Data Science Belgium Community

 
 
 

Next Data Science Brussels meetup on 29/3 has an awesome line-up, hence we're also super happy we again can use BeCentral as easy reachable location next to the central station. Spotify and VeepeeTech will openly share their experiences on state-of-the-art recommender systems. Thanks also Veepee for hosting this meetup, and BeCentral for having us!

This way we can keep the meetups for free: we are an open non profit tech community, openly sharing experiences from both an industry and/or an academic perspective. Meetups are free, but we need registration for practical reasons. If you cannot attend despite registration, then no problem but please do change your RSVP to No as soon as possible! This enables others to take your place (we usually have a waiting list due to a max location capacity) and it prevents us from ordering more pizza than needed.

AGENDA
6:00 PM: Opening
6:30 PM: Tech talks
8:00 PM: Informal networking drink with pizza (thanks VeepeeTech!)

• TechTalk 1: Oriol Roqué and Georges Kohnen (VeepeeTech)
  In this talk, we will present how Data Science approaches personalisation in VeepeeTech, the European flash-sales leader: the goal is to provide the best offer to each customer based on the user interests to increase overall engagement. We provide personalised content to help our customers easily find the sales they are looking for on the Veepee website.
  Oriol Roqué is a Data Science Manager in the Data team at VeepeeTech. In his more than 3 years in the company, he has contributed to marketing related projects such as churn prevention and affinity targeting, while the main focus is still on recommender systems in the personalisation project.
  Georges Kohnen, a former physicist, started as a senior Data Scientist at Veepee in 2017, before taking over the responsibility of the Data Science department in 2022. He worked on various projects including personalisation and forecasting topics, and is now in charge of aligning the Data Science objectives with the company priorities.
• TechTalk 2: Bart Aelterman (Spotify)
  “Because you listened to previous ML talks, we think you might like this one too”
  You may have received a similar message like this one on your phone from Spotify. Every day, we are reaching out to different users, via different channels and with different purposes. There are many aspects that need to be balanced: who should we contact at what time with what message to keep users engaged? This talk will explain how we are tackling some challenges related to messaging optimization. We’ll also take a look at some in-house developed tools such as our Experimentation Platform and our ML platform, Hendrix.
  Bart Aelterman is a Machine Learning Engineer at Spotify, working from his home office in Antwerp. Bart has 10+ years of industry experience working as a Data Scientist, Data Engineer and Machine Learning Engineer at different companies, among which Veepee.

Data Science Brussels is a chapter of the Data Science Belgium Community. We are always in search for speakers who are willing to openly share their experiences (algorithms, best practices on ML Ops, open code, research, etc) with the AI tech community. We also search a host per meetup, providing some drinks and small food (e.g. pizza with some self-service beers) for the informal after drink. Hosting a meetup has no other costs; so no sponsor budget is requested.

For info as speaker or host please get in touch with the chapter organisers: Quinten Rosseel, Brecht Coghe, Bernard Cornet, Thomas Carette, Davio Larnout, Quentin Laurent, Sam Rédelé.

 
 
 

[announcement....], and grateful for our host [host name] to having us in their offices!

AGENDA
6:00 PM: Opening
6:30 PM: Tech talks
8:00 PM: Informal networking drink with pizza (thanks [name host]!)

TECH TALKS

• [speaker 1] | title | abstract.
• [speaker 2] | title | abstract.

This way we can keep the meetups for free: we are an open non profit tech community, openly sharing experiences from both an industry and/or an academic perspective. Meetups are free, but we need registration for practical reasons. If you cannot attend despite registration, then no problem but please do change your RSVP to No as soon as possible! This enables others to take your place (we usually have a waiting list due to a max location capacity) and it prevents us from ordering more pizza than needed.

Data Science Ghent is a chapter of the Data Science Belgium Community. We are always in search for speakers who are willing to openly share their experiences (algorithms, best practices on ML Ops, open code, research, etc) with the AI tech community. We also search a host per meetup, providing some drinks and small food (e.g. pizza with some self-service beers) for the informal after drink. Hosting a meetup has no other costs; so no sponsor budget is requested.

For info as speaker or host possibilities, please get in touch with the chapter organisers: Matthias Feys, Dieter De Witte, Hendrik d'Oosterlinck, Mathias Polfliet, Davio Larnout, Jonas Beullens, and Sam Rédelé.

 
 
 

[announcement....], and grateful for our host [host name] to having us in their offices!

AGENDA
6:00 PM: Opening
6:30 PM: Tech talks
8:00 PM: Informal networking drink with pizza (thanks [name host]!)

TECH TALKS

• [speaker 1] | title | abstract.
• [speaker 2] | title | abstract.

This way we can keep the meetups for free: we are an open non profit tech community, openly sharing experiences from both an industry and/or an academic perspective. Meetups are free, but we need registration for practical reasons. If you cannot attend despite registration, then no problem but please do change your RSVP to No as soon as possible! This enables others to take your place (we usually have a waiting list due to a max location capacity) and it prevents us from ordering more pizza than needed.

Data Science Ghent is a chapter of the Data Science Belgium Community. We are always in search for speakers who are willing to openly share their experiences (algorithms, best practices on ML Ops, open code, research, etc) with the AI tech community. We also search a host per meetup, providing some drinks and small food (e.g. pizza with some self-service beers) for the informal after drink. Hosting a meetup has no other costs; so no sponsor budget is requested.

For info as speaker or host possibilities, please get in touch with the chapter organisers: Matthias Feys, Dieter De Witte, Hendrik d'Oosterlinck, Mathias Polfliet, Davio Larnout, Jonas Beullens, and Sam Rédelé.