Greg Storm
Greg Storm is the co-founder and COO of TripleBlind, www.tripleblind.ai , the most complete and scalable privacy-enhancing computation solution. Previously, Greg worked at EyeVerify/Zoloz as a Research Director, where he drove data science/analytics oriented research. During his time at EyeVerify, he united data and product teams to meet and exceed global customer expectations.
Greg also spent 21 years at Accenture, where he was a Partner for the Service Line Management division. He managed Accenture’s North American Utility Industry Finance and Performance Management practice, a $100m+ business spanning ERP and Activity-Based Management implementations, HR/Payroll systems, and more. Greg worked alongside CEO's and CFO’s to develop and implement new business functions from scratch.
Greg holds a PhD in Entrepreneurship & Innovation from the University of Missouri-Kansas City. He also holds a Master of Arts, Business Administration and Management and a BS in Management/Managerial Economics from the University of Nebraska.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/greg-storm-151a8834/
Wenting Zheng
Wenting Zheng is an assistant professor in the Computer Science Department at CMU. Her research interests are in computer systems, security, and applied cryptography. Her recent focus is on building systems that enable “sharing without showing:” multiple organizations can jointly compute on their collective sensitive data while only learning their own input and the final result. She has published numerous research papers at top systems and security conferences like SOSP, OSDI, NSDI, USENIX Security, and IEEE S&P. She obtained her Ph.D. in EECS from UC Berkeley, and MEng. and bachelor’s from MIT. She was the recipient of a Berkeley Fellowship from 2014 to 2016, an IBM Research Fellowship from 2017 to 2018, and was an invited participant at the 2019 EECS Rising Stars workshop. She is also a co-founder and the chief scientist of Opaque Systems, a confidential analytics and machine learning company based on her research.
Dr. Rishabh Poddar
Dr. Rishabh Poddar is the CEO and Co-Founder of Opaque Systems, a confidential computing platform for collaborative analytics, AI, and data sharing at scale. Rishabh holds several US patents and has authored over 20 research papers in computer security, systems, and applied cryptography. His research has been presented at top-tier systems and security conferences such as Usenix Security and IEEE S&P.
Rishabh received his PhD and MS degrees in Computer Science from UC Berkeley, and an undergraduate degree in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur. Previously, Rishabh was a researcher at IBM Research and a management consultant at The Boston Consulting Group.
Steve Irvine
Steve Irvine is the Founder & CEO of Integrate.ai, a leading SaaS company whose mission is to accelerate the shift to machine learning in a way that maximizes participation and benefit for people while maintaining trust. Prior to founding Integrate.ai, Steve was an executive at Facebook head office in California, most recently as the global head of partnerships for Facebook and Instagram. Steve held other senior leadership roles at Facebook including leading a global strategy team and helping to build Facebook's presence in Canada as an early member of the Facebook Canada leadership team. Steve is a serial entrepreneur having founded and built two marketing technology companies prior to joining Facebook. Steve is a board member at Aviva Insurance and sits on the advisory boards for the Vector Institute, a global leading AI research institute based in Toronto, and the Canadian Centre for Aging and Brain Health Innovation. Steve is an academic all-Canadian graduate from York University.
Davy McCracken
Davy McCracken joined SRUC 27 years ago and has been Head of SRUC’s Hill & Mountain Research Centre, at Kirkton & Auchtertyre farms near Crianlarich, for nine years and Head of SRUC’s wider Integrated Land Management Department for four years. Davy studies farming and wildlife interactions and has been working on agricultural and agri-environmental policy at a national and international level for over 30 years. He was one of the founders of the High Nature Value farming concept and much of his own research over the years has been into the challenges and opportunities facing High Nature Value farming systems across Europe. The farms at Crianlarich are a Linking Environment & Farming (LEAF) Innovation Centre and a member of the Global Farm Platform initiative, and consequently the research and demonstration activities of the Centre focus on how precision livestock farming approaches and associated technologies can be used to address agricultural and environmental challenges in the uplands. Achieving Net-Zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2045 will be a major challenge for upland land managers over the coming years. This will not only require greater emphasis on applying nutrients more effectively to inbye grasslands and tracking and monitoring livestock performance, location and health but will also require managing Scotland’s uplands in ways that mitigate or prevent flooding further downstream in water catchments. This will require land managers to have access to real-time data to aid management decision-making. Given that much of Scotland is remote and challenging topographically, the use of sensors together with improved connectivity and processing power to collect, transmit and process such data will be essential. SRUC established the first remote, upland IoT (Internet of Things) low-power wide area radio network in the UK on the farms four years ago and is deploying sensors and associated technologies to assess and demonstrate the benefits to be gained from having access to such otherwise difficult to collect data streams. More information on the work at the farms is available here.
Semi Hakim
Nigel Edwards
Marc Cooper
