Course curriculum
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            1ODSC West Keynotes- 
                    
                      
                    
                    
                    Provably Beneficial Artificial Intelligence by Stuart Russell, PhD 
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                    How Companies Have Achieved Business Benefits with Kubernetes Powered MLOps by Abhinav Joshi and Will McGrath 
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                    The Future of Data of Science with Z by HP by Bruce Blaho and Andrew Kemp 
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                    Making AI work for business by JR Gauthier, PhD 
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                    Instilling Interpretability and Explainability into AI Projects by Scott Reed 
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                    Increasing Accuracy with Human Labeling and Weak Learning by Elliot Branson 
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                    Why Data Lakes are critical for AI, ML and IoT by Brian Flūg 
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                    Unlocking Climate-Related Data Through Open Source and Data Mesh Architecture by Vincent Caldeira and Erik Erlandson 
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                    Changing the Narrative: The Importance of Responsible AI and Human-AI Collaboration by Lama Nachman 
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                    MLOps Spotlight_ Scaling NLP Pipelines at IHS Markit by Yaron Haviv and Nick Brown 
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                    How Can You Trust Machine Learning by Carlos Guestrin, PhD 
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                    Break Out of your Data Bubble by Victor Ghadban 
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                    What is MLOps, DataOps, and DevOps by Manasi Vartak, PhD 
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                    100x More Features at Scale with Feature Engineering Automation by Sharada Narayanan 
 
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            2ODSC Talks- 
                    
                      
                    
                    
                    Composition in Machine Learning_ in Models, Tools, and Teams by Dr. Bryan Bischof 
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                    Bringing Choice, Automation and Performance to ML Deployment with Apache TVM and the OctoML Platform by Luis Ceze, PhD 
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                    Audio Processing and Feature Building for Machine Learning by Jyotika Singh 
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                    You Wanna Grab a Cup of Coffee_ A Data-Centric Approach To Deconstructing How Geospatial Patterns Shape Your Cup Of Coffee by Minerva Singh 
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                    Relationships Matter_ Using Connected Data for Better Machine Learning by Phani Dathar 
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                    Passive Privacy-respecting Collection of DNS Transaction Data by Paul Vixie 
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                    Privacy-Preserving Machine Learning_ Split Learning and Privacy Attacks by Grzegorz Gawron 
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                    ML Ops: Doing the Things to Preserve Tomorrow’s Machine Learning Sanity Today by Seth Juarez 
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                    Azure Machine Learning Enterprise Security Promises and Best Practices by Dennis Eikelenboom 
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                    Seeing the Unseen_ Inferring Unobserved Information from Limited Sensory Data by Adriana Romero 
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                    Data Science Performance isn’t What You Think: the Journey from Research to Production of the Data Science Workstation by David A. Liu 
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                    Scalable Natural Language Processing Using BERT OpenVINO AI Kit and Open Data Hub by Kyle Bader and Ryan Loney 
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                    Iterate Automated Feature Engineering_ A data scientist’s guide to faster, better features by Yusuke Muraoka 
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                    Think like a human_ Develop intuition in deep learning modeling by Jun Qian 
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                    The Matrix_ Networks, Stock Selection and ESG Outcomes by Temilade Oyeniyi, CFA 
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                    Information Flow and Deep Representation Learning by Michael Tamir, PhD 
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                    (Machine) Learning to Live with Wildfires - Mitigating Risks of Climate Change with Accelerated Analytics by Dr. Mike Flaxman and Abhishek Damera 
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                    Fast, Fresh Data for AI at Scale with a Feature Store by Riccardo Grigoletto 
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                    What’s Next for Data Scientists_ Auto ML+DO by Lisa Amini, PhD 
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                    Towards More Energy-Efficient Neural Networks_ Use Your Brain by Olaf de Leeuw 
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                    Teaching Machines Through Human Explanations by Xiang Ren, PhD 
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                    Assumption-free, General-purpose Ultra Large Incomplete Data Curing by In Ho Cho, PhD 
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                    Data-Centric Design Principles for AI Engineering by Vincent Sunn Chen 
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                    A ModelOps Approach to Address Ethical Concerns in AI Systems by May Masoud 
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                    Data Scientists & External Data Discovery_ A Match Made in Heaven by Victor Ghadban 
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                    Develop and Deploy a Machine Learning Pipeline in 45 Minutes with Ploomber by Eduardo Blancas 
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                    Personalized Machine Learning by Julian McAuley, PhD 
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                    Analyzing the Chemistry of Data by Wendy Nather 
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                    A Framework for Identifying Host-Based Artifacts in Dark Web Investigations by Arica Kulm 
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                    The future of data science and machine learning at enterprise scale by Brian Flūg 
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                    Reasoning About the Probabilistic Behavior of Classifiers by Guy Van den Broeck, PhD 
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                    Building Operational Pipelines for Machine and Deep Learning by Yaron Haviv 
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                    Denormalization_ A Brief History and Its Role in the Modern Data Stack by James Mayfield 
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                    Best Practices for Data Annotation at Scale by Jai Natarajan 
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                    3 reasons why ML code is not like software by Conrado Miranda, PhD 
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                    Practical Individual Fairness Algorithms by Mikhail Yurochkin, PhD 
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                    Applications of Modern Survival Modeling with Python by Brian Kent, PhD 
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                    Responsible AI; From Principles to Practice by Tempest Van Schaik, PhD 
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                    Large-Scale Video Analytics with Ease by Fisher Yu 
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                    Acquiring and Exploiting the Semantics of Data by Craig Knoblock, PhD 
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                    Statistical Machine Learning by Quanquan Gu, PhD 
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                    Beyond Prediction_ What Makes a Senior Scientist by Arwen Griffioen 
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                    How Building a Personal Brand can help you Establish a Career in DS Field by Ken Jee 
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                    How to Prepare for the Future of Data Science by Daliana Liu _Allie Miller 
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                    Transitioning from an Analyst to Data Science Role by Marwan Kashef 
 
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            3ODSC Demo Talks- 
                    
                      
                    
                    
                    How to improve data workload flexibility while lowering cloud data lake costs by over 50% by Arpan Roy 
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                    Trustworthy Decision Management: How Explainable, Predictive Decision Making Can Help Us Trust Our Decision Models by Jacopo Rota 
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                    Architecting for Modern Analytics Applications by Zeke Dean 
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                    Z by HP’s Workstation Data Science Solutions by Lenny Isler 
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                    Profiling and Optimizing PyTorch Applications with the PyTorch Profiler by Sabrina Smai 
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                    Vertica Accelerator – The Fastest SaaS Analytics and Machine Learning – from Start to Finish by Michael Bowen 
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                    Automate machine learning tasks with OCI Data Science Jobs by Lyudmil Pelov 
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                    Deliver AI & ML Models Faster, with Verta by Anthony Lee 
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                    Proactive Data Quality_ Why Culture Comes Before Tools by Tim Woods 
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                    Building ML and AI Applications with a Purpose-Built Time Series Database by Sam Dillard 
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                    Best Practices of Effective ML Teams by Carey Phelps 
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                    A Graph Data Science Framework for Enterprise by Stuart Laurie 
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                    DataRobot AI Cloud Demo_ Massive Business Impact from Extreme Automation by Andrea Kropp 
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                    Getting Started with Dask Using Saturn Cloud by Mitali Sanwal 
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                    Federated SQL with LiveRamp Safe Haven by Grzegorz Gawron 
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                    An Overview of Arize AI’s ML Observability Platform by Gabriel Barcelos 
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                    Streamlining Analytics with the S&P Global Marketplace Workbench by James Olejniczak 
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                    Teaching Data Science Effectively by Robert Schroll, PhD 
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                    Analyzing NVMO Mobile Signal Data with Accelerated Analytics by Joe Gifford 
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                    Weak Supervision in Practice by Patrick Kolencherry 
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                    Portable, light-weight, end-to-end autoML_ All the power, none of the pain by Alex Robson, PhD 
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                    Real-Time Feature Engineering with a Feature Store by Adi Hirschtein 
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                    Metrics Store as an Interface to Data by Allegra Holland 
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                    The Role of External Data in ML and BI Success by Victor Ghadban 
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                    See How AtScale's Semantic Layer Impacts BI & AI Performance on Popular Cloud Data Platforms by Daniel Gray 
 
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            4ODSC Business Talks- 
                    
                      
                    
                    
                    Reproducibility and Dependencies for Jupyter Notebooks by Francesco Murdaca 
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                    The Power of Data Science - Real World Use Cases by Jay Fraser 
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                    Managed AI_ How To Avoid The Pitfalls of No-Code AI by Aaron Cheng, PhD 
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                    How to Effectively Scale ML & AI in Any Organization by Ella Hilal, PhD 
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                    What do Planes and Machine Learning Have in Common? How Interpretable ML can Improve Decision-Making? by Serg Masis 
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                    Data-Driven Innovation for COVID-19 by Kristen Honey 
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                    Leadership and AI by Tom Coyle 
 
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            5ODSC Workshops & Trainings- 
                    
                      
                    
                    
                    Beyond the Basics_ Data Visualization in Python by Stefanie Molin 
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                    Deep Learning with Graphs - An Introduction to Graph Neural Networks (With Code Examples in Pytorch Geometric) by Sujit Pal 
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                    Manipulating and Visualizing Data with R by Jared Lander 
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                    MLOps... From Model to Production by Filipa Peleja, PhD 
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                    Data Analysis for SOC Survey by Christopher Crowley 
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                    Introduction to NLP and Topic Modeling by Zhenya Antić, PhD 
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                    WSL 2 in Real-Time with Z by HP by Adam Dettenwanger 
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                    In-Database Machine Learning with Python by Pranjal Singh 
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                    Natural Language Processing with PyTorch by Yashesh A. Shroff, PhD and Ravi Ilango 
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                    Rapid Data Exploration and Analysis with Apache Drill by Charles Givre 
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                    Deep Dive into Reinforcement Learning with PPO using TF-Agents & TensorFlow 2 by Oliver Zeigermann 
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                    NLP Fundamentals by Leonardo De Marchi 
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                    Identifying Deepfake Images and Videos Using Python with Keras by Noah Giansiracusa, PhD 
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                    Data Science for Digital Forensics & Incident Response (DFIR) by Jess Garcia 
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                    Build a Question Answering System using DistilBERT in Python by Jayeeta Putatunda 
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                    apricot_ Taming Big Data by Removing Redundancy by Jacob Schreiber 
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                    Using Reproducible Experiments To Create Better Machine Learning Models by Milecia McGregor 
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                    Good, Fast, Cheap_ How to do Data Science with Missing Data by Matt Brems 
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                    Probabilistic Programming and Bayesian Inference with Python by Lara Kattan 
 
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            6ODSC Tutorials- 
                    
                      
                    
                    
                    Transferable Representation in Natural Language Processing by Kai-Wei Chang, PhD 
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                    Exploring the Interconnected World_ Network-Graph Analysis in Python by Noemi Derzsy, PhD 
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                    Building a ML Serving Platform at Scale for Natural Language Processing by Kumaran Ponnambalam 
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                    Tutorial on Uplift Modeling_ How to Optimize using Uplift Predictive Models and Uplift Prescriptive Analytics by Victor Lo, PhD 
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                    Data-driven Modeling Approaches in Computational Drug Discovery by Hiranmayi Ranganathan, PhD 
 
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            7Women in Data Science Ignite- 
                    
                      
                    
                    
                    Women in Data Science Ignite 
 
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