Day 1
Wednesday, October 27
All times are US Pacific Time (PT)
8:30 am PT
Welcome + Introduction
RMDS Lab
15 minute transition
9:15 am PT
Programmatic Weakly Supervised Labelling of Heterogeneous Data
Jason Meil – Chief Data Scientist, SAIC
15 minute transition
10:15 am PT
Automated and Interactive Model Screening to Identify the Champion Model
Chong Ho Yu – Professor, Azusa Pacific University
15 minute transition
11:15 am PT
Building a Solid Data Foundation for AI and ML through DataOps
Noel Gomez – Co-Founder, Ninecoves
15 minute transition
12:15 Pm PT
Keynote: Accelerating Data & AI Transformation
Dr. Inderpal Bhandari – Global Chief Data Officer, IBM
15 minute transition
1:15 pm PT
Machine Learning for Scientific Discovery on Earth, Mars and Beyond
Umaa Rebbapragada – Research Technologist, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
15 minute transition
2:15 pm PT
Meet the Expert: Restaurant Analytics
Cesar Shih – Franchisee, Habit Burger
15 minute transition
3:15 pm PT
Leveraging Mobile Data and Machine Learning to Enhance a 360-Degree View of the Customer
Richard Fox – Former Vice President, Head of Analytics, Qdoba Restaurants
15 minute transition
4:15 pm PT
Q3 RMDS Data Science Competition Award Ceremony with Winners and Contestants
End of Day 1 at 5:00 PM PT. See you tomorrow!
Day 2
Thursday, October 28
All times are US Pacific Time (PT)
8:30 am PT
Welcome + Introduction
RMDS Lab
15 minute transition
9:15 am PT
How AI Can Change the Ways We Learn
David Guralnick – President and CEO, Kaleidoscope Learning
15 minute transition
10:15 am PT
Protecting Survey Data on a Consumer Level
Matthew Schneider – Assistant Professor of Statistics and Data Privacy, Drexel University
15 minute transition
11:15 am PT
Testing for Outliers with Conformal P-values
Matteo Sesia – Assistant Professor of Data Sciences and Operations, University of Southern California, Marshall School of Business, Los Angeles
15 minute transition
12:15 Pm PT
Keynote: Visual Programming for Data Science
Michael Berthold – CEO, KNIME and Professor, University of Konstanz
15 minute transition
1:15 pm PT
Assessing Impacts With Data Science and Machine Learning
Dr. Mo Chen – Evaluation Consultant, RMDS Lab
15 minute transition
2:15 pm PT
Panel: Upskilling Data Scientists
Moderator: Mandy He – Upskill Program Manager
Panelists: Dr. Sijun Wang – Professor of LMU; Joy Zhao – Data Science Career Coach; Hamit Hamutcu – Co-founder of IADSS and Yusen Miao – PI Student
15 minute transition
3:15 pm PT
Bridging the Gap with AI & BI Using a Semantic Layer
Daniel Gray – VP of Solutions Engineering at ATSCALE
15 minute transition
4:15 pm PT
Affordable AI to Empower Small Businesses
Dr. Alex Liu – Founder of RMDS Lab and Former Chief Data Scientist of IBM
15 minute transition
5:00 pm PT
On-site Networking Party
Location: 3rd Floor, 225 South Lake Avenue, Pasadena. CA 91101, USA
End of Day 2 at 6:00 PM PT. See you next year!
IM Data Conference 2021
Hybrid Event | October 27 – 28