Eric Soubeiran

Managing Director, Unilever Climate & Nature Fund

Vice President Business Operations Sustainability

Eric started his career in strategy consulting and merger and acquisitions and held several general management positions, including at Danone where he lastly oversaw the sustainability strategy of the company. Eric joined Unilever in 2021 and is now Managing Director Unilever Climate & Nature Fund & Vice President Business Operations Sustainability.

 

In this capacity, he leads the delivery of several of the major Sustainability goals and transformations for Unilever’s value chain, as well as Unilever's Climate & Nature Fund, an impact-led investment platform to accelerate solutions for protecting the health of our planet. The Fund, which was announced in 2020 has a mandate to spend EUR 1 billion, using the power of Unilever’s brands over this decade to make meaningful progress.

 

Eric also serves as non-executive director of The Carbon Trust and The Gold Standard Foundation. 

Lucas Urbano

Head of Regenerative Agriculture

Unilever

In this position, Lucas leads the implementation of Unilever's regenerative agriculture strategy. The program has a pipeline of over 90 projects, mobilising suppliers in 27 different cultures.

These projects are developed in partnerships with brands such as Knorr and Hellman’s, as well suppliers, farmers and external partners. The program's primary objective is to positively impact the agricultural supply chain through sustainable practices. 

His professional objective is to help companies create an innovative, healthy, and sustainable food system. With over 15 years of professional experience in large corporations, he has held procurement, operations, strategy, and sustainability positions, leading projects that built sustainable supply chains for fruit and dairy. He also worked with the decarbonisation of operations and worked on consolidating the companies' climate strategies.

He carries a giant curiosity, which is why, in parallel to his work, he is still studying for his PhD in sustainability strategy implementation.

Donald Thompson

Distinguished Engineer

LinkedIn

Donald is currently a Distinguished Engineer at LinkedIn, primarily overseeing the company's generative AI strategy, architecture, and technology. He has more than 35 years of hands-on experience as a technical architect and CTO, with an extensive background in designing and delivering innovative software and services on a large scale. In 2013, Donald co-founded Maana, which pioneered computational knowledge graphs and visual no-code/low-code authoring environments to address complex AI-based digital transformation challenges in Fortune 50 companies. During his 15 years at Microsoft, Donald started the Knowledge and Reasoning group within Microsoft's Bing division, where he innovated "Satori", an internet-scale knowledge graph constructed automatically from the web crawl. He co-founded a semantic computing incubation funded directly by Bill Gates, portions of which shipped as the SQL Server Semantic Engine. Additionally, he created Microsoft's first internet display ad delivery system and led numerous AI/ML initiatives in Microsoft Research across embedded systems, robotics, wearable computing, and privacy-preserving personal data services.

Igor Susmelj

Co-Founder

Lightly

Igor has more than five years of experience in machine learning. He holds a degree in electrical engineering from ETH Zurich. During his studies, he developed a lot of experience in machine learning and robotics. He had multiple successful publications in deep learning at top conferences such as ICML and ECCV. Before co-founding Lightly, he worked as a software engineer at the Swiss stock exchange for two years.

Tony Chan Carusone

CTO

Alphawave Semi

Tony Chan Carusone was appointed Chief Technology Officer in January 2022.  Tony has been a professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Toronto since 2001.  He has well over 100 publications, including 8 award-winning best papers, focused on integrated circuits for digital communication.  Tony has served as a Distinguished Lecturer for the IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society and on the Technical Program Committees of world’s leading circuits conferences.  He co-authored the classic textbooks “Analog Integrated Circuit Design” and “Microelectronic Circuits” and he is a Fellow of the IEEE.  Tony has also been a consultant to the semiconductor industry for over 20 years, working with both startups and some of the largest technology companies in the world.

Tony holds a B.A.Sc. in Engineering Science and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Toronto.

Vladimir-Ducarmel Joseph

CDI Program Manager

Beth Israel Lahey Health Hospital & Medical Center

Vladimir-Ducarmel Joseph is one of the Clinical Documentation Integrity Program Directors at Beth Israel Lahey Health, where he spearheads a dedicated team of CDI professional experts to optimize clinical documentation best practices. With almost a decade in CDI leadership across diverse healthcare environments, Vladimir-Ducarmel holds a Master of Health Administration from George Washington University and his expertise encompasses physician leadership, team dynamics, CDI provider education, and program management. A fervent advocate for healthcare excellence, Vladimir-Ducarmel is adept at bridging the gap between clinical and administrative roles. He is proficient in various healthcare-oriented analytical and business tools, leveraging them to drive impactful CDI outcomes.