Upcoming data conferences feature Insight Fellows and team members
On the heels of Strata and the Grace Hopper Celebration, there are three well-regarded conferences in the data community scheduled for next week. Starting Monday, DataEngConf will feature data engineering and data science talks by industry experts (including Insight alumni and team members) for two days at Columbia University. Meanwhile, New York University will host the Future Labs Artificial Intelligence Summit, which will explore a range of topics in artificial intelligence, and also features a presentation by a member of Insight’s AI team. Finally, several members of the Insight community will be speaking in San Francisco at the Open Data Science Conference, which begins on Thursday.
DataEngConf
Anne Bauer, an Insight alumna and Senior Data Scientist at The New York Times, will be a featured speaker at DataEngConf. Her talk will focus on how her team uses Google Cloud to determine the optimal number of “single-copy” newspapers to send to each sales location. The newspaper was an early adopter of the cloud platform, and Bauer said re-designing and deploying their single copy model has been one of her team’s longest-running projects.
Geneviève Smith, Insight’s Director of Product (and an alumna of the data science program), will talk about the lessons Insight has learned in creating a collaborative learning environment for our data science, health data science, data engineering, and artificial intelligence Fellows. She’ll also share some of the lessons she has learned in helping dozens of data teams hire.
Having attended last year’s DataEngConf, I’m looking forward to the opportunity to catch up with the Insight community. The list of speakers includes a plethora of companies where Insight alums work, including The New York Times, DotDash, Dstillery, Mt Sinai, Tamr, Spotify and Google. Indeed, two of the keynote speakers, Chris Wiggins and Claudia Perlich, regularly come to Insight to speak to our Fellows.
In addition to top NYC companies, this year’s conference includes talks from cutting-edge researchers, such as Frank McSherry, who was part of Microsoft Research’s Silicon Valley group; Sahanna Suri, a researcher at Stanford University’s Future Data Systems; and Andreas Mueller, a lecturer in data science at Columbia University and a core developer of the scikit-learn machine learning library.
DataEngConf has also added a third track for data startups, which features stories from data-oriented startups. The data startup track also adds an extra benefit — ticket prices as low as $250, a fraction of the regular price.
AI Summit
While the data scientists and data engineers meet uptown, researchers, practitioners and investors will be downtown at the AI Summit.
Insight’s AI Lead for NY, Ross Fadley, will kick off the summit with a Machine Learning primer to introduce key concepts and best practices using Python and scikit-learn. The summit includes industry insiders like Corinna Cortes, Head of Research for Google NYC, and Richard Zemel, co-founder and Director of Research for the Vector Institute for AI.
ODSC West
For those on the West Coast, the Open Data Science Conference will include many prominent members of the data community, including DJ Patil — former US Chief Data Scientist and Insight advisor.
Like the other conferences, ODSC West will feature speakers from several top Insight partners like Airbnb, Amazon, the Chan Zuckerberg Biohub, Github, Microsoft, Netflix, Uber, and Zymergen. If you’re attending, be sure to check out Insight alum, Ramesh Sampath’s comparison of PyTorch, Keras, and TensorFlow.
You’ll also find talks and training from engineers on Insight’s team. Emmanuel Ameisen, AI Program Director and ML Engineer, will be discussing concrete NLP solutions, from the simple-but-effective methods to more sophisticated models. For those interested in big data, two of our data engineers, Judit Lantos and David Drummond, will be running a Spark training session that will focus on solving real-world data problems faced by the industry.
So if you’re in NYC or Silicon Valley next week and interested in AI, data science, or big data — there will be several great data events to attend!
Interested in transitioning to a career in data? Find out more about the Insight’s Data Science, Data Engineering, Health Data, and Artificial Intelligence Fellows Programs in New York, Boston, Seattle and Silicon Valley, apply today, or sign up for program updates.
