Frank H Bria
Principal
Bria Analytics Group
Frank has been a featured speaker and contributor at a number of industry conferences, including the Mortgage Bankers Association's Mortgage Servicing Conference and financial services pricing events throughout the United States and Asia. He has been quoted in the media on pricing and loss mitigation.
Frank holds a Master of Science in mathematics from Purdue University and a Bachelor of Science in mathematics from Brigham Young University. He is a certified Six Sigma Black Belt.
• Multiple Case Studies: Commerzbank, Lloyds, Ursus Advisor Optimization in Financial Services
Graham Clewes
Chief Executive
Medway Youth Trust
One of the best parts of his role at MYT is the 'can do' attitude of all his staff and volunteers. Much of the drive for this innovative data mining and propensity modelling work has come from their Data Quality Manager, Gary Seaman. Like many of their staff, Gary proposed an innovation and Graham's role was to help make things happen when he saw that they could genuinely help improve young people's life chances.
• Case Study: Medway Youth Trust Predictive Analytics Helps Medway Trust to Reduce Youth Unemployment
Ian Cox, Ph.D
JMP Senior Director Marketing
SAS
Cox is part of the SPIE organizing committee for process control and referees related papers for the IEEE Transactions on Semiconductor Manufacturing. He is the associate editor of Applied Stochastic Models in Business and Industry (Wiley Online) and has been a Visiting Fellow at Cranfield University. Cox is a Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society in the UK and a member of its Committee of the Statistical Computing Section. He has a PhD in theoretical physics.
Prof. Dr. Sven Crone, Dr.
Lecturer, CEO and Founder
iqast
Sven is a researcher, entrepreneur, author and keynote speaker in forecasting with AI/ML. As an Assistant Professor at Lancaster University, UK, his 80+ papers on forecast algorithms ranks him in the top 10 globally (Google Scholar). He is also founder of iqast.de, a university spin-off based in Hamburg pioneering intelligent forecasting software solutions e.g. beer demand at ABInBev, container shipments at Hapag-Lloyd, FMCG products at Beiersdorf, or medical products at Johnson & Johnson.
Keynote Big “Time Series” Data – What Forecasting can learn from Predictive Analytics (and vice versa)
Dr. John Elder, Ph.D.
Founder & Chair
Elder Research
John Elder chairs America’s most experienced Data Science consultancy. Founded in 1995, Elder Research has offices in Virginia, Maryland, North Carolina, Washington DC, and London. Dr. Elder co-authored 3 award-winning books on analytics, was a discoverer of ensemble methods, chairs international conferences, and is a popular keynote speaker. John is occasionally an Adjunct Professor of Systems Engineering at the University of Virginia.
• Keynote Becoming an Ace with a Robot as your Wingman
• Management Panel: The War for Analytical Talent
Aleksander Fafula, Ph.D
Chief Data Scientist
MarketPsy Capital LLC
Case Study: MarketPsy Long-Short Fund LP Predicting Investor Behavior: Trading the First Social Media Sentiment-Based Hedge Fund
Dr Martine George, PhD
Head of Marketing Analytics and Research
BNP Paribas Fortis
Martine George holds a PhD in Physics from Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium and a Master of Business Administration from Edinburgh Business School, UK.
Martine has had more than 20 years work experience in different companies and industries. Her domain of expertise has been always around marketing analytics & research, strategic data-driven business, data mining, knowledge management, business intelligence and campaign management. She has occupied different functions as analyst, data scientist, middle manager and today as director in Banking, Energy, Telco’s, Logistics, Financial Services industries. She is a practitioner, an advocate and a team maker in Business Analytics. Martine is currently Director, Head of Marketing Analytics & Research at Corporate & Public Bank at BNP Paribas Fortis, Belgium.
Martine is also an ICF Associate Certified Coach (ACC) and a dialogue facilitator. She has currently a particular interest in talent management and organizational development in Business Analytics.
Martine has kept a strong collaboration with the academics through several interventions as invited lecturer, thesis supervisor and as fellows. She is an invited speaker in Business Analytics conferences in Belgium and abroad.
• Managing Analytics: Developing and growing teams of Predictive Analysts
• Management Panel: The War for Analytical Talent
Tom Khabaza
Founding Chairman
Society of Data Miners
20 years and many industries and applications, Tom helped create the world-leading Clementine data mining workbench and the industry standard CRISP-DM methodology, and led the first integrations of data mining and text mining. His recent thought leadership includes the 9 Laws of Data Mining and Predictive Analytics Strategy.
• Management Panel: The War for Analytical Talent
Massih Mayeli
E-Commerce Project Manager
MAN Diesel & Turbo
He and his team have been responsible to make analytics happen in diffident layers of the after-sales business, a very fascinating transformation journey. He has worked for few years for the national statistical center, dealing with official statistics information management. He is now the e-business project manager, responsible to increase the share of e-business in the after-sales portfolio of MAN Diesel & Turbo. He is very interested in the maritime industry and believes there is much more potential to apply analytics to this industry to meet with the increasing global and industry challenges and for gaining competitive advantages in the markets.
• Case Study: MAN Diesel & Turbo Challenges of Industrial B2B Analytics: Case Study of a Maritime Industry Manufacturer
Matthias Meul
Customer Intelligence analyst
Deutsche Bank Europe GmbH Belgian branch
$bull; Case Study: Deutsche Bank (Belgian Branch) Conversion of savers to investors at Deutsche Bank Europe GmbH Belgian branch: Lessons learned
Philip Mugglestone
Director, Global Solutions
SAP Store & Commercial Infrastructure
Mads Nielsen
Special Adviser and Project Leader
Danish ministry of Taxation
• Case Study: Danish ministry of Taxation Implementing advanced analytics in Tax collection and compliance
Aditi Nitin
Regional Head, UK
Mu Sigma
With over 10 years of corporate experience, Aditi Nitin is currently the Regional Head for the UK at Mu Sigma. In this role, she is responsible for growth of the existing portfolio of clients across multiple industry verticals and achieving revenue targets for Mu Sigma in the UK. She helps clients realize the benefits of using data led decisions to drive business profitability. Prior to joining Mu Sigma, she held various marketing roles in Reliance Communications. Aditi holds a degree in Economics from the University of Mumbai, and an M.B.A. from The Indian School of Business (ISB).
Donal O'Hehir
Analytics Practise Leader
Trinity Horne
• Case Study: Dŵr Cymru Welsh Water One in a million. Using Applied Analytics to reduce rare pollution events in Wales.
Alec Ross
Senior Statistician
Trinity Horne
• Case Study: Dŵr Cymru Welsh Water One in a million. Using Applied Analytics to reduce rare pollution events in Wales.
Tom Scampion
Partner
Deloitte
Andy Shelton
Head of Sports Science
Leicester Tigers Rugby team
• Case Study: Leicester Tigers Rugby team The Evolution of Analytics in Rugby Union
Dr. Geert Verstraeten
Managing Partner
Python Predictions
Dr Geert Verstraeten is Programme Chair of Predictive Analytics World London 2012 and Managing Partner at Python Predictions, a Belgian niche player with expertise in the domain of Predictive Analytics. He has 10 years of ‘hands-on experience’ in different industries such as retail, mail-order, telecom, banking, utilities, fundraising and subscription services. More specifically, his interests lie in delivering highly performing yet interpretable predictions of future events in marketing, risk and operations. In 2005, Geert obtained a PhD in Applied Economics at Ghent University, Belgium. He has published different scientific studies in peer-reviewed journals, and has presented on a large number of business and academic conferences. Python Predictions was founded in April 2006, and currently active in retail & distribution, telecom, financial services, utilities, fundraising and postal services.
• Opening Session: Five ways to increase the impact of Predictive Analytics
• Management Panel: The War for Analytical Talent
Phil Winters
Author and Thought Leader
CIAgenda
Phil Winters is known internationally as The Father of Customer Intelligence. An independent business advisor, author, keynote lecturer and workshop leader with 35+ years' experience working with some 300 companies, he focuses on Customer Intelligence and championing the customer perspective to help organizations raise customer value through outstanding customer experience.
• Social Media Intelligence: Text, Network Mining and Predictive Analytics combined
Amjad Zaim
Chief Executive Officer
Cognitro Analytics
• Measuring data mining myopia – the value analysts lose by relying on their favorite tools