Dr. Peter Angeline is a Strategic Futurist with The Hershey Company in Hershey PA, focusing on the identification and accelerated adoption of relevant emerging digital technologies. He received his PhD in Computer Science from the Ohio State University in 1993 with a focus on Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning. Before joining Hershey’s, he spent 20 years working as an AI, Machine Learning and Data Science consultant for the public and private sectors. He’s held the titles of Senior Research Scientist, Vice President of Analytics and Technology, and Chief Data Scientist. He is the founding General Chairman of the IEEE Conference on Evolutionary Computation, the author of more than 40 scientific papers and editor of several books and conference proceedings.