“…Highlights include: Keynote speeches, including Eva Kaili (European Parliament) on data protection and innovation; Christine Foster (Alan Turing Institute) on building the data-driven future we want to live in; and Pierre Romera (ICIJ) on the challenges of sifting through 1.4 TB of data to produce journalism's headline generating "Paradise Papers" Sessions on Data Science and Machine Learning, including Jaya Mathew and Francesca Lazzeri (Microsoft) on using deep learning models for fraud detection; Ted Dunning (MapR Technologies) on AI Rendezvous technology; Paco Nathan (O'Reilly Media) and Ihab Ilyas (University of Waterloo) on HITL/human guided machine learning; Elisa Celis (EPFL) on fairness and diversity in online social systems; and David Talby (Pacific AI) on natural language understanding at scale with spaCy and Spark NLP Sessions on Data Engineering and Architecture, including Jim Webber (Neo4j) on Neo4j's new causal clustering architecture; Dean Wampler (Lightbend) on streaming microservices with Akka Streams and Kafka Streams; Flavio Junqueira (Dell EMC) on building stream pipelines with Pravega; and Jacques Nadeau (Dremio) on using Apache Arrow for high-speed data access The Strata Business Summit, including Executive Briefings on key issues such as predictive analytics and machine learning, Cloud strategy, governance security and privacy, and AI by luminaries such as Audrey Lobo-Pulo (The Australian Treasury), Kim Nilsson (Pivigo), Martin Goodson (Evolution AI), Simon Chan (Salesforce), and Ira Cohen (Anodot) FinData Day with sessions on using big da..…”

“…You'll hear keynotes from MapR Technologies' Anoop Dawar, Amazon's Alex Smola, O'Reilly Media's Ben Lorica, IBM's Dinesh Nirmal, and Cloudera's Amr Awadallah (Cloudera). …”

“…Alexa, Amazon’s countertop voice bot that listens and helps you with your everyday chores, is primed for holiday sales. Bot Day 2016, O’Reilly Media’s first-ever conference on bots, presented some of the visionaries responsible for creating the new bot world. …”