Speakers
Joshua Powers, Technical Director for AI/ML, Dev Technology Group
Joshua Powers is the Technical Director for AI/ML at Dev Technology Group. Josh has 30 years of experience in researching and applying artificial intelligence technologies to a wide variety of business and public sector challenges. Prior to Dev Tech, he was VP of Data Analytics at WorldAware where he developed a large-scale open source intelligence exploitation platform to automatically address geospatially and topically diverse intelligence requirements. Prior to that, he was the CTO of LemonFish Technologies, a startup focused on data breach detection. There, he designed and led the development of their flagship platform, the LemonFish Trawler, creating innovative techniques for query by example, federated search and semantic analysis of illicit Dark Web marketplaces. Josh has been a principal investigator for AFRL, DARPA and IARPA projects. He has been awarded patents in semantic search, document clustering and concept learning.