Hilary Mason is general manager, Machine Learning, at Cloudera. She was the founder and CEO of Fast Forward Labs, an applied machine learning research company that Cloudera acquired in 2017. She also serves as data scientist in residence at Accel Partners and is on the board of the Anita Borg Institute. Previously, Hilary co-founded HackNY.org, a nonprofit that helps engineering students find opportunities in New York’s creative technical economy; served on Mayor Bloomberg’s Technology Advisory Council; and was the chief scientist at Bitly.