Dr. Valliappa ("Lak") Lakshmanan is co-founder and CTO of Obin AI, a startup that's building deep domain AI agents for finance. He sets the technology and science direction of the company and is responsible for building the product.

​Prior to this, Lak was an operating executive at an investment firm, the Director for Data Analytics and AI Solutions on Google Cloud and a Research Scientist at NOAA. He co-founded Google's Advanced Solutions Lab and is the author of several O'Reilly books and Coursera courses. He was elected a Fellow of the American Meteorological Society (the highest honor offered by the AMS) for his data science work.

Jessi Ashdown is a user experience researcher for Google Cloud specifically focused on data governance. She conducts user studies with Google Cloud customers from all over the world and uses the findings and feedback from these studies to help inform and shape Google’s data governance products to best serve the users’ needs.

Prior to joining Google, Jessi led the Enterprise User Experience Research Team at T-Mobile, which was focused on bringing best-in-class user experiences to T-Mobile retail and customer care employees.

A graduate of both the University of Washington and Iowa State University, Jessi holds a bachelor’s in psychology and a master’s in human computer interaction.

Evren Eryurek, PhD is the leader of Data Analytics and Data

Management portfolio of Google Cloud covering Streaming

Analytics, Dataflow, Beam, Messaging (Pub/Sub & Confluent

Kafka), Data Governance, Data Catalog & Discovery and Data

Marketplace as the Director of Product Management.

He joined Google Cloud as the Technical Director in the CTO

Office of Google Cloud leading Google Cloud and its efforts

towards Industrial Enterprise Solutions. Google Cloud business

established the CTO Office and is still building a team of the

world’s foremost experts on cloud computing, analytics, AI and

machine learning to work with global companies as trusted

advisors and partners. Evren joined Google as the 1st external member to take a leadership role as a

Technical Director within the CTO Office of Google Cloud.

Prior to joining Google, he was the SVP & Software Chief Technology Officer for GE Healthcare, ~$20 billion

segment of GE. GE Healthcare is a global leader in delivering healthcare clinical, business, and operational

solutions with its medical equipment, information technologies, life sciences and service technologies

covering settings from physician offices to integrated delivery networks.

Evren led software technology programs across the entire GE Healthcare portfolio focused on driving

customer success and on helping providers deliver improved patient outcomes through GEHC

applications. His responsibilities included overseeing the application development, NPI execution,

creation of a harmonized Healthcare software architecture & platform; delivering, harnessing and

maintaining common services across the portfolio; driving global strategy and engineering capabilities;

developing and delivering Cloud, Mobile and Analytics technologies for clinical, financial and

operational customer outcomes; and leading software development as a function including its governance,

processes, tools and execution.

Evren championed several initiatives across GE Healthcare including GE Health Cloud platform &

applications, Cloud & Mobility first design, Software User Experience, Big Data Analytics, Microservices

based solutions, and the adoption of Agile methodologies in the software development process. He is a

member of GE’s Software & Services Council.

As a member of GE Digital leadership team, Evren championed "GE Health Cloud" (re-branded as GEHC

Edison Platform), the first industry-specific cloud built on top of Predix, GE's Industrial Internet Platform,

as well as IoT, Deep Learning & Analytics applications for Healthcare industry. Received GE's Chairman

Award on 2016 for Digital Growth initiative for his efforts on launching GE Health Cloud .

Evren began his GE career at GE Transportation, where he served as General Manager of the Software

and Solutions business. He led the development of GE’s Movement Planner system, which helps railroads

solve capacity issues by better managing the movement of trains.

Before joining GE in 2005, Evren was with Emerson Process Management group for over 11 years, where

he held several leadership positions and was responsible for developing new software-based growth

technologies for process control systems and field devices, coordinating cross-divisional product

execution and implementation.

A graduate of the University of Tennessee, Evren holds a master’s and doctorate degree in Nuclear

Engineering. He holds over 60 US patents, and lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with his wife and two

children

Uri is leading the Data Governance efforts, within the Data Analytics area in Google Cloud. As part of his role, Uri is spearheading a cross-functional effort to create the relevant controls, management tools and workflows that enable a GCP customer to apply Data Governance policies in a unified fashion wherever your data may be in your GCP deployment.

Prior to Google, Uri served as an executive in multiple Data Security companies: most recently as the VP of product in MobileIron, a public Zero Trust/Endpoint security platform. Uri was an early employee and a manager in CheckPoint and Forescout - two well known Security brands. Uri holds an M.sc from Tel Aviv University and a B.sc from the Technion, Israel’s Institute of Technology.

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