Agenda Machine Learning Week Europe 2023
Berlin - 15 - 16 November 2023

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Wednesday, November 15, 2023

Wednesday

Wed

9:00 am

Wednesday, November 15, 2023 9:00 am

Welcome

Speaker: Dean Abbott, Chief Data Scientist, Abbott Analytics

Room:Saphir 1

Wednesday, November 15, 2023 9:00 am

Welcome

Speaker: Peter Seeberg, independent AI consultant, asimovero.AI

Room:Bernstein

Wednesday

Wed

9:05 am

Wednesday, November 15, 2023 9:05 am

Game Changer Generative AI: How ChatGPT & Co are Transforming and Disrupting Businesses

Speaker: Prof. Dr. Peter Gentsch, CEO, Foundation Factory

Moderator: Dean Abbott, Chief Data Scientist, Abbott Analytics

Room:Saphir 1

Wednesday, November 15, 2023 9:05 am

Mine Your Own Business: How Object-Centric Process Mining Improves the Things You Do Not See

Speaker: Prof. Dr. Wil van der Aalst, University Professor, RWTH Aachen

Moderator: Peter Seeberg, independent AI consultant, asimovero.AI

Room:Bernstein

Wednesday, November 15, 2023 9:05 am

Foundation Models: Potential, Diversity and Limitations

Speaker: Prof. Dr. Hans Uszkoreit, Co-Founder & Chief Scientist, nyonic

Moderator: Laura Velikonja, Head of Business Data Analytics, Zeiss

Room:Saphir 2+3

Wednesday

Wed

9:50 am

Wednesday, November 15, 2023 9:50 am

Sponsored Session: Use Case: Carl Remigius Fresenius Education AG – Machine-Learning-driven Analysis to avoid student churn

Speaker: Robin Richter, Solution Expert, avantum consult GmbH

Moderator: Dean Abbott, Chief Data Scientist, Abbott Analytics

Room:Saphir 1

Wednesday

Wed

10:45 am

Wednesday, November 15, 2023 10:45 am

10:45 am: Cohort Revenue & Retention Analysis for Wolt: A Bayesian Approach

Speaker: Dr. Juan Orduz, Data Scientist, Wolt

Moderator: Dean Abbott, Chief Data Scientist, Abbott Analytics

11:15 am: Customer Lifetime Value for Subscription-Video-on-Demand at RTL+

Speaker: Dr. Tim Tolkmitt, Advanced Data Analyst, RTL

Moderator: Dean Abbott, Chief Data Scientist, Abbott Analytics

Room:Saphir 1

Wednesday, November 15, 2023 10:45 am

10:45 am: Federated Learning Meets the Shop Floor in Siemens PCB Production Facilities

Speaker: Anne Mareike Schlinkert, COO, Katulu

Moderator: Peter Seeberg, independent AI consultant, asimovero.AI

11:15 am: Transforming Electronic Manufacturing through AI-based Visual Inspection at Siemens

Speaker: Dr. Majid Mortazavi, Senior Data Scientist, Siemens

Moderator: Peter Seeberg, independent AI consultant, asimovero.AI

Room:Bernstein

Wednesday, November 15, 2023 10:45 am

10:45 am: Accelerating Public Consultations with Large Language Models (LLMs) for the UK Planning Inspectorate

Speakers: Andreas Leed, Head of Data Science, Oxford Global Projects Dr. Michele Dallachiesa, Data Scientist, sigforge.com

Moderator: Dr. Sebastian Wernicke, Chief Data Scientist, One Data

11:15 am: Semantic Search for Business Registrations - Findings from the Project WZ-Suche for the State of NRW

Speaker: Dr. Sebastian Thomas, Machine Learning Scientist, dida

Moderator: Dr. Sebastian Wernicke, Chief Data Scientist, One Data

Room:Saphir 2+3

Wednesday

Wed

11:50 am

Wednesday, November 15, 2023 11:50 am

Understanding and Visualizing Your Online Marketing Audiences using Machine Learning

Speaker: Dr. Christoph Best, Senior Data Scientist, Google

Moderator: Dean Abbott, Chief Data Scientist, Abbott Analytics

Room:Saphir 1

Wednesday, November 15, 2023 11:50 am

11:50 am: Innovative Condition Monitoring in the Packaging and Paper Industry at Mondi Group

Speakers: Dr. Alexey Fofonov, Senior Expert Digital Transformation, d-fine Günter Röhrich, Data Scientist, Mondi Group

Moderator: Peter Seeberg, independent AI consultant, asimovero.AI

12:20 pm: Improving the Efficiency of Manufacturing Processes: A Practical Case Study

Speaker: Dr. Maksim Sipos, Co Founder & CTO, causaLens

Moderator: Peter Seeberg, independent AI consultant, asimovero.AI

Room:Bernstein

Wednesday, November 15, 2023 11:50 am

Big Data vs. Small Context: Leveraging Domain Knowledge with Limited Context

Speaker: Sebastian Blank, Data Scientist, inovex

Moderator: Dr. Sebastian Wernicke, Chief Data Scientist, One Data

Room:Saphir 2+3

Wednesday

Wed

2:00 pm

Wednesday, November 15, 2023 2:00 pm

2:00 pm: Driving Growth through Personalization: A Scalable Recommender System for Freenet

Speakers: Dr. Torge Schmidt, Teamlead Recommendation Services, Freenet Carsten Frommhold, Data Science Consultant, Datadrivers

Moderator: Jack Lampka, Head of Data Science, MSD

2:30 pm: Content recommendations in Candy Crush Saga: addressing challenges in iterative model development

Speaker: Dr. Martin Dlask, Associate Director of Data Science, King

Moderator: Jack Lampka, Head of Data Science, MSD

Room:Saphir 1

Wednesday, November 15, 2023 2:00 pm

2:00 pm: Machine Learning for Sustainability at Edison: Renewable Energy Forecasting

Speaker: Matteo Bonanomi, Lead Data Scientist, Edison

Moderator: Peter Seeberg, independent AI consultant, asimovero.AI

2:30 pm: AI-based Remote Operator Support for the Draugen Offshore Oil Platform

Speaker: Arzam Kotriwala, Senior Data Scientist, ABB Corporate Research Center

Moderator: Peter Seeberg, independent AI consultant, asimovero.AI

Room:Bernstein

Wednesday, November 15, 2023 2:00 pm

Retrieval-Augmented Generation: Using Large Language Models to Get the Most from Your Text Data

Speaker: Dr. Rob Pasternak, Applied NLP Engineer, deepset

Moderator: Laura Velikonja, Head of Business Data Analytics, Zeiss

Room:Saphir 2+3

Wednesday

Wed

3:05 pm

Wednesday, November 15, 2023 3:05 pm

3:05 pm: Next Best Offer at DIE ZEIT: Improving Cross Sales by Predicting Product Affinities

Speakers: Hannah Großer, Senior Data Analyst, ZEIT Luisa Völkl, CRM Marketing Manager, DIE ZEIT

Moderator: Dean Abbott, Chief Data Scientist, Abbott Analytics

3:35 pm: How Not to Lie about Machine Learning: Data Science in Agile Teams at GfK

Speaker: Dr. Benedikt Mangold, Principal Data Scientist, GfK

Moderator: Dean Abbott, Chief Data Scientist, Abbott Analytics

Room:Saphir 1

Wednesday, November 15, 2023 3:05 pm

From Correlation to Causation: The Hunt for the Culprit Behind Machine Failures

Speaker: Dr. Michael Haft, CEO & Founder, Xplain Data GmbH

Moderator: Peter Seeberg, independent AI consultant, asimovero.AI

Room:Bernstein

Wednesday, November 15, 2023 3:05 pm

3:05 pm: The End of Market Research as we know it? When Autonomous LLM-based Agents Run Surveys & Write Your Reports

Speakers: Rene Schallner, Senior Researcher AI, Technology Lab Manager, Nürnberg Institut für Marktentscheidungen Dr. Carolin Kaiser, Head of Artificial Intelligence, Nürnberg Institut für Marktentscheidungen

Moderator: Laura Velikonja, Head of Business Data Analytics, Zeiss

3:35 pm: Graph Neural Networks for Predicting Stock Market Shares at StockFink

Speaker: Dr. Mirza Klimenta, Founder & CEO, Falcony AI

Moderator: Laura Velikonja, Head of Business Data Analytics, Zeiss

Room:Saphir 2+3

Wednesday

Wed

4:30 pm

Wednesday, November 15, 2023 4:30 pm

How to market AI products to internal customers?

Speaker: Jack Lampka, Head of Data Science, MSD

Moderator: Dean Abbott, Chief Data Scientist, Abbott Analytics

Room:Saphir 1

Wednesday, November 15, 2023 4:30 pm

4:30 pm: Munich Re and Compredict: De-risking the Implementation of Machine Learning in the Car Industry

Speakers: Alexandra Matthews, Underwriter of AI Performance Risks, Munich RE Dr. Daniel Dilmetz, Head of Strategic Partnerships, Compredict

Moderator: Peter Seeberg, independent AI consultant, asimovero.AI

5:00 pm: From Experiments to Production: Building a Scalable Machine-Learning Service for Claims Assessment at Mercedes-Benz

Speakers: Thomas Hummel, Data Science Solution Architect, Mercedes Benz AG Dr. Ole Brodersen, Data Science Solution Architect, Mercedes Benz AG

Moderator: Peter Seeberg, independent AI consultant, asimovero.AI

Room:Bernstein

Wednesday, November 15, 2023 4:30 pm

4:30 pm: From Logistic Regressions to Transformers: Practical Lessons from Scaling Conversion Ads @Pinterest

Speaker: Aayush Mudgal, Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Pinterest

Moderator: Dr. Sebastian Wernicke, Chief Data Scientist, One Data

5:00 pm: Efficient Shuttle Routing with Reinforcement Learning for Deutsche Bahn

Speaker: Dr. Julian Wagner, Data Scientist, qdive GmbH

Moderator: Dr. Sebastian Wernicke, Chief Data Scientist, One Data

Room:Saphir 2+3

Wednesday

Wed

7:30 pm

Wednesday, November 15, 2023 7:30 pm

Networking Lounge

Thursday, November 16, 2023

Thursday

Thu

9:05 am

Thursday, November 16, 2023 9:05 am

Welcome Day 2

Speaker: Norbert Wirth, Global VP Data, PAYBACK

Room:Saphir 1

Thursday, November 16, 2023 9:05 am

Welcome Day 2

Speaker: Peter Seeberg, independent AI consultant, asimovero.AI

Room:Bernstein

Thursday

Thu

9:10 am

Thursday, November 16, 2023 9:10 am

Data Mesh Beyond Theory

Speaker: Norbert Wirth, Global VP Data, PAYBACK

Room:Saphir 1

Thursday, November 16, 2023 9:10 am

Evaluating Model Performance Metrics: How to Measure Business Impact

Speaker: Terry Miller, Founder & Director, Bōwdee

Moderator: Peter Seeberg, independent AI consultant, asimovero.AI

Room:Bernstein

Thursday, November 16, 2023 9:10 am

On the Past, Presence and Future of AI/ML in Science & Business

Speaker: Prof. Dr. Michael Feindt, CEO, Feindt Vermögen und Consult GmbH

Moderator: Dr. Sebastian Wernicke, Chief Data Scientist, One Data

Room:Saphir 2+3

Thursday

Thu

9:55 am

Thursday, November 16, 2023 9:55 am

Sponsored Session: The evolution of ML monitoring: from ML 1.0 to LLMs

Speaker: Gon Rappaport, MLOps Solutions Architect, Aporia

Moderator: Norbert Wirth, Global VP Data, PAYBACK

Room:Saphir 1

Thursday

Thu

10:30 am

Thursday, November 16, 2023 10:30 am

10:30 am: Empowerment of Citizen Data Scientists with AutoML Tools at PAYBACK

Speaker: Dr. Alexander Khachikyan, Data Scientist, PAYBACK

Moderator: Norbert Wirth, Global VP Data, PAYBACK

11:00 am: Optimizing Outcome of Sales Calls at Auxmoney with Causal Machine Learning

Speakers: Bettina Drepper, Data Scientist, auxmoney Jan Seidel, Product Owner Data Science, auxmoney

Moderator: Norbert Wirth, Global VP Data, PAYBACK

Room:Saphir 1

Thursday, November 16, 2023 10:30 am

10:30 am: Sustainable Agriculture: Leveraging Predictive Analytics for Chemical Use Reduction with Skaylink

Speaker: Florin Sacadat, AI Engineer, Skaylink GmbH

Moderator: Peter Seeberg, independent AI consultant, asimovero.AI

11:00 am: Forecasting Air Quality in Berlin with xgboost

Speaker: Mira Klein, Senior Data Scientist, INWT Statistics

Moderator: Peter Seeberg, independent AI consultant, asimovero.AI

Room:Bernstein

Thursday, November 16, 2023 10:30 am

10:30 am: RTL’s SmartArt – Generating Metadata to Find the Right Frame for All

Speaker: Sandra Bystricky, Data Product Manager, RTL Deutschland

Moderator: Laura Velikonja, Head of Business Data Analytics, Zeiss

11:00 am: Extracting Content DNA: How ProSiebenSat.1 Boosts Downstream ML Use Cases

Speaker: John Vicente, Senior ML Engineer, ProSiebenSat.1

Moderator: Laura Velikonja, Head of Business Data Analytics, Zeiss

Room:Saphir 2+3

Thursday

Thu

11:35 am

Thursday, November 16, 2023 11:35 am

Conformal Prediction: a Universal Method for Uncertainty Quantification

Speaker: Dr. Michael Allgöwer, Management Consultant Data Science & AI, b.telligent

Moderator: Norbert Wirth, Global VP Data, PAYBACK

Room:Saphir 1

Thursday, November 16, 2023 11:35 am

11:35 am: Predictive Maintenance for Dialysis Machines, from Proof of Concept to Global Rollout with B. Braun

Speaker: Franziskos Kyriakopoulos, CEO, 7LYTIX

Moderator: Peter Seeberg, independent AI consultant, asimovero.AI

12:05 pm: Machine Learning Methods in Quality & Reliability Monitoring for Medical Devices at Biotronik

Speaker: Peter Liebisch, Head of Quality Management Reliability, Biotronik

Moderator: Peter Seeberg, independent AI consultant, asimovero.AI

Room:Bernstein

Thursday, November 16, 2023 11:35 am

11:35 am: Improving Text-to-Image Multilingual Search at Toloka and Jina

Speaker: Evgeniya Sukhodolskaya, Data Advocate, Toloka

Moderator: Laura Velikonja, Head of Business Data Analytics, Zeiss

12:05 pm: Reducing Customer Onboarding Time for Data Mapping from Weeks to Minutes at 6Sense

Speaker: Rohit Kewalramani, Principal Data Scientist, 6sense

Moderator: Laura Velikonja, Head of Business Data Analytics, Zeiss

Room:Saphir 2+3

Thursday

Thu

1:30 pm

Thursday, November 16, 2023 1:30 pm

1:30 pm: Fast Delivery of Propensity-to-Buy Models with AutoML at ING

Speaker: Benjamin Stahl, Data Scientist, ING-DiBa

Moderator: Dean Abbott, Chief Data Scientist, Abbott Analytics

2:00 pm: Handling Multiple Languages in Text Classification Problems at ING

Speaker: Katharina Wenzel, Machine Learning Engineer, ING-DiBa

Moderator: Dean Abbott, Chief Data Scientist, Abbott Analytics

Room:Saphir 1

Thursday, November 16, 2023 1:30 pm

1:30 pm: Data Literacy to Drive Innovation at Schenker

Speaker: Dr. Markus Lilienthal, Director Data Science, Schenker AG

Moderator: Peter Seeberg, independent AI consultant, asimovero.AI

2:00 pm: Dynamic Pricing at Kühne+Nagel - How Does Al-assisted Pricing for Logistics Work?

Speaker: Dr. Annemarie Paul, Data Science Team Lead, Kuehne + Nagel

Moderator: Peter Seeberg, independent AI consultant, asimovero.AI

Room:Bernstein

Thursday, November 16, 2023 1:30 pm

A Practical Introduction to Model Compression

Moderator: Dr. Sebastian Wernicke, Chief Data Scientist, One Data

Room:Saphir 2+3

Thursday

Thu

2:35 pm

Thursday, November 16, 2023 2:35 pm

2:35 pm: Cracking the Efficiency Code: How Data-Driven Automation at Lexoffice is Transforming the Bookkeeping Landscape

Speaker: Dr. Andreas Meinel, Data Product Owner, lexoffice

Moderator: Dean Abbott, Chief Data Scientist, Abbott Analytics

3:05 pm: Building a Privacy-Preserving Machine-Learning Product for Salary Predictions based on Payslip Data at DATEV

Speaker: Dr. Frank Eichinger, Data Scientist, Datev

Moderator: Dean Abbott, Chief Data Scientist, Abbott Analytics

Room:Saphir 1

Thursday, November 16, 2023 2:35 pm

Table Discussions: Best Advice Ever

Speakers: Philipp Freytag von Loringhoven, Data Strategist, Team Advertico Peter Seeberg, independent AI consultant, asimovero.AI Cecilia Floridi, Managing Director, DataLab.

Room:Foyer

Thursday, November 16, 2023 2:35 pm

2:35 pm: Lessons Learned Building a Global Flood Segmentation Model in Record Time

Speaker: Philip Popien, Director of Machine Learning, Floodbase

Moderator: Dr. Sebastian Wernicke, Chief Data Scientist, One Data

3:05 pm: Applying Machine and Reinforcement Learning for Cleaner and Greener Water Treatment Solutions

Speaker: Bevin Eldaphonse, Machine Learning Project Manager, Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute (AMII)

Moderator: Dr. Sebastian Wernicke, Chief Data Scientist, One Data

Room:Saphir 2+3

Thursday

Thu

4:00 pm

Thursday, November 16, 2023 4:00 pm

Your “Best” Model May Not Be Good: A Business-centric Model Selection Strategy

Speaker: Dean Abbott, Chief Data Scientist, Abbott Analytics

Room:Saphir 1

Thursday, November 16, 2023 4:00 pm

Anomaly Detection in Telco Network at Orange

Speakers: Robert Kwiatkowski, Machine Learning Engineer, Orange Olga Kulesza, Data Engineer, Orange

Moderator: Peter Seeberg, independent AI consultant, asimovero.AI

Room:Bernstein

Thursday, November 16, 2023 4:00 pm

Why Most Data Projects Fail and How to Avoid It

Speaker: Jesse Anderson, Managing Director & Data Engineer, Big Data Institute

Moderator: Laura Velikonja, Head of Business Data Analytics, Zeiss

Room:Saphir 2+3

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