Machine Learning in Governance, Business Risk Management and Compliance

Arnoud is a Dutch IT lawyer and patent attorney, with both a legal and IT technical background. After working as a patent attorney at Royal Philips for 10 years, he switched to private practice at ICTRecht Legal Services bv. The firm successfully spun out a legal tech business called JuriBlox bv that aims to automate legal document creation and review. Its deployment of AI for document review is now a startup under the name Lynn Legal B.V.

Atakan has 20+ years of hi-tech product management and product marketing experience with both global brands and VC-funded startups including Apple, Yahoo!, FedEx, Strands, and Deem. At BigML, he works closely with customers and prospects in identifying predictive use cases, proposing Machine Learning solutions as well as deploying and measuring them. Atakan holds a B.S. degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Bogazici University in Istanbul and an MBA from The University of Georgia’s Terry College of Business.

19+ year career in Information Technology & Security spread across multiple geographies – US, Europe and APAC and industries – Banking, Media & Technology, Energy, Retail & Consumer Goods. Travel & Hospitality HealthCare & Life Science. Jaymin has led the full stack lifecycle implementation of Identity, Authentication & Authorization services for users across geographies. Architected and implemented X.509 certificate based two factor authentication solution for users based upon their domicile. He also provided advisory services on network segmentation practices & data security solutions for hybrid deployments. Steered initiatives for evaluating security solutions (Privileged Access Management, Security Incident and Event Management, Identity and Access Governance followed by design, architecture, implementation and operationalization of the short-listed solutions. Currently Jaymin as CTO, has full stack ownership development for MyVayda Digitally Integrated Identity as a Service- Security threat and Risk Management solution.

20+ years of technology experience commencing in the Oil and Gas Industry as a SCADA service engineer, before moving in Healthcare and LifeSciences to Telecommunications and Technology Services. Over the last 11 years he has worked as a Security and Cloud Leader at Ernst and Young before transitioning to Savvis a Global Cloud, Colo and Managed Services company as Managing Director during an acquisition by a larger Global Corp. Post this acquisition he took on a Global Security Leadership before moving to Ericsson and a Global Managing Director leading Systems Integration, Cloud and Security. More recently Jon was the Americas Head of Technology for a $16+ Billion Fortune 200 leading teams and technology delivery spanning IAM, Cloud, Data Privacy and Protection, Security Operations and Threat Management. Jon has a passion for Digital Forensics and created Cloud FraaS 10 years ago as a proof of concept for forensics within cloud services.

After completing his MSc in Artificial Intelligence, researching data and text mining in Business Intelligence, Thomas began his career at IBM. Initially working with the IBM Cognos BI tools and later joining the IBM OpenPages professional services team, where he provided GRC consulting and technical leadership in delivering various GRC programmes for clients, including major banks, insurance companies and utility organisations. Thomas then joined RSA as Senior GRC Consultant for the RSA Archer GRC Platform, continuing to serve big size companies in various sectors across EMEA. In 2015 Thomas co-founded the Bowmen Group, who have gone onto successfully implement some of the largest, most complex and notable unified risk and compliance projects. Whilst still performing a Solution Architect and SME role, Thomas continues to build up and expand the Bowmen Group’s AI capabilities.

Thomas started his career as a sales representative in Investment Banking. Soon the focus shifted towards Risk Management, process optimisation and tooling migration. With the implementation of a new GRC tool within Rabobank, he set up the global reporting environment. Shortly after the scope got expanded to the ownership of the overall platform globally used within the bank and servicing over 8000 users.