Speakers

Cristina Gurguta

Director of Research & Innovation & Associate Partner
INSUS

Cristina Gurguță is Director of Research & Innovation & Associate Partner @ INSUS (Industrial Sustainable Solutions) and founder of www.thebabydatascientist.com — aka the one who makes AI actually make sense.

With over 15 years of experience in data science, AI, and digital transformation, Cristina has delivered 15+ AI products in real-world production and trained over 1,500 professionals to go from AI-curious to AI-competent.

But her journey into AI didn’t start with models — it started with people.

A former fraud investigator, she learned how to read patterns, ask uncomfortable questions, and trust nothing until the data proves it. Today, she does the same — just at enterprise scale.

She’s the voice behind The Baby Data Scientist, where she translates AI for real people (and busy executives), and the creator of the “Not Another AI Training” program — designed to shape the next generation of AI Delivery Leads, the ones who actually deliver projects, not just talk about them.

On MentorCruise, she’s known as the “AI Queen” — a 5-star mentor with a reputation for turning AI anxiety into ROI.

Her mentees say she has a rare superpower: combining deep technical expertise with real leadership — and a sense of humor that makes even confusion enjoyable.

Because, in her words:

AI isn’t magic. It’s management.

It’s not about models. It’s about decisions.

And the rule she plays by?

“All models are wrong, but some are useful — just like in life.”

That’s exactly what she brings to the stage: not how to build more models — but how to build the ones that actually matter.