Hilary Mason is a seasoned practitioner. A former Chief Data Scientist at Bitly and co-founder at Fast Forward Labs, a machine intelligence research company that was acquired by Cloudera in 2017. Hilary was the General Manager of ML at Cloudera. Today, she holds a role as a Data Scientist in Residence at Accel Partners and is a co-founder at Hidden Door. Outside work, Hilary is a blogger, speaker, and author and dedicates her time to talent development as a Board member at the Anita Borg Institute for women in technology and at hackNY.