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Topic

Leveraging AI for the perfect sell out.

Abstract

Talk will cover how to introduce ML into companies culture. I show how we championed real time analytics and ML at HotelTonight along with the latest example of a product driven by ML.

HotelTonight employs extensive Machine Learning to provide predictive analytics to hotels in order to guide their pricing for a perfect sell out.
Get a glimpse into the HotelTonight AI platform and how the company learned of the value of AI and decided to invest in building a platform allowing  AI to be used to solve problems across the business.

Profile

CTO at HotelTonight and builder of technology and teams that deliver innovative mobile experiences since before mobile was cool. Sam was previously Director of Engineering for Core Technology at Autodesk and prior to that he managed and architected mobile services at Adobe and Macromedia. He earned his coding stripes at various startups and companies developing connected services in gaming, mobile, aerospace and telecom.