Demystifying Data Science Seminar
Demystifying Data Science Seminar
Learn about the latest trends in the field, best practice and new analytic approaches, without a lot of technical jargon!
Professor Geoff Webb, Director of the Monash University Centre for Data Science, will lead this lunchtime session where he will share how Data Science is transforming how we interact, transact, plan and manage information. He will be joined by Salim Naim, Chief Technology Officer, Advance Analytics & Data Science at Microsoft and Mark Stammers, Technical Director, doubleIQ who will reveal how the potential of data can be unlocked through industry-specific applications.
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Speaker profiles:
Geoff Webb
Professor | Monash University
Course Director
Geoff is Director of the Monash University Centre for Data Science. His many awards include the Australia Museum’s inaugural Eureka Prize for Excellence in Data Science. He pioneered multiple research areas as diverse as black-box user modelling, interactive data analytics and statistically-sound pattern discovery. He has developed many useful machine learning algorithms that are widely deployed.
Geoff is a Technical Advisor to data science startups BigML Inc and FROOMLE. BigML have incorporated his best of class association discovery software as a core component of their Machine Learning service. He provides Data Science consultancy across many industries.
Salim Naim
CTO Advanced Analytics & Data Science (APJ) | Microsoft
Salim is responsible for envisioning, solutions design, consulting and delivery of advance analytic services.
Prior to this role, he was the Digital Advisory Lead for Microsoft Services in Australia, as well as a member of the Worldwide Digital Advisory Team where he was responsible for the development and execution of Microsoft’s digital transformation strategy and solutions portfolio with key industry solutions, partners and customers across Financial Services, Government, Education, and Sports.
Salim holds a degree in computing and instrumentation, including an MBA in Technology Management. He sits on the review board of The International Association of Solutions Architects for the Australian Chapter.
Mark Stammers
Technical Director | doubleIQ
Mark has over 25 years of experience in data management, data warehousing, client server and web-based interface development projects.
As a co-founder of doubleIQ and its Technical Director since 2000, Mark’s key role has been as data modeller/architect. In this role he has had to keep abreast of the latest data engineering and analytical techniques and how best to apply these to specific business problems.
Mark's interests lie in using the semantics of the data to automate and inform underlying data orchestration and exploitation processes, to deliver economic value to end-users and downstream business processes.