Agenda

  • Feb
    7
  • Feb
    8

09:30

Welcome and Opening Remarks

09:35

Keynote
Building Innovation Ecosystems: What Can Tokyo Learn from Cambridge?
Tim Rowe
Founder and CEO
Cambridge Innovation Center

10:15

Keynote
A Behind-the-Scenes Peek of an Analytics Startup
Takafumi Kusano
Co-Founder & Representative Director
BrainPad Inc.

10:55

Keynote
The New Vanguard for Business Connectivity, Design, and the Internet of Things
David Rose
Founder and CEO
Ditto Labs

11:30

Lunch Break

12:40

Data Science Track
Combining Watson and Spark For Analysis
Yuichi Tanaka
Spark Specialist
IBM
12:40 - 13:15
Innovation Track
Encoding Discourse: Novel Interfaces for Collaborative Decision-making
Ira Winder
Research Scientist
MIT Media Lab
12:40 - 13:15
Applications Track
Uncovering Team Performance Dynamics with Data & Analytics in Complex Engineering Projects
Dai Ike
CEO
Global Project Design Japan
12:40 - 13:15

13:20

Data Science Track
A Data Engineering and Data Science Platform Based On Hadoop/Spark
Michiaki Ariga
Sales Engineer & Field Data Scientist
Cloudera
13:20 - 13:55
Innovation Track
The Dirty Little Secret of Enterprise Data
Andy Palmer
Co-Founder and CEO
Tamr
13:20 - 13:55
Applications Track
Anomaly Detection with Deep Learning: Finding the Needle in the Haystack in the Enterprise
Adam Gibson
Co-Founder and CTO
Skymind
13:20 - 13:55

14:00

Data Science Track
Discovering Various Insights From Data Using Elastic Stack
Jun Ohtani
Developer Advocate and Developer
Elastic
14:00 - 14:35
Innovation Track
From BI to Predictive Analytics: Should You Bring an Umbrella if Rain is Predicted?
Ingo Mierswa
Founder and President
RapidMiner
14:00 - 14:35
Applications Track
Big Data Analysis for Cyber Security
Takuho Mitsunaga
Research Associate Professor
Interfaculty Initiative in Information Studies at University of Tokyo
14:00 - 14:35

14:35

Coffee Break

15:05

Data Science Track
All Machine Learning Models are Wrong But Some Make More Sense
Akira Shibata
Data Scientist
DataRobot
15:05 - 15:40
Innovation Track
The Investor’s View of Emerging Data Marketspace in Japan and the U.S.
Jonathan Epstein
Japan Country Manager
Credorax
15:05 - 15:40
Applications Track
AI for Supply Chain
Michael Chang
Founder and CEO
Kyper Data
15:05 - 15:40

15:45

Data Science Track
NLP4L 〜 Using Corpus and Learning-to-Rank For Better Search Results
Koji Sekiguchi
Founder and CEO
Rondhuit
15:45 - 16:20
Innovation Track
Artificial Intelligence Sparks the Fourth Industrial Revolution
Daniel Pitchford • Clint Wheelock
15:45 - 16:20
Applications Track
Paradigm Shift: Applying Statistical Ways to Financial Engineering and Health Management in the Age of Longevity
Koichiro Tsukamoto
Data Business Consultant

15:45 - 16:20

16:25

Data Science Track
Practical Machine Learning Pipeline using Streaming IoT Sensor Data
Mathieu Dumoulin • Mateusz Dymczyk
16:25 - 17:00
Innovation Track
Innovation and Entrepreneurship Panel
Andy Palmer • Jonathan Epstein • Takuya Matsutani • Tim Rowe • Stephen Jones
16:25 - 17:00
Applications Track
Data Science Initiatives at a FinTech Company
Tetsuro Ito
Personal Financial Management Department
Money Forward, Inc.
16:25 - 17:00

17:00

Networking Reception hosted by AI Business

09:30

Keynote
ConceptNet: Teaching Machines Common Sense
Catherine Havasi, Ph.D.
Founder and CEO
Luminoso

10:10

Keynote
Machine Intelligence at Google Scale
Kazunori Sato
Staff Developer Advocate on the Cloud Platform Team
Google

10:50

Keynote
The Key Role Threat Intelligence Can Play in Your Security Strategy
Christopher Ahlberg
Founder and CEO
Recorded Future

11:30

Lunch Break

12:30

Main Track
Prioritizing Solution Efficacy in Data Analytics – Towards a Data Driven Company
Stephen Jones
General Partner
SineWave Ventures
12:30 - 13:05
VIP
Partner & Investor Business Pitches
(VIP ticket holders only)
12:30 - 13:05

13:05

Main Track
Making Machine Learning Work for Real Business
Lukas Biewald
Founder & Chief Data Scientist
CrowdFlower
13:05 - 13:40
VIP
Partner & Investor Business Pitches
(VIP ticket holders only)
13:05 - 13:40

13:40

Main Track
Data Marketing Utilizing the “Societas” Value System Framework
Yasuo Tanida
Director of the Research Planning Office
SynergyMarketing
13:40 - 14:15
VIP
Partner & Investor Business Pitches
(VIP ticket holders only)
13:40 - 14:15

14:15

Coffee Break

14:45

Main Track
Data Science for Business Panel
Sheamus McGovern • Ingo Mierswa • Takafumi Kusano • Adam Gibson • Lukas Biewald
14:45 - 15:20

15:20

Main Track
Escaping ETL: The Journey to Information at the Speed of Thought
Nenshad Bardoliwalla
Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer
Paxata
15:20 - 15:55

15:55

Main Track
Closing Keynote: Big Data Outlook for 2017 And Why You Should Care
Meri Rosich Ph.D.
Chief Intelligence Officer
DataWise division of Oak Lawn Marketing
15:55 - 16:30