Ron Galperin is the 19th Controller of the City of Los Angeles, elected in 2013 and again in 2017. He serves as the watchdog for taxpayers at City Hall, making sure public dollars are spent efficiently and effectively. He is also the paymaster, auditor and chief accounting officer for the City of Los Angeles. Galperin oversees a team that conducts independent audits, manages the City’s payroll and spending, reports on the City’s finances, pursues fraud and waste, and works to create a more transparent, accountable and modern city for residents. Galperin launched ControlPanel LA, the City’s first open data portal, in 2013. It features details on the goods and services Los Angeles buys, along with information on assets and liabilities, employee compensation, operating indicators and much more. Because of his efforts, L.A. has been named the “No. 1 Digital City” by the U.S. City Open Data Census three years in a row. Government Technology Magazine put Controller Galperin on its list of the “Top 25 Doers, Dreamers and Drivers.” In 2019, Galperin received the Tyler Public Sector Excellence Award. Read more about him here.
President & CEO at PSA North America
36 Year automotive executive with experience in engineering, planning, marketing, data, analytics and technology. Have run both data and sales organizations with global experience, with emphasis on North and South America
Brian Kursar is the Chief Technology Officer for Toyota Motor North America and Toyota Connected North America responsible for Software Engineering, Data, Infrastructure, and Advanced Technologies in support of their Manufacturing, Sales, Parts, Supply Chain, Customer, Dealers, Product Quality, and Autonomous R&D initiatives. He also leads the companies Technology solutions for Mobility, Safety Services, and Connected Vehicle. Prior to re-joining Toyota, he worked at Warner Bros. as VP and Chief Architect of Global Data Strategy. There he led a Digital Transformation initiative to enable a Data Driven Culture and build out their Advertising Technology capabilities. In 2020, he was recognized by D Magazine as one of the Top 50 Dallas Inventors in Technology having designed an invention that allows Toyota to partner with hospitals and caregivers to make the world safer for people who suffer from Alzheimer’s and dementia.
Chief Information Officer at County of Los Angeles
Bill Kehoe has been a public-sector Chief Information Officer (CIO) since 2002 serving as a State Agency CIO at the State of Washington Department of Licensing from 2002 – 2010; at King County Washington from 2010 – 2017; and as Los Angeles County CIO from November 2017 – Present. Bill has provided strategic and operational leadership for key organizational and technology transformations as a CIO including: three mainframe migrations, two IT organization and technology consolidations, multiple data center consolidations, development of multiple online services for state and local government residents, hybrid cloud strategy and deployment, application rationalization and modernization, IT Governance, Innovation, IT Strategic Planning, Enterprise Architecture, Information Management, and Unified Communication services.
Michael Berman is the CIO for the California State University. Twenty years information technology management experience in higher education; 16 years as the senior campus technology leader at 4 institutions of higher education; extensive network of professional contacts in education and industry; Ph.D. in Computer Science with experience as a professor, consultant, author, and systems developer. Current member, Board of Directors, EDUCAUSE; Board of Directors, CENIC. Past Board of Directors Chair for NMC, publisher of the annual NMC Horizon Report, downloaded more than 3 million times a year from more than 100 countries around the world. Passionate about promoting equity, inclusion, and greater gender balance in technology and leadership.
Vice President, Data & Analytics at Age of Learning, Inc.
Lacey Plache is the Vice President of Data & Analytics at Age of Learning, an education technology innovator. Most recently, she was VP of Data at PatientPop, where she built out the data function to improve customer acquisition and retention and enhance product development. Prior to that, she served as Chief Economist at Edmunds, where she was a nationally recognized thought leader in automotive economics and spearheaded the use of advanced analytics to optimize online car-buying. She has a passion for education and earned a Ph.D. in Economics from UCLA, co-founded a successful public middle school and served on the Board of Directors for a youth orchestra.
Author/Lecturer at U.S. Department of State (Fulbright Specialist)
Dr. Jenny Grant Rankin is a Fulbright Specialist for the U.S. Department of State who has taught at University of Cambridge and other institutions regarding the best ways to communicate data. She has two doctorates (a Ph.D. and an L.H.D) and has written 12 books, 155 papers and articles, and writes an ongoing column for Psychology Today. Dr. Rankin has been featured on NBC News, National Public Radio (NPR), Newsweek, HuffPost, The Wall Street Journal, etc., and she was honored multiple times by the U.S. White House (for example, the American flag was once flown over The White House / Capitol Building in honor of Dr. Rankin and her work).
Peter Zaitsev is CEO and co-founder of Percona. As one of the foremost experts on MySQL strategy and optimization, Peter leveraged both his technical vision and entrepreneurial skills. Peter is a co-author of High Performance MySQL: Optimization, Backups, and Replication, one of the most popular books on MySQL performance. Peter frequently speaks as an expert lecturer at conferences.
Maria Malavenda is Founder and CEO of LOOK Enterprises, a personalized, data-driven care management platform for beauty and wellness services. Prior to LOOK, Maria catalyzed several award-winning high-growth ventures in healthcare, consumer products and technology -- including companies acquired by Microsoft, Bosch and IMG. She previously served as a Fortune 100 marketing executive for Johnson & Johnson, a Strategy Partner for Deloitte and Accenture, and immersed herself in the “digital data revolution” as VP of Strategy and Corporate Development for Monster Worldwide and ZoomInfo.
Brian Dolan, Founder of Verdant AI, is a leading mathematician, data scientist, and cyberneticist that has built thousands of AI products for over 20 years. Brian is a serial entrepreneur having co-founded Deep 6 AI, Qurius, and Discovix. He has led enterprise projects for clients like EMC, Havas, T-Mobile, and the government. Formerly Chief Scientist at Greenplum (EMC), Brian led data science at Yahoo! Inc. and Research Analytics at FOX and MySpace. An experienced author and speaker, he co-authored “MAD Skills: New Analysis Practices," delivered a TEDx talk, and wrote the chapter “Information Pathways” in "Transforming Healthcare with Big Data."
Data 4 Good was an organization that was launched last year with the promise of using data to help deal with social issues. Since it launched, it has attracted a public – private consortium of industry leaders as part of the advisory board. It has also launched four pods – Data Portal, Data Literacy, Clean Air and Project Proof(targeting racial inequality). This panel invites the leaders of all four pods to give their perspectives on what it takes to build a non profit using data to tackle social relevant issues.
Karen is creator and Executive Director of LA Tech4Good, an early stage nonprofit startup at the intersection of social impact and technology in SoCal. She is compelled to create space for people to engage in battles raging over tech and society, and to move the needle on tech as a force for social change in unprecedented times. Her career path has ranged across digital transformations in publishing and printing, from Hollywood to nonprofit, and now focuses on expanding the breadth and depth of “tech for good.”
Jagjit comes to the County of Los Angeles with 17+ years of diversified IT consulting experience across multiple industry domains including Media & Entertainment (Studio, Education & Gaming), Telecom, Banking, Insurance and Manufacturing domains across different geographical locations globally. His main focus has been on IT transformation, operations efficiencies, enterprise initiatives, application modernization, and the adaption of emerging technologies. He has a wealth of experience in supporting complex systems delivery in a global onsite/offshore operating environment and managing large diverse teams.
Jeanne is the Chief Data Officer and Senior Technology Advisor to the Mayor at the City of Los Angeles, helping 4,000,000 people use data for innovation, equity, health and safety, and founded the Data Science Federation. She was formerly the Evangelist for open data for the White House under President Obama, the leader for Africa open data for the World Bank, and the Chief Knowledge Architect at NASA, and is a Distinguished Instructor at UCLA, a Trustee of Claremont Graduate University, a Fellow of the United Nations International Academy of Astronautics, on the Global Leadership Board for Time's Up, and an advisor to the UN.
Jeff Rosenberg is the Head of Data Science and Analytics for Tillster, a startup bringing online ordering and delivery services to global restaurant brands. A large focus of his role is to deliver experience-enhancing data products to diners and the restaurants themselves. He was previously Director of software development for reporting, analytics, and data science at Hulu, responsible for data product management, business intelligence development, data and product analytics, data platform and quality management, and data science. Jeff’s background is in product and program management and software development, drawing from academic training in science and statistical analysis. He has worked on product, platform and device development with companies including Warner Bros, DirecTV, and Sony that drive millions and billions of experiences and data points. Jeff Rosenberg has been a Data 4 Good Advisor since the beginning of 2020, and is passionate about improving public accessibility to critical datasets and building data products that promote social welfare.
Todd Terrazas is a social entrepreneur, collaboration catalyst, and the Executive Director of the AI LA Community and Data 4 Good non-profits. Todd has over a decade of experience working in the LA startup community, developing products, marketing strategies, brand identities, and producing events to educate, inspire, and accelerate innovation for social good.
While 2020 has been a challenge to billions of people around the world, the pandemic and shift to the virtual world has hit People with Disabilities in a unique way. Where technology is accessible, it might potentially be a net positive. But for people who have spent years finding accommodation in the physical world to shift to what is often an inaccessible world, there are particular challenges. We will explore this theme with our esteemed panelists.
Joe is a serial entrepreneur who has been helping grow the Los Angeles tech ecosystem since 2008, before Silicon Beach was a "thing." His experience includes co-founder at Diamond (https://diamond.la), an inclusive digital agency, and thought leadership as the co-founder of Global Accessibility Awareness Day (https://globalaccessibilityawarenessday.org/).
Bryce is the Inclusive Lead for Microsoft Devices where he is devoted to ensuring Microsoft products are accessible. Bryce initiated and designed the first Inclusive Tech Lab at Microsoft, which has now hosted over seven thousand visitors; it is a facility where people can explore how people with disabilities interact with Microsoft games, services, and devices. Bryce is one of the inventors of the Xbox Adaptive Controller ever since he was a lead on its project at the 2016 Microsoft One Week Hackathon.
Lori Samuels is the Accessibility Director at NBCUniversal. She leads strategic accessibility programs to institute best practices in inclusive design, provide training for product teams, drive cultural maturity in disability inclusion, and fortify executive sponsorship.
Karo co-leads Accessibility (or a11y) initiatives at Google Play. She ensures that the Play products can be accessible by users with diverse needs. In this role, she helps to create the culture in which a11y is a core part of the product development cycle. Through various Play initiatives for external developers, she brings a11y awareness to app developers throughout the world. She has a PhD in Education. Outside of work, she writes novels and poetry and enjoys bringing her creativity back to her day job.
The panel will discuss multi-generational solutions on how data influences society for people of color. We will examine strategies on how for profit and nonprofits are addressing these challenges.
Michelle is a second year volunteer at Data Con LA. She is passionate about innovations which transform the tech industry like Code Talk, TechHire and TEALS. She has lived in Los Angeles her entire life, has two daughters, enjoys running, biking and roller skating.
Ericka ia an African-American female tech geek. She chose to change careers in late 2017 and began her journey. She discovered a passion for frontend development. Getting into the industry has not been easy but the pursuit of her passion is worth it. She graduated CodeTalk in January 2019 and she was very grateful for that program.
Lima has enjoyed hercareer journey thus far and she is happy to currently be working in tech at the Honest Company as a Quality Assurance Analyst. She is responsible for supporting the business team (DTC & Engineering) by ensuring feature releases and promotions satisfy all specifications and requirements. She looks forward to continuing to be an asset to the Honest QA, DTC, and Engineering team and collaborating on many projects to come. Entering the world of tech a couple of years ago has been a wonderful transition to changing my trajectory. She holds degrees from the University of California, Davis (BS), Grand Canyon University (MBA), and a certificate from Code talk (Front End Web Dev), which all play a huge part in her continued desire for better opportunities in tech to grow and reach career milestones.
Miesha Robinson is a serial entrepreneur and tech leader in the events industry. She is the founder & CEO of Ucrowd LLC which is a ticketing platform for event curators and attendees to create, discover and sell tickets online. After earning her bachelors degree in Marketing from California State University Dominguez Hills, Miesha began to successfully advance in the corporate world while simultaneously developing several businesses and organizations to encourage the youth in the inner city to explore technology and entrepreneurship.
Full stack developer at the City of Los Angeles Mayor's Office of International Affairs, working on the Sustainable Development Goals Data Reporting Platform.
Tahnee Bedward is a Software Developer at a Property Management company in the Los Angeles area. Tahnee has a background in Biotechnology, holding several positions within the field at companies such as Kite Pharma and Gilead Sciences. Tahnee holds a Bachelors degree in Biology from California State University Northridge. Her love for technology was birthed from her father who has many years of experience in the field. This love has led her to make the recent transition to Tech.
Harnham is the global lead in data & analytics recruitment with expertise in Data Science, Data & Technology, Marketing Analytics and Digital Analytics. Kris leads the data science and machine learning team and built out the Southern California Data Science market for Harnham. She has successfully led and filled multiple searches ranging from senior data scientist up to CTO level.
Karla helps lead the Data Science & AI recruitment practice at Harnham, the global leader in Data & Analytics recruitment. She partners with top companies to hire the most in-demand professionals in the Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Computer Vision and NLP space.
Kerry Weinberg leads Data Science for Digital Health & Innovation at Amgen. Her team focuses on applying emerging data analytic techniques like machine learning and artificial intelligence to improve Amgen’s agility, better reach patients, and improve digital health by better identifying patients, treating them, and enabling their adherence. Prior to this role, Kerry led AI strategy for Process Development at Amgen. Before joining Amgen, Kerry received her MBA and M.S. Biological Engineering from MIT as part of the Leaders for Global Operations Program. She previously led systems engineering efforts for high-speed cell sorters at Beckman Coulter. Kerry holds a B.S. Biological Engineering also from MIT.
As a data science leader, Sonali's passion is to deliver value & impact to both people and product through data, analytics, models, and algorithms. Today she primarily does this by building and scaling data science at Snap by aligning specialized skills with business strategy, leading teams, and building effective partnerships with other organizations.
Stacey Ronaghan is a Senior Data Scientist at IBM, working with customers across a range of industries. As a practitioner, she facilitates their AI journey: from identifying key opportunities within their business to writing the code that solves the problem. Stacey is an advocate for Responsible AI and has contributed to open source packages for AI Fairness and AI Explainability.
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Chris Fregly is a Developer Advocate for AI and Machine Learning at Amazon Web Services (AWS) based in San Francisco, California. He is co-author of the O'Reilly Book, "Data Science on AWS." Chris is also the Founder of many global meetups focused on Apache Spark, TensorFlow, and KubeFlow. He regularly speaks at AI and Machine Learning conferences across the world including O’Reilly AI & Strata, Open Data Science Conference (ODSC), and GPU Technology Conference (GTC). Previously, Chris was Founder at PipelineAI where he worked with many AI-first startups and enterprises to continuously deploy ML/AI Pipelines using Apache Spark ML, Kubernetes, TensorFlow, Kubeflow, Amazon EKS, and Amazon SageMaker.
Jess Haberman is senior acquisitions editor at O'Reilly Media, collaborating with tech industry leaders to develop instructional content related to data science, data engineering, and data architecture. She is a writer, managing multiple writing and discussion groups. She has presented at and facilitated technical conferences, publishing seminars, and writing retreats. Jess has worked in publishing for 13 years.
Dean Wampler is an expert in data engineering for scalable streaming data systems and applications of machine learning and artificial intelligence (ML/AI). He is a Principal Software Engineer at Domino Data Lab. Previously he worked at Anyscale and Lightbend, where he worked on scalable ML with Ray and distributed streaming data systems with Apache Spark, Apache Kafka, Kubernetes, and other tools. Dean is the author of several books and reports published by O'Reilly on data systems and programming topics.
Rustem Feyzkhanov is a machine learning engineer at Instrumental, where he work on analytical models for the manufacturing industry, and AWS Machine Learning Hero. Rustem is passionate about serverless infrastructure (and AI deployments on it) and is the author of the course and book "Serverless Deep Learning with TensorFlow and AWS Lambda" and "Practical Deep Learning on the Cloud". Also he is a main contributor to open source repository for serverless packages https://github.com/ryfeus/lambda-packs.
Robert Munro is an expert in combining Human and Machine Intelligence, working with Machine Learning approaches to Text, Speech, Image and Video Processing. Robert has founded several AI companies, building some of the top teams in Artificial Intelligence. He has worked in many diverse environments, from Sierra Leone, Haiti and the Amazon, to London, Sydney and Silicon Valley, in organizations ranging from startups to the United Nations.
CEO & Chief Data Scientist at Catalit Data Science. Author of the Zero to Deep Learning book and video course. I work at the cutting edge of machine and deep learning training.
Jagjit comes to the County of Los Angeles with 17+ years of diversified IT consulting experience across multiple industry domains including Media & Entertainment (Studio, Education & Gaming), Telecom, Banking, Insurance and Manufacturing domains across different geographical locations globally. His main focus has been on IT transformation, operations efficiencies, enterprise initiatives, application modernization, and the adaption of emerging technologies. He has a wealth of experience in supporting complex systems delivery in a global onsite/offshore operating environment and managing large diverse teams.
Kevin Gray is the Chief Information Officer (CIO) for the City of Burbank California. His vision and leadership drives the City’s Digital Government Initiatives, ensuring effective and efficient utilization of digital technology to improve city services, create new efficiencies, enhance public safety, promote and enhance economic development, improve transportation and mobility, improve sustainability and enhance the quality of life for the City’s residents, day-time population and visitors.
Jeanne is the Chief Data Officer and Senior Technology Advisor to the Mayor at the City of Los Angeles, helping 4,000,000 people use data for innovation, equity, health and safety, and founded the Data Science Federation. She was formerly the Evangelist for open data for the White House under President Obama, the leader for Africa open data for the World Bank, and the Chief Knowledge Architect at NASA, and is a Distinguished Instructor at UCLA, a Trustee of Claremont Graduate University, a Fellow of the United Nations International Academy of Astronautics, on the Global Leadership Board for Time's Up, and an advisor to the UN.
Lea Eriksen is the Director of Technology and Innovation and CIO of the City of Long Beach and is in charge of implementing the City’s technology vision, developing a staff of 173 FTE and managing a $57.2 million operating budget. With more than 20 years of experience working in local government, Lea’s background includes positions related to economic development, budget and finance, and technology. She has an MBA from Xavier University and graduated cum laude from Miami University.
Phillip is an award winning CIO leading the City of Pasadena’s technology strategy, IT operations and customer service. His initiatives include improving service delivery through embracing effective use of technology; creating business models for delivering new services; promoting online development opportunities to increase self-service capabilities; and leading strategic initiatives to transform and innovate.
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Kubernetes hands-on (Workshop)
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Kubernetes is how you run Docker in production. Bring your laptop with Docker for Windows or Docker for Mac edge version installed. We’ll walk through getting a K8s cluster fired up on Docker-Desktop, minikube, and on Azure. You’ll be hosting Docker containers in development and production in no time. We’ll dig deep into:
We’ll look at the commands and ecosystem around building infrastructure as code, local and cloud clusters, and best practices with containers. Come see why devs and ops love Kubernetes.
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Rob Richardson is a software craftsman building web properties in ASP.NET and Node, React and Vue. He’s a Microsoft MVP, published author, frequent speaker at conferences, user groups, and community events, and a diligent teacher and student of high quality software development. You can find this and other talks on https://robrich.org/presentations.
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Data Science tutorial is designed for people who are new to Data Science. This is beginner level session so no prior coding or technical knowledge is required. Just bring your laptop with WiFi capability. The session starts with a review of what is data science, the amount of data we generate and how companies are using that data to get insight. We will pick a business use case, define the data science process, followed by hands-on lab using python and Jupyter notebook. During the hands-on portion we will work with pandas, numpy, matplotlib and sklearn modules and use a machine learning algorithm to approach the business use case.
Zia is the lead data scientist with theDevMasters, a California based data science consulting and training company. Zia holds a Masters degree in Computer Science with an MBA combined with over 20 years of professional work experience. Zia’s consulting portfolio includes healthcare companies, manufacturers and Start-ups. He is also the lead instructor for the data science bootcamp offered by theDevMasters. Prior to joining theDevMasters Zia worked with Bell Canada as a Solution Specialist for Data Centre and cloud computing technologies. Zia is passionate about driving information from data.
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In this tutorial, we’ll introduce the basics of data engineering including: batch versus real time processes, structured versus unstructured data, and commitments/SLAs. Attendees will build their very own data pipelines using Python and Spark.
Abe is the founder and CEO of Padfever, a rent transparency company. Previously, he was a data engineering consultant who worked with start ups in the San Francisco Bay Area. He found his footing in data engineering at Cloudera where he was part of the team that modernized Hue. He also contributed to several Hadoop ecosystem components including Hadoop itself.
Data Con LA was awarded the prestigious Certificate of Appreciation by the City of LA for our community work.
Data Con LA is the largest, of its kind, data conference in Southern California. Spearheaded by Subash D’Souza and organized and supported by a community of volunteers, sponsors and speakers, Data Con LA features the most vibrant gathering of data and technology enthusiasts in Los Angeles.
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, DCLA 2020 is going virtual. Join us on the 23rd, 24th and 25th of October to be part of the SoCal Data Community.
Data Con LA began as Big Data Day LA in 2013, with just over 250 attendees. We have since grown to over 550 attendees in 2014, 950+ attendees in 2015, 1200+ attendees in 2016, and 1550+ attendees in 2017. In 2018, we re-branded ourselves from Big Data Day LA to Data Con LA with over 1800 attendees and over 2000 in 2019. In 2020 we expect over 2000 attendees as well.
Our 2020 session tracks will include:
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/ Head Researchers | |
/ Business Analysts |
/ Data Engineers | |
/ Technical Leads | |
/ CEOs, CTOs, CIO, etc. | |
/ IT Managers | |
/ Business Strategists |
/ Data Analysts | |
/ Researchers | |
/ Head Data Scientists | |
/ Entrepreneurs | |
/ Consultants |
