Data Driven NYC #49 (A FirstMark Event)


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SPECIAL EVENT!
This month we have:
• A longer program with an incredible list of speakers. TALKS WILL START AROUND 5:45PM (earlier than usual, for the regular attendees)
• A post-event reception upstairs in the atrium, generously sponsored by Amazon Web Services, starting around 8:15pm
Our SPEAKERS this month include, in no particular order:
• Noah Weiss, Head of Search, Learning, & Intelligence at Slack
• Praveen Murugesan, Engineering Manager at Uber (runs Hadoop infrastructure team at Uber)
• Jeremy Stanley, VP Data Science at Instacart (one-hour grocery delivery)
• Carlos Guestrin, Amazon professor of Machine Learning at the University of Washington, and Founder and CEO of Turi (fka Dato and GraphLab, ML platform, just acquired by Apple)
• Kostas Tzoumas, Founder and CEO of Data Artisans (company implementing Apache Flink, stream data processing)
In addition, we'll have a great VC panel with four data investors from the West Coast:
• Jake Flomenberg, Partner, Accel
• Mike Dauber, General Partner, Amplify Partners
• Jeff Chung, Managing Director, AME Cloud Ventures
• Aditya Singh, Partner, Foundation Capital
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Special thanks to our host AXA, which is a worldwide leader in financial protection strategies and wealth management with 103 million clients, individuals and businesses, in 59 countries. AXA has been ranked the #1 insurance brand in the world for the last seven consecutive years.

Data Driven NYC #49 (A FirstMark Event)