Ana Schmitz-Fuentes is Portfolio Director, IT, Data & AI and Smart Mobility Events at we.CONECT Global Leaders GmbH and responsible for the production of more than 25 major annual events. She has more than 10 years of professional experience in event production. Before joining we.CONECT, she worked at IQPC and manetch, among others.

The Pop in Your Job
As Program Director, I am responsible for the content of the agenda and the selection of speakers at the event. I love learning first-hand about innovative programs, industry challenges and meeting experts in person. When I'm not researching for my next big event, I'm visiting bookstores, buying books and planning my next trip to Latin America.

Matthew Walter is an assistant professor and director of the Robot Intelligence through Perception Laboratory (RIPL) at the Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago (TTI-Chicago), a philanthropically endowed academic computer science institute located on the University of Chicago campus. He also holds a part-time faculty appointment in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Chicago. Prior to joining TTI-Chicago, Matthew was a research scientist in the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where he was fortunate to work with Seth Teller. He received his PhD from the Joint Program between MIT and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, under the supervision of John Leonard.