Khalid Salama is a seasoned data scientist & engineering professional at Hitachi Consulting UK, whose main focus is to help businesses solving their problems via technology. He has been building and delivering data & analytics solutions for more 10 years, using a plethora of Microsoft tools and technologies, including Microsoft SQL Server and Azure data services. As a data scientist, Khalid has a PhD from University of Kent in the applications of Computational Intelligence in Machine Learning, focusing on building predictive models, with more than 25 publications in the top journals and conferences in the field. He has also deployed several operational machine learning solutions for a number of real-world domains.