Agenda Machine Learning Week 2025
June 3-4, 2025 l Conference
June 2 and June 5, 2025 l Workshops
Sheraton Phoenix Downtown Hotel, Phoenix, AZ

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MLW 2025's program is organized by the following track topics:

DAY 1:
Track 1: BizML - Business leadership for ML operationalization
Track 2: Hybrid - Combining predictive/generative AI
Track 3: AI use cases - cross-industry deployment

DAY 2:
Track 1: Predictive AI - methods and use cases
Track 2: Generative AI - methods
Track 3: Generative AI - use cases

Tuesday, June 3, 2025

Tuesday

Tue

8:15 am

Tuesday, June 3, 2025 8:15 am

Keynote: Five Ways to Hybridize Predictive and Generative AI

Speaker: Dr. Eric Siegel, Conference Founder, Machine Learning Week

Tuesday

Tue

8:55 am

Tuesday, June 3, 2025 8:55 am

Keynote: AI for Climate – a Moonshot for the Electric Grid

Speaker: Ravi Jain, Head of Product and Technology, Moonshot for the Electric Grid, X, the moonshot factory

Tuesday

Tue

10:30 am

Tuesday, June 3, 2025 10:30 am

Deploying Trusted ML and AI

Speaker: James Taylor, Executive Partner, Blue Polaris

Tuesday

Tue

11:20 am

11:20 am - 11:40 am

Tuesday, June 3, 2025 11:20 am

11:20 am: The BizML Playbook for Getting Machine Learning Deployed

Speaker: Dr. Eric Siegel, Conference Founder, Machine Learning Week

11:45 am - 12:05 pm

11:45 am: TBA

Speaker: Katie Bakewell, Data Science Solutions Architect, NLP Logix

Speech recognition
11:20 am - 11:40 am

Tuesday, June 3, 2025 11:20 am

11:20 am: Machine Learning in Media & Entertainment: Captions on Max streaming service

Speaker: Sravanthi Aluvala, Director, Product Management-Tech | Data Science & ML Engineering, Warner Bros. Discovery

Machine translation
11:20 am - 11:40 am

11:45 am: How AI-Driven Error Classification Enhances Machine Translation Evaluation

Speaker: Olesia Khrapunova, Machine Learning Engineer, Welocalize, Inc.

Software development
11:20 am - 11:40 am

Tuesday, June 3, 2025 11:20 am

11:20 am: Beyond Code Generation – Applying Generative AI for Codebase Enhancement

Speaker: Karl Weinmeister, Head of Product Developer Relations, Google Cloud, Google

Manufacturing
11:45 am - 12:05 pm

11:45 am: Generative AI applications in Manufacturing Industry

Speaker: Aniket Vashisht, Senior Solution Architect, Amazon Web Services

Tuesday

Tue

2:15 pm

Tuesday, June 3, 2025 2:15 pm

Sponsored Session: Profit Not AUC! How to Make the Much-Needed Shift from Technical Metrics to Business Metrics

Speaker: Dr. Eric Siegel, Conference Founder, Machine Learning Week

Tuesday

Tue

2:40 pm

ML leadership
2:40 pm - 3:00 pm

Tuesday, June 3, 2025 2:40 pm

2:40 pm: Get Your Business AI-Ready: 9 Steps to Leading Successful AI Programs

Speaker: Andreas Welsch, Founder & Chief AI Strategist, Intelligence Briefing

ML leadership
3:05 pm - 3:25 pm

3:05 pm: Discovery, Design, Do: 3 Essential Steps for Transforming Data and Analytics at Your Organization

Speaker: Dr. Jennifer Schaff, Vice President of Commercial Services, Elder Research

Customer-facing interactions
2:40 pm - 3:00 pm

Tuesday, June 3, 2025 2:40 pm

2:40 pm: Topic-Augmented Generation for Client Interactions

Speaker: Ledion Lico, Data Scientist, Paychex

Supply chain
3:05 pm - 3:25 pm

3:05 pm: To Predict or To Optimize - Supply Chain AI

Speaker: Rama Durga Sekhar Angadala, Associate Director, Walmart

Nonprofits
2:40 pm - 3:00 pm

Tuesday, June 3, 2025 2:40 pm

2:40 pm: AI for the Greater Good: Aligning Technology with Nonprofit Values

Speaker: Nathan Chappell, Head of AI, DonorSearch AI

Nonprofits
3:05 pm - 3:25 pm

3:05 pm: Quantifying Connection: Using ML to Measure and Deepen Philanthropic Donor Engagement

Speaker: Scott Rosenkrans, Associate Vice President, DonorSearch AI

Tuesday

Tue

3:55 pm

Best practices
3:55 pm - 4:15 pm

Tuesday, June 3, 2025 3:55 pm

3:55 pm: Superiority and Sanctity of Input Data, for Reliable ML Outcomes in Industrial Settings

Speaker: Rajagopalan Chandrasekharan, Scientist - F, Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research (retired)

Empowering citizen data scientists
4:20 pm - 4:40 pm

4:20 pm: Calling all Data Geeks! How to Establish a Community of Practice!

Speaker: Dr. Erika McBride, Head of Data, Analytics AI PMO and Governance, Paychex

Automating public relations
3:55 pm - 4:15 pm

Tuesday, June 3, 2025 3:55 pm

3:55 pm: Scaling Predictions: The Journey from Model Development to Industry Value

Speaker: Michael Griebe, Chief Data Officer, Hahn

Synthetic data with LLMs
4:20 pm - 4:40 pm

4:20 pm: Synthetic Time Series with LLMs: A Case Study in Automotive Brake Design

Speaker: Mantek Singh, ML Engineer, Google

Tuesday

Tue

4:45 pm

Tuesday, June 3, 2025 4:45 pm

Table Discussion: Getting Models Deployed

Tuesday, June 3, 2025 4:45 pm

Table Discussion: Hybridizing Predictive and Generative AI

Healthcare
4:45 pm - 5:05 pm

Tuesday, June 3, 2025 4:45 pm

4:45 pm: Machine Learning Applications in Immunization Information Systems

Speaker: Sam McGee, Data Scientist II, STChealth

Healthcare
5:10 pm - 5:30 pm

5:10 pm: Transforming Healthcare: The Role of AI in Diagnostics and Patient Care

Speaker: Mohamed Youssef, Senior Software Engineer, 7-Eleven

Wednesday, June 4, 2025

Wednesday

Wed

8:45 am

Wednesday

Wed

8:50 am

Wednesday, June 4, 2025 8:50 am

Keynote: Optimizing The New York Times subscription funnel using real-time causal machine learning

Speaker: Rohit Supekar, Senior Data Scientist, The New York Times

Wednesday

Wed

10:00 am

Feature engineering
10:00 am - 10:20 am

Wednesday, June 4, 2025 10:00 am

10:00 am: Beneath the Iceberg: Augmented Prediction, Targeting and Segmentation with AI/ML

Speaker: Maria Mora Mora, Data Science Engineer / Manager Business Intelligence Analyst, Chronos AI

ML and computer graphics
10:25 am - 10:45 am

10:25 am: Integrating 3D Graphics and Machine Learning: Unlocking Predictive Insights and Business Value

Speaker: Preetish Kakkar, Senior Computer Graphics Engineer, Adobe

RAG
10:00 am - 10:20 am

Wednesday, June 4, 2025 10:00 am

10:00 am: Mastering RAG Systems: Integrating LLMs, OpenSearch, and DeepEval for Enhanced AI Solutions

Speaker: Chris Kuchar, Lead Machine Learning Engineer, NICE

RAG
10:25 am - 10:45 am

10:25 am: Building scalable and performant RAG for enterprises with multi-dimensional retrieval

Speaker: Kumaran Ponnambalam, Principal AI Engineer, Outshift by Cisco

Image generation
10:00 am - 10:20 am

Wednesday, June 4, 2025 10:00 am

10:00 am: Beyond the Canvas: AI Models Shaping Visual Creativity

Speaker: Karthik Hubli, Sr. Software Engineer, Dell Technologies

Workforce
11:45 am - 12:05 pm

10:25 am: You Don't Know What You Don't Know: an HR Chatbot for Employees

Speaker: Steven Hintze, Chief Data and Product Officer, Arizona Department of Child Safety

Wednesday

Wed

11:15 am

Causal modeling
11:15 am - 11:35 am

Wednesday, June 4, 2025 11:15 am

11:15 am: Causal Modeling in Sales Analytics: Beyond Predictive Models

Speaker: Evan Wimpey, Director of Analytics, PyMC Labs

Analytical methods: survival analysis
11:40 am - 12:00 pm

11:40 am: Survival Analysis in Commercial Settings

Speaker: Charles Thibault, Executive Vice President, IDT Telecom

The latest in genAI
11:15 am - 11:35 am

Wednesday, June 4, 2025 11:15 am

11:15 am: Generative AI: Unveiling the Latest Frontiers and Innovations

Speaker: David Howard, Sr. Lead Data Scientist, Cox Automotive

Agentic AI
11:40 am - 12:00 pm

11:40 am: Using Agent-Based AI Methods for Tactical and Strategic Decisions

Speaker: Bipin Chadha, VP Data Science, CSAA Insurance (AAA)

Banking
11:15 am - 11:35 am

Wednesday, June 4, 2025 11:15 am

11:15 am: Banking on GenAI

Speaker: Chris Rohoman, Sr. Director Advanced Analytics & AI, CIBC


11:40 am - 12:00 pm

11:40 am: TBA

Speaker: Steven Ramirez, CEO, Beyond the Arc

Wednesday

Wed

1:15 pm

Wednesday, June 4, 2025 1:15 pm

Special Plenary Session: The Twin Crisis in Science (and how to defeat them)

Speaker: Dr. John Elder, Founder & Chair, Elder Research

Wednesday

Wed

3:30 pm

Market mix modeling
3:30 pm - 3:50 pm

Wednesday, June 4, 2025 3:30 pm

3:30 pm: The Best of ML Models For Marketing

Speaker: Jayda Koland Jones, Founder & Principal Consultant, BDJ Strategy LLC

3:55 pm - 4:15 pm

3:55 pm: ML for NPS Prediction and Root Cause: Reduced Churn and Increased Engagement without a Nickel in Discount (Largest Brazilian Telecom)

Speaker: Fabio Ferraretto, Partner & CEO, DHauz Analytics

MLOps and LLMOps

Wednesday, June 4, 2025 3:30 pm

AI Platform Architecture: How to Do ML and genAI at Enterprise Scale

Speaker: Bas Geerdink, Tech Lead, Aizonic

Health care / Bio tech

Wednesday, June 4, 2025 3:30 pm

Generative AI in the Healthcare Utilization Management World

Speaker: Aisha Rahim, Medical Director and executive, Johns Hopkins health plans

Wednesday

Wed

4:15 pm

Mlflow; churn modeling
4:15 pm - 4:35 pm

Wednesday, June 4, 2025 4:15 pm

4:15 pm: Customer Churn Prediction with MLflow and Streamlit

Speaker: Priyanka Asnani, Senior ML Engineer, Fidelity Investments

Best practices
4:40 pm - 5:00 pm

4:40 pm: Should The Data Always Do The Talking?

Speakers: Amy Neftzger, Senior Director, Advanced Analytics, UnitedHealthcare Mark R Kanner, Senior Principal Data Scientist, UnitedHealthcare

Wednesday, June 4, 2025 4:15 pm

Ask Dean & Karl Anything (about Machine Learning)

Speakers: Dean Abbott, Chief Data Scientist, Appriss Retail Dr. Karl Rexer, President, Rexer Analytics

Retail

Wednesday, June 4, 2025 4:15 pm

Leveraging GenAI for Authenticity and Duplication Detection in CPG Retail Image Data

Speaker: Rohit Agarwal, Chief Data Officer, Mobisy Technologies

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