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Big Data Tech 2018

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8:00am CDT

Registration TBA

9:00am CDT

Modern Big Data in the era of cloud, Docker and Kubernetes P0808 A&BSlim Baltagi Search and AI-Driven Analytics: How Collegis Revolutionized the Way They Use Data P1838Dan Antonson The Road Ahead – Journey to Operational Analytics Auditorium (Fine Arts F1265)Victor Lund • Todd Walter Transforming Medical Device Quality with Graph Data, Hadoop and Operationalized Analytics K1450 (Fireside Room)Nipun Parasrampuria • Eric Wespi A Day in the Life of a Marketing Team (BI / Campaign Mashup) Garden Room (Kopp A-B-C)John Thuma Big Data Strategy P0806 A&BCharles Liedtke, Ph.D. AI-Enabled Design P1808Joel David Martin Startup Showcase P0838Aba El Haddi • Nathan Hayes • Daren Klum • PG Narayanan • April Seifert • Parag Shah • Mike Vetter • EnduraData • Flywheel • Modal_Technology_Corp. • Secured² • SmiForce • SprocketCX • Vēmos

9:45am CDT

Break TBA

10:00am CDT

Best of Cloud, On-Prem, and People Growing Analytics to ML K1450 (Fireside Room)Bryan Whitmore Startup Showcase (continued) P0838Aba El Haddi • Nathan Hayes • Daren Klum • PG Narayanan • April Seifert • Parag Shah • Mike Vetter • EnduraData • Flywheel • Modal_Technology_Corp. • Secured² • SmiForce • SprocketCX • Vēmos From Analyst to Data Scientist: Making the Leap to Data Scientist Mid-career Auditorium (Fine Arts F1265)Jennifer Roberts Deep Learning on Pricing Dynamics of the Municipal Market Using Tensorflow P1838Shuxia Zhang, PhD, MBA Tools and Techniques for Influencing Others with Machine Learning P0806 A&BDaniel Fischer Optimizing Pandas for Beginners P0808 A&BSofia Heisler Real-time Event Streaming Into Apache Kudu P1808Justin Kaiser • Mac Noland Speeding up R with Multiple Cores and Clusters Garden Room (Kopp A-B-C)David M Smith

10:30am CDT

Break TBA

10:45am CDT

AI and Data Visualization: the Beauty and the Brains P0806 A&BMichael O'Connell The Future of ETL (isn't what it used to be) K1450 (Fireside Room)Gwen Shapira Canada's AI Corridor and How You Can Benefit Garden Room (Kopp A-B-C)Jean-Francois Houle Hiring and Retaining Analytics Talent in the Age of the Big Data Craze Auditorium (Fine Arts F1265)Linda Burtch Going Deep: Building and Deploying Deep Learning Solutions P1838Rajeev Bukralia Natural Language Processing for Social Good: Contrasting Approaches to Text Classification P0808 A&BAnna Bethke • Sean McPherson, PhD Fighting Disinformation Using NLP P1808Jeff Kao A.I.: Sorting Through the Hype, the Hope, the Reality (Startup Panel) P0838Rick Brimacomb • Scott Litman • Andrew Murphy • Matt Versaggi

11:15am CDT

Break TBA

11:30am CDT

Analyzing the Opioid Crisis Auditorium (Fine Arts F1265)Matthew Bley • David Knox Discoveries When Big Data, AI and HPC Converge P1838Rangan Sukumar Pervasive Analytics on the Edge – Smart Manufacturing K1450 (Fireside Room)Michael Prom Predicting Heart Failure with 125 dimensions and 1.7M Patients Leveraging Hadoop, Spark and R Garden Room (Kopp A-B-C)Chris Manrodt Cost-effective Chatbots Enable Artificial Intelligence to Create Real Business Value P1808Jake Laws • Cort Lunke Quantum Computing in Practice P0808 A&BShane Caldwell Swim, Bike, Run – The Essence of Data Science! P0806 A&BJohn Young

12:15pm CDT

Lunch TBA

1:15pm CDT

(want: Recommendations) -[:WITHOUT] -> (:FalsePositives) Garden Room (Kopp A-B-C)Dan Flavin Calculating Genetic Diversity for a Registry of More Than 8 Million Bone Marrow Donor Volunteers P1838Pradeep Bashyal • Debra Turner • Eric Williams Feeding the World One Byte at a Time: Cargill's Analytics Initiative to Transform the Shrimp Aquaculture Industry P0838William Eerdmans Bayesian Inference in Education P0808 A&BThomas Christie • Taavi Taijala Big Graph: Turning Data Lakes Into Connected Knowledge Graphs Auditorium (Fine Arts F1265)Arun Batchu • Dan McCreary Experiential Analytics: When to Walk Inside Your Data P0806 A&BDan Keefe, PhD Three Billion Points Underwater P1808Paul Wickman Scalable Automatic Machine Learning with Open Source H2O K1450 (Fireside Room)Erin LeDell Jupyter Notebook Introduction Lab: Learn How to Program with Notebooks P1804 (Computer Lab)Jean-Marie Bertoncelli

2:00pm CDT

Break TBA

2:15pm CDT

Agile Data Engineering: Eliminate the Complexity of Big Data Through Automation Auditorium (Fine Arts F1265)Ramesh Menon Leveraging Machine Learning with 2.7 million Patients to Identify Top Risk Factors of Acute Respiratory Failure and Invasive Mechanical Ventilation Garden Room (Kopp A-B-C)Hung-Lun Chien Preserving Privacy in Publicly Available Datasets P0838Sona Maniyan • Jeff Van Voorst, PhD Your Key to Delivering on Big Data, Machine Learning and IoT Promises P0806 A&BJeanne Ford • Dave Nelson Quantum Computing in the AI Umbrella P0808 A&BMatt Versaggi Scalable Feature Engineering with Dask & Event-based Count Data P1838Greg Hayes Your Attention, Please! Building Intuition Around Attention-based Text Classification Models P1808Andy Kreek AWS Glue & SageMaker Tutorial K1450 (Fireside Room)John Hudzina

3:00pm CDT

Break TBA

3:15pm CDT

Deciphering the Code of Media Measurement P0838Brandon Wishnow The Three Lies of AI: 3 Secrets to Avoiding AI Project Failures Garden Room (Kopp A-B-C)Isaac Cheifetz • Bonnie Holub Containerization: Containing the Data Beast P0808 A&BAshley Nelson • Reshu Yadav End-to-end Development with RStudio P0806 A&BDan Weinbeck Model Management with Stream 1st Architecture P1808Bradley Hoskins

3:45pm CDT

Networking Social TBA