The UC Center for Business Analytics will present the Analytics Summit 2021 virtually in three separate online sessions on April 6, May 4 and June 8. Each day will include two speakers and a technical talk.
- All Analytics Summit 2021 sessions are complimentary and are scheduled from 12:00 PM - 2:30 PM EST.
- A separate registration is required for each session.
ANALYTICS SUMMIT 2021 SESSION 1, APRIL 6
KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Rama Akkiraju: IBM Fellow, IBM Watson Division
"Making AI work for companies: RACE your FACTS -
a methodology perspective"
Rama Akkiraju is an IBM Fellow, Master Inventor and IBM Academy Member at IBM's Watson Division where she is the CTO of AI Operations, an effort to optimize information technology (IT) operations management using Artificial Intelligence (AI). Prior to this role, Rama also led the AI mission of enabling natural, personalized and compassionate conversations between computers and humans. Rama has been named by Forbes as one of the 'Top 20 Women in AI Research' in May 2017, has been featured in 'A-Team in AI' by Fortune magazine in July 2018 and named 'Top 10 pioneering women in AI and Machine Learning' by Enterprise Management 360 in April 2019. Rama is the also the recipient of the University of California, Berkeley's Athena award for Technical and Executive Leadership for 2020.
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SPEAKER
Missy Cummings, PhD: Professor in the Department of
Electrical and Computer Engineering, Duke University
"Future Pitfalls and Promises of Safety on Autonomous
Systems"
TECHNICAL SPEAKER
Andrew Harrison, PhD: Assistant Professor, Lindner
College of Business, University of Cincinnati
"Data Integration: The Foundation of Analytics"
REGISTER FOR SESSION 1
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ANALYTICS SUMMIT 2021 SESSION 2, MAY 4
SPEAKERS
- Michael Cavaretta, PhD: Senior Manager, Manufacturing Analytics, Global Data, Insights and Analytics, Ford Motor Company
- Molly Hayes: Vice President of Insights, Anheuser-Busch InBev
TECHNICAL SPEAKER
- Spencer Baucke: Principal Consultant, Data Viz Lead - Power BI, Tesselation
REGISTER FOR SESSION 2
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ANALYTICS SUMMIT 2021 SESSION 3, JUNE 8
SPEAKERS
- Cynthia Rudin, PhD: Professor of Computer Science, Duke University
- Alexander Antony, PhD: Sr Data Scientist, GE Aviation
TECHNICAL SPEAKER
- Brad Boehmke, PhD: Director of Data Science, 84.51°
REGISTER FOR SESSION 3
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Michael Fry
Professor and Academic Director, Center for Business Analytics
University of Cincinnati
Cincinnati OH
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