Dr. Tiranee Achalakul is currently the president & CEO of Big Data Institute (BDI), the data intelligence service provider under the Ministry of Digital Economy and society of Thailand. She has worked in the fields of big data analytics, artificial intelligence, high performance computing, cloud and software engineering since 2000. She has extended experiences working in the IT industry and academia in both the United States and Thailand. During the past 24 years, Dr. Achalakul has been both an educator and a consultant. She serves on advisory boards for multiple government agencies as well as teaches university students and government employees. She is also the co-founder of the Big Data Experience Center, the KMUTT student incubator (Hatch), and a few technological startups.