CIE Annual Convention: Data-Driven Practice

Seeking Speakers and Sponsors for future events!

• When: Sat, Sept 13th, 2014 1:00 -- 5:00 PM

• Where: Bellevue Westin Hotel

• Co-host company: CIE ( http://www.cie-sea.org/ )

• Admission: Registration required

• Parking: Free at nearby Bellevue Square Mall

• Dressing Code: Business Casual

We are expecting about 300 high profile people from Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Boeing, Facebook, Twitter, Zynga, Ebay, Intel, IBM, HP, AT&T, T-Mobile, Sony Ericsson, Samsung, HTC, Hulu, Groupon, Oracle, SAP, CA, EMC, Expedia, Tableau, Zillow, SEOmoz, Bungie, Nintendo, Disney, Nordstrom, Costco, Alaska Airlines, Dice, Salesforce, SGI, VMWare, Citrix, UW, City University, Seattle University, Puget Sound Energy...

===Tentative Agenda =====

1 - 1:30pm Registration and Social

1:30 - 2:00pm Talk

Data Driven Application Development

Wanghong Yuan, Staff Software Engineer Lead, Google

2 - 2:30pm Talk

Statistical contributions to data driven business

Li Qin, Principal Data Scientist, Nordstrom

2:30 - 3pm Talk

Learnings from big data in advertising

JC Mao, Partner Dev Manager/Distinguished Engineer, Microsoft Ads

3 - 4:30pm Panel Discussion and Q&A

Panelists:

• Prakash Sundaresan, former CTO of Microsoft China R&D

• JC Mao, Partner Dev Manager/Distinguished Engineer, Microsoft Ads

• Hong Zhang, Staff Eng Manager, Google

• Lan Wang, Senior Manager, EMC

• Wanghong Yuan, Staff Software Engineer Lead, Google

• Li Qin, Principal Data Scientist, Nordstrom

• Junhua Wang, Partner Dev Manager, Microsoft Search

• Kevin Yu, Co-founder & CTO, Socedo Inc

MC:

• Steven Fung, Director of BI, Pactera

4:30 - 5:00pm Social

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Last year's annual convention:

https://www.meetup.com/Sea-Tech-Forum/events/122708022/

http://www.cie-sea.org/GalleryDocument/2013AnnualConventionFlyer.pdf

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/hb3ocb8yp5z9fxr/1XOv2jnK6k#/

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