Jim Dowling is the CEO of Logical Clocks AB, an Associate Professor at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, and a Senior Researcher at SICS RISE in Stockholm. His research concentrates on building systems support for machine learning at scale. He is the lead architect of Hops Hadoop, the world's fastest and most scalable Hadoop distribution and only Hadoop platform with support for GPUs as a resource. He is also a regular speaker at Big Data and AI industry conferences.