Barak Krakauer is a data scientist at YouTube and Google. He currently works on problems related to mitigating abuse in comments on YouTube. In his contribution to the forum, he will be talking about “Improving Natural Language Classification at YouTube”.

Ozzie is a research scholar at the Future of Humanity Institute at Oxford University, working on forecasting and decision making technologies. He is also the founder of Guesstimate, a spreadsheet for things that aren't certain. Ozzie will talk to us about “An Outline of the Future of Judgmental Forecasting Services”.

Sarah is Head of Futures at the market research company Ipsos MORI. She will talk to us about their forecasting practices across the public and private sector, including through scenario planning, horizon scanning, and large-scale public consultation projects that position their forecasts in a broader, public discussion about the future. Sarah will also talk about Ipsos Global Trends, a triennial survey across 23 countries which covers a broad range of attitudes, behaviours and beliefs across the world of business, brands and governments.

Rebecca is the Head of Data Science and Engineering at KPMG in the UK. She has a background in clinical neuroscience (PhD, UCL) and now leads a team of data scientists and engineers building data science and AI products for KPMG’s global client-base. Yafeng is a data scientist at KPMG, with a background in statistics and machine learning. They will be talking to us about ‘Time series forecasting in professional services: Multiple approaches and constraints’.

Raghu is Co-Founder and Partner at Navega Strategies in London. His background is in economics (PhD, University of Chicago), and his work focuses on macroeconomic risk. He will be talking to the forum about long-term, macroeconomic forecasting and the challenges associated with risk and uncertainty.