Som Shahapurkar is principal scientist (analytics) at FICO and works on innovation and go-to-market strategy for data science, machine-learning and Artificial Intelligence (AI) products. Before FICO, Som led SaaS development for Verizon Telematics where he deployed the agile framework. Prior to that, during his 14-year tenure at Intel he deployed data science/Big-Data/AI/machine-learning in the Internet of Things (IOT). He seeded the technology/business assessment on self-driven cars that subsequently led to the $15 Billion acquisition of Mobile-Eye. He founded a startup in machine learning for energy management which won several business-plan competitions including the southwest Clean-Tech Open. Som is a Lean Six Sigma Black belt. He holds a BS and MS in Electrical Engineering and a PhD in Computer Science. His patent on deploying machine-learning production systems is cited by 11 subsequent Google patents. Som likes to teach, bicycle for charitable causes, and travel with his family.

Dr. Williams specializes in the implementation and evaluation of information assurance and data collection techniques to solve emerging problems around transaction security and privacy in the IoT, fintech, and transportation. Dr. Williams has diverse scientific experience with expertise in systems integration, instrumentation, experimental design, and real-time data acquisition with a focus on systematic error mitigation. He has applied his expertise to validate standards compliance in secure messaging protocols between a smart card and host; and to study the integration of commercial cryptography solutions into a government approved authentication infrastructure for mobile platforms.

With a background in mathematics and a Ph.D. in computer science from Carnegie Mellon University Kim has worked at Visa for 15 years and is currently focused on strengthening end user authentication. To that end he is building out Visa’s capabilities in biometrics, machine learning, security, and cryptography inside the Emerging Technology group. Kim has more than 20 patents and patent applications to his name and is constantly trying to think of ways that technology can be used to make paying and being paid easier and more secure. Kim chairs the ISO sub-committee on Security for Financial Services and represents Visa on the EMV Security Working Group that deals with EMV chip card security.