Silvia Quarteroni holds a M.Sc. in Computer Science from Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (Switzerland) and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of York (UK). She has been passionate about machine learning and its concrete and challenging applications for almost 20 years - and counting. This passion has made her an accomplished Natural Language Processing researcher at several European institutions, a Data Science expert consulting many iconic Swiss organizations, and finally brought her to her latest mission: leading organizations to digital transformation as a Principal Data Scientist with the Swiss Data Science Center.