Welcome to our first Data Science meetup in Copenhagen!
The meetup includes four expert Data Science professionals from leading businesses in Denmark and the USA. You can expect four speakers with insightful talks, and you will have the opportunity to ask questions in the Q&A session. Also, we are giving away prizes to attendees, and there will be free food and refreshments.
Speakers:
1:31 Natural Language Processing with Deep Learning - George Bezerra, Senior Manager of Data Science, TripAdvisor
George's focus at trip advisor is on applying machine learning to a wide variety of industry systems such as recommender systems, fraud detection, revenue optimisation, online advertising, and user personalisation. Before joining TripAdvisor almost four years ago, George was a Postdoctoral Researcher at MIT, designing computer architectures for big data applications. George’s presentation will discuss natural language processing with deep learning.
29:40 Data Science as a Service — Nicolas Horst, Head of Devoteam Discovery, Devoteam
Nicolas focuses on how businesses can get started on their “big data journey” and how the data they collect get can be turned into revenue. Before he joined Devoteam, one of his previous roles was with the Danish Ministry of Finance on how to improve and utilise the “basic data” owned by government organisations. Nicholas holds a Master’s degree in Geoinformation Technology and Management from Aalborg University and returned in 2013 as a visiting lecturer.
58:25 Know your metrics — Wolf Rittershofer, Senior Data Scientist, Danske Bank
Wolf is the Senior Data Scientist at Danske Bank, working on the end to end implementation of machine learning models, including specification, with the corresponding business unit and monitoring business impact. Wolf has a PhD in Atomic and Laser Physics from Oxford University and has mentored high school physics students from the United States.
