Architecting Data and Machine Learning Platforms : Enable Analytics and AI-Driven Innovation in the Cloud

Marco is leading a Principal Architect and Customer Engineering team at Google Cloud who helps Italian financial and insurance firms to adopt and leverage cloud data technologies to solve business problems. In the past he led the European Data Analytics practice within Google Cloud and has more than 10 years of experience working in complex IT cloud projects for many global firms. Lak works with management and data teams across a range of industries to help them employ data and AI-driven innovation to grow their businesses and increase value. Prior to this, Lak was the Director for Data Analytics and AI Solutions on Google Cloud and a Research Scientist at NOAA. He is a co-author of Data Science on the Google Cloud Platform, BigQuery: The Definitive Guide, and Machine Learning Design Patterns, all published by O'Reilly. Firat is an adjunct professor at the University of Manchester and a Senior Product Manager in Google Cloud. Firat has over 20 years of experience in designing and delivering bespoke information systems for some of the world's largest research, education, telecommunications, finance and retail organizations. Following roles within National Supercomputing Services and National Centre for Text Mining, he has over 30 publications in the areas of Parallel Computing, Big Data, Artificial Intelligence and Computer Communications.