Making AI a Reality - Open Source Leader in AI and ML

Ellen is Technical Evangelist at H2O.ai. She is an international speaker, author, and scientist with a PhD in biochemistry from Rice University. Ellen has been a committer for Apache Drill and Apache Mahout projects and previously a laboratory researcher in molecular biology. In addition to authoring publications in technical fields from genetics to oceanography, she is co-author of data-related books published by O'Reilly Media, including AI & Analytics in Production, Machine Learning Logistics, Streaming Architecture, Introduction to Apache Flink and the Practical Machine Learning series. Ellen has been an invited speaker for keynotes at JFokus in Stockholm, Big Data London, the University of Sheffield Methods Institute (UK) and NoSQL Matters in Barcelona as well as invited talks at Nike Tech Talks (Portland OR), Berlin Buzzwords and Strata Data conferences in San Jose CA and London.