Speakers 2020

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  Ross Mason

  Founder MuleSoft & DIG Ventures

  How I took MuleSoft from 0 to 1
  
  

  Having started, scaled and sold MuleSoft to Salesforce for $6.5B, Ross discusses the processes and learnings going from 0 to 1: taking MuleSoft from concept to MVP, winning the first customer and raising the first round of investment.
  
  

  Ross Mason is one of the UK’s most successful technology entrepreneurs. He founded MuleSoft in 2006; in 2017 he took it public (NYSE:MULE) and in 2018 he sold it to Salesforce for $6.5Bn, one of the largest technology acquisitions in history. Whilst in San Francisco Ross invested in (and continues to advise) entrepreneurs solving…

  How I took MuleSoft from 0 to 1
  
  Having started, scaled and sold MuleSoft to Salesforce for $6.5B, Ross discusses the processes and learnings going from 0 to 1: taking MuleSoft from concept to MVP, winning the first customer and raising the first round of investment.
  
  Ross Mason is one of the UK’s most successful technology entrepreneurs. He founded MuleSoft in 2006; in 2017 he took it public (NYSE:MULE) and in 2018 he sold it to Salesforce for $6.5Bn, one of the largest technology acquisitions in history. Whilst in San Francisco Ross invested in (and continues to advise) entrepreneurs solving the world’s largest problems. More recently, he launched his family office, ‘Dig Ventures’, backing exceptional founders in Enterprise SaaS in Europe and the US.

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  Donald Kossmann

  Scientist & Director Microsoft Research Lab Redmond

  Machine Learning and AI have been mostly used to “program the impossible.” That is, these technologies are most successful to address computation problems such as Computer Vision or Natural Language Processing for which traditional programming techniques are not appropriate. This talk argues that AI technologies can also be attractive for more traditional software engineering tasks. There are several recent systems, hardware, and security trends that support this prediction.

  Donald Kossmann is the director of the Microsoft Research Lab in Redmond, which researches in all core areas of computer science, works closely with business groups throughout the company and collaborates openly…

  Machine Learning and AI have been mostly used to “program the impossible.” That is, these technologies are most successful to address computation problems such as Computer Vision or Natural Language Processing for which traditional programming techniques are not appropriate. This talk argues that AI technologies can also be attractive for more traditional software engineering tasks. There are several recent systems, hardware, and security trends that support this prediction. Donald Kossmann is the director of the Microsoft Research Lab in Redmond, which researches in all core areas of computer science, works closely with business groups throughout the company and collaborates openly with universities and the scientific communities, to cover the whole spectrum from fundamental, basic research to technology transfer as part of high-risk and high-potential projects.

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