PAPIs ‘14 Conference Summary

PAPIs ‘14 was the first International Conference on Predictive APIs and Apps. It took place on 17-18 November 2014 in Barcelona, Spain, where it connected those who make Predictive APIs with those who use them to make Predictive Apps.

Re-live the conference on Storify, find the schedule and speakers on Lanyrd, and watch the videos of the sessions below:

Predictive APIs for public needs - Alexandre Vallette - PAPIs.io '14

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In 2015, PAPIs will take place in Sydney, Australia, where it will precede KDD. We are also planning the 2016 edition in the US.

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Papis.io '14 in numbers

17-18 November 2014 - Barcelona, Spain
200+ Attendees
22 Countries represented
27 Speakers

PAPIs was the best conference I visited in 2014
Lars Trieloff, Blue Yonder

Average rating by 82 attendees

Companies who attended

Microsoft, Telefonica, ING, Samsung, IBM, Amazon, Intel, SAP, King, Banc Sabadell, Axa, BBVA, New Relic, ...

Company Size

1 - 10
11 - 50
51 - 250
251 - 5000
5000+
31% 25% 16% 10% 16%

Participants

  • Student
  • Researcher
  • Data Scientist
  • Developer
  • Non-technical

great talks on “real world” machine learning implementations from all over the world
Andrés Gonzalez, CleverTask

Familiarity with Predictive

  • Still learning
  • Have a precise idea what to do
  • Have built a prototype
  • Have deployed something in production
    32.5% 17.5% 16.2% 33.8%

Familiarity with APIs

  • Still learning
  • Have used APIs in the past
  • Can't live without them
  • Have published own APIs
    27.5% 20% 21.3% 31.3%

Where Participants came from

PAPIs surpassed my expectations and I look forward to the next one
Rizwan Mallal, Forum Systems

Schedule

Schedule for www.PAPIs.io '14 on Lanyrd

Program Committee

Sébastien Arnaud
OpinionLab

Richard Benjamins, PhD
Telefonica

Jason Brownlee, PhD
Machine Learning Mastery

Natalino Busa
ING

Eric Chen, PhD
NTT Innovation

Beau Cronin, PhD
Salesforce

Louis Dorard, PhD
Codole

Andrés González
Clevertask

Matthew Grover
Walmart

Maite López, PhD
Universitat de Barcelona

Gideon Mann, PhD
Bloomberg

Francisco J. Martin, PhD
BigML

Mark Reid, PhD
Australian National University

Ali Syed
Personstyle

Juan Antonio Rodriguez, PhD
IIIA-CSIC

Marc Torrens, PhD
Strands

Jordi Torres, PhD
UPC Barcelona Tech

Zygmunt Zając
Fast.ml

Harlan Harris, PhD
Education Advisory Board

Benedikt Koehler, PhD
d.core GmbH

Ricard Gavaldà, PhD
Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya

Erick Alphonse, PhD
PredictiveDB, Deloitte

Misha Bilenko, PhD
Microsoft

Mike Cossy
IBM

Jordi Nin, PhD
UPC Barcelona Tech Barcelona Supercomputing Center

Jeroen Janssens, PhD
YPlan

Danny Bickson, PhD
GraphLab

Joe McCarthy, PhD
Atigeo