SPEAKER PROFILE

Christopher Royles is a systems engineer at Cloudera, where he builds out large-scale data lakes on Amazon and Azure and assists customers from their initial MVP to full-scale production. Chris has advised on UK government open data initiatives as part of the Open Data User Group (ODUG) and sat on the quick wins stream of the UK Government Cloud Program (GCloud). He holds a PhD in artificial intelligence from Liverpool University, which he subsequently applied to voice recognition and voice dialogue systems.