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Speakers

The Wolfram Data Summit begins with an 8am breakfast on Thursday, September 4. The final presentations will conclude at approximately 4:30pm on Friday, September 5. This page will be updated as additional speakers are confirmed.

Talks & Presentations

Diversity of Data in the Search for Exoplanets Rachel Akeson NASA Exoplanet Science Institute, Deputy Director

Techniques and Applications for Sentiment Analysis Ronen Feldman Digital Trowel, Chief Scientist

Persistent Identifiers in Research Management: People, Places, and Things Laurel Haak ORCID, Executive Director

Supporting Science Investments with Small and Big Data Solutions Christian Herzog ÜberResearch GmbH, CEO

Computational Knowledge Meets Quantum Chemistry Stefan Janecek uni software plus GmbH, Senior Researcher

Virtual Reading Rooms Roger Macdonald Television Archive, Internet Archive, Director

The 10 Habits of Highly Effective Research Data Anita de Waard Elsevier Research Data Services, VP Research Data Collaborations

Visual Intelligence: Seeing beyond the Immediate Image Aditya Khosla MIT, PhD Student

Food and Nutrient Databases: Overcoming the Seesaw between Comprehensiveness and Completeness Denise King Nutrition Coordinating Center, University of Minnesota, Director of Operations

Strategies toward Improving the Utility of Scientific Big Data Evan Bolton National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Lead Scientist

Big Data & International Trade: Creating Transparency through Information Keith Soura & Peter Goodings Swartz Panjiva, Inc., Accounts & Innovation/Panjiva, Inc., Data Scientist

Comprehending Things: Ontology and Semantics for Event Handling IoT Ryan Quick & Arno Kolster PayPal, Principal Architect/PayPal, Sr. Database Architect

Sensory Overload, Signal vs. Noise, Sensory Integration, IOT and the Behavioral Symphony of Wellness, and Implications for Creative Reconstruction of Healthcare John Mattison Kaiser Permanente, SCAL, Chief Medical Information Officer

The Strange Case of the Noob Who Didn't Buy: Big Data and Pricing William Grosso Scientific Revenue, CEO

Redefining Race: The Power of DNA in Uniting Societies Ken Chahine Ancestry, Senior Vice President and General Manager

Data Is Everywhere. Relationships Matter... a Lot! Anthony Scriffignano Dun & Bradstreet, SVP Worldwide Data & Insight

The Journey Out of Darkness–How Smart Data and Intelligent Systems Are Changing Education Kerri Holt Dallas Independent School District, Special Projects Officer

Structuring the Data of Sausage-Making:
Uncovering Legislative Trends Across the 50 States Vladimir Eidelman FiscalNote, Principal Scientist

Time Travel with Maps Ben Vershbow The New York Public Library, Director, Digital Library + Labs

Best Practices for Building Legal Knowledge Bases Michael Poulshock Exeter Group / Justocity, Legal Knowledge Engineer

When the “Thing” Is a Digital Scholarly Publication: Connecting Publications to Linked Data Nancy Kopans ITHAKA (JSTOR, Portico, and Ithaka S+R), Vice President, General Counsel, Secretary

Social Monitoring Boe Hartman Barclays Bank, Chief Information Officer, Barclaycard

The Emerald Cloud Lab: Data Lessons Learned from Running a Remote-Controlled Lifesciences Laboratory Brian Frezza Emerald Therapeutics, Co-founder

The Wolfram Data Science Platform: Data Science in the Cloud Dillon Tracy Wolfram Research, Senior Developer

HealthMap and MedWatcher: Big Data and Crowdsourcing for Better Public Health Clark Freifeld HealthMap/Boston Children’s Hospital, Research Software Developer

What It Takes to Compute on the Whole World Kalev Leetaru Georgetown University, Yahoo! Fellow in Residence

Data Aggregation and Analysis Challenges for Intelligent Manufacturing Robert Graybill Nimbis Services, Inc., President & CEO

THE IoT Killer App: Profitable Sustainability via Multi-stakeholder Data Privacy and Subscription Enablement Chris Rezendes INEX Advisors, President

Bringing Big Data to Personalized Health Care: A Patient-Centered Framework Nitesh Chawla iCeNSA, Director

Measuring and Correcting Error in Integrations Amanda Welsh The Nielsen Company, EVP, Data Science

End-to-End Fusion of IOT & Big Data Technologies: IOT/Big Data Foundations, Applied & Futures Curt Aubley Intel, Vice President, Data Center Group