ADS is celebrating its five-year anniversary with a special Highlight event at Pakhuis de Zwijger. The programme will include a special keynote address from Henriette Cramer, Principle Research Scientist & PM at Spotify.

Our Gold Partners will present the most recent developments in the fields of Data Science and AI. ADS will also present its strategy for the coming five years.

The event will be a fantastic opportunity to meet our Partners and network within the ecosystem. Each break will include poster presentations.

Programme

• 14:30: Welcome & Posters
• 15:00: Introduction & Highlights
• 15:10: Keynote
• 16:15: Break - Posters & Networking
• 16:35: Gemeente Amsterdam
• 16:45: ADS Strategy
• 16:55: Partner Highlights
• 18:05: Drinks, Posters & Networking
• 19:00: End

There are limited tickets available and we count on the attendance of anyone who has a ticket. Please let us know if circumstances change and you can no longer attend the event.

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14:30 Welcome & Posters

15:00 Welcome & Introduction by Lynda Hardman, Director, Amsterdam Data Science

15:10 Gemeente Amsterdam by Ger Baron and Tamas Erkelens, Chief Technology Officer and Program Manager, Gemeente Amsterdam

15:20 Keynote: What we (don’t) know. Data & Algorithmic Responsibilities in Practice by Henriette Cramer, Principle Research Scientist & PM at Spotify

16:25 Break: Posters & Networking

16:40 ADS Strategy by Lynda Hardman, Director, Amsterdam Data Science

16:55 Partner Highlights (4 min. pitches)

• Nanda Piersma (HvA): HvA Expertise Centre for Applied AI
• Marcel Worring (ICAI Amsterdam): The Innovation Center for Artificial Intelligence – Amsterdam
• Esther Smit (AMdEX): AMdEX: Working Towards an Internationally Trusted Data Exchange
• Ivan Ortega (Qualogy)
• Paul Groth (IvI, UvA): Learning to Support Data Engineering
• Peter Boncz (CWI): The CWI and Databricks Collaboration
• Hinda Haned (IvI, UvA): AI for Social Good
• Mark Siebert (Elsevier): Elsevier’s Role in Strengthening the ADS Ecosystem
• Pieter Bons (Technology, HvA)
• Tessel Bogaard (CWI)
• Pascal Wiggers (DM&CI, HvA): Applied & Responsible AI at HvA
• Gabriel Lopez (VodafoneZiggo): Artificial Intelligence at VodafoneZiggo
• Ilaria Tiddi (CS, VU)
• Hannes Mühleisen (CWI): Data Management for Data Science with DuckDB
• Harrie Oosterhuis (IvI, UvA): Learning from User Interactions on Rankings
• Michael Cochez (CS, VU)

18:05 Drinks, Posters & Networking

19:00 End

Posters

Maarten Sukel: Multimodal Classification of Urban Micro-events

Gijs Overgoor: The Champion of Images: understanding the role of Images in the decision-making process of online hotel bookings

Tianyi Zhang: CorrFeat: Correlation-based Feature Extraction Algorithm using Skin Conductance and Pupil Diameter for Emotion Recognition

Abdallah El Ali: Uncovering perceived identification accuracy of in-vehicle biometric sensing

Rosanne Turner: Safe Testing: towards flexible testing with robust type I- and II error guarantees

Corinne Allaart: TBA

Alexandru Iosup: TBA