Speakers
Keynote Speakers
Confirmed Speakers
Desiree Abbott
Data Visualization Consultant, Founder
CallMeDeeray
Daniela Aguilera
Director
River Rock Advisors
Hina Arora
Clinical Associate Professor
Arizona State University
Angad Arora
Data Scientist
Google
Ralph Asher
Founder
Data Driven Supply Chain LLC
Zahir Balaporia
Independent Contractor
Jim Bander
Lead Product Manager
Experian
Hanxi Bao
Data Science Director
NBCUniversal Media LLC
Nipun Bhanot
Senior Scientist
Infor
Filipe Cabral
Operations Researcher
American Airlines
Melanie Collins
Advanced Analytics & Automation, Digital Transformation & Technology
Chick-fil-A
Alison Cozad
Americas Gurobi Export Team
Gurobi Optimization
Caroline Daugherty
Data Translator
Pfizer
Satish Desai
Senior Data Scientist
Best Buy
Anusha Dwivedula
Director of Product for the Calculation Services
Morningstar
Duncan Ellis
Principal Data Scientist
Ford Performance & Active Decision Support
Jason Ford, CAP
Senior Operations Researcher
JDSAT, Inc.
Bill Franks
Director, Center for Data and Analytics
Kennesaw State University
Heather Frase
Founder
VerAItech
Ashley Gough
Senior Data Engineer
Disney
Sebastian Gould
Manager of Data Science
Arrow Electronics
Genetha Gray
Senior Manager Data Analytics
Edward Jones
Leonidas Guadalupe, CAP
Director of People Analytics and Data Governance
Children's Health
Gourav Gupta
Lead Data Scientist
ABC Supply Co. Inc
Rayan Hafiz, CAP
Senior Manager, Solution Consulting Group
Plant.Digital
Hamit Hamutcu
Co-Founder
Initiative for Analytics and Data Science Standards, Elements
Scott Harmon
AVP of Business Transformation, Data & Analytics
Church & Dwight
Suzannah Hicks
AI Program Architect
Hummingbird Healthcare
Gregory Higgins
Former O.R. Analyst
USCG HR Analytics
Ehsan Khodabandeh
Principal Operations Research Scientist
Decision Spot
Kaushik Kumaran
Data Scientist
Walmart
Kevin Larrabee
Head of Product
DataShapes AI
Tom Lash
Chief Executive Officer
Vibrant
Louis Luangkesorn
Lead Data Scientist
Highmark Health
Amy McDuffie-Blackett
Career Coach
The MITRE Corporation
Cassandra McZeal
Modeling, Optimization & Data Science Supervisor
ExxonMobil Upstream Company
Carolyn Mooney
CEO
NextMV
Priyanshu Mutreja
Senior Principal Engineer
Toyota
Karen O’Brien
Senior Principal Data Scientist
Modern Technology Solutions, Inc
Thor Osborn, CAP
Principal Systems Research Analyst
Sandia National Laboratories
Yash Puranik
Director of Decision Sciences
Aimpoint Digital, LP
Anne Robinson
Creative Destruction Lab
Steve Roemerman
Chairman and CEO
Lone Star Analysis
Khaled Salah
Professor Computer and Information Engineering
Khalifa University, UAE
Malarvizhi Sankaranarayanasamy
Hitachi America R&D
Thiago Serra
Assistant Professor of Business Analytics
University of Iowa
Karthik Shashidhar
Co-founder, Virtual Chief Analytics Officer
Babbage Insight
Tucker Shouse
Data Science and Engineering Manager
Amazon Web Services
David Simchi-Levi
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Eric Starks
Chairman
FTR Transportation Intelligence
Sandy Steiger
Sr. Director of Advanced Analytics
Total Quality Logistics
Brett Stewart
AI Solution Director
C3 AI
Franz Stoll
Purdue University
Zohar Strinka, CAP
Analytics and Lean Processes Consultant
Lisa Targonski
Director, Commercial Services
Elder Research
Holger Teichgraeber
Software Engineer
Door Dash
Jeremy TerBush
Management Consultant
TerBush Analytics
Nilanjan Mitra Thakur
Co-Founder @ Bluspark | Head of Technology
Bluspark
Alex Tschan
Research and development manager
ALDI SÜD Germany
Nick Ulmer, CAP
Principal OR Analyst
CANA LLC
Daniel Whitenack
Founder & CEO
Prediction Guard
Erick D. Wikum
Analytics Consultant
Wikalytics, LLC
Joseph Wilck
Associate Professor of Practice in Analytics & Operations Management
Bucknell University
Beverly Wright, CAP
Vice President
Data Science & AI at Wavicle Data Solutions
Willow Yang
Assistant Professor
Sam Houston State University
Sitao Zhang
Lead Data Scientist, AI
Johnson & Johnson
Jessica Zhu
Operations Research
U.S Army
