ODSC East 2019 Speakers

Engineering a Performant Machine Learning Pipeline: From Dask to Kubeflow

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Dr. Rahul Dave

- Chief Scientist | univ.ai, lxprior.com and Harvard University

Scaling AI Applications with Ray

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Richard Liaw

- AI Researcher | RISELab at UC Berkeley

Let’s Embed Everything!

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Mayank Kejriwal, PhD

- Research Scientist/ Research Assistant Professor | University of Southern California Information Sciences Institute

How Should We (Correctly) Compare Graphs?

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Sam Safavi, PhD

- Postdoctoral Research Scientist | Boston College

Introduction to Natural Language Processing in Healthcare

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Andrew Long, PhD

- Data Scientist | Fresenius Medical Care

Build Vs Buy Decision For Enterprise Search

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Abhishek Singh

- Staff Software Engineer-Search | LinkedIn

Predicting Alzheimer’s: Generating Neural Networks to Detect the Neurodegenerative Disease

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Ayin Vala

- Co-founder and Chief Data Scientist | Foundation for Precision Medicine

Machine Learning and Synthetic Aperture Radar: Integration of Advanced Space and AI Technologies

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Richard M. Rocket

- Chief Visionary Officer | Orrery.ai

HOW LINKEDIN NAVIGATES STREAMS INFRASTRUCTURE USING CRUISE CONTROL

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Zorn Hsu

- Sr. Site Reliability Engineer | Linkedin

Why effective and Ethical AI needs human-centered design

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James Guszcza

- US Chief Data Scientist, Deloitte Consulting

Visibility and Insights into AI systems

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Paul Taylor

- IBM Fellow | IBM

Building a Secure and Transparent ML Pipeline Using Open Source Technologies

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Animesh Singh

- STSM - AI and Deep Learning Platform | IBM

Enough data engineering for a Data Scientist – “How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Data Scientists”

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Stephen O'Sullivan

- Founder| Data Whisperers

Intro to Technical Financial Evaluation with R

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Ted Kwartler

- Data Scientist | Liberty Mutual

Training Session: Programming with Data: Python and Pandas

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Daniel Gerlanc

- President | Enplus Advisors Inc.

The Past, Present, and Future of Automated Machine Learning

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Randy Olson, PhD

- Lead Data Scientist | Life Epigenetics

Multivariate Time Series Forecasting Using Statistical and Machine Learning Models

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Jeffrey Yau, PhD

- Quantitative Modeling Expert, Chief Data Scientist | Alliance Bernstein

Coming Soon

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Andrej Karpathy, PhD

- Director of AI | Tesla

Accelerate AI Keynote, Benjamin Levy

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Benjamin Levy

- Co-Founder & Managing Partner | BootstrapLabs

Accelerate AI Keynote, Ron Bodkin

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Ron Bodkin

- Technical Director, Applied Artificial Intelligence | Google

Training Session: Apache Spark with Python for Data Science and Machine Learning at Scale Part II

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Adam Breindel

- Data Science Instructor and Consultant

Deep Learning for Developers

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Julien Simon

- Principal Evangelist AI/ML Evangelist | Amazon

Latest Developments in GANs

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Seth Weidman

- Senior Data Scientist | Metis

Coming Soon

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Virginia Eubanks

- Author, Economic Justice Organizer, and Professor | SUNY

Image Recognition Primer: ImageNet AlexNet to Mask R-CNN, R-CNN and Fast R-CNN

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Bhairav Mehta

- Data Science Manager | Apple Inc

Open Source Random Variables: Building a Prediction Web (Co-presenter)

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Rusty Conover

- JP Morgan - Roar Data | Executive Director/CTO

Open Source Random Variables: Building a Prediction Web

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Peter Cotton

- JP Morgan - Roar Data | Executive Director - Data Science group

Knowledge Graphs: A lingua franca for humans and machines?

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Mayank Kejriwal, Ph.D.

- Research Scientist and lecturer | University of Southern California's Information Sciences Institute (ISI)

ML Operationalization: From What? & Why? to How? & Who?

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Sivan Metzger

- CEO | ParallelM

Driving Customer Success with AI (Co-presenter)

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Robin Glinton

- Vice President of Data Science Applications | Salesforce

AI – Disruption for the Marketing World (Co-presenter)

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Luc Dumont

- SVP Corporate & Business Development

Redefining Robots: Demystify Next Generation AI-Enabled Robotics

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Bastiane Huang

- Product at Osaro

Topic Modeling Practices And Its Value For Businesses

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Yunus Genes, PhD

- Data Scientist | Royal Caribbean Cruise Line

Introduction to Clinical Natural Language Processing: Predicting Hospital Readmission with Discharge Summaries

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Andrew Long, PhD

- Data Scientist | Fresenius Medical Care

Raise your own Pandas Cub

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Ted Petrou

- Founder | Dunder Data

Model Evaluation in the land of deep learning

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Pramit Choudhary

- Lead DataScientist | H2O.ai

Applying Deep Learning to Article Embedding for Fake News Evaluation

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Michael Tamir, PhD

- Head of Data Science | Uber Advanced Technologies

Improving Customer Support through Deep Learning and NLU

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Sami Ghoche

- Co-Founder | Forethought AI

How LinkedIn navigates Streams Infrastructure using Cruise Control

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Adem Efe Gencer

- Software Engineer | LinkedIn

Mastering A/B Testing: From Design to Analysis

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Yav Bojinov

- Software Engineer | LinkedIn

Mastering A/B Testing: From Design to Analysis (Co-presenter)

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Guillaume Saint-Jacques

- Senior Software Engineer | LinkedIn

Practical Data Science

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Michael Galvin

- Executive Director, Data Science | Metis

Data Science and Open-Source Education for the Enterprise

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Zachary Sean Brown

- Lead Data Scientist | S&P Global Market Intelligence

Startup Talk; DeepEyes

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Owen McKee

- GM Americas | DeepEyes

Startup Talk; MindsDB

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Jorge Torres

- Co-Founder & CTO | MindsDB

Startup Talk; Fritz

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Dan Abdinoor

- Co-founder & CTO | Fritz

Startup Talk; Hydrosphere

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Stepan Pushkarev

- Hydrosphere

Startup Talk; Datatron

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Harish Doddi

- Co-founder & CEO | Datatron

Startup Talk; Ople, Inc.

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Julian Tandler

- Head of Sales and Business Development | Ople Inc.

Panel; Artificial Intelligence; Future Impact on Business & Society

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Shane Luke

- Sr. Director, AI & Machine Learning | Nike

Panel; Artificial Intelligence; Future Impact on Business & Society

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Upal Basu

- General Partner | NGP Capital

AI – Disruption for the Marketing World

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Leonard Newnham

- Chief Data Scientist | LoopMe

Greatest hurdles in AI proliferation in Education

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Varun Arora

- Product Manager (Senior AI Product Leader) | Baidu USA

Word Play: Understanding the Mechanics and Business Value of Speech Technologies

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Omar Tawakol

- CEO & Founder | Voicera

Law & Disorder: Mathematical Models in a Messy World

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Benjamin Pedrick

- CTO | Judicata

Dynamic Pricing for Parking

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Maokai Lin

- Co-Founder & CEO | Smarking Inc

Business Workshop; Leveraging AI for product and company growth

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Jeremy Karnowski

- Director of Product, AI | Insight Datascience

How to Democratize Artificial Intelligence in Your Business

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Olivier Blais

- Head of Data Science | Moov Labs

AI Gold Rush: Conundrum for Startups

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Divya Jain

- Eng Director | Adobe

Driving Customer Success with AI

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Hernán Asorey

- Chief Data Officer | Salesforce

Bringing Your Deep Learning Algorithms to Life: From Experiments to Production Use (Co-presenter)

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Drew Roselli

- Software Engineer | ParallelM

Bringing Your Deep Learning Algorithms to Life: From Experiments to Production Use (Co-presenter)

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Sindhu Ghanta

- Research Scientist | ParallelM

Bringing Your Deep Learning Algorithms to Life: From Experiments to Production Use

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Nisha Talagala

- CTO/VP of Engineering | ParallelM

MacroBase: Prioritizing Human Attention in Big Data

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Firas Abuzaid

- Ph.D. Researcher | Stanford University

The AI Engineer: A Foot in Two World

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Guy Royse

- Developer Evangelist | DataRobot

Deep Learning on Mobile

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Anirudh Koul

- Head of AI & Research | Aira

How to use Satellite Imagery to be a Machine Learning Mantis Shrimp

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Sean Patrick Gorman, PhD

- Head of Technical Product Management | DigitalGlobe

Using Data Science for Good

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David Smith

- Cloud Developer Advocate | Microsoft

Making Data Science: AIG, Amazon, Albertsons

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Haftan Eckholdt, PhD

- Chief Data Science Officer | Plated

The Big Reveal: How visualization can unearth the secrets of data

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Ying He

- Computational Designer | TCG (The Creative Group)

Are you sure you’re an ethical data scientist? Build your ethical imagination

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Laura Noren

- Director of Research | Professor| Obsidian Security | NYU Stern School of Business

From the Presidential Campaign Trail to the Enterprise: Building Effective Data-Driven Teams

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Katie Malone

- Director of Data Science R&D | Civis Analytics

Building an image search service from scratch

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Matthew Rubashkin, PhD

- AI Program Director | Insight Data Science

Visual Search: The Next Frontier of Search

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George Williams

- Director of Data Science | GSI Technology, Inc.

Cloud Native Data Science with Dask

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Tom Augspurger

- Data Scientist | Anaconda, Inc.

Data visualization in the web setting with a focus on D3

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David Koop, PhD

- Assistant Professor | University of Massachusetts Dartmouth

Scaling Interactive Data Science and AI with Ray

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Richard Liaw

- AI Researcher | RISELab at UC Berkeley

Making Data Great Again

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Julia Lane, PhD

- Professor | New York University

Turning machine learning research into products for industry

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Reza Zadeh, PhD

- Founder & CEO | Matroid & Adjunct Professor at Stanford University

Continuous Experiment Framework at Uber

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Jeremy Gu

- Senior Data Scientist | Uber

Just How Much Data Is Required to Make Autonomous Vehicles Truly Road-Ready?

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Alexandr Wang

- CEO | Scale

Addressing Bias in Face Recognition

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Doug Aley

- CEO | Ever AI

Reality Check: Beyond the Hype. Real Companies Doing Real Business Getting Real Value with AI

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Alyssa Rochwerger

- VP of Product | Figure Eight

Even Data Science Needs Sidekicks

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Neeraj Arora

- Global Head of Decision Science and Data Automation Personal Insurance | AIG

Agile Experimentation – from ideas to deployment

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John Haller

- Chief Data Scientist and VP | CCC Informaiton Services

Role and placement of data science in the organization

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Eric Colson

- Chief Algorithmic Officer | StichFix

AI-Beyond Cats and Dogs

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Rohit Tandon

- Mentor/Chief Transformation Leader | BootUP Ventures

TBA (Innovation Talk 12)

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Hernán Asorey

- Chief Data Officer | Sales Force

Experiment Driven Culture: AI and Machine Learning in E-commerce

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Kamelia Aryafar, PhD

- Chief Algorithms Officer | Overstock

AI as a service and platforms

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Aarthi Srinivasan

- Director Of Product Management/Machine Learning/Block Chain | Target

Best Practices for Deploying Machine Learning in the Enterprise

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Robbie Allen

- CEO | Infinia ML

Deep Learning in Finance : An experiment and A reflection

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Miquel Noguer Alonso

- Adjunct Professor | Columbia University

An Ethical Foundation for the AI-driven Future

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Harry Glasser

- Co-Founder & CEO | Periscope Data

How to Embrace The Opportunities Of The Algorithmic Economy

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Philippe Nieuwbourg

- Analyst, Author | Decido

10 Things I Learned Deploying AI into Human Environments

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Cameron Turner

- Co-founder | The Data Guild

Automating Trend Discovery on Streaming Datasets with Spark 2.3

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Scott Haines

- Principal Software Engineer | Twilio

Creating a Data-Driven Product Culture

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Hillary Green-Lerman

- Curriculum Designer and Data Science Manager | Codeacademy

Experiments in AutoML for the Enterprise

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Hila Lamm

- Chief Strategy Office | Firefly.ai

A practical example of taking Data Science, Machine Learning function from 0 to 10 in your enterprise.

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Madhura Dudhgaonkar

- Senior Director, Data Science and Machine Learning Engineering | Workday

pomegranate: fast and flexible probabilistic modeling in python

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Jacob Schreiber

- Core Developer of scikit-learn

An introduction to Julia for machine learning

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Jane Herriman

- Director of Diversity and Outreach | Julia Computing

Stanned Up: Bayesian Methods Using Stan

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Curt Bergmann

- Senior Data Scientist | Elicit, LLC

Scalable data science and deep learning with R

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Kevin Kuo

- Software Engineer | RStudio

Engineering For Data Science

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Joshua Cook

- Principal Lecturer in Data Science | UCLA

Coming Soon

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Carrie Grimes Bostock, PhD

- Distinguished Engineer | Google

Coming Soon

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Nathaniel Tucker

- Lead Instructor Data Science and Analytics | General Assemby

Coming Soon

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Daphne Koller, PhD

- Co Founder and Co Chairman | Coursera

Coming Soon

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Maya Gupta, PhD

- Glassbox ML R&D Team Lead | Google

Balancing ML accuracy, interpretability and costs when building a model

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Marc Fridson

- Principal Data Scientist | Carnival

Machine Learning for Digital Identity

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Sukhada Palkar

- Software Engineer | Airbnb

Machine Learning for Digital Identity

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Anish Das Sarma, PhD

- Engineering Manager | Airbnb

A framework to develop enterprise scale AI solution

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Gowri Selka

- Executive Technology Leader | Walgreens Boots Alliance

Visual Elements of Data Science

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Olaf Menzer, PhD

- Senior Data Scientist | Pacific Life

Training Session: Apache Spark with Python for Data Science and Machine Learning at Scale Part I

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Adam Breindl

- Data Science Instructor and Consultant

Deep Learning for Natural Language Processing Using Apache Spark and TensorFlow

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Alexis Roos

- Director, Data Science and Machine Learning | Salesforce

The Platform and Process of Agile Data Science

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Sarah Aerni, PhD

- Director of Data Science | Salesforce

State of the Art Natural Language Understanding at Scale

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David Talby, PhD

- CTO | Pacific AI

Coming Soon

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Andrew Blevins

- Data Science Instructor | Metis

Training Session: AI for Executives

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John Boersma, PhD

- Dir. of Education | DataRobot

What Do Neural Embedding Based Translation Algorithms Tell Us About Language Similarity?

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Mike Tamir, PhD

- Chief Data Science Officer at Takt

What Do Neural Embedding Based Translation Algorithms Tell Us About Language Similarity?

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Amit Gupta

- Research Fellow at Skymind Labs

From machine Learning to native GPU code generation all in one language

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Dr. Simon Byrne

- Director of Solutions and Quantitative Software Developer at Julia Computing

From machine Learning to native GPU code generation all in one language

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Ranjan Anantharaman

- Data Scientist at Julia Computing

Concrete NLP Solutions for Organizing, Classifying, and Generating Text Data

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Emmanuel Ameisen

- AI Program Director and Machine Learning Engineer at Insight Data Science

Black Mirror: Training and Deploying a Chatbot to Talk Like You with Deep Learning

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Domenic Puzio

- Senior Data Engineer at Capital One

Black Mirror: Training and Deploying a Chatbot to Talk Like You with Deep Learning

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Jennifer Van

- ML Engineer Engineer, Center for Machine Learning at Capital One

Beyond Word2vec: Recent Developments in Document Embedding

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Andrew Blevins

- Data Science Instructor at Metis

Deep Learning in Production with Deeplearning4j

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Tom Hanlon

- Technical Training Lead at SkyMind

Introduction to Representational Learning

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Nathaniel Tucker

- Lead Instructor Data Science and Analytics, General Assembly

Hyperparameter Tuning in Cloud Machine Learning Engine Using Bayesian Optimization

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Puneith Kaul

- Developer Programs Engineer at Google

Boosting Product Categorization with Machine Learning

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Amadeus Magrabi

- Data Scientist at Commercetools

From machine Learning to native GPU code generation all in one language

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Dr. Viral Shah

- Co-Founder and CEO, Julia Computing. Co-creator, Julia Language. Co-author, Rebooting India.

The Power of Monotonicity to Make ML Make Sense

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Maya Gupta, PhD

- Glassbox ML R&D Team Lead at Google

Deep Learning in R vs. Python Using Keras

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Rajiv Shah, PhD

- Data Scientist at DataRobot and Adjunct Assistant Professor at UIC

Building a Predictive Model in Python

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Cliff Yang

- Data Scientist at DataRobot

Strategies for Practical Active Learning

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Robert Munro, PhD

- VP of Machine Learning at CrowdFlower Inc.

Advice For New And Junior Data Scientists

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Hamel Husain

- Senior Data Scientist at Github

Building a Chatbot for a Large Company: 3 Reasons Why These Projects Fail and 5 Steps How To Fix It

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Artemy Malkov, PhD

- CEO at Data Monsters

Apache Spark: A Hands-on Workshop

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Sujee Maniyam

- Founder and Principal at Elephant Scale

In-Memory Computing Essentials for Data Scientists

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Denis Magda

- Director of Product Management at GridGain Systems and Apache Ignite PMC Chair.

Industry Classification at Scale: Leveraging Web Data, Crowdsourcing and Distributed Computing for Model Generation

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Ido Shlomo

- Data Science Manager at BlueVine

Tutorial on Adversarial Machine Learning with CleverHans

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Nicolas Papernot

- Google PhD Fellow in Security at Penn State University

Data Science, Machine Learning, and AI for Executives Part 1

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John Boersma, PhD

- Director of Education at DataRobot

Data Science, Machine Learning, and AI for Executives Part II

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John Boersma, PhD

- Director of Education at DataRobot

Scalable Data Science and Machine Learning using R4ML

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Alok Singh

- Principal Engineer at the IBM Spark Technology Center

R Tools for Data Science

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Joseph B. Rickert

- Ambassador at RStudio

Machine Learning & Deep Learning on AWS

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Dr. Mia Champion

- Senior Data Scientist at Amazon

Training a Prosocial Chatbot

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Hobson Lane

- Lead Author of Upcoming Book, Natural Language Processing in Action, and President and CTO of Total Good

Recommendation System Architecture and Algorithms

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Bugra Akyildiz

- Senior Machine Learning Engineer at Jet

Driver and Occupants Monitoring AI for Autonomous Vehicles

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Modar Alaoui

- Founder and CEO of Eyeris

Deep Neural Networks with Keras

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Sri Krishnamurthy

- Chief Scientist & President at QuantUniversity.com

Deep Learning From Scratch Using Python

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Seth Weidman

- Senior Data Scientist at Metis

Modern Time-Series with Prophet

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Isaac Laughlin

- Principal Instructor, Data Science at Galvanize Inc

Using Open-Source Tools in Support of Neglected Diseases Drug Discovery

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Paul Kowalczyk, PhD

- Senior Data Scientist at Solvay

US EPA – Digital Transformation through Data Science

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Robin Augustine Thottungal *Pending Agency Approval

- Chief Data Scientist US Environmental Protection Agency

From the Trenches: Managing and building Data Science Teams?

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Kishore Aradhya

- Adobe

Last to the Game: Pharma’s Challenges in Implementing AI and Data Science

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Adam Jenkins

- Data Scientist at Biogen

Data science for the 99%

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Barton Poulson

- Founder at datalab.cc

Why Knowledge Matters in Natural Language Understanding

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Rob Speer

- Chief Scientist at Luminoso