About Us

Optimized AI Conference (OAI) is a practitioner-first multi-track AI event. Previously called the Southern Data Science Conference, was started in 2015 by Khalifeh Al Jadda, PhD (Director of Data Science @Google), to create a place to share cutting-edge industry research ideas. Mark Moyou, PhD (Sr. Data Scientist @NVIDIA), joined the team in 2021.

Optimized AI Conference Director Dr. Mark Moyou

Mark Moyou,PhD

Sr. Data Scientist/Solution Architect

NVIDIA

Conference Director

Optimized AI Conference Founder Dr. Khalifeh Al Jadda

Khalifeh Al Jadda,PhD

Director of Data Science

Google

Conference Founder

The conference grew steadily over the years as a single-track, no-sales pitch conference, and we have attracted top speakers in the industry:

François Chollet

Chip Huyen

Voltron Data

Oreilly Author

VP of Data Science & OSS | Oreilly Author

Joseph Spisak

Sebastian Raschka, PhD

Lightning AI

Staff Research Engineer

Paige Bailey

Google

Gen AI Developer Relations Lead

OAI is not about being the largest conference, our event has up to 500 attendees. We seek to be the most highly connective conference where you can learn advanced topics with great people who have a vibe for sharing and growth. Our topics and speakers are highly technical, and now we have expanded to 12 different topic areas, including venture capital and startups. We aim to bring you top conference talks and workshops that enable you to ship products and generate revenue with AI.