23rd SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD 2017)
August 14-17, 2017
Halifax, Nova Scotia
Applied Data Science invited talks
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Goal: Expose KDD community to real issues/pragmatics, applications in production
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Select the best in class speakers on most relevant topics, create a rich program with speakers who normally cannot take the time to write “papers”
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A significant application in production is the ultimate “publication”.
Usama Fayyad
Open Insights
Evangelos Simoudis
Synapse Partners
Ashok Srivastava
Verizon Corporation
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Exciting program
– 10 Invited talks from world-renowned experts
– Look for Industry Talk Session ADSIT in your program
– Panel on benchmarks and process management in data science
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Focus Area
– Understanding behavior with data science
– Applied Machine Learning
– Intelligent Systems and data science
– Management and benchmarks
Tuesday 10:00am – 12:00pm, Room200D
Mining Big Data in NeuroGenetics ToUnderstand Muscular Dystrophy
Andy Berglund
Professor, University of Florida
It Takes More Than Math and Science to Hit the Bullseye With Data
Paritosh Desai
SVP Enterprise Data, Target
Addressing Challenges with Big Data for Media Measurement
Mainak Mazumdar
Chief Research Officer, Nielsen
Tuesday 1:30pm – 3:30pm, Room 200D
Designing AI At Scale to Power Everyday Life
Rajesh Parekh
Director of Analytics, Facebook
Industrial Machine Learning
Joshua Bloom
Big Data and Analytics, GE
Wednesday 10:00am – 12:00pm, Room 200D
Big Data and Climate: Opportunities and Challenges for Machine Learning
Vipin Kumar
Professor, University of Minnesota
Spaceborne Data Enters the Mainstream
David Potere
CEO, TellusLabs
Planning and Learning Under Uncertainty:
Theory and Practice
Jonathan How
Professor, MIT
Wednesday 1:30pm – 3:30pm, Room 200D
More than the Sum of its Parts: Building Domino Data Lab
Eduardo Ariño de la
Rubia, Domino Data Lab
Machine Learning Software in Practice: Quo Vadis?
Szilard Pafka, Epoch
Invited Panel: Wednesday 4:00-6:00PM, Room 200D
Benchmarks and Process Management in Data Science
Moderator: Usama Fayyad, Open Insights
Panelists:
Arno Candel, H2O.ai, Inc
Eduardo Ariño de la Rubia, Domino Data Lab
Szilárd Pafka, Epoch
Anthony Chong, IKASI
JeongYoon Lee, Microsoft