November CXO Mixer - Big Data, Data Science & Machine Learning

WHO

The November CTO Mixers is being brought to you in partnership with DIAMOND, TenOneTen Ventures, Factual & Los Angeles Big Data Users Group.

TOPIC

This month, we are experimenting with a new format. Instead of the usual panel of speakers, all from the same background, we are mixing things up, inviting C-Level unpanelists with a variety of backgrounds, to ask each other questions. We hope to learn more this way. The general topic is Big Data, Data Science & Machine Learning. But no topic is off limits.

AGENDA

6:30 PM - Meet, Greet and Eat

7:30 PM - UnPanel Discussion

Followed by Q&A

UNMODERATOR

Joe Devon
Founding Partner
DIAMOND

Joe Devon is a serial entrepreneur, including founding roles in Diamond, Television Four, Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD) & LA Media Lab. Joe has over 20 years of development experience in high profile projects spanning Digital Media, Search Engines, Performance Management; for Internet backbone providers, Investment Banks, Telcos, Big Pharma & Big Media.

In addition to starting several companies, Joe serves/d on the boards of leading development industry conferences (Zendcon, Semtech), Cross Campus, LAX Chamber of Commerce & Empowertech and helped pioneer the local tech community in LA with many events and meetups.

UNPANELISTS

Andrea Shuff
CMO
Local ID

Local ID is a cloud-based Local Intelligence Platform that helps scale local marketing for the Enterprise. We provide our customers with the data and tools to more easily and efficiently discover, activate, record and measure their local marketing opportunities and activities.

Ian Swanson
CEO
Data Science

An expert in Big Data and analytics, an accomplished entrepreneur, and a successful executive for such Fortune 500 companies as American Express and Sprint, Ian Swanson is at home in both startups and enterprise-level organizations. Swanson founded Sometrics, which launched the industry's first global virtual currency platform in 2008 and was acquired by American Express in 2011. That platform -- for which he earned a patent -- managed more than 3.3 trillion units of virtual currency and served an online audience of 250 million in more than 180 countries. Prior to Sometrics, Swanson worked for the secure chat and messaging startup, Userplane, which was subsequently acquired by AOL.

Samir Ahmed
CTO
M-GO

M-GO CTO Samir Ahmed oversees the company’s technology strategy, including platform and application development, deployment, and user experience.

Formerly vice president of technology architecture at M-GO, Samir was responsible for end-to-end platform architecture ranging from UltraViolet integration and video encoding to backend services and client development. He developed the current M-GO platform from the ground up and collaborated with the engineering teams to build an extremely modular, flexible and robust open source platform.

Hamish Brocklebank
CHIEF
Portent.io

Hamish Brocklebank is a serial entrepreneur who loves movies, loves data, loves putting the two together and making money from it - in short: #winning

Portent.io is a predictive analytics platform for the film industry. It predicts how much a film is likely to make (both theatrical & VOD), helps optimise your marketing campaign 100's of days pre-release, and provides realtime demographic/geographic/psychographic data insights as to who your marketing is resonating with.

Kingshuk Chatterjee
CDO
MD Insider

Kingshuk is an Engineer, Entrepreneur and a Kaggler. He has built large scale distributed systems and platforms for several industry verticals – Plant Automation, Telecom, Retail, Healthcare, and Pharmaceutical. He has a degree in Electrical Engineering and passion for all things AI.

His current work involves machine learning, predictive analysis, data mining of extremely large healthcare data sets. He is particularly interested in Bayesian inference, Neural Nets and deep learning algorithms and their applications on large data sets.

VENUE

When you arrive, please tell the guards you are here for the"Meetup at Factual on the 35th Floor".

The best place for attendees to park is at the Westfield Century City Mall. Please note that they no longer offer free parking for the first 3 hours.

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