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.
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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
Software Engineer en MAAS Companies, Inc.
Sanjeev Sehgal
SVP 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