We are pleased to present this event in collaboration with the Future Labs at NYU.
The Data Future Lab is an incubator program for early-stage companies developing Machine Learning, Deep Learning, & Big Data technologies. It is part of theTheNYU Tandon Future Labs(or Future Labs) programs, which launched in 2009 as a partnership between NYU & the City of New York to create NYCs first business incubator.Today, in addition to theData Future Lab, the NYU Future Labs includes theDigital Future Lab, an incubator for startups in AR/VR & digital media; theUrban Future Lab, NYCs leading clean energy incubator; theAI Nexus Lab, an accelerator for early stage, research driven AI companies; & theVeterans Future Labsupporting veteran entrepreneurs.
As of Q3 2017, the Future Labs approach has yielded an over$1B graduate portfolio, with 14 acquisitions from 74 total graduate companies through a unique, company tailored program focused on self-sustainability.Our alumni include Bounce Exchange, CB Insights, Clarifai, Geometric Intelligence, Vettery, 7Park Data, Swyft Media, Spruce, Avanan, tapCommerce (acquired by Twitter), StyleSage, Edenworks, Coursehorse, & many others.
Agenda:
6:30pm 7:00pm Food & refreshments
7:00pm 7:20pm Michelle Bacharach, CEO ofFINDMINE andMarlies Santos Deas, head of Data Science
7:20pm 7:40pm Joy Tang, CEO ofMARKABLE
7:40pm 8:00pmChaya Cooper, CEO ofClick2Fit
8:00pm 8:30pm Networking
Michelle Bacharach the CEO & Cofounder of FINDMINE, a retail technology that uses machine learning to scale the currently manual & tedious process of product curation. FINDMINE takes your product catalogue & merchandisers looks, runs them through our proprietary algorithms & combines them with user data to highlight your goods in each shoppers perfect outfit, on your site & in your ads, emails, & stores. The company works with billion-dollar brands, womenswear retailers, & other high-fashion leaders, increasing conversion & average order values by up to 100% & lifting incremental revenue by 6% for their customers.Marlies Santos Deas is FINDMINE's resident Data Scientist. She received a Masters in Data Science from Columbia University, prior to which she was one of the first software engineers to work on IBM Watson.
Joy Tang is a former high frequency algorithmic trader turned computer vision entrepreneur. She left a seven figure salary in high frequency trading to create Markable, the leader in fashion image recognition. Originally from China, Joy attended MIT on a full scholarship, with majors in math & economics. She also holds a Gold Medal in Math Olympics in China & as a teen was the anchor of a Chinese television program. She understood how to build algorithms from her work in high frequency trading, & upon noticing a huge gap in the market between e-commerce & digital content, she was inspired to develop the AI technology to make all actors' & actresses' wardrobes immediately shoppable
Chaya Cooper is the Chief Product Officer & Founder of Click2Fit (www.click2fit.com), which is creating the first automated & scalable expert recommendation systemenablingretailers to quickly & accurately recommendclothingyou'll love, that flatters & fits. Chaya realized that many of the industrys inefficiencies & consumers pain points could be addressed by making it easier for shoppers to find the needle in the haystack, & when she kept running up against the Catch-22 of being unable to build AI software this complex without the funding to hire a tech team, she started learning everything she needed to know in order to develop Click2Fits software & build it herself from artificial intelligence, cognitive neuroscience & physics, to designing the architecture, creating the algorithms, & developing the software.
Chaya is a two-time fashion tech entrepreneur & long-time strategy & product development consultant turned full stack developer. She serves as an adviser & mentor to several female founders & women in tech through Dreamers // Doers & Women Who Tech, & has been featured on CNBCs Power Lunch & in AlleyWatchs Women in NYC Tech.
