Event Schedule
Day - 1 (October 16th 8:00AM-7:00PM)
Track 1 Conference Room 251
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM | Registration |
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9:00 AM - 9:40AM | Machine Learning & Suspicious Activity (Gregg Sansone, Director of Financial Crime Analytics, USAA) |
9:40 AM - 10:20AM | Keynote Session: Finding Value in Massive, Growing Health and Wellbeing Data (Andrew Jacobus, VP Data Science, Virgin Pulse) |
10:20AM -10:40AM | Break |
10:40 AM - 11:20AM |
Operationalizing Data Science - How to Leverage Big Data, AI and the Cloud for Business Success (Stephen Smith, Eckerson Group, Head of Data Science) |
11:20 AM - 12:00PM | Boost Model Performance: Advanced Data Preparation and Model Strategies (Scott Clendaniel, VP Analytics, Morgan Stanley) |
12:00 PM - 1:00PM | Lunch Break |
1:00PM - 1:40PM | Cheating at Deep Learning: Quick Prototyping using Keras (Jeremiah Johnson, Professor, University of New Hampshire) |
1:40PM - 2:20PM | Qualitative Visualization: Visualizing Uncertainty and the Unforeseeable (Payman Khodabandehloo, Principal UX Design-Information Architect, TIAA) |
2:20PM - 3:00PM |
Keynote: Diverse architectures to run your R code on single machine to widely distributed PaaS environments (Tirthankar Barari, Solution Architect, Microsoft) |
3:00PM - 3:30PM | Afternoon Break |
3:30PM - 4:10PM |
Applied AI & Deep Learning in the context of NLP (Anindita Mahapatra, Data Engineer, Think Big Teradata) |
4:10PM - 4:50PM | Increase Customer Engagement with Data-Driven Content Marketing (Chris Requena, Co-Founder, Boston New Technology) |
4:50PM - 6:00PM |
Keynote Panel: The Future of AI |
Day -1 ( Oct 16 9:00AM-7:00PM )
Track 2 (Workshop) Conference Room 252A
9:00 AM - 10:20AM | Spark Workshop (Spark Core) (Tim Fox, Big Data Architect, Elephant Scale) |
10:20 AM - 10:30AM | Morning Break |
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10:20 AM - 12:00PM | Spark Workshop (Spark Core) (Tim Fox, Big Data Architect, Elephant Scale) |
12:00 PM - 1:00PM | Lunch Break |
1:00PM - 1:40PM | IoT- Machine Learning with Telematics (Martin Lurie, Sr Systems Engineer, Cloudera) |
1:40 PM - 3:00PM | Advanced Spark (Spark SQL, Spark ML) & Hadoop (Hive)Workshop (Tim Fox, Big Data Architect, Elephant Scale) |
3:00 PM - 3:15PM | Break |
3:15 PM - 7:00PM | Advanced Spark (Spark SQL, Spark ML) & Hadoop (Hive)Workshop (Tim Fox, Big Data Architect, Elephant Scale) (Contd..) |
Day -2 (October 17th 7:45AM-7:30PM )
Track 1 Conference Room 251
7:45 AM - 9:00 AM | Registration |
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9:00 AM - 9:40AM | Best Practices for Data at Scale (Carolyn Duby, Big Data Architect, Hortonworks) |
9:40 AM - 10:20AM | Keynote: Healthcare Fraud Detection (Mark Kanner, Data Scientist, Aetna) |
10:20AM -10:40AM | Break |
10:40 AM - 11:20AM | Clinical Natural Language Processing with Deep Learning (Sadid Hasan, Senior Data Scientist, Philips Research North America) |
11:20 AM - 12:00PM | Data Science: Commercial options for biotech in rare diseases (Erick Diaz outten, Biotech Commercial Expert) |
12:00 PM - 1:0PM | Lunch Break |
1:00PM - 1:40PM | Reinventing Healthcare: Predicting Alzheimer’s Disease With Machine Learning (Ayin Vala, Chief Data Scientist, Foundation for Precision Medicine) |
1:40PM - 2:20PM | Machine Learning vs Finance (Mikey Shulman, Head of Data Science, Kensho) |
2:20PM - 3:00PM |
Keynote: How Financial Services firms are leveraging A.I. (Greg Woolf, CEO, Coalesce.Info) |
3:00PM - 3:30PM | Afternoon Break |
3:30PM - 4:10PM |
Applying Apache Spark on a Petabyte scale Machine learning platform (Saket Mengle, Senior Principal Data Scientist & Maximo Gurmendez, Lead Engineer, DataXu) |
4:10PM - 4:50PM | Seven Steps to High-Velocity Data Analytics with DataOps (Christopher Bergh, CEO, DataKitchen) |
4:50PM - 6:00PM |
Keynote Panel: Solving Business Problems With Data Science |
Day -2 ( Oct 17 8:00AM-7:30PM )
Track 2 Workshop Conference Room 252A
8:00 AM - 10:20 AM | Kafka & Spark Streaming Workshop (Tim Fox, Big Data Architect, Elephant Scale) |
10:20 AM - 10:30AM | Morning Break |
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10:30 AM - 12:00PM | Workshop: Kafka & Spark Streaming (Tim Fox, Big Data Architect, Elephant Scale)(Contd..) |
12:00 PM - 1:00PM | Lunch Break |
1:00 PM - 3:00PM | Keras for Deep Learning applications (Sri Krishnamurthy, CEO, QuantUniversity) |
3:00 PM - 3:30PM | Break |
3:30 PM - 4:30 PM | "Architecting a next-generation data platform" Workshop (Tim Fox, Big Data Architect, Elephant Scale) |
4:30PM - 7:30PM | Data Science with Python Workshop (Tim Fox, Big Data Architect, Elephant Scale) |
Day -3 (October 18th 7:45AM-5:00PM )
Track 1 Conference Room 251
7:45 AM - 9:00 AM | Registration |
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9:00 AM - 9:40 AM | Data Science at Scale with Apache Spark 2.0 and Zeppelin Notebook (Carolyn Duby, Big Data Architect, Hortonworks) |
9:40 AM - 10:20 AM | Keynote: Empowering FinTech with Big Data and Advanced Analytics (Shahidul Mannan, Head of Technology, Teletech Insights) |
10:20AM - 10:40AM | Break |
10:40 AM - 11:20 AM | Data Science Applications (Ayse Bener, Professor, Ryerson University) |
11:20 AM - 12:00 PM | Data Cleanup using Natural Language Processing in Account-Based Marketing Automation (Feyzi Bagirov, Data Scientist, Metadata.io) |
12:00 PM - 1:00PM | Lunch Break |
1:00 PM - 1:40PM | How to build an exceptional career in Data Science (Adam Keene, Director, Harnham) |
1:40 PM - 2:20 PM | Extracting Actionable Insights From Medical Records Data (Rania M. Masri, Data Visualization Designer, Ex-UnitedHealth) |
2:20 PM - 3:00 PM | Cognitive Computing: Combining Linguistic Analysis with Semantics to Automatically Deliver Contextually Correct Metadata at the Enterprise Level (Bryan Bell, Executive Vice President, Expert System) |
3:00PM - 3:30PM | Break |
3:30 PM - 4:10 PM | Towards a better human-chatbot interaction (Aleksandra Przegalinska, MIT) |
4:10 PM - 4:50 PM | Development of a Strategic Vision for Real World Evidence (RWE) Big DATA ecosystem that can transform Organizational engagement and R&D impact (Usman Iqbal, Senior Director Medical Affairs & HEOR, Trevena) |
Day -3 ( Oct 18 8:00AM-5:00PM )
Track 2 Workshop Conference Room 252A
8:00 AM - 10:20 AM | Applied Tensorflow Workshop (Tim Fox, Big Data Architect, Elephant Scale) |
10:20 AM - 10:30AM | Morning Break |
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10:30 AM - 12:00 PM | Applied Tensorflow Workshop (Tim Fox, Big Data Architect, Elephant Scale) (Contd..) |
12:00 PM - 1:00PM | Lunch Break |
1:00PM - 3:00PM | NLP Workshop (Tim Fox, Big Data Architect, Elephant Scale) |
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM | Workshop: Cassandra (Tim Fox, Big Data Architect, Elephant Scale) |
NOTE: Agenda and speakers subject to change without notice
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Global Data Science Conference
Date: Oct 16th to 18th, 2017 Venue: Boston, CA, MA - Event Info