Registration
AI Experience 2018 - San Francisco
June 12, 2018
2:00 pm
Register for this no-cost half-day learning experience to witness firsthand how AI is impacting every facet of business. Hear from AI users and network with business analysts, data scientists, and other professionals as you discover what AI can do for your business.
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Dr. Gourab De is the VP of Data Science Practice team at DataRobot, where his primary focus is helping customers improve their ability to make and implement predictions. His professional experience spans a wide variety of topics, including genetics, bioinformatics, clinical trials, real-world effectiveness analysis with claims, PROs and charts, population health management, behavioral health, and predictive modeling. Dr. De graduated with honors from the Indian Statistical Institute in Kolkata, India, and received a Ph.D. in Biostatistics from Harvard University.
Scot Barton serves as the head of commercial research and development at Farmers Insurance®. He is responsible for leading a team of highly dedicated data scientists to help the national insurer group better serve customers, agents and employees through advanced analysis, machine learning and artificial intelligence. Over the course of seven years with Farmers®, Scot has managed claims and commercial business analytics teams.
Prior to Farmers, Scot worked in business and technology consulting for various Fortune 500 companies. He holds a degree from Northwestern University and currently resides in Southern California.
Yashar Mehdad leads a data science team at Airbnb focusing on machine learning and natural language processing data products and applications. Before that he led Yahoo’s publisher products (Yahoo homepage, Yahoo Finance and Yahoo Sports) science team working on content understanding, personalization and ranking. Yashar published over 40 referenced articles and filed more than 10 patents in machine learning and natural language processing. Yashar also served as a chair, co-organizer, programme committee and reviewer in various top tier academic workshops, conferences and journals and received few academic and industrial awards.
Rob Liebscher works as a data scientist for Adobe in San Jose, California. He holds a PhD in Cognitive Science with an emphasis in Machine Learning from the University of California, San Diego. He has worked on projects such as attribution modeling, time series traffic forecasting, and segmentation models, and has won every slam dunk content in which he has participated.
Conference agenda
1:30 – 2:00 pm
2:00 pm
Keynote – Overcoming the Barriers to AI Adoption
Gourab De
DataRobot VP of Data Science Practice Gourab De shares his insights on how companies can overcome barriers to AI adoption in order to become AI-driven enterprises.
DataRobot VP of Data Science Practice Gourab De shares his insights on how companies can overcome barriers to AI adoption in order to become AI-driven enterprises.
2:45 pm
Experience AI Demo
3:00 pm
Scot Barton, Farmers Insurance
Scot Barton
Learn first-hand how machine learning has already fundamentally impacted the insurance industry.
Learn first-hand how machine learning has already fundamentally impacted the insurance industry.
3:30 pm
Break
3:45 pm
Yashar Mehdad, Airbnb
Yashar Mehdad
Yashar Mehdad from Airbnb shares how machine learning is disrupting traditional industries at companies like Airbnb.
Yashar Mehdad from Airbnb shares how machine learning is disrupting traditional industries at companies like Airbnb.
4:15 pm
Rob Liebscher, Adobe
Rob Liebscher
Rob Liebscher will discuss enterprise attribution modeling with DataRobot, and will try to make it fun.
Rob Liebscher will discuss enterprise attribution modeling with DataRobot, and will try to make it fun.
4:45 pm
Cocktail Reception
