Artificial intelligence (AI) stands at the forefront of enterprise innovation, offering unparalleled opportunities for growth, efficiency, and competitive advantage. However, the journey toward AI optimization is fraught with challenges, from legacy infrastructures to strategic alignment and workforce readiness. This keynote speech will navigate the complex landscape of AI integration, presenting a comprehensive roadmap tailored for Fortune 500 companies ready to harness the power of generative AI.
Technologist Deep-Dive (Gen AI & Data Science) Track
Retail
Business Leader
Data Science
AI Technologists
Dr. Astha Purohit
Director - Product (Tech) Ops
Walmart
Astha is a global leader in Retail with extensive expertise in artificial intelligence and generative AI. She has advised Fortune 500 companies and senior C-suite leaders on driving innovation and growth in Retail to deliver amazing customer experiences.
She is a former McKinsey consultant and an MBA graduate from MIT Sloan. Currently she is a Director at Walmart spearheading AI and ML model development and deployment across the Walmart product eco-system.
Dr. Astha Purohit
Director - Product (Tech) Ops
Walmart
Astha is a global leader in Retail with extensive expertise in artificial intelligence and generative AI. She has advised Fortune 500 companies and senior C-suite leaders on driving innovation and growth in Retail to deliver amazing customer experiences.
She is a former McKinsey consultant and an MBA graduate from MIT Sloan. Currently she is a Director at Walmart spearheading AI and ML model development and deployment across the Walmart product eco-system.
Enterprises ranging from banks to telecoms to utilities need support navigating every credit journey phase. The challenge lies in balancing a high conversion rate with manageable risk, a task made increasingly complex by the sensitivity of the data involved in the credit risk management process.
Discover how CRIF, a global company specializing in credit & business information systems, addressed these challenges through synthetic data and pseudonymization. Learn how they used Anonos to protect privacy while ensuring the effectiveness of origination and customer management processes, expanding their use cases, and proactively preparing for regulatory changes.
Steven Prestidge
Chief Commercial & Innovation Officer
Anonos
An astute problem solver, Steve is a seasoned business and technology executive who finds smart solutions for the data challenges facing forward-thinking global enterprises. His experience in digital technologies spans more than 20 years and includes successfully guiding clients to use their data for advanced analytics, monetization and cloud processing.
As Chief Commercial & Innovation Officer at Anonos, Steve works closely with a global team to expand partnerships with systems integrators and professional services firms. He works directly with commercial organizations to discover opportunities locked within data assets and utilize them fully without compromising security, privacy, accuracy or speed.
Prior to joining Anonos, Steve held global executive and commercial leadership roles at Dell, Getty Images and most recently Data Republic.
Steve holds a higher national diploma from the United Kingdom’s Evesham College.
Steve is based in Los Angeles, California.
Omar Ali Fdal
Chief Data Scientist & Head of Privacy Research
Anonos
Omar has a passion for creating products that unlock the value of data and address the challenges organizations face in managing and using data at enterprise scale.
As a former engineer, Omar saw the opportunity to help organizations utilize more data without breaching privacy regulations, and co-founded Statice in 2018, a Berlin-based state-of-the-art data privacy technology company. With the company’s other co-founders, Mikhail Dyakov and Sebastian Weyer, they focused on delivering software that helps enterprises generate privacy-preserving synthetic data compliant for any type of data integration, processing and dissemination. The company was acquired by Anonos in October 2022. Following the acquisition, Omar joined the Anonos executive leadership team as Chief Data Scientist & Head of Privacy Research. Omar drives research and development of technology innovation to help organizations uncover the answers to the burning data privacy questions to support their business objectives.
Prior to co-founding Statice, Omar worked as a research engineer in the field of search and data mining for several companies, such as the Amadeus IT Group, based in France. He also co-founded Hupp, an urban mobility startup in southern France.
Omar speaks six languages fluently. He holds a master’s degree in computer science and has studied at IMT Atlantique in France (formerly Télécom Bretagne) and Uppsala University in Sweden.
Omar is based in Berlin, Germany.
Lorenzo Gherardi
Head of Business Development, Banking & Finance
CRIF UK
Passionate about Fintech, my goal is to help customers unlock new opportunities and growth by harnessing the power of data, analytics, and technology to transform their credit processes. With a deep understanding of SaaS and Open Data, I had a pioneering role in bringing Open Banking value-added services to the UK market. My latest passion? ESG, exploring how the adoption of ESG data can make credit more ethical, sustainable, and profitable.
Anonos
Website: https://www.anonos.com/
Anonos is a global software company that provides the only technology capable of protecting data in use with 100% accuracy, even in untrusted environments, making otherwise restricted assets accessible to expand and expedite data-driven initiatives. Its patented Data Embassy platform transforms source data into Variant Twins: non-identifiable yet 100% accurate data assets for specific use cases. Because multi-level data privacy and security controls are embedded into the data and technologically enforced, Variant Twins can travel anywhere – across departments, outside the enterprise, or around the globe. Therefore, projects for capturing valuable insights can advance without compromising privacy, security, accuracy or speed.
Providing best-in-class professional services requires cutting-edge data usage - for analysis, AI development, and driving efficiency at a global scale. Join PwC Germany and Anonos to discover how one of the largest professional services firms built a robust and sustainable engine to develop data assets into insights to unlock client value. Learn about the processes, challenges, and opportunities involved in the value creation from internal enterprise data. Perfect for attendees interested in data strategy and business development.
Benjamin Nolan
VP Sales - Global Advisory Partner
Anonos
Kevin Ball
Product Manager
PwC Germany
Anonos
Website: https://www.anonos.com/
Anonos is a global software company that provides the only technology capable of protecting data in use with 100% accuracy, even in untrusted environments, making otherwise restricted assets accessible to expand and expedite data-driven initiatives. Its patented Data Embassy platform transforms source data into Variant Twins: non-identifiable yet 100% accurate data assets for specific use cases. Because multi-level data privacy and security controls are embedded into the data and technologically enforced, Variant Twins can travel anywhere – across departments, outside the enterprise, or around the globe. Therefore, projects for capturing valuable insights can advance without compromising privacy, security, accuracy or speed.
Join our esteemed experts and thought leaders for an insightful exploration of how Confidential Computing is reshaping the paradigm of privacy and security, and driving a new era of trust and resilience in the digital age. Through an engaging dialogue, the panel will examine the transformative potential of Confidential Computing in safeguarding sensitive data and bolstering security measures across diverse industries. Delving into real-world case studies and emerging trends, the discussion will illuminate the pivotal role of Confidential Computing solutions in addressing the evolving challenges of data privacy and security.
Moderator
Mike Bursell
Executive Director
Confidential Computing Consortium
Simon Gallagher
Senior Technical Program Manager
Azure Confidential Compute, Microsoft
Andreas Walbrodt
CFO
Enclaive
Bertrand Foing
Founder & CEO
Secretarium & Klave
Bertrand Foing is the founder and CEO of Secretarium. He started his career in 2008 at Société Générale on the structured credit derivatives trading desk. He delivered both super-scalable, real-time solutions using tens of thousands of machines, and a series of high-performance tools for trading. Bertrand joined Société Générale’s Crypto and Blockchain Lab in 2014 and gained a deep understanding of trustless systems and privacy-enhancing technologies. He created Secretarium in 2016 to focus on privacy-preserving/confidential computing. With the help of the co-founder Cédric Wahl, they have achieved great success with major international institutions, and delivered an easy-to-adopt confidential computing platform, Klave, in 2023.
Confidential Computing Consortium
Website: https://confidentialcomputing.io/
The Confidential Computing Consortium is a community focused on projects securing data in use and accelerating the adoption of Confidential Computing through open collaboration.
The Confidential Computing Consortium (CCC) brings together hardware vendors, cloud providers, and software developers to accelerate the adoption of Trusted Execution Environment (TEE) technologies and standards.
CCC is a project community at the Linux Foundation dedicated to defining and accelerating the adoption of Confidential Computing. It embodies open governance and open collaboration that has aided the success of similarly ambitious efforts. The effort includes commitments from numerous member organizations and contributions from several open source projects.
We invite companies to bring concrete use cases to discuss as a group and break down the details: how many parties, statistical vs. specific outcomes, interaction picture, data set size, computational complexity, security needs, etc, and suggest trade-offs to select a specific PET.
David Archer
CTO
Niobium
Dr. David Archer, Chief Technology Officer for Niobium Microsystems, has over 40 years of experience in computer hardware and software development, including over 12 years of R&D in Privacy Enhancing Technologies. Dr. Archer developed foundations and application of PETs in well-known US Government programs such as DARPA PROCEED, SafeWare, Brandeis, SIEVE, and DPRIVE; IARPA HECTOR; as well as in programs for the US Departments of Homeland Security, Education, Energy, the Census Bureau, and the US Intelligence Community. Dr. Archer is a founding member of the Privacy Preserving Technology Team, United Nations Statistics Division, and co-authored the first UN Privacy Preserving Technology Handbook. Dr. Archer was appointed by the Director of NIST and served as one of seven national judges on the US Privacy Enhancing Technologies Prize Challenge. Dr. Archer served as a Summer Scholar in PETs for the US Census Bureau in 2022.
PETs offer remarkable opportunities for safely realising the full value of data, but engaging and implementing PETs in regulatory and infrastructure environments geared towards traditional methods of managing data poses a barrier. Closing the gap between modern information working practices and the tools and systems that are needed to enable PETs is critical to realising their opportunity.
Fully homomorphic encryption is an extremely valuable PET for confidential computation, but is well known for the challenging degree of computation that is required. Optalysys are not only developing the hardware that overcomes this computational challenge, but addressing the difficulty of incorporating powerful FHE technologies into valuable data workflows.
In this talk, we will be launching our Innovation Lab and presenting the current state of play for our existing accelerator technologies, the extensions and augmentations to these systems that we will be making over the year, and the opportunities that will be presented by our SDK for development and connectivity.
Nick New
Founder
Optalysys
Founded Optalysys in 2013 with twenty years experience in Fourier optical processing, having previously spun Cambridge Correlators Ltd. out of the University of Cambridge from technology developed during PhD in Optical Pattern Recognition.
