Data @ SciFY and Splunk

Dear All,

I hope this email finds everyone well. I am very excited to announce the first of two meetups we will be hosting this summer. Next Tuesday, June 21st, we will be welcoming George Giannakopoulos of SciFY and Jon Vlachogiannis of Splunk who is visiting Athens from Silicon Valley. We’re very grateful to both speakers for taking the time out of their schedule to come and talk to us. In addition, once again we’ll be hosted by Alba Graduate Business School who have very generously provided us with their main amphitheater for our event.

The seating capacity of the venue is around 110 seats but there is space for people to stand as well. Please RSVP early but do remember to keep your RSVP up to date to allow other people who would like to attend a chance to come if your plans change.

Finally, check out https://www.meetup.com/Data-Science-Athens/files from this afternoon onwards as I’ll be adding presentations from our past meetups and our new ones moving forward.

Looking forward to seeing you there!

Miguel

Agenda

“Reaching open science and innovation: the story of an awkward graph”, George Giannakopoulos

George Giannakopoulos is the CTO of SciFY PNPC (www.scify.org) and a research fellow of the Software and Knowledge Engineering Lab of NCSR “Demokritos” (skel.iit.demokritos.gr). He holds a PhD on Artificial Intelligence and specializes in Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning and Data Mining. He has more than 15 years of industrial experience as an IT consultant, software engineer and researcher. He has worked in a number of EU-funded projects including SYNC3 (synergetic content creation), OKKAM (unique identification of resources), NOMAD (large-scale mining), SemaGrow (distributed semantic querying on open linked data), CLARIN-EL (languare resources technology) and YourDataStories (open linked data) on topics such as summarization, large-scale linguistic services and pipelines, distributed semantic query processing, knowledge extraction and text analytics. He is the organizer of the MultiLing community, challenges and workshops on multilingual summarization (MultiLing 2011 Pilot, MultiLing 2013 at ACL 2013, MultiLing 2015 Special Session at SIGDIAL 2015). We will discuss how a novel, graph-based representation of language made its rough way through summarization, classification, clustering and bioinformatics to reach the world of open science and social innovation in the face of its true love: SciFY. An apparent scientific fairy-tale, based on a completely true story.

“How data made me rich”, Jon Vlachogiannis

Jon Vlachogiannis is the founder of BugSense, which was acquired by Splunk. His many talents include angel investor and quant, ruler of distributed systems and algotrading. Currently he is the Director of Engineering Mobile/IoT at Splunk and he is based in the San Francisco Bay area. He specializes in turning the impossible into the possible.