Dr. Mariana Damova is the CEO of Mozaika (http://www.mozajka.co), a company providing research and solutions in the field of data science, natural interfaces, and human insight that specializes in building semantic information infrastructures in different verticals, such as business information delivery, human resources management, cultural heritage, earth observation, water resources management, and sells data as a service, intelligence as a service and research and development. Her background is in natural language processing, Semantic Web Technologies and AI, with strong academic and industrial record in North America and Europe, as C-level executive. She has taught graduate courses, conducted research at several universities in Europe and North America, lead international interdisciplinary teams with projects on various facets of knowledge management that carried technological risk, such as Virtual Customer Service Representative, Speech to speech machine translation, Search engine based on linguistic principles, Voice enabled emotion recognition, Expert system supporting child protection services also there, and acquired the ability to leverage marketing requirements with knowledge intense technological solutions. At Mozaika she drives the strategy and the projects from management and engineering stand point, and has acquired customers such as the European Space Agency, the European Commission, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia Municipality, Rittal GmbH and partners from a large range of European academic institutions and private sector companies to execute innovative projects with disruptive edge. Dr. Damova holds a PhD from the University of Stuttgart, Germany, and a mini MBA from McGill University, Canada. She currently teaches Semantic Technologies at New Bulgarian University in Sofia, regularly reviews books and articles for ACM ComputingReviews.com and has authored/co-authored more than 50 publications (books and scientific articles) in linguistics and semantic technologies