Danny Lange

Dr. Danny Lange is Senior Vice President of Artificial Intelligence at Unity Technologies where he leads multiple initiatives in the field of applied Artificial Intelligence. Unity is the creator of a flexible and high-performance end-to-end development platform used to create rich interactive 2D, 3D, VR and AR experiences. Previously, Danny was Head of Machine Learning at Uber, where he led the efforts to roll out a company-wide Machine Learning platform to support all parts of Uber’s business from the Uber App to self-driving cars. Before joining Uber, Danny was General Manager of Amazon Machine Learning where he also rolled out an internal company-wide Machine Learning platform used in all corners of Amazon. He also launched the first public Machine Learning cloud service on Amazon Web Services (AWS). Prior to Amazon, he was Principal Development Manager at Microsoft where he led a product team focused on large-scale Machine Learning for Big Data. Danny spent 8 years on voice-enable virtual assistants, first as CTO of General Magic, Inc., and then as founder of his own company, Vocomo Software. Danny started his career as a Computer Scientist at IBM Research.

Danny holds MS and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from the Technical University of Denmark. He is a member of ACM and IEEE Computer Society and has numerous patents to his credit.