Conference Program

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Monday 14/3

• Automating ML workflows: a report from the trenches — Jose A. Ortega Ruiz
  5:00 PM – 5:30 PM

• Machine Learning Services Benchmark: choosing the right tools for your application — Inês Almeida
  4:30 PM – 5:00 PM

• Machine learning performance evaluation: tips and pitfalls — Jose Hernandez Orallo
  4:00 PM – 4:30 PM

• Coffee break
  3:30 PM – 4:00 PM

• Open source Machine Learning and Predictive APIs — Alex Housley
  3:00 PM – 3:30 PM

• How to build a successful data team — Florian Douetteau
  2:30 PM – 3:00 PM

• Panel Discussion: Opportunities of AI in FinTech
  2:00 PM – 2:30 PM

• Lunch
  1:00 PM – 2:00 PM

• Microdecision making in financial services — Greg Lamp
  12:30 PM – 1:00 PM

• Predictive APIs: What about Banking? — Natalino Busa
  11:40 AM – 12:30 PM

• Coffee break
  11:10 AM – 11:40 AM

• Predictive Analytics Use Cases in the Manufacturing Industry — David Arnu
  10:45 AM – 11:10 AM

• Real-world applications of AI — Daniel Hulme
  10:15 AM – 10:45 AM

• Building a production-ready predictive app for customer service — Alex Ingerman
  9:45 AM – 10:15 AM

• A business-level introduction to AI — Louis Dorard
  9:10 AM – 9:45 AM

Tuesday 15/3

• Closing Remarks with Molt Honorable Sr. Vicent Soler i Marco
  6:00 PM – 6:30 PM

• AI Startup Battle
  4:30 PM – 6:00 PM

• Lightning Talks
  4:00 PM – 4:30 PM

• Coffee break
  3:30 PM – 4:00 PM

• Using ML to build an autonomous drone — Greg Lamp
  3:00 PM – 3:30 PM

• Speed-up distributed deep learning with Spark on AWS — Vincent Van Steenbergen
  2:30 PM – 3:00 PM

• Demystifying Deep Learning — Roberto Paredes Palacios
  2:00 PM – 2:30 PM

• Evolving a data-driven company from MapReduce to Spark — Ferran Galí Reniu
  1:30 PM – 2:00 PM

• Lunch & Mascletà
  12:35 PM – 1:30 PM

• Panel discussion: short and long-term impact of AI in Society
  12:10 PM – 12:35 PM

• Engineering the Future of Our Choice with General AI — JoEllen Lukavec Koester
  12:00 PM – 12:10 PM

• Past, Present and Future of AI: a Fascinating Journey — Ramon Lopez de Mantaras
  11:20 AM – 12:00 PM

• Coffee break
  10:55 AM – 11:20 AM

• Revolutionizing Offline Retail Pricing & Promotions with ML — Daniel Guhl
  10:30 AM – 10:55 AM

• How to predict the future of shopping — Ulrich Kerzel
  10:00 AM – 10:30 AM

• The emergent opportunity of Big Data for Social Good — Nuria Oliver
  9:10 AM – 10:00 AM