Pieter Buteneers is an industrial and ICT-electronics engineer. He started his career in academia, first as a PhD student and later as a postdoc, where he did research on Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Brain Computer Interfaces and Epilepsy. He won the first prize in the biggest Deep Learning competition of 2015 together with a team machine learners from Ghent University: the National Data Science Bowl hosted on kaggle.com. In the same year he gave a TEDx talk on Brain Computer Interfaces. In 2016, he finished his MBA at Flanders Business School. Currently he works as the CTO of Chatlayer.ai, a platform that lets make chatbots that work for you.