Dallas Data Science Conference 2017

by IDEAS - Int'l Data Engineering and Science Association

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Sat, February 18, 2017

11:30 AM – 6:30 PM CST

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Location

University of Texas at Dallas, Science Learning Center 1.102

University of Texas at Dallas

Richardson, Texas 75080

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Check out more details at: http://www.datascienceassociations.org/dallas/

“Technology. Innovation. Career." Our goal is to create a data science learning platform and bring together business and academic leaders, young professionals, entrepreneurs and promising students. The conference will demonstrate cutting-edge technology and offer unique insight into what is possible with machine learning and data science while providing attendees with opportunities to expand their career networks.

Network with Data Scientists from various backgrounds.
Gain insight into the future of data science development as well as the trending technologies. Speaks from NVIDIA, Amazon, Clarity Solution Group, Dell EMC, IBM and other industry leading companies.
Discover and identify career opportunities. Panelists from Data Application Lab, Galvanize, Metis and other well-known data science bootcamps will discuss the essentials skills to success in the data science field.

CONFERENCE SCHEDULE

Saturday 02/18/2017

11:30-12:00 - Registration

12:00-12:10 - Opening Plenary

12:10-2:40 - Session

Data and Local Government: Building & Configuring LA’s Real Estate Portfolio
Juan Vasquez, Data & Engagement Strategist at Office of Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti
Helping business leaders get over their learning curve in advanced analytics
Sai Devulapalli, Data Analytics Product and Business Leader at EMC Dell
Value drivers for your data – Big, Fast, or Smart (Sponsor Talk)
Brad Taylor, VP of Data and IoT Solutions at Omnitracs
Image processing as a part of Big Data Initiatives
Meltem Ballan, Senior Consultant-Advanced Analytics at Clarity Solution Group
Data Science Project Lifecycle and Skill Set
Jason Geng, Committee Chair at Data Science Association

2:40-2:55 - Coffee Break

2:55-3:40 - Panel

Bridging the Gap Between Industry and Academia
Andrew Savage, Data Science Career Advisor & Partnerships at Metis
Khusro Khalid, VP Engineering at Research Now
Logan Song, Cloud Technical Manager at Amazon Web Services
Meltem Ballan, Senior Consultant-Advanced Analytics at Clarity Solution Group
Ryan Henning, Data Scientist at Galvanize

3:40-6:10 - Session

Real-life application of analytics: Fighting the Underworld of Bike Theft with Data
Neeraj Madan, Data Scientist at IBM
Are API services taking over all the interesting data science problems?
Kyle Polich, Host at Data Skeptic
GPU computing: The ultimate accelerator for massive database (Sponsor Talk)
Alex Sabatier, Global Account Manager at NVIDIA
Microsoft Cognitive Service, Tap into the power of machine learning with easy-to-use REST APIs
Ranga Vadlamudi, Azure Cloud Data Solution Architect at Microsoft
Deep Tractable Models for Fast Structured Prediction
Vibhav Gogate, Assistant Professor at The University of Texas at Dallas