H2O.ai Announces Industry Leading Lineup for H2O World San Francisco 2019

SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 8, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- H2O.ai, the open source leader in AI, today announced the speaker lineup for H2O World San Francisco, a two-day interactive event featuring deep-dive technical and hands on training, advancements in machine learning and sessions focused on real-world business use cases. With speakers from Alteryx, AI4ALL, IBM, LinkedIn, Microsoft, Stanley Black and Decker, Wells Fargo and more, the conference will bring together the brightest minds in AI from across multiple industries to discuss the trends in artificial intelligence, machine learning and data science, important real-world use cases, and the biggest challenges currently facing the industry.

Join H2O.ai in San Francisco on February 4th and 5th, to connect with the community and learn how to harness the full value of AI, ML, Explainable AI, deep learning and data science from industry-recognized speakers and hands-on training sessions. Register here to secure your spot.

On day one of the conference, sessions will focus on hands-on technical training for H2O.ai's groundbreaking data science platforms including H2O-3 and Sparkling Water and H2O Driverless AI, that empowers data scientists of all levels to work on projects faster and more efficiently through automation and state-of-the-art computing power. These training sessions will provide new and existing users of H2O.ai products the information needed to make the most of their data science tools.

Day two of H2O World San Francisco will feature presentations from H2O.ai and several industry leaders exploring the potential of AI to solve real-world problems. Sessions will uncover insights into the various challenges organizations encounter in leveraging AI's potential, while training sessions will teach all types of attendees how to harness the full value of AI, ML, deep learning and data science industries from both business and technical perspectives. The lineup includes:

    --  Sri Ambati, CEO and Founder at H2O.ai: Ambati started H2O.ai with a
        clear mission in mind - make exceptional AI available to everyone. Known
        for his knack for envisioning killer apps in fast evolving spaces and
        assembling stellar teams towards productizing that vision, Ambati has
        built H2O.ai into one of the foremost leaders in machine learning and
        artificial intelligence. Through open source H2O and automatic machine
        learning platform Driverless AI, he drives high quality product
        development within the organization and uses that to fuel his passion
        for changing the world in a meaningful way through AI.
    --  Tess Gilman Posner, CEO at AI4ALL: Posner, along with her team, works to
        make AI more diverse and inclusive at her nonprofit AI4ALL by hosting
        camps and trainings on AI for children of all ages that are specifically
        geared toward underserved populations who lack the access to data
        science education that other communities might have. Prior to founding
        AI4ALL, she launched a national initiative with the White House with a
        goal of increasing diversity in tech economy. Posner has been featured
        at top publications including Business Insider, Fast Company and
        TechCrunch and is funded by top national foundations and influencers
        like Melinda Gates, Jensen Huang, JP Morgan Chase Foundation, Autodesk
        and more.
    --  Tanya Berger-Wolf, Co-founder and Director at Wildbook: Berger-Wolf is
        the co-founder and director at Wildbook, a tech project for conservation
        non-profit Wild Me that combs through massive collections of images to
        detect various species of animals and individuals within that species.
        Berger has also won several awards for her research and mentoring,
        including the US National Science Foundation Career Award, Association
        for Women in Science Chicago Innovator Awards, and UIC Mento of the Year
        Award.
    --  Dean Stoecker, CEO at Alteryx: Stoecker, along with his team, is
        responsible for the overall vision and execution of the company's
        strategic goals. Stoecker's leadership and motivational skills, along
        with his ability to create, communicate and realize a vision, are a
        driving force behind Alteryx's growth over the last decade.
    --  Naren Gupta, Co-Founder and Managing Director at Nexus Venture Partners:
        Gupta co-founded Integrated Systems Inc (ISI), a leading embedded
        software company, where he served as the President/CEO for 15 years.
        Under his leadership, ISI went public and was acquired by Intel. He has
        served on the boards of many public and privately held companies, and is
        currently the Chairman of the Board of Red Hat, Inc. Gupta serves on the
        Board of Trustees of the California Institute of Technology and the
        Advisory Board of Asia Society Northern California. He has also received
        distinguished alumni awards from Caltech and IIT and was elected a
        Fellow of the IEEE. Gupta is an active advisor to entrepreneurs
        worldwide.
    --  Paul Zikopoulos, Vice President - Big Data Cognitive at IBM: Named one
        of the "50 Big Data Twitter Influencers" by SAP, Zikopoulos has served
        as a big data consultant for "60 Minutes" and multiple universities, and
        has been named an expert on big data by publications such as Big Data
        Republic, Technopedia and Analytics Week. Zikopoulos leads IBM's
        World-Wide Competitive Database and Big Data teams. He is also an award
        winning writer who has published more than 19 books and over 350
        articles on data including Big Data Beyond the Hype, DB2 for Dummies and
        Understanding Big Data.
    --  Navrina Singh, Principal Product Lead at Microsoft:  Singh and her team
        are regularly building conversational AI products for Business
        Application Group. Prior to Microsoft, Singh spent 12 years at Qualcomm
        and in her last role she was the head of Qualcomm ImpactQT that focused
        on building emerging technologies and delivering strategic partnerships
        in AI, IoT and Mobile.
    --  Melanie Rubino, Senior Data Scientist at Wells Fargo: Rubino currently
        works on building and deploying machine learning models for card fraud
        operations as part of Artificial Intelligence Enterprise Solutions. She
        has a PhD in Operations Research from Stanford University and has since
        immersed herself as a builder of optimization, statistical and machine
        learning models solving a variety of financial problems. Along with
        training and deploying models, Rubino builds teams, collaboration and
        educational material to grow machine learning in small and large
        companies.
    --  Deepak Agarwal, Vice President of Engineering at LinkedIn: Agarwal is
        responsible for all AI efforts across LinkedIn. He is well known for his
        work on recommender systems and has published a book on this topic.
        Agarwal has also extensively published in top-tier computer science
        conferences and has co-authored several patents. He is a Fellow of the
        American Statistical Association and has served on the Executive
        Committee of Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD). Along with KDD,
        Agarwal also serves on program committees of various conferences in the
        field of AI and computer science, and is an associate editor of two
        flagship statistics journals.
    --  Bharath Sudharsan, Director of Data Science and Innovation at
        ArmadaHealth:  Sudharsan leads a team of data analysts at ArmadaHealth
        who develop and implement AI tools that are at the heart of objective
        and data-driven specialty care referral process synonymous with
        ArmadaHealth. Sudharsan has also held positions at Fractal Analytics and
        Quanttus, Inc. and WellDoc, Inc., and is the founder of Geetha, LLC, a
        provider of best in class healthcare analytics consultation including
        implementation of NLP and AI.
    --  Dr. Robert Coop, Senior Manager, Artificial Intelligence and Machine
        Learning at Stanley Black & Decker: Dr. Coop leads the company's AI and
        ML team and works with the industrial manufacturing business units to
        optimize operations by predicting machine failures and optimizing
        scheduling. He holds a doctorate in Computer Engineering from University
        of Tennessee, with a focus in Machine Learning and Artificial
        Intelligence. Prior to Stanley Black & Decker, Coop worked at State Farm
        Mutual Insurance Companies, where he focused on predictive modeling and
        played a prominent role in forming the data science teams.

H2O World San Francisco 2019 will also feature a number of must-attend panels, back by popular demand following the company's sold-out New York and London conferences in 2018:

    --  Women and Inclusion in Tech Panel: True innovation relies on engaging
        with people with a variety of perspectives. This panel will focus on
        views, opinions and insights on this important topic from women in the
        data science ecosystem.
    --  How to Become an Expert Data Scientist: Following its success at H2O
        World London last year, one of the most anticipated sessions at H2O
        World San Francisco features expert data scientists and Kaggle
        Grandmasters. Listen and learn from the top experts in AI. Attendees
        will have a chance to hear about their AI journeys, learn tips and
        tricks for how to become an expert, and learn their thoughts on what's
        to come in data science.

H2O World San Francisco 2019

    --  When: Monday, February 4 - Tuesday, February 5, 2019
    --  Where: San Francisco Hilton - Union Square 333 O'Farrell Street San
        Francisco, CA 94102
    --  Cost: $999 for general admission, $149 for students,
        --  Until January 18 ONLY - Winter Special ($499/ticket)
    --  Check out the schedule: h2oworld.h2o.ai
    --  If you are a member of the press and would like to attend: Contact
        press@h2o.ai to receive a code for a complimentary pass.
    --  Can't make it? Follow the day-of livestream: https://www.h2o.ai

Connect with H2O.ai

    --  Visit us to learn more: www.h2o.ai
    --  Follow us on Twitter: www.twitter.com/H2Oai
    --  Connect with us on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/2820918/
    --  Download Driverless AI for a free 21-day trial:
        www.h2o.ai/try-driverless-ai/

About H2O.ai

H2O.ai is an open source leader in AI with a mission to democratize AI for everyone. H2O.ai is transforming the use of AI with software with its category-creating visionary open source machine learning platform, H2O. More than 14,000 companies use open-source H2O in mission-critical use cases for Finance, Insurance, Healthcare, Retail, Telco, and Marketing. H2O Driverless AI uses AI to do AI in order to provide an easier, faster and effective means of implementing data science. H2O.ai partners with leading technology companies such as NVIDIA, IBM, AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform and is proud of its growing customer base which includes Capital One, Progressive Insurance, Comcast, Walgreens and PayPal. For more information and to learn more about how H2O.ai is driving an AI Transformation for businesses with intelligence, visit www.h2o.ai.

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