Karin has been working in the field of accounting for more than 13 years and collaborated in the development and learning of a neural network as a Chief of AI Dataset. In recent years, she has become interested in the digitization, automation and robotization of routine accounting processes, and in 2019 she established her own company, Digitoo.

Maarten Eekels is Microsoft MVP, Microsoft Regional Director, and CTO of Portiva, one of the larger SharePoint and Office 365 implementation partners in the Netherlands. Maarten is an experienced Office 365 and SharePoint specialist and already since version 2003 he is involved in implementing SharePoint and (later) Office 365. His expertise includes Microsoft Teams, Security, PowerApps & Flow. Also, Maarten is a regular speaker on both national and international events, like conferences, SharePoint Saturdays, and user group meetings. In September 2015 he started a video blog series called Maarten’s Cloud Journaal, specifically targeted at Dutch speaking Office 365 users.

Ciaran Burke is the technology and operations force behind Swoop. He began his career at KPMG and went on to start the professional creative network Hiive, now home to over 150,000 members and 4,000 businesses. In 2018, following many months of planning, securing funding, and platform development he co-founded Swoop with Andrea Reynolds. Swoop is a platform which helps businesses secure finance across debt, equity, and grants, and helps them make savings on everyday business costs. Swoop's platform is home to over 40,000 businesses and has helped raise over €300m for SMEs in the UK & Ireland. Swoop are a walking case study of their platform securing over €7.5m in investment across debt, equity and grants.

Dr. Gillian Doyle, CEO and Co- Founder of Cerebreon Technologies which is an insolvency-tech startup improving the UK debt industry with deep learning and data to support the most vulnerable people in society. Recently closing a seed investment round of £1.5m, Gillian is leading the expansion of Cerebreon’s commercial operations in the UK with top Insolvency firms and Tier 1 banks. Gillian combines her role as CEO with an extensive technical career in the debt industry where she led technical teams within data analytics, machine modelling and system development fields. She is a graduate of Microsoft’s Global Scaleup Programme and recently she won a place on Accenture’s highly competitive Fintech Innovation Lab to work with the UK’s leading financial institutions. Gill completed her PhD in nanophysics at University College Dublin and is a strong advocate of supporting her community by hiring locally in conjunction with the Irish Government.

Sophie is today the EdMill product manager for My-Serious-Game. Over the past couple years, she has concentrated her efforts to build the solution value, making sure of a perfect match with the online-training market by combining her digital learning expertise, her vision of market expectation and a strong sense of partnership especially with Microsoft. In that sense, her team is proud to have published and launched their first MS Teams app. More in detail, using the Scrum framework, she is conceiving functional coverage, manage operational production, testing, and delivery, and she is the EdMill product evangelist both internally and externally. Prior to My-SG, Sophie has strong experiences as Project and Product manager for the e-learning cyber teacher market, government contract dematerialization and retail product strategy. In a career she has widely been awarded in recognition of exceptional dedication, leadership, and valuable contributions in the area of Quality Improvement and Innovation.

Philippe joint Microsoft 5 years ago as Senior Partner Development Manager to build and run the Capgemini strategic alliance in France. In addition, he is mentoring Start-up and Scale-up companies from the Microsoft Start-up program. Prior to Microsoft, Philippe combines 20 years experiences as a Corporate leader and an entrepreneur focusing on developing and growing businesses. He has practiced most of corporate growth levers such as Direct & Channeled sales, Strategic Alliances, Fund Raises, Merger & Acquisition and Business Development at large. He is now leveraging this background to further develop Cloud-enabled & Cloud-delivered subscription-based business models.

Agnes Molnar has over a decade of experience helping hundreds of companies reap the maximum benefits of enterprise search, mainly when it is used in knowledge management scenarios. She is passionate about helping organizations become more productive and efficient so they can succeed in today’s increasingly competitive world. Agnes is a founding member of The Search Network, a global community of independent search professionals and contributor to their annual report Search Insights. She is a mother of three, runs, and believes in lifetime learning. You can find her blog at https://SearchExplained.com/blog

Steve has nearly 30 years of IT experience working for top government and corporate organisations in Australia and the UK, including Totaljobs, BNP Paribas, Vodafone and Credit Suisse. In 2013 he co-founded DevOpsGroup, one of the UK's fastest growing Cloud & DevOps services companies. DevOpsGroup helps organisations leverage Cloud and DevOps technologies and ways of working to build IT capabilities ready for the challenges of the Digital Economy. In recognition of this expertise, Steve Thair has been made a “Regional Director” by Microsoft. Established in 1993, the program consists of 180 of the world’s top technology visionaries. Regional Directors are expert advocates who promote Microsoft products, services, and solutions by sharing their deep knowledge with groups such as customers, the press and industry analysts. Steve blogs extensively and presents regularly at numerous meetups, webinars and conferences around the world to evangelise the benefits of DevOps. In 2014 he co-founded the WinOps Conference and Meet-Ups which are dedicated to promoting DevOps in Windows environments.

Allen is CTO for ‘The DataWorks’, delivering AI-driven web-data solutions to top tier organisations worldwide. His core focus is designing innovative technology solutions at scale, and his primary background is in enterprise systems. He has deep cross platform and vendor expertise using Azure, AWS, Google, AliBaba and on-premises cloud platforms. Allen is one of the few that can successfully bridge the gap between tech and business while remaining deeply technical and capable of leading at all levels. He is adept at balancing the needs of the organisation with the realities of what can be achieved using technology within defined constraints. As a consultant he has worked internationally with organisations of all sizes and has a proven record of being able to solve intractable problems for customers. Allen is an avid community contributor, sharing knowledge wherever anyone will listen. He organises, assists, and speaks at conferences big and small internationally. He has written over 250 articles and his current readership exceeds 4m worldwide. Allen is a chartered engineer, a Fellow of the British Computing Society, and holds qualifications in both technology and law. He is currently competing a PhD in AI. His current obsessions are machine learning, big data and IoT/robotics. When not chained to his desk he can be found fixing broken things, playing music very badly or trying to shape things out of wood. He writes for CodeProject, C-Sharp Corner and DZone

Viviane is Data & AI Solution Architect Lead, Technical Trainer and Writer, CEO at BI do Brasil and MasterDataLab, Microsoft Regional Director and MVP with more than 22 years of experience in IT and Business. She dedicated the last 20 years on consulting and training, mentorship, and Workshops, including classroom and online, attending more than 20000 students and developing an On-line platform with more than 500 hours of studies on Data Analytics, Engineering and Data Science. Viviane is also focusing on being aligned with the highest technologies being used and getting best practices for entrepreneurs, start-ups, and small businesses. Therefore, every 2 years, for 60 days, she participated in an immersion program in Silicon Valley. Apart from this, she enjoys spending time with her son and hanging out with family and friends.