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

How Much Have the Recent Advances in Data Science & AI Changed Drug Discovery? Lessons from two case studies.

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

9:30-10:00 AM

Towards Dynamic Markets: improving market quality and efficiency with AI 

Josep Puig Ruiz

Data Science Manager at NASDAQ

10:00-10:30 AM

COFFEE BREAK

Grab a coffee and enjoy the snacks!

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10:30-11:00 AM

Top Things They Don't Teach You in a Data Science Degree

Jamie Antonelli

Senior Manager of Data Science at Blue Cross Blue Shield of Illinois

11:00-11:30 PM

The Role of Place-based Impact Investing in Closing the Racial Wealth Gap

Wei Chen

Vice President, Data Science at Citi

11:30-12:00 PM

Ulta beauty analytics transformation and lessons learned

Shaddy Abado

Lead Data Scientist at Ulta Beauty

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

Leveling the playing field in executive recruitment

Meghan Anzelc

Head of Data & Analytics at Spencer Stuart

3:00-3:40 PM

Artificial Intelligence to Optimize Risk Management Activities within Clinical Operations

Bhargava Reddy

​Director, Advanced Insights at The Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson

3:40-4:00 AM

COFFEE BREAK

Grab a coffee and enjoy the snacks!

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4:00-4:30 PM

Multi-Stage Search Ranking in E-Commerce

Po-Yen (Leo) Wu

Manager, Data Science at The Home Depot

4:30-5:00 PM

Fast and Lightweight Automated Machine Learning (FLAML)

Kundan Karma

Manager, Data science & Machine Learning at Microsoft

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

Social Media Information Extraction: multi-task, multi-lingual, & multi-contextual

Shubhanshu Mishra 

Senior Machine Learning Researcher at Twitter

9:00-9:30 AM

Integrating Engineering Best Practices with Data Science Research 

Alexander Freemantle

Lead Engineer at Nasdaq

9:30-10:00 AM

The distortive impact of uncontrolled data quality on knowledge discovery from big scholarly data

Jinseok Kim

Research Assistant Professor, Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research and Research Assistant Professor, School of Information, University of Michigan.

10:00-10:30 AM

COFFEE BREAK

Grab a coffee and enjoy the snacks!

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10:30-11:00 AM

Is there more to MLOps than just “DevOps for ML”?

Skander Hannachi

AI / Machine Learning Specialist at Google Cloud

11:00-11:30 PM

Practical Ways to Build Fair, Unbiased, and Trustworthy AI

Babar Bhatti

Principal AI and Data Customer Success leader at IBM

11:30-12:00 PM

Univ. of Chicago Masters in Analytics winning teams presentation

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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

The User Search Experience on Airbnb

Bradley Turnbull

Data Science Technical Lead Manager at Airbnb

3:00-3:30 PM

Route Optimization and Modeling for the 2020 Census

U.S. Census Bureau

Job Title and Company Info here.

3:30-3:50 PM

COFFEE BREAK

Grab a coffee and enjoy the snacks!

3:50-4:20 PM

Continual Learning: build sustainable AI models in production

Ke Ji

Lead Data Scientist at American Family Insurance

4:20-4:50 PM

Decision Science in Energy Industry

Aarti Nagarajan

Data Science Researcher at Shell

4:50-5:00 PM

Closing Statement

Michael Tsiappoutas​

Conference Chair