Conferences / Data Con LA
Data Con LA 2019
Aug 17, 2019 · University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States
- Conference
- Data Con LA Data science & ML
- Dates
- Aug 17, 2019
- Venue
- University of Southern California
- Place
- Los Angeles, CA, United States
- Format
- In person
- Status
- Past
- Attendance
- 2,000Organizer 'About' text (2021 site): 'over 1800 attendees [2018] and over 2000 in 2019'.
- Website
- dataconla.com
- Recorded
- 41 sponsors · 54 speaker appearances
- Notes
- Seventh edition overall (Big Data Camp LA 2013, Big Data Day LA 2014-2017, renamed Data Con LA in 2018). 5 tracks, 39 sessions, 40+ speakers per the organizer's archive page. Keynote speakers (from the archived 2019 home page) are added without talk titles where they have no session on the archive. Included a Startup Showcase pitch competition. Registration was $50 (through Aug 15) on Eventbrite.
Ticket prices
| Ticket | Price | Valid until | Notes | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Registration (through Aug 15) | $50 | Aug 15, 2019 | 'Pricing now $50 though August 15th' | web.archive.org |
Sponsors 41
Title / headline 1
- USC · Host Sponsors
Platinum 3
- Accenture · Platinum Sponsors
- DataStax · Platinum Sponsors
- Southern California Edison · Platinum Sponsors
Gold 7
- FabFitFun · Gold Sponsors
- Hulu · Gold Sponsors
- MariaDB · Gold Sponsors
- Neo4j · Gold Sponsors
- Pitney Bowes · Gold Sponsors
- Pure Storage · Gold Sponsors
- Socialgist · Gold Sponsors
Silver 10
- Cloudera · Silver Sponsors
- GumGum · Silver Sponsors
- Hallmark Labs · Silver Sponsors
- LA Times · Silver Sponsors
- MemSQL · Silver Sponsors
- Netflix · Silver Sponsors
- OmniSci · Silver Sponsors
- PatientPop · Silver Sponsors
- Signify Technology · Silver Sponsors
- Verizon · Silver Sponsors
Bronze 1
- Bird · Bronze Sponsors
Community 18
- 99starts · Partner Sponsors
- AI LA · Partner Sponsors
- Another Reality · Partner Sponsors
- Archangel Technology Consultants · Partner Sponsors
- Census 2020 (City of Los Angeles) · Partner Sponsors
- City of Glendale · Partner Sponsors
- Entertainment Technology Center at USC · Partner Sponsors
- Hack for LA · Partner Sponsors
- LA Cyber Lab · Partner Sponsors
- LAAC · Partner Sponsors
- Level · Partner Sponsors
- LinkedIn · Partner Sponsors
- Los Angeles Big Data Users Group · Partner Sponsors
- Los Angeles Public Library · Partner Sponsors
- MountainTop Data · Partner Sponsors
- openSUSE · Partner Sponsors
- Phase Two · Partner Sponsors
- RMDS Lab · Partner Sponsors
Other 1
- Stott and May · Networking Sponsors
Speakers and talks 54
| Speaker | Company | Role | Talk | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Abbass Sharif, PhD. | University of Southern California | Keynote | — | — |
| Ani Okkasian | OMD | Keynote | — | — |
| Anita Sengupta | Airspace Experience Technologies | Keynote | — | — |
| Elizabeth Owen, PhD | Age of Learning | Keynote | — | — |
| Elliot Brook | Accenture | Keynote | — | — |
| Jeffrey Carpenter | DataStax | Keynote | Patterns for Persistence and Streaming in Cloud Architectures | — |
| Joe Devon | Diamond | Keynote | — | — |
| Keila Banks | — | Keynote | — | — |
| Mukund Kaushik | SoCal Edison | Keynote | Electrifying Big Issues Through Analytics | — |
| Ron Galperin | City of Los Angeles | Keynote | — | — |
| Sid Mohasseb | USC | Keynote | — | — |
| Subash D’Souza | Data Con LA | Keynote | — | — |
| Amarita Natt | EconOne Research | Speaker | How to Teach an Old Firm New Tricks | — |
| Annie Flippo | Urgently, Inc | Speaker | User Motivation: Refining Customer Segments with Location | — |
| Ash Pahwa | Caltech | Speaker | Optimization Algorithms for Deep Learning | — |
| Boaz Brudner | Zillow | Speaker | Move Fast, Think Big: The Principles of Managing Large Scale Big Data and Application Development Projects | — |
| Chaitanya Rudrabhatla | Sony | Speaker | Orchestration of Blue-Green deployment model with AWS Document DB and ECS cluster using Terraform | — |
| Christian Siagian | AI LA | Speaker | State of the Art of Innovation in Computer Vision | — |
| Dan Kernaghan | Pitney Bowes | Speaker | Pitney Bowes methodologies to Organize, Enrich and Analyze data from a location perspective | — |
| David Anderson | MemSQL | Speaker | Integrating Kafka with a Real-Time Database | — |
| Don Malloy | OATH | Speaker | So You got Hacked, how Quickly Can your Company Recover? | — |
| Eysha Shirrine Powers | IBM | Speaker | Securing IoT Data with Pervasive Encryption | — |
| Fiona Li | Ticketmaster | Speaker | Know Your Customer | — |
| Heather A Mcpherson | University of California - Berkeley | Speaker | Applied Privacy Engineering Study on SEER database | — |
| Jacklyn Agor | Puppet Master Marketing | Speaker | Don't Talk Data to Me | — |
| Jatinder Singh | GumGum | Speaker | Time Series Forecasting of Programmatic Inventory at Scale | — |
| Jay Palaniappan | Databricks | Speaker | Large scale streaming analytics using cloud based managed services | — |
| Jayesh Patel | Rockstar Games | Speaker | Big Data Modeling with Spark SQL: Make data valuable | — |
| Jeff Cooper | FabFitFun | Speaker | Working with data from your most engaged customers | — |
| Jesse Steinweg-Woods | Honey | Speaker | E-Commerce Product Categorization at Scale | — |
| Jim Benedetto | Core Scientific | Speaker | Data is the New Business Currency | — |
| Joey Beitdashtoo | Systech Solutions | Speaker | Innovating with Data | — |
| John Peach | Amazon Web Services | Speaker | Careers in Data Science | — |
| Jose-Luis Ambite | USC | Speaker | Building a Knowledge Graph for Data Science Training on the Web | — |
| Juan Vasquez | City of Los Angeles | Speaker | Open Data & Maps As Tools for More Impact | — |
| Kaylin Linke | Socialgist | Speaker | Data Acquisition Made Easy: Accessing social conversations at scale | — |
| Ken Chang | University of California - Berkeley | Speaker | Applied Privacy Engineering Study on SEER database | — |
| Lorenzo Rossi | City of Hope Medical Center | Speaker | Best Practices for Prototyping Machine Learning Models for Healthcare | — |
| Maria Khalusova | JetBrains | Speaker | A closer look: Exploratory Data Analysis with Spark and IntelliJ IDEA | — |
| Mark Quinsland | Neo4j | Speaker | Graph Theory Takes on the Opioid Epidemic | — |
| Matt Holmes | University of California - Berkeley | Speaker | Applied Privacy Engineering Study on SEER database | — |
| Mingming Chen | Uber | Speaker | Unifying streaming and message queue with Apache Kafka | — |
| Obaid Sarvana | Accenture | Speaker | Real Time Face Detection through a Webcam Using AI | — |
| Piyush Kumar | MakeMyTrip | Speaker | MetaConfig driven FeatureStore with Feature compute & Serving Platform powering Machine Learning @MakeMyTrip | — |
| Preet Singh | Enginelitix | Speaker | Box Office Strategy: Do Release Dates Matter? | — |
| Rashmina Menon | GumGum | Speaker | Time Series Forecasting of Programmatic Inventory at Scale | — |
| Robert Hodges | Altinity | Speaker | Data warehouse and Kubernetes: Lessons from ClickHouse Operator | — |
| Serena Vilalobos | University of California - Berkeley | Speaker | Applied Privacy Engineering Study on SEER database | — |
| Shweta Shetty | Teradata | Speaker | One (Key) Ring to Rule Them All: Unified Identity Management for Vantage | — |
| Sonia Macias | Sensei Ag | Speaker | Scrum Overview | — |
| Stan Dyro | Los Angeles Times | Speaker | The challenges of data science for veteran media organizations | — |
| Tim Kerytak | Ironside | Speaker | Pitney Bowes methodologies to Organize, Enrich and Analyze data from a location perspective | — |
| Todd Stoffel | MariaDB | Speaker | Hybrid Transactional Analytical Processing (HTAP) with MariaDB Platform | — |
| Vivian Sultan | CSULA | Speaker | Location Analytics For Smart Grid Reliability | — |