Paco Nathan, Managing Partner at Derwen, Inc., and author of Latent Space, along with other books, plus popular videos and tutorials about machine learning, natural language, graph technologies, and related topics. Known as a "player/coach", with +40 years tech industry experience, ranging from Bell Labs to early-stage start-ups. Werner Herzog is his spirit animal.

Board member for Argilla.io; Advisor for KUNGFU.AI, DataSpartan; Lead committer on PyTextRank, kglab. Formerly: Director, Community Evangelism for Apache Spark at Databricks.

Long, long ago, when the world was much younger, Paco led a media collective / indie bookstore / performance art space / large online community called FringeWare. Beginning in 1992, this was one of the first online bookstores and likely the first commercial use of a chat bot on the Internet.