Data Driven NYC #70 (A FirstMark Event)

Our speakers this month include:

• A fireside chat with Heads of Data Science at top hedge funds:

• Matt Ober, Chief Data Scientist, Third Point LLC (hedge fund with ~$17.5B+ assets under management)
• Alex Izydorczyk, Head of Data Science, Coatue (hedge fund with $15B+ assets under management)

• Antoine Boulanger & Daniel Chia, Senior Engineering Manager & Senior Software Engineer on Google's Spanner team (Google's scalable, multi-version, globally-distributed, and synchronously-replicated database)

Spanner is Google's globally distributed NewSQL database.

• Dillon Erb, Founder & CEO of Paperspace (A high-performance cloud computing & ML development platform for building, training and deploying machine learning models)

Paperspace, based in Brooklyn, has raised $21.5M from Y Combinator, Initialized Capital, Battery Ventures, and others.