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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