Making Data Science Go Faster&The Power of Combining BI Analytics and ML

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Speaker#1 : Sepideh Seifzadeh, Data Scientist/Machine Learning Engineer on IBM Data Science Elite team
https://www.linkedin.com/in/sepiseif/

Topic#1: Making Data Science Go Faster

Schedule:
6:30pm - 6:50pm - ODSC Intro, Pizza & Refreshments
6:50pm - 7:40pm - Talk #1 + Q&A
7:40pm - 8:30pm - Talk #2 + Q&A

Bio:
Sepideh Seifzadeh is a Data Scientist/Machine Learning Engineer on the IBM Data Science Elite team, based in San Francisco. After completing her Ph.D. at the Center for Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence at the University of Waterloo, she started her journey as a Big data & Analytics consultant. Sepi joined IBM as an open-source solution engineer, working at IBM Canada for 2 years where she was honored to be awarded “the best of IBM” 2018. She really enjoys being on the DSE team and applying AI in real-world applications to help customers on their Data Science journey.

Abstract:
As organizations rush to innovate and modernize business with AI, one thing is clear — it's critical to monitor your AI models for performance and accuracy, preventing bias, and maintaining explainability. Attend this meetup to learn how some of the tools can help accelerate this journey and how Watson OpenScale helps enterprises bring transparency and audit-ability to AI-infused applications by highlighting possible fairness issues, and generating explanations for individual transactions, including the attributes that were used to make the prediction. Sepideh will also share best practices over 300 engagements from a team of Data Scientists.

Speaker#2: Matthew Baird, Founder&CTO at AtScale, Inc
https://www.linkedin.com/in/mattbaird/

Topic#2: The Power of Combining BI Analytics and Machine Learning

Bio:
Matt is one of the co-founders of AtScale and is the CTO. Prior to AtScale, he was CTO of at Inflection, an enterprise trust and safety software platform, where his team developed Archives, acquired by Ancestry.com. He has built software and managed teams at PeopleSoft, Siebel Systems and Oracle.

Abstract:
In this talk, Baird will speak to his expertise about descriptive and prescriptive analytics as well as incorporate his vast knowledge in data warehousing, big data, and machine learning.

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