Christine Hung’s team is responsible for building data platforms and developing machine-leanring and business analytics capabilities at The New York Times. As the company transforms from a traditional newspaper to a technology and interactive media organization, a cohesive data strategy that ties infrastructure development, analytics and product optimization all together is crucial. Hung is responsible for executing the long-term vision for the group — from building the data foundation to using machine-learning algorithms that enhances customer experience and drives in revenue.

Prior to joining The New York Times, Hung led the iTunes global analytics team at Apple. Her team was responsible for providing strategic insights to senior executives to grow the iTunes business globally. Before Apple, Hung was a senior business analyst at McKinsey & Company with a focus on financial institutions and CPG companies.

Hung was born and raised in Taiwan. She holds a bachelor’s degree in finance from National Taiwan University and a joint MBA/MA degree from Stanford Business School and Stanford Graduate School of Education.

Jeremiah Owyang is the Founder of Crowd Companies, which focuses on how large companies tap the collaborative economy, maker movement, and customer collaboration. Prior, he was a founding partner at Altimeter Group and an industry analyst at Forrester Research covering social computing –the first phase of digital making and sharing.

He focuses on how disruptive technologies—such as social media, mobile, and the internet of things powers the collaborative economy—and impacts the relevance of corporations to customers today and in the future. He is well recognized by both the tech industry and the media for his grounded approach to deriving astute insights through rigorous research.

His site, “Web Strategy” is one of the premier blogs on how corporations connect with their customers using Web technologies. Jeremiah is frequently quoted in top-tier publication and cited in books and press and media. Previously, Jeremiah worked at Hitachi, where he launched the company’s first social program. He was featured in the “Who’s Who” in the Silicon Valley Business Journal, and his Twitter feed was named one of the top feeds by Time.

Ryan Bonifacino oversees ecommerce, digital marketing, advertising technology and the online customer experience as SVP Digital at Alex and Ani, previously having served as VP Digital Strategy, Director and Strategic Advisor to the company beginning in 2010. With over 1,200 employees and 2014 revenues of over $300 million, Alex and Ani is one of the fastest growing mid-sized retailers in North America, operating a multi-channel business model that includes over 40 inline retail stores, thousands of global retail partners and multiple e-commerce and digital properties.

Prior to Alex and Ani, Ryan was a Principal at Hedgeforce, a hedge fund marketing firm that represented over $8 billion in assets under management from alternative investment managers to both private and institutional investors.

Ryan lives in New York City and is an active investor and advisor in early and growth stage technology ventures and alternative investment funds through Mount Cuba Capital.

Ryan is an award recipient of Direct Marketing News’ “40 Under 40” and also is a member of the Executive Advisory Board at the University of Rhode Island’s Harrington School of Communication and Media, the Executive Client Advisory Board at Ebay Enterprise, formerly GSI Commerce, the Adobe Digital Marketing Customer Advisory Board, the EKN Research Consumer Markets Executive Advisory Board and serves as a mentor with New York Fashion Tech Lab, to which Alex and Ani is a Founding Member.

Ryan holds a BSBA with dual majors in Marketing and Management from the University of Delaware’s Alfred Lerner College of Business and Economics.

With more than 18 years of international experience, Jonathan has developed award-winning, ground breaking and effective initiatives for some of the world’s greatest brands. He has worked with some of the world’s biggest and best companies including GEICO, Coca-Cola, Walmart, Taco Bell, Mcdonald’s, Milk, IBM, Harley-Davidson, Mars, Wrigley, Miller Brewing, Coors, Budweiser and many, many more.

Jonathan has modernized the communications discipline for the world’s greatest agencies including DraftFCB, Arnold Worldwide, The Martin Agency and DDB Worldwide and Ogilvy & Mather. Currently, he’s partnered with former NBA star & serial entrepreneur Jamal Mashburn and serves as the President & CEO of MASHBURNSACKETT.

He is also the co-founder and Chairman of the International Association of Internet Professionals and serves on the Board of Directors for WebWise Kids, a non-profit organization specializing in family education and educational outreach for safe Internet usage.

Jonathan has lectured at numerous universities including Northwestern, Harvard Business School and hosted numerous seminars from the 4A’s to the DMA and OMMA, SXSW and Cannes.

Ralph Rivera is the Director of BBC Digital.

Reporting directly to the BBC’s Director-General Tony Hall, Ralph is responsible for the development of the BBC’s interactive services BBC Online and BBC Red Button.

Catering to audiences who want to access and interact with BBC programmes and services through the internet, the Digital division brings technology and design teams together to work in partnership with the BBC’s editorial teams to create products such as BBC News Online and BBC iPlayer.

The BBC’s portfolio of websites reached 19 million licence-fee payers in February this year, making it the most popular UK-owned website on the internet while BBC Red Button continues to make interactive TV services simple and accessible, used by 14 million licence-fee payers a week, many of whom are not online.

The Digital division works in partnership with the wider technology industry to repurpose these services for use on mobiles, gaming consoles and internet-connected TVs; in addition to the website, innovations such as BBC iPlayer can now be accessed on more than 50 different internet-connected devices.

The division also includes the BBC’s world-renowned R&D department, whose collaborative pan-industry work over the past 60 years has delivered innovations that have transformed the broadcast industry – such as colour TV, Ceefax, Nicam Stereo and Freeview HD.

Ralph joined the BBC from Major League Gaming in New York, where he was responsible for product development for the largest professional video game league in the world. Prior to that, he ran AOL’s Games and Latino businesses, oversaw the expansion of AOL’s international web presence and launched the social gaming platform games.com.

Before his time at AOL, Rivera worked for publishing company Pearson Education, Simon & Schuster, Deloitte & Touche, IBM and earned an undergraduate degree from Columbia College and an M.B.A. from New York University.

Haile Owusu is Chief Data Scientist at Mashable where his main responsibility is the development and refinement of the company’s proprietary Velocity technology, which predicts and tracks the viral life-cycle of digital media content.

Prior to joining Mashable Haile led all research efforts for SocialFlow, one of the leading social media optimization platforms for brands and publishers. Haile specializes in statistical learning as applied to predictive analytics and has a background in theoretical physics, including a Ph.D from Rutgers University, a Masters of Science from King’s College, University of London and a B.A. from Yale University.

As Vice President of Experience Innovation for Universal Mind, Joe Johnston has over 14 years of digital experience with extensive knowledge of mobile and cross-platform technologies. His skill set focuses on user experience and the creation of experience prototypes to help clients quickly test concepts and ideate new ideas.

He’s completed a wide variety of projects, performing duties that include Experience Advisor/Consultant, Digital Strategy, Experience Design, and senior level development. As an accomplished author and speaker, he looks at himself as a subject matter expert on Experience Design & Innovation. He also has a lot of his thoughts and writings at https://medium.com/@merhl

Dr. Amen Ra Mashariki is the City’s Chief Analytics Officer and leads the Mayor’s Office of Data Analytics (MODA). Dr. Mashariki is an accomplished leader within government, private sector and academia with experience in bringing Big Data processing and analytics for large and complex data management efforts. He started his professional careers as a software engineer at Motorola working on over-the-air data transmission projects and led a team of user-interface developers to build components of security features for handheld devices. Most recently, Dr. Mashariki served as Chief Technology Officer at the U.S. Office of Personnel Management.

Dr. Mashariki previously worked at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab as a computer scientist and research scientist where he led a team working on data mining and data fusion projects in the bioinformatics domain. Prior to that, he served as Assistant Director of Informatics at the University of Chicago Comprehensive Cancer Research Center and taught computer science courses at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, and robotics at Northwestern University.

Dr. Mashariki holds a Doctor of Engineering from Morgan State University, a Master of Science in Computer Science from Howard University, and a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from Lincoln University. Amen is a Brooklyn native and attended Brooklyn Tech High School.

Mr. Faisal Masud has been Executive Vice President of Global E-Commerce at Staples, Inc since May 20, 2013. In new role, Mr. Masud is responsible for building Staples’ digital channels and leading e-commerce efforts across the company, as Staples invests heavily in digital commerce. He also lead the continued development of Staples platforms and sites, including staples.com and the company’s mobile assets. He has over a decade of digital experience, building end-to-end, global e-commerce solutions that have driven growth and improved the customer experience.

He joined Staples from Groupon, Inc., where he was vice president and general manager, responsible for managing Groupon Goods’ strategy and execution in over 35 countries, and directly managed all functions for his business unit, including merchandising, inventory, marketing, engineering and operations.

Prior to joining Groupon, he was head of global shipping and cross-border trade for eBay-PayPal, where he designed and managed a global shipping platform, which made eBay’s marketplace selection available worldwide, and improved delivery experiences and cost. He also created a cross-border trade logistics solution, while leading large cross-functional teams driving shipping efficiency and increased volume.

Previously, he was general manager, worldwide warehouse deals and global sourcing, with Amazon, where he led the development and implementation of a new retail storefront and managed the overall strategy for Amazon’s trade-in platform traffic generation, customer acquisition and pricing policy.