- Conference
- Data Con LA Data science & ML
- Dates
- Sep 17, 2021 – Sep 19, 2021
- Venue
- —
- Place
- CA, United States
- Format
- Online
- Status
- Past
- Attendance
- 1,000Organizer About text (2023 site): 'DCLA was virtual again in 2021 with over a 1000 attendees'.
- Website
- dataconla.com
- Recorded
- 17 sponsors · 163 speaker appearances
- Notes
- Virtual, three days; largest program in the conference's history: 12 tracks, 128 sessions, 158 speakers, with a Startup Showcase and Product Hackathon. Registration via Eventbrite (prices not archived).
Ticket prices
No ticket prices recorded
Sponsors 17
Community 9
- AI LA · Partner
- Archangel Technology Consultants · Partner
- Data 4 Good · Partner
- Data360 · Partner
- LA Tech4Good · Partner
- LAVA · Partner
- MountainTop Data · Partner
- RMDS Lab · Partner
- TenOneTen Ventures · Partner
Speakers and talks 163
| Speaker | Company | Role | Talk | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alison Burnham | ScoreBig.com | Keynote | Keynotes | — |
| Gil Elbaz | TenOneTen Ventures | Keynote | Keynotes | — |
| Karen Borchgrevink | LA Tech4Good | Keynote | Keynotes | — |
| Ron Galperin | City of Los Angeles | Keynote | Keynotes | — |
| Ajali Sen | Accenture | Speaker | Building data-driven solutions for COVID-19 Contact Tracing and Vaccine Management | — |
| Alex Alwan | Fox Corporation | Speaker | ABC Of Product Strategy | — |
| Alex Freund | Amazon Web Services | Panelist | Show, Don’t Tell: How Data Is Changing Hollywood | — |
| Alex Silva | SecurityScorecard | Speaker | Moving from a Monolithic Data Platform to a Distributed Data Mesh | — |
| Alfonso Berumen | Pepperdine University | Speaker | Effective use of big data analytics and its impact on business performance within small-to-medium-sized businesses | — |
| Alison Bunce | Meta | Speaker | What data and design can learn from each other | — |
| Alpa Buddhabhatti | Cluster Reply | Speaker | A Case Study - Data Movement and Transformation using Azure Data Factory | — |
| Anand Ranganathan | Unscrambl | Speaker | Exposing Public Data through Natural-Language & Conversational Analytics | — |
| Anil Inamdar | Instaclustr | Speaker | Redis: Understanding the Open Source Data Store's Primary Uses and Challenges | — |
| Asaf Dekel | Bright Data | Speaker | Using web data for a better tomorrow | — |
| Ash Pahwa | Caltech | Speaker | The Future of Language Models | — |
| Ashutosh Garg | Eightfold.ai | Speaker | Empowering Employment for Women in Tech with Artificial Intelligence? | — |
| Avinash Gundapaneni | Medallia | Speaker | How to extract longitudinal trends of a brick-and-mortar brand's foot traffic | — |
| Ben Brook | Transcend.io | Speaker | Engineering a Consent Sandbox to Eliminate Annoying Pop-Ups and Dark Patterns | — |
| Bob Newstadt | HopSkipDrive | Speaker | Use Cases Unlocked by Business Intelligence Alerts | — |
| Boris Couteaux | ImpakFinance | Speaker | Identifying opportunities and managing risks with impact and ESG data | — |
| Braddock Gaskill | Ascender AI LLC | Speaker | Using AI to redefine the User Experience | — |
| Brandon Wong | Academy Of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences | Speaker | Demystifying the art of Business Intelligence and Data Analytics | — |
| Brian Blackwell | UCLA | Speaker | Operationalizing predictive analytics for homelessness prevention in Los Angeles | — |
| Bunmi Akinremi | Zindi | Speaker | Deploying your model to mobile app: Offline or Online? | — |
| Cahlen Humphreys | Enfuse.io | Speaker | Building Production Data Pipelines by using Test Driven Development and Pair Programming | — |
| Caito Scherr | Ververica | Speaker | Better, Faster, Stronger Streaming: Your First Dive into Flink SQL | — |
| Carnellia Ajasin | Mind Katalyst | Speaker | The Purposeful Innovator | — |
| Charna Parkey | Kaskada | Speaker | Creating and operating ML models from event-based data using feature stores and feature engines | — |
| Chelsea Foo | Los Angeles County | Panelist | Public Health Innovations for COVID Response | — |
| Chijioke (CJ) Ejimuda | Hybrid Data LLC | Speaker | Leveraging big data to maximize value from rail and power infrastructure assets | — |
| Chris Detert | Influential | Panelist | Show, Don’t Tell: How Data Is Changing Hollywood | — |
| Christian Bourdeau | Amazon Web Services | Speaker | How to Get into Data Analytics in 2022-2023 | — |
| Christian Bourdeau | Amazon Web Services | Speaker | How to Break into Business Intelligence & Data Analytics | — |
| Cindy Lin | HopSkipDrive | Speaker | Data Equity and Ethics: From Idea to Practice | — |
| Claudia T Miller | Claudia T Miller, LLC | Speaker | How To Make Yourself Visible While Working From Home | — |
| Craig Stewart | SnapLogic | Speaker | Reigniting the ETL vs. ELT Debate - Which Better Supports Streamlining the Business and Improving Decision-Making? | — |
| Cupid Chan | 4C Decision | Speaker | Catch me if you can - How to fight Fraud, Waste and Abuse using Machine Learning AND Machine Teaching | — |
| Daniel Farrell | DataStax | Speaker | Using Apache Cassandra as your Document Database | — |
| Danny Kim | USC | Speaker | Too Much Drama and Horror Already: The COVID-19 Pandemic's Effects on What We Watch on TV | — |
| David Miller | Enfuse.io | Speaker | Building Production Data Pipelines by using Test Driven Development and Pair Programming | — |
| David Stokes | Oracle | Speaker | MySQL Indexes and Histograms to Speed Up Your Queries | — |
| Davor Bonaci | Kaskada | Speaker | Overcoming data infrastructure limitations with a new paradigm for machine learning | — |
| Davor Bonaci | Kaskada | Speaker | Creating and operating ML models from event-based data using feature stores and feature engines | — |
| Debu Sinha | Databricks | Speaker | Simplifying AI/ML using Databricks featurestore | — |
| Dennes Torres | Malta Data Platform UG | Speaker | Data Lake House in the Cloud: The Azure Solutions | — |
| Denny Vrandečić | Wikimedia Foundation | Panelist | Structured Data in 2021 and Beyond | — |
| Dipanwita Das | Sorcero | Speaker | How Transparent AI Will Enable More Equitable Products | — |
| Don Malloy | OATH | Speaker | Effective IAM: How Auto OTP Provides the Foundation for Zero Trust Security & Convenience | — |
| Don Malloy | OATH | Speaker | Is a Ransomware Attack in your Future? How to Prevent an Attack | — |
| Eboni Dotson | Healthcare Strategic Consultants, LLC | Panelist | Elevating Data Equity in Practice | — |
| Elektra Grant | California State University, Long Beach | Speaker | XR Interactions for Water Sustaining Behavior Change (Concrete Oasis) | — |
| Elijah Ben Izzy | Stitch Fix | Speaker | Hamilton -- a General Purpose Microframework for Scalable Feature Engineering | — |
| Elijah Ben Izzy | Stitch Fix | Speaker | Enabling simple ML ops at Stitch Fix | — |
| Eric Wilker | Amazon/ IMDB | Panelist | Show, Don’t Tell: How Data Is Changing Hollywood | — |
| Eva Pereira | City of Los Angeles | Panelist | Elevating Data Equity in Practice | — |
| Evren Eryurek | Speaker | Data Governance:The Definitive Guide Overview | — | |
| Eysha Shirrine Powers | IBM | Speaker | Trust No One | — |
| Francisco Javier Arceo | fast.ai | Speaker | Keeping pace with data infrastructure so it doesn't outrun you | — |
| Gasia Atashian | DISQO | Speaker | Building a Robust Fraud Detection System | — |
| Ginni Malik | Amazon Web Services | Speaker | Talk to Your Data: Query Your Data Lake with Amazon QuickSight Q | — |
| Gupta Lakkimsetti | California State University, Long Beach | Speaker | BI DataOps Development Process | — |
| Harrison Tang | Spokeo | Speaker | Web3 and Decentralized Identity | — |
| Harsh Gupta | Protonautoml | Speaker | Know your customer's future worth (CFV) | — |
| Heather Hedden | Semantic Web Company | Panelist | Structured Data in 2021 and Beyond | — |
| Howard Ming | DISQO | Speaker | The Zero-Party Data Advantage: Connecting Opinions and Outcomes | — |
| Hugo Bergmann | Seagate Technology | Speaker | Multi Cloud Infrastructure made easy | — |
| Ian Maxon | UC Irvine | Speaker | How to get real-time insights from your JSON data? | — |
| Idris Motiwala | Couchbase | Speaker | How to get real-time insights from your JSON data? | — |
| Jagjit Dhaliwal | UiPath | Panelist | Data Challenges & Opportunities to Achieve Digital Equity | — |
| Jakub Scholz | Red Hat | Speaker | Build your own social media analytics with Apache Kafka | — |
| Jared Sheehan | PwrdBy | Speaker | Pandemic Generosity: What Donation and Health Data Can Teach Us | — |
| Jay Kim | Golden State Water Company | Speaker | Data Science in water utility industry | — |
| Jeanne Holm | City of Los Angeles | Panelist | Data Challenges & Opportunities to Achieve Digital Equity | — |
| Jeff Bertman | Dfuse Technologies | Speaker | Leveraging Big Data to Develop Big Business with GOAL: Growth Opportunities & Actualization Lifecycle | — |
| Jennifer C. Womack | California Department of Public Health | Speaker | Sponsored Panel - Real world data & analytics journeys that have impacted the public and private sector | — |
| Jenny Rankin, Dr. | U.S. Department of State (Fulbright Specialist) | Speaker | Moving People with Data | — |
| Jerry Power | I3 Systems | Speaker | A Layered Approach to Data Management | — |
| Joe Devon | Diamond | Panelist | Structured Data in 2021 and Beyond | — |
| Joe Long | Summit Capital _California | Speaker | Hispanic Demographics basing on most recent 2020 Decennial Survey: by states and counties | — |
| John Lavoie | Optum | Speaker | Using Streaming Data Pipelines in the Cloud to Achieve Success with Data Oriented Business Problems | — |
| JP Petrucione | California Office of Digital Innovation | Speaker | Scaling sentiment: Using digital surveys to geo-target vaccine distribution in California | — |
| Jyotika Singh | Oracle | Speaker | Building Features and Machine Learning Models for Audio Signals | — |
| Karen Lopez | InfoAdvisors | Panelist | Structured Data in 2021 and Beyond | — |
| Kathryn Wolterman | CGI | Panelist | Elevating Data Equity in Practice | — |
| Keerthi Gopalakrishnan | Enjoy The Air | Speaker | Enjoy The Air | — |
| Keren Pakes | Bright Data | Speaker | Using web data for a better tomorrow | — |
| Korey Edwards | Avanade | Panelist | Public Health Innovations for COVID Response | — |
| Kristen Honey | U.S. Department of Health and Human Services | Speaker | Data-Driven Innovation in the Federal Government. | — |
| Laura Garcia | Found | Speaker | XR Interactions for Water Sustaining Behavior Change (Concrete Oasis) | — |
| Laura Schaeffer | Hulu | Panelist | Show, Don’t Tell: How Data Is Changing Hollywood | — |
| Lawrence Spracklen | Alpine Data | Speaker | Sparse models are fast models: Improving DNN inference performance by over 10X | — |
| Leonardo Fonseca | Localiza | Speaker | How to reduce your SQL Database costs on Azure | — |
| Linda Liu | HyreCar | Speaker | HyreCar Data Analytics: Pushing the Pedal to the Metal | — |
| Linda Liu | HyreCar | Speaker | Integrating data science initiatives in business strategy for small businesses | — |
| Maria T. Khan | Advancement Project CA | Panelist | Elevating Data Equity in Practice | — |
| Mariana Danilovic | Infiom, LLC | Speaker | Earn Revenue in DeFi, NFTs and Consensus Blockchain | — |
| Mark Jackson | Quantinuum | Speaker | Quantum Computing: The next new technology in computing | — |
| Mary Simeon | California State University, Long Beach | Speaker | BI DataOps Development Process | — |
| Max Bigot | Accenture | Speaker | Building data-driven solutions for COVID-19 Contact Tracing and Vaccine Management | — |
| Michael Feinberg | XSOC Corp | Speaker | Cryptographic speed, reliability & security | — |
| Michael Lofaso | Rideback Entertainment | Panelist | Show, Don’t Tell: How Data Is Changing Hollywood | — |
| Mike Farrell | Transcend.io | Speaker | End-to-End File Encryption in Browser with Open Source Penumbra | — |
| Milecia McGregor | Iterative | Speaker | Using Reproducible Experiments To Create Better Models | — |
| Monark Vyas | Accenture | Speaker | Exposing human trafficking networks with AI | — |
| Morvareed Salehpour | Salehpour Legal Consulting | Speaker | Top Tips for AI/ML Businesses to Avoid Legal Pitfalls | — |
| Neil Parekh | Accenture | Speaker | A Step Towards Normalcy Beyond COVID-19 Utilities Moratorium Lift | — |
| Nishtha Chouhan | Denodo | Speaker | Advanced Data analytics and ML using Logical Data Fabric | — |
| Nuri Halperin | Plus N Consulting | Speaker | Schema Modeling Patterns and Best Practices for MongoDB | — |
| Omri Orgad | Bright Data | Speaker | Has web data become part of today's core business fabric? | — |
| Paige Roberts | Vertica | Speaker | In-Database Machine Learning with Jupyter | — |
| Param Dhillon | Tatari | Speaker | AI-Assisted Media Planning | — |
| Peter Zaitsev | Percona, Coroot, FerretDB | Speaker | State of MySQL Security in 2021 | — |
| Phil Bangayan | Teradata | Speaker | Integrating and Visualizing Data to Make Better Decisions | — |
| Pramod Kunju | Nakunj Inc | Speaker | Zero Bias AI | — |
| Praneet Raj | Accenture | Panelist | Public Health Innovations for COVID Response | — |
| Preet Singh | Enginelitix | Speaker | Crime in the Pandemic: A look at changes in Los Angeles crime during Covid-19 | — |
| Priscila Baddouh | EconOne Research | Speaker | Using Data to Identify Needs of Foster-Care Youth | — |
| Rachel Whaley | LA Tech4Good | Panelist | Elevating Data Equity in Practice | — |
| Rafi Wadan | Stargazr | Speaker | How AI is changing CFOs world | — |
| Raleigh Tomlinson | Headspace | Speaker | Personalized By Design: How to unlock long term customer value with data | — |
| Rebecca Friedman | Koru Strategies | Panelist | Public Health Innovations for COVID Response | — |
| Richard Blech | XSOC Corp | Speaker | Cryptographic speed, reliability & security | — |
| Rob Hedgpeth | MariaDB | Speaker | Columnar Storage + Python: Powering Modern Data Science and Analytics | — |
| Rob Richardson | Cyral | Speaker | Database DevOps with Containers | — |
| Roksolana Diachuk | Captify | Speaker | Alice in the world of machine learning | — |
| Roman Stanek | GoodData | Speaker | Cloud Native and Headless BI is Here to Usher in the Future of Data Analytics | — |
| Rustem Feyzkhanov | Instrumental | Speaker | Building scalable end-to-end deep learning pipelines in the cloud | — |
| Ryan Michael | Kaskada | Speaker | Overcoming data infrastructure limitations with a new paradigm for machine learning | — |
| Samta Kapoor | EY | Speaker | Sponsored Panel - Real world data & analytics journeys that have impacted the public and private sector | — |
| Sano Hijazi | It's Prodigy | Speaker | Big Data, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning | — |
| Sayantika Banik | Quansight | Speaker | Lie factor and it's impact on visualisation | — |
| Seth Muthukaruppan | Instaclustr | Speaker | OpenSearch: (Just About) Everything You Need to Know About Its Architecture | — |
| Shae Wang | Ripple | Speaker | Bringing data science into blockchain | — |
| Shaena Walker | SoCalGas | Speaker | Sponsored Panel - Real world data & analytics journeys that have impacted the public and private sector | — |
| Shawn Zargham | Syntasa | Speaker | Scaling sentiment: Using digital surveys to geo-target vaccine distribution in California | — |
| Sky Cassidy | MountainTop Data | Speaker | The balance between data privacy and user experience | — |
| Sonia Macias | Sensei Ag | Speaker | Agile Scrum Overview | — |
| Spencer Steed | Qualtrics | Panelist | Public Health Innovations for COVID Response | — |
| Sreekanth Miryala | Kaiser Permanente | Speaker | My Practice Portfolio (Provider) | — |
| Sreyoshi Bhaduri | Amazon Web Services | Speaker | To B or Not To B : How Can Early Career Women Find Belonging at Work? | — |
| Steve Rimar | Analytica Consulting | Speaker | Helping California Tackle the COVID-19 Pandemic using Data Analytics | — |
| Steven J. Steinberg, Dr. | County of Los Angeles | Panelist | Data Challenges & Opportunities to Achieve Digital Equity | — |
| Sulamita Dantas | Localiza | Speaker | How to reduce your SQL Database costs on Azure | — |
| Sunita Koppar | Amazon Web Services | Speaker | Unleashing the serverless data pipelines | — |
| Suzan Oslin | UXXR Design | Speaker | XR Interactions for Water Sustaining Behavior Change (Concrete Oasis) | — |
| Tahsin Chowdhury | Virginia Tech | Speaker | To B or Not To B : How Can Early Career Women Find Belonging at Work? | — |
| Terence Davis | Los Angeles County | Speaker | Building a data infrastructure for a large municipal government | — |
| Thomas Chen | Academy for Mathematics, Science, and Engineering | Speaker | 21st Century Machine Learning-based Data Analytics Driven by Social Media | — |
| Thomas P. Hobbib | San Diego Gas & Electric, a Sempra utility | Speaker | Sponsored Panel - Real world data & analytics journeys that have impacted the public and private sector | — |
| Tim Sarrantonio | Neon One | Speaker | Pandemic Generosity: What Donation and Health Data Can Teach Us | — |
| Timothy Spann | StreamNative | Speaker | Codeless Pipelines With Pulsar and Flink | — |
| Tom Henricksen | Code is Easy | Speaker | Humans Are Hard, Code is Easy | — |
| Tom Mullen | Riverside County | Panelist | Data Challenges & Opportunities to Achieve Digital Equity | — |
| Vasily Grigorovsky | Tatari | Speaker | AI-Assisted Media Planning | — |
| Venus Banuelos | IMO | Speaker | The importance of data sharing of low income community providers to University, ACLU and similar impact cultivator position organizations | — |
| Vera Kalinichenko | Shift | Speaker | Fraud Detection in Online Market Research | — |
| Vishrut Chokshi | Accenture | Speaker | A Step Towards Normalcy Beyond COVID-19 Utilities Moratorium Lift | — |
| Vitaly Polonetsky | ZipRecruiter | Speaker | Spark challenges | — |
| Wendy Howard | eg Innovations | Speaker | Measuring the Moving Parts of User Experience in Java/.NET applications | — |
| Wenyang Hu | California State University, Long Beach | Speaker | BI DataOps Development Process | — |
| Ying Wang | Amazon Web Services | Speaker | Talk to Your Data: Query Your Data Lake with Amazon QuickSight Q | — |
| Zia Khan | — | Workshop | Intro to Data Science | — |
| Zitao Liu | TAL | Speaker | A Practical Guide to Robust Multimodal Machine Learning and Its Application in Education | — |