Steven Astorino is Vice President of Development, Data, and AI and Canada Lab Director at IBM. He has been leading and driving the machine learning and data science strategy for IBM's analytics group. Mark Simmonds is a Program Director in IBM Data and AI communications. He writes extensively on machine learning and data science, holding a number of author recognition awards. Dr. Jean-François Puget is the technical executive for all IBM machine learning offerings. He holds a PhD in Machine Learning, has published over 70 scientific papers, and practices machine learning competitions as a Kaggle Grandmaster under the name CPMP.