In this session, Beena Ammanath, Data Science Products at General Electric, sat with Vishal Kumar, CEO AnalyticsWeek and shared her journey as an analytics executive, life @ GE, future of analytics in the industrial sector, how Predix is helping other industrial companies cope up with growing data, and some challenges/Opportunities she's observing as an analytics executive.

Timeline: 0:29 Beena's journey. 5:19 Data science in the manufacturing sector. 7:03 Driving data science in the manufacturing sector. 9:39 Bringing in the data culture into the manufacturing sector. 11:35 Upskilling and being relevant as a data scientist. 13:27 Hacks to managing data teams well. 16:08 What's Predix? 19:06 Investment opportunities for data science in manufacturing. 21:07 Challenges manufacturing businesses in data. 24:46 IoT and manufacturing. 25:18 Dealing with IoT vendors at Predix. 26:24 Ontology of data at Predix. 29:43 Dealing with the new rules and laws in the IoT sector. 31:30 Interesting use cases in the manufacturing industry. 34:37 Open source vs. enterprise. 35:35 Getting recruited as a data scientist in manufacturing. 40:07 Pitching your product for a manufacturing company.

Podcast link: https://futureofdata.org/leadership-playbook-with-beena-ammanath-ge/

Here's Beena's Bio: Beena Ammanath is Board Director at ChickTech and Head of Data Science Products at General Electric. She is a seasoned technology leader with over 24 years of a proven track record of building, and leading high-performance teams from the ground-up focused on strategy and successful execution of industrial scale technology products and services. She has an impressive track record, having worked at recognized international organizations British Telecom, E*trade, Thomson Reuters, Bank of America, and Silicon Valley startups in engineering and management positions.

She is also helping build the next-gen of computer scientists through her role on the Industry Advisory Board for Cal Poly. She holds a Masters in Computer Science and an MBA in Finance. She has been a featured speaker on the topics of data science, big data, technology transformation, and women in leadership at numerous industry conferences.

Throughout her career in technology, Beena has been a strong advocate for women in positions of technology leadership and has established herself as a voice for resolving gender disparities.

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In this session, David Rose, CEO, Ditto Labs, sat with Vishal Kumar, CEO AnalyticsWeek and shared his journey as a data driven executive, best practices, shared some thought leadership in visualizations and usability. Some challenges/opportunities he's observing as an analytics-driven startup.

Timeline: 0:29 David's journey. 4:50 Bringing technology to everyday objects. 9:37 Sensor and photosensor. 13:02 Choosing the right use cases. 16:54 On deep learning. 21:49 Working on new use cases in image processing. 26:05 Ditto Labs's allure classifiers. 28:15 Challenges as an entrepreneur in an image processing company. 32:50 Technical challenges for Ditto faces. 36:58 Privacy and IoT. 40:17 Different countries, different legal norms on privacy. 42:55 Data culture and image processing company. 44:46 Opportunities in the image processing stacks.

Podcast Link: https://futureofdata.org/analyticsweek-leadership-podcast-with-david-rose-ditto-labs/

If interested in vision catalog (as discussed in the video): http://www.slideshare.net/davidloring...

David's website: enchantedobjects.com

Here's David's Bio: David is the CEO at Ditto Labs, an image-recognition software platform that scours social media photos to find brands and products.

His new book, Enchanted Objects, focuses on the future of the internet of things and how these technologies will impact how we live and work.

Prior to Ditto, David founded and was CEO at Vitality, a company that reinvented medication packaging now distributed by CVS, Walgreens, and Express Scripts.

He founded Ambient Devices, which pioneered glanceable technology: embedding internet information in everyday objects like lamps, mirrors, and umbrellas.

David holds patents for photo sharing, interactive TV, ambient information displays, and medical devices. His work has been featured at the MoMA, covered in the New York Times, WIRED, and The Economist, and parodied on the Colbert Report.

David co-teaches a popular course in tangible user interfaces at the MIT Media Lab with Hiroshi Ishii. He is a frequent speaker to corporations and design and technology conferences.

He received his BA in Physics from St. Olaf College, studied Interactive Cinema at the MIT Media Lab, and earned a Masters at Harvard.

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The podcast is sponsored by: TAO.ai(https://tao.ai), Artificial Intelligence Driven Career Coach

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In this session, Eloy Sasot, Head of Analytics, NewsCorp, sat with Vishal Kumar, CEO AnalyticsWeek and shared his journey as an analytics executive, best practices, hacks for upcoming executives, and some challenges/opportunities she's observing as a Chief Analytics Officer.

Timeline:

0:29 Eloy's journey. 4:43 Why work in a publishing house? 7:16 Non-tech industry doing tech stuff. 10:18 Tips for a small business to get started with data science. 13:46 Creating a culture of data science in a company. 17:23 Convincing leaders towards data science. 22:05 Initial days for a leader in creating a data science practice. 27:20 Putting together a data science team. 29:18 Choosing the right tool. 33:00 Keep oneself tool agnostic. 35:20 CDO, CAO, and CTO. 38:58 Defining a data scientist at News Corp. 42:12 Future of data analytics. 46:37 Blaming everything on Big Data.

Podcast Link: https://futureofdata.org/563533-2/

Here's Eloy's Bio: Eloy is the CAO at News Corp, a worldwide network of leading companies in the worlds of diversified media, news, education, and information services, such as The Wall Street Journal, Dow Jones, New York Post, The Times, The Sun, The Australian, HarperCollins, Move, Storyful and Unruly

Prior to this, Eloy led Pricing, Data Science and Data Analytics for HarperCollins Publishers, the second-largest consumer book publisher in the world, with operations in 18 countries, nearly 200 years of history, and more than 65 unique imprints. Since joining HarperCollins in 2011, Eloy pioneered the creation and development of the pricing function, first in the UK, and then its extension to an international scale for the global company. He worked with his teams and each division around the world to drive data-driven decision-making, with a particular focus on Pricing. Besides his global role, he was Board Level Director of HarperCollins UK.

He holds an MBA from INSEAD and a Master’s in Mathematical Engineering from INSA Toulouse.

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The podcast is sponsored by: TAO.ai(https://tao.ai), Artificial Intelligence Driven Career Coach

About #Podcast:

FutureOfData podcast is a conversation starter to bring leaders, influencers, and lead practitioners to discuss their journey to create the data-driven future.

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In this session, Michael O'Connell, Chief Analytics Officer, TIBCO Software, sat with Vishal Kumar, CEO AnalyticsWeek and shared his journey as a Chief Analytics Executive, shared best practices, cultural hacks for upcoming executives, shared his perspective on changing BI landscape and how businesses could leverage that and shared some challenges/opportunities he's observing across various industries.

Timeline:

0:28 Michael's journey. 4:12 CDO, CAO, and CTO. 7:30 Adoption of data analytics capabilities. 9:55 The BI industry dealing with the latest in data analytics. 12:10 Future of stats. 14:58 Creating a center of excellence with data. 18:00 Evolution of data in BI. 21:40 Small businesses getting started with data analytics. 24:35 First steps in the process of becoming a data-driven company. 26:28 Convincing leaders towards data science. 28:20 Shortest route to become a data scientist. 29:49 A typical day in Michael's life.

Podcast Link: https://futureofdata.org/analyticsweek-leadership-podcast-with-michael-oconnell-tibco-software/

Here's Michael's Bio: Michael O’Connell, Chief Analytics Officer, TIBCO Software, developing analytic solutions across a number of industries including Financial Services, Energy, Life Sciences, Consumer Goods & Retail, and Telco, Media & Networks. Michael has been working on analytics software applications for the past 20 years and has published more than 50 papers and several software packages on analytics methodology and applications. Michael did his Ph.D. work in Statistics at North Carolina State University and is Adjunct Professor Statistics in the department.

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The podcast is sponsored by: TAO.ai(https://tao.ai), Artificial Intelligence Driven Career Coach

About #Podcast:

FutureOfData podcast is a conversation starter to bring leaders, influencers, and lead practitioners to discuss their journey to create the data-driven future.

Want to Join? If you or any you know wants to join in, Register your interest @ http://play.analyticsweek.com/guest/

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