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Day -1 (April 23rd 8:00AM-7:00PM )

8:00 AM - 9:00 AM Registration
9:00 AM - 9:40AM Business Track: AI is a Waste of Money (Dylan Steeg, VP,  Aible) (Room 2B)
Technical Track: Lessons Learned Building AI Systems That Understand Natural Language (David Talby, CTO, Pacific AI) (Room 2A)
9:50 AM - 10:30AM General Keynote :  What's Your AI Strategy? (William Thompson, Managing Director, Forbes) (Room 2B)
10:30AM -10:50AM Coffee Break
10:50 AM - 11:30AM Business Track: Keynote : AI Innovation in Microsoft (Erez Barak, Senior Director of Product, AI Division, Microsoft) (Room 2B)
Technical Track: Predictive bounding boxes: A machine learning powered image annotation tool for creating high quality training data for object detection (Qazaleh Mirsharif,  AI Researcher, Figure Eight) (Room 2A)
11:30 AM - 12:10PM Business Track:  Artificial Intelligence and the Antitrust Risks of Pricing Algorithms (Elvira  Castillo, Partner, Perkins Coie LLP) (Room 2B)
Technical Track: AI opens more doors to Personal Finance Management (PFM)  (SK Reddy, Chief Product Officer AI & M, Hexagon)  (Room 2A)
12:10 PM - 12:50PM Keynote Panel -  Finance Track:  AI in Finance (Room 2B)
Brian Knollenberg (VP, BECU)
Dr Li Deng (Chief AI officer, Citadel)
Evgenia Gvozdeva (Director, Russell Investments)
Shankar Vaidyanathan (CEO, Noonum) - Moderator


Technical Track: When Can We Trust a Decision Made by a Machine: Building Trustable AI and Detecting Misinformation (Ali Arsanjani, VP AI And Machine Learning, Deepcontext) (Room 2A)
12:50 PM - 1:50PM Mentoring Lunch Session With Speakers (Room 2B)
(Access only to VIP, Platinum & Diamond Pass Holders only)
AI in Finance
AI in Healthcare
AI in Blockchain
Transform Business Challenge to AI Challenge
Visual Analytics
Voice Engineering
1:50PM - 2:30PM Business Track:  Intelligence driven sales (Shilpa Dhopate, Director, American Express) (Room 2B)
Technical Track: Building trustworthy and effective production Machine Learning/Deep Learning workflows (Nisha Talagala, CEO, Pyxeda) (Room 2A)
2:30PM - 3:10PM Business Track: How will Blockchain disrupt the e-commerce industry ? (Anurag Yadav, CEO, Primafelicitas) (Room 2B)
Technical Track: Transfer Learning NLP: Machine Reading Comprehension for Question Answering (Anusua Trivedi, Senior Data Scientist, Microsoft) (Room 2A)
3:10PM - 3:40PM Snack Break
3:40PM - 4:20PM Business Track: Keynote Panel  - Women in AI (Room 2B)
Luyuan Fang (VP Head of AI Labs, Expedia)
Michelle Pruitt (Sr Director, SAP)

Chaitra Vedullapalli (Founder, Meylah)
Amy Protexter (VP, Insight)
Dr. Kalyani Velagapudi
(CEO, Perimatics)
Carrie Francey (Co-Founder, Women in Cloud) - Moderator

Technical Track: Using AI to enhance public safety (Moji Solgi, VP Technologies, Axon) (Room 2A)
4:20PM - 5:00PM Business Track: How AI will reinvent Healthcare? (Alex Ermolaev, Director Of AI, Change Healthcare) (Room 2B)
Technical Track: AI and Causality (Soma Bhattacharya,  Senior Manager, Expedia) (Room 2A)
5:00PM - 6:00PM Keynote Panel: Solving Business Problems with AI (Room 2B)
Mark Koss (Director of Analytics, T-Mobile)
Shilpa Dhopate (Director, American Express)

Surya Pathak (Associate Professor, University Of Washington)
Shailesh Manjrekar (Senior Director, Swiftstack)
Indrasis Mondal (Director, Big Data Engineering & Data Products, Hulu) - Moderator

 
5:00PM - 5:30PM Business Track:   AI use in analyzing conversations (Lillian Taylor, Manager, N3) (Room 2A)
5:30PM - 6:00PM Technical Track:  End-to-End Open Source Data Science Workflow Using OmniSci and Nvidia RAPIDS (Veda Shankar, Senior Developer Advocate, OmniSci)  (Room 2A)
6:00PM - 7:00PM PM RECEPTION

Day - 1 (April 23rd Workshop Track)

10:50AM - 12:50 PM Workshop: Artificial Intelligence in Business (Room 205)
Chaitra Vedullapalli (Founder, Meylah)
Shubham Choudhary (Head Of AI Partnerships, Microsoft)
12:50 PM - 1:50PM Mentoring Lunch Session With Speakers (Room 2B)
(Access only to VIP, Platinum & Diamond Pass Holders only)
1:50PM - 3:50PM Workshop: Natural Language Processing: Foundations and Applied Research (Ali Arsanjani, VP AI And Machine Learning, Deepcontext) (Room 205)
3:50PM - 6:00PM Workshop: WaveNet (Jonathan Balaban, Sr Data Scientist, Metis) (Room 205)

Day - 1 (April 23rd Exhibit Hours)  9AM-7:00PM

Day -2 (April 24th 8:00AM-6:00PM )

8:00 AM - 9:00 AM Registration
8:30 AM - 9:00 AM Technical Track:  ML, Deep Learning, Inference. (Emad  Barsoum, Architect, Microsoft) (Room 2A)
9:00 AM - 9:40 AM Business Track: AI Inventions and Patentability  (Steve  Lawrenz, Partner, Perkins Coie LLP) (Room 2B)
Technical Track:  Interactive Introduction to RAPIDS with an End-to-End Machine Learning Workflow Demo (Miro Enev, Senior Researcher, Nvidia) (Room 2A)
9:50 AM - 10:30 AM General Keynote Session : Innovation at Amazon (Paul Misener, VP, Amazon) (Room 2B)
10:30AM - 10:50AM Coffee Break
10:50 AM - 11:30 AM Keynote Panel : AI from Investment perspective  (Room 2B)
Sudip Chakrabarti (Partner, Madrona Venture Group)

Albert Wang (Investment Director, Qualcomm Ventures)
Yuval Neeman (Partner, Trilogy Equity Partners)
Alok Nandan (General Partner, Emergent Ventures)
Heather Redman (Co-Founder & Managing, Flying Fish Partners)
Austin Guyette (Investor, Voyager Capital) - Moderator


Business TrackAI / ML in Data Science Engineering and Operational Excellence (Ravi Kumar Buragapu, Director of Development & Data Science Engineering, Kohls) (Room 2A)
11:30 AM - 12:10 PM

Startup Pitch (Room 2B)
Savan Devani (CEO, BioTrillion)
Vishnu Vettrivel (Co-Founder & CTO, Wisecube.ai)
Sean Buchanan (Founder and CEO, Visom Technology)
Vikram Chalana (CEO, Steth IO)
Ashvin Naik (CEO, SalesPal)

Judges:
Sudip Chakrabarti (Partner, Madrona Venture Group)
Heather Redman (Co-Founder & Managing, Flying Fish Partners)
Kellan Carter (Partner, Ignition)
Albert Wang (Investment Director, Qualcomm Ventures)
Yuval Neeman (Partner, Trilogy Equity Partners)
Austin Guyette (VC, Voyager Capital)

Technical Track:  Cloud-based Machine Learning for the Enterprise  (Gabor Melli, Sr Director Engineering, Sony Playstation) (Room 2A)

12:10 PM - 12:50 PM

Startup Pitch (Room 2B)
Vikram Modgil (CEO, Pi Square AI)
Sarah O'sell (Founder, Anim8)
Jonathan Thayil-Blanchard (Founder, Avad Data)
Victor Milovanov(Founder, Lost Tech)

Judges:
Sudip Chakrabarti (Partner, Madrona Venture Group)
Heather Redman (Co-Founder & Managing, Flying Fish Partners)
Kellan Carter (Partner, Ignition)
Albert Wang (Investment Director, Qualcomm Ventures)
Yuval Neeman (Partner, Trilogy Equity Partners)
Austin Guyette (VC, Voyager Capital)

Technical Track: Class Specific Anchoring Proposal for 3D Object Detection (Humayun Irshad, Senior Research, Figure Eight) (Room 2A)
Business Track:  Future of AI (Dr.Sid J Reddy, Data Science Faculty at UC Berkeley & VP, Conversica) (Room 205)

12:50 PM - 1:50PM Mentoring Lunch Session With Speakers (Room 2B)
(Access only to VIP, Platinum & Diamond Pass Holders only)
Career Advice: Towards training an AI that explores careers
AI in retail
The State of NLP
Data Science Collaboration Tools & Best Practices
Leadership in an Automated World with Machine Intelligence
Raising Money for AI Startups
1:50 PM - 2:30PM Keynote Panel : AI in Retail/E-Commerce (Room 2B)
Edward Kowalski (VP, Sutherland)
Ravi Kumar Buragapu (Director of Development & Data Science Engineering, Kohls)
Shreyansh Gandhi (Principal Data Scientist, Walmart Labs)
Dan Mo (VP, Elite Consulting)
Fay Hou (Sr Manager, Nordstrom)
Chaitra Vedullapalli (Founder, Meylah) - Moderator


Technical Track:  Productionizing your Machine Learning Models (Jonathan Peck, Developer Advocate, Algorithmia) (Room 2A)
2:30 PM - 3:10 PM Business Track: Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Blockchain, Big Data... and their effects for private and working life (Marcell Vollmer, SVP, SAP) (Room 2B)
Technical Track: How do we use AI in Facebook Infrastructure (Hamed  Neshat, Manager Data Science, Facebook) (Room 2A)
3:10PM - 3:40PM Snack Break
3:40 PM - 4:20 PM Business Track: Digitally Detecting Developing Diseases (Savan Devani, CEO, BioTrillion) (Room 2B)
Technical Track:  IMAGE MATTERS - How Walmart Uses Machine Learning in Computer Vision to Serve and Protect Customers (Shreyansh Gandhi, Principal Data Scientist, Walmart Labs) (Room 2A)
4:20 PM - 5:00 PM Business Track: Deepfakes and its impact on democracy (Ashish Jaiman, Director, Microsoft)  (Room 2B)
Technical Track: Natural Language Processing - Concepts and Applications in AI (Sumit Amar, Sr Director Engineering, Visa) (Room 2A)
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM

Keynote Panel: Building the AI teams of the future (Room 2B)
Ashish Jaiman (Director, Microsoft)
Marcell Vollmer (SVP, SAP)

Marcelo Guerra Hahn (Senior Manager, Tableau Software)
Ankur Gupta  (EVP, Bitwise)
Ambika Singh (CEO, Armoire)
Nadeem Firasta (VP Of Products, Dirac Research) - Moderator

5:00 PM - 5:30 PM Business Track:   Making conversations actionable (Surbhi Rathore, CEO, rammer.ai) (Room 2A)
5:30 PM - 6:00 PM Business Track:  AI use cases in Retail (Dan Mo, VP, Elite Consulting) (Room 2A)

Day - 2 (April 24th Workshop Track)

9:00AM - 12:00 PM Workshop: NLP with Deep learning (Dr.Sid J Reddy, Data Science Faculty at UC Berkeley & VP, Conversica) (Room 205)
12:50 PM - 1:50PM Mentoring Lunch Session With Speakers (Room 2B)
(Access only to VIP, Platinum & Diamond Pass Holders only)
2:00PM - 6:00PM Workshop: NLP with Deep learning (Dr.Sid J Reddy, Data Science Faculty at UC Berkeley & VP, Conversica) (Room 205)

Day - 2 (April 24th Exhibit Hours)  9AM-6:00PM

Day -3 (April 25th 8:00AM-5:30PM )

8:00 AM - 8:30 AM Registration
8:30 AM - 9:00 AM Technical Track : Distributed Deep Learning with Horovod (Alex  Sergeev, Staff Software Engineer, Uber) (Room 2B)
Technical Track: Edge to Core to Cloud data pipelines for Autonomous vehicles  (Shailesh Manjrekar, Senior Director, Swiftstack) (Room 2A)
9:00 AM - 9:40 AM Business Track: Bias in AI: The reality and the risk  (Brian Cady,  Principal Enterprise,  Providence St. Joseph Health) (Room 2B)
Technical Track: Predicting Hybrid-Cloud Capacity with Regression Models and Steady State metrics (Idris Iqbal Tarwala, Cloud Performance Lead/Architect, Walmart Labs) (Room 2A)
9:40 AM - 10:20 AM General Keynote Session: Lessons from Google's Journey to AI-First (Chanchal Chatterjee, Leader in AI, Google) (Room 2B)
10:20AM - 10:50AM Coffee Break
10:50 AM - 11:30 AM Business Track: Enterprise use-cases (Steven  Eliuk, VP of Deep Learning, Global Chief Data Office,  IBM) (Room 2B)
Technical Track:  Deep Learning Inference: Optimizations For Wide Scale Deployment (Rahul  Nimaiyar, Director, Machine Learning, Xilinx) (Room 2A)
11:30 AM - 12:10 PM Business Track: Person-Based Omnichannel Analytics and Targeting  (Chip Reno, Sr Advanced Analytics Manager, T-Mobile) (Room 2B)
Technical Track: How Machine Learning Powers On-Demand Logistics At DoorDash (Raghav Ramesh, Machine Learning Engineer, DoorDash & Gary Ren, Machine Learning Engineer, DoorDash) (Room 2A)
12:10 PM - 12:50PM

Keynote Panel: The Future of Artificial Intelligence (Room 2B)
Chanchal Chatterjee (Leader in AI, Google)
Ashvin Naik (CEO, SalesPal)
Rachel Batish (VP of Product, Audioburst)
Chip Reno (Sr Advanced Analytics Manager, T-Mobile)

Shailesh Manjrekar (Senior Director, Swiftstack) - Moderator

Technical Track: AI for Software Testing (Jason Arbon, CEO, Test.ai) (Room 2A)         

12:50 PM - 1:50PM Mentoring Lunch Session With Speakers (Room 2B)
(Access only to VIP, Platinum & Diamond Pass Holders only)
Startup Pipelines
AI and IoT
Testing AI-Based Systems
1:50 PM - 2:30PM

Business Track: Connected Business Intelligence (Shankar Vaidyanathan, CEO, Noonum & Darian Parrish, CMO, Noonum) (Room 2B)
Business Track:   State of AI in Sales Conversation Analysis (Ashvin Naik, CEO, SalesPal) (Room 2A)
Technical Track: Speech Recognition at Microsoft (Sayan  Pathak, Principal Machine Learning Scientist, Microsoft) (Room 205)

2:30 PM - 3:10 PM Business Track: How we used machine learning to define audio-talk listening experiences  (Rachel Batish, VP of Product, Audioburst) (Room 2B)
Technical Track: AI revolution in Demand Forecasting  (Yuan Shen, CEO, Oneclick.ai) (Room 2A)
Technical Track: Telling stories with Data  (Gulrez Khan, Data Scientist, Microsoft) (Room 205)
3:10PM - 3:40PM Snack Break
3:40 PM - 4:20 PM
 
Business Track:  Creating an Effective Data Platform: A case study on Uber’s data journey (Reza  Shiftehfar, Engineering Manager, Uber) (Room 2B)
Technical Track: Automated Machine Learning (AutoML) for Data Science Productivity (Steven Gustafson, Chief Scientist, Maana) (Room 2A)
Technical Track: Calendar.help - a virtual scheduling assistant (Pamela Bhattacharya, Principal Applied Scientist, Microsoft) (Room 205)
4:20 PM - 5:00 PM Business Track:  Design for AI. Avoid the pitfalls that happen when creating AI products (Mark Bailey, AI researcher , Design for AI & Ex-Google) (Room 2B)
Technical Track: Learning market dynamics to power optimal pricing at airbnb (Sharan Srinivasan, Machine Learning Engineer, Airbnb) (Room 2A)
Technical Track :  Soss.jl: Probabilistic Metaprogramming with Julia (Chad Scherrer, Senior Data Scientist, Metis) (Room 205)
5:00 PM - 5:30 PM Keynote: Q&A Session with Speakers (Room 2B)

Day - 3 (April 25th Workshop Track)

9:00AM - 12:50 PM Workshop: The interesting convergence of AI and Blockchain! (Anurag Yadav, CEO Primafelicitas) (Room 205)

Day - 3 (April 25th Exhibit Hours)  9AM-4:00PM
Day - 3 (April 25th Global Career Fair)  9AM-4:00PM

NOTE: Agenda and speakers subject to change without notice