Schedule:
6:00 - Doors & Food
6:30 - Talk 1
7:15 - Talk 2
7:45 - Wrap & Chat
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Talk 1: Making Big Data User-Friendly
Speaker: Tim Baker, Global Head of Applied Innovation @ Refinitiv
Tim will show how Refinitiv's Data Science Accelerator makes big data sets accessible through a set of Jupyter notebooks to help drive innovation at its customers' firms. He will also present Project Mosaic, an effort to detect unusual stock movements (using Kafka, Apache Beam & Google Dataflow) & to then surface the most likely causes of such movements in the news.
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Talk 2: TBD
Speaker: Lenny Fishler, Data Science Manager @ Braze (formerly AppBoy)