BDW London – What Enterprises can Learn from Startups

Data Science London is the world’s 2nd largest community of Data Scientists dedicated to the free, open dissemination of Data Science.

“Data Science as a Game Changer: What Enterprises can Learn from Startups”

New developments in statistical computing, machine learning, and predictive analytics, combined with massive parallel computing at low cost, are transforming the way startups and enterprises are analysing and extracting business value from Big Data.

Data Science is here to stay, and -in many ways- becoming a ‘game changer.’

Agenda

18:30 Welcome and networking around free beer and pizza

Speakers

Mike Ferguson, MD at Intelligent Business Strategies

About Mike: With over 30 years of IT experience, Mike has consulted for F500 corporations on business intelligence/corporate performance management, enterprise architecture, business integration, MDM and data integration. Formerly he was a principal and co-founder of Codd and Date Europe Limited – the inventors of the Relational Model, a Chief Architect at NCR on the Teradata DBMS and European Managing Director of Database Associates.

Jason McFall, CTO at Causata

About Jason: A former researcher at Stanford University specialised in the fine differences between matter and antimatter. In the decade since then, he has led teams in the design and development of high performance enterprise software applications to record and analyze large and complex sets of business data, using a variety of meta-modeling and data mining techniques. He holds a first-class degree in Physics from Imperial College, London and a doctorate in Particle Physics from Oxford University.

Hillary Mason, Chief Scientist at Bitly

About Hillary: Her work involves both pure research and development of product-focused features. She is a former computer science professor with a background in machine learning and data mining, has published numerous academic papers, and regularly releases code on her personal site, www.hilarymason.com. She’s also a co-founder of HackNY (hackny.org), a non-profit organization that connects talented student hackers from around the world with startups in NYC.

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Barbara
Barbara

Hi, I tried to register but I can't find the event on the calendar in the meetup page. Are registrations not open yet? Barbara

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