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Dean Abbott
Chief Data Scientist
Abbott Analytics
Dean Abbott is President of Abbott Analytics and currently is the Bodily Bicentennial Professor in Analytics at UVA Darden School of Business. He is an internationally recognized thought leader and innovator in data science and predictive analytics with more than three decades of experience solving a wide range of private and public sector problems. Mr. Abbott is the author of Applied Predictive Analytics (Wiley, 2014) and coauthor of The IBM SPSS Modeler Cookbook (Packt Publishing, 2013).
Dieter Debels
Founder
Geo Intelligence
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.
• Special Plenary Session:
The Peril of Vast Search (and How Target Shuffling Can Save Science)
• Workshop:
The Best and the Worst of Predictive Analytics: Predictive Modeling Methods and Common Data Mining Mistakes
Dr. Aaron Ferguson
Technical Director, Cyber and Information Analytics Office
National Security Agency (NSA)
Prof. Dr. David J. Hand
Professor of Mathematics
Imperial College, London
Gergely Kalmár
Predictive Analytics Specialist
Webrepublic AG
Ajay Kelkar
COO
Hansa Cequity
Ajay is a regular blogger.
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.
Duncan Ross
Trustee
DataKind UK
He has been quoted widely in the press about the impact and importance of Big Data (Financial Times, The Guardian, Times, The Economist), and writes for both internal and external audiences. He has written a state of the art paper on the use of big data in the non profit sector
In his spare time Duncan has been an elected politician, and currently plays an active part in the data philanthropy movement as a Trustee of DataKind UK, a charity that supports the advanced use of data by non profits. From 2013-14 he was a member of the British Government’s Open Data User Group.
Veronique Van Vlasselaer
PhD researcher
KULeuven
Véronique Van Vlasselaer graduated magna cum laude as Master Information Systems Engineer at the faculty of Business and Economics, KU Leuven (Belgium). For her master thesis topic “Mining Data on Twitter”, she received the best thesis award from the faculty’s student branch.
In 2012, Véronique started as a Ph.D researcher with prof. Bart Baesens at the Faculty of Business of Economics at KU Leuven, department of Decision Sciences and Information Management. Her main research topics include social network analytics, fraud detection and net lift modeling.
Lukas Vermeer
Data Scientist
Booking.com
Lukas combines industry experience in online experimentation and Data Science with an academic background in computing science and machine learning. Highly motivated, quick-witted, eager to learn, coach and teach, and able to think outside of any given box, Lukas has excellent analytical skills, communicative abilities and technical dexterity. He can unravel the problem, explain the answer and build the solution.Currently employed by Booking.com, the world's leading accommodation website, Lukas is responsible for the internal tooling and training that helps product development improve the customer experience in measurable steps through thousands of experiments.
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:
Le Mariage Parfait - Combining Logit and Ensemble Modeling for Increased Customer Churn Detection
Arthur Von Eschen
Sr. Director, Game Analytics
Activision
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.