AGENDA (May 2025)
Our Agenda is open to the public (no email or signup necessary), so you can decide for yourself if you want to attend.
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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 PM
Klaus Denkmayr
Director, R&D Projects at AVL List GmbH
10:00-10:30 AM
COFFEE BREAK
Grab a coffee and enjoy the snacks!
10:30-11:00 AM
Praveen Baskar
Senior Software Engineer at Google
11:00-12:00 AM
Jenny Yeon
Sr. Applied Machine Learning Scientist at W.W. Grainger
12:00-1:30 PM
Network over full lunch buffet with other attendees, speaker, and board members!
2:30-3:00 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
Lauren Waardenburg
Assistant professor at ESSEC Business School (Cergy, France)
4:30-5:00 PM
Ian Pytlarz
Principal Data Scientist at Purdue University
DAY 2
7:00-8:30 AM
REGISTRATION & BREAKFAST
Grab your name tag, enjoy the full breakfast buffet!
8:30-9:20 AM
Robert Grossman
Partner, Analytic Strategy Partners and Director, Center for Translational Data Science, Univ. of Chicago
10:00-10:30 AM
COFFEE BREAK
Grab a coffee and enjoy the snacks!
10:30-11:00 AM
Lakshmojee Koduru
Sr Business Analytics Specialist at Google
11:30-12:00 PM
VP, Enterprise Data Science & AI at Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Illinois, Montana, New Mexico, Oklahoma & Texas
Valerie Meausoone
Data Science Product Manager at Blue Cross Blue Shield
12:00-1:30 PM
Network over full lunch buffet with other attendees, speaker, and board members!
2:30-3:00 PM
Maggie Wolff
Data Scientist at Box
3:00-3:30 PM
COFFEE BREAK
Grab a coffee and enjoy the snacks!
4:00-4:10 PM
Closing Remarks
Michael Tsiappoutas
Conference Chair
