7:00-8:30 AM

BREAKFAST & REGISTRATION

Grab your name tag, enjoy the full breakfast buffet!

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8:30-8:45 AM

Opening Statement

Michael Tsiappoutas

Conference Chair

8:45-9:30 AM

Towards better AI practice:  Envisioning a field of Hybrid Intelligence Design

James Guszcza

Research Affiliate at Stanford’s Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences

9:30-10:00 AM

Prescription for Success: How to Drive Data Science Results in Health Insurance

Derrick Higgins

Head of Enterprise Data Science & AI at Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Illinois, Montana, New Mexico, Oklahoma & Texas

10:00-10:30 AM

COFFEE BREAK

Grab a coffee and enjoy the snacks!

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10:30-11:00 AM

How some models with millions of parameters avoid overfitting.

Jean Czerlinski Ortega

Senior Software Engineer at Google

11:00-11:30 PM

Probabilistic Programming Languages : Snake oil or Steroids? 

Marc Light
Data Science Manager at Facebook

11:30-12:00 PM

Overview of Explainable AI for Natural Language Processing (NLP)

Jean–leah Njoroge

Director—Conversational AI at Lowe's Companies, Inc.

12:00-1:30 PM

NETWORK LUNCH

Network over full lunch buffet with other attendees, speaker, and board members!

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1:30-2:30 PM

DISCUSSION PANEL

Select panelists answer your questions.

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2:30-3:00 PM

Business Partner Contributions to Modeling Success

Bill Stergiou

AVP, Data Science at CNA Insurance

3:00-3:40 PM

News Analytics—From Data Science Project to Production App

Mario Jiménez

Head of Risk Analytics at Nasdaq

Alexander Freemantle

Software Developer Specialist at Nasdaq

3:40-4:00 AM

COFFEE BREAK

Grab a coffee and enjoy the snacks!

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4:00-4:30 PM

Scalability for Data Scientists

Tibi Stef–Praun

Principal Data Scientist at The Kraft Heinz Company

4:30-5:00 PM

Expanding regression-based outlier detection to larger temporal granularities

Colin Kyle  
Applied Scientist—Machine Learning at Amazon

5:00-7:30 PM

NETWORK DRINKS

Network over a drink!

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7:00-8:30 AM

BREAKFAST & REGISTRATION

Grab your name tag, enjoy the full breakfast buffet!

8:30-9:00 AM

Crossing the Data Chasm and Finding the Data You Need for Machine Learning Models: From Data Augmentation to Synthetic Data and Data–Centric AI

Robert L. Grossman
Analytic Strategy Partners & Center for Translational Data Science, Univ. of Chicago

9:00-9:30 AM

The Upcoming European AI Act and its impact to the Data Science Community

Oscar Wijsman

Sr. Business Expert Intelligence & Digitalisation at Netherlands Police

9:30-10:10 AM

Using Data to Support Police Decision–Making.

Marjolijn Bruggeling

Associate Director of Policing Innovation and Reform

at the University of Chicago Crime Lab 

Sean Malinowski 

Director of Policing Innovation & Reform at the Univ. of Chicago Crime Lab & managing partner at The Partnership for Policing Innovation & Reform.​

10:10-10:30 AM

COFFEE BREAK

Grab a coffee and enjoy the snacks!

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10:30-11:00 AM

Life cycle of data becoming a Model

Lakshmi Ravi

Applied Scientist II at Amazon

11:00-11:30 PM

Enabling, Accelerating, and Scaling Data Science for ML Ethics

Aaron Gonzales 

Senior Machine Learning Research Engineer at Twitter

11:30-12:00 PM

Univ. of Chicago Masters in Analytics winning teams presentation

NFL Next Gen Stats: Beyond Top Speed

Gina Champion, Data Scientist at Pareto Intelligence

Shyam Varanasi, Director, Data Analytics & AI  at Awarity

Analysis: ESG Investing & Emerging Market Sovereign Debt Credit Spreads

Emily Luskind, Independent Data Science Consultant

12:00-1:30 PM

NETWORK LUNCH

Network over full lunch buffet with other attendees, speaker, and board members!

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1:30-2:30 PM

DISCUSSION PANEL

Select panelists answer your questions.

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2:30-3:00 PM

Data Protection and Data Breach—A data lawyer's perspective

Chetan Gupta

Senior Legal Counsel at Twitter | Data Protection

3:00-3:30 PM

Deep Learning and Graphical Models for Recommendations (The Home Depot)

Simon Hughes

Principal Data Scientist, Core Search at The Home Depot

3:30-3:50 PM

COFFEE BREAK

Grab a coffee and enjoy the snacks!

3:50-4:20 PM

From Notebooks to Deployment Pipelines—Foundations of a Production Science Product

Brandon Shurick

Senior Data Scientists at Amazon

4:20-4:50 PM

Predictive Analytics in Business context and end-to-end machine learning applications

Ankita Mangal

Senior Data Scientist at Procter & Gamble

4:50-5:00 PM

Closing Statement

Michael Tsiappoutas​

Conference Chair