HAMLET JESSE MEDINA RUIZ holds the position of Chief Data Scientist at Criteo. He specializes in time series forecasting, machine learning, deep learning, and Generative AI. He actively explores the potential of cutting-edge AI technologies, such as Generative AI across diverse applications. He holds an electronic engineering degree from Universidad Rafael Belloso Chacin in Venezuela, as well as two master's degrees with honors in mathematics and machine learning from the Institut Polytechnique de Paris and Université Paris-Saclay. Additionally, he earned a PhD in physics from Université Paris-Saclay. Hamlet has consistently achieved first place and top ten rankings in global machine learning contests, earning the titles of Kaggle Expert and Numerai Expert for these challenges. Recently, he also earned a MicroMaster's in finance from MIT's Sloan School of Management.

ERNEST CHAN (ERNIE) is the Founder and Chief Scientific Officer of PredictNow.ai (www.predictnow.ai), which offers AI-driven adaptive optimization solutions to the finance industry and beyond. He is also the Founder and Non-executive Chairperson of QTS Capital Management (www.qtscm.com), a quantitative CTA/CPO since 2011. He started his career as a machine learning researcher at IBM's T.J. Watson Research Center's language modeling group, which produced some of the best-known quant fund managers. Ernie is the acclaimed author of three previous books, Quantitative Trading (2nd Edition), Algorithmic Trading, and Machine Trading, all published by Wiley. More about these books and Ernie's workshops on topics in quantitative investing and machine learning can be found at www.epchan.com. He obtained his PhD in physics from Cornell University and his BS in physics from the University of Toronto.