On 22 July we were joined by DataRobot, the enterprise AI platform, accelerating & democratising data science with trusted and transparent automated machine learning, and Bulien, a DataRobot Partner specialising in the full data journey from prep & blend through to auto ML & AI.
DataRobot’s centrally governed platform gives companies the power of AI to drive better business outcomes and is available on your cloud platform-of-choice, on-premise, or as a fully-managed service. Find out how DataRobot uses machine learning to automatically create machine learning models, rank, test, tune & deploy them, with explainable AI.
Agenda
Welcome & NICD Overview | Paul Watson, Research Director, NICD
Keynote| The AI Landscape | Ben Taylor, Chief AI Evangelist, DataRobot
Use Case Deep Dive | Ben Taylor, Chief AI Evangelist, DataRobot
Refreshment Break
Q&A | Paul Watson (Chair), Ben Taylor, Chris McEleavey
Technical Workshop | Chris McEleavey, Founding Partner & Technical Lead, Bulien
Wrap Up | Paul Watson, Research Director, NICD
Featured Speakers
Keynote: Ben Taylor
Ben is Chief AI Evangelist at DataRobot and a recognised and engaging speaker for AI with over 16 years of machine learning experience.
Ben has a diverse career including work with Intel/Micron, as the HPC/AI expert for the hedge fund AIQ where he built out models using a 600 GPU cluster to predict stock movements based on the news, and as the Chief Data Scientist for HireVue. He joined DataRobot in early 2020 when they acquired an AutoML start-up that he co-founded by the name of Zeff.ai.
Ben discussed the AI landscape and how automated machine learning platforms seek to democratise data science. He advised how he helps educate C-suite leaders around what AI can, and can’t, do as well as addressing the shortage of AI and data science talent.
Technical Workshop & DataRobot Demo: Chris McEleavey
Chris is founding Partner and Technical Lead at Bulien. Having worked with data for his entire career from ERP implementation through his time as a Business Intelligence consultant to establishing Bulien as catalyst for predictive analytics and automated machine learning, Chris is a data monster. He’s a enigmatic blogger, university guest lecturer and proficient loudmouth for all things data and recently became certified as an Alteryx Expert.
