Data Innovation Day 2015: Methodologies Behind Analytics Success Stories
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2015 Data Innovation Day Panels
The first panel, called Data for Public Good: Healthcare, Education, Public Safety and the Environment, included Heeke; Alan Inouye, director of the Office for IT Policy and the American Library Association; Max Richman, a chapter leader at DataKind DC and chief data scientist at GeoPoll; Jesse St. Charles, director of data science at Knewton; and freelance journalist Andrew Zaleski.
The second panel, Open Data, Civic Hacking and Data-Driven Government, included Kraft and Flowers, along with Cameron Kerry, a distinguished visiting fellow at Brookings; and Maksim Pecherskiy, the chief data officer for the city of San Diego.
Participants in panel three -- Wearables, Sensors and the Internet of Things -- included Philip DesAutels, senior director of IoT at The Linux Foundation; Mohamad Foustok, CTO at BlueMaestro; Aurelia Moser, map scientist at CartoDB; William Jeffries, founding officer at Heat Seek NYC; Ori Shaashua, co-founder of Neura; and Pablo Vittori, VP of technology for Globant.
The fourth panel -- Innovations in Analytics, Visualization and Big Data Technologies -- included Surdak and Wilde; Sridhar Iyengar, a distinguished engineer with IBM Research; Angel Pizarro with Amazon Web Services; Mark Silverman, CEO of Treeminer; and Tableau's David Sears.
The final panel -- Startups, Entrepreneurship and New Business Models in the Data Economy -- included Hollister; Joel Gurin, senior advisor at NYU's GovLab at NYU; Brian Norris, CIO of Perscio; Rachel Nyswander Thomas, executive director of the Data-Driven Marketing Institute; and John Zoshak, policy manager at FiscalNot.
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