Bibblio Labs is proud to announce it's organizing its first RecSys NYC Meetup hosted by eBay on Wednesday, April 25, 2018.

PLACE: eBay NYC, 625 6th Ave, 3rd floor

ATTENDEE LIMIT: 80

THEME: Recommender Systems

PRICE: US$5

AGENDA:

Networking, food & drinks

Talk by Adam Hajari (Senior Scientist at Pandora) & Samir Rayani (Engineer at Pandora) - 'Eightball: an open-source framework for evaluating, packaging, & deploying predictive models'

Adam Hajari joined Next Big Sound in 2012 after completing a PhD in Physics at Washington University. Adam is passionate about open source code & education & has worked on several projects to aid & improve data science & machine learning workflows.

Samir Rayani co-founded Next Big Sound in 2008 during his junior year at Northwestern University. He has spent the last 10 years building the Next Big Sound engineering team (now at Pandora) & finding creative ways to make data useful to broad audience through intuitive design & automated insights.

Talk by Marc Jansen (Data Scientist at Gousto) - 'Data Science for Dinner: Building Gousto's Personalization (eco)System'

Marc is a data scientist at the UK's leading recipe kit company, Gousto. Since joining in early 2017, he has worked on development & production deployment of algorithms for personalization, stock management & warehouse optimization. Prior to joining Gousto, he completed a PhD in Management Science at the University of Cambridge & spent time as a visiting researcher at the MIT-SUTD International Design Centre in Singapore. -

Talk TBC

We'll end with further drinks at nearby bar. These drinks are not included in your attendance fee.

See you there!

PS: Meetups are better with lots of people, so feel free to forward this on to colleagues or friends.

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CALL FOR IDEAS, PRESENTATIONS & VENUES:

If you've got an idea for a presentation, or there's a particular topic that you'd like to hear more about please contact the organizers.

Also contact us if you've got a venue to host future meetups.