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Ilona Logvinova is the Head of Innovation for McKinsey Legal, working across the legal department to identify, lead and implement cross-cutting and impactful innovation initiatives, covering legal technologies and reimagination of the profession initiatives. At McKinsey Ilona is also Managing Counsel for McKinsey Digital, working closely with emerging technologies across use cases and industries. Prior to joining McKinsey, Ilona was Senior Counsel at Mastercard, where she worked on ground-up technology builds and tech transactions to leverage the company’s core assets and explore broader partnership opportunities. Prior to Mastercard, Ilona was an Associate at Fried Frank, where she specialized in leveraged finance representing borrowers and lenders in secured and unsecured financings. Ilona has a BA from Columbia University with a joint major in Economics and Philosophy and her JD from the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law. In her spare time, Ilona enjoys salsa dancing, and exploring her longtime hometown of New York City and its culture; indulging theatre, independent film, the culinary landscape, and the arts – especially alongside her 8-year old daughter.

Nayur is a partner within McKinsey and part of the QuantumBlack, AI by McKinsey leadership team.

He predominantly focuses on helping organizations build capabilities to industrialize and scale artificial intelligence (AI), including the newer Generative AI. He helps companies navigate innovations, technologies, processes, and digital skills as needed to run at scale. He is a keynote speaker and recognized in the DataIQ 100 - a list of the top 100 influential people in data.

Nayur also leads the firm’s diversity and inclusion efforts within QuantumBlack to promote a more equitable environment for all. He speaks with organizations on the importance of diversity and diverse team building—especially when working with data and building AI.

Am Mohamed, a tech enthusiast, hacker, avid traveler, and foodie all rolled into one individual. Built his first website when he was 9 and fell in love with computers and the internet ever since. Graduated with computer science from university although dabbled in electrical, electronic, and network engineering before that. When he's not reading up on the latest tech conversations and products on Hacker News, Mohamed spends his time traveling to new destinations and exploring their cuisine and culture.

Mohamed works with different companies helping them tackle challenges in developing, deploying, and scaling their analytics to reach its potential. Some topics he's enthusiastic about include MLOps, DataOps, GenerativeAI, Product thinking, and building cross-functional teams to deliver user-first products.

At the moment Demetrios is immersing himself in Machine Learning by interviewing experts from around the world in the weekly MLOps.community meetups. Demetrios is constantly learning and engaging in new activities to get uncomfortable and learn from his mistakes. He tries to bring creativity into every aspect of his life, whether that be analyzing the best paths forward, overcoming obstacles, or building lego houses with his daughter.