Speakers

Ziad is currently a Founder in Residence at VC fund Antler where he is building an AI start-up in the fintech space. Before that, he was Product Lead for Data Science at Channel 4, where he worked on productionsing recommender systems and ad-targeting models for more than 29m users. He was the first product hire for machine learning at Raft, where he oversaw a team of 15 machine learning engineers to deploy NLP and computer vision models for document processing at scale. Ziad also spent time at Zilch as a Researcher in machine learning, where he researched and built Zilch's first machine learning model, for credit risk, into production. Prior to that, he spent over 2 years at ClearScore in various product roles after exiting his start-up, Paperclip.