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New Directions in Societal Networks
Symposia
Spring 2018
New Directions in Societal Networks
Apr. 23, 2018
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Click on the titles of individual talks for abstract, slides and archived video.
All events take place in the Calvin Lab auditorium.
Monday, April 23rd, 2018
9:00 am
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9:30 am
Coffee and Check-In
9:30 am
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9:45 am
Opening Remarks
9:45 am
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10:05 am
Personalization and Retail: Lessons from Stitch Fix
Brad Klingenberg, VP of Data Science, Stitch Fix
10:05 am
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10:25 am
The Evolution of Retail
Avinash Gangadharan, VP of Engineering, Walmart Labs
10:25 am
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10:45 am
Frontiers of Machine Learning from the Lens of Retail
Devavrat Shah, Co-Founder, Celect, and Professor of EECS, MIT
10:45 am
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11:05 am
Lost in Translation: Production Code Efficiency
Andrew Goldberg, Senior Principal Scientist, Amazon
11:05 am
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11:45 am
Q/A and Panel Discussion
Moderator: Ramesh Johari, Professor, Stanford University
11:45 am
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1:00 pm
Lunch
1:00 pm
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1:20 pm
Current and Future Trends in Mapping
Vinay Shet, Director of Product, Lyft
1:20 pm
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1:40 pm
TBD
Kane Sweeney, Head of Market Design, Uber
1:40 pm
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2:00 pm
Air Transportation Systems: Past and Future
Parimal Kopardekar, Senior Technologist, NASA
2:00 pm
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2:20 pm
Designing and Delivering Experiences using Machine Learning and AI
Anil Kamath, Fellow and VP of Technology, Adobe
2:20 pm
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3:00 pm
Q/A and Panel Discussion
Moderator: David Shmoys, Professor, Cornell University
3:00 pm
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3:30 pm
Break
3:30 pm
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3:50 pm
The Economics of Bitcoin
Ciamac Moallemi, Professor, Columbia University
3:50 pm
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4:10 pm
Making Blockchains more Useful for Business
Dan Boneh, Professor, Stanford University
4:10 pm
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4:30 pm
Real-Time Decision Making in Financial Networks
Balaji Prabhakar, Professor, Stanford University
4:30 pm
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5:00 pm
Q/A and Panel Discussion
Moderator: Anil Kamath, Fellow and VP of Technology, Adobe
5:00 pm
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6:00 pm
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