Agenda:
6:00 - 6:15pm: security check-in
6:15 - 7:30pm: talks (see below for speaker bios and abstracts)
7:30 - 8:30pm: food & networking
Note: this event is for anyone who identifies as a woman.
Dr. Sameena Shah is a Director of Research for Thomson Reuters and heads the R&D NY site. Prior to this role, she worked at a StatArb hedge fund in NYC, and a startup. Sameena is a cofounder of Cocoa Compassion, a social enterprise.Sameena holds a PhD in Machine Learning from IIT Delhi, which was judged as the top one for India for 2010 by Microsoft Research. She holds a Masters in Computer Applications and B.Tech in Electronics Engineering.Sameena has published more than 20 papers and is on the review panel of major CS/EE journals and conferences.
Abstract:How do you find out what is happening in the world ? Traditionally, the answer has been traditional media organizations. However, these days most people will agree that Twitter has become a big part of the news generation and dissemination process. While Twitter is being used, however the process of news discovery is almost universally rudimentary; limited to searching using keywords that one may think of. Thomson Reuters R&D along with our Reuters news division, has built a ground up technology that automates the news discovery process from social sources. Sameena, who led the research and development of this product, will highlight the machine learning and NLP algorithms contribution in this breakthrough technology.
Joyce Shen is the Director of Emerging Technology Partnerships & Investments at Thomson Reuters. She leads the enterprise CTO efforts on emerging technology trends, partnerships, and investments globally. Before joining Thomson Reuters, Joyce was the founding member and CFO of the Cloud Platform Services division (Bluemix) at IBM. Joyce holds bachelors degrees in Statistics and Economics from the University of Chicago and an MBA degree from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.
Abstract:Thomson Reuters emerging tech team identifies emerging tech trends and helps form tech innovation partnerships to help Thomson Reuters and startups to reach new markets. Joyce will share her perspective on corporate innovation and emerging tech trends in B2B space.
