Katharine Jarmul

Katharine Jarmul is a privacy activist and data scientist whose work and research focuses on privacy and security in data science workflows and author of the upcoming O'Reilly publication Practical Data Privacy. She works as a Principal Data Scientist at Thoughtworks and has held numerous leadership and independent contributor roles at large companies and startups in the US and Germany -- implementing data processing and machine learning systems with privacy and security built in and developing forward-looking, privacy-first data strategy. She is a passionate and internationally recognized data scientist, programmer, and lecturer.