AGENDA (May 2025)
We are intentionally transparent. Our Agenda is open to the public (no email or signup necessary), so you can decide for yourself if you want to attend. As you can see, our presentations include no sales pitches.
Click on picture for short bio and abstract. A checkmark means the slides will be shared with attendees after the conference; an X means they will not.
DAY 1
8:50-9:30 AM
Mario Jiménez
CEO at CredX.AI, Inc. | Wall Street A.I. Entrepreneur | X-Nasdaq, Deutsche Bank and M.I.T.
9:30-10:00 AM
Dave Campbell
Full Professor of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science at Carleton University | President of Business & Industrial Statistics Section of the Statistical Society of Canada.
10:00-10:30 AM
COFFEE BREAK
Grab a coffee and enjoy the snacks!
10:30-11:30 AM
Jitender Jain
Senior Manager | Staff Software Engineer at Walmart
11:30-12:00 PM
Jenny (Hyejin) Yeon
Applied Scientist II at Amazon
12:00-1:30 PM
Network over full lunch buffet with other attendees, speaker, and board members!
2:30-3:00 PM
Keith Savage
Statistician at the U.S. Census Bureau
3:00-3:30 PM
Khoa Nguyen
Analytics Manager at University of Chicago Crime Lab and Education Lab
3:30-4:00 PM
COFFEE BREAK
Grab a coffee and enjoy the snacks!
4:00-4:30 PM
Klaus Denkmayr
Director, R&D Projects at AVL List GmbH
4:30-5:00 PM
Lauren Waardenburg
Assistant professor at ESSEC Business School at Cergy, France.
5:00-5:30 PM
Maggie Wolff
Data Scientist at American Express
DAY 2
7:00-8:30 AM
REGISTRATION & BREAKFAST
Grab your name tag, enjoy the full breakfast buffet!
8:30-9:00 AM
Robert Grossman
Partner, Analytic Strategy Partners and Director, Center for Translational Data Science, Univ. of Chicago
9:00-9:30 AM
Praveen Baskar
Senior Software Engineer at Google
10:00-10:30 AM
COFFEE BREAK
Grab a coffee and enjoy the snacks!
10:30-11:00 AM
Shalmali Patil
Business Intelligence Engineer at Amazon AWS
11:30-12:00 PM
Suvendu Jena
Senior Data Scientist and Tech Lead at LinkedIn
12:00-1:30 PM
Network over full lunch buffet with other attendees, speaker, and board members!
2:30-3:00 PM
Valerie Meausoone
Data Science Product Manager at Blue Cross Blue Shield
3:00-3:30 PM
Vijaya Palanki
Senior Manager Data Science at Glassdoor
3:30-4:00 PM
COFFEE BREAK
Grab a coffee and enjoy the snacks!
4:00-4:30 PM
Lakshmojee Koduru
Sr Business Analytics Specialist at Google
4:30-4:40 PM
Closing Remarks
Michael Tsiappoutas
Conference Chair