Chicago Data Night: Royal Hansen (Google)

About this event

Please join us for our monthly Chicago Data Night, cohosted by ChiData and the Data Science Institute , in partnership with TeamWorking by TechNexus . Practitioners, academics, and aficionados within the Chicago area are all invited to be part of a community at the intersection of industry and academia, brought together by a mutual interest in data. Each month, guest speakers will cover a specific data-related topic. Chicago Data Night is generously sponsored by Booth’s Center for Applied AI, Chicago Trading Company , Every, and Relativity.

*Hors d’oeuvres and drinks will be provided. Admission is free, and we strongly encourage an RSVP to attend.*

TechNexus 20 N Wacker Drive , 12th Floor Chicago, IL 60606

AGENDA 5:30pm: Networking Reception 6:00pm: Welcome Remarks 6:05pm: Guest Speaker 6:50pm: Q&A 7:00pm: Networking Reception 7:30pm: Event Concludes

Bio: Royal Hansen is Vice President of Privacy, Safety and Security Engineering at Google , where he leads the central engineering function that builds and scales the foundational technology that keeps billions of people safe online.

Before joining Google, Royal was Executive Vice President of Enterprise IT Risk and Information Security at American Express, where he led the solutions that protected the security and integrity of the company’s technology systems, along with the customer, business, and employee information those systems processed. Prior to American Express, he served as Managing Director, Technology Risk and Global Head of Application Security, Data Risk and Business Continuity Planning at Goldman Sachs. He also held earlier roles at Morgan Stanley and Fidelity Investments, where he managed Enterprise IT Risk, Application Security, and Disaster Recovery.

Royal started his career as a software developer at Sapient, then went on to build a cyber-security practice for the financial services industry at @stake, which Symantec later acquired. He earned a BA in Computer Science from Yale University and was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship in information sciences and Arabic language study, which he completed at the United Arab Emirates University.

From Data Science Institute, The University of Chicago