Iulia Feroli

Iulia Feroli is a Senior Developer Advocate at Elastic, where she helps developers and data scientists unlock the power of search, machine learning, and generative AI. With a background spanning cloud architecture at Microsoft and AI/ML solutions at Dataiku, she brings a unique perspective on bridging technical depth with accessibility. At Elastic, she focuses on sharing practical insights through talks, demos, and videos. Passionate about making AI approachable, Iulia speaks worldwide on how to turn complex concepts into tools developers can use every day.

Jim Dowling

Jim Dowling is CEO and co-founder of Hopsworks. Previously, he worked at MySQL, as an Associate Professor at KTH, and as a senior researcher at RISE. He is the organizer of the annual feature store summit and he has authored a book for O'Reilly on Building ML Systems with a Feature Store.

Jodie Burchell

Dr. Jodie Burchell is the Developer Advocate in Data Science at JetBrains, and was previously a Lead Data Scientist at Verve Group Europe. She completed a PhD in clinical psychology and a postdoc in biostatistics, before leaving academia for a data science career. She has worked for 9 years as a data scientist in both Australia and Germany, developing a range of products including recommendation systems, analysis platforms, search engine improvements and audience profiling. She has held a broad range of responsibilities in her career, doing everything from data analytics to maintaining machine learning solutions in production.

Lysandros Nikolaou

Lysandros works as a Senior Software Engineer at Quansight Labs, where he spends most of his time on CPython and the PyData ecosystem. He is a CPython core developer, specializing in the parser, the tokenizer and the REPL. He recently worked on supercharging f-strings in Python 3.12, the new REPL for Python 3.13 and introducing fast string ufuncs in NumPy 2.0. Currently, he's mostly dealing with improving support for free-threaded Python in the PyData ecosystem.