Meet the 21 Confirmed Speakers at DataScienceGO 2018

DataScienceGO was born under the belief that data scientists need much more than technical conferences to have a successful career.

Since data science is an “undiscovered land” so to speak, we can’t follow conventional pathways to success – this is why at DSGO we focus on the career guidance that is missing in the field. That’s why there is no other event like it. This means 3 days of insights-packed lectures, plus hundreds of data enthusiasts gathered, sharing their knowledge, lessons, mistakes, and experiences to help inspire and grow the attendees as a whole.

Call it the “stop & GO” of your data science career. The three-day event where you stop, learn, plan, aim and shoot forward towards your dream career.

In a month and some change, we’ll be taking over sunny San Diego to learn from some of the world’s leaders in data science, careers, guidance and both professional and personal growth.

Excited? So are we.

Now, on to the career-skyrocketing lineup.

And why did we choose these speakers?

At DataScienceGO we aim to help any data scientist, regardless of their experience, background, and stage, to take their career on to the next level, whatever it may be.

This is why you’ll find data science experts from many backgrounds in our ranks, but with one thing in common:

An insatiable desire to help others in their community.

We even went ahead and classified our Agenda based on your career pathway so you’ll know where is the best place to be.

(If you want to download the Agenda, Click Here)

So… Who are they?

Director at SuperDataScience

Session: Opening Keynote / Closing Keynote

Bio: Kirill Eremenko is a data-centric entrepreneur with four years of experience in the space of education and eight years of experience in Data Science. With 30+ online courses and over 540,000 students worldwide, he is passionate about delivering high-quality, accessible education to every human on this planet.

Kirill is the Founder and Director of SuperDataScience, an online educational portal for Data Scientists with a mission to Make The Complex Simple and a vision to become the biggest worldwide learning resource for Data Science enthusiasts. Kirill also hosts the SuperDataScience Podcast, which discusses hot topics, technologies and career strategies with Data Scientists, Analysts and other professionals who leverage the power of Data to help inspire listeners to build successful careers in Data Science.

Hacker, Inventor, Entrepreneur and Technology Futurist

Session: Keynote

Bio: Pablos Holman is a notorious hacker, inventor, entrepreneur, and technology futurist who thinks differently to solve the world’s biggest problems by inventing new technology. As Senior Inventor at his lab – with 150 scientists and engineers – he has worked on a brain surgery tool, a machine to suppress hurricanes, 3D food printers, and a laser that can shoot down mosquitos – part of an impact invention effort to eradicate malaria with Bill Gates. Previously, Pablos helped build: spaceships with Jeff Bezos at Blue Origin; the world’s smallest PC; 3D printers at Makerbot; artificial intelligence agent systems; and the Hackerbot, a robot that can steal passwords on a Wi-Fi network.

Pablos has a unique ability to articulate practical solutions and visions for the future of technology. He is a world-renowned expert in 3D Printing, Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, Robotics, Manufacturing, Blockchain/Cryptocurrency, and has contributed to visions for the future of urban transportation, entertainment, education, healthcare, food delivery, sensor networks, payment systems & cloud computing.

Pablos is often invited to speak at conferences about innovation, invention, hacking, technology, cybersecurity, and The Intellectual Ventures Lab. Recently, he has spoken at Stanford, the United Nations, the World Economic Forum at Davos, the Microsoft CEO Summit – invited by Bill Gates, the CIA, Google Zeitgeist, The Milken Global Conference, and to many of the top tech companies and tech conferences in the world. His TED Talks have over 20 million views.

CEO and Founder deepkapha.ai

Session: Climbing the Deep Learning Hill: From basics to AI proficiency

Bio: Tarry is CEO, Founder and AI Neuroscience Researcher of the AI startup deepkapha.ai.

Deepkapha focuses on the following three pillars:

1. Exclusively breakthrough AI research that intends to knit the world of neuroscience.
2. Models and frameworks around deep learning for the future, that advises management and trains enterprises to holistically build AI departments with hands-on, market-relevant advanced AI projects.
3. The philanthropic initiative “givebackAI” to train the world that cannot afford expensive education and also work with organizations (Re:coded & Think.iT currently) that help disaffected youth in war-torn or ignored areas such as Syria, Tunisia, Iraq, Jordania etc.

Deepkapha has recently collaborated with IBM to work on building a holistic framework to unify various deep learning frameworks. This was announced by IBM in its global Think event in Las Vegas on 20th March 2018.

Tarry has over 17 years of experience working with data and has advised CxOs of global organizations to setup data-driven organizations from scratch. He speaks regularly at global AI leadership summits worldwide and conducts workshops on a regular basis with his TAs who are currently PhDs in various above-mentioned disciplines. He also participates in co-supervising PhD projects related to above areas with world’s leading universities such as Charité in Berlin.

Data Science Entrepreneur

Session: Opening Keynote

Breakout Session: State of the art AI and beyond

Bio: Hadelin is passionate about Data Science, Artificial Intelligence, and Deep Learning. He is a Top-rated instructor on Udemy and other platforms with more than 360,000 students Worldwide. Hadelin holds an Engineering Masters degree with a specialization in Data Science. He spent one-year doing research in Machine Learning, working on innovative and exciting projects.

He also worked at Google where he implemented Machine Learning models for business analytics. After realizing that he spent most of his time doing analysis with insufficient room for his creativity, Hadelin became an entrepreneur. Hadelin’s courses combine the two dimensions of analysis and creativity, allowing his students to learn all the analytic skills required in data science, by applying it to creative ideas.

Data Visualization Designer at Visual Cinnamon

Session: Data Sketches: A year of Exotic Data Visualizations

Bio: Nadieh Bremer is a graduated Astronomer, turned Data Scientist, turned Data Visualization Designer. After working for a consultancy & fintech company where she discovered her passion for the visualization of data, she’s now working as a freelancing data visualization designer under the name ‘Visual Cinnamon’.

As 2017’s ‘Best Individual’ in the Information is Beautiful Awards, she focuses on uniquely crafted (interactive) data visualizations that both engage and enlighten its audience. Ranging from companies as extensive as Google News Lab to small start-ups. From printed magazines such as Scientific American to an interactive experience for the Guardian to more promotionally focused artful visualizations for press releases, data-driven reports, and data art for in the office. As long as there’s data that has a story to reveal. And when she’s not creating new visualizations, she can often be found somewhere outside of the Netherlands, speaking at conferences, making more people enthusiastic about the wonders of visualizing data.

Chief AI Officer at ZIFF, Inc

Session: Beyond the Job: Leaving an AI Legacy

Bio: Ben Taylor has over 13 years of machine learning experience. He has worked for Intel/Micron, a hedge fund as a quant, and recently helped build out HireVue’s (a Sequoia company) data science team and AI product. Ben has filed eight patents ranging from machine learning to nanotechnology and appreciates the differences between IP and trade secrets. He has hired 4 data scientists, and he is also actively involved in the community.

Data Science Principal at CoreLogic

Session: Soft Skills: The Biggest Skill Gap in Data Science And What YOU Can Do About It Now

Bio: Eric is a data scientist but more broadly is a teacher. He is passionate about teaching, learning and mentoring. He enjoys a mixture of technical work and leadership roles, most recently at CoreLogic and LinkedIn. His background includes a mixture of mathematics, statistics, analytics and education, each of which he brings to his daily work in data science.

Founder and CTO at Kylie.ai

Session: How AI Affects You and Everything Around You

Breakout Session: Building a Real-time Natural Language Prediction Engine in your Browser

Bio: Sinan Ozdemir is a Data Scientist and Machine Learning expert from San Francisco with a Masters in Theoretical Mathematics from The Johns Hopkins University where he served as a lecturer of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science. He is the author of the books “The Principles of Data Science” and “Feature Engineering Made Easy” (both available on Amazon). He is also currently the Founder/CTO of Kylie.ai, an enterprise startup using AI to automate communications.

Founder of Business Science, LLC

Session: Data Science For Business With Applications In R & H2O

Breakout Session: Real World Data Science With H2O

Bio: Matt Dancho is the founder of Business Science, a consulting firm that assists organizations in applying data science to business applications. He is the creator of R packages tidyquant and timetk and has been working with data science for business and financial analysis since 2011. Matt is also creator and instructor of the online data science educational tool, Business Science University, that hosts virtual Data Science for Business training and workshops.

Matt holds master’s degrees in business and engineering and has extensive experience in business intelligence, data mining, time series analysis, finance, statistics and machine learning.

Data Scientist at Twitter Cortex

Session: Bigger Problems than Big Data: Ten Serious Machine Learning Issues that Nobody Talks About

Bio: Dan works at Twitter Cortex, where he develops Machine Learning Models that can make sense of the world’s data. In addition to his work at Twitter, Dan works as a Deep Learning researcher at the Serre Lab at Brown University, where he tries to build neural networks that think like humans.

Previously, Dan was a Senior Data Scientist at TrueMotion, where he built machine learning algorithms that use smartphone sensors to understand and score driving behaviors. Dan led TrueMotion’s efforts on developing smartphone IMU algorithms to detect hard brakes and distracted driving.

Director of Data Science at HireVue

Session: Data Science Career Paths

Bio: Lindsey Zuloaga is a Physicist by training and a passionate problem-solver by nature. She has nearly a decade of experience in academic research focused on experiments and simulations to understand how nanoparticles interact with light and the resulting applications in medicine, sensing, and signal processing. She has a B.S. in Physics from the University of Utah, a M.S. and Ph.D. in Applied Physics from Rice University and she worked as a Postdoctoral Researcher at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich.

Shifting to a career in industry, Lindsey was passionate about working on fast-paced, high-impact projects. She started her Data Science career in the healthcare space, striving to improve the lives of people with chronic health conditions. As the Director of Data Science at HireVue, she is working to completely transform traditional recruiting, interviewing, and training with a video platform that focuses on expression and personality as opposed to just a resume.

Senior Director of Data Science at Big Squid, Inc.

Session: The Evolution and Future of Machine Learning

Bio: Jorge Zuloaga got his masters in mathematics from the University of Waterloo in Canada and his PhD in computational physics from Rice University in Houston, TX. His work in computational mathematics and physics has spanned several fields, from particle physics to quantum plasmonics. He has been a visiting researcher at DESY in Hamburg, Germany and at the Institute of Physics, CSIS, in Madrid, Spain. Following his graduate work, he joined the faculty at Rice University where he taught and conducted research.

Since leaving academia for a career in tech he has worked for Alliance Health and for Health Catalyst, where he focused on Machine Learning applications in healthcare. He is currently the Senior Director of Data Science at Big Squid, where he develops software to automate Machine Learning and helps companies make smarter business decisions using predictive analytics.

Principal Data Scientist at Oxxo

Session: Becoming a Data Scientist: From Taking a Course to Transforming a Business With your Knowledge.

Bio: Favio Vasquez is a physicist and computer engineer with a master in physical sciences. He’s passionate about science, philosophy, programming, and music. Right now, he’s working on data science, machine learning and big data as the Principal Data Scientist at Oxxo and Senior Data Scientist at Raken Data Group. Also, he’s the creator of “Ciencia y Datos”, a Data Science publication in Spanish. Favio loves new challenges, working with a good team and having interesting problems to solve, also applying his knowledge and expertise in science, data analysis, visualization, and automatic learning to help the world become a better place.

Data Science Mentor at Dream Job LLC

Session: Data Science For All: Master the Fundamentals

Bio: Randy is a proactive contributor to the Data Science community. He loves to share his work, experience, and knowledge to engage everybody in the field of Data Science. He is a Data Science Mentor and Community Manager at Data Science Dream Job LLC. and also works as a Data Collection Technician for Q Analyst (Oculus VR, Facebook). He has also worked as a Data Analytics / Machine Learning Assistant for two data boot camps: Trilogy Education at USC and Data Application Lab. In addition, he is apart of a non-profit organization, IDEAS (International Data Engineering and Science Association), which is creating a data science learning platform to connect data science enthusiasts.

Senior Data Scientist at Walmart Tech

Session: Machine Learning & Deep Learning Methods for Geo-Spatial Analytics

Bio: Neelabh is a PhD candidate at the University of Texas at Arlington. His area of research is Geospatial and Temporal Analysis and Predictive Techniques using Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence. Neelabh is passionate about Data Science and every day he uses his skills in his research, as being an intern and a freelancer in his leisure. He has a total of 3 published conference papers and he is constantly working to contribute more to the data science community.

He has been enchanted with the beauty of evolutionary algorithms, which he has successfully implemented in his research to make his predictive models 5 times more optimized. He loves to talk about data and is also going to talk at a meetup in San Diego in April about Neural Networks and how to leverage its power in temporal prediction. A typical day in Neelabh’s life is talking with numbers and functions and conveying their message to humans in form of visualizations.

Dual Student at novomind. Inc

Session: Thinking Big: How to Turn your Passion into a Career

Bio: Rico is currently pursuing an integrated degree program in Computer Science (BSc.) at the University of Applied Sciences in Wedel. During his work experience at novomind. Inc he has founded an Artificial Intelligence research group to find out how to use AI to drive the company’s efficiency and processes.

Before being able to work on real-world problems he has completed countless online courses and visited conferences to gain insights on how the field operates. Being passionate about bringing Artificial Intelligence to the people and make connections within the field he has founded meetup.ai, a Meetup group where he and his team are creating an open and transparent conversation about the Future of Technology.

Business Turnaround Professional

Session: Unleashing (hidden) Potential: Real-Life Case Studies From A Seasoned Business Turnaround Consultant

Bio: Vitaly’s passion is making businesses better.

In his 11 years of management consulting experience, Vitaly helped clients around the world improve their earnings by more than $300m/year and increase NPV of capital projects by more than $3.0b. Vitaly’s clients are some of the well-known companies in mining, oil & gas, processing, construction, airlines, banking and IT industries, featured in the top rankings of companies by market capitalization.

More than the ‘bottom line’ results, Vitaly is passionate about helping people unleash their potential and fast-track careers by utilizing key principles and tools from the management consulting industry. These principles and tools have been accumulated, tried and tested in dozens of consulting engagements, various cultures and across multiple geographies.

Vitaly also hosts a podcast, where some of the top management consultants and business professionals share their tools, techniques and key career and life success factors.

Complexity Scientist & Investor

Session: The Convergence of AI and Blockchain

Bio: Francesco Corea, PhD is a complexity scientist and tech investor who is mainly focusing on science-driven companies with a focus on high-social-impact verticals such as life sciences, energy, and general intelligence. He has a background that ranges from economics and finance to applied machine learning, and he has been working on a variety of different data problems in the last few years (e.g., sentiment analysis, fraud detection, behavioral science, etc.). He’s currently working with a few AI companies as well as an emerging VC fund and he holds a PhD in Economics.

CEO at Cognitive Contractors

Session: Man & Machine

Bio: Josey Parks is a multifaceted entrepreneur who achieved early business success by the age of 25 when he became one of the youngest recipients of the Inc. 5000 award. Under the umbrella of J Wales Enterprises, Josey built a synergistic portfolio of companies including Metal Roofs of Texas, J Wales Construction, Designer Glass Specialties, Think Unlimited, and Cognitive Contractor.

Josey is dedicated to advancing the contractor industry to ensure it thrives in the modern era of business. Cognitive Contractor was created specifically to help the industry innovate, using AI and machine learning technology to help contractors gather, analyze, target, and engage (GATE Method) high quality leads to maximize sales, provide excellent customer experiences, and optimize ROI.

As a technology evangelist, Josey spreads his message to audiences nationwide through national speaking engagements, TV shows like CNBCs Blue Collar Millionaire, conferences like Corporate Millionaire Minds and Vistage Executive Summit, collaborations with Home Advisor, and One Life Radio. Josey was awarded the Young Movers and Shakers Award by Metal Construction Association for his leadership.

As a father of two, Josey is committed to helping young people succeed. He works with underprivileged schools to improve learning environments and as taskforce leader with RT3 (Roofing Technology Think Tank), Josey is focused on preparing young people for the workforce and matching graduates with jobs in the contractor industry. Josey is also Director of Development for Heartwork, which encourages philanthropy among high school students and has completed over 1,000 projects, including construction of water wells, schools, and orphanages in Haiti.

Solutions Architect at NVIDIA

Session: Discussion Panel on Emerging Techs

Bio: Mark has been working with GPUs and GPU accelerated servers for over 8 years. He knows the performance benefits of these systems/clusters and evangelizes this wherever he can. The free 2x performance boost provide by Moore’s law is over, and he wants to make sure that everyone, CEO, CTO, VP of Engineering, Data Scientist know that there are alternatives that are production ready today.

His 6 years’ experience deploying GPU servers at an NVIDIA reseller before being asked to come work at NVIDIA combined with his over 20 years of Telco, Datacenter, Network Engineering and Linux knowledge blends into a well-rounded Solution Architect. He has worked with National Labs, Fortune 500 companies and startups to bring the power of GPUs to solve each group’s unique problems.

Ecstatic Journey Facilitator

Session: Morning Energy: The Sunrise Meditation Session (Optional)

Bio: Jacqueline Jai is an Ecstatic Journey facilitator with almost 2 decades of experience in teaching Yoga and Ecstatic Dance in Europe, Indonesia and South Africa, where she spent several years teaching Yoga in corporate environments. Having learned from the Yogi’s of India and the international Yoga and Ecstatic Dance communities, Jacqueline believes we all have the potential to live an Ecstatic life.

Currently living and teaching on the island of Bali, her passion lies in supporting students on their journey of personal transformation. Jacqueline’s approach promotes self-enquiry, self-love, connection and the knowledge that we all have the power to heal ourselves and each other.

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