Hello, InfoWorld Readers! We can’t wait to welcome you to the 2023 INFORMS Business Analytics Conference.
As the premier association for data science, AI, ML, and analytics professionals, INFORMS unites expert speakers, leading technology companies, and real-world competitions in the perfect setting for attendees to learn, network, and take home cutting-edge applications that immediately impact your business and decision-making.
We understand how important growing your data science career is to you. With multiple conference events to network with like-minded professionals and opportunities to discover new strategies, tactics, and software workshops to grow your skillset, the 2023 INFORMS Business Analytics Conference is is an ideal choice for developers looking to grow.
We look forward to welcoming you to the 2023 Analytics Conference and INFORMS!
Day 1 Keynote Speaker
Hilary Mason
Co-Founder and CEO, Hidden Door
Optimistic Technologist & Business Innovator
Hilary Mason is the Co-founder and CEO of Hidden Door, where they use generative AI to imagine the future of entertainment. She is a former Data Scientist in Residence at Accel Partners, a leading Silicon Valley venture capital firm.
Hilary is on Fast Company’s 100 Most Creative People in Business 2013 and 1000 Most Creative People in Business 2014. Other honors include the TechFellows Engineering Leadership award, the Fortune 40 under 40 Ones to Watch list and the Crain’s New York Business 40 under Forty.
Sponsored SpeakerThe INFORMS Roundtable addresses the needs of practitioners of OR/MS.
Day 2 Keynote Speaker
Chris Tonas
Chief Technology Officer of Pluralsight
Pluralsight is the leading technology skills and engineering management platform. Tonas joined Pluralsight in August, 2020, bringing with him more than two decades of enterprise technology product leadership and development experience. In his role, Tonas leads Pluralsight’s world class technology organization and is responsible for development and operations of the company’s flagship products. Tonas has built a career making developers successful while partnering with leaders to enable and elevate their technology transformations. Prior to Pluralsight, he was Vice President of the Applications Development Tools organization at Oracle, where he spent 25 years delivering tools, frameworks, and common cloud services to the developers in Oracle’s SaaS organization and to customers across the globe.
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About INFORMS
We are the professional home of those in data science, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and analytics careers. By maintaining a vibrant, international community of members, publishing trusted research across a diverse variety of subjects, and providing career-long education, INFORMS ensures its members can do their finest work and, in turn, solve the world’s most inscrutable challenges.
INFORMS hosts over 40 special interest groups on various topics and industries and over 60 local community chapters for our members to network and share ideas.
Analytics Conference events specifically around your interests and career goals (and at no extra cost!):
Early Career Professionals’ Network (ECPN)
The Early Career Professionals’ Network (ECPN) is a group designed to help recent graduates, soon to be graduates, or anyone newly entering the field of analytics/O.R. to build their professional networks and learn the practicalities of working in the field from experienced practitioners.
Poster Competition
Are you currently working on an analytics, data science, or OR/MS project with a company? This is your chance to share what you have been doing, network with top analytics practitioners in the field, and compete to potentially win some money for your efforts. The top prize is for $2,500 and will awarded on the final day of the Analytics Conference.
Newcomer’s Reception
This informal reception is a great networking opportunity for meeting other professionals and seasoned volunteers within the community. Members of the Organizing Committee and other INFORMS leaders will be your hosts and introduction to all the conference offers you. Light refreshments will be served.
Statistics.com Workshop
Nearly everywhere you turn in the field of data science, attention is focused on the issue of ethics. On a regular basis, examples appear in the technical and popular media of AI models making predictions and decisions that turn out to be unfair or biased. In many cases, the model “owners” did not intend to discriminate, and were unaware that they were doing so. Amazon operated a resume-screening algorithm for many months, aware that it was discriminating against women, before concluding that the problem was not with the mode, it was with the underlying training data.
This workshop will introduce a formal process, the Responsible Data Science Framework, to help protect against unwitting discriminatory AI behavior. First presented in the Wiley book by ERI scientists Grant Fleming and Peter Bruce, Responsible Data Science, it is an extension of standard “best technical practices” models. The workshop consists of a high level executive review, and links to a more complete course with full technical details.
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