Ian Swanson is an AI Security Leader at Palo Alto Networks. Prior to his current role, he was CEO and cofounder of Protect AI, which provides security for ML systems and AI applications. Before Protect AI, Swanson was the Amazon Web Services Worldwide Leader for Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning. And before that, he was Vice President of Machine Learning at Oracle. Prior to Oracle, Swanson was CEO and Founder of DataScience.com which was acquired by Oracle May 2018.

Earlier in his career, Swanson was an executive at American Express, Sprint, and CEO of Sometrics. Sometrics launched the industry's first global virtual currency platform in 2008 and was acquired by American Express in 2011. That platform -- for which he earned a patent -- managed more than 3.3 trillion units of virtual currency and served an online audience of 250 million in more than 180 countries.

A sought-after speaker and expert on digital transformation, data science, big data and performance-based analytics, Swanson actively advises Fortune 500 companies and invests in leading start-ups.