Check Out the ODSC Europe 2022 Keynotes and Featured Speakers
ODSC Europe 2022 is coming fast this June 15th-16th and we couldn’t be more excited to announce our lineup of keynote speakers. This year, there will be a hybrid approach as speakers will be joining us either in-person or virtually. Because of this, ODSC will be able to provide you with even more exciting topics from the leading minds in data science, including ODSC Europe keynotes and other industry-leading speakers.
Learn more about the ODSC Europe keynotes & featured speakers below:
Virtual Keynotes:
Bridging the Gap Between Data Scientists and Decision Makers: Ken Jee | Head of Data Science at Scouts Consulting Group LLC, Z by HP Global Data Science Ambassador
As the Head of Data Science at Scouts Consulting Group, Ken spends his workdays improving the performance of athletes and teams by analyzing the data collected on them. More recently, Ken is focused on project-based learning through Kaggle. He hopes to share the processes that data scientists take when approaching Kaggle competitions and new datasets. He started the #66DaysOfData challenge to help people create the habit of learning and working on projects every day.
The Big Wave of AI at Scale: Luis Vargas, PhD | Partner Technical Advisor | Microsoft
Luis Vargas, PhD, is known as one of the chief leaders who latched the Azure Database services for Microsoft. As Partner Techincal Advisor to the CTO of the company, he is leading Microsoft’s efforts in AI, platforms, tools, and data engineering infrastructure to meet the growing needs of ever-advancing AI.
Michael Bronstein, PhD | DeepMind Professor of AI, Head of Graph Learning Research | University of Oxford, Twitter
Michael Bronstein’s work in data science is diverse and impactful. As a computer scientist, entrepreneur, investor, and professor, he has had an impact on just about every aspect of data science imaginable. In addition to his academic career, Michael is a serial entrepreneur and founder of multiple startup companies, including Novafora, Invision (acquired by Intel in 2012), Videocites, and Fabula AI (acquired by Twitter in 2019).
MLOps Beyond Training: The Production-First Approach to AI: Yaron Haviv | Co-founder & CTO | Iguazio
Yaron Havi’s entrepreneurial spirit has been a key factor in pushing forward the growth of big data, AI, and cloud services. Currently, he’s working to deliver a platform that is open and fast that can provide both automated and simple machine learning pipelines. He knows the importance of bridging the gap between scalability, models, and businesses.
Featured Speakers:
Data Science Against COVID-19: Nuria Oliver, Ph.D., Commissioner to the President, AI Strategy and Data Science | Valencian Government, Cofounder and Vice President | ELLIS, Chief Data Scientist | Data-Pop Alliance
An award-winning scientist, Nurai Oliver PhD has had hands-on work with leading crisis response with her work as Commissioner of the Presidency of Valencia for AI and COVID-19. Her design and launch of the COVID19impactsurveyy is currently one of the largest citizen science surveys conducted in Spain.
Prediction with Missing Values: Gael Varoquaux, P.D | Research Director, Scikit-learn Director | Inria
An advocate for the democratization of machine learning, Gael Varoquaux is a tireless researcher who works at the intersection of machine learning and brain health. From mental health and cognition to brain activity and more, he currently is working on projects that create biomarkers of mental traits & disorders, and more.
Yonina Eldar, PhD | Professor | Weizmann Institute of Science
She is a member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, an IEEE Fellow and a EURASIP Fellow. She has received many awards for excellence in research and teaching, including the IEEE Signal Processing Society Technical Achievement Award, the IEEE/AESS Fred Nathanson Memorial Radar Award, the IEEE Kiyo Tomiyasu Award, the Michael Bruno Memorial Award from the Rothschild Foundation, the Weizmann Prize for Exact Sciences, and the Wolf Foundation Krill Prize for Excellence in Scientific Research.
A Hands-on Guide to Machine Learning with TensorFlow: Laurence Moroney | Lead Artificial Intelligence Advocate | Google
Laurence Moroney leads AI Advocacy at Google, working with the Google AI Research and product development teams. He’s the best-selling author of ‘AI and Machine Learning for Coders,’ as well as the instructor on the Fundamentals of TinyML course at HarvardX, and the popular TensorFlow specializations with deeplearning.ai and Coursera.
Evaluating Generalisation in Natural Language Processing Models: Dieuwke Hupkes, PhD | Research Scientist, Scientific Manager of ELLIS Amsterdam | Facebook AI Research, European Lab for Learning and Intelligent Systems (ELLIS)
Dieuwke Hupkes is a research scientist at Facebook AI Research in FAIR. Her work centers around the evaluation of models of natural language processing (NLP), with a specific focus on how such models can show more human-like behaviour, where they fail and what are areas where they should still improved. In the recent past, she has focussed specifically on large language models (LLMs) and neural machine translation (NMT) models.
Towards Human-Centric Education with Artificial Intelligence: John Shawe-Taylor, PhD | Professor of Computational Statistics and Machine Learning | UCL Centre for Artificial Intelligence
John has helped to drive a fundamental rebirth in the field of machine learning, with applications in novel domains including computer vision, document classification, and applications in biology and medicine focused on brain scanning, immunity, and proteome analysis. He has published over 300 papers and two books that have attracted over 84000 citations.
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