Signal Scout — Team
Team
Authority map for signal routing. Each person’s verticals, domain authority, and technical expertise determine which signals get routed to them and what kind of talk tracks they’re best positioned to deliver. Click any card to expand.
Kelly Chiang
Senior AI Business Transformation Consultant
Bridges business problems and AI solutions by defining what to build, how to evaluate it, and whether it’s working. Product strategist’s instincts applied to AI engagements — stakeholder discovery, requirements translation, and evaluation frameworks.
Healthcare AdTech Gaming Financial Services

Domain Authority

  • AI quality evaluation + validation
  • Regulated content environments (FDA/MLR)
  • Product strategy + roadmap development
  • Stakeholder discovery + requirements translation
  • Go-to-market + platform adoption
  • Cross-functional program leadership

Technical Expertise

  • Full AI quality loop: prompt engineering, knowledge curation, eval pipeline design
  • LLM-as-a-judge frameworks, red-team / E2E testing
  • Claude, Mistral, GPT — model selection by task complexity, cost, accuracy
  • AI agents + structured prompting
  • Snowflake, Claude CLI, Miro, Figma, Atlassian
🎯 Your Talk Tracks1 assigned
Ryan Klapper
Senior AI Engineer
Builds, breaks, hacks, and automates things with GenAI. Hands-on engineer with deep agentic systems experience across enterprise verticals.
Retail / CPG Financial Services Life Sciences

Domain Authority

  • Financial Services
  • Agentic applications + observability
  • Agentic evaluations

Technical Expertise

  • Python, SQL, TypeScript, Next.js, Node.js, React
  • Agentic IDEs + agentic applications
  • Agentic observability + evaluations
  • Snowflake, Snowflake Cortex
  • OpenAI APIs, Anthropic APIs, Gemini APIs
Luis Carlos Quesada
Senior AI Engineer
Makes AI systems behave. Deep infrastructure and platform engineering background with ML/data science chops and full-stack delivery capability.
Life Sciences Energy & Utilities Developer Platforms

Domain Authority

  • Developer Platforms
  • Infrastructure + distributed systems
  • Cloud & DevOps

Technical Expertise

  • Python (ML & Data Science)
  • GenAI tooling & developer platforms
  • Backend engineering + distributed systems
  • React & modern frontend stacks
  • Docker, Terraform, Kubernetes
🎯 Your Talk Tracks1 assigned
Jordan Coombs
Director of AI
AI practice leader building the methodology, platform, and team that help enterprises move from AI strategy to production systems.
Retail Financial Services Healthcare Technology

Domain Authority

  • Enterprise AI architecture
  • AI go-to-market strategy
  • Practice leadership + methodology

Technical Expertise

  • Snowflake
  • LangGraph, CrewAI
  • GenAI tooling & developer platforms
  • React & modern frontend stacks
🎯 Your Talk Tracks1 assigned
Neven Maric
Senior AI Engineer
Builds AI systems that are actually useful — combining classical ML, data science, and GenAI across personalization, customer intelligence, retrieval, and agentic workflows.
MarTech / AdTech Retail & eCommerce Media & Advertising Telecom

Domain Authority

  • Telecommunications
  • Personalization + customer intelligence
  • Retrieval systems + embeddings

Technical Expertise

  • Python, SQL, machine learning, data science
  • Snowflake, Snowflake Cortex, Vertex AI
  • Agentic AI systems
  • Embedding & retrieval systems, LLM app design
  • Data engineering
🎯 Your Talk Tracks1 assigned
Spencer Stirling
Senior AI Engineer
Mathematician and physicist specializing in building scaled ML/AI systems and data science. Frontier tech perspective across unconventional verticals.
Video Games Advertising Self-Driving Cars Geospatial Quantum Computing

Domain Authority

  • Video Games
  • Advertising technology
  • Emerging / frontier tech

Technical Expertise

  • Python (ML & Data Science)
  • ML model building / R&D
  • Backend scaled systems
  • Databricks
Zainab Makhdum
AI Engineer
Turns chaotic LLM ideas into working applications — building agentic AI and retrieval pipelines, while exploring AI governance platforms and collaborating with lawyers + policy experts on tech policy.
Healthcare Research Insurance Luxury Retail

Domain Authority

  • Luxury Retail
  • AI Governance & Policy
  • RAG & Retrieval Systems

Technical Expertise

  • Python, SQL, ML, Data Science
  • RAG, Vector DBs (Milvus, Faiss)
  • BigQuery, Snowflake (in progress)
  • Agentic Systems, Open APIs
  • watsonx.governance, watsonx.ai
Jacob Scott
Senior AI Engineer
Takes complex problems and designs production-grade, reliable agentic systems. Particularly interested in evaluation, observability, and safety.
Retail/CPG Financial Services Life Sciences

Domain Authority

  • Retail / CPG
  • Agent Evaluation & Observability
  • AI Safety

Technical Expertise

  • Agent Evaluation, Tool Design
  • Agentic Architecture
  • Snowflake, AWS
  • Python, SQL, TypeScript
  • AI Developer Tooling
  • Full-Stack Development & Networking
Ryan Milvenan
Head of Hakkoda AI Labs
AI practice leader engaging in R&D and AI accelerator efforts to disrupt and transform internal operations, especially in data migration.
Retail Financial Services Healthcare Public Sector

Domain Authority

  • AI Accelerators
  • Internal Operations Transformation
  • Data Migration

Technical Expertise

  • Full-Stack JS/TS/Python
  • Cloud Infrastructure
  • AI Orchestration
  • Architectural / Data Design