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ODSC East 2020 Virtual Conference Hosts Coronavirus Track

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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (PRWEB)

ODSC East 2020 has now become the ODSC East 2020 Virtual Conference, a completely-virtual event taking place on April 14-17. This event is expected to bring in more than 8,000 data scientists and attendees and will feature over 260 virtual sessions such as half-day training sessions, talks, workshops, keynote talks. It will also feature a track with over a dozen talks detailing how data scientists are helping combat the coronavirus pandemic.

By using the ODSC Virtual Conference platform, all attendees will be able to log in from their preferred location and watch the sessions in real-time. The ODSC East 2020 Virtual Conference will run multiple tracks related to specific focus areas, such as ones for machine learning, deep learning, NLP, and more.

Keynotes include:

John Montgomery, Microsoft

Margaret Mitchell, PhD, Google Research and Machine Intelligence Group

Michael Kearns, PhD, Warren Center for Network and Data Sciences, UPenn

Mike Stonebraker, PhD, MIT CSAIL, TAMR

Thomas Wolf, PhD, Hugging Face

Matei Zaharia, PhD, Stanford, Databricks

The ODSC East 2020 Virtual Conference will also feature a track dedicated to the COVID-19 pandemic. Some talks scheduled to occur are:

CEDAR: Information Technology to Enhance Open Science in the Fight Against COVID-19, Mark Musen, PhD, Stanford University

Coronavirus After the Curve, Roger W. Thomas, Oracle

COVID-19: Unprecedented Challenges and Opportunities for Data Science (and Scientists) — Voices, Visions, and Ventures form Harvard Data Science Review, Xiao-Li Meng, PhD, Harvard Data Science Review

Plus, additional talks from Johannes Eichstaedt, PhD of Stanford, Jason Wang, PhD of Stanford, Fawad Butt of United Healthcare & Optum, and more.

For those interested in finding AI solutions for their business, the Virtual AI Expo will feature demo talks and networking sessions to help managers find the ideal solution for their business. Partners include Microsoft, DataRobot, Dotscience, Red Hat, SAS, Looker, Appen, HPCC Systems, S&P Global, MIT and more.

Open Data Science Conference (ODSC) is the leader of applied data science conferences. Our conferences bring industry leaders, key executives, start-up companies, engineers, and investors on the threshold of innovation together. We delve into topics like artificial intelligence, machine learning, deep learning, predictive analytics, natural language processing, data visualization, and research. We do this to make sure the future of technology, industry, academia, and the military are at the forefront of emerging technology and advancement into tomorrow’s future today.

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