Dallas Data Science Conference 2017

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

6:10-6:30 - Networking

See the latest agenda at: http://www.datascienceassociations.org/dallas-agenda/

CO-HOST

SPONSORS

If you would like to find out more about sponsoring the conference, email us at info@datascienceassociations.org

Who are we?

Check out our previous packed out conference in Southern California Sept 2016: http://socaldatascience.org/