Predictive Analytics World Chicago Speaker Highlights
Predictive Analytics World comes to Chicago, June 19-22. Yes, it has a stellar agenda, but there are some things you did not know about the wonderful line-up of speakers coming. Read this for more!
Lauren Haynes left years of working in the Technology Labs and as a User Experience Group Consultant at Accenture to devote herself to Good Works and is now Senior Project Manager at the Center for Data Science and Public Policy at The University of Chicago where they focus on projects where we can make an impact for social good. See her interview in the Predictive Analytics Times.
Halim Abbas has been on the Research Staff at Carleton University, a Software Designer at Nortel Networks, the Machine Learning Research Scientist at a couple of successful start-ups, a Senior Research Scientist at eBay, and a Principal Data Scientist at Think Big, A Teradata Company. Today, he’s working on an app for screening for autism and other developmental disorders among young children based on close to 300,000 questionnaires at Cognoa. See his interview in the Predictive Analytics Times.
Gary Class is Senior Vice President, Virtual Channels Group Wells Fargo & Company. After getting started as an economist for the Wharton Econometric Forecasting group, Gary joined Wells Fargo in 1988. How does he stay abreast after nearly 30 years? Gary learns on the job, of course. Since Wells Fargo was the first bank in the world to process a payment on the Internet and is based in San Francisco, Gary has had ample opportunity to stay in close touch and partner with the nearby entrepreneurial community.
