The Data Innovation Summit 2026 Speakers
The
Data Innovation
Summit Chairman
The Data Innovation Summit
Keynote Speakers
Kevin Shin
Head of Information Security
Samsung Semiconductor Inc.
Andy Cotgreave
Data Entrepreneur
How To Speak Data
The Data Innovation Summit
Stage Moderators
Sara Hajian
Director of Applied AI
Trustpilot
Albin Blum
Data Enthusiast and Co-Founder
Theodora Tech
Karima Makrof
Founder and Chief Adviser – Data Governance
AKLYON Consulting AB
Giovanni Leoni
AI Governance
Evangelist
Kenneth C. Kleissl
Group Technology Director
COWI
Stefan Wendin
Head of Intelligent Systems
RISE (Research Institutes of Sweden)
Robert Luciani
Founder, AI Wizard
Nerv Dynamics
The Data Innovation Summit 2026
Speakers
Henrik “Henok” Lindström
Product Lead
Spotify
Merve Noyan
Machine Learning Engineer
Hugging Face
Dr.-Ing. Susan Wegner
Head of Group Data&AI (Global SVP)
Allianz
Altaf Patel
VP Data Analytics & AI
PepsiCo
Christelle BOURDEU
Head of Data office for Operations
Airbus
Shreyansh Daftry
AI Research Scientist and Group Leader
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
David Dadoun
VP Data, Analytics and AI Innovation
BRP
Julian Bright
Member of Technical Staff
xAI
Shruti Khanna
Member of Technical Staff
OpenAI
Andre Lopes
Senior Software Engineer
Tesla
Shantam Mogali
Sr. Data Engineer
Google
Natalie Halimi
Principal Product Manager
Booking.com
Erim Sezer
Director for Data Enablement & Digitalization
Bayer
Saurabh Atri
Staff Software Engineer
LinkedIn Corporation
Julie Siezing
Director, Global Data & Analytics
GN
Winfried Adalbert Etzel
Data Governance Professional
Winfried Etzel AS
Ewa Szulc-Wodarska
Lead Technical Product Manager
Maersk
Robert Børlum-Bach
Head of Data Architecture and Transformation
JP/Politiken Media Group
Max Schultze
Director of Data Engineering
HelloFresh
Jacqueline Berger
Data Scientist
Raiffeisenbank International
Juha Vesanto
Chief AI Officer
OP Financial Group
Dan Nordell
AI Strategist, Project Manager – AI Verkstaden
Skatteverket
Martin Dlask
Senior Principal AI/ML Engineer
King (part of Microsoft
Raquel Castro
UX Lead
Visma Software International
Christian Sundman
Innovation Manager
Wärtsilä
Tony Savander
Senior Data Scientist
Wärtsilä
Joe Arun Mathews
Solution Architect
Scania CV AB
Robert Ciborowski
QING MDM Solution Manager
Scania CV AB
Maria O. Christiansen
Head of Product Management, AI Engagement & Tech Adoption
TDC NET
Guillaume Blaquiere
Group Data Architect
Carrefour
Panagiotis Kakosimos
R&D Senior Principal Scientist
ABB
Davide Pigozzi
AI & Data Governance Manager
Securitas
Jeanette Nilsson
AI Ecosystem Expert
RISE – Research Institutes of Sweden
Aline da Silva Souza
Business & Analytics Manager
Yara International
César Soto Valero
Data Scientist
SEB Group
Muhammad Ahsan Ayaz
Software Architect
Scania Group
Ankur Bansal
Credit Risk Analyst
T-Mobile USA
Maria Zelkovskaya
Business Data Governance Transformation Director
Danone
Fredrik Thuring
Head of Operational Analytics
Tryg
Damian Taranto
Principal AI/ML Engineer
King
Nikita Maslennikov
Data & Analytics Specialist
Arla Foods amba
Carmen-Ramona Ancuta
Master Data Governance Manager
Arla Foods amba
Viktoriia Kniazeva
Technical Architect
Omnevo GMBH
Adam Greco
Product Evangelist
Hightouch
Lars Hove Goswami-Christiansen
Principal SQL Server Database Administrator
PFA
Sebastian Herold
Senior Principal Data Engineer
Zalando SE
Timur Yüre
Engineering Manager
Zalando SE
Marcus Bräutigam
AI Enablement Lead
Skatteverket
Thore Bücking
Staff Data Scientist
Truecaller
Liniker Seixas
Associate Director – Recommendations
Truecaller
Shubhangi Goyal
Senior Analyst
Admiral Group Plc
Soumy Jacob
Specialist in Connected Ecosystem Strategy & Interoperability
BMW Group
Åge Ingierd
Head of Analytics
Telenor Norway Consumer
Jakob Thrane Godtfredsen Mainz
Director AI Governance
Novo Nordisk
Annie von Heijne
Manager Wholesale Analytics
ICA Sverige
Öykü Yilmaz
Business Intelligence Developer
Aller Media Denmark
Øystein Endal
AI Risk Officer
Gjensidige Forsikring ASA
Magnus Kjellberg
Director
Sahlgrenska University Hospital
Rickard Brännvall
Senior Researcher
RISE, Research Institutes of Sweden AB
Carlos Paz von Friesen
Marine Remote Expert
County Administrative Board of Västerbotten
Charlotte Runberg
Business Development @ RISE Center for Applied AI RISE
Research Institutes of Sweden AB
Gabor Harsanyi
Head of M&CR Data Office
Ericsson AB
Åke Edlund
Chief Architect – Analytics & AI
Head of AI & Exploration (acting)
Telia Company
Tarek Abouzeid
Lead AI and Data Platform Engineer
Telia Company
Vasileios Lakafosis
Software Engineer
Meta
Ralph Foorthuis
Global Domain Architect Data
HEINEKEN International
Filippo Remonato
Project Leader
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