MACHINE LEARNING - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Founder & Principal, SimaFore
Richard Boire, B.Sc. (McGill), MBA (Concordia), is the founding partner at the Boire Filler Group, a nationally recognized expert in the database and data analytical industry and is among the top experts in this field in Canada, with unique expertise and background experience.
Mr. Boire's mathematical and technical expertise is complimented by experience working at and with clients who work in the B2C and B2B environments. He previously worked at and with Clients such as: Reader's Digest, American Express, Loyalty Group, and Petro-Canada among many to establish his top notch credentials.
After 12 years of progressive data mining and analytical experience, Mr. Boire established his own consulting company - Boire Direct Marketing in 1994. He writes numerous articles for industry publications, is a well-sought after speaker on data mining, and works closely with the Canadian Marketing Association on a number of areas including Education and the Database and Technology councils. He is currently the Chair of Predictive Analytics World Toronto.
Eric Siegel, Ph.D., is a leading consultant and former Columbia University professor who helps companies deploy machine learning. He is the founder of the long-running Machine Learning Week conference series and its new sister, Generative AI World, the instructor of the acclaimed online course "Machine Learning Leadership and Practice - End-to-End Mastery," executive editor of The Machine Learning Times, and a frequent keynote speaker. He wrote the bestselling Predictive Analytics: The Power to Predict Who Will Click, Buy, Lie, or Die, which has been used in courses at hundreds of universities, as well as The AI Playbook: Mastering the Rare Art of Machine Learning Deployment. Eric's interdisciplinary work bridges the stubborn technology/business gap. At Columbia, he won the Distinguished Faculty award when teaching the graduate computer science courses in ML and AI. Later, he served as a business school professor at UVA Darden. Eric also publishes op-eds on analytics and social justice.
Dean Abbott is President of Abbott Analytics in San Diego, California. Mr. Abbott is an internationally recognized data mining and predictive analytics expert with over two decades experience applying advanced data mining algorithms, data preparation techniques, and data visualization methods to real-world problems, including fraud detection, risk modeling, text mining, personality assessment, response modeling, survey analysis, planned giving, and predictive toxicology. Mr. Abbott is also Chief Scientist of SmarterRemarketer, a startup company focusing on behaviorally- and data-driven marketing attribution and web analytics.
Mr. Abbott is a highly-regarded and popular speaker at Predictive Analytics and Data Mining conferences. He has served on the program committee for the KDD Industrial Track and Data Mining Case Studies workshop and is on the Advisory Boards for the UC/Irvine Predictive Analytics Certificate and the UCSD Data Mining Certificate programs. Mr. Abbott has taught applied data mining and text mining courses using IBM SPSS Modeler, SAS Enterprise Miner, Statsoft Statistica, Tibco Spotfire Miner, IBM Affinium Model, Megaputer Polyanalyst, Salford Systems CART, KNIME, and RapidMiner.
Job Titles:
- President
- President of Abbott Analytics in San Diego, California
- President, Abbott Analytics
Dean Abbott is President of Abbott Analytics in San Diego, California. Mr. Abbott is an internationally recognized data mining and predictive analytics expert with over two decades experience applying advanced data mining algorithms, data preparation techniques, and data visualization methods to real-world problems, including fraud detection, risk modeling, text mining, personality assessment, response modeling, survey analysis, planned giving, and predictive toxicology. Mr. Abbott is also Chief Scientist of SmarterRemarketer, a startup company focusing on behaviorally- and data-driven marketing attribution and web analytics.
Mr. Abbott is a highly-regarded and popular speaker at Predictive Analytics and Data Mining conferences. He has served on the program committee for the KDD Industrial Track and Data Mining Case Studies workshop and is on the Advisory Boards for the UC/Irvine Predictive Analytics Certificate and the UCSD Data Mining Certificate programs. Mr. Abbott has taught applied data mining and text mining courses using IBM SPSS Modeler, SAS Enterprise Miner, Statsoft Statistica, Tibco Spotfire Miner, IBM Affinium Model, Megaputer Polyanalyst, Salford Systems CART, KNIME, and RapidMiner.
Job Titles:
- Executive Editor
- Executive Editor, Machine Learning Times
- Executive Editor, Machine Learning Times « Machine Learning Times
- Founding Conference Chair
- Leading Consultant
Eric has appeared on Bloomberg TV and Radio, BNN (Canada), Israel National Radio, National Geographic Breakthrough, NPR Marketplace, Radio National (Australia), and TheStreet. Eric and his books have been featured in Big Think, Businessweek, CBS MoneyWatch, Contagious Magazine, The European Business Review, Fast Company, The Financial Times, Forbes, Fortune, GQ, Harvard Business Review, The Huffington Post, The Los Angeles Times, Luckbox Magazine, MIT Sloan Management Review, The New York Review of Books, The New York Times, Newsweek, Quartz, Salon, The San Francisco Chronicle, Scientific American, The Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Trailblazers with Walter Isaacson, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, and WSJ MarketWatch.
Job Titles:
- CEO & Founder, Elder Research, Inc
Job Titles:
- Co - Founder & CEO, Talent Analytics, Corp
Greta Roberts is an acknowledged influencer in the field of predictive workforce analytics. Her continued vision is to bridge the gap between the business, predictive analytics and workforce communities. Since co-founding Talent Analytics in 2001, Greta has established Talent Analytics, Corp. as the globally recognized leader in predicting an individual's performance, pre-hire. Naturally pre-hire predictions lead to dramatic and measurable business ROI.
Greta has a unique approach for innovating and staying ahead of the curve. This is evident in the firm's early decision to use predictive analytics to solve "line of business" challenges instead of "HR" challenges and model business outcomes instead of HR outcomes. Talent Analytics continues to be one of the only firms in the world directly predicting business outcomes (sales performance, # of calls, errors, and the like) instead of HR outcomes.
Additionally, she leads the company in developing predictive solutions that can be easily and elegantly deployed into employee operations, to teams without a background in analytics, statistics or math. This strategy has led to the development of Talent Analytics'; award winning cloud platform Advisor.
In addition to being a contributing author to numerous predictive analytics books, she is regularly invited to comment in the media and speak at high end predictive analytics and business events around the world. Through recognition of her commitment and leadership, Greta was elected and continues to be Chair of Predictive Analytics World for Workforce, an innovative, annual predictive analytics event dedicated to solving workforce challenges. Since 2012 she has served as a faculty member with the International Institute for Analytics (IIA). Follow Greta on twitter @gretaroberts.
Job Titles:
- Director
- Director of Analytic Services at Activision
- Director of Analytic Services, Activision « Machine Learning Times
Josh Hemann is the Director of Analytic Services at Activision where his team builds data tools to support video game studios and embed analytics within the games they create.
Prior to this his industry experience spanned diverse settings such as air pollution research, aerospace, retail loyalty programs, recommendation systems for grocers. Josh has an
Job Titles:
- Founding Partner at the Boire Filler Group
- Founding Partner, Boire Filler Group
- Founding Partner, Boire Filler Group « Machine Learning Times
Josh Hemann is the Director of Analytic Services at Activision where his team builds data tools to support video game studios and embed analytics within the games they create.
Prior to this his industry experience spanned diverse settings such as air pollution research, aerospace, retail loyalty programs, recommendation systems for grocers. Josh has an
Greta Roberts is an acknowledged influencer in the field of predictive workforce analytics. Her continued vision is to bridge the gap between the business, predictive analytics and workforce communities. Since co-founding Talent Analytics in 2001, Greta has established Talent Analytics, Corp. as the globally recognized leader in predicting an individual's performance, pre-hire. Naturally pre-hire predictions lead to dramatic and measurable business ROI.
Greta has a unique approach for innovating and staying ahead of the curve. This is evident in the firm's early decision to use predictive analytics to solve "line of business" challenges instead of "HR" challenges and model business outcomes instead of HR outcomes. Talent Analytics continues to be one of the only firms in the world directly predicting business outcomes (sales performance, # of calls, errors, and the like) instead of HR outcomes.
Additionally, she leads the company in developing predictive solutions that can be easily and elegantly deployed into employee operations, to teams without a background in analytics, statistics or math. This strategy has led to the development of Talent Analytics'; award winning cloud platform Advisor.
In addition to being a contributing author to numerous predictive analytics books, she is regularly invited to comment in the media and speak at high end predictive analytics and business events around the world. Through recognition of her commitment and leadership, Greta was elected and continues to be Chair of Predictive Analytics World for Workforce, an innovative, annual predictive analytics event dedicated to solving workforce challenges. Since 2012 she has served as a faculty member with the International Institute for Analytics (IIA). Follow Greta on twitter @gretaroberts.
Job Titles:
- Founding Executive of Advertising.Com