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Accelerate your data science knowledge, training, and network.  All in one event.

ODSC East 2020 is one of the largest applied data science conferences in the world. Our speakers include core contributors to many open source libraries and languages. Attend ODSC East 2020 and learn the latest AI & data science topics, tools, and languages from some of the best and brightest minds in the field.

Focus Areas

  • Deep Learning

  • Machine Learning

  • Predictive Analytics

  • AI for Engineers

  • Natural Language Processing

  • Data Visualization

  • Data Wrangling

  • AI Research

  • Data Science at Scale

  • Data Science for Good

  • Data Science Management

  • Data Science Workflows

  • AI Business Summit

Topics

  • Recommendation Systems

  • Transfer Learning

  • Machine Vision

  • Autonomous Machines

  • Conversational AI

  • Data Science Research

  • Artificial Intelligence

  • Speech Recognition

  • Unsupervised Learning

  • Image Classification

  • Self-driving Vehicles

  • Machine Translation

  • 200+ Speakers over 4 days

Tools

  • Python, Jupyter Notebooks

  • R programming, Julia, Scala, Stan

  • Apache Spark, MLlib, Streaming

  • Tensorflow, MXNet, Caffe, CNTK

  • Scikit-learn, Theano, Shogun, Pylearn2

  • Azure ML, Amazon ML,H20.ai, Cloud ML

  • Neo4J, D3.js, R-Shiny

  • Hadoop, Apache Storm, Apache Flink, Kafka, Druid

  • See schedule for many more..

East 2020 Speakers & Instructors

100+ speakers and 120 sessions already confirmed!

Professor, Co-Founder & Chief TechnologistStanford, Databricks

Matei Zaharia, PhD

Matei Zaharia is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University and Chief Technologist at Databricks. He started the Apache Spark project during his PhD at UC Berkeley in 2009 and has worked broadly in datacenter systems, co-starting the Apache Mesos project and contributing as a committer on Apache Hadoop. Today, Matei tech-leads the MLflow development effort at Databricks. Matei’s research work was recognized through the 2014 ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award for the best PhD dissertation in computer science, an NSF CAREER Award and several best paper awards.

Simplifying Data Science with Delta Lake and MLflow(Track Keynote)

AI ResearcherGoogle Research and Machine Intelligence Group

Margaret Mitchell, PhD

Margaret is a Senior Research Scientist in Google’s Research & Machine Intelligence group, working on artificial intelligence.

Her research generally involves vision-language and grounded language generation, focusing on how to evolve artificial intelligence towards positive goals. This includes research on helping computers to communicate based on what they can process, as well as projects to create assistive and clinical technology from the state of the art in AI.

Her work combines computer vision, natural language processing, social media, many statistical methods, and insights from cognitive science.

Head of AI EngineeringBloomberg

Dr. Anju Kambadur

Dr. Prabhanjan (Anju) Kambadur heads the AI Engineering group at Bloomberg. Anju leads a group of 100+ researchers and engineers who build solutions for Bloomberg clients in the areas of machine learning, natural language processing (NLP) and natural language understanding, information extraction, knowledge graphs, question answering, and table understanding. Previously, Anju was a research staff member in the Business Analytics and Mathematical Sciences Department at IBM Research’s Thomas J. Watson Research Center, where he worked on problems in machine learning, such as matrix sketching, genome-wide association studies, temporal causal modeling, and high-performance computing. He received his PhD from Indiana University. Anju has published peer-reviewed articles in the fields of high-performance computing, machine learning, and natural language processing.

AI Research at Bloomberg(Talk)

Research FellowHarvard University

Zona Kostic, PhD

Zona Kostic is a research, teaching, and innovation fellow at Harvard University. Her professional interests are at the intersection of data visualization, machine learning, and digital realities, with current research activities being specifically focused on semantic visual similarity and smart web-based interfaces. Previously, Zona was part of the Harvard Visual Computing Group developing immersive visual analytics systems that support the overlay of digital information over physical objects. She published six books, and a number of research works at scientific journals and conferences. Zona is also a co-founder of ArchSpike, a small venture that integrates data science and visualization with market modeling, allowing users to design buildings that better respond to future market demands.

Smart Technologies in Enhancing Browsing Experiences(Talk)

Assistant ProfessorMIT CSAIL

Jacob Andreas, PhD

Jacob Andreas is an assistant professor at MIT and a senior researcher at Microsoft Semantic Machines. His research focuses on language learning as a window into reasoning, planning and perception, and on more general machine learning problems involving compositionality and modularity. Jacob earned his Ph.D. from UC Berkeley, his M.Phil. from Cambridge (where he studied as a Churchill scholar) and his B.S. from Columbia. He has been the recipient of an NSF graduate fellowship, a Facebook fellowship, and paper awards at NAACL and ICML.

Opening the Pod Bay Doors: Building Intelligent Agents That Can Interpret, Generate and Learn from Natural Language(Tutorial)

ML Researcher, Adjunct ProfessorMicrosoft Research New England, Stanford University

Lester Mackey, PhD

Lester Mackey is a machine learning researcher at Microsoft Research, where he develops new tools, models, and theory for large-scale learning tasks driven by applications from healthcare, climate, recommender systems, and the social good. Lester moved to Microsoft from Stanford University, where he was an assistant professor of Statistics and (by courtesy) of Computer Science. He earned his PhD in Computer Science and MA in Statistics from UC Berkeley and his BSE in Computer Science from Princeton University. He co-organized the second-place team in the $1M Netflix Prize competition for collaborative filtering, won the $50K Prize4Life ALS disease progression prediction challenge, won prizes for temperature and precipitation forecasting in the yearlong real-time $800K Subseasonal Climate Forecast Rodeo, and received a best student paper award at the International Conference on Machine Learning.

Improving Subseasonal Forecasting in the Western U.S. with Machine Learning(Track Keynote)

Director of Data ScienceShopRunner

Ali Vanderveld, PhD

Ali Vanderveld is the Director of Data Science at ShopRunner, where her team leverages data from a network of over 100 retailers to build products for their 6 million members. Prior to ShopRunner, she was a staff data scientist at Civis Analytics, a consulting and software startup that helps companies, nonprofits, and political organizations better utilize their data. She has also worked at Groupon and as a technical mentor for the Data Science for Social Good Fellowship. Ali has a PhD in theoretical astrophysics from Cornell University and got her to start working as an academic researcher at Caltech, the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and the University of Chicago, working on the development teams for several space telescope missions, including ESA’s Euclid.

Using Computer Vision and NLP Together for Fashion Classification(Talk)

Deep Learning and Software GPU expert Nir Shavit
CEO, ProfessorNeural Magic, MIT

Nir Shavit, PhD

Nir Shavit is the CEO of Neural Magic, a machine learning startup that is currently in stealth mode and is a professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT. Shavit is a co-author of the book The Art of Multiprocessor Programming, is a recipient of the 2004 Gödel Prize in theoretical computer science and of the 2012 Dijkstra Prize in Distributed Computing, and is an ACM fellow. His recent interests include systems issues in machine learning and techniques for understanding how neural tissue computes by extracting connectivity maps of neural tissue, a field called connectomics.

The Software GPU: Making Inference Scale in the Real World(Talk)

DirectorNational Institutes of Health

Susan Gregurick, PhD

Susan K. Gregurick, Ph.D., was appointed Associate Director for Data Science and Director of the Office of Data Science Strategy (ODSS) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) on September 16, 2019. Under Dr. Gregurick’s leadership, the ODSS leads the implementation of the NIH Strategic Plan for Data Science through scientific, technical, and operational collaboration with the institutes, centers, and offices that comprise Dr. Gregurick was previously the Division Director for Biophysics, Biomedical Technology, and Computational Biosciences at the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS). In this role Dr. Gregurick led the institutes effort to reimagine the NIGMS technology programs including early stage, concept development, focused technology programs, development and dissemination centers, through National and Regional Resources to support state-of-the-art facilities, equipment, technologies, research tools, software, and service. Prior to joining the NIH, Susan was a program manager for the Department of Energy where she oversaw the development and implementation of the DOE Systems Biology Knowledgebase, which is a framework to integrate data, models, and simulations together for a better understanding of energy and environmental processes. During Susan’s academic career she was a Professor of Computational Biology at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County and her research interests include dynamics of large biological macromolecules. Susan holds a Ph.D. in Computational Chemistry and her areas of expertise are computational biology, high-performance computing, neutron scattering and bioinformatics.

Head of Medical image Processing LabTel-Aviv University

Hayit Greenspan, PhD

Prof. Greenspan heads the Medical Image Processing and Analysis Lab at the Biomedical Engineering Dept. in the Faculty of Engineering, Tel-Aviv University. Prof. Greenspan has been conducting research in image processing and computer vision for the past 20 years, with a special focus on deep learning, image modeling and analysis, resolution augmentation, and content-based image retrieval. Prof. Greenspan received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the Technion- Israel Institute of Technology, in 1986 and 1989, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from CALTECH – California Institute of Technology, in 1994. She was a Postdoc with the Computer Science Division at U.C. Berkeley from 1995 to 1997. In 1997 she joined Tel-Aviv University.

From 2008 until 2011, Prof. Greenspan was a visiting Professor at Stanford University, Department of Radiology, Faculty of Medicine. She was also a visiting researcher at IBM Research in the Multi-modal Mining for Healthcare group, in Almaden CA. She is now also affiliated with the Computer Science Institute (ICSI) at Berkeley, CA.

Prof. Greenspan has 51 journal publications in top-ranking journals, and more than 100 conference publications. She is the inventor of several patents. She is an Associate Editor of the top ranking journal in Medical imaging (IEEE-TMI) and is an active member of several international professional societies.

Assistant ProfessorUniversity of Massachusetts Boston

Shan Jiang, PhD

Shan Jiang is an assistant professor at the College of Management at the University of Massachusetts Boston. He received a BS in management information systems from Tsinghua University, China, and the PhD degree in management information systems from the University of Arizona. His research interests include business intelligence, social media analytics, computational linguistics, and social network analysis. His research works have appeared in journals including IEEE Transaction on Knowledge and Data Engineering, ACM Transaction on Management Information Systems, Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, and Decision Support Systems.

Web Crawling for Research Data(Talk)

Professor, DirectorStanford University | Stanford Center for Biomedical Informatics Research

Mark Musen, PhD

Dr. Musen is Professor of Biomedical Informatics and of Biomedical Data Science at Stanford University, where he is Director of the Stanford Center for Biomedical Informatics Research. Dr. Musen conducts research related to open science, intelligent systems, computational ontologies, and biomedical decision support. His group developed Protégé, the world’s most widely used technology for building and managing terminologies and ontologies. He served as principal investigator of the National Center for Biomedical Ontology, one of the original National Centers for Biomedical Computing created by the U.S. National Institutes of Heath (NIH). He directs the Center for Expanded Data Annotation and Retrieval (CEDAR), founded under the NIH Big Data to Knowledge Initiative. CEDAR develops semantic technology to ease the authoring and management of biomedical experimental metadata.

CEDAR: Information technology to enhance open science in the fight against COVID-19(Talk)

learn data storytelling
Lead Data Storytelling TrainerStoryIQ

Diedre Downing

Diedre is a Lead Data Storytelling Trainer at StoryIQ where she helps organizations improve their communication with and about data. An accidental math teacher, Diedre learned the power of demystifying numbers in New York City classrooms and the power of influencing decision-makers with data during her time running WeTeachNYC.org for the NYC Department of Education. Diedre is an Adjunct Lecturer at Hunter College in New York and has spoken at NCTM, iNACOL, and Learning Forward about adult learning methodology and best practices in professional learning.

The Art (and Importance) of Data Storytelling(Talk)

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  • Virtual conference experience includes networking lounge area, speaker auditorium, expo halls, and prizes

  • Access multiple livestream tracks on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, or Friday

  • Switch between sessions or tracks as your interests dictate

  • Multiple focus areas including deep learning, machine learning, NLP, research frontiers, AI X for business, and more

  • Sessions you missed can be viewed on demand at your leisure

  • Engage virtually with fellow attendees, speakers, and Expo partners

  • Participate in Q&A sessions with your speaker over live chat

  • Directly download slides and other session materials

  • (Training only) Access training and workshops prerequisites, notebooks, and other materials prior to training session starting

  • (Training only) Access hands-on training and workshops with instructor-led code labs and notebooks.

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** Networking Events and receptions are open to all Bootcamp, Silver, Gold, Platinum, VIP, and Business Pass holders. However, the Tuesday Speaker reception is granted to VIP, andBusiness pass holders only.
** Recording are distributed by pass holders days and pass access. 

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Quick Pass Guide

Livestream 2-Day Pass | Access multiple tracks on April 16th & 17th that include 6 keynotes and all breakout sessions, as well as multiple remote speaker tracks. On demand recordings are not included.

Livestream &  On Demand Recordings Pass |  Get access to everything included in the Livestream 2-Day pass plus on demand recordings of all sessions from Thursday and Friday. On Demand recording will be accessible immediately with continued access for over 12 months. This does not include Tuesday and Wednesday workshop or training livestream or on demand sessions. 

Livestream Trainings, Talks, and Workshop & On Demand Recordings Pass |  3 Day pass (Wed-Fri) Get access to everything included in the Livestream 2-Day + On Demand pass + access all of Wednesday’s workshops and training sessions. You also get immediate On Demand access to all recorded sessions including talks, keynotes, AIX business, training, workshops etc. 

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Free Track passes to Combat COVID-19

Free ODSC Global Virtual Conference passes are available to the following groups

Free Track Passes and are not geographically restricted.

  • If you have recently become unemployed due to the COVID-19, 
  • If you are working in a capacity to better understand the COVID-19 pandemic using data and data science in the healthcare, biotech, pharma and other related industries
  • If you are working for a government agency or NGO seeking to better understand the COVID-19 pandemic using data and data science

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 Our goal is to make as many passes available as can be handled by our livestream license agreements etc. Thus passes will be dispensed on a first come, first serve basis. Thank you for your understanding.   

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We offer academic, government, non-profit and start-up discounts.

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We offer group discounts for groups between 3 and 12 people. Please click for a purchase HERE.

If you have a group of 13 or more, please email us at group@odsc.com to enquire about additional discounts. Please mention the size of your group and the types of passes required.

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In exchange for a free pass, ODSC is seeking volunteers to help with our program and event planning.  See more details HERE.

Where Business Meets AI

Ai x Business Summit

Co-located at ODSC East, Ai x brings together the leading practitioners, innovation experts, and business professionals that drive artificial intelligence across a range of industries

Ai x Finance 

Discover how techniques from Machine Learning, Deep Learning, and Predictive Analytics are driving Innovation in Finance

Ai x Healthcare

Gain AI expertise and learn from leading experts how to work with the frameworks and tools employed in AI for Healthcare

Ai x Retail

Learn to manage and deploy AI in the world of online retail. Hear from AI online retail management and heads of data science teams on a range of online retail AI topics

Ai x Network

Network with the AI experts, innovators, business professionals, and data scientists building the future of AI in finance, retail, healthcare, biotech, pharma, marketing and more..

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Why Attend ODSC

Accelerate your data science knowledge with the latest topics, tools, and trends presented by the best practitioners in the field

5 Reasons Why ODSC is a Better Experience

  • Looking for a conference that charges high ticket prices coupled mostly with vendor pitches that have zero relevance to you or your business? That’s not us 

  • We have a relentless focus on the best, most relevant content for our audience. Sure we have partners, but we limit their number and make sure they’re relevant 

  • Our focus is on the data science community and our contribution to that community’s growth and development, and on helping you, our attendee, gain relevant skills

  • As an applied data conference, we are committed to bringing you the most relevant topics and research that can have a direct impact on your work

  • We have fantastic networking activities at our events, so if you like your data science with a side of fun, we got you covered

Better Content & Training

  • Gain in-demand skills to enhance your data science career or simply become a better data scientist

  • Many topics to choose from, including 70+ talks, 27 workshops, and 20 training sessions all under one roof

  • Learn from the best and brightest in AI and data science to accelerate your learning and insights

  • Learn from the core contributors behind hugely popular tools such as scikit-learn and Caffe

Better Networking

  • Connect with 4,500 fellow data scientists, presenters, innovators, practitioners, and influencers

  • Get hired by innovative companies ranging from Fortune 500s to startups at our Data Science Career Fair

  • Meet executives from multiple industries using AI and data science to transform their industries

  • Attend multiple networking events including breaks, lunches, and evening receptions

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