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Ryohei Fujimaki
Ryohei Fujimaki is the founder and CEO of dotData, a Silicon Valley enterprise AI company that automates feature engineering and data science. A machine learning PhD from the University of Tokyo, he became the youngest research fellow in NEC's 119-year history at age 33 before spinning dotData out of NEC to commercialize automated feature discovery. He has raised roughly $75 million to make predictive analytics accessible to a broader range of business users.
John Cutler
John Cutler is a product thinker, writer, and systems overthinker best known for The Beautiful Mess newsletter (59,000+ subscribers) and the viral concept of the 'feature factory.' A college dropout turned touring musician turned video game creator turned product executive, he has written nearly 1,000 pieces on the messy intersection of product, people, and organizational design. He co-authored Amplitude's North Star Playbook, spent years as a product evangelist coaching teams worldwide, and is now Head of Product at Dotwork — a platform for building product operating systems.