Inaugural DATA Forum

Theme: “Using Analytics to Drive Growth”

Join a select group of thought leaders from industry and academia to explore how data and people can be effectively combined to enhance organizational change at the inaugural DATA Forum.

Featured keynote speakers:

Scott Brinker
VP of Platform Ecosystem
HubSpot

Brinker helps to grow and nurture the company's community of technology partners. He writes the chiefmartec.com blog and serves as the program chair of the MarTech conference series. He is the author of the best-selling book Hacking Marketing, published by Wiley. Previously, Brinker was the co-founder and CTO of ion interactive. He holds degrees in computer science from Columbia University and Harvard University and an MBA from MIT. Connect with him on Twitter @chiefmartec.

Nitin Mittal
Principal, Analytics & Cognitive Offering Leader, AI Strategic Growth Offering Leader
Deloitte

Mittal is a principal with Deloitte Consulting LLP and currently leads Deloitte's Analytics and Cognitive practice. He specializes in advising clients to achieve competitive advantage through data and artificial intelligence powered transformations that promote amplified intelligence, which enables his clients to make strategic choices and transform ahead of disruption.

Agenda

9:00-10:00am	Registration & Breakfast
10:00-10:30am	Welcome from Dunton Family Dean Raj Echambadi, introducing the DATA Initiative
10:30-11:10am	Opening Keynote: Scott Brinker, VP Platform Ecosystem, Hubspot
11:10-11:25am	Break
11:25am-12:15pm	Panel: Digital Transformation – Are We There Yet? Andrew Bentley, Partner, PwC Matthew Blonder, Global Head of Marketing, Brand Management & Digital Commerce, Reebok Blair Hammond, Director of Global Marketing, Reebok Rishi Saurabh, Senior Product Manager, Analytics, Philips Matthew Smith, Principal Data Scientist, City of Boston Glen Stoffel, Founder, Thinkitdone
12:15-12:35pm	Advances in Machine Learning: the dtx company
12:35-1:20pm	Lunch + Visualization Competition Poster Session
1:20-2:00pm	Afternoon Keynote: Nitin Mittal, Principal, Deloitte Analytics & Cognitive Offering Leader,AI Strategic Growth Offering Leader, Deloitte
2:00-2:50pm	Panel: Opportunities and Challenges of Machine Learning Applications Adam Askarian, Head of Data Science and Engineering, the dtx company Sam Bishop, Head of Product Analytics, Hubspot Erdogan Cesmeli, Head, Go to Market for Watson Health Hybrid & Multicloud Ecosystem, IBM Watson Health Julia Kirby, Senior Editor, Harvard University Press Sri Krishnamurthy, Founder of QuantUniversity.com Jim Rowan, Principal, Analytics & Cognitive Practice, Deloitte
2:50-3:05pm	Break
3:05-3:35pm	Student Visualization Challenge Award, presented by Matthew Smith, Principal Data Scientist, City of Boston
3:35-4:15pm	Faculty Showcase: Paolo Ciuccarelli, Director of the Center for Design, CAMD
4:15-4:30pm	Closing Remarks
4:30-6:00pm	Reception

Directions to Egan Research Center:

120 Forsyth St., Boston, MA 02115
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About the DATA Initiative:

This event is hosted by the new Digital, Analytics, Technology, and Automation (DATA) Initiative at Northeastern University's D'Amore-McKim School of Business, a hub of thought leadership committed to researching, developing and sharing new knowledge and approaches for enhancing data-driven and technology-enabled analytics and automation in practice.

This initiative pursues a multidisciplinary, innovative model of integrating cutting-edge research and education across business, communications, computer science, engineering and ethics domains, thus enabling a generation of intellectual leadership in the areas of digital convergence.