Dave has a passion for technical and enablement training, having spent 11+ years delivering content globally across all regions including the last 3 years with Snowflake. Dave uses his life interests to teach concepts using data from martial arts, comic books, movies, travel and American football. Dave is passionate about all things data which brought him to Snowflake, he has operated martial arts studios, trained World Champions in Taekwondo and has worked in the tech industry for the last 22+ years.
Sheena is an Artificial Intelligence expert with vast international working experience. Her passion and expertise lies in identifying opportunities in businesses that can be powered by AI solutions that deliver real life business benefits.
She is specialised in building vision based AI systems with image and video data using cutting edge research in cross domain industries such as Manufacturing, Oil and gas, Logistics, Telecom, Retail and others, spanning across the USA, India and ASEAN markets.
She was the lead Computer vision data scientist of the PROJECT: CORAIL, a smart underwater camera prototype for coral restoration. Check out the feature in Forbes: https://www.forbes.com/sites/cognitiveworld/2020/04/22/intel–accenture-use-ai-to-save-the-coral-reef/#38543f315e60
In addition to her professional endeavours, she is a guest speaker at the National University Of Singapore Engineering. Her passion for thought leadership extends to authoring technical blogs and presenting at various conferences and industry events. She is deeply committed to the cause of women’s empowerment. As the Singapore ambassador for WiDS (Women in Data Science) she had the privilege to host a highly engaged and successful event during May 2023 for over a hundred women in collaboration with Dataiku, Snowflake and AWS.
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sheena-nasim/
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Evangelist for Snowflake in India where I help all walks of the business understand and harness the power of the Data Cloud, drive GTM, analyst/influencer relations and build communities.
Worked as a data scientist, product owner, program manager, industry analyst and a trusted advisor in the past with more than a decade of experience working with Fortune 1000 companies, guiding them on their mission critical priorities around AI Strategy, Governance, Risk Management, end-to-end program delivery, standardisation and automation.
I’ve helped clients save over $100mn over the course of my career after working on a multitude of projects in RPA, data labeling and annotation, autonomous driving, insurance fraud, environmental monitoring, MLOps, Responsible AI, AI for Good and AI platform negotiations. I’ve provided strategic services to clients across supply chain, pharmaceuticals, healthcare, defense and intelligence, banking and financial services, transportation, law enforcement, e-commerce, legal and several government and quasi-government organizations.
Here’s a quick summary of my career:
– Worked with over 500 clients (investors, vendors and end-user clients) in a consulting, program management and advisory capacity
– Advised over 1000 CIO’s, CDO’s, CDAO’s on their most urgent priorities in AI, share insights and best practices from their peers reducing time to value by up to 10x
– Authored several Gartner Research papers (including Magic Quadrants, Critical Capabilities, Hype Cycle, Cool Vendors), created two Gartner research products – Use-Case Prism as a result of cross-functional collaboration of over 50 teams and Buyers’ Selection Spotlight.
– Product designer, event and keynote speaker, and a contributor to open-source
With the diverse experience I have, I’m on a mission to help organisations on their technology priorities.
Data-driven problem solver with a background in process engineering. Experienced in data engineering, machine learning, statistical programming & analysis, product development, operations, and writing/communication.
