Balancing Business ROI and new Ideas in Machine Learning/Data Science

Following is a tentative agenda for the evening: Tentative Agenda: 6:15 pm - 6:45 pm: Arrivals, eat/drink and network 6:50 pm - 7:20: Overview on PyDatatable by Ana Castro 7:20 - 7:50: Snack That Data by Aman Mathur from SnackNation 7:50 - 8:40: Panel Discussion with experts from Industry and Academia Experts in the panel, - Haichun Chen (Industry - Netflix) - Dr. Gourab Mukherjee (Academia - USC) - Ryan Johnson (Industry - GoGurdian) - SnackNation participation (Industry) 8:40pm - 8:45pm: Surprise raffle 8:45pm - 9 pm: Networking Location: snacknation (https://www.snacknation.com) Speaker Bios: Ana Castro Ana is a Data Science Evangelists for H2O.ai. Before H2O.ai, she worked as an Evangelist for Hortonworks(Cloudera). She holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and is currently pursuing a Master in Statistics with a concentration in Machine Learning at San Jose State University. When not at H2O.ai or school, she can be found in Fresno working with farmers to identify ML solutions for their agricultural challenges.