Wais Bashir

Wais Bashir plans and holds seminars and workshops on open source due diligence and asset tracing to private companies and organisations. With over ten years experience in the news industry, he also delivers seminars to award-winning students and young media professionals from across Europe in locations around Europe, in open source news verification and investigation methodologies. He has a passion for data-journalism and all things tech.

Gavin Mendel-Gleason

Gavin Mendel-Gleason is a doctor of computer science, specialising in type theory and formal methods. He has worked in industry in big-data modelling, search and query optimisation and in both supervised and unsupervised machine learning techniques. His passion is creating a synthesis of logical techniques for knowledge representation and reasoning with modern machine learning techniques to create the database of the future. Gavin is currently the Chief Technology Officer at DataChemist.

‘DataChemist has a simple goal: to make data meaningful. DataChemist transforms the messy, inconsistent data sets of the real world into clean, structured and integrated data. Our customers improve decision-making and reduce costs as a result. DataChemist spun out of Trinity College Dublin in 2018 to bring a new way of thinking about data to the market, and help leading organisations find the relationships and insights in their existing data that have until now remained hidden. Headquartered in Dublin, Ireland, DataChemist builds Enterprise Knowledge Graphs for some of Europe’s largest financial and commercial intelligence organisations.

Phil Stacey

Phil Stacey works for Barratt homes implementing document management in southern counties division. With over 25 years in the construction industry working in design and information management he is passionate in realising the business benefit structured data and BIM can deliver through its implementation at scale, across the housing sector.