Data Science

Innovation Summit
Creating a Data-Driven Culture
February 12 & 13, 2015
The Westin,
San Diego, CA

Confirmed Speakers

Confirmed Speakers
Associate Director, Cyberscience, PennState

Chief Data Scientist, Halliburton

Director, Analytics, Boeing

Associate Dir, Data Science, UnitedHealth

Principle Architect, GE

VP, Data Science, LiveNation

Chief Scientist, Pacific Northwest University

Head, Data Science, Walmart

Chief Scientist, ShareThis

Director, Data Science, Netflix

Chief Technology Officer, GE Aviation

Principle Data Scientist, AT&T

Chief Data Scientist, Schlumberger

Director, Data Science, LinkedIn

Director, Data Science, Toyota

Principle Data Scientist, PayPal

Chief Operations Officer, US Army

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Who Will You Meet?

There is no question that IE. provides the
gold standard events in the industry and will
connect you with decision makers within the
analytics industry. You will be meeting
s e n i o r l ev e l ex e c u t i v e s f ro m m a j o r
corporations and innovative small to
medium size companies.

Company Size Of Attendees

1000+ Employees
300-999 Employees
50-299 Employees
Less than 49 Employees

56%

81%

Job Title Of Attendees

78%

Attendees are at Director

level or above
3%

21%

President
/Principal
SVP/VP

12%

C-Level

42%

Snr. Director
/Director

25%

Attendees are
companies with at
least 300
employees

13%

Global Head
/ Head

8%

Snr. Manager
/Manager

11%
8%

Academic (1%)

Past Delegates include

Scientist - PayPal
Chief
Former
Chief Scientist - Amazon
Chief Data
Officer - City of Chicago
Chief Operating
Officer - Electronic Arts

Chief
Data
Scientist
- Accretive Health
Chief Information Officer
- Big Fish Games

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About The Summit

The Data Science Innovation Summit brings together
thought-leaders from the industry for an event acclaimed
for its interactive sessions and high-level speakers.
As organizations grow and the need to invest in data
science in order to drive success becomes clear, support
from senior leadership and a true understanding of the
need for a data-driven culture is a necessity. This event
will focus on how organizations are working in Big Data,
and how to create the right data science team. Speakers

will share real-world examples of how they have benefited

from creating a data-driven culture in their organizations.
Illustrated intermittently with case studies and deep-dive
discussions, the Data Science Innovation Summit offers
solutions and insight from the leaders in the space. With
networking breaks and roundtable discussions also
included, this event offers unique insight into how you can
get transform your organizations focus around data
science.

Confirmed Speaker Information

Xin Fu
Director, Data Science
LinkedIn

Xin Fu is a Principal Data Scientist Lead at LinkedIn. He

and his team is responsible for driving product innovations
through inferential analysis, measurement and reporting
and online experimentation, as well as developing analytics
platforms to enable effective decision-making at scale. Xin
holds a PhD in Human-Computer Interaction and a MS in
Statistics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill.

Esteban Arcaute
Head, Data Science
WalmartLabs

Esteban Arcaute was born in Mexico City, and earned a

Ph.D. and a M.S. from Stanford University in Computational
and Mathematical Engineering. He also holds masters
degrees in Electrical Engineering and Applied Mathematics.
He is currently the Sr. Director and Head of Data Science,
Category Development, at @WalmartLabs. Prior to that, he
was at Adchemy as the Sr. Director and Head of Research.
Esteban has actively worked on the foundations of
electronic commerce since 2005, publishing over 10 peerreviewed publications, and leading industrial research
teams. His current interests span from learning systems, to
advanced analytics and experimentation.

Prior to joining LinkedIn, Xin worked at Google and

Microsoft. He has authored over 50 refereed papers and
journal articles in the areas of information organization and
retrieval, Web search interface, and online user
behavioural measurement.

Building data products for modern ecommerce consumers

Retail customers today expect to be able to shop anytime,
anywhere. They want access to reliable information on
products while browsing in-store, at home, and on the
go.While yesterday billboards were replaced by banner
and text-based ads, today those curated productconsumer interactions are giving way to consumer-driven
product exploration and discovery experiences.This is
leading to more users being connected to more products
than ever before. In this talk we explore how, by harnessing
the power of big data and data science, an eRetailer can
successfully develop data products to delight its
consumers.

Nachum Shacham
Principle Data Scientist
PayPal

Nachum Shacham is a Principal Data Scientist at PayPal

where he is working on identifying business value in large
transactional, behavioral, and system performance
datasets. Before, he was with eBay, analyzing performance
of large data platforms. Prior, he was with SRI, leading
research in internet technologies, generation of wireless
internet and real-time voice and video communications
over mobile networks.

As co-founded CTO of Metreo, he developed models for

B2B pricing and subsequently created revenue models for
online display and search advertising. Nachum holds
BScEE & MScEE from the Technion, and PHD in EECS from
UC Berkeley. Dr. Shacham is a Fellow of the IEEE.

Kerstin Kleese Van Dam

Chief Scientist
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

At present Kerstin is the Chief Scientist and Team Lead for

D a t a S e r v i c e s i n t h e a n Ad v a n c e d Co m p u t i n g ,
Mathematics and Data Division at Pacific Northwest
National Laboratory. She is involved in a range of data
management research projects in domains reaching from
new technologies for scientific experiments in extreme scale
data to semantic

and data management and analysis systems for Real Time

and Co-analysis for Chemical Imaging, Advanced Climate
Modeling for Energy (ACME) and HighEnergy Physics
(BELLE II). She is the co-lead of the Analysis in Motion (AIM)
research initiative.

Yan Qu
VP, Data Science
Share This

Yan Qu is VP of Data Science and Chief Scientist at

ShareThis, where she leads the data science team. She has
invented Social Quality Index (SQI) - a unique model of
valuing the social activity that occurs around online
content. SQI won the Adweek Project Issac Award and has
been adopted by major ad agencies for media planning
purposes. Previously, she headed the Advanced Research
team at AOL's Advertising.com unit,

where she pioneered the "lookalike" modeling technique

and developed a scalable research prototype that
generated double-digit million dollar revenue run rate. She
holds 15 patents in the areas of online advertising,
predictive modeling, large scale data analytics, social
network structures, social quality, and text mining.

Confirmed Speaker Information

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Gian Gonzaga
Director, Data Science
Netflix

Gian Gonzaga is the Director of Content Science and

Algorithms at Netflix. His team is uses cutting edge big
data techniques to help Netflix create their domestic and
international content catalogs and program their award
winning slate of originals. Before moving to Netflix, Gian
was head of Research and Development at eHarmony and

received his Ph.D. in Social-Personality Psychology from

UC Berkeley. He has published more than 20 papers and
had his work has been highlighted in the New York Times,
Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, and the New
Yorker.

Antonio Magnaghi
VP, Data Science
LiveNation

Leading applied R&D and SW engineering/development on

several strategic, large-scale initiatives at Live Nation/
Ticketmaster. Growing and developing engineering teams
to solve sophisticated data-centric business needs.
Working with very large data sets representing complex
events and extracting actionable knowledge from them
using a broad range of algorithms, computational
approaches and SW frameworks.
Designing and implementing novel machine learning
algorithms as the core technology of Ticketmaster
marketing and user intent discovery platforms. Currently

engaged on developing a new generation of collaborative

filtering systems, predictive user response models and
computational advertising algorithms. Received his Ph.D. in
Social-Personality Psychology from UC Berkeley.
He has published more than 20 papers and had his work
has been highlighted in the New York Times, Washington
Post, the Wall Street Journal, and the New Yorker.

Satyam Priyadarshy
Chief Data Scientist
Halliburton

Dr. Satyam Priyadarshy is a pioneer in the fields of data

science, big data, analytics, and emerging technologies. He
is currently chief data scientist at Halliburtons Landmark
PSL, leading expansion of integrated workflow capabilities
and other data development initiatives. Dr. Priyadarshy has
appeared as speaker at several international conferences,
and has written, co-authored, presented and published
numerous research papers in peer-reviewed journals and
magazines. He has held various leadership positions in
AOL,
,

He was recently named to The Financial Times list of

potential board candidates with emerging technology and
analytics expertise. Dr. Priyadarshy is an adjunct faculty at
Georgetown University. He is currently senior fellow at the
International Cyber Security Center at George Mason
University. He is advisory board member at multiple
organizations including Big Data Summit, Virginia Techs
MBA Board, etc. Dr. Priyadarshy holds a Ph.D. from Indian
Institute of Technology in Bombay, and an MBA from
Virginia Tech.

The Information
Data Science Innovation Summit
Date:
Location:
Venue:
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February 12 & 13, 2015

San Diego, CA
The Westin, West Broadway, San Diego, CA 92101
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Registration Pricing
Diamond Pass

Silver Pass

Gold Pass

$1495

$1795

$1995

Access to all sessions &

networking events
7 days access to presentations from the
summit via ieOnDemand

Access to all sessions, networking

events & unlimited access to
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ieOnDemand

Access to all sessions, networking

events, annual subscription to all content
on the Big Data & Analytics channels via
ieOnDemand

$1295

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$1595

Early Bird Price

(before Dec 19)

Early Bird Price

(before Dec 19)

Early Bird Price

(before Dec 19)

On-Demand Pass

1 Day Pass

$600

$895
Full access to the sessions to your
chosen day of the summit, 7 days
access to presentations from the summit
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from the summit via ieOnDemand,
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For larger groups or special requests contact Bola

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bwilliams@theiegroup.com
* Team discounts are applicable at the point of
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Ways to Register
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+1 323 446 7673

Online Registration

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Registration Form
Data Science Innovation Summit
February 12 & 13, 2015 | The Westin, San Diego, California
For registration or more information on the program, please call Bola on +1 415 692 5378 or fax this registration form
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Team discounts are applicable at the point of registration only. Any cancellations within a group registration will in turn incur an increase in
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cancel your registration after January 12, 2015 you will be charged the full fee. You must notify The Innovation Enterprise in writing of a
cancellation, or you will be charged the full fee. The Innovation Enterprise reserve the right to make changes to the program without notice.
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Schedule
Day One

February 12

08.30
Session One 08.30 - 10.00

10.00
Coffee Break 10.00 - 10.30

10.30
Session Two 10.30 - 12.00

12.00
Lunch 12.00 - 13.30

13.30
Session Three 13.30 - 15.00

15.00
15.30

Coffee Break 15.00 - 15.30

Session Four 15.30 - 17.00

17.00
Networking Drinks 17.00 - 19.00

19.00

Day Two

February 13

08.30
Session Five 08.30 - 10.00

10.00
Coffee Break 10.00 - 10.30

10.30
Session Six 10.30 - 12.00

12.00
Lunch 12.00 - 13.30

13.30
Session Seven 13.30 - 15.00

15.00
Departure Coffee Break 15.00 - 15.30

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Confirmed Sponsors

Networking Drinks Sponsor

Media Partner

Media Partner

For sponsorship information contact Pedro Yiakoumi

Media Partner

2015 Calendar
January

May

Big Data Innovation Summit

Big Data Innovation Summit

January 22 & 23, Las Vegas

May 13 & 14, London

Cloud Innovation
Expo

Big Data & Analytics in

Healthcare

January 22 & 23, Las Vegas

May 13 & 14, Philadelphia

February

Chief Data Officer Summit

September Continued
September 23 & 24, Boston

May 20 & 21, San Francisco

Data Science Innovation

Summit
February 12, San Diego

Apache Hadoop Innovation

Summit
February 12 & 13, San Diego

The Digital Oilfield

Innovation Summit
Big Data & Analytics
Innovation Summit

November
Big Data & Analytics
for Pharma
November 4 & 5, Philadelphia

June

Big Data & Marketing

Innovation Summit

Big Data & Analytics for

Pharma

Big Data for Finance

June 10 & 11, Philadelphia

Open Data Innovation

Summit
June 10 & 11, Boston

February 19 & 20, Houston

Big Data Innovation Summit

November 4 & 5, Miami

November 11 & 12, Boston

Data Visualization
Summit
November 11 & 12, London

Big Data & Analytics for

Retail Summit
June 17 & 18, Chicago

Chief Data Officer

Summit
November 11 & 12, London

February 27 & 28, Singapore

August

March
Big Data & Analytics
Innovation Summit

Big Data & Analytics

Innovation

March 25 & 26, Brazil

August 5 & 6
Kuala Lumpur

April

Big Data & Analytics

Innovation Summit

Big Data & Analytics

Innovation Summit
November 11 & 12, London

Big Data & Analytics

Innovation Summit
November 25 & 26, Beijing

August 19 & 20, Brazil

December

September

Big Data & Analytics in

Banking Summit

April 15 & 16, Santa Clara

Big Data & Analytics

Innovation Summit

December 2 & 3, New York

Data Visualization Summit

September 17 & 18, Sydney

Big Data Innovation Summit

April 15 & 16, Santa Clara

DataTalent

April 15 & 16, Santa Clara

Big Data Innovation Summit

April 23 & 24, Hong Kong

Chief Data Officer

Summit
December 2 & 3, New York

Data Visualization
Summit
September 23 & 24, Boston

Flagship

Women

Hadoop

High Tech

Government

CXO

Finance

Expected

Healthcare

Pharma

Oil & Gas

Partnership Opportunities: Giles Godwin-Brown | ggb@theiegroup.com | +1 415 692 5498

Attendee Invitation: Sean Foreman | sforeman@theiegroup.com | +1 415 692 5514