David Weis is the Location Intelligence product manager for MasterCard Advisors who partners with financial institutions and merchants to help solve business problems using location as a primary ingredient. Having spent over 15 years working with big data, David understand the power and complexities of location based services. Before joining MasterCard, David spent 10 years helping to build online interactive experiences. He is also an avid motorcycle enthusiast, professional photographer and baseball player.

@esterdenicolas

Ester de Nicolas is the Technical Sales Director for Intelligent Cloud solutions in Microsoft Spain, where she leads a team of high-performing technical sellers who provide customers with insights and solutions to meet their Digital Transformation needs.

@rgricinella

Raffaele is an expert in Customer Value Management, Strategic Marketing and Big Data for Private and Public Sector after years of experience in leadership roles in the CRM, CVM and Marketing areas of global Telcos.

Juanjo works with a team of over 30 Data Scientists and Engineers at Sanitas applying big data, machine learning & artificial intelligence to enable customers to live longer, healthier and happier lives. Juanjo is also a Founder, Professor & Academic Director of the Master in Business Analytics & Big Data at IE Business School.

@paulajulia13

After 10 years working in the Location Intelligence sector, Paula is COO at Geographica, playing a key part in engaging enterprise clients with spatial data-based solutions that answer their most relevant business questions.

@maptionnaire

Maarit is a planning geographer by origin. As part of her Ph.D. studies she was involved with the research team who developed the web mapping survey tool, SoftGIS, to aid public participation. Later on, the tool evolved to Maptionnaire which is now one of the leading platforms in PPGIS.

Avichai Bakst is part of one of Google’s most recent acquisitions, Waze, the world’s largest community-based traffic and navigation app with over 100MM active users. He's a veteran in the digital eco system with over 10 years of experience across multiple companies. Avichai joined Waze over 5 years ago, as Director of BizDev and launched their Location Based Advertising Platform all across EU ever since. Earlier this year he joined the Partnerships Team, and is now heading their strategic partnerships across all of EMEA.

@andrewxhill

Andrew is the CEO and co-founder at Textile.io, where he is working on personal data technologies that enhance privacy and decentralization.

Rodrigo has a BA in Economics and an MS in Data Science, both from Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM). Rodrigo is on a permanent quest to design Artificial Intelligence algorithms that can help decision makers leverage the possibilities that geographic data can bring.

Carlos holds a Marketing and Sales Managment degree from ESIC and has been working at Securitas Direct for 20 years, managing different contact center and sales management projects for the Marketing and Sales departments across the globe. 4 years ago, he joined the Spanish Sales Support Team to digitalize and automate work processes for a salesforce of more than 2.5k employees.

Oliver is a Business Analyst and Engineer at Endesa, one of Europe's largest energy companies, where he has been working for over a decade. His role focuses on improving customer care and implementing solutions based on data analysis across the Spanish territory.

@charlievayas

Javier is CARTO's Head of Data, running the company strategy with respect to our third party data offering and data science activities. Javier's responsibilities at CARTO go from establishing and coordinating new alliances with top-class data providers such as Vodafone and Mastercard to contributing to the definition of CARTO's data products and data science projects.

@danc00ks0n

Dan Cookson is an independent consultant to leading public sector organizations, providing location-driven advice on the Real Estate market. As well as advising Homes for Scotland, Dan is an influencer in the data visualization and geospatial analysis world across the UK.

Christian currently works in Business Development for Mobility Innovative Technologies at Siemens out of their Munich office. With over a decade of experience at the company, focusing on mobility, Smart Cities and Wireless Communications - Christian is an expert in applying Location Intelligence in his space.

@ldebatte

Louis Debatte is Strategic Product Marketing Manager at TomTom Maps. He started his career in banking technology before moving to South Africa and joining TomTom. After a few years mapping the African continent, Louis is now based at TomTom’s headquarters in Amsterdam where he scouts the markets for new trends, harasses developers for innovative products and defines strategies around mobility, traffic management and smarter cities.

Gonzalo likes to make things grow. As a digital media entrepreneur he has worked on most sides of the value chain. From digital music at Sony Music to music apps at Microsoft, and networks at Telefonica. Gonzalo has been at Fastly since 2015 where he is GM for EMEA. He is passionate about content production, distribution and technology.

@rochoa

Raul is Head of Technology at CARTO, he takes care of leading and aligning everything technology-wise at CARTO. He joined the company in 2014 to develop and improve the tools, services, and APIs running it. He's a software engineer, with a background in computer science and several years of experience creating applications.

@mamataakella

Mamata Akella is Head of Cartography at CARTO. She has been a professional web cartographer since 2008 and has a passion for pushing the limits of cartographic design with current web technologies to build beautiful, well thought out maps.

Jeff Kaplan is the Director of Global Customer Success at CARTO. Jeff and the CS Team of experts work with our enterprise customers to ensure that together their location data and CARTO's technologies help them answer questions that have business impact.

@arianaescobar

Ariana is a venezuelan audiovisual communicator and awarded designer based in Madrid, with years of experience in the Web, Product, and Game Design industries. At CARTO, she juggles between working on product design and web/graphic design for all our marketing projects.

@iamwfx

Wenfei has a background in urban planning, economics, and design and is very excited to be combining those skills at CARTO. Previously, Wenfei worked the Civic Data Design Lab and Senseable Cities Lab at MIT.

@MrEPhysics

Andy is a mathematical physicist by training who has been fascinated by maps since he was a boy. When not solving math problems or coding, you can find Andy drinking coffee, bike camping, or hiking.

Micael has a background in Economics and Digital Business Management. During almost 3 years at CARTO he has seen the company and product evolve and has worked with clients from different verticals to help them attain their desired business outcomes.

Tyler Bird is the Community Team Lead at CARTO. In this capacity he engages with non-profits, multilateral development institutions, the public sector, data science communities, and academia through Location Intelligence projects.

@piensaenpixel

@hannah_blue

Prior to joining CARTO she was the Director of Data Discovery at Keyrus. She comes from a background of data analysis and integration, then as a consultant and across a range of industries.

@j_murillo_arias

Juan Murillo is in charge of Analytics Dissemination and Data for Social Good at BBVA Data & Analytics, a new Technology company created to extract the value enclosed on financial data. In this innovative framework he and his colleagues are currently exploring the possibilities of data reuse to create new informational services and provide macroeconomic insights built upon microtransacional data. As an output of this research process around smart cities analysis, he has been co-author of several scientifc papers in cooperation with MIT Senseable City Lab and other institutions.

@jorgesancha

Jorge started building Digital Products back when Netscape was still the hottest browser. With a background in Software Engineering, he pretty soon found himself managing teams of developers and designers.

@JuandeRomero

Juande received a B.S. degree in Computer Engineering and Mathematics from Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. In addition, he attended the Master in Data Science and Big Data in Finance at AFI Escuela de Negocios. At BBVA Data & Analytics, he has been using geo data for multiple purposes: from event impact measurement to touristic analysis. He is currently working on the incorporation of AI to the BBVA app.

@pwramsey

Paul has been working with geospatial software for over 15 years: consulting to government and industry; building a geospatial software company; and programming on open source software. He co-founded the PostGIS spatial database project in 2001, and is currently an active developer and member of the project steering committee.

Ksenia works for Mapping Lab at Greenpeace Russia as a GIS specialist. She processes and analyzes spatial geographical data which helps solving various environmental problems.

@JimenaMramos

Jimena is a Geodesy and Cartography Engineer who has worked for different companies and organisations in technical and management roles. She started her PhD in 2011, which took her to The Netherlands and later to Canada, where she researched about Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI), geodata integration, and geosemantics. Before she joined CARTO in 2017 as a Solutions Engineer, Jimena co-founded an Engineering firm and a tech NGO, to help spread the use of FOSS4G and maps in cultural and humanitarian projects. She is interested in climate change issues and social justice activities.

Luis is General Coordinator for the City of Madrid - looking after external promotion of the city, international partnerships, European funding and is also chief of Staff for Manuela Carmena, the mayor of Madrid.

@jatorre

Javier founded CARTO with a vision to democratize data visualization. Under his leadership, CARTO has grown from a groundbreaking idea into one of the fastest growing geospatial companies in the world