Open Data Science Conference Boston 2020
ODSC is the best community data science event on the planet. There are other events that cover special topics, or industries, etc., but ODSC is comprehensive and totally community-focused: it's the conference to engage, to build, to develop, and to learn from the whole data science community.
Accelerate your data science knowledge, training, and network. All in one event.
ODSC East 2020 is one of the largest applied data science conferences in the world. Our speakers include some of the core contributors to many open source tools, libraries, and languages. Attend ODSC East 2020 and learn the latest AI & data science topics, tools, and languages from some of the best and brightest minds in the field.
Focus Areas
Deep Learning Machine Learning Predictive Analytics AI for Engineers Natural Language Processing Data Visualization Data Wrangling AI Research Data Science at Scale Data Science for Good Data Science Management Data Science Workflows AI Business Summit
Topics
Recommendation Systems Transfer Learning Machine Vision Autonomous Machines Conversational AI Data Science Research Artificial Intelligence Speech Recognition Unsupervised Learning Image Classification Self-driving Vehicles Machine Translation 200+ Speakers over 4 days
Tools
Python, Jupyter Notebooks R programming, Julia, Scala, Stan Apache Spark, MLlib, Streaming Tensorflow, MXNet, Caffe, CNTK Scikit-learn, Theano, Shogun, Pylearn2 Azure ML, Amazon ML,H20.ai, Cloud ML Neo4J, D3.js, R-Shiny Hadoop, Apache Storm, Apache Flink, Kafka, Druid
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Speakers

Tom M. Mitchell, PhD
Professor & Interim Dean, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University

Shadi Shahin
Vice President of Product Strategy, SAS

Margaret Mitchell, PhD
AI Researcher, Google Research and Machine Intelligence

Michael Kearns, PhD
Professor, National Center Chair, Founding Director, Warren Center for Network and Data Sciences, UPenn

John Montgomery
Corporate Vice President, Program Management, AI Platform, Microsoft

Cassie Kozyrkov, PhD
Chief Decision Scientist, Google

Mike Stonebraker, PhD
A.M. Turing Award Laureate, Professor, Co-founder, MIT CSAIL, Tamr

Andreas Mueller, PhD
Author, Research Scientist, Core Contributor of scikit-learn, Columbia Data Science Institute

Sarah Aerni, PhD
Director of Data Science and Engineering, Salesforce

Dr. Jon Krohn
Chief Data Scientist, Author of Deep Learning Illustrated, Untapt

Dr. Kirk Borne
Principal Data Scientist, Booz Allen Hamilton

Brian Lucena, PhD
Consulting Data Scientist, Agentero

Joy Payton
Supervisor, Data Education, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

Victor Lo, PhD
Head of Data Science & Artificial Intelligence, Fidelity Investments

Jeff Bezanson, PhD
Co-creator of the Julia language, Co-founder & CTO, Julia Computing, Inc

Jules Damji
Apache Spark Community & Developer Advocate, Databricks

Eric Ma, PhD
Author of nxviz Package

Andras Zsom, PhD
Lead Data Scientist, Center for Computation and Visualization, Brown University

Jared Lander
Chief Data Scientist, Author of "R for Everyone, Lander Analytics

Max Kuhn, PhD
Software Engineer, Author & Creator of Caret, RStudio

David Talby, PhD
CTO, Pacific AI

Leonardo De Marchi
Head of Data Science and Analytics, Badoo (now MagicLab, which owns several apps)

Yuriy Guts
Machine Learning Engineer, DataRobot

Scott Haines
Principal Software Engineer, Twilio

Laura A. Seaman, PhD
Machine Intelligence Scientist, Draper

Jörg Schad, PhD
Head Of Engineering and Machine Learning, ArangoDB

Joshua Cook
Data Architect, Databricks

Olivier Blais
Co-founder and Head of Data Science, Moov AI

Todd D. Escalona
SA Evangelist & Machine Learning, Amazon Web Services

Erich Kummerfeld, PhD
Assistant Professor, University of Minnesota

Rebecca Russell, PhD
Machine Learning Scientist, Draper

Niels Kasch, PhD
Data Scientist and Founding Partner, Miner & Kasch

Stefan Jansen
Founder & Lead Data Scientist, Lead Instructor, General Assembly

Matt Brems
Global Lead Data Science Instructor, General Assembly

Michael Steliaros, PhD
Global Head of Quantitative Execution Services, Goldman Sachs

Mark Weber
Applied Research Scientist, MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab

Andrew Long, PhD
Data Scientist, Fresenius Medical Care

Thomas L. Vincent, PhD
Head of Data Science, Getty Images

Igor Halperin, PhD
Research Professor of Financial Machine Learning | AI Asset Management, NYU | Fidelity Investments

Dr. Arun Verma
Head of Quant Research Solutions, Bloomberg

Vijaya Kolachalama, PhD
Assistant Professor, Boston University School of Medicine

Randy Olson, PhD
Lead Data Scientist, Life Epigenetics

Sadid Hasan, PhD
Senior Director of Artificial Intelligence, CVS Health

Dr. John Reynders
VP, Data Sciences, Genomics, and Bioinformatics, Alexion Pharmaceuticals, Inc

Juan Manuel Contreras, PhD
Data Science Manager, Uber

Leandro Cesar Lopes
Innovation Director, L3

Gabriel Kreiman, PhD
Professor, Harvard Medical School

Matt Maccaux
Global Field CTO, Hewlett Packard Enterprise

Brian Martin
Head of AI, AbbVie

Rich Dutton
Head of Corporate Engineering, Google

Geetu Ambwani
Data Scientist, Flatiron Health

Marcin Grotthuss, PhD
Computational Biologist, The Broad Institute of MIT & Harvard

Javed Ahmed, PhD
Senior Data Scientist, Metis

Andrew Zaldivar, PhD
Senior Developer Advocate, Google Research

Paige Roberts
Open Source Relations Manager, Vertica

Caitlin Monaghan, PhD
Data Scientist II, Applied Advanced Analytics, Fresenius Medical Care

Dr. Susan Gregurick
Associate Director, Data Science (ADDS) National Institutes of Health

Daniel Giamouridis, PhD
Managing Director, Global Head of Scientific Implementation, Bank of America Merrill Lynch

Liz Sander, PhD
Lead Data Scientist, Civis Analytics

Bulent Kiziltan, PhD
Chief Data Science & Analytics Officer | Chief Scientist, Stealth Startup(s)

Xiaohui Hu, PhD
Principal Data Scientist, GE DIgital

David Mariani
Chief Strategy Officer, Founder, AtScale

Dave Stuart
Senior Executive / Technical Leader, US Department of Defense

Chris Bergh
Head Chef and CEO, DataKitchen

Hui Lei, PhD
VP and CTO, Cloud and Big Data, Futurewei

Michael Segala, PhD
CEO, SFL Scientific

Jeffrey Saltz, PhD
Associate Professor, Syracuse University

Frank Zhao
Senior Director, Quantamental Research, S&P Global

Volker Hadamschek, PhD
AI Quality Manager, BASF Digital Farming GmbH

Reinhold Beckmann
Attorney & Lecturer, RA

Jon Rabinovitz
Director, Data Operations, Oracle

Ravi Kumar Buragapu
Director of Development and Operations Engineering, Kohls Technology

Qiannan Yin, PhD
Data Scientist, LinkedIn

Ram Rajagopal, PhD
Director | Associate Professor, Stanford Sustainable Systems Labs | Stanford University

Mark Homer, PhD
Head of Health Care Intelligence, Fidelity

Vadim Pinskiy, PhD
Vice President of Research and Software Development, Nanotronics

Adam Jenkins, PhD
Associate Director Global Data Science Lead, Biogen

Joshua Bernhard
Data Scientist, NerdWallet

Adam Paszke
Author & Maintainer of PyTorch

Michael Mitzenmacher, PhD
Professor of Computer Science, Harvard University

Jacob Andreas, PhD
Assistant Professor, MIT CSAIL

Julia Lane, PhD
Professor, NYU Center for Urban Science and Progress and Wagner School

Brandon Rohrer, PhD
Principal Data Scientist, iRobot

Ted Kwartler
VP, Trusted AI, Author, Professor, DataRobot

Veysel Kocaman, PhD
Senior Data Scientist, John Snow Labs

Patrick Buehler, PhD
Principal Data Scientist, Microsoft

Robert Alvarez, PhD
Head of Data Science, Podium Education

Daniel Chen
Data Science Consultant, Lander Analytics

Robert Crowe
Developer Advocate, TensorFlow, Google

Yong Tang, PhD
Director Of Engineering, MobileIron

Tomasz Urbaszek
Software Engineer & Apache Airflow Committer, Polidea

Jarek Potiuk
Principal Software Engineer & Apache Airflow PMC Member, Polidea | Apache Software

Dan Sullivan, PhD
AI and Cloud Architect & Author, New Relic, Inc | Wiley

Dean Wampler, PhD
Head of Developer Relations, Author, Anyscale

Tom Goldenberg
Junior Principal Data Engineer, QuantumBlack

Faith Xu
Senior Program Manager, Microsoft

Prabhat Roy
Data Scientist, Microsoft

Brian Sacash
Machine Learning Engineer, Novetta

Andrew Chang
Data Architect, Novetta

Mona Khalil
Data Scientist | Greenhouse Software, GreenHouse Software | EMERITUS

Hugo Bowne-Anderson, PhD
Data Scientist, DataCamp

Theodore Bakanas
Senior Data Scientist, Uptake

Nirav Shah
Founder, OnPoint Insights

Zhi Lu, PhD
Data Scientist, Uptake

Paul J Kowalczyk, PhD
Senior Data Scientist, Solvay

Daniel Gerlanc
President, Enplus Advisors, Inc

Stephen Roller, PhD
NLP/ML Researcher & Engineer, Facebook AI Research

Marck Vaisman
Sr. Cloud Solutions Architect - Data/AI, Microsoft

Changfeng Charles Wang, PhD
Entrepreneur and Expert in AI & Big Data, Futurewei

Christoph Windheuser, PhD
Global Head of Artificial Intelligence, ThoughtWorks, Inc

David Johnston, PhD
Principal Data Scientist, ThoughtWorks, Inc

Eric Nagler
Lead Data Engineer, ThoughtWorks, Inc

Chester Ismay, PhD
Data Science Evangelist, DataRobot

Onur Celebi
Research Engineer, Facebook

Malcolm Barrett, PhD
Research Assistant, University of Southern California

Josh Benamram
Co-founder, Databand.ai

Evgeny Shulman
CTO & Co-founder, Databand.ai

Serena Peruzzo
Senior Data Scientist, Bardess

Sourav Mazumder
Data Scientist Thought Leader, IBM

Daniel Parton, PhD
Lead Data Scientist, Bardess

Jordan Bakerman, PhD
Sr. Analytical Training Consultant, SAS

Ari Zitin
Analytical Training Consultant, SAS

Steven Pousty, PhD
Directory of Developer Relations, Crunchy Datra

Elvis Saravia, PhD
Education Engineer, Elastic

Joan Xiao, PhD
Principal Data Scientist, Linc Global

Yaniv Ben-Ami, PhD
Founder, Assistant Professor, EasyAsPie.ai, Carleton College

Mehrnoosh Sameki, PhD
Technical Program Manager, Microsoft

Han-Wei Shen, PhD
Professor, The Ohio State University

Vishal Hawa
Principal Scientist, The Vanguard Group

Emma Freeman
Data Science & Engineering, Databricks

Karl Weinmeister
Manager, Developer Advocacy, Google

Dan Malowany, PhD
Marketing Manager, Allegro.ai

Zona Kostic, PhD
Research Fellow, Harvard University

Chelsea Douglas
Head of Project Management, Plotly

Alex S. Felmeister, PhD
Research Scientist, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia

Brendan Tierney
Principal, Lecturer, Oralytics, Technological University Dublin

Filip Piasevoli
Senior Data Scientist, Transfix

Cathy Tanimura
Sr. Director of Analytics & Data Science, Strava

Christopher Connelly
Lead Sport Scientist, NC State University

David P. Woodruff, PhD
Associate Professor of Computer Science, CMU

Michael Zalis
Chief, Clinical Solutions and Strategy, One Brave Idea / BWH Cardiovascular Innovation

Gary Kazantsev, PhD
Head of Quant Technology Strategy, Bloomberg

Xiaoyong Zhu
Senior Data Scientist, Microsoft

Oliver Gindele, PhD
Head of Machine Learning, Datatonic

Aedin Culhane, PhD
Computational Biologist, Dana Farber Cancer Institute

Sihem Romdhani
Data Scientist, Veeva Systems

Polina Reshetova, PhD
Sr. Data Scientist, EastBanc Technologies

Aric LaBarr, PhD
Associate Professor of Analytics, Institute for Advanced Analytics at NC State University

Eric Hart, PhD
Senior Data Scientist, Altair Engineering

Yuan Lai, PhD
Lecturer, MIT

Svetlana Vinogradova, PhD
Data Scientist | Research Fellow, Inside Tracker | Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

Sebastian Raschka, PhD
Professor, Researcher, Author of 'Python Machine Learning, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Joshua Poduska
Chief Data Scientist, Domino Data Lab

Francesca Lazzeri, PhD
Senior Cloud Advocate Lead, Microsoft

Carl Gold, PhD
Chief Data Scientist, Zuora

Graham Ganssle, PhD
Head of Data Science, Expero, Inc

Evan Schwab, PhD
Research Scientist, Philips Research North America

Nagdev Amruthnath, PhD
Data Scientist III, DENSO North America

Vijay Gadepally, PhD
Senior Scientist, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Lincoln Laboratory

Robert Coop, PhD
Director of Machine Learning, phData

John Mercer
Head of Data Science, Foundation Medicine

Julia Neagu, PhD
Director of Analytics, Tamr

Julien Simon
Principal Evangelist AI/ML Evangelist, Amazon

Prabhakar Narasimhadevara
Director of Data Science, Stanley Black & Decker

Stefano Cosentino, PhD
Data Scientist, Bosch USA

Lester Mackey, PhD
ML Researcher, Professor, Microsoft Research New England, Stanford University

Hanspeter Pfister, PhD
Professor of Computer Science, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University

Pradeep Ravikumar, PhD
Associate Professor, CMU

Shan Jiang, PhD
Assistant Professor, University of Massachusetts Boston

Cheng Zhan, PhD
Senior Data Scientist, Microsoft

Anuj Gupta
Senior Leader, Data Science

Jennifer Tom, PhD
Principal Statistical Scientist, Genentech

Guneet Walia, PhD
Principal Data Scientist, Genentech

Dr. Anju Kambadur
Head of AI Engineering, Bloomberg

Matei Zaharia, PhD
Professor, Co-Founder & Chief Technologist, Stanford, Databricks

Diedre Downing
Lead Data Storytelling Trainer, StoryIQ

Ali Vanderveld, PhD
Director of Data Science, ShopRunner

Byron Galbraith, PhD
Chief Data Scientist, Talla

Bart Selman, PhD
Professor, Cornell University

Nir Shavit, PhD
CEO, Professor, Neural Magic, MIT

Armando Solar-Lezama, PhD
Associate Professor, MIT

Jan Kautz, PhD
Vice President of Learning and Perception Research, Nvidia

Austin Rochford
Chief Data Scientist, Monetate Labs

Kimberly Fessel, PhD
Senior Data Scientist, Instructor, Metis

Michael Luk, PhD
Chief Technology Officer, SFL Scientific

Emily Miller
Data Scientist, DrivenData

Kaushik Mohan
Data Scientist, Data Clinic, Two Sigma

Michael Jalkio
Data Engineer, Amazon

Naftali Cohen, PhD
AI Research Lead and VP, J.P. Morgan

Andrea Fong
Sr. Director, Pharmacy Personalization Data and Analytics, CVS Health

Raghav Mani
Developer Relations Manager, NVIDIA

Alain Biem, PhD
Head of Data Science, S&P Global

Amadeus Magrabi
Lead Data Scientist, Commercetools

Joshua Falk
Senior Data Scientist, Civis Analytics

Abhinav Joshi
Sr. Principal Marketing Manager, Red Hat

Tushar Katarki
Sr. Principal Product Manager, Red Hat

Mohamed Fawzy
Senior Engineering Manager, Facebook

Kiuk Chung
Software Engineer, Facebook

Troy Lau, PhD
Group Leader and Distinguished Member of Technical Staff: Machine Intelligence, Draper

Patrick Phelps, PhD
Associate Director of Data Science, Wayfair

Licurgo de Almeida, PhD
Data Science Senior Manager, Wayfair

Michael Bell, PhD
Director, Data Science & Analytics, Agero, Inc

Cathy Chute
Executive Director, Harvard's Institute for Applied Computational Science

Dongjie Fan
Data Scientist, Carto

Jordan Birdsell
Chief Machine Learning Architect, phData

Marinela Profi
Global Product Marketing Manager, SAS

Scott Wallace
VP of Sales, SFL Scientific

Satish Pala
Senior Vice President, Digital Solution, Indium Software

Nick Patience
AI & Machine Learning Research Leader, 451 Research

Chris Sterry
Vice President of Operations, Dotscience

Kishore Aradhya
Adobe, Adobe

Adam Jenkins
Data Scientist at Biogen, Data Scientist at Biogen

Barton Poulson
Founder at datalab.cc, Founder at datalab.cc

Rob Speer
Chief Scientist at Luminoso, Chief Scientist at Luminoso

Robin Augustine Thottungal *Pending Agency Approval
Chief Data Scientist US Environmental Protection Agency, Chief Data Scientist US Environmental Protection Agency

Khalifeh AlJadda
CareerBuilder, CareerBuilder
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