David Dickson is vice president of Sage AI and a Sage Technical Fellow, leading artificial intelligence teams across product delivery, research and machine learning operations. As the technical leader of the AI division since its inception, he grew Sage AI from an initial idea to a world-class team of AI practitioners. Prior to being acquired by Sage, he led engineering and data science for Compass, an analytics startup based in San Francisco. He holds a software engineering and psychology degree from the University of Melbourne, graduating with honors.