- Conference
- Data Con LA Data science & ML
- Dates
- Oct 23, 2020 – Oct 25, 2020
- Venue
- —
- Place
- CA, United States
- Format
- Online
- Status
- Past
- Attendance
- 1,000Organizer: 'first successful virtual conference in 2020 with over 1000 virtual attendees'; 2021 site: '1000+ attendees, 100+ speakers, 100+ sessions'.
- Website
- dataconla.com
- Recorded
- 8 sponsors · 116 speaker appearances
- Notes
- First virtual edition (COVID-19). The archived 2020 home page says 'scheduled for the 23rd, 24th and 25th of October'; the current organizer archive page header shows 'Oct 17 - 18, 2020' but its text says October 23-25, so the archived date is used. 6 tracks (AI/ML & Data Science, Data Engineering, Data Infrastructure & Security, Emerging Tech, Data 4 Good, BI/Reporting), 90 sessions, 97 speakers, plus full-day tutorials. Keynote speakers from the archived home page are added without titles where they have no session.
Ticket prices
No ticket prices recorded
Sponsors 8
Title / headline 1
- Splunk · Host Sponsors
Silver 1
- Vertica · Silver Sponsors
Community 4
- AI LA · Partner Sponsors
- Data 4 Good · Partner Sponsors
- LA Tech4Good · Partner Sponsors
- RMDS Lab · Partner Sponsors
Speakers and talks 116
| Speaker | Company | Role | Talk | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brian Dolan | Verdant AI | Keynote | — | — |
| Brian Kursar | Toyota | Keynote | — | — |
| Jeanne Holm | City of Los Angeles | Keynote | — | — |
| Jeff Rosenberg | Tillster | Keynote | — | — |
| Jenny Rankin | U.S. Department of State (Fulbright Specialist) | Keynote | — | — |
| Karen Borchgrevink | LA Tech4Good | Keynote | — | — |
| Karthik Ramasamy | Splunk | Keynote | — | — |
| Lacey Plache | Age of Learning | Keynote | — | — |
| Larry Dominique | PSA North America | Keynote | — | — |
| Maria Malavenda | THE LOOK | Keynote | — | — |
| Michael Berman | California State University, Long Beach | Keynote | — | — |
| Peter Zaitsev | Percona | Keynote | — | — |
| Rebecca Ye | Xcalar | Keynote | — | — |
| Ron Galperin | City of Los Angeles | Keynote | — | — |
| Safiya Noble | UCLA | Keynote | — | — |
| Subash D’Souza | Data Con LA | Keynote | — | — |
| Todd Terrazas | Data 4 Good | Keynote | — | — |
| William S. Kehoe | County of Los Angeles | Keynote | — | — |
| Xavier Kochhar | XKE Capital and Advisory | Keynote | — | — |
| Akbar Rangara | Intuit | Speaker | How we solved for Aggregation, Search and Time Series Big Data usecases using Elasticsearch NoSQL Database | — |
| Alex Alwan | FOX | Speaker | Effective Data-driven Product Roadmaps | — |
| Alex Pudlin | City of Los Angeles | Speaker | Visualizing COVID-19 Data | — |
| Alex Tamoykin | Commandeer | Speaker | Commandeer Your Data in The Cloud | — |
| Alice Chandrasekharan | Digital Magenta | Speaker | The Power of Growth Data | — |
| Anand Ranganathan | Unscrambl | Speaker | Getting Insights through Conversational Chatbots for Analytics | — |
| Andres Ocon | LA Family Housing | Speaker | Combining datasets to find solutions to homelessness | — |
| Andrew Jamieson | Personal | Speaker | What if a Robot Could Laugh at Your Jokes? (Laughter Prediction with Natural Language Processing) | — |
| Andrew Kaszpurenko | Edwards | Speaker | Healthcare deserts: How accessible is US healthcare? | — |
| Anita Sengupta, PhD | Hydroplane Ltd | Speaker | Mars 2020: A Mission of Perseverance and Ingenuity | — |
| Antje Barth | Amazon Web Services | Speaker | Owning Your Own (Data) Lake House | — |
| Ayon Roy | Lulu | Speaker | PySpark : Combining Machine Learning & Big Data | — |
| Babu Repaka | CSU, Chancellors Office | Speaker | CICD Pipeline and delivery of Apache Spark Applications on the cloud using AWS | — |
| Caito Scherr | Ververica | Speaker | Streaming Fast and Slow | — |
| Christian Bourdeau | Amazon Web Services | Speaker | How to become a Business Intelligence Analyst | — |
| Cindy Lin | HopSkipDrive | Speaker | The Emerging Role of a Data Product Manager | — |
| Claire Kim | ChanR Analytics | Speaker | Rethinking Data Infrastructure for Startups: Docker-Enabled Virtual Private Servers | — |
| Daphne Cheung | Disney | Speaker | Applying an intersectionality lens in data science | — |
| David Stokes | Oracle | Speaker | MySQL Without the SQL -- Oh My! | — |
| Dennes Torres | Malta Data Platform UG | Speaker | Self-Service ETL: The PowerBI Data Flows | — |
| Don Malloy | OATH | Speaker | Convenience without Sacrificing Security - MFA for Everyone | — |
| Dustin Vannoy | DV Consulting | Speaker | Data Lakes with Azure Databricks | — |
| Einat Orr | Treeverse | Speaker | Data Versioning - does it mean what we think it means? | — |
| Emily Conant | Nexleaf Analytics | Speaker | One Size Doesn't Fit All: How data can support tailored approaches in public health | — |
| Eva Pereira | City of Los Angeles | Speaker | Calling All Data Scientists for the Common Good in Cities | — |
| Hana Oh | O'Melveny | Speaker | Big Data And The Law: What Every Data Enthusiast Should Know | — |
| Harrison Tang | Spokeo | Speaker | How to Leverage Marketing Analytics to Source Better Talent | — |
| Helen Poldsam | Cellaccura Biosciences | Speaker | High-throughput cellular analytics to identify central nervous system targets for gene therapy | — |
| Isabella Zaczek | IZ Consulting | Speaker | Tales of a German Building Diverse Teams Across All Time Zones | — |
| Jai Bansal | Aetna | Speaker | Maximizing Impact of Analytics Teams | — |
| Jared Sheehan | PwrdBy | Speaker | The State of Artificial Intelligence in the Nonprofit Sector | — |
| Jason Medina | Global Decision | Speaker | Pitfalls and pro-tips for effective and transparent Business Intelligence tools and services data science applications | — |
| Jeff Bertman | Dfuse Technologies | Speaker | Modernizing the Analytics and Data Science Lifecycle for the Scalable Enterprise: The SEAL Method | — |
| Jeff Moore | SoCal Edison | Speaker | Why is your model stuck in the lab? How to move your model from the lab to production. | — |
| Jennifer Aplin | Digital Magenta | Speaker | The Power of Growth Data | — |
| Jerry Power | I3 Systems | Speaker | Management of Data Communities | — |
| Jessica Medrano | Latino Donor Collaborative | Speaker | Using Data to Track Social Change | — |
| Jing Pan | Uber | Speaker | Why start using uplift models for more efficient marketing campaigns | — |
| Joe Karlsson | MongoDB | Speaker | An Introduction To IoT (Internet of Toilets); Or How I Built an IoT Kitty Litter Box Using JavaScript | — |
| Joe Ross | Splunk | Speaker | Approaches to online quantile estimation | — |
| John Mertic | The Linux Founation | Speaker | The new ODPi - moving from standards to a vendor-neutral home for big data open source | — |
| Karim Varela | Fan.ai | Speaker | Attributing real-world outcomes to sponsorships | — |
| Karisa Schroeder | Esri | Speaker | Powering Location Data for Good | — |
| Karun Bakshi | Xcalar | Speaker | DevOps is to IaC as DataOps is to...? | — |
| Kathy Winger | Law Offices of Kathy Winger | Speaker | Cybersecurity, Privacy and Data Security from a Business Lawyer's Perspective | — |
| Kayla de la Haye | USC | Speaker | COVID-19 Impacts on the Food System and Food Security in Los Angeles County | — |
| Ker-Yu Ong | Ranker | Speaker | This is how we recommend brand new TV shows. | — |
| Kirkley Doyle | Freefrom | Speaker | Reframing intimate partner violence as a systemic economic issue using data | — |
| Kunny Berdow | Speaker | Data and the Future of Gaming Post COVID | — | |
| Lawrence Spracklen | Alpine Data | Speaker | Using AI to Build Fair and Equitable Workplaces | — |
| Leslie Karpas | LexSet | Speaker | How computer vision will be enabled by synthetic data and catalyzed by 5G | — |
| Lisa Rapp | LiveRamp | Speaker | Data Privacy and Security by Design | — |
| Lishuang Shen | Childen's Hospital Los Angeles | Speaker | An integrated genomic surveillance platform reveals multiple introductions and accelerating localization of SARS-CoV-2 into California, USA and worldwide countries | — |
| Luis Valdeavellano | Martinexsa | Speaker | Machine Learning over Small Data: generating new variables with predictive power | — |
| Mandy Chessell | IBM | Speaker | Become an data driven organization through unified metadata using ODPi Egeria | — |
| Manijeh Mahmoodzadeh | Changeist | Speaker | Using Data to Empower Youth Program Participants at Changeist | — |
| Maria Fung | CSU, Chancellors Office | Speaker | CICD Pipeline and delivery of Apache Spark Applications on the cloud using AWS | — |
| Mark Jackson | Quantinuum | Speaker | Quantum Computing: The next new technology in computing | — |
| Mark McQuade | Rackspace Technology | Speaker | Automating Production Production Level Machine Learning on AWS | — |
| Matt Sarrel | Imply | Speaker | Apache Druid 101 | — |
| Matthew Wells | Cedars Sinai | Speaker | Realtime prediction of C-section risk for laboring mothers | — |
| Morvareed Salehpour | Salehpour Legal Consulting | Speaker | AI and the Law | — |
| Nawar Khabbaz | Rivian | Speaker | Enabling Data centric Teams | — |
| Nuri Halperin | Plus N Consulting | Speaker | Data Migration Lessons from the Trenches | — |
| Obaid Sarvana | Accenture | Speaker | Next Generation Health Data Platforms | — |
| Paige Roberts | Vertica | Speaker | Unifying Analytics | — |
| Parham Parvizi | Tura Labs | Speaker | Learn to build a Modern Serverless Data Pipeline on GCP Using a Completely FREE online Data Engineering Bootcamp | — |
| Preston Mills | City of Los Angeles | Speaker | Know Your Community: Data Power to the People | — |
| Rachel Whaley | LA Tech4Good | Speaker | Applying an intersectionality lens in data science | — |
| Rafi Wadan | Stargazr | Speaker | Digitization and change of FP&A | — |
| Raleigh Tomlinson | Headspace | Speaker | Finding the Problem to Solve: Human-centered AI | — |
| Ray Cheung | SmartAirLA | Speaker | Actionable Data to Protect the People | — |
| Rebecca Friedman | Koru Strategies | Speaker | Diversity in Data Organizations: Building a Representative Workforce and Why it Matters | — |
| Rishov Chatterjee | Curology | Speaker | Usual Questions with Unusual Answers: Application of Multi-class Supervised Algorithms to Identify COVID-19 Viral Strains | — |
| Robert Hodges | Altinity | Speaker | Data warehouse or conventional database: Which is right for you? | — |
| Ryan Johnson | GoGuardian | Speaker | Being Right Starts By Knowing You're Wrong | — |
| Ryan Kurtzman | City of Long Beach | Speaker | Management of Data Communities | — |
| Ryan Lee | Disney | Speaker | Moral Responsibility of Data Professionals - Whistleblowing | — |
| Sep Dehpour | Meta | Speaker | Delta for your Data: How to track and store data changes efficiently | — |
| Sheri Byrne-Haber | VMware | Speaker | Machine Learning applications in accessibility | — |
| Simon Crosby | Swim | Speaker | Continuous Intelligence: A Sea-Change in Streaming Data Processing | — |
| Sonal Goyal | Nube Technologies | Speaker | Data Mastering at Scale with AI | — |
| Sonia Macias | Sensei Ag | Speaker | Agile Scrum Overview | — |
| Sonya Balzer | RSquared.AI | Speaker | Using AI to Build Fair and Equitable Workplaces | — |
| Spencer Ward | Data Republic | Speaker | The Data Governance Effect: An exploration into the foundations and future of enterprise data collaboration | — |
| Sreyoshi Bhaduri | Amazon Web Services | Speaker | People Analytics and Data Science | — |
| Steve Rimar | Analytica Consulting | Speaker | Key Elements for a Successful Service Analytics Program | — |
| Sugath Warnakulasuriya | Thalamus Labs | Speaker | How to turn traditional Industrial Companies into Modern, Digital-Data Driven Companies | — |
| Sujee Maniyam | Elephant Scale | Speaker | Forget becoming a Data Scientist, become a Machine Learning Engineer instead | — |
| Suresh Paulraj | Microsoft | Speaker | Responsible AI | — |
| Szilard Pafka | Epoch (USA) | Speaker | Gradient Boosting Machines (GBM): from Zero to Hero (with R and Python code) | — |
| Tannia Ventura | Freefrom | Speaker | Reframing intimate partner violence as a systemic economic issue using data | — |
| Tochukwu (Tobe) Matthias | Molina Healthcare | Speaker | Applying Data Science and Analytics in Marketing | — |
| Vincent Seah | Ranker | Speaker | This is how we recommend brand new TV shows. | — |
| Vivian Sultan | CSULA | Speaker | Battery Storage Integration Into The Electric Grid | — |
| Wendy Howard | eg Innovations | Speaker | Quantifying Genuine User Experience in Virtual Desktop Ecosystems | — |
| Yasha Mouradi | OnPrem | Speaker | Using a modern data stack to explore and visualize the impact of a global pandemic on airline traffic. | — |