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Inaugural Symposium 2019

Symposium Program

Thursday, November 14, 2019
8:30 am - 6:00 pm

Kellogg Conference Center, Weiboldt Hall,
339 East Chicago Ave. Chicago, IL 60611

8:30 - 9:00am
Continental Breakfast


9:00 - 9:45 am
Introduction: Diego Klabjan, Director, Center for Deep Learning; Doug Downey, Mark Werwath, Simone Campanoni, Assoc. Directors Center for Deep Learning

Moderator: Mark Werwath, Clinical Associate Professor; Director of Master of Engineering Management Program; Co-Director of Farley Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation

Session 1: Small and Mid-Size Business Operatonalizing DL

9:45 - 10:15 am
Speaker: Michael Lucas, Lead Data Scientist, Tempus
Talk Title: Operationalizing DL in a life-sciences start up

10:15 - 10:45 am
Open Forum - Students with DL ideas

10:45 - 11:00 am
Break

11:00 - 11:30 am
Speaker: Ari Kaplan, Director Industry Marketing, Data Robot
Talk Title: Automating and deploying DL and AI through DataRobot

11:30 - 12:00 pm
Speaker: Patrick Boueri, Senior Manager of Data Science, Uptake
Talk Title: Deployed deep learning for industrial use cases

12:00 - 12:15 am
Pardon the Interruption (all mroning speakers)

12:15 - 1:30 pm
Lunch

Session 2: Fortune 500 Operationalizing DL

1:30 - 2:00 pm
Speaker: Jean Utke, Technical Director, Allstate
Talk Title: The (deep learning) model life-cycle and what we hope to gain from the CDL

2:00 - 2:30 pm
Speaker: Pavel Dournov, Sr. Staff Engineering Manager, Google
Talk Title: Metadata in continuous ML workflows

2:30 - 3:00 pm
Business Value Co-Creation with DL & AI Brainstorming Session Facilitated by Naomi A. Kaduwela, MSiA

3:00 - 3:15 pm
Break

3:15 - 3:45 pm
Speaker: Plamen Petrov, VP AI & Chief Data Officer, Anthem
Talk Title: AI-enabled, digital-first care delivery

3:45 - 4:15 pm
Speaker

4:15 - 4:30 pm
Pardon the Interruption (all afternoon speakers)

4:30 - 4:45 pm
Wrap-up

4:45 - 6:00 pm 
Reception