ADS Festive Drinks & Data: 2018 Highlights & Looking Forward to 2019

ADS Drinks & Data: 2018 Highlights & Looking Forward to 2019

Amsterdam Data Science (http://amsterdamdatascience.nl) would like to invite you to our Festive Drinks & Data afternoon on Thursday 06 December at 15:00 where we will celebrate our 2018 highlights and share our plans for 2019. After we will have drinks & delicious snacks.

Date: Thursday 06 December 2018
Time: 15:00-18:00
Location: Amsterdam Science Park Congress Center - Turing & Newton Rooms (next to CWI, Amsterdam Science Park 123)

15:00-15:30
Coffee & posters from the Amsterdam Academic Alliance (AAA) Data Science projects in the Newton Room

• Peter Bloem (VU)
• Davide Ceolin (CWI)
• Evangelos Kanoulas & Bob van de Velde (UvA)
• Benno Kruit (CWI): "Information Extraction from Tables for Knowledge Base Augmentation"
• Chantal van Son (VU): "The Vaccination Debate: An Exploration of Long Term Concept and Perspective Mining" (Serge ter Braake, Chantal van Son, Davide Ceolin, Julia Noordegraaf, Inger Leemans, Piek Vossen, Lora Aroyo, Rens Bod)

15:40-15:45
Lynda Hardman, ADS Director (CWI)
Introduction and opening

15:45-16:55
ADS 2018 Highlights & Looking Forward to 2019
4-minute madness presentations followed by 1-minute question time on: Data Science & Artificial Intelligence Highlights and Plans in:
Research, Education, Entrepreneurship & Network Outreach

2018 Highlights:

• Emma Beauxis-Aussalet (AUAS, CWI): "Classification Errors for End-Users"
• Mark Siebert (Elsevier): "Science Knowledge Graph & the AI Report"
• Marco Virgolin (CWI): "Explainable, Evolutionary Machine Learning for Highly Individualized Radiation Dose Reconstruction"
• Emma Beauxis-Aussalet (AUAS): "Digital Society School, Where Change Takes Shape"
• Nanda Piersma (AUAS, CWI): "Data Studio"
• Ana Maldonado (Qualogy): "Hackathons and Collaborations"
• Liza Kolesnichenko (ACE): "Amsterdam Center for Entrepreneurship in 2018"

Looking forward to 2019:

• Koen Hindriks (VU): "Social Robots"
• Julien Rossi (UvA): "Data Driven Legal Entailment"
• Maarten Sukel (Gemeente Amsterdam, UvA): "Classification Methods for Urban Service Requests"
• Paul Groth (UvA): "Data Engineering"
• Herbert Bos (VU): "Amsterdam Cyber Security Center"
• Esther Smit (UvA): "Amsterdam Data Exchange"

16:55-17:00
Lynda Hardman, ADS Director (CWI)
Next Steps for ADS, 2019 & Beyond

17:00-18:00
Posters & Networking over Festive Drinks & Snacks in the Newton Room

• Peter Bloem (VU)
• Davide Ceolin (CWI)
• Evangelos Kanoulas & Bob van de Velde (UvA)
• Benno Kruit (CWI)
• Chantal van Son (VU)

Registration is free but please RSVP on our Meetup page:
https://www.meetup.com/Amsterdam-Data-Science/events/255294331/
The event will be in English.

**