ODSC Europe Virtual Conference | June 8 - 10, 2021

Data Engineering & MLOps

Focusing on the practice, engineering, workflows and DataOps of data science
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Understand the Practice of Data Engineering in the Real World

As data science extends its reach across an enterprise, the need for better management, workflow, production and deployment practices increase. The challenges of deploying and monitoring models in production, managing data science workflows and teams, and understanding ROI are a few of the issues organizations wrestle with.

Learn best practices for effective data science management

Sessions in this broad focus area will look at uses cases, best practices, and stories from the field to show how to effectively incorporate data science practice into the wider business process.  This focus area will look beyond data sourcing and modeling towards the many challenges teams need to overcome to effectively apply data science in their organization.

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What You'll Learn

Data science has many focus areas.  The goal of this track is to accelerate your knowledge of data science through a series of introductory level training sessions, talks, tutorials and workshops on the most important data science tools and topics.  

  • Experimentation to Production

  • Data Science DevOps

  • Agile Data Science

  • Data Science Architecture

  • Runtime Pipelines

  • Model Monitoring & Auditing

  • Model Depreciation in Production

  • Manage Data Science in Your Organization

  • Collaborative Practices and Tools

  • Team Management

  • Data Science Workflows

  • Data Provenance & Governance

  • Best Practices & Uses Cases

  • Cross Industry & Cross Enterprise Challenges

ODSC EUROPE Virtual Conference 2021 | June 8 - 10

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Some Previous Speakers

Chief Data Scientist, Author of "R for Everyone"Lander Analytics

Jared Lander

Jared Lander is the Chief Data Scientist of Lander Analytics a data science consultancy based in New York City, the Organizer of the New York Open Statistical Programming Meetup and the New York R Conference and an Adjunct Professor of Statistics at Columbia University. With a masters from Columbia University in statistics and bachelors from Muhlenberg College in mathematics, he has experience in both academic research and industry. His work for both large and small organizations ranges from music and fundraising to finance and humanitarian relief efforts.
He specializes in data management, multilevel models, machine learning, generalized linear models, data management and statistical computing. He is the author of R for Everyone: Advanced Analytics and Graphics, a book about R Programming geared toward Data Scientists and Non-Statisticians alike and is creating a course on glmnet with DataCamp.

Machine Learning in R Part I(Training)

Machine Learning in R Part II(Training)

Developer AdvocateVerverica

Marta Paes

Marta is a Developer Advocate at Ververica (formerly data Artisans) and a contributor to Apache Flink. After finding her mojo in open source, she is committed to making sense of Data Engineering through the eyes of those using its by-products. Marta holds a Master’s in Biomedical Engineering, where she developed a particular taste for multi-dimensional data visualization, and previously worked as a Data Warehouse Engineer at Zalando and Accenture.

Snakes on a Plane: Interactive Data Exploration with PyFlink and Zeppelin Notebooks(Talk)

Professor of Computer ScienceTrinity College Dublin

Khurshid Ahmad, PhD

Khurshid is the Professor of Computer Science in the School of Statistics and Computer Science, Trinity College Dublin, University of Dublin, Ireland since 2005. He was formerly Professor of Artificial Intelligence at the University of Surrey, UK (1999-2005). He is currently working on spinning out his research in emergency management and decision making as a commercial venture: the product will be a social media monitor for use in emergencies including natural disasters like floods, and health pandemics. Khurshid’s research areas include artificial intelligence, machine learning, social media and networks, fuzzy logic and behavioural finance. He was trained as a nuclear physicist and worked in high-performance computing covering areas such as forecasting, computer-assisted learning, engineering design, and information extraction from continuous information streams comprising texts, images and numbers. His work seeks to maximise the potential of computing systems by enabling these systems to deal with different modalities of human communications, language, vision, and numerical information exchange. Khurshid’s current focus is on the automatic analysis facial expressions and hand gestures of politicians, civil protection officials, and market traders during emergencies. His collaborators have been diverse ranging from National Gallery of Ireland, UK and Irish Police Forces, Bundeskommnado Leipzig, Protezione Civile Veneto, Italy, Siemens AG, Mercedes Benz, AXA Insurance, international banks, and universities across the EU, the USA, and Australia. He has recently completed an EU Framework Programme 7 – Security Area on the use and abuse of social media in disaster emergency (Project Slandail). A book on Social Computing and the Law (Cambridge, 2018), focussing on emergency management, has just been published. In the past by the UK Research Councils (including EPSRC, ESRC, and AHRC) and EU Information Societies Programme have funded his projects. His work on commercialisation of his research on sentiment analysis and on social computing during disasters were funded by Atlantic Bridge Venture Finds and Enterprise Ireland respectively (2018019). He was the founding Head and Professor of Artificial Intelligence of the Department of Computing, University of Surrey, UK (1999-2005); Visiting Professor at the Copenhagen Business School (1998, 2013) and University of Surrey (2005-2008). He has extensive international contacts and has been invited to speak at major conferences across the world. He is currently working on an information system that can find trends in the reporting and blogging about infectious disease. He has published over 250 papers including 6 books; his most recent book is on the topic of Social Computing and the Law (Cambridge) and a five years before he published Affective Computing and Sentiment Analysis: Metaphor, Ontology and Terminology (Springer). He has supervised 45 PhD, 1 MPhil, and 21 MSc students successfully, and is currently supervising 2 PhD students and 6 MSc students. He is an elected Fellow of the British Computer Society and of Trinity College Dublin, and a Chartered Engineer of the UK Engineering Council.

Needles in a Haystack: Big Data and Bigger Promises?(Talk)

David Talby: NLP for healthcare
CTOPacific AI, John Snow Labs

David Talby, PhD

David Talby is a chief technology officer at Pacific AI, helping fast-growing companies apply big data and data science techniques to solve real-world problems in healthcare, life science, and related fields. David has extensive experience in building and operating web-scale data science and business platforms, as well as building world-class, Agile, distributed teams. Previously, he was with Microsoft’s Bing Group, where he led business operations for Bing Shopping in the US and Europe and worked at Amazon both in Seattle and the UK, where he built and ran distributed teams that helped scale Amazon’s financial systems. David holds a Ph.D. in computer science and master’s degrees in both computer science and business administration.

Model Governance: A checklist for getting AI safely to production(Talk)

Global Head of Artificial IntelligenceThoughtWorks, Inc.

Christoph Windheuser, PhD

Christoph Windheuser is the Global Head of Artificial Intelligence at ThoughtWorks Inc. Before joining ThoughtWorks, he gained more than 20 years of experience in the industry in several positions at SAP and Capgemini. Prior to that, he completed his Ph.D. in Neural Networks with a focus on Speech Recognition at the University of Bonn, Germany, Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, USA, Waseda University in Tokyo, Japan, and France Telekom (E.N.S.T.) in Paris, France.

Data Science Best Practices: Continuous Delivery for Machine Learning(Training)

Senior Data EngineerManifold

Alex Ng

Alexander Ng is a Senior Data Engineer at Manifold, an artificial intelligence engineering services firm with offices in Boston and Silicon Valley. Prior to Manifold, Alex served as both a Sales Engineering Tech Lead and a DevOps Tech Lead for Kyruus, a startup that built SaaS products for enterprise healthcare organizations. Alex got his start as a Software Systems Engineer at the MITRE Corporation and the Naval Undersea Warfare Center in Newport, RI. His recent projects at the intersection of systems and machine learning continue to combine a deep understanding of the entire development lifecycle with cutting-edge tools and techniques. Alex earned his Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from Boston University, and is an AWS Certified Solutions Architect.

MLOps: ML Engineering Best Practices from the Trenches(Workshop)

Lead Data EngineerThoughtWorks, Inc.

Eric Nagler

Eric Nagler serves ThoughtWorks, Inc. as a Lead Data Engineer with eight years of developing innovative batch and real-time data solutions for multiple different clients in multiple different domains. Eric holds a Masters Degree in Computer Science with a focus in Parallel and Distributed Algorithms. Eric’s data interests include Big Data Application Architecture and Design, Parallel Computation, Big Data ETL, NoSQL Data Storage, Natural Language Processing, Geospatial Analytics, Web Services, and Data Visualization.

Data Science Best Practices: Continuous Delivery for Machine Learning(Training)

Principal Data ScientistThoughtWorks, Inc.

David Johnston, PhD

David Johnston is a Principal Data Scientist and founding data scientist of the ThoughtWorks Data Science & Engineering practice. David has over 25 years of experience working with data, data processing pipelines, algorithms, optimization and statistical and machine learning models. David has a Ph.D. in physics and worked previously as a researcher at top universities, NASA and US government labs in the field of cosmology. Since leaving academia he has specialized in helping clients apply these techniques in their business environments with a focus on end-to-end delivery of valuable data-driven products and creating working, maintainable production systems. David is a frequent writer and speaker on data science, artificial intelligence and the importance of applying quality software development best practices toward data science-driven applications.

Data Science Best Practices: Continuous Delivery for Machine Learning(Training)

Head of the Computing Science Faculty, Program DirectorGriffith College Dublin

Dr. Waseem Akhtar

Dr. Waseem Akhtar is Head of Computing Science faculty at Griffith College Dublin. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from University College Dublin (UCD) and an MBA in Higher Education Management from University College London (UCL). Waseem’s current research interests focus on multidisciplinary topics such Big Data Analytics based Business, Process and Management Intelligence Systems, Evidence and Analytics Based Management, Robotic Process Automation and other applications of Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Big Data Analytics. His research interests also include software development for large & complex systems and studying the fundamental nature of information. Waseem is also interested in science communication, history and dissemination of knowledge and studying the impact of emerging technologies on the future of humanity.

Re-imagining Privacy in the Age of Technical and Social Disruption(Talk)

Software EngineerQuantumBlack

Kiyohito Kunii

Kiyo is a software engineer at QuantumBlack, an advanced analytics firm operating at the intersection of strategy, technology and design to improve performance outcomes for organizations. Kiyo is one of the core contributors and maintainers of Kedro, a Python library that implements software engineering best-practice for data and ML pipelines.
Kiyo holds MSc in Computing Science from Imperial College London, and MA in Economics from The University of Edinburgh.

Building a Production-level Data Pipeline Using Kedro(Tutorial)


Why Attend

Accelerate and broaden your knowledge of key areas in data science, including deep learning, machine learning, and predictive analytics

With numerous introductory level workshops, you get hands-on experience to quickly build up your skills

Post-conference, get access to recorded talks online  and learn from over 100+ high quality recording sessions that let you review content at your own pace post conference

Take time out of your busy schedule to accelerate your knowledge on the latest advances in data science practice and management

Learn directly from world-class instructors who are the authors and contributors to many of the tools and languages used in data science today

Meet hiring companies, ranging from hot startups to Fortune 500, looking to hire professionals with data science skills at all levels

Network at our numerous lunches and events to meet with data scientists, enthusiasts, and business professionals

Get access to other focus area content, including machine learning & deep learning, data visualization, and much more

Who will attend

  • Data scientists moving beyond model experimentation looking to understand production workflow

  • Data scientists seeking to improve the overall practice of management and development

  • Anyone interested in understanding better collaborative and agile management techniques as applied to data science

  • Business professionals and industry experts looking to understand data science in practice

  • Software engineers and technologists who need to work with data science workflows and understand the unique requirements of these systems

  • CTO, CDS, and other managerial roles that require a bigger picture view of data science

  • Technologists in the field of DevOps, databases, project management and others looking to break into data science

  • Students and academics looking for more practical applied training in data science tools and techniques

ODSC EUROPE Virtual Conference 2021 | June 8 - 10

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