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Strata Summit 2011: Jodee Rich, "Move Over Nielsen: Rethinking TV Ratings"

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By using social media metrics, TV networks can now get ratings for their programs in real time.

Jodee Rich

PeopleBrowsr

Jodee Rich believes social media is creating a global collective consciousness that is rapidly shifting the power base from big business, religion and government to the global consumer. Jodee has consistently identified major industry trends. He started writing code on punch cards in 1972 and by 1979, he wrote software for the Apple II 64k microcomputer and founded Imagineering, to market and distribute microcomputer software and hardware.

In 1987 Jodee took Imagineering public, grew the company to over 1000 employees, and in 1990 it was acquired by First Pacific. He founded One.Tel in 1995—a mobile and long distance network operator. In 2006, Jodee founded www.PeopleBrowsr.com, a service provider of social media data, campaigns and analytics.

PeopleBrowsr has built a 20 terabyte three-year DataMine of public online conversations and provides data, campaigns and advanced analytics to Fortune 500 Companies. He is also a pilot, mad scientist, skier, blader, kite surfer, husband (of a banker) and father (of three).

Strata Jumpstart 2011: Simon Wardley, "Situation Normal, Everything Must Change"

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Simon Wardley (Leading Edge / CSC),
"Situation Normal, Everything Must Change"

Strata Summit 2011: Simon Rogers, "Data-Driven Journalism at the Guardian"

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Data increasingly drives news reporting, and the Guardian has been at the front of this change. Simon Rogers, editor of the Guardian's award-winning Datablog, will talk about how data is directing its coverage.

Simon Rogers

Guardian

Simon Rogers is editor of the Guardian's Datablog and Datastore, an online data resource which publishes hundreds of raw datasets and encourages its users to visualise and analyse them. He is the author of Facts are sacred: the power of data available now on Kindle. Simon is also a news editor on the Guardian, working with the graphics team to visualise and interpret huge datasets. He was closely involved in the Guardian's exercise to crowdsource 450,000 MP expenses records and the organisation's coverage of the Afghanistan Wikileaks war logs. Previously he was the launch editor of the Guardian's online news service and has edited the paper's science section. He has edited two Guardian books: How Slow Can You Waterski and The Hutton Inquiry and its impact. Simon has just been awarded the Oxford University Internet Institute's award of 'Best Internet Journalist' and was recently honoured at the Knight Batten awards for journalistic innovation. The Datablog and Datastore have won awards in 2011 for innovation from the UK's Online Media Awards and the Newspaper Awards. In 2010, Simon received a special commendation from the Royal Statistical Society in its awards for journalistic excellence.

Strata Summit 2011: "Personal Data for Public Good"

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Personal data is a an exploding asset class that is currently not being leveraged to inform public policy decisions or mitigate risk. This panel, sponsored by United Nations Global Pulse, will examine the value of private sector data and consider some of the challenges inherent its use.

Robert Kirkpatrick

United Nations

Robert Kirkpatrick is Director of the UN Global Pulse initiative in the Executive Office of the Secretary-General.

Robert designs and applies technology for crisis resilience and organizational change. He has spent more than 15 years creating software and the past 10 developing tools for public health, disaster relief, security coordination, citizen journalism, telemedicine, crisis monitoring, conflict mediation, and civil-military cooperation. His work with industry partners, government agencies, and humanitarian organizations has explored ways that techno-social innovation may enhance trust-building, information sharing, and joint decision making across boundaries and lower barriers to organizational change. He is a strong proponent of open data, open standards, open source software, and participatory development.

Robert co-founded and led software development for two pioneering private-sector humanitarian technology teams, first at Groove Networks, and later as Lead Architect for Microsoft Humanitarian Systems. In 2003, Robert worked in Baghdad to improve coordination between coalition forces and Iraqi government ministries. In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, Robert provided on-site technology support to civil and military responders. Following the 2005 Kashmir earthquake, Robert supported relief organizations in the disaster-affected areas designing tools for data collection and logistics. He participated in two missions in Afghanistan (2006, 2007) prototyping tools to improve situational awareness for NGOs involved in telemedicine and local capacity building. From 2007-2009 he served as CTO of the nonprofit InSTEDD, where he help to establish the first public health innovation lab, or iLab, in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. He now sits on InSTEDD's Board of Directors.

Jane Yakowitz

Brooklyn Law School

Jane Yakowitz is a Visiting Assistant Professor at Brooklyn Law School. She received a B.S. in mathematics and a J.D. from Yale. Her research interests include privacy law, the legal profession, and empirical legal studies. She previously served as the Director of Project SEAPHE (Scale and Effects of Admissions Preferences in Higher Education) at UCLA School of Law, where she conducted peer-reviewed research on admissions, academic performance, and labor outcomes for law school applicants. Professor Yakowitz has negotiated complex public records disclosures and has prepared large de-identified databases for public release. These experiences inform her research on data privacy law.

Bill Hoffman

World Economic Forum

William Hoffman heads the World Economic Forum's Telecommunications Industry Group, where he supports a global community of industry partners in addressing some of the world's most pressing economic, social and environmental challenges. One of his primary areas of focus is leading a global initiative entitled Rethinking Personal Data. This multi-year project is designed to catalyze action and shared understandings on how to shape a personal data ecosystem that crates opportunities for both social and economic value creation as well as protecting the rights of individuals.

Prior to joining the World Economic Forum, William was the Director of Enterprise Marketing at AT&T. With broad experience in the communications industry, he has an extensive background with the adoption of emerging technologies, data analysis and strategic planning.

William holds degrees from Syracuse University as well as the University of Pennsylvania.

Cory Doctorow interviewed at Strata Summit NY 2011

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Cory Doctorow

craphound.com

Cory Doctorow (craphound.com) is a science fiction novelist, blogger and technology activist. He is the co-editor of the popular weblog Boing Boing (boingboing.net), and a contributor to The Guardian, the New York Times, Publishers Weekly, Wired, and many other newspapers, magazines and websites. He was formerly Director of European Affairs for the Electronic Frontier Foundation (eff.org), a non-profit civil liberties group that defends freedom in technology law, policy, standards and treaties. He holds an honorary doctorate in computer science from the Open University (UK), where he is a Visiting Senior Lecturer; in 2007, he served as the Fulbright Chair at the Annenberg Center for Public Diplomacy at the University of Southern California.

His novels have been translated into dozens of languages and are published by Tor Books and simultaneously released on the Internet under Creative Commons licenses that encourage their re-use and sharing, a move that increases his sales by enlisting his readers to help promote his work. He has won the Locus and Sunburst Awards, and been nominated for the Hugo, Nebula and British Science Fiction Awards. His latest young adult novel is PIRATE CINEMA, a story of mashup guerillas who declare war on the entertainment industry. His latest novel for adults is RAPTURE OF THE NERDS, written with Charles Stross and published in 2012. His New York Times Bestseller LITTLE BROTHER was published in 2008. A sequel, HOMELAND, will be published in 2013. His latest short story collection is WITH A LITTLE HELP, available in paperback, ebook, audiobook and limited edition hardcover. In 2011, Tachyon Books published a collection of his essays, called CONTEXT: FURTHER SELECTED ESSAYS ON PRODUCTIVITY, CREATIVITY, PARENTING, AND POLITICS IN THE 21ST CENTURY (with an introduction by Tim O'Reilly) and IDW published a collection of comic books inspired by his short fiction called CORY DOCTOROW'S FUTURISTIC TALES OF THE HERE AND NOW. THE GREAT BIG BEAUTIFUL TOMORROW, a PM Press Outspoken Authors chapbook, was also published in 2011.

LITTLE BROTHER was nominated for the 2008 Hugo, Nebula, Sunburst and Locus Awards. It won the Ontario Library White Pine Award, the Prometheus Award as well as the Indienet Award for bestselling young adult novel in America's top 1000 independent bookstores in 2008.

He co-founded the open source peer-to-peer software company OpenCola, sold to OpenText, Inc in 2003, and presently serves on the boards and advisory boards of the Participatory Culture Foundation, the Clarion Foundation, The Glenn Gould Foundation, and the Chabot Space & Science Center's SpaceTime project.

In 2007, Entertainment Weekly called him, "The William Gibson of his generation." He was also named one of Forbes Magazine's 2007/8/9/10 Web Celebrities, and one of the World Economic Forum's Young Global Leaders for 2007.

His forthcoming books include ANDA'S GAME (a graphic novel from FirstSecond).

On February 3, 2008, he became a father. The little girl is called Poesy Emmeline Fibonacci Nautilus Taylor Doctorow, and is a marvel that puts all the works of technology and artifice to shame.

Cathy O'Neil interviewed at Strata Jumpstart 2011

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Cathy O'Neil earned a Ph.D. in math from Harvard, was postdoc at MIT in the math department, and a professor at Barnard College where she published a number of research papers in arithmetic algebraic geometry. She then chucked it and switched over to the private sector. She worked as a quant for the hedge fund D.E. Shaw in the middle of the credit crisis, and then for RiskMetrics, a risk software company that assesses risk for the holdings of hedge funds and banks. Since this spring she's been a data scientist for the startup media company "Intent Media";http://www.intentmedia.com/.

DJ Patil interviewed at Strata Jumpstart 2011

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DJ is the "Data Scientist in Residence" at Greylock Partners.

Previously he was the Chief Product Officer for Color and the Chief Scientist at the LinkedIn Corporation, leading the Analytics and Data Teams. Some of the products shipped include, People You May Know, Who's Viewed My Profile, Talent Match, Skills, and Career Explorer.

He has held roles at Skype, PayPal, and eBay. As was a member of the faculty at the University of Maryland, he helped start a major research initiative on numerical weather prediction. As an AAAS Science & Technology Policy Fellow for the Department of Defense, Dr. Patil directed new efforts to leverage social network analysis and the melding of computational and social sciences to anticipate emerging threats to the US.

Andreas Weigend interviewed at Strata Jumpstart 2011

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Andreas Weigend (PhD Physics 1991, Stanford University; Diplom Physik, Philosophie 1986, Universitaet Bonn) is an Associate Professor of Information Systems at the Stern School of Business, New York University. He came to Stern from the University of Colorado at Boulder where he had founded the Time Series Analysis Group, after working at Xerox PARC (Palo Alto Research Center) on knowledge discovery. At the Santa Fe Institute, he co-directed the Time Series Prediction Competition that led to the volume Time Series Prediction: Forecasting the Future and Understanding the Past (1994, Addison Wesley).

His research focuses on basic methodologies for modeling and extracting knowledge from data and their application across different disciplines. He develops and integrates ideas and analytical tools from statistics and information theory with neural networks and other machine learning paradigms. His approach, basic science on real problems, emphasizes the importance of rigorous evaluations of new methods in data mining. His recent work uses computational intelligence to extract and understand hidden states in financial markets, and to exploit this information to improve density predictions. He has published about one hundred articles in scientific journals, books and conference proceedings. He co-edited four books including Decision Technologies for Financial Engineering (1998, World Scientific).

Prof. Weigend received a Research Initiation Award by the National Science Foundation (NSF), a major grant by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR), a Junior Faculty Development Award by the University of Colorado and a NYU Curricular Development Challenge Grant for his innovative course Data Mining in Finance. This course covers the foundations of knowledge discovery, data mining, prediction and nonlinear modeling, as well as specific techniques including neural networks, graphical models, evolutionary programming and clustering techniques. It develops solutions to current problems in finance and includes integrated in-depth projects with major Wall Street firms.

Prof. Weigend organized the sixth international conference Computational Finance that took place at Stern on January 6-8, 1999, drawing more than 300 attendees. He has given tutorials and short executive courses on time series analysis, volatility prediction, nonlinear modeling, risk management and decision making under uncertainty and consulted for a broad spectrum of firms ranging from financial boutiques to Goldman Sachs, J. P. Morgan, Morgan Stanley and Nikko Securities.

Strata Jumpstart 2011: Nolan Goldberg, "Big Data, Big Legal Impact"

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Strata Jumpstart 2011, Nolan Goldberg, "Big Data, Big Legal Impact"

Inside Google+: Bradley Horowitz talks with Tim O'Reilly

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Google is famously driven by data. Until Google+ that data was about web pages, places and news. Now that Google has added people to the mix, how will they use this data? Is social data really critical to Google's mission of organizing the world's information, or is it more relevant to their business model of advertising?

In a conversation with Tim O'Reilly, Bradley Horowitz (Google's VP of Product Management) will talk about Google's successful social network and the long-term value that it brings to users and Google itself.

This webcast is an extended preview of conversation taking place at O'Reilly's Strata Summit, Sept. 20-21, in New York City. Part of a weeklong series devoted to data, including Strata Jumpstart (Sept. 19) and the Strata Conference (Sept. 22-23), Strata Summit will look across the new economy of data, highlighting opportunities and challenges for business and society.

The conversation will touch on:
How the Google+ team thought about social data--design and policy principles that underly the service
What Google is learning from Google+ interaction data
Interesting or even surprising discoveries from Google+ data analysis
challenges and lessons on the infrastructure side

About Tim O'Reilly
Tim O'Reilly is the founder and CEO of O'Reilly Media, Inc., thought by many to be the best computer book publisher in the world. O'Reilly Media also hosts conferences on technology topics, including the O'Reilly Open Source Convention, the Web 2.0 Summit, Strata: The Business of Data, and many others. O'Reilly's Make: magazine and Maker Faire has been compared to the West Coast Computer Faire, which launched the personal computer revolution. Tim's blog, O'Reilly Radar, "watches the alpha geeks" to determine emerging technology trends, and serves as a platform for advocacy about issues of importance to the technical community. Tim is also a partner at O'Reilly AlphaTech Ventures, O'Reilly's early stage venture firm, and is on the board of Safari Books Online.

About Bradley Horowitz
Bradley Horowitz is Vice President of Product for Google's social products including Gmail, Blogger, Picasa, and the recently launched Google+ Project. He has also led product for Google's consumer application division which includes Gmail, Gtalk, Google Voice, Google Reader and Calendar. Before joining Google, Horowitz was Yahoo's VP of Advanced Development where he drove the acquisitions of Flickr and MyBlogLog, launched the Brickhouse incubator, and developed new products like Yahoo! Pipes. Previously, he was Co-Founder and CTO of Virage, where he oversaw the technical direction of the company from its founding through its IPO and eventual acquisition by Autonomy. Horowitz has a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Michigan, and an M.S. in Media Science from the MIT Media Lab.

Mark Madsen interviewed at Strata Jumpstart NY 2011

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Commonly referred to as "the Chuck Norris of data" and peddler of techjoy

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Strata Jumpstart 2011: Hiten Shah, "Applying Lean Methods to Fat Companies"

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Hiten Shah (CrazyEgg / KISSmetrics),
"Applying Lean Methods to Fat Companies"

Strata Jumpstart 2011: Cathy O'Neil, "What Kinds of People are Needed for Data Management?"

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Cathy O'Neil (Intent Media),
"What Kinds of People and Processes are Needed for Data Management and Analytics?"

Michael Ferrari interviewed at Strata Summit NY 2011

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Michael Ferrari

Director of Climate Informatics and Senior Scientist , Computer Sciences Corporation

Michael Ferrari is the Director of Climate Informatics and Senior Scientist at CSC, where he is working with the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center on developing commercial tools and applications from their data and models. He also serves on the American Meteorological Society Board of Societal Impacts of Weather and Climate. For the past five years, Michael served as the vice president and director of applied research at Weather Trends International. His primary research interests lie at the interface of climate science, environmental modeling/analysis, and the subsequent development of commercial applications that can benefit from this research. Michael is a frequent speaker at both scientific and commodity conferences around the world, where his talks focus on the confluence of weather, climate and their relationship to society, with a particular emphasis on weather and agriculture/energy considerations, extreme events, risk quantification and natural hazards. In addition, he builds data-driven tools for the physical commodity and risk management sectors utilizing global weather, satellite-derived, economic and sensor network data. Michael holds a PhD in Geophysical Fluid Dynamics and Evolutionary Biology from Rutgers. Follow him on Twitter: @aeroculus.

Armando Escalante interviewed at Strata Summit NY 2011

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Armando Escalante

CTO, LexisNexis

Armando Escalante leads HPCC Systems and is also SVP and CTO of LexisNexis® Risk Solutions. In this position, Mr. Escalante is responsible for technology development including big data analytics, R&D, Information Systems, Security and Operations. Prior to 2001, Mr. Escalante served in multiple senior level positions with different companies, including: Bell Labs, EPSON America, Vignette and Unisys Corp. Mr. Escalante has a degree in Electronics Engineering from USB, a Master of Science in Computer Science from Stevens Institute of Technology and an MBA from WCU. He also serves on several Boards.

Strata Summit 2011: Paul Marcum, "Our Cancer Commitment"

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Paul Marcum

Director, Global Digital Programming & Marketing, GE

As Director, Global Digital Marketing & Programming, Paul Marcum builds programs that engage key GE audiences around the world through partnerships, GE properties and social channels. Marcum joined GE in November 2010 with 16 years of experience in digital media, having the privilege of leading multiple-platform initiatives for many iconic global brands including Sesame Street, Citi and Star Wars. Throughout his career he's been very active in building the digital community, as a member of the Interactive Media Peer Group at the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences and the PBS Next Generation Advisory Board and as the organizer of the New Yok Data Visualization Meetup. He blogs occasionally at marcum.com and tweets regularly at @jpmarcum.

Strata Summit 2011: Sean Gourley, "The New Corporate Intelligence"

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Disruptive technology shapes the world, defining political, military, financial, and commercial opportunities and threats. Whether originating in academic research, in National Labs, or in privately held or public companies, these technologies can emerge with explosive impact, creating and destroying value. Yet there are few tools to track these innovations—at a global scale and at a pace that keeps up with the rate of change.

What if corporate strategists could literally draw a map to find growth opportunities? A technique called semantic clustering analysis makes this possible. When applied to technology entities worldwide, this analysis can reveal not only which innovation areas are thick with competition, but also where in the market there are opportunities, or "white spaces," ripe for innovation. The result is a data-driven visual tool that can be used to drive corporate innovation strategy.

Sean Gourley

Quid

Sean Gourley, Quid co-founder and CTO, did research into the mathematics of war for his PhD thesis at Balliol College, Oxford. His findings appeared as the featured article in "Nature" (December 2009) and were the subject of a popular TED talk (2009). His work on statistical analysis, probability, and algorithm development applied to complex systems and large datasets inspired the creation of Quid. Sean is a Rhodes Scholar PhD in Physics (Complexity) from the University of Oxford; his is undergraduate degree in Physics is from the University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand.

Strata Summit 2011: Armando Escalante, "Managing IT Operations and Analyzing Big Data..."

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HPCC Systems from LexisNexis® Risk Solutions offers a proven, data-intensive supercomputing platform designed for the enterprise to solve big data problems. HPCC Systems offers a consistent data-centric programming language, two processing platforms and a single architecture for efficient processing. Customers, such as financial institutions, insurance carriers, insurance companies, law enforcement agencies, federal government and other enterprise-class organizations leverage the HPCC Systems technology through LexisNexis® products and services.

Armando Escalante

LexisNexis

Armando Escalante leads HPCC Systems and is also SVP and CTO of LexisNexis® Risk Solutions. In this position, Mr. Escalante is responsible for technology development including big data analytics, R&D, Information Systems, Security and Operations. Prior to 2001, Mr. Escalante served in multiple senior level positions with different companies, including: Bell Labs, EPSON America, Vignette and Unisys Corp. Mr. Escalante has a degree in Electronics Engineering from USB, a Master of Science in Computer Science from Stevens Institute of Technology and an MBA from WCU. He also serves on several Boards.

Strata Summit 2011: Edd Dumbill, "Welcome & Opening Remarks"

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Edd Dumbill

O'Reilly Media, Inc.

Edd Dumbill is a technologist, writer and programmer based in California. He is the program chair for the O'Reilly Strata and Open Source Convention Conferences.

He was the founder and creator of the Expectnation conference management system, and a co-founder of the Pharmalicensing.com online intellectual property exchange.

A veteran of open source, Edd has contributed to various projects, such as Debian and GNOME, and created the DOAP Vocabulary for describing software projects.

Edd has written four books, including O'Reilly's "Learning Rails". He writes regularly on Google+ and on his blog at eddology.com.

Strata Summit 2011: Stephen Wolfram, "Computing the World"

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How does one take thousands of data domains, and tens of thousands of models and algorithms, and make it so that anyone can get answers to their natural language questions?

Stephen Wolfram, the creator of Wolfram|Alpha and Mathematica, will describe how this works in Wolfram|Alpha and what the paradigm of computational knowledge is now making possible.

Stephen Wolfram

Wolfram Research

Stephen Wolfram has been responsible for three revolutionary developments: the Mathematica computation system, A New Kind of Science, and the Wolfram|Alpha computational knowledge engine.

Wolfram was educated at Eton, Oxford and Caltech, receiving his PhD in theoretical physics at the age of 20. Wolfram's work on basic science led him to a series of fundamental discoveries about the computational universe of possible programs. Summarized in his best-selling 2002 book A New Kind of Science, these discoveries have not only launched major new directions in basic research, but have also led to breakthroughs in scientific modeling in physical, biological and social domains—-as well as defining a broad new basis for technology discovery.

Launched in 1988, Mathematica has revolutionized the way technical computation is done, and has been responsible for countless advances over the past two decades. Starting from a set of fundamental principles devised by Wolfram, Mathematica has continually grown, integrating more and more algorithmic domains, and spawning such technologies as the Computable Document Format (CDF).

Building on Mathematica and A New Kind of Science, Wolfram in 2009 launched Wolfram|Alpha—-an ambitious, long-term project to make as much of the world's knowledge as possible computable, and accessible to everyone. Used every day on the web and through apps by millions of people around the world, Wolfram|Alpha defines a fundamentally new kind of computing platform that is turning science-fiction computer intelligence into reality.

In addition to his scientific and technical achievements, Wolfram has been the CEO of Wolfram Research since its founding in 1987. Under Wolfram's leadership, Wolfram Research has become one of the world's most respected software companies, as well as a powerhouse of technical and intellectual innovation, and a major contributor to education and research around the world.

Hjalmar Gislason interviewed at Strata Summit 2011

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Hjalmar Gislason (DataMarket)

Kristian Hammond interviewed at Strata Summit 2011

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Kristian Hammond

CTO, Narrative Science

Kristian Hammond is CTO of Narrative Science, a Chicago start up focused on the generation of narratives from data. He is also a professor of Computer Science and Journalism at Northwestern University and a researcher in the areas of human-machine interaction, context-driven information systems and artificial intelligence. In 1998, Kris founded Northwestern University's Intelligent Information Laboratory (InfoLab) where his team is creating technology that bridges the gap between people and the information they need. From 2000 to 2001, Dr. Hammond also enjoyed a run as the weekly technology correspondent for WTTW's Chicago Tomorrow. Kris received his PhD from Yale University.

Monica Rogati interviewed at Strata Summit 2011

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Monica Rogati

Data Scientist, LinkedIn

As one of the founding members of the LinkedIn data science team, Monica turns data into products, actionable insights and (news) stories.

Monica obtained her PhD in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon, where she focused on text mining and applied machine learning. At LinkedIn, she pioneered data driven products with multi-million dollar business impact and is currently building mathematical models that power LinkedIn's personalized recommendations. When she doesn't name projects after Harry Potter, Monica finds stories in the LinkedIn data about the most overused buzzwords, trending job titles, entrepreneur DNA, promotion cycles for Millennials and first names that tend to succeed. Her stories appeared in thousands of media outlets -- from the Wall Street Journal & The Economist to NPR & CNN to Real Simple & (yes!) Howard Stern.

Lee Feinberg interviewed at Strata Summit 2011

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Lee Feinberg (Nokia)

Jake Flomenberg interviewed at Strata Summit 2011

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Jake Flomenberg (Splunk)

Michael Driscoll interviewed at Strata Summit 2011

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Michael Driscoll

Co-Founder & CEO, Metamarkets

Michael Driscoll has a decade of experience developing large-scale databases and predictive algorithms for digital media, financial, and life sciences firms. He is the CEO and co-founder at Metamarkets, and Chairman of Dataspora LLC, a big data & analytics consultancy he founded in 2007. Previously, he founded the online retailer, CustomInk.com, and worked as a software engineer for the Human Genome Project. Michael holds a Ph.D. in Bioinformatics from Boston University and an A.B. from Harvard College.

Michael tweets at medriscoll and blogs at Data Utopian .

Tim Moreton interviewed at Strata New York 2011

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Tim Moreton (Acunu)

Alasdair Allan interviewed at Strata New York 2011

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Alasdair Allan (University of Exeter)

Razi Sharir interviewed at Strata New York 2011

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Razi Sharir (Xeround)

Nick Halstead interviewed at Strata New York 2011

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Strata New York 2011: Rachel Sterne, "How Open Government is Transforming New York City"

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From hackathons to API-enabled civic data, learn how New York City government is evolving thanks to deeper engagement with the technology community.

Rachel Sterne

City of New York

Rachel Sterne is Chief Digital Officer for the City of New York, where she focuses on improving the way that City government engages New Yorkers through technology. Her first task in the role was the development of a "Road Map for the Digital City," a comprehensive plan to realize New York City's digital potential through enhanced Access, Open Government, Engagement, and Industry. Prior to this role, Rachel was Founder and CEO of GroundReport, a citizen journalism platform that empowers reporters to publish original, intelligent reporting to an international audience. She founded GroundReport in 2006 with the mission to democratize the media and help the world share its stories. Rachel is also an Adjunct Professor at Columbia Business School, and previously worked as a digital strategy consultant and business developer in the software industry. She attended New York public schools and graduated magna cum laude from NYU.

Strata New York 2011: Elissa Fink, "Winners of Strata/Tableau Data Visualization Contest"

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Creating visualizations and info graphics with public data helps keep our politicians honest, and our society transparent. Strata and Tableau Public, a free tool for creating interactive online visualizations, have had hundreds of bloggers striving to win their Interactive Public Data Visualization Contest. Come see the best of the best from the contest, and the official announcement of the winner.

Elissa Fink

Tableau Software

Elissa Fink is Tableau Software's CMO. A true data geek, Elissa has been helping companies improve their marketing operations through applied data analysis for 20+ years. She has held executive positions in marketing, business strategy, product management, and product development. Elissa first discovered Tableau late one afternoon at her previous company. Three hours later, she was still "at play" with her data. "After just a few minutes using the product, I was getting answers to questions that were taking my previous company's programmers weeks to create. It was instantly obvious that Tableau was on a special mission with something unique to offer the world. I just had to be a part of it." Elissa is a graduate of Santa Clara University and holds an MBA in Marketing and Decision Systems from the University of Southern California.

Strata New York 2011: Randy Lea, "Simplifying Big Analytics for the Business"

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The opportunity exists for organizations in every industry to unlock the power of iterative, big data analysis for new applications such as digital marketing optimization and social network analysis that improve the bottom line. Big data analysis is not just the ability to analyze large volumes of data, but also the ability to analyze more varieties of data and perform more complex analysis than is possible with more traditional technologies. But it doesn't have to be as complicated as it sounds. This session will show you how you can bring the science of data to the art of business and empower more business users and analysts to operationalize insights and drive results. You'll see examples of how data science is applied by making emerging analytic technologies more accessible to businesses and easily managed by enterprise architects across retail, financial services, and media companies.

Randy Lea

Teradata Corporation

Randy S. Lea is vice president for the Aster Data Center of Innovation within Teradata Corporation. In this role, Randy is responsible for the sales and execution of big data analytics projects for Teradata in North America. This includes setting strategy, field-based innovation, and overall integration of the Aster Data field organization.

Randy was previously vice president of Product Marketing & Management for Teradata, responsible for marketing Teradata products (database, platform, and utilities), Teradata services (professional and customer services), and setting product customer requirements, plus technical field sales support teams.

Randy has 29 years of experience with NCR Corporation and Teradata Corporation. Since moving into the Teradata organization in 1995 he has held positions as director of product management for retail data warehouse applications, director of scalable data warehouse marketing, assistant vice president of Teradata Marketing, vice president of Teradata Channel Partner Sales, retail regional sales director, and vice president Teradata Global Sales Support. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree from California State University at Fullerton and is a graduate of the Executive Professional Development Program from the California State University at San Diego.

Doug Petkanics interviewed at Strata New York 2011

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Doug Petkanics (Hyperpublic)

Kristen Chan interviewed at Strata New York 2011

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Kristen Chan (visual.ly)

Paul Nickerson interviewed at Strata New York 2011

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Paul Nickerson (Grooveshark)

Strata Summit 2011: Kyle Cranmer, "Data at the Scale of the Universe"

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Even the biggest commercial datasets can't rival those produced at CERN, home of the Large Hadron Collider. As scientists research the conditions that created our universe, the volume of data captured is truly staggering.

Kyle Cranmer

New York University

Kyle Cranmer is an Assistant Professor of Physics at New York University searching for new fundamental particles and interactions at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in Geneva, Switzerland. The LHC is producing what is arguably the largest dataset in the history of science, and Cranmer is one of the leading thinkers on how to exploit its scientific potential. This includes novel technologies for publishing scientific results, collaborative design of statistical models, and new approaches to open access and preservation of scientific data.

Strata Summit 2011: David Schwab, "Big Data: Strategies for Generating Money..."

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Startups are in it to make money—whether by breaking even, being acquired, or finding some other exit. But for data-driven startups, turning bits into dollars can be a challenge. There are privacy issues, data ownership concerns, and questions about how to monetize the business. This panel of investors and entrepreneurs will look at strategies for generating money in data-driven startups.

David Schwab

Sierra Ventures

Dave joined Sierra in 1996 and has built the firms software investing practice. Dave's professional career began at Lockheed Corporation in the engineering department where he managed a group of software developers building guidance and control systems. Following his tenure there, he joined Sun Microsystems where he spent 5 years in sales and sales management positions. In 1991 Schwab co-founded Scopus Technology with a fellow Sun sales manager and two other executives. While at Scopus, he served as Vice President of Sales and Marketing. Scopus was taken public and subsequently acquired by Siebel System.

Dave holds Masters and Eng. degrees in Aerospace Engineering from Stanford University and an MBA from Harvard University.

Paul Kedrosky

Kauffman Foundation

Dr. Kedrosky is an investor, speaker, writer, media guy, and entrepreneur. In his spare time he is a dangerous Twitterer, analyst for CNBC television, and the editor of Infectious Greed, one of the most popular financial blogs available over the Interweb.

In the dusty distance of long-ago, Dr K. founded what he is reasonably sure was the first hosted blogging site, GrokSoup. After having grown it to be one the largest such services on the Interweb (admittedly before there were other such services), he demonstrated his unerring ability to enter fast-growing markets before they take off, and exit before they have grown large enough to deliver an island-purchasing exit. The rest is history, or least an index entry in one book on blogging.

Todd Papaioannou

Battery Ventures

Todd Papaioannou is an Entrepreneur in Residence at Battery Ventures, where he works alongside the Enterprise IT investment team to evaluate investments in Big Data, Analytics, and Cloud Computing infrastructure. Todd has more than 15 years of Internet and Enterprise software experience covering a variety of senior leadership roles in R&D, product and corporate strategy, marketing and professional services.

Prior to joining Battery, Todd was most recently VP, Distinguished Fellow and Chief Cloud Architect for Yahoo!. There, he was responsible for driving the technical and strategic direction of the Yahoo! Cloud and Hadoop teams, and was identified as one of the Top 10 Cloud Computing Leaders of 2011 by TechTarget. Additionally, Todd was responsible for leading and defining the overall Yahoo! corporate technology strategy.


Robert D Thomas

IBM Software Group

Rob Thomas is Vice President of Business Development in IBM's Information Management Software Division. He is based in Somers, NY, and brings extensive experience in management, business development, and consulting in the high technology and financial services industries. He has worked extensively with global businesses and his background includes experience in business and operational strategy, high technology development and engineering, manufacturing operations, and product design and development consulting.

In his current role, Mr. Thomas leads business development for Information Management software, which includes IBM's enterprise data management and information integration products. He is responsible for mergers & acquisitions, channel strategy and sales, and major ISV and SI partnerships. Recently, Mr. Thomas led IBM's acquisition of Netezza, the leader in data warehousing and analytical appliances.

Clint Johnson

Alpine Data Labs

Clint Johnson VP of Customer Solutions for Alpine Data Labs. Prior to joining Alpine, he was the SVP of Data Warehousing and Analytics for Zions Bancorporation, a commercial bank holding company headquartered in the western U.S. In that role Mr. Johnson developed and led the strategy to implement enterprise-scale platforms and technologies for reporting, analysis, and predictive modeling. Mr. Johnson is a Stanford University certified project manager and received his Master's degree in Operations Research from the Colorado School of Mines and his Bachelor's degree in Mathematics from Adams State College, Colorado. He and his family in the mountains of southern Colorado.

Strata Summit 2011: "Startup Launchpad: Startup #4 and #5"

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The remaining two of the five startups that were selected as Launch Pad finalists will deliver their pitches: Mineful, Chart.io

Strata Summit 2011: Bradley Horowitz, "Google+ The Power of Social Data"

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An interview with Bradley Horowitz, VP Product for Google+

Bradley Horowitz

Google

Bradley Horowitz is Vice President of Product for Google's social products including Gmail, Blogger, Picasa, and the recently launched Google+ Project. He has also led product for Google's consumer application division which includes Gmail, Gtalk, Google Voice, Google Reader and Calendar. Before joining Google, Horowitz was Yahoo's VP of Advanced Development where he drove the acquisitions of Flickr and MyBlogLog, launched the Brickhouse incubator, and developed new products like Yahoo! Pipes. Previously, he was Co-Founder and CTO of Virage, where he oversaw the technical direction of the company from its founding through its IPO and eventual acquisition by Autonomy. Horowitz has a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Michigan, and an M.S. in Media Science from the MIT Media Lab.

Tim O'Reilly

O'Reilly Media, Inc.

Tim O'Reilly is the founder and CEO of O'Reilly Media, Inc., thought by many to be the best computer book publisher in the world. O'Reilly Media also hosts conferences on technology topics, including the O'Reilly Open Source Convention, the Web 2.0 Summit, Strata: The Business of Data, and many others. O'Reilly's Make: magazine and Maker Faire has been compared to the West Coast Computer Faire, which launched the personal computer revolution. Tim's blog, O'Reilly Radar, "watches the alpha geeks" to determine emerging technology trends, and serves as a platform for advocacy about issues of importance to the technical community. Tim is also a partner at O'Reilly AlphaTech Ventures, O'Reilly's early stage venture firm, and is on the board of Safari Books Online.

Strata New York 2011: Jake Porway & Drew Conway, "Doing Good With Data: Data Without Borders"

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Jake Porway

DataKind

Jake Porway is a machine learning and technology enthusiast who loves nothing more than seeing good values in data. He is the founder and executive director of DataKind, an organization that brings together leading data scientists with high impact social organizations to better collect, analyze, and visualize data in the service of humanity. Jake was most recently the data scientist in the New York Times R&D lab and remains an active member of the data science community, bringing his technical experience from his past work with groups like NASA, DARPA, Google, and Bell Labs to bear on the social sector. Jake's work has been featured in leading academic journals and conferences (PAMI, ICCV), the Guardian, the Stanford Social Innovation Review, and he has been honored as a 2011 PopTech Social Innovation Fellow and a 2012 National Geographic Emerging Explorer. He holds a B.S. in Computer Science from Columbia University and his M.S. and Ph.D. in Statistics from UCLA.

Drew Conway

New York University

Drew Conway is a PhD student in political science at New York University. Drew studies terrorism and armed conflict; using tools from mathematics and computer science to gain a deeper understanding of these phenomena.

Strata New York 2011: Anne Wright, "Health Empowerment through Self-Tracking"

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The BodyTrack project has interviewed a number of people who have improved their health by discovering certain foods or environmental exposures to avoid, or learning other types of behavioral changes. Many describe greatly improved quality of life, overcoming in some cases chronic problems in areas such as sleep, pain, gastrointestinal function, and energy levels. In some cases, a doctor or specialist's diagnosis led to treatment which mitigated symptoms (e.g. asthma or migraine headache), but where discovery of triggers required self-tracking and self-experimentation.

Importantly, the act of starting to search for one's sensitivities or triggers appears to be empowering: people who embarked on this path changed their relationship to their health situation even before making the discoveries that helped lead to symptom improvement.

The BodyTrack Project is building tools, both technological and cultural, to empower more people to embrace an "investigator" role in their own lives. The core of the BodyTrack system is an open source web service which allows users to aggregate, visualize, and analyze data from a myriad of sources—physiological metrics from wearable sensors, image and self-observation capture from smart phones, local environmental measures such as bedroom light and noise levels and in-house air quality monitoring, and regional environmental measures such as pollen/mold counts and air particulates. We believe empowering a broader set of people with these tools will help individuals and medical practitioners alike to better address health conditions with complex environmental or behavioral components.

Anne Wright

CMU

Anne Wright is Co-principal Investigator and Director of Operations for the BodyTrack project in the CREATE Lab at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, PA. She received B.S. and M.Eng. degrees in computer science and electrical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1996. After leaving MIT, she co-founded Newton Research Labs, a successful robotics and computer vision company, then joined the Intelligent Robotics Group at NASA Ames Research Center where she served as Lead Systems Engineer for Prototype Mars Rovers. While at Ames, Anne became interested in how to harness sensing and data visualization technologies and techniques originally developed for the rovers to help people "debug" diffuse environmentally related conditions such as allergies, food sensitivities, asthma and migraine triggers, etc. She moved to Pittsburgh in 2009 and spent a year studying biochemistry at CMU. She co-founded the BodyTrack Project in 2010 with the support of the Heinz Endowments of Pittsburgh. Through the BodyTrack Project she pursues a multi-faceted approach to improving health empowerment for people affected by such diffuse conditions, including open-source technology development, aggregation and visualization of data from existing devices and data sources, collaborative development of common data interchange formats and APIs, development of custom devices, and cultural engineering. She also seeks to identify and catalyze synergistic efforts in this space such as the Quantified Self, Quant Friendly Doctor, Locker Project, and open mHealth movements.

Strata New York 2011: Ken Bado, "Big Data, Big Opportunity"

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Big Data is more than just volume and velocity. MarkLogic CEO Ken Bado will address why complexity is the key gotcha for organizations trying to outflank their competition by managing Big Data in real time. Learn how winners today are using MarkLogic to manage the complexity of their unstructured information to drive revenue and results.

Ken Bado

MarkLogic

Ken Bado is president and CEO of MarkLogic. He is responsible for the company's worldwide business and serves on the Board of Directors. As president and CEO, Ken brings a wealth of expertise to MarkLogic in corporate strategy, development, engineering, and global field operations including marketing, sales and support, alliance and channels, and customer programs. Prior to MarkLogic, Bado drove extreme growth at Autodesk as the executive vice president of sales and services, and had an 11 year career at Mentor Graphics. Ken graduated with a bachelor's degree from West Virginia's Bethany College

Strata New York 2011: Mark Madsen, "First, firster, firstest"

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History seems irrelevant in the software world, particular when dealing with lots of information. It isn't. Information explosions are not new. They've happened repeatedly throughout human history. A little looking will turn up prior incarnations of information management patterns and concepts that can be repurposed using today's technologies.

The first person to conceive of something is usually not the first. They're the first to re-conceive at a point where the current technology caught up to someone else's idea. We're at a point today where many old ideas are being reinvented. Come hear why looking to the past beyond your core field of interest is worthwhile.

Mark Madsen

Third Nature

Mark spent the past two decades working on analysis and decision support projects in many industries. He is the founder of Third Nature, a research and consulting firm focused on emerging technology and practices in analytics, BI and information management. Mark is also an award-winning former CTO and consultant who frequently speaks at US and European conferences.

I focus on two types of work: using data to make decisions and manage organizations, and building data technology infrastructure. I've spent the past two decades working on analysis, performance management and decision support projects. A big part of making decisions and using data in a corporate setting is ensuring that the right data capture and data delivery infrastructure is in place to manage the business. As a result, I do as much information strategy and IT architecture work as I do performance management and decision support.

You can reach me via Twitter as @markmadsen or via Thirdnature.net

Stefan Groschupf interviewed at Strata New York 2011

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Stefan Groschupf (Datameer)

DJ Patil interviewed at Strata New York 2011

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DJ Patil (Greylock Partners)

Leo Polovets interviewed at Strata New York 2011

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Leo Polovets

Software Engineer, Factual

Leo is a software engineer at Factual where he works on data cleaning tools and entity resolution. Prior to Factual, Leo was a software engineer at Google and an early engineer at LinkedIn.

Taylor Martin interviewed at Strata New York 2011

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Taylor Martin (The University of Texas at Austin)

Ken Bado interviewed at Strata New York 2011

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Ken Bado

CEO, MarkLogic

Ken Bado is president and CEO of MarkLogic. He is responsible for the company's worldwide business and serves on the Board of Directors. As president and CEO, Ken brings a wealth of expertise to MarkLogic in corporate strategy, development, engineering, and global field operations including marketing, sales and support, alliance and channels, and customer programs. Prior to MarkLogic, Bado drove extreme growth at Autodesk as the executive vice president of sales and services, and had an 11 year career at Mentor Graphics. Ken graduated with a bachelor's degree from West Virginia's Bethany College

Adam Edwards interviewed at Strata New York 2011

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Adam Edwards (CareerBuilder)

Bruce Upbin interviewed at Strata New York 2011

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Bruce Upbin (Forbes)

Steve Bologna interviewed at Strata New York 2011

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Steve Bologna (Sybase)

Jake Flomenberg interviewed at Strata New York 2011

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Jake Flomenberg

Product Manager, Splunk

Jake Flomenberg is Director of Product Management at Splunk, responsible for Splunk's search and user experience. Jake has a special interest in Big Data and making data analytics more accessible to the masses. Previously, Jake worked at Cloudera working directly with the founding team to tackle a broad array of sales, marketing, and product issues. Prior to business school, Jake held several roles ranging from software development to business strategy and M&A at Lockheed Martin as a member of their Engineering Leadership Development Program. Jake holds a B.S.E. in Computer Science, Electrical Computer Engineering, and Economics from Duke, an M.S.E in Systems Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania, and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.

Kyle Cranmer interviewed at Strata Summit 2011

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Kyle Cranmer

Assistant Professor of Physics, New York University

Kyle Cranmer is an Assistant Professor of Physics at New York University searching for new fundamental particles and interactions at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in Geneva, Switzerland. The LHC is producing what is arguably the largest dataset in the history of science, and Cranmer is one of the leading thinkers on how to exploit its scientific potential. This includes novel technologies for publishing scientific results, collaborative design of statistical models, and new approaches to open access and preservation of scientific data.

Noah Iliinsky interviewed at Strata NY 2011

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Noah Iliinsky

Visualization Consultant, Complex Diagrams

Noah Iliinsky is the technical editor of, and a contributor to, Beautiful Visualization, published By O'Reilly Media.

He has spent the last several years thinking, writing, and speaking about best practices for designing information visualizations. He also works in interface and interaction design, all from a functional and user-centered perspective. Before becoming a designer he was a programmer for several years.

He has a master's in Technical Communication from the University of Washington, and a bachelor's in Physics from Reed College.

Ken Farmer interviewed at Strata NY 2011

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Ken Farmer

Data Architect, IBM

Ken Farmer has twenty years of experience in delivering innovations through data logistics: the unglamorous part of data science involved in acquiring, standardizing, validating, transforming, integrating, and enabling the availability and access to vast amounts of data.

Ken is a senior data architect at IBM where he leads their security & compliance data warehouse. Prior to this role Ken consulted on search engines and data warehouses in the insurance, telecom, entertainment, and retail industries.

Jim Stogdill interviewed at Strata Jumpstart 2011

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Jim Stogdill (Accenture)

Robin Winsor interviewed at Strata Jumpstart 2011

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Robin Winsor (Cybera)

Marshall Kirkpatrick interviewed at Strata Summit 2011

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Marshall Kirkpatrick

CEO, Little Bird

Seven years ago, presenter Marshall Kirkpatrick worked at a convenience store in a small town in Oregon, today he's become one of the most successful tech industry bloggers online (formerly lead writer at both TechCrunch and ReadWriteWeb) and is now the CEO of a venture-backed company called Little Bird. Little Bird helps anyone do the kind of work that Marshall did to make his career in the social web: to find the right people, to discover key information, to act fast and raise your voice by adding value to conversations on a global stage.

Ed Spychalski interviewed at Strata Summit 2011

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Ed Spychalski (PetSmart)

Arnab Gupta interviewed at Strata NY 2011

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Arnab Gupta

CEO & Founder, Opera Solutions

Arnab discerned that the information explosion created an unprecedented opportunity for value creation, and that a firm that combined superior talent with the techniques and technology required to distill insights from massive data reserves could deliver dramatic performance improvement. Accordingly he founded Opera Solutions in 2004 and has since guided the company in providing rapid, significant, and sustained profit improvement to leading global organizations. Prior to Opera, Arnab founded and sold a number of other companies, including Mitchell Madison Group, which achieved a recurring revenue base of $275MM within 4 years, and Zeborg, a business intelligence software company. He began his career at McKinsey & Co., where he was a partner, and also served as a partner at A.T. Kearney. Since 2004, he has worked with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation on its India HIV-AIDS initiative, employing private sector approaches to help oversee the disbursement of $400MM in grants toward HIV-AIDS prevention. Arnab earned an MBA from the Harvard Business School and is the author of a number of research publications, including Aggressive Sourcing: A Free Market Approach (Sloan Management Review) and Taking Risks to Win.

Justin Moore interviewed at Strata NY 2011

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Justin Moore

Engineer, Facebook

Before joining foursquare, Justin worked at a hedge fund as a quantitative analyst, building custom portfolios for their asset management division and doing modeling and analysis for their risk team, specializing in high-frequency, derivatives, and commodities trading. Prior to that, he worked for Bear Stearns as a vice president in their fixed income analyst group, building applications and models to help value agency pass-thru securities and building loan-level pricing applications and models. Justin holds a BS in computer science with a minor in mathematics from the University of Rochester and has studied graduate-level math and computer science at Columbia University. He enjoys finding ways to take large sets of data and making interesting things happen with it.

Jake Porway interviewed at Strata NY 2011

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Jake Porway

Data Scientist, DataKind

Jake Porway is a machine learning and technology enthusiast who loves nothing more than seeing good values in data. He is the founder and executive director of DataKind, an organization that brings together leading data scientists with high impact social organizations to better collect, analyze, and visualize data in the service of humanity. Jake was most recently the data scientist in the New York Times R&D lab and remains an active member of the data science community, bringing his technical experience from his past work with groups like NASA, DARPA, Google, and Bell Labs to bear on the social sector. Jake's work has been featured in leading academic journals and conferences (PAMI, ICCV), the Guardian, the Stanford Social Innovation Review, and he has been honored as a 2011 PopTech Social Innovation Fellow and a 2012 National Geographic Emerging Explorer. He holds a B.S. in Computer Science from Columbia University and his M.S. and Ph.D. in Statistics from UCLA.

Joe Adler interviewed at Strata NY 2011

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Joseph Adler

Senior Data Scientist, LinkedIn

Joseph Adler has many years of experience in data mining and data analysis at companies including DoubleClick, American Express, and VeriSign. He graduated from MIT with an B.Sc. and M.Eng in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering. He is the inventor of several patents for computer security and cryptography, and the author of "Baseball Hacks" and "R in a Nutshell". Currently, he is a senior data scientist at LinkedIn.

Drew Conway interviewed at Strata Summit 2011

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Drew Conway

PhD Student, New York University

Drew Conway is a PhD student in political science at New York University. Drew studies terrorism and armed conflict; using tools from mathematics and computer science to gain a deeper understanding of these phenomena.

Stephen Coller & Denise Cooper interviewed at Strata Summit 2011

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Stephen Coller & Danese Cooper (Gates Foundation)

Kim Rees interviewed at Strata Summit 2011

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Kim Rees (Periscopic)

Jeroen Tjepkema interviewed at Strata Summit 2011

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Jeroen Tjepkema (MeasureWorks)

Andrew Odewahn interviewed at Strata Summit 2011

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Andrew Odewahn (O'Reilly Media, Inc.)

Strata Summit 2011: Michael Nelson, "Transparency and Strategic Leaking"

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There's never been a better time to reconsider transparency and talk about strategic leaking. In this talk, Michael Nelson—whose career has taken him from the White House to the boardrooms of the Fortune 500—looks at the naked corporation and what information can do when it flows intentionally between companies and their ecosystems.

His new report for the CSC Leading Edge Forum Research examines how radical transparency can be a powerful business tool, with companies sharing the previously unthinkable—salary, pricing, project roadmaps, and more.

Michael Nelson

Leading Edge Forum, CSC

Dr Michael Nelson is a Research Associate for the Leading Edge Forum. Michael is also currently Visiting Professor of Internet Studies in Georgetown University's Communication, Culture, and Technology (CCT) Program, a unique, trans-disciplinary masters program for students and researchers interested in how information technology is shaping society and vice versa. Since January 2008, he has been conducting research and teaching courses on The Future of the Internet, innovation, technology forecasting, and e-government, as well as consulting and speaking on Internet technology and policy.

Before joining the Georgetown faculty, Michael spent almost ten years as Director of Internet Technology and Strategy at IBM, where he managed a team helping define and implement IBM's Next Generation Internet strategy. Prior to that, Michael was Director for Technology Policy at the FCC, where he helped craft policies to spur the growth of the Internet. Before joining the FCC in January 1997, Michael was Special Assistant for Information Technology at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy where he worked with Vice President Al Gore on telecommunications policy, encryption and online privacy, electronic commerce, and information policy.

Michael has a PhD from MIT and a BS from Caltech.

Strata Jumpstart: Kathryn Dekas, "People Analytics: Using Data to Drive HR Strategy and Action"

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Strata Jumpstart: Kathryn Dekas, "People Analytics: Using Data to Drive HR Strategy and Action"

Strata Jumpstart 2011: DJ Patil, "Data Science and Building Data Teams"

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Strata Jumpstart 2011: DJ Patil, "Data Science and Building Data Teams"

Strata NY 2011: Promo_"Live from the Sponsor Pavilion"

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Promo_"Live from the Sponsor Pavilion"