Data Con LA (formerly known as Big Data Day LA) was on Aug 11, 2018. Thanks for making it successful. We look forward to seeing you next year.
Slides & Videos / Data Con LA 2018 Slides & Videos
Data Con LA 2018 Highlight Video
Keynote Videos
Startup Showcase / 2018 Startup Showcase
This year’s Data Con LA Startup Showcase is focusing on Media and Entertainment to pay homage to the quintessential Hollywood! We are excited to share the innovation our data community brings to the rich tradition of media and entertainment in Los Angeles.
General Round:
We opened this round to applications from all startups in the media and entertainment space. The finalists have been chosen and will present on the day of the event.
Final Pitch Round:
Six finalists will have the opportunity to present a 5-min pitch onstage to the panel of judges below from Warner Bros., Disney, NBCUniversal, Netflix, Hulu, USC and TenOneTen Ventures on conference day – Aug 11th in Bovard Auditorium from 2 pm – 4 pm.
Prizes:
First Place – $1000 cash, $500 credit for General Assembly classes/workshops*, two free prototyping sessions at InfiniOne’s office in downtown and 1 one-on-one feedback and strategy session with a VC from TenOneTen Ventures
Second Place – $500 cash, One free prototyping session at InfiniOne’s office in downtown and $250 credit for General Assembly classes/workshops*
Third Place – $250 cash and $100 credit for General Assembly classes/workshops*
*The credits would be good for any of General Assembly’s short-form programming . The credits would not be applicable for General Assembly’s long-form programming (PT courses and Immersive programs).
Congratulations to our Winners
1st Place – FCFL
2nd Place – ARWall
3rd Place – Autum
And our finalists – ATK Token, Muzaic & MVPCast
Thanks to all of our judges, volunteers and the community who made this happen
Finalists
Judges

Arvel Chappell III
Recently joining WB, Arvel’s career has spanned Space, AI, Cinema and Virtual Reality. He began his career working in the Space industry building technology for government customers, eventually serving as chief engineer over the Wideband Global Satcom Constellation. Currently, Arvel serves on the IEEE ethics in Artificial Intelligence committee where they are creating industry guidelines to facilitate AI’s use. In addition to engineering, Arvel has enjoyed a love of cinema and holds an MFA in cinema production from USC, was a Sundance screening writing lab semi-finalist, has directed numerous short films and most recently a VR experience for Daily Show’s Trevor Noah. At Warner Bros Arvel is part of the Emerging Technology group where he is leading VR & Artificial Intelligence R&D projects which are inventing the future of immersive content.

Austin Clements
Austin Clements is a venture capitalist with TenOneTen Ventures, a seed stage fund base in LA. Prior to TenOneTen, Austin worked at Sony Pictures, licensing film and TV content to emerging video platforms. He began his career in investment management working with AllianceBernstein and has since held roles evaluating early stage tech investments at Creative Artists Agency, Digital Entertainment Ventures, and NY Angels. Austin is also committed to encouraging underrepresented minorities to pursue careers in tech and entrepreneurship. He is an active volunteer in various local youth entrepreneurship programs. Austin received his MBA from NYU Stern with a specialization in Media, Entertainment, and Technology and his BA from Morehouse College in Atlanta, GA.

Jason Flittner
Jason Flittner leads the Content and Studio Data Engineering teams at Netflix. He was previously an analytics manager and engineer, focusing on data transformation, analysis, and visualization of Netflix content data. Prior to Netflix, Jason led the EC2 business intelligence team at Amazon Web Services and was a business intelligence engineer with Cisco Systems.

Jeff Rosenberg
Jeff Rosenberg is the Director of Software Development for Reporting, Analytics and Data Science at Hulu, where his team is responsible for the overall technology direction of business intelligence and governance, big data platform and infrastructure, data products, data quality management and data science. Jeff’s background is in biological sciences, technical program management and software development, with a strong focus on media. Before leading the data organization at Hulu, he successfully led the cross-functional effort to ship Hulu’s landmark ‘No Commercials’ plan. Previously, he worked on platform and product development with companies including Warner Bros, Fox/Myspace, DirecTV, and Sony/Playstation, driving execution of countless products backed by billions of data points. Jeff holds a BS in Biology from Brown University.

Levon Karayan
Levon Karayan has over 25 years of experience from being employee number one to one numbered in the hundreds of thousands. Some of his leadership roles have been in the game industry, internet finance, sponsored search advertising, startup incubation, social advertising, mobile advertising and media and entertainment. He’s currently one the leaders focusing on data technology at The Walt Disney Studios where he was one of the first to use the public cloud and machine learning in production applications. His passions lie where technology can innovate in business.

Paul Orlando
Paul Orlando accelerates company growth. He is Incubator Director and Adjunct Professor of Entrepreneurship at the University of Southern California (USC) in Los Angeles. Paul has founded and operated successful startup accelerator programs in Hong Kong (focused on mobile development), Los Angeles (focused on growth of wide-ranging companies with founders affiliated with USC), and the Laudato Si accelerator affiliated with the Vatican in Rome (focused on environmental technology). Companies Paul has worked with have raised tens of millions in capital, served millions of customers, and have been acquired. He has authored several related academic case studies available on Harvard Business Publishing. Paul also consults to larger institutions as they innovate, develop, and grow, especially in transitioning past legacy business models by using rapid experimentation techniques. In the past Paul also co-founded a B2B startup and consulted to Fortune 100 firms. Paul has been featured in media including Forbes, TechCrunch, Fast Company, the Wall Street Journal and was a winner at the TechCrunch Disrupt Hackathon. He has a BA from Cornell, an MBA from Columbia, and speaks Mandarin.

Subash D’Souza
Subash D'Souza is a Data Evangelist. He is the founder and organizer of Data Con LA fka Big Data Day LA, a data conference based in Sunny Southern California. He also organizes the Los Angeles Big Data Users Group and the Los Angeles Apache Spark Users Group. Subash's passions lies in building scalable and performant systems.

Trinh Nguyen
Trinh Nguyen leads the cloud infrastructure and application development for the E! Entertainment network. E! is part of the NBCUniversal’s cable portfolio and Trinh has been leading the charge with cloud native and progressive application development. With over 10 years at Comcast & NBCUniversal combined he is now focused on helping various divisions within his media company transition to adopting big data and cloud technologies more effectively. Companywide he is also the committee lead for NBCU’s Asian Pacific American employee resource group primarily focusing on professional development for employees who are interested in their career growth. He has a B.S. in Computer Engineering from the University of California Irvine. When not promoting leadership principals in the workplace, you can find him at home raising his newborn son, Maverick, who as they say is very “dangerous”.
Keynote Speakers / 2018
Speakers
Here are the tracks for Data Con LA 2018:
— Data – Big Data, Databases/RDBMS, Hadoop/Spark/Kafka, NoSQL/NewSQL and other technologies that support databases, and data storage
— AI / ML / Data Science – Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Data Science, Data Analytics, Data Analysis methods and applications
— Emerging Tech – Blockchain, IoT, Serverless, AR/VR and other new and emerging technology
— Infrastructure & Security – DevSecOps, Security, Data Governance and Privacy
— Visualizations / UI / Use Cases – Data Visualization, User Experience / User Interface developments with respect to data, and real world applications
Tutorials / 2018 Tutorials
Blockchain Tutorial provided by Abraham Elmahrek
Datascience Tutorial provided by theDevMasters, a GBCS company
Panel / 2018 Panel
Panel on Technology Innovation in the Media & Entertainment Space
Data Con LA is proud to announce a panel on Media & Entertainment immediately following the startup showcase. It will run from 4:00 PM to 5:30 PM in Bovard Auditorium. Be sure not to miss this talk on how technology is changing the landscape of Media & Entertainment.
Organizers / 2018 Organizers

Subash D’Souza
Director, Cloud Data Engineering at CSU - Chancellor's Office, Founder at Data Con LA & Data 4 Good
Organizers / 2018 Committee Leaders

Arti Annaswamy
Senior Manager, Reporting Solutions & Data Operations at WB

Deepender Singh
Senior Project Manager at Penny Mac

Humberto Zuniga
Sessions Co-Chair

Jason Brancazio
Sessions Co-Chair

Jimmy Kim
Locations & Catering Co-Chair

John Kim
Watchmaker's Apprentice | E-Commerce

Kaloyan Todorov
Managing Sr. Data Scientist at FIGS

Kate Reva
Marketing Co-Chair

Marc Waddell
Marketing Peofessional

Mrinmoy Das
Sessions Co-Chair

Nicholas Cummings
Sponsors Co-Chair

Nilesh DSouza
Food/ Beverages Co-Chair

Priyanka Biswas, Ph.D
NLP Content Lead at Espressive

Rich Ung
Data Scientist at Disney Media & Entertainment Distribution

Ruben Barrios
Information Security Student at Red River College

Sanjeev Sehgal
SVP, Sales at Satwic

Shailesh Kini
Technology Co-Chair

Spencer Huang
Sponsors Co-Chair

Subash D’Souza
Director, Cloud Data Engineering at CSU - Chancellor's Office, Founder at Data Con LA & Data 4 Good
Volunteers / 2018 Volunteers

Aaron Artea
Systems Engineer at VPLS

Adam Del Real
Data Scientist

Aman Mathur
Data Science Engineer at SnackNation

Andrew Young
R&D Data Scientist at Neustar

Ankitha Radhakrishna
Graduate Student at USC

Anna Rezhko
IT Support Specialist at Life Sciences Computing Group

Anthony James
Data Scientist at Southern California Edison

Anthony Rios
Consultant at Taos

Arnold Borres
Associate Software Architect at UST Global

Aroop Prusti
Manager at Cognizant

Bob Newstadt
Director of Business Intelligence at HopSkipDrive

Chulhee Lee
Student, MA Applied Math at CSU, Fullerton

David Harnick-Shapiro
Data Engineering Consultant

Dhiraj Ramnani
Data Science Intern at Warner Bros

Do Young Kim
Student at Fullerton College

Eric Liang
Engineering Student at UC Irvine

Eric Mena
Inventory Modeling Technical Specialist at The Boeing Company

Erik Gomez
Technical Recruiter at Eleven Recruiting

Gagan Bhargava
Sr. IT Consultant at Warner Bros

Germain Louie
Student at UC Irvine

Harini Srinivas
Graduate Student at USC

Himateja Madala
Data and Analytics at Warner Bros

Jessica Chen
Business Analyst at Warner Bros

Jill Long
Technical Symposium Chair at Cesasc

Joe Oh
Financial Advisor

Joey Hallock
Senior Structures Engineer at SpaceX

John Shojaei
Data Engineer at Ingram Micro

Joshua Villamarzo
Software Engineer and Entrepreneur

Juan Valdovinos
BD Representative at Fuel Cycle

Julia Erickson
Strategy Intern at MXM

Karen Masterson, Ph.D.
Data Analyst at Verizon Digital

Khyati Ganatra
Senior Software Developer Intern at IBM Watson

Lea Buenaventura
Product Lead at Warner Bros

Luis Colondres
Data Scientist-Business Intelligence

Mahdi Hosseini
Data Engineer at Ingram Micro, Inc.

Matti Siltanen
Executive Consultant at NDA

Michael Chiang
Founder at Eleven Recruiting

Muhammad Elnimr
Data Scientist at Einstein Assembly/theDevMasters

Nadine Shelton
Consultant

Nandan Chandrashekhar
Data Scientist at DeepCurrent

Nick Reva
Security Engineering at Snap

Nilay Pachauri
Student at USC

Pai Buabthong
PhD Candidate at Caltech

Prachi Agrawal
Data Science Intern at TicketMaster

Pradeep Nandagiri
Manager at Cognizant

Ravin Kumar
Supply Chain Systems Engineer II at SpaceX

Reza Rahman
Volunteer at Data Con LA

Ritesh Dedhia
Director, Data and Analytics at Warner Bros

Rosana Lin Ho
Data Scientist at KB Home

Ryan Kim
Program Success Associate at Tuition.io

Sahil Malkani
Client Success Consultant at Neustar

Samara Miramontes
Development Partner at Private LLC

Santhosh Narayanan
Graduate Student at USC

Sarah Janowski
Associate Consultant at Neustar MarketShare

Sean Randle
Scrum Master at Independent Consulting

Shaily Parikh
Machine Learning Research Assistant at CiSoft Labs

Shehreen Dheda
Data Platforms Trainer at Qubole

Shubhi Bharal
Student at USC

Simon Lee
Senior Strategic Relations Executive at Captive Eight

Sina Talebian
Data Scientist at Niagara Bottling

Siva Kumar Rajagopal
Sr. Data Acquisition Specialist at FNG

Spencer Lee
Software Engineer at Oakwood School

Sree Priyanka Uppu
Performance Engineer at Oath

Stephen Bhadran
Principal Software Engineer at TripAdvisor

Steven Slezak
Senior Customer Data Analytics Lead at Farmers Insurance

Suryakiran George
Graduate Student at USC

Sylvia Tran
Data Scientist at Gracenote

Tiffany Tan
Junior IT & Data Analyst

Tony DiPietra
Data Science Manager at loanDepot

Travis Huang
Data Scientist at AlgoLIFT

Twee Nguyen
Customer Success Consultant, Ad Operations at Neustar

Virali Thakkar
Software Engineer Intern at Pulse Secure

Xavier Vera
Data Scientist at theDevMasters

Yash Shah
Graduate Student at USC

Yifei Wang
Data Analyst at Neustar

Youki Joey Terukina
Business Relations Executive at Captive Eight

Zach Burks
Ethereum dapp Developer

Zinan Zhao
Sr. Data Scientist at Neustar, Inc.

Zonghao Liu
Mechanical Engineer at Romeo Power Technology