UNSTRUCTURED: Data Science ‘POP-UP' in Chicago
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UNSTRUCTURED
DATA Science POP-UP in Chicago
A day-long forum for data science practitioners who are passionate about asking the right questions & identifying problems worth solving.
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Thank you to our sponsors for making this event possible
WHEN
Wednesday, June 10th 8:00 AM - 8:00PM CT
WHERE
Groupon HQ
600 West Chicago Avenue, Suite 400, Chicago, IL 60654
AGENDA
8:00am ⇒ Registration Opens
8:00am - 9:00am: Breakfast brought to you by Groupon
Book giveaway via O'Reilly Media
9:30am - 10:30am: Fireside Chat
“Data Strategy Within Your Organization”
Moderator ⇒ Timothy McGovern Editor - O'Reilly Media
Ali Vanderveld Data Scientist - Groupon
Scott Kurth VP of Data Strategy - SVDS
John Ciasulli VP - Lightbank
Jonathan Dinu Co-founder at Zipfian Academy now GalvanizeU
10:30am - 11:00am
“Building an Insight Machine”
Matthew Granade Co-founder - Domino
11:00am - 11:45am
“Optimizing Chicago’s Services with the Power of Analytics”
Gavin Smart Director, Data Science - AllState
Stephen Collins Sr. Data Scientist - AllState
Tom Schenk Chief Data Officer - City of Chicago
Gene Leynes Data Scientist - City of Chicago
11:45pm - 12:15pm
“Deep Learning: Neural Nets for Newbie”
Melanie Warrick Deep Learning Engineer - Skymino.io
12:30pm - 1:30pm: Lunch brought to you by GrubHub
1:30pm - 2:30pm: Afternoon Debate
“Do you need context or is data enough?”
Moderator ⇒ Melissa Harris Writer - Chicago Tribune
Greg Reda Data Scientist
Josh Evnin Director of UX - Grubhub
Claudia Perlich Chief Scientist - Dstillery
Dean Malmgren Co-founder - Datascope
Michelango D’Agostino Lead Data Scientist - Civis Analytics
2:30pm - 3:00pm: Keynote Speaker
“Asking the right questions”
Mike Stringer Co-founder - Datascope
3:00pm - 4:30pm
⇒ (10 min) Lightning Talks
Claudia Perlich Chief Scientist - Dstillery "What makes us human."
Gregory Brunner Imagery Scientist - Esri “Data Science meets Geospatial/Mapping Science.”
Heather Nelson Solution Architect - SVDS "Running Data Science Teams"
Adam McElhinney Director Data Science - Uptake “New Open Source Tools for Data Science"
Ali Vanderveld Data Scientist - Groupon “Data Science Meets Sales”
Michelango D’Agostino Lead Data Scientist - Civis Analytics “People Science: Using Data to Help Organizations Reach the People They Care About Most"
Greg Reda Data Scientist “Web Scraping.”
Erin Burnside Data Scientist - Asana "Saying Goodbye to Outdated Metrics"
4:30pm - 5:00pm
“Cognitive Bias and Trends in Data”
Roger Magoulas Director of Market Research - O’Reilly Media
5:00pm - 5:45pm
Data Points Around Mobile Commerce and Government”
Dylan Richard and Harper Reed from Modest
5:45pm - 6:00pm
Closing Remarks
6:00pm - 8:00pm
Cocktail Hour Brought to you by Uptake & Civis Analytics
Uptake HQ in Spark Cafe
Upstairs - Ste 775
Company Showcase
We look forward to seeing you in Chicago