#PASanDiego PREDICTIVE ANALYTICS INNOVATION SUMMIT February 12 & 13, 2015 San Diego DAY 1 Predictive Analytics Innovation Data Science Innovation Hadoop Innovation 07:30 Registration & Light Breakfast Predictive Analytics Innovation 08:30 Data Driving Digital Publishing Haile Owusu Chief Data Scientist at Mashable 09:00 Building a Data-Driven Culture: The Foursquare Experience Michael Li Data Scientist at Foursquare 09:30 Taming Data Variety: Intelligent Solutions Using Machine Learning & Expert Crowdsourcing Ihab Ilyas Co-Founder at Tamr 10:00 Leveraging Big Data for Online & Offline Use Cases Powered by Data Ingestion Framework Sastry Malladi Chief Architect at StubHub Meeting Demand for Movies & TV Shows in Retail Eric Daly VP, Global Analytics at Sony Pictures 11:30
Let Computers Compute, Let People Understand - Advanced Analytics for All Arijit Sengupta CEO at BeyondCore 12:00 Using Data Science to Crack the Social Code Ky Harlin Director, Data Science at BuzzFeed 12:30 Lunch Strategic Analytics for Workforce Innovation Alex Garcia Director, People Analytics at Walmart 14:00 Start-up Analytics: What Should Your First Data Hire Do for You? Jessica Kirkpatrick Senior Data Scientist at Chegg 14:30 Distributed R - Scalable, End-to-End Predictive Analytics Indrajit Roy Principal Researcher at HP 15:00 Text Analytics at Twitter Alek Kolcz Senior Data Scientist at Twitter 15:30 16:00 Data for the Public Good Joy Robson Producer at Data for Good 16:30 Predictive Analytics & Business Insights: Practical Uses in ecommerce & Marketing Mario Vinasco Data Scientist at Facebook 17:00 Music: Tuned to You
Mohitdeep Singh Data Scientist at Rdio 17:30 Networking Drinks - Exhibition Area Data Science Innovation 08:30 Data Science for the Industrial Internet Shyam Varan Nath Principal Architect at GE 09:00 Data-Driven Product Innovation at Scale: Partnership and Talents, Technologies Xin Fu Director of Data Science at LinkedIn 09:30 Building Data Products for Modern e-commerce Consumers Esteban Arcaute Head, Data Science at Walmart Labs 10:00 Building a Big Data Culture in the Entertainment Industry Gian Gonzaga Director, Data Science at Netflix Visualizing Data Science Wayne Gearey Global Local Intelligence Officer at Jones Lang LaSalle 11:30 Lambda Architectures on a Massive Scale for Personalization & Recommendations Antonio Magnaghi VP, Data Science at Live Nation 12:00 How to Use Streaming Data for Real Time Discovery & Decision Making Kerstin Kleese Van Dam Chief Scientist at Pacific Northwest 12:30
Lunch Which Half of Your Graphs are Lying? - Analytics for All Arijit Sengupta CEO at BeyondCore 14:00 The Science of Messaging Yan Qu VP, Data Science at ShareThis 14:30 GE Imagination at Work David Bartlett CTO at GE Aviation 15:00 Identifying Business Value in Datasets Nachum Shacham Principal Data Scientist at PayPal 15:30 16:00 The Evolution of Data Science Panel Session Industry Experts at Panel Session 17:00 Networking Drinks - Exhibition Area Hadoop Innovation 08:30 Google Cloud Dataflow Valentino Tereshko Enterprise Engineer at Google 09:10 The Next Enterprise Data Warehouse is a Hadoop Data Lake Arek Kaczmarek Sr. Director, Data Solutions at The New York Times
09:50 Building Platforms for Personalization & Recommendation with Hadoop Ranjan Sinha Lead Scientist at ebay Data Platform at Twitter - Enabling Real-time & Batch Analytics at Scale Sriram Krishnan Engineering Lead at Twitter 11:40 Nearline Big Data Systems to Improve Netflix Recommendations Gopal Krishnan Dir, Consumer Science at Netflix 12:20 Lunch How Etsy Uses Hadoop, Vertica & Elasticsearch to Create an Open Data Culture Charles Clark Engineering Manager at Etsy 14:10 Building a Modern Enterprise Data Hub with Hadoop Bharat Prasad Big Data Architect at Sears 14:50 Leveraging Hadoop in Polyglot Architectures Thanigai Vellore Enterprise Architect at Art.com 15:30 16:00 Making Hadoop Relevant for the Industrial Internet Beena Ammanath Executive, Data & Analytics at General Electric 16:40
How to Train Your Data Analytics Ahmad Alkilani Big Data Architect at DreamWorks Animation 17:20 Networking Drinks - Exhibition Area
PREDICTIVE ANALYTICS INNOVATION SUMMIT February 12 & 13, 2015 San Diego DAY 2 Predictive Analytics Innovation Data Science Innovation Hadoop Innovation 07:30 Registration & Light Breakfast Predictive Analytics Innovation 08:30 Predictive Analytics for 300 Million Users Fei Long CDO at 58.com 09:00 How to Lead Successful Predictive Analytics Projects Ian Zhao Director, Market Analytics at ebay 09:30 Modeling the Value of User Growth in 1 > 1 Economy Barkha Saxena Head of Analytics at Poshmark 10:00 Applying Advanced Analytics to HR Megan Huth People Analyst at Google Predictive Analytics War Stories Hobson Lane Data Scientist at Sharp Labs 11:30
Crowdsourcing Objective Answers to Subjective Question Ravi Iyer Data Scientist at Ranker 12:00 Using Data to Improve Customer's Shopping Experience Ranjan Sinha Lead Scientist at ebay 12:30 Lunch Starting From Neutral - Measuring True Promotion Effectiveness Brendan Hodge Director, Pricing Analytics at Scotts Miracle-Gro 14:00 Growth Hacking with Predictive Analytics: What s After A/B Testing? Andrew Ahn Group Manager at LinkedIn 14:30 Forming A Model Narrative Robert Wilde VP, Analytics at Slacker Radio 15:00 15:30 What is More Challenging than Predicting the Future? Pedro Alves Chief Data Scientist at Banjo 16:00 Predicting the Value of a Social Game Install Parsa Bakhtary Games Product Analyst at Facebook 16:30 End of Summit Data Science Innovation
08:30 Using Data Science to Optimize Communication within a Mobile & Multi-Device Ecosystem Jon Bennion Data Scientist at EA 09:00 Data Pragmatism Eric Finch Chief Operations Officer at US Army 09:30 Improving Predictive Accuracy Mining Social Data with Apache Spark & MLlib Brian Kursar Senior Data Scientist, R&D at Toyota 10:00 Building a Workforce of Data Scientists Rishiraj Pravahan Principal Scientist at AT&T How is Data Being Used to Create Actions, Disrupt Industries & Transform Lives? Panel Session Industry Experts at Panel Session 12:00 Business Analytics & Information Management at Boeing Harish Rao Director, Analytics at Boeing 12:30 Lunch From Data Analytics to Discovery Informatics Vasant Honavar Dir, Big Data Analytics at Penn State University 14:00 Building Blocks of Data Science Assad Shaik Chief Data Scientist at PNC Bank 14:30
End of Summit - Drinks Served in Exhibition Area Hadoop Innovation 08:30 Releasing the Power of Hadoop Weidong Zhang Manager, Analytics at LinkedIn 09:10 Optimizing Hardware Whilst Maintaining Business Agility with YARN Sagi Zelnick Principal Architect at Yahoo 09:50 Detecting Abusive Actors in Hadoop Ecosystem Nazli Dereli Data Scientist at Live Nation Offloading ELT Workloads to Hadoop - Time Warner Cable s Journey Michael Lurye Snr Dir, Data Mgmt at Time Warner Cable 11:40 Apache Phoenix: A Relational Database Layer on Top of HBase James Taylor Architect at Salesforce.com 12:30 Lunch Real Time Relevance & Personalization with Storm, Hadoop & HBase Ameya Kanitkar Big Data Engineer at Groupon 14:10 Hadoop Evolution from WordCount to Enterprise Ready Eman Elghoneimy Data Engineer at Sony Entertainment
14:50 MySQL to Hadoop Journey: A Small Company's Challenges & Lessons Learned Bhupendra Patni Director, Engineering at Wikia 15:30 End of Summit - Drinks Served in Exhibition Area