Fatos Ismali
Senior Data & AI Solutions Architect at Microsoft UK

Fatos works as a Senior Data & AI Solutions Architect at Microsoft, UK. He is passionate about using state-of-the-art techniques and technologies to deliver solutions to business and societal problems using ML and AI. Fatos leads the Conversational AI and Cognitive Services task force within Microsoft, UK, and focuses on helping large enterprises adopt AI and ML at scale. He advises C-level executives, Heads of Analytics, Data Science, ML Leads, Chief Data Officers, and Data and AI Architects and Developers on achieving AI maturity, constructing cross-functional Data Science teams, and building AI capability in Microsoft’s Azure Cloud. He works with some of the largest organizations in the world within the Financial Services, Insurance, Public Sector, Media and Telecommunications, and Manufacturing industries, to name a few.

In March 2020, Fatos won Microsoft’s Champions Award for his impactful work at the NHS by building the data analytics platform for the NHSX COVID-19 Test and Trace program, crucial in providing an analytics view on the spread and development of COVID-19 across the UK. Fatos has a particular passion for Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Machine Learning Operationalization (MLOps). His work on MLOps at a major manufacturing organization in the UK contributed to the customer winning the DevOps Industry Award in 2021 for their end-to-end MLOps architecture.

Outside of Microsoft, Fatos runs the Data Science Initiative meetup community in London, with over 3,600 Data Scientists, facilitating an environment for Data Scientists to gather, collaborate and share knowledge through talks, workshops, and hackathons. He is an international speaker and often presents on topics such as MLOps, NLP, Cognitive AI, and ML. Fatos holds a BSc in Computer Science and a Master’s degree in Data Warehouses and Business Intelligence.