Agenda Machine Learning Week 2024
Phoenix, AZ June 4-7, 2024

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MLW 2024's program is organized by three track topics:

Track 1: BizML – Business practice for ML operationalization

Track 2: Tech – Advanced ML methods & MLOps

Track 3: ML Use Cases – Cross-industry deployment

See also the Agenda for the co-located GENERATIVE AI APPLICATIONS SUMMIT

Thursday, June 6, 2024

Thursday

Thu

8:30 am

Thursday, June 6, 2024 8:30 am

Opening Day 1 – Kickoff

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

Room:Phoenix Ballroom D

Thursday

Thu

8:40 am

Thursday, June 6, 2024 8:40 am

Keynote: How Transformers Reinvent Machine Learning – for Both Generative AI and Predictive AI

Speaker: Julien Simon, Chief Evangelist, Hugging Face

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

Room:Phoenix Ballroom D

Thursday

Thu

9:10 am

Thursday, June 6, 2024 9:10 am

Keynote: The BizML Playbook for Getting Machine Learning Deployed

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

Room:Phoenix Ballroom D

Thursday

Thu

9:40 am

Thursday, June 6, 2024 9:40 am

Sponsored Session: Beyond the Chatbot – How GenAI is Really Revolutionizing Customer Experience

Speaker: Shashank Verma, Senior Vice President and Global Head of CX Transformation, EXL

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

Room:Phoenix Ballroom D

Thursday

Thu

10:30 am

Thursday, June 6, 2024 10:30 am

Measuring and Driving a Data Cultural Transformation

Speaker: Sarah Kalicin, Founder/Data Scientist, Achieve More With data, LLC

Moderator: T. Scott Clendaniel, VP, Decision and Data Science Training, Analytics-Edge, LLC

Room:Phoenix Ballroom D

Thursday, June 6, 2024 10:30 am

Enterprise ML Projects Need More Than AutoML

Speaker: Dean Abbott, Chief Data Scientist, Appriss Retail

Moderator: William Wilkins, Senior Vice President, Advanced Analytics and Practical Applications, Safety National Casualty Corporation

Room:Phoenix Ballroom B

Supply Chain Analytics
10:30 am - 10:50 am

Thursday, June 6, 2024 10:30 am

10:30 am: Data Science for the Manufacturing Supply chain

Speaker: Rama Durga Sekhar Angadala, Associate Director, Walmart

Moderator: Dr. Karl Rexer, President, Rexer Analytics

Pharma applications
10:55 am - 11:15 am

10:55 am: How Top5 Pharma Latam Captured Double-Digit Growth with ML and Analytics

Speaker: Fabio Ferraretto, Partner & CEO, DHauz Analytics

Moderator: Dr. Karl Rexer, President, Rexer Analytics

Room:Phoenix Ballroom A

Thursday

Thu

11:20 am

Analytics culture formation

Thursday, June 6, 2024 11:20 am

Driving Continuous Upskilling to Further New York Life’s Modernization Journey

Speaker: Rita Fuller, Corporate Vice President, Center for Data Science and Analytics, New York Life Insurance Company

Moderator: T. Scott Clendaniel, VP, Decision and Data Science Training, Analytics-Edge, LLC

Room:Phoenix Ballroom D

ML memory optimization

Thursday, June 6, 2024 11:20 am

Memory Optimizations in Machine Learning

Speaker: Tejas Chopra, Sr. Engineer, Netflix

Moderator: William Wilkins, Senior Vice President, Advanced Analytics and Practical Applications, Safety National Casualty Corporation

Room:Phoenix Ballroom B

Personalization
11:20 am - 11:40 am

Thursday, June 6, 2024 11:20 am

11:20 am: Beyond Personalization: Unleashing Hyperpersonalization Strategies

Speaker: Chrissy Quintana, Director of Client Experience Personalization, Vanguard

Moderator: Dr. Karl Rexer, President, Rexer Analytics

Insurance applications
11:45 am - 12:05 pm

11:45 am: Machine Learning Analysis of Road Segment Level Driving Data

Speaker: Roosevelt Mosley, Principal & Consulting Actuary, Pinnacle Actuarial Resources

Moderator: Dr. Karl Rexer, President, Rexer Analytics

Room:Phoenix Ballroom A

Thursday, June 6, 2024 12:05 pm

Lunch & Learn: GenAI Assisted Feature Engineering

Speaker: Sergey Yurgenson, Head of Data Science, FeatureByte

Room:Phoenix Ballroom D

Thursday

Thu

1:30 pm

Thursday, June 6, 2024 1:30 pm

Keynote: Agile for AI/ML

Speaker: Jodi Blomberg, VP, Data Science, Cox Automotive

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

Room:Phoenix Ballroom D

Thursday

Thu

2:15 pm

Thursday, June 6, 2024 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

Room:Phoenix Ballroom D

Thursday

Thu

2:40 pm

Thursday, June 6, 2024 2:40 pm

Engaging Data Geeks Across the Enterprise to Accelerate Value Delivery

Speaker: Michelle Li, Data Scientist II, Paychex

Moderator: Dr. Karl Rexer, President, Rexer Analytics

Room:Phoenix Ballroom D

Thursday, June 6, 2024 2:40 pm

Scalable End-To-End ML Platforms From Auto ML To Self-Serve

Speaker: Igor Markov, Distinguished Architect, Synopsys

Moderator: Tejas Chopra, Sr. Engineer, Netflix

Room:Phoenix Ballroom B

Hospitality analytics
2:40 pm - 3:00 pm

Thursday, June 6, 2024 2:40 pm

2:40 pm: Predicting Customer Wait Time in the Hospitality Space

Speaker: Kimberly Keiter, Senior Data Scientist, Elder Research

Moderator: Feyzi Bagirov, Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Booz Allen Hamilton

Hospitality analytics
3:05 pm - 3:25 pm

3:05 pm: Beyond Bookings: Demand Forecasting for Hotel Success

Speaker: Evan Wimpey, Director of Analytics, PyMC Labs

Moderator: Feyzi Bagirov, Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Booz Allen Hamilton

Room:Phoenix Ballroom A

Thursday

Thu

3:55 pm

Analytics Strategy

Thursday, June 6, 2024 3:55 pm

Maximizing Value from Data and AI Investments

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

Moderator: Dr. Karl Rexer, President, Rexer Analytics

Room:Phoenix Ballroom D

Forecasting

Thursday, June 6, 2024 3:55 pm

Evaluating the Performance of a Classification Model using R

Speaker: Dr. David Perkins, CAP®, PMP®, Professor of Business Analytics, Grand Canyon University

Moderator: Tejas Chopra, Sr. Engineer, Netflix

Room:Phoenix Ballroom B

Topic modeling
3:55 - 4:15 pm

Thursday, June 6, 2024 3:55 pm

3:55 pm: AI Guided Domain-Specific Topic Modeling

Speaker: Ben Webster, Data Science Solutions Architect, NLP Logix

Moderator: Feyzi Bagirov, Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Booz Allen Hamilton

Regulatory filings
4:20 - 4:40 pm

4:20 pm: Identifying Insights and Trends in Regulatory Filings

Speaker: Steven Ramirez, CEO, Beyond the Arc

Moderator: Feyzi Bagirov, Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Booz Allen Hamilton

Room:Phoenix Ballroom A

Thursday

Thu

4:45 pm

Thursday, June 6, 2024 4:45 pm

Keynote: Responsible AI: A Practical Guide

Speaker: Dr. Scott Zoldi, Chief Analytics Officer, FICO

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

Room:Phoenix Ballroom D

Thursday

Thu

7:00 pm

Thursday, June 6, 2024 7:00 pm

Dinner with Friends

Friday, June 7, 2024

Friday

Fri

8:45 am

Friday, June 7, 2024 8:45 am

Opening Day 2

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

Room:Phoenix Ballroom D

Friday

Fri

8:55 am

Friday, June 7, 2024 8:55 am

Keynote: 10 Steps to Innovation – It’s Math and Psychology

Speaker: Jack Levis, Formerly UPS (retired), now Chief Product Strategist, ESP Logistics Technology

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

Room:Phoenix Ballroom D

Friday

Fri

9:45 am

Analytics culture formation

Friday, June 7, 2024 9:45 am

Nurturing a Vibrant Machine Learning & Data Analytics Community at PayPal

Speaker: Gulrez Khan, Data Science Lead, PayPal

Moderator: Corwin Smith, Director Business Intelligence and Analytics, Wallick Communities

Room:Phoenix Ballroom D


09:45 am - 10:05 am

Friday, June 7, 2024 9:45 am

9:45 am: Lightning Round: Top Tips and Tricks for Machine Learning

Speaker: T. Scott Clendaniel, VP, Decision and Data Science Training, Analytics-Edge, LLC

Moderator: Evan Wimpey, Director of Analytics, PyMC Labs

Active learning
10:10 am - 10:30 am

10:10 am: Intelligent Labeling: Smart Data Annotation with Active Learning

Speaker: Marina Petzel, Machine Learning Engineer, Autodesk

Moderator: Evan Wimpey, Director of Analytics, PyMC Labs

Room:Phoenix Ballroom B

Friday

Fri

10:55 am

Lessons learned

Friday, June 7, 2024 10:55 am

Delivering data science in the “Real World” and learning from our mistakes

Speaker: Corwin Smith, Director Business Intelligence and Analytics, Wallick Communities

Room:Phoenix Ballroom D

Causal Inference

Friday, June 7, 2024 10:55 am

Leveraging causal Machine Learning for informed decision-making: a collaborative and iterative approach

Speakers: Catherine Paradis-Therrien, AVP, Product Analytics, TD Sheldon Tung, Data Science Manager, TD Sneha Desai, Senior Data Scientist, TD

Moderator: Evan Wimpey, Director of Analytics, PyMC Labs

Room:Phoenix Ballroom B

Responsible ML
10:55 am - 11:15 am

Friday, June 7, 2024 10:55 am

10:55 am: ​Statistical Methods for Imputing Race & Ethnicity​

Speakers: Gabe Usan, Data Scientist, Milliman Meseret Woldeyes, Managing Data Scientist, Milliman

Moderator: Dr. Karl Rexer, President, Rexer Analytics

Competitor analysis
11:20 am - 11:40 am

11:20 am: Automated Competitor Analysis Using Open Source & Third Party Tools

Speaker: Emily Cunningham, Data Scientist, digData

Moderator: Dr. Karl Rexer, President, Rexer Analytics

Room:Phoenix Ballroom A

Friday

Fri

1:15 pm

Friday, June 7, 2024 1:15 pm

Special Plenary: The Reliability of Backpropagation is Worse than You Think

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

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

Room:Phoenix Ballroom D

Friday

Fri

2:05 pm

Friday, June 7, 2024 2:05 pm

Expert Panel: How to Engage and Deeply Collaborate with Business Stakeholders on ML Projects

Speakers: Katie Bakewell, Data Science Solutions Architect, NLP Logix Kate Bartkiewicz, President, digData Dr. John Elder, Founder & Chair, Elder Research

Moderator: T. Scott Clendaniel, VP, Decision and Data Science Training, Analytics-Edge, LLC

Room:Phoenix Ballroom D

Friday

Fri

3:20 pm

Friday, June 7, 2024 3:20 pm

Splitting the AI Atom

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

Moderator: Sarah Kalicin, Founder/Data Scientist, Achieve More With data, LLC

Room:Phoenix Ballroom D

Data preparation

Friday, June 7, 2024 3:20 pm

Automated schema understanding for data lakes and data warehouses

Speaker: Wes Madrigal, CEO and Co-Founder, Kurve Inc.

Room:Phoenix Ballroom B

Geopolitical analytics
3:20 pm - 3:40 pm

Friday, June 7, 2024 3:20 pm

3:20 pm: Use Case: Assessing Resilience using Big Data and AI

Speaker: Feyzi Bagirov, Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Booz Allen Hamilton

Moderator: Dr. Karl Rexer, President, Rexer Analytics

MLOps
3:45 pm - 4:05 pm

3:45 pm: Catch My Drift? Automate Monitoring ML Model Inputs and Outputs and Sleep Better at Night

Speaker: Eric Sims, Sr. Data Scientist, NRG Energy

Moderator: Dr. Karl Rexer, President, Rexer Analytics

Room:Phoenix Ballroom A

Friday

Fri

4:05 pm

Greenlighting deployment

Friday, June 7, 2024 4:05 pm

How Thinking Like a Tech Founder Can Improve Model Deployment

Speaker: Kate Bartkiewicz, President, digData

Moderator: Sarah Kalicin, Founder/Data Scientist, Achieve More With data, LLC

Room:Phoenix Ballroom D

Overcoming ML pitfalls

Friday, June 7, 2024 4:05 pm

Decoding Paradoxes: Unraveling the Impact of Cognitive Fallacies on AI Decision-Making

Speaker: Dibyendu Roy Chowdhury, Data Scientist, X Care Daily

Room:Phoenix Ballroom B

4:05 pm - 4:25 pm

Friday, June 7, 2024 4:05 pm

4:05 pm: Ask Dean and Karl Anything (about Machine Learning)

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

Healthcare analytics
4:30 pm - 4:50 pm

4:30 pm: Leveraging Predictive Analytics to Minimize No-Shows and Maximize Profitability in Healthcare

Speakers: Chet Phelps, Chief Information Officer, Health Solutions Don Ponge, Account Executive, Converge Technology Solutions

Moderator: Dr. Karl Rexer, President, Rexer Analytics

Room:Phoenix Ballroom A

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