Speakers

Peter Sikachev has been in the game development industry since 2011. He has since worked on such titles as Rise of the Tomb Raider, Deus Ex: Mankind Divided, Red Dead Redemption 2 and others. Peter is currently employed as a senior graphics programmer at CD PROJEKT RED, working on Cyberpunk 2077. Peter is a guest speaker at Talk a Bit 2020 and he is going to talk a bit about “Graphics Technology Evolution During the Current Generation of Consoles”, where we will discuss key game graphics technologies that became industry standard during the current generation of consoles (PlayStation 4, Xbox One).

André is a Software Engineer and has been working on some of Google's User-Facing Privacy products for over a year, being the Technical Lead for both Activity Controls and Google Dashboard. André is a guest speaker at Talk a Bit 2020 and he is going to talk a bit about “The past, present and future of Privacy”. Privacy is an extremely important topic, assuming a crucial role in the design and develop of many products. During this talk, we'll go over the history of Privacy at Google and what its future looks like.

Rob works as Ecosystem Manager for the EU projects Tagitsmart and Next Generation Internet. He wrote "The Internet of Things. A critique of ambient technology and the all-seeing network of RFID" and, together with Christian Nold, he published "Situated Technologies Pamphlets 8: The Internet of People for a Post-Oil World". He is co-founder of BricoLabs and co-editor of "Enabling Things to Talk: Designing IoT solutions with the IoT Architectural Reference Model". He is a DeTao Master IoT. Rob is a guest speaker at Talk a Bit 2020 and he is going to talk a bit about "Building an Internet for Things and Robots and an Internet of Humans for Everyday Life". The Internet of Things is in, its essence, the seamless flow between the multiple area networks ranging from Body Area Network, such as wearables, to Very Wide Area Network, such as the smart city as e-gov services everywhere no longer tied to physical locations.

João Neto is working at Mercedes AMG F1, six-time double Formula 1 champions, and is part of the Performance Engineering department as a Software Engineer. An Integrated Masters' in Informatics Engineering and Computation student between 2012 and 2017, joined Doctoral Program in Informatics Engineering for a year before going to the United Kingdom, where he now resides. João is a guest speaker at Talk a Bit 2020 and he is going to talk a bit about "The Challenges of Software Engineering in F1".

Ana Paiva is Coordinator of GAIPS – Grupo de Investigação em Inteligência Artificial para as Pessoas e a Sociedade do INESC-ID and a professor in the Informatics Engineering Department at IST. She was a part of the committee for AI and robotics at the World Economic Forum (GAC) and was recently elected as fellow of the European Association for Artificial Intelligence. She is a Master in Electrical and Computer Engineering by IST and Doctorate in Artificial Intelligence by the University of Lancaster. For the last 20 years she has been developing her research in the area of Artificial Intelligence, being also involved in other projects, such as combating cyberbullying. She believes artificial intelligence capable of social competences is the future, motivating the development of a better society. Ana is a guest speaker at Talk a Bit 2020 and she is going to talk a bit about "Social Artificial Intelligence".