Opening Ceremony Wednesday, October 14, 2015

Meeting and enjoying fellow attendees (students)

Keynote Speaker

Hilary Mason, Founder and CEO of Fast Forward Labs

(http://www.fastforwardlabs.com)

The Company looks for emerging technologies (around data and machine learning) that may open up possibilities for a new product, new features, or new business.

Take away:

Sometimes the cultural impact of our technologies are out of our reach (Sony Digital Dog & Japanese consumers)
If you are doing something different, there will be friction
Seek to consistently evolve, grow, and see impact
Consequences of our technologies: see to it that the products that you create provide value to the person using the technology. Consider the cultural consequence of you technology

Interview on theCUBE with Jeff Frick (General Manager of theCUBE): https://youtu.be/1Km2y29yKyY

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Anna Lysyanskaya, Professor of Computer Science at Brown University

ITS Security/Privacy: Authorized but Anonymous: Taking Charge of Your Personal Data, Wed

Take away:

Understand Anonymous credentials which allow you to prove that you are authorized without revealing any other information. More broadly, cryptographic algorithms that can make the Internet more secure and better at giving us privacy.

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Lunch with Facebook, Wed

From left top to bottom right: Alexius Gandy, Emily McCarthy, Jestika Gajjar, Dr. Vicky Sauter, Jamillah Boyd, Yumna Ali (top), Paige Booker, Katherine Bennett and Sophia Russo (bottom) Samyukta Varre is not in this picture.

Alexius Gandy at Check-in with Facebook Employee

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Arpitha Shetty, Manager of User Experience at PricewaterhouseCooper (PwC)

Designing for Safety, Thurs

Take away:

She talked about the day-to-day challenges that people in the oil and gas industries face, and ways (or technologies) that help address them and help them be more proactive. As the Advisory Manager at PwC, she advocated using the company’s mobile-based solution that aims to decrease risks to employees, specifically field workers in remote locations, by improving overall workplace efficiency and safety. She explains a few of the technology benefits.

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Ya Xu,Senior Staff Research Engineer at Linked In Corp

A/B Testing Challenges in Large Scale Social Networks, Thurs

Take away:

Business logic implications involved in the results of A/B Tests can be complicated. The speaker talked about ranking the experiments, properly identifying the matrices being evaluated, and proper reporting and documentation. She is responsible to supervise the evaluation of around 1700 metrics for A/B Testing at LinkedIn and their results. Running time for experiments and other user data analysis underway at LinkedIn Corporation.

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Conference Feature – Grace Hopper Changing the Face of Technology Wall

Image from those taken in the booth appear on the wall with your chose digital effect.