ESTREL HOTEL BERLIN
18.- 19. NOVEMBER 2019

VOM DATA LAB ZU DATA OPS

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Predictive Analytics World Berlin
18.-19. November 2019, Estrel Hotel Berlin

Dean Abbott
Dean Abbott

Chief Data Scientist

Dean Abbott ist ein international anerkannter Vordenker und Innovator auf dem Gebiet der Datenwissenschaft und der prädiktiven Analytik. Er verfügt über mehr als drei Jahrzehnte Erfahrung bei der Lösung von Problemen in den Bereichen Kundenanalyse, Betrugserkennung, Risikomodellierung, Text Mining, Umfrageanalyse und vielen mehr. Er wird häufig in Listen der bahnbrechendsten und einflussreichsten Datenwissenschaftler der Welt aufgeführt. Herr Abbott ist Autor von Applied Predictive Analytics (Wiley, 2014) und Mitautor von The IBM SPSS Modeler Cookbook (Packt Publishing, 2013). Er ist ein beliebter Hauptredner und Ausbilder für Bootcamps/Workshops auf Konferenzen in aller Welt und sitzt in den Beiräten der UC/Irvine Predictive Analytics und UC/San Diego Data Science Certificate Programme. Er hat einen Bachelor-Abschluss in Computermathematik vom Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute und einen Master-Abschluss in angewandter Mathematik von der University of Virginia.

Roundtables will be announced soon
Roundtables will be announced soon

Informationen zur Session mit Roundtables will be announced soon folgen in Kürze.

John Arko
John Arko

Geschäftsführer

John Arko ist Geschäftsführer der Landbäckerei Schmidt aus Königstein in der Sächsischen Schweiz.

Prof. Dr. Florian Artinger
Prof. Dr. Florian Artinger

Co-Founder

Professor Florian Artinger is co-founder and managing partner of Simply Rational - The Decision Institute, Professor of Digital Business at Berlin International University of Applied Sciences, and associated scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development. Reference customers of Simply Rational include among others Morningstar Investment Management, Swiss Life, and the DFB (German Football Association).

Informationen zur Session mit Prof. Dr. Florian Artinger folgen in Kürze.

Dr. Dominik Ballreich
Dr. Dominik Ballreich

Data Scientist

Dr. Dominik Ballreich studied Business Mathematics and Economics at the University of Wuppertal. He holds a Doctorate at the Department of Applied Statistics at the FernUniversität in Hagen and is employed as a Data Scientist at Arvato Financial Solutions. His special research interests are Bayes‘ Filter, Time Series Analysis and Heuristic Optimization.

Andreas Baudisch
Andreas Baudisch

Head of Predictive Analytics

Andreas Baudisch studied Sociology (FU Berlin) with focus on quantitative statistics and economics (TU Berlin, Université de Genève). He has about 10 Years working experience in the field of data science and worked for several companies like infas, DHL, mobile.de, Stepstone.de and McMakler. His major topics include the development and organizational implementation of dynamic pricing engines, recommendation engines and forecasting methods with a strong focus to create impact. 

Andreas Baudisch spricht bei folgenden Sessions:

Dr. Frank Block
Dr. Frank Block

Head of Dia IT Data Science Lab

Dr. Frank Block joined Roche in February 2017. He has over 15 years of experience in analytics, ranging from start-ups to big companies in leading digital industries (banking, e-commerce). At Roche, he is responsible for building a data science practice within Diagnostics. The Data science activities include analyzing big data, advanced analytics, proof of value experiments, predictive modeling, machine learning, process optimization and data quality management. 

Dr. Frank Block spricht bei folgender Session:

Dr. Timo Böhm
Dr. Timo Böhm

Data & Cloud Engineer

After working for about three years as a (Senior) Consultant for Data Science & AI with an emphasis on machine learning in the cloud, Timo Böhm is now a Data & Cloud Engineer for Codecentric. In this role, he focuses on enabling organizations to bring their machine learning projects into production.

Dr. Timo Böhm spricht bei folgender Session:

Julia Butter
Julia Butter

AI Evangelist

Julia Butter is an AI evangelist at Scout24, where she’s actively driving culture change within the company. Julia has a strong background in product development, including data products, strategy, and innovation. She’s an initiator of forward thinking and energizes through her creativity and enthusiasm.

Thiago de Faria
Thiago de Faria

Head of Solutions Engineering

Thiago de Faria is the Head of Solutions Engineering at LINKIT, a knowledge-driven organization with IT experts supporting partners with a transparent path toward pain mitigation and solving business problems. Passionate about data, programming and the people behind it, he’s given many talks and workshops at conferences. Sometimes on stage, sometimes coding and sometimes in meetings, Thiago loves to learn and try new things... he also likes to crack bad jokes that sounded better on his own mind. He is an active part of the community (devopsdays Amsterdam, ITNEXT & Codemotion), married to someone smarter than him, open-source enthusiast, knowledge-sharer and a proud father. Thiago wakes up every day with one goal: develop happy high-performing teams to decrease time-to-market and build production-ready applications, always!

Alexander Dietzel
Alexander Dietzel

Institutsleiter

Alexander Dietzel hat an der Universität Bielefeld Betriebswirtschaftslehre studiert mit den Schwerpunkten empirische Wirtschaftsforschung und quantitative Methoden. Er ist Lehrbeauftragter für das Fach Controlling und Fachbuchautor. Seit 2017 leitet er die interdisziplinäre Forschungsgruppe instat - institute of applied statistics und ist in beratender Funktion u.a. für Einrichtungen des Landes NRW und des Bundes tätig.

Alexander Dietzel spricht bei folgender Session:

Dr. Markus Eberl
Dr. Markus Eberl

Senior Director Analytics Practice

Dr. Markus Eberl mehr als 15 Jahre Erfahrung in Data Science, Machine Learning, Segmentierung, Markenpositionierung, Technologie-Architekturen und Analytics-Consulting. Seit 2012 leitet er die Kantar Analytics Practice in Deutschland und hilft mit seinen 40 Kolleg_innen Kunden dabei, das Potenzial existierender Daten zu heben und damit konsumentenzentrierte Marketingaktionen zu befeuern. Die Leidenschaft zu schwarzen Bildschirmen und Codes hat er dabei aber nicht verloren. Zu früheren Tätigkeiten zählen Senior Solutions Architecture-Positionen bei SPSS and IBM, Promotion in München.

Dr. Markus Eberl spricht bei folgender Session:

Olalekan Elesin
Olalekan Elesin

Technical Product Manager – AI Platform

Olalekan Elesin spent early years of his career as a software engineer, building data intensive applications in the telecommunications and e-commerce sectors in Nigeria. His passion for creating business value with big data architectures, machine learning and AI-driven products at scale led him into doing what he loves at Scout24 Group as the Technical Product Manager - AI Platform at Scout24.

Taras Firman
Taras Firman

Senior Data Scientist

Taras Firman is a Senior Data Scientist at ELEKS, working with machine learning, statistical analysis, optimization, forecasting, etc. to solve customer’s problems through data power. Having a lot to contribute, he frequently participates in meetups and speaks at industry conferences. He received his Ph.D. in Mathematics from Ivan Franko National University in 2017. A mathematician by education and by calling, Taras also leads the Course on decision-making theory at Ukrainian Catholic University.

Cecilia Floridi
Cecilia Floridi

Geschäftsführerin

Cecilia ist Mitbegründerin und Geschäftsführerin der DataLab GmbH, einer Marketingberatung mit Sitz in Düsseldorf, die sich auf Loyalty, Data Analytics und Customer Equity spezialisiert hat. Sie ist eine Expertin für Kundenmanagement mit umfangreicher Erfahrung in der internationalen und deutschen CRM-Branche. Im Jahr 2012 erhielt Cecilia die Auszeichnung "Managerin des Jahres" von "Generation CEO", dem deutschen Business-Netzwerk für Frauen im Top-Management.

Philipp Fuhrmann
Philipp Fuhrmann

Regional Director Deutschland, Österreich und Schweiz

Philipp Fuhrmann (MBA) ist Regional Director Deutschland, Österreich und Schweiz bei Lucidworks und Ansprechpartner für Kunden, Partner sowie Interessenten in der gesamten DACH Region. Philipp berät seit über 10 Jahren Unternehmen im Bereich innovative und visionäre Technologien mit Fokus auf nachhaltiges Wachstum, Personalisierung und Optimierung für Enterprise Kunden.

Dr. Andreas Gödecke
Dr. Andreas Gödecke

Geschäftsleiter Eleks Deutschland

Andreas Goedecke has been working in a variety of technical and management positions from big companies (Siemens), to small and medium (Eleks GmbH). Starting out as a researcher in what would today be called the Internet of Things, he worked in domains ranging from Electricity, Automotive, Manufacturing to Robotics. After a few years in R&D strategy, he is now leading the German office of Custom Software Development company ELEKS GmbH, Berlin. His interests are especially the application of data science in IoT and industrial domains. Andreas has a broad educational from physics (Diplom, RWTH Aachen), engineering (Ph.D., JKU Linz), and business (MBA, ESMT Berlin) with research stays in the USA and China.

Dr. Alwin Haensel
Dr. Alwin Haensel

Founder and Managing Director

Alwin is the Founder and Managing Director of the data analytics and technology boutique Haensel AMS – Advanced Mathematical Solutions, with offices in Berlin and New York. He holds a Phd in Applied Mathematics and studied in London, Berlin and Amsterdam. His main fields of interest are the modeling of individual customer purchasing behavior to optimize pricing and marketing strategies. Most recently, he concentrated on eCommerce topics such as: multi-touch attribution, dynamic pricing.

Mojan Hamed
Mojan Hamed

Data Scientist

Mojan is a Toronto-based engineer, working at Shopify as part of the marketing data science team. Her focus is applied statistics, with recent projects including an open source python package to calculate marketing attribution using Markov chains and modelling propensity scores. She and her team have spent the past year bringing various predictive models into production as part of Shopify's initiative to power marketing acquisition with intelligent data science solutions.

Come Join Us!
Come Join Us!

Come Join Us! spricht bei folgender Session:

Dr. Niklas Keller
Dr. Niklas Keller

Organizational Psychologist & Decision Consultant

Niklas ist ein Organisationspsychologe und Entscheidungsberater, der sich auf die Entwicklung psychologischer KI-Lösungen für komplexe und kritische Entscheidungsprobleme spezialisiert hat. Er hat mehr als 10 Jahre Erfahrung in der Entwicklung von robusten, intuitiven und transparenten Entscheidungsunterstützungs-Tools. Zu Niklas' Kunden zählen die Bundeswehr, die Charité-Intensivstation, Medizintechnikunternehmen, große Pharmaunternehmen und zuletzt die Schufa.

Dr. Niklas Keller spricht bei folgenden Sessions:

Sigrid Keydana
Sigrid Keydana

Data Scientist

Sigrid Keydana has experience as a psychologist, software developer and data scientist. She is passionate about applying deep learning to real-world tasks, and enjoys blending ML/DL with a Bayesian approach.

Dr. David Koll
Dr. David Koll

Senior Data Scientist

Dr. David Koll is a Senior Data Scientist in the Advanced Analytics team at Continental Tires. He joined Continental in early 2018 where he is mainly responsible for supply chain and manufacturing (Industry 4.0) analytics. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Göttingen, where he graduated in early 2015 and subsequently worked as a Senior Researcher and Project Lead for large multi-national research projects. During this time he received multiple DAAD scholarships as a visiting researcher in the United States, Sweden and China. His research focus was on the application of Machine Learning in data-driven computer networks.

Andreas Kulpa
Andreas Kulpa

Data & Digital Enthusiast

bigdataheaven

Among to credit risk management, purchasing and marketing/sales, always using machine learning and AI, Andreas Kulpa's main focus is on DATA - the source of every decision. That´s why one of his company stations name is DATAlovers AG. But also Pironet NDH, Steria Mummert, arvato financial solutions and the Kerkhoff Group were stations of his professional career.

Jack Lampka
Jack Lampka

AI Advisor & Keynote Speaker

Mit 27 Jahren internationaler Daten- und KI-Erfahrung in der Technologie- und Pharmabranche hat Jack Lampka Analyseteams aufgebaut, Datenstrategien entwickelt und die Einführung von KI beschleunigt. Er hat Unternehmen in die Lage versetzt, Daten in geschäftliche Erfolge umzuwandeln, Führungskräfte bei datengesteuerten Entscheidungen unterstützt und durch Datenkompetenzprogramme eine Datenmentalität kultiviert ... und das alles mit viel Spaß. Spaß hat er auch als Keynote-Sprecher auf Analytik-Konferenzen.

Christian Lindenlaub
Christian Lindenlaub

Principal Data Scientist

Christian holds a degree in Statistics (from LMU Munich). Prior to joining NIQ he worked for an electric utility and for GfK Geomarketing, helping clients unlock their regional market potential. Currently, Christian serves a Principal Data Scientist at NIQ, focusing on the development of end-to-end prescriptive analytics solutions for the durable goods and consumer electronics industries for NIQ's AI-powered platform gfknewron.

Jan Lindquist
Jan Lindquist

Big Data Business Development, Technical Leader and Privacy Advisor

Jan manages data science projects at Dativa, and is an aspiring data scientist himself. He has lead the image recognition project with Tradera. Having worked across multiple industries he has gathered insights from various industries from telephony, mobile and media streaming. He is also privacy adviser and works on a blockchain based privacy agreements to ensure full control and transparency of the processing of private data. He has led product development collecting analytics data from smart phones to web browsers at VisualOn. Before that he was client solution manager at Ericsson Multiscreen solution.

Dr. Benedikt Mangold
Dr. Benedikt Mangold

Principal Data Scientist

Benedikt Mangold arbeitet als Principal Data Scientist bei der GfK in Nürnberg. Er hat über 10 Jahre Erfahrung in den Bereichen Statistik und maschinelles Lernen, angewandt auf Marketing Intelligence, Finanzen und Immobilien. Er studierte Mathematik und Wirtschaftswissenschaften und promovierte an der Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, wo er auch Vorlesungen über Statistik, Data Science und Programmierkurse hält.

Dr. Benedikt Mangold spricht bei folgender Session:

Nikita Matveev
Nikita Matveev

Chief Data Officer

Nikita is a professional in the field of data products and data management. He currently holds a position of the Chief Data Officer in S7 Airlines. His team consists of around 70 specialists in product management, data engineering, database administration, data science, software development and business analysis. They focus on three areas: The first is development of data warehouses and data management practices, which improve data availability, transparency and quality.  Then, they do a lot of research in the field of data science and develop models for core processes improvement. And, finally, they work closely with the business departments and identify their needs in data and analytical instruments. 

Nikita's areas of expertise include Customer Communications, Revenue management, MRO and Process Management. Before joining S7, he worked on business process optimization for a national Russian telecom company and gained experience as a Consultant in Roland Berger.

Nikita Matveev spricht bei folgenden Sessions:

Diana Mozo-Anderson
Diana Mozo-Anderson

Marketing Science Lead

As a Marketing Science Lead, Diana uses analytics to provide organizations with data to understand the ‘why,’ bridging the gap between marketing & other departments, driving consistency across all channels/departments/, maximizing the power of Data Science for the business. Diana has extensive experience with some of the biggest advertising platforms.

Diana Mozo-Anderson spricht bei folgender Session:

Stefan Oberg
Stefan Oberg

CEO

Stefan is the CEO of Tradera Sweden AB, a PayPal owned online marketplace very similar to Ebay. Tradera has some 2M items for sale at any given time and approximately 20% of the Swedish population is a registered user. The business model lends itself extremely well for the use of ML and AI technologies and Tradera has already done a lot in the areas of fraud prevention, product recommendations, marketing automation, predictive analysis and image recognition. It is Traderas ambition to be the market leader in the space and there is still great opportunities. Prior to the current position, Stefan was the CPO of Skype. 

Michael Oettinger
Michael Oettinger

Data Scientist

Michael Oettinger, founder and owner of oetti-ds, is a data scientist who advises companies in various industries. After studying business administration with a focus on mathematics and market research in Augsburg and Oviedo, he fulfilled various managing roles at PwC, IBM (inter alia SPSS) and other software companies. The focus of his activities is the application of analytical models at several business use case scenarios, using “classic” but also new software tools (in particular R, Python, KNIME, Spark MLlib, H2O and Tensorflow). He is the author of the book: "„Data Science: Eine praxisorientierte Einführung im Umfeld von Machine Learning, künstlicher Intelligenz und Big Data“", which will be published in the summer of 2019 in its second edition.

Michael Oettinger spricht bei folgender Session:

Malte Pietsch
Malte Pietsch

Co-Founder

Malte Pietsch is a Co-Founder at deepset, where he crafts custom NLP solutions for diverse clients, such as Siemens, Airbus and Springer Nature. He holds a M.Sc. with honors from TU Munich and conducted research at Carnegie Mellon University. Before founding deepset he worked as a data scientist for multiple startups. He is an active open-source contributor and creator of the NLP package FARM.

Frank Pörschmann
Frank Pörschmann

CEO

In 25 Berufsjahren leitete Frank verschiedene Teams im technischen und allgemeinen Management, u.a. 10 Jahre bei IBM, als CTO der Deutschen Messe und als Leiter der CeBIT. Heute ist Frank CEO der iDIGMA GmbH, spezialisiert auf AI & Data Governance und Strategie. Frank ist Co-Leiter des Instituts "Data & AI Governance" an der Uni Berlin und initiierte die "Data Governance School" für Datenentscheider. Sein erstes neuronales Netzwerk programmierte er 1995 zur Erkennung von Satellitensignalen und war seitdem fasziniert.

Dr. Dennis Proppe
Dr. Dennis Proppe

Chief Data Scientist

Dennis Proppe is a leading data scientist and entrepreneur in the field of relationship marketing. Starting out with a Ph.D. in Marketing & Statistics, he founded a data science consultancy with a research colleague in 2008. This company evolved into Gpredictive, a software company that allows easy scaling and productionizing of machine learning initiatives for relationship marketing efforts. Dennis has led several hundert machine learning initiatives into production.

David Raab
David Raab

Gründer und Geschäftsführer

David M. Raab is founder of the Customer Data Platform Institute, which educates marketers and technologists about customer data management. Mr. Raab named the CDP category in 2013 and has been active in defining it ever since. He founded the CDP Institute in 2016. 

As a consultant, author, and speaker, Mr. Raab has been helping marketers to make better use of technology since 1987. Typical consulting projects include marketing process analysis, architecture planning, needs definition, and vendor selection. Mr. Raab also consults with industry vendors on product and business strategy.  He regularly speaks at conferences around the world.  

Mr. Raab has published hundreds of articles on marketing technology and is author of Marketing Performance Measurement Toolkit (Racom Books, 2009). Additional research appears regularly on his blog http://customerexperiencematrix.blogspot.com. Prior to his consulting career, Mr. Raab held senior marketing positions in the publishing and continuity industries.

Mr. Raab holds a bachelor's degree from Columbia University and MBA from the Harvard Business School.  

Dr. Nora Reich
Dr. Nora Reich

Product Owner Big Data & Artificial Intelligence

Dr. Nora Reich treibt seit 2018 die Nutzung von Data Science Lösungen an den Kundenschnittstellen der KfW Bankengruppe (Inland) voran. Aktuelle Machine Learning Projekte umfassen u.a. E-Mail Klassifizierung und Routing, Fraud Detection, Forecasting und Textmining. Dr. Nora Reich hat umfassende Expertise in der Nutzung analytischer Methoden als Basis für datengetriebene Business Lösungen und Entscheidungen, u.a. durch frühere Positionen bei DHL Paket GmbH und der Unternehmensberatung mm customer strategy.

Informationen zur Session mit Dr. Nora Reich folgen in Kürze.

Robin Röhm
Robin Röhm

CEO

Robin is founder and CEO of apheris AI GmbH, a start-up that develops artificial intelligence algorithms for biomedical data with a focus on privacy preserving technologies. Robin studied medicine, philosophy and mathematics and was professionally trained at UBS in Global Banking. In recent years, Robin has already founded another start-up in the healthtech sector, where he build an automatic speech recognition for children with language disorders. Prior to and during his various studies he intensively focused on data harmonization techniques using artificial intelligence and algebraic theories on privacy preserving data processing. With apheris AI he pursues the mission to fully leverage the value of biomedical data for the benefit of patients, while preserving the privacy of the data.

Lars Schleithoff
Lars Schleithoff

Data Scientist

Lars Schleithoff studied Mathematics at Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität in Bonn, specializing in numerical methods for Machine Learning. At Fraunhofer SCAI Research Institute, he studied Machine Learning Models for applications in the automotive industry. Today, Lars is Data Scientist at Informationsfabrik GmbH. His focus lies on IoT and Predictive Analytics for manufacturing.

Dr. Christian Schneider
Dr. Christian Schneider

Senior Machine Learning Expert

Dr. Christian Schneider is Senior Machine Learning Expert at the online weather portal wetter.com. He manages many well-known customers and develops innovative data science solutions. He holds a PhD from ETH Zurich about “The robustness of complex networks“ and was a postdoc at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). His research focused on complex systems, big data and environmental engineering.

Chris Schneider
Chris Schneider

Associated Head of Sales

Chris Schneider ist Associated Head of Sales bei der LexisNexis GmbH. Seit circa sechs Jahren ist er im Data & Analytics-Umfeld tätig und verfügt über einen großen Erfahrungsschatz hinsichtlich der Betreuung von Compliance-Projekten in der Finanz- und Bankenbranche. Er war bei zahlreichen Corporate-Projekten involviert.

Chris Schneider spricht bei folgender Session:

Alexey Shaternikov
Alexey Shaternikov

Founder & CEO

Alexey Shaternikov is Founder and CEO at DSLab. Alexey has 10+ years of practical experience in applying data analysis, machine learning and artificial intelligence to solve business problems. He currently focuses on forecasting demand and optimizing replenishment strategies to help retailers reduce the number of write-offs and out-of-stocks. Alexey received his degree from Saint Petersburg State University of Engineering and Economics.

Björn Stecher
Björn Stecher

CEO und Privacy-Nerd

Björn Stecher ist Geschäftsführer und Privacy-Experte der Beratungsagentur 1000Elephants GmbH. Als Speaker und Praktiker begleitet er seit 2017 den politischen Diskurs rund um das Thema Digitale Ethik und Datenethik. Als systemischer Organisationsberater und Jurist betrachtet er die gesellschaftlichen (digitalen) Herausforderungen aus zwei ganz unterschiedlichen Perspektiven und leitet daraus Handlungsempfehlungen für Kunden und Unternehmen ab.

Björn Stecher spricht bei folgender Session:

Simon Stiebellehner
Simon Stiebellehner

Head of AI

Simon Stiebellehner is Head of AI at craftworks, lecturer in Statistics and Digital Marketing and passionate speaker. Currently, he focuses on bringing Artificial Intelligence into the industry in the form of Industrial AI. He designs systems that focus on enhancing human decision-making abilities using Artificial Intelligence technologies. After gaining diverse industry experience, ranging from Microsoft to global players of the consulting industry, he obtained his Masters degree from University College London (UCL), specializing in Machine Learning and Data Science. Subsequently, he was a doctoral candidate and research associate, conducting research at the intersection of Neural Probabilistic Language Models and Recommendation Systems in a Real-Time Bidding context.

Informationen zur Session mit Simon Stiebellehner folgen in Kürze.

Dr. Artur Suchwalko
Dr. Artur Suchwalko

Technical Director

With over 20 years of professional experience in advanced analytics, and a PhD in mathematics, Artur has led over 100 projects for companies at different stages of development – from startups to global corporations. Several scientific papers and thousands of hours of commercial training later, Artur still has undying enthusiasm for sharing his expertise in business analytics, Data Science, and Machine Learning. He currently holds the position of CTO at QuantUp.

Prof. Dr. Gero Szepannek
Prof. Dr. Gero Szepannek

Professor for Statistics, Business Mathematics and ML

After his PhD at Dortmund University (together with Fraunhofer IDMT, Ilmenau) in 2008 he has worked for seven years as head of scoring and rating models for the Santander Consumer Group. Since 2016 he has a professorship for Statistics, Business Mathematics and Machine Learning at Stralsund University of Applied Sciences.

Prof. Dr. Gero Szepannek spricht bei folgenden Sessions:

Martin Szugat
Martin Szugat

Geschäftsführer

Mit der Strategieberatung Datentreiber unterstützt Martin Szugat Unternehmen beim digitalen Wandel zu datengetriebenen Geschäftsmodellen und -prozessen. Seine Methode des Datenstrategie-Designs befähigt die Unternehmen individuelle und erfolgreiche Datenstrategien zu entwickeln und ermöglicht Ihnen konkreten Nutzen aus ihren Daten zu ziehen. Vor Datentreiber war Martin Szugat Geschäftsführer von SnipClip, einer Agentur für Social Media Marketing & Analytics-Lösungen. Der studierte Bioinformatiker hat im Bereich Machine Learning und Data Mining geforscht sowie als freiberuflicher Fachautor und IT-Berater gearbeitet. Seit 2014 betreut er als Programmdirektor die Predictive Analytics World-Konferenzen in Deutschland.

Martin Szugat spricht bei folgenden Sessions:

Martin Szugat moderiert folgende Sessions:

René Traue
René Traue

Lead Data Scientist

René studied business administration (at Nordakademie Elmshorn) and business informatics (at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg). Before he joined NIQ, he blended loyalty card, transaction, geographical, and market research data at a German drugstore chain. At NIQ, he works as a Lead Data Scientist, where he focuses on developing end-to-end prescriptive analytics solutions.

Piotr Turek
Piotr Turek

Principal Engineer/Architect, Tech Lead

As a Principal Engineer/Architect and Tech Lead at DreamLab - an IT hub of Ringier Axel Springer, Piotr is designing and building data-driven products for millions of people, solving business problems and extracting value out of vast quantities of data. In doing so, he touches all layers of modern Software & Big Data stack. He loves to have a direct impact on the Big Picture, which made him develop an interest in Software Architecture, Domain-Driven Design and Distributed Systems. Also, he hates buzzwords. Ends up utilizing many of them anyway. Previously at Google, CERN and Zendesk.

Dr. Jonas Vogt
Dr. Jonas Vogt

Dr Jonas Vogt has worked for Quoniam Asset Management since 2013. He is a member of the equities portfolio department where he is working on quantitative investment strategies. He received his PhD in Statistics from Dortmund University and studied Economics and Statistics.

Dr. Jonas Vogt spricht bei folgender Session:

Prof. Dr. Steffen Wagner
Prof. Dr. Steffen Wagner

Leiter Data Scientist

Steffen Wagner ist Mitgründer und Lead Data Scientist bei INWT Statistics, einem Berliner Beratungsunternehmen für Data Science. Er konzentriert sich auf die Themen Predictive Analytics und erklärbare KI. Seit September 2021 hat er eine Professur für Angewandte Statistik an der BHT Berlin inne.

Prof. Dr. Steffen Wagner spricht bei folgender Session:

Phil Winters
Phil Winters

Experte für Strategien aus der Kundenperspektive

Auf internationalem Parkett gilt Phil Winters als der „Father of Customer Intelligence“, weil er leidenschaftlich für die Bedürfnisse der Kunden kämpft. Als Experte für Strategien aus der Perspektive des Kunden findet er immer neue Wege, die es Unternehmen ermöglichen, das Kundenerlebnis zu verbessern und die Loyalität ihrer Kunden zu stärken. Mit mehr als 300 Firmen weltweit hat Phil erfolgreich zusammengearbeitet. Heute gibt er seine Erfahrungen aus über 30 Jahren Praxis als unabhängiger Berater, Autor und Referent in Keynotes und Vorträgen sowie in Workshops und Seminaren weiter.

Phil Winters spricht bei folgenden Sessions:

Norbert Wirth
Norbert Wirth

Global VP Data

Als Global VP Data bei PAYBACK verfügt Norbert über umfangreiche Erfahrungen in den Bereichen Marketing Analytics, Data Science End-to-End-Lösungsentwicklung, digitales Ökosystem, Innovationsmanagement, Datenprodukt- und Algorithmenentwicklung. Bevor er zu PAYBACK kam, leitete er die Entwicklung und das Management von Sqooba Deutschland und SUPERCRUNCH by GfK, zwei Data Science Startups. Er arbeitete als Director Data Science und AI bei PwC, Global Head of Data and Science und Global Head of Innovation and Digital bei der GfK.

Tomasz Wyszyński
Tomasz Wyszyński

VP Marketing Analytics & AI

Michal Zmuda
Michal Zmuda

Senior Staff Engineer

Believes that Computer Scientists need to explore the vast landscape of their field to choose the right tools for every problem. In that spirit, he delved into HPC Erlang distributed systems, front-end, peer-to-peer networks, JVM technologies, high-throughput CPP messaging, and Big Data engineering. Currently designing and building a personalization platform for 30M users at DreamLab – an IT hub of Ringier Axel Springer.