Virtual Meetup #3: Business Process Optimization with Machine Learning!

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>> Virtual Meetup #3: Business Process Optimization with Machine Learning

Agenda:
4:00 - 4:10 Open lobby chat between virtual participants
4:10 – 4:15 Introductions by Babar, Aamer, and Authman
4:15 – 5:00 Presentations and QA
5:00 – Closing remarks and SPECIAL announcement!

Abstract:
Running inference with machine learning models has become rather straightforward. But the process needed to get there successfully can be anything but simple. Technical and business complications enforce constraints, additional ad-hoc training and validation might be required, perhaps even thousands of models may need to be spun up, or you might even do something unconventional like using a label to predict itself! In this meetup, we demonstrate with a real-life use case that properly understanding a business issue and then translating it into a technically constrained problem are KEY to applying data science properly.

During the presentation, Kaggle Master and long time data-science educator Laurae, along with his invitee, Sebastien Davoust will talk about how they approach operational efficiency with "next-day package delivery routing" optimization at La Poste Colissimo, a French prime postal delivery service. From understanding the problem to implementing a solution, you will discover and learn the most important ins and outs of solving business problems with applied data science. Go beyond model.fit!

Speakers:
Laurae (Damien Soukhavong) was awarded an MSc with honors in auditing, management accounting, and information systems from SKEMA Business School in Paris. He spent five years doing data science freelancing, corporate ML training, and content writing. He has since been working as an architect and data science consultant at Planeum for large accounts, such as La Poste, Givaudan, and Faurecia. https://www.linkedin.com/in/dsoukhavong

Sebastien Davoust received his Master in electronics, electrical engineering, and automatic from the Paris-Saclay University (formerly Paris Faculty of Sciences of Orsay). He worked as a Unix and BI consultant at Thales from 1999-2004, and as a SAP BI expert consultant from 2004-2012. Since then, he's been working as a business intelligence coordinator at La Poste Colissimo. https://www.linkedin.com/in/sébastien-davoust-6a376726/

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