Applied NLP & Conversational AI 2020

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Participants

Prof. Prof. Silvia Romano 🇮🇹

Polytechnic of Milan

Program Chair

Session_chair: Program Chair Track: Program Room: Main Hall Featured

Chair: Session

Data engineering and automation.

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Dr. Dr. Kenji Watanabe 🇯🇵

NeoData

Chief Scientist

Keynote: Opening Keynote Track: Keynotes Room: Main Hall Apr 12, 2022 10:00 AM – 10:45 AM Featured

Keynote: Autonomous Pipelines for Real-Time AI

Self-healing and self-tuning flows.

Automation in data pipelines.

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Dr. Dr. Mary O�Donnell 🇮🇪

StreamCore

VP Engineering

Keynote: Industry Keynote Track: Keynotes Room: Main Hall Apr 12, 2022 11:00 AM – 11:45 AM Featured

Keynote: From Batch to Streaming Everything

Latency budgets and re-architecture.

Streaming & orchestration.

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Rafa? Zieli?ski 🇵🇱

PipeOps

Track Chair

Session_chair: Orchestration Track Chair Track: Orchestration Room: Room O Featured

Chair: Session

Data orchestration at scale.

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Yara El-Sayed 🇪🇬

DataTrust

Track Chair

Session_chair: Governance Track Chair Track: Governance Room: Room G Featured

Chair: Session

Governance & lineage.

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Katarina Horvat 🇭🇷

LineageWorks

Workshop Instructor

Workshop_instructor: Hands-on Lab Track: Workshops Room: Lab A Apr 13, 2022 11:30 AM – 1:00 PM Featured

Workshop: Lineage That People Actually Use

UX, policies, and context.

Lineage and catalog tools.

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Juan P�rez 🇪🇸

EventFlow

Senior Engineer

Speaker Track: Orchestration Room: Room O Apr 12, 2022 12:15 PM – 12:45 PM

Talk: Saga Patterns in Practice

Compensation, idempotence, and retries.

Event-driven designs.

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Leila Haddad 🇹🇳

MeshWorks

Data Product Manager

Speaker Track: Governance Room: Room G Apr 12, 2022 1:00 PM – 1:30 PM

Talk: Data Products with Contracts

Schema, ownership, and usage.

Data products and SLAs.

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Rohan Gupta 🇮🇳

AutoMLab

MLOps Engineer

Speaker Track: MLOps Room: Room M Apr 12, 2022 3:00 PM – 3:30 PM

Talk: Promoting Models with Evidence

Tests, shadow, and KPIs.

CI/CD for models.

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Sofia Almeida 🇵🇹

TrustPipe

Data Reliability Engineer

Speaker Track: Governance Room: Room G Apr 12, 2022 4:00 PM – 4:30 PM

Talk: SLAs for Data Freshness

Metrics, contracts, and alerts.

Data quality SLAs.

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Andrej Novak 🇸🇮

Independent

Moderator

Moderator: Panel Moderator Track: Orchestration Room: Room O Apr 12, 2022 5:00 PM – 5:45 PM

Panel: From Orchestrators to Orchestrations

Tools vs. patterns.

Moderator for DE panels.

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Mirela Popescu 🇷🇴

EuroBank

Panelist

Panelist: Panelist Track: Orchestration Room: Room O Apr 12, 2022 5:00 PM – 5:45 PM

Panel: From Orchestrators to Orchestrations

Governance and audit.

Event-driven banking.

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George Smith 🇺🇸

ShopChain

Panelist

Panelist: Panelist Track: Orchestration Room: Room O Apr 12, 2022 5:00 PM – 5:45 PM

Panel: From Orchestrators to Orchestrations

SLIs and ownership.

Retail data platforms.

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Dmitri Volkov 🇷🇺

AutoPipe

Workshop Instructor

Workshop_instructor: Hands-on Lab Track: Workshops Room: Lab B Apr 13, 2022 2:30 PM – 4:00 PM

Workshop: Templatizing Pipelines with IaC

Terraform, Helm, and policy.

Automation frameworks.

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Amina Diallo 🇸🇳

REGKT Events

Organizer

Organizer: Program Operations

Ops: Session

Program ops and comms.

Jonas Weber 🇩🇪

REGKT Events

Organizer

Organizer: Logistics

Ops: Session

AV and logistics.

M�nica Torres 🇨🇴

ProtectData

Security Engineer

Speaker Track: Security Room: Room SEC Apr 13, 2022 4:15 PM – 4:45 PM

Talk: Tokenization in Data Lakes

Performance and usability.

PII protection & tokenization.

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Piotr Nowak 🇵🇱

TeleData

Panelist

Panelist: Panelist Track: Governance Room: Room G Apr 13, 2022 5:00 PM – 5:45 PM

Panel: Governance Without Killing Speed

Controls and autonomy.

Telco data engineering.

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Emily Carter 🇺🇸

Independent

Moderator

Moderator: Panel Moderator Track: Governance Room: Room G Apr 13, 2022 5:00 PM – 5:45 PM

Panel: Governance Without Killing Speed

Moderated Q&A.

Moderator for governance panels.

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Dr. Dr. Iveta Kral 🇨🇿

OpenEval

Judge

Judge: Innovation Awards Judge Apr 13, 2022 6:00 PM – 6:30 PM

Judging: Session

Independent innovation awards judge.

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Professional Impact & Significance

This event represents a platform where leaders, researchers, and practitioners exchange advancements that influence real-world technical, scientific, and organizational practices. The contributions and presentations delivered here reflect recognized expertise in the field and demonstrate active participation in advancing modern knowledge.

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