#IBDAISLC2018
Speakers & Hosts
Eminent speakers from the industry are joining the conference to share their knowledge with you!!!
PAUL ZIKOPOULOS
Vice President of Big Data Cognitive Systems
IBM
Big Data Deep Learning and its Evolution
VP of Cognitive BigData Systems at IBM. He's an award-winning writer and speaker who has been consulted on the topic of BigData by the popular TV show "60 Minutes". advises various universities on their graduate analytics programs, and named to over a dozen "Experts to Follow" list in social media. You'll also find Paul taking a very active role around Women in Technology (including a seated board member for Women 2.0 a global network and social platform for aspiring and current female founders of technology ventures.
Paul has written 19 books and over 360 articles on data. He doesn't think NoSQL is something you put on a resume if you don't have SQL skills and he knows JSON isn't a person in his department.
Kathleen Wright
Professor
St. Lawrence College
Panel Discussion
Kathleen is a full-time professor at the School of Business, St. Lawrence College, in Kingston ON. She brings to the school over 20 year’s experience in marketing strategy, integrated marketing communications, Customer Relationship Management (CRM) strategy and implementation and Business Intelligence (BI). She is passionate about bringing a business together through the use of strategic planning, market research, consumer knowledge and implementing solutions using the most current technologies available, to capitalize on business efficiency and effectiveness. Ultimately, maximizing the customer experience.
Kathleen is a graduate of St. Lawrence College, and returned as an enthusiastic educator, mentor and student advocate. She is constantly working to bring the students the best possible classroom experience through simulations, experiential learning and business competitions. She aims to develop curiosity, a passion for lifelong learning and critical thinking in all her students.
In her spare time, she is an avid adventurer enjoying time kayaking, mountain biking, hiking, camping, downhill skiing and horseback riding.
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CRAIG DESJARDINS
Director, Office of Strategy, Innovation & Partnerships
City of Kingston
TBD
After over a decade as Executive Director of the Prince Edward, Lennox & Addington Community Future Development Corporation (PELA CFDC). Craig Desjardins moved to the city of Kingston in 2016 to become Senior Manager, Office of Strategy, Innovation and Partnerships. In February this year he was promoted to Director of the office.
GLENN VOLLEBREGT
St. Lawrence College President & CEO
Welcome
Glenn began his tenure as the President and CEO of St. Lawrence College in 2013 with a strong student focus and commitment to student success, academic excellence and leadership in our communities. In addition to a broad and diverse range of senior leadership experience in the private sector, municipal government and higher education, Glenn holds a Master of Science in Public Policy and Management from the University of London (UK), a Certified Public Accountant (CPA, CMA) Designation, and a Business Diploma from Georgian College.
Karen Weisbaum
Professor School of Business St. Lawrence College
Instructor Queens University
Big Data, ethics, law & privacy
Karen is a Professor in the School of Business at St. Lawrence College and an instructor at Queen’s University in the areas of health policy, ethics and law and is qualified to practice law in Ontario. Karen's specialty is in research ethics, health information privacy, consent and capacity, regulation of health professions and various other topics in health law and ethics.
For the past 15 years Karen has sat as a member of the Health Sciences Research Ethics Board at Queen's she is also a member of the Law Society of Ontario. As part of the Biotika consulting group she has worked on projects across Canada, including Health Canada, the Ombudsman Manitoba, the Canadian Institute for Health Information, the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, the Institute for Safe Medication Practices Canada, the Interagency Panel on Research Ethics and the First Nations Information Governance Centre.
STEPH BROWN
Co-founder
Head of New Business
Boostlab
Panel discussion
Steph is the energizer bunny of ideas and hustle. She can find creative, customer focused solutions and implement them with competitive urgency. With 14+ years of success, grit and authenticity in New Business Development + Marketing, Steph has a marketing rich background which she creatively repurposes proven business cases to drive your KPI’s. Steph has worked as Director of Sales + Marketing for $30M wireless company, and Director of Marketing for Ontario Public Services. She holds a B.A degree from Queen's University.
DEAN MCKEOWN
Smith School of Business Queen’s University
AI and Business Decision Making
Dean McKeown is the Associate Director of the Scotiabank Centre for Customer Analytics at Smith School of Business, Queen’s University. His current interests are change management during corporate digital transformation and the introduction of artificial intelligence for ethical business decision making. He has worked in the post-secondary education sector and has enjoyed creating and managing a variety of entrepreneurial initiatives at Queen's University including new academic programs, marketing and IT. He is currently studying the application of artificial intelligence systems for business decision-making and change management during digital transformations. He enjoys working with a few charitable organizations and governance bodies.
COLE MACDONALD
Co-Founder
Mero Technologies
Building Smart Cities of the Future: The Evolution of IoT
Cole is the co-founder and inventor of Mero, a startup delivering analytical tools to facilities with IoT technology. Before starting Mero, he worked for organizations around the world, including at one of Canada’s largest property management companies and with smaller organizations in the technology/non-profit sector. His work has been featured in publications across Canada and he has spoken at various events on the topics of IoT, Analytics, and Education Technology.
Host
Adam McGregor
Program Coordinator
St. Lawrence college
Panel Discussion
Adam is professor and program Co-ordinator at St. Lawrence College. He has worked in the education industry for more than 7 years on diverse roles like College Faculty, Teaching Assistant, Instructional designer and High school teacher. He holds an M.ed degree in education and digital technology from University of Ontario Institute of technology, A commerce degree from the McMaster University and a Graduate Diploma in Education from University of Sunshine coast Austrailia.
Megan Bailey
Professor,
St. Lawrence college
Panel Discussion
Megan Bailey is a Professor of Health Information Management at St. Lawrence College. Megan has worked in various analytical and application development roles since graduating from Trent University in 2008. Her former employers include, the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry, the East Central Ontario Training Board and most recently the South East Local Health Integration Network. Megan’s belief in evidence based planning for health system quality improvement provides the foundation for her Master’s thesis, which she is currently completing at McMaster University.
Neha Kanwar
Vice President
Big Data and Artificial Intelligence Club
Neha has an MBA in marketing with over 5 years of work experience as a marketer for large firms. She is currently the VP marketing of the Big Data and Artificial intelligence club. She won the revenue analytics challenge where she built dashboards in tableau to improve the marketing strategy for Tripadvisor. She was also awarded the Next Best student award by the school of business, SLC.
DEREK TEMPLETON
Manager, Advanced Analytics
Manulife
Applying machine learning to Business Problems
Derek has over 10 years experience in statistical modeling, data engineering and project management across multiple industries he is currently a data scientist and the manager Advanced Analytics at Manulife.
JOE COOPER
Account Executive
Alteryx, Inc.
Maximizing your Big Data Investment With Self-Service Analytics
Joe Cooper is the Financial Services Lead for Eastern Canada. Before Alteryx Joe spent the majority of his working career at IBM, with time spent in their Analytics and Analytics Solutions department. Joe is a recent graduate of the Queen’s University Masters in Management Analytics program. Joe is working with some of Canada’s largest institution helping the lines of business to leverage self-service analytics to improve their analytics culture across their organization.
NATHAN MAH
Co-Founder and Director of Business Development, Mero
Building Smart Cities of the Future: The Evolution of IoT
Nathan is the Co-Founder of Mero, a startup delivering analytical tools to facilities with IoT technology. He has held various business development roles, having been raised in a family retail business. Past highlights include being part of a team raising $50M for a real-estate revitalization project in Yangon, Myanmar, and helping scale a Toronto-based healthcare startup’s customer-base by 209% in only 6 months. He is an alumnus of the Master of Management in Innovation and Entrepreneurship at Queen’s University, and has given talks on the topics of AI, entrepreneurship and technology in the past.
Aije Egwaikhide
President
Big Data and Artificial Intelligence Club
Host
Aije Is one of the hosts of the events, She has an Undergraduate degree in Economics and Statistics from the University of Manitoba and is a Data Consultant with EBCHIM Analytics, where she works on Strategic Analytics and Data Science training with the organization. In addition, she is a volunteer Data Scientist with the City of Kingston and is currently building Business Intelligence applications, on behalf of the Workforce Strategy and In-Migration Analytics Working Group, for the City of Kingston. She also works with SLC Innovation Hub as a Performance Management Analyst, designing dashboards for metric reporting by using SalesForce and Tableau. She is also finishing the post graduate program in Business Analytics, and, is the President, Big Data and Artificial intelligence SLC club. She recently completed a teaching session on R programming at the Big Data and AI programming BootCamp.
Ahsan Umar
VP Big Data and AI Club
MC
An engineer by training and an artist by nature, Ahsan has always been fascinated by the use of complex mathematics to solve real world problems. With a post graduate degree from University of Dalhousie, he has embarked on a new journey of utilizing artificial intelligence to solve business challenges. He is an active researcher on topics of Data Mining, Machine learning and Data visualization. Ahsan is currently a student of Business analytics program and holds the seat of VP-Finance and Operations at Big data and AI club, St. Lawrence college.
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