogleScott is Director of Applied AI at Google. In this role, he leads a team of AI engineers and PhDs who help VIPs reimagine the production of goods and services and how value is exchanged in free markets. His team applies current and upcoming AI technologies to materialize proofs of concept and drive long-term transformations.
Prior to this role, Scott was a Technical Director in the Office of the CTO, a group at Google dedicated to helping customers thrive in the world of cloud computing. Scott kept one foot in the AI labs of Silicon Valley, the other in Wall Street and board rooms. Demand skyrocketed and he was asked to build a team focused on AI.
Scott has a rich background in financial services and enterprise computing. He was recently Managing Director in the CEO’s office of PwC, leading a transformation of PwC’s technology from on-premise, waterfall computing to public cloud with devops. Scott has many raucous stories from selling public cloud amid the Snowden scandal; coordinating leaders across Europe, Asia and the Americas; debating regulation bodies and lawyers; aligning vendors, clients and partners on a common mission; and, finally, educating boards and accountants on the wonders of public clouds and AI. Before that Scott played his hand as CTO at several Web startups after rising from IBM Research to the IBM Chairman’s office in the 90’s.
Scott is a passionate triathlete and a proud father of two smart, beautiful daughters. Outside work, he believes in STEM education and preparing the world for a new blend of human and machines. Scott is mentor in Udacity’s Machine Learning and Self-Driving Car NanoDegree programs. He’s an avid reader and loves studying history, economics and the eminent dead. Scott has a PhD in AI and Computer Science with multiple degrees from MIT and the University of Washington.
Connect with Scott at http://www.linkedin.com/in/scottpenberthy
Branden Warren
Chief Commercial Officer at Zebra Insights GroupBrendan Warren is Chief Commercial Officer at Zebra Insights Group, developing and managing the firm’s commercial strategies, providing leadership to relationship managers and business development managers, and managing key clients accounts. Prior to Zebra Insights Group, he worked as Consular Assistant at the Consulate General of Peru in Hong Kong and Macau. From 2011-2012 he was an analyst based in Ottawa at the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA), Government of Canada.
He was previously Co-Chair of the Young Professionals Committee at the Canadian Chamber of Commerce in Hong Kong from 2015 to 2017. He sits on the Executive Committee (Hong Kong Branch) of the Queen’s University Alumni Association and is a board member of the Canadian Club of Hong Kong. He holds a Bachelor’s degree from Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada and a Master’s degree from the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs at Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
Connect with Branden at www.linkedin.com/in/warrenbrendan