Spatial Data Science Conference 2019

What to expect

The agenda will be packed with keynotes, panels, technical workshops, and opportunities to network with experts in spatial data from across the globe.

Keynotes: Keynote speakers will inspire you with their vision for the future of Spatial Data Science, focusing on the latest in modelling techniques and new data streams.
Technical Workshops: Learn first-hand how to use new geospatial technology in your Data Science workflows. Connect with industry experts, product gurus and innovators from a range of industries.
Panels: Data and geospatial experts will come together to discuss how they see our space evolving, focusing on how the growth of Spatial Data Science is affecting the Location Intelligence ecosystem.
Networking Events: There’s more than just great content—it’s also an excellent opportunity to exchange ideas & valuable industry insights with other professionals in our networking lounge and dinner.

Speakers

Senior Software Engineer at Uber

Isaac Brodsky

Isaac Brodsky is a Senior Software Engineer at Uber, and is the lead for the H3 open source project. He has experience in big data and real time analytics.

Global Head of Real Estate Data & Insights at WeWork

Dunia Simunovic

Dunia is the Global Head of Real Estate Data and insights at WeWork. Her focus has been to build tools to optimize WeWork’s pre-opening scale and speed, as well as leading Market Intelligence.

Data Scientist at Airbnb

Jack Linshi

Jack is on Airbnb's Homes Platform team, focusing on developing scalable products to onboard and manage hosts where short-term rental regulations apply.

Professor at MIT

Esteban Moro

Esteban Moro is associate professor at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid and currently, He is a visiting professor at MIT Media Lab.

Engineering Manager at Facebook

Danil Kirsanov

Danil works on ML problems in Facebook Spatial Computing group. He holds PhD in Applied Math from Harvard and prior to Facebook worked on scalable computing at Microsoft and MathWorks.

Product Manager at Instacart

Neera Chatterjee

Neera is a Senior Product Manager at Instacart, the North American grocery delivery and e-commerce company. As part of Instacart's Emerging Products team, Neera leads geographic and category expansions.

VP of Spatial Optimization at Salesforce

Chris Groer

Chris has spent the last ten years applying high-performance computing and optimization techniques to a variety of business problems, including large scale graph optimization and job scheduling for supercomputers at Oak Ridge National Lab.

Founder & Chief Strategy Officer at CARTO

Javier de la Torre

Javier founded CARTO with a vision to democratize data analysis and visualization. Under his leadership, it has grown into one of the fastest growing geospatial companies in the world.

Data Scientist at TwoSigma Data Clinic

Stuart Lynn

After leading Data Science at CARTO for 4 years, Stuart now works at TwoSigma with non-profits, government agencies and academics to make the most of their data.

Head of Data Strategy at Jefferies

Rayne Gaisford

Rayne leads data acquisition and analysis for Jefferies Equity Research division.

Data Scientist at DataRobot

Kevin Stofan

Kevin Stofan is a Data Scientist at DataRobot and an Adjunct Professor at Pennsylvania State University with over 19 years of experience implementing geospatial analytics solutions.

Executive Director of the Center for Spatial Data Science

Julia Koschinsky

Julia Koschinsky is the Executive Director of the Center for Spatial Data Science at the University of Chicago and has been part of the GeoDa team for over 15 years.

Researcher at The Bartlett Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (UCL)

Mengdie Zhuang

Mengdie focuses on understanding user engagement with spatial data visualization. Her current work is to analyze and visualize complex datasets for infectious disease identification and intervention.

Data Scientist at Mastercard

Edward Lee

Using Mastercard transaction data and insights for social good. Partnering with external NGO's and academia to best use Mastercard data assets to promote financial inclusion.

Professor of Geographic Information Science at University of Liverpool

Alex Singleton

Alex is a Professor of GIS at the University of Liverpool, where he was appointed as a Lecturer in 2010. His research sits at the boundary between the social and computational sciences.

CTO at Unacast

Frode Bjerke

As the CTO at Unacast, Frode manages the overall Technology and Product strategy, always looking to create and deliver purposeful products from data assets.

Product Manager At Sidewalk Labs

Violet Whitney

Violet leads the Generative Design product at Sidewalk Labs as a PM and she is an Adjunct Assistant Professor at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation.

Software Engineer at Azavea

James McClain

James is a Software Engineer on the R&D Team at Azavea. He is a computer enthusiast, interested in all aspects from theory to programming to games.

Co-Director ifgi & spatio-temporal modelling lab lead

Edzer Pebesma

Edzer leads the spatio-temporal modelling laboratory at the institute for geoinformatics at University of Münster. He is one of the authors of Applied Spatial Data Analysis with R (second edition).

Data Scientist at Datafoss & DataKind

Anna Dixon

Anna is a data scientist and founder at Datafoss. Recently, she has been applying her skills to humanitarian causes at DataKind including solving logistics problems around sanitation in Haiti.

Research Fellow at CASA

Maarten Vanhoof

After spending a PhD mining mobile phone data, Maarten is now taking a deep dive into spatial interaction models at the Center for Advanced Spatial Analysis UCL.

Head of Advanced Analytics

Mudit Srivastav

Mudit leads the Advanced Analytics function at Origin Energy. Origin is a leading provider of energy to homes and businesses throughout Australia.

Data Scientist at Dstillery

Chris Jenness

Chris works at Dstillery, the leading custom audience solutions company, empowering brands and their agencies to maximize the value of customer data and transform the way they connect with their audiences.

Core Technology Division lead at Foursquare

Adam Waksman

Adam Waksman runs the Core Technology Division at Foursquare, which includes engineering and data science related to foot traffic, POI, marketing insights, and other areas of location technology.

Data Scientist at DataKind

Michael Dowd

Michael is a data scientist at DataKind, and also a coder, geospatial data expert, and civic data enthusiast. Michael's a graduate of MIT with masters degrees in transportation and city planning.

Senior Software Engineer at Uber

Shan He

Shan is a coder, a designer, a data artist, and an architect by training. She is the founding member of Uber's data visualization team, creator of kepler.gl, and the Gold winner of Kantar Information is Beautiful Award.

Lead Data Scientist at American Securities

Tim Kiely

Tim works both on the investment decision side, where he helps identify growth opportunities in potential acquisition companies and on the portfolio company operations side to unlock value through predictive modeling.

Business Analyst at WAZE

Carolina Pinzón

Carolina is a data scientist experienced in leading end-to-end analytics projects to translate obscure and unstructured data into business insights and recommendations.

Chief Operating Officer at Mapillary

Janine Yoong

Janine works with mapping companies, government agencies, geospatial service providers,non-profits, and location-based apps to explore places and extract data with street level imagery.

Data Scientist at Urbint

Kevin Han

Kevin's work involves empowering utilities and infrastructure operators to proactively address their biggest risks and challenges in order to make communities safer and more resilient.

Senior Product Manager at Elastic

Alona Nadler

Alona has spent nearly a decade in the big data and security analytics space and previously helped ArcSight build out their next generation security analytics solution. Alona is passionate about data analytics, visualizations, and user experience.

VP of Product at Safegraph

Lauren Spiegel

Product leader at high growth startup providing data as a service solution.

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Agenda

Oct 15^th, 2019 - Workshops

at NYU CUSP, 370 Jay Street, Brooklyn, NY

The day before the conference we'll be hosting a series of interactive workshops with experts from across the globe. Places are limited, and available to SDSC attendees only.

10:30 AM - 12:00 AM

Edzer Pebesma – An Introduction to Spatial Data Science with R.

2:00 PM - 4:00 PM

Andy Eschbacher – Spatial Modeling 101.

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Oct 16^th, 2019 - Presentations

at Columbia University

8:15 AM - 9:00 AMRegistration & Welcome Breakfast

9:00 AM

9:00 AM - 9:30 AM

Javier de la Torre

Towards Spatial Data Science
9:30 AM

9:30 AM - 9:45 AM

Isaac Brodsky

Remake US election with h3 and Kepler.gl
9:45 AM

9:45 AM - 10:15 AM

Edzer Pebesma

From Data Science to Spatial Data Science
10:15 AM

10:15 AM - 10:30 AM

Mudit Srivastav

Spatial Modelling in the Utilities Industry

10:30 AM - 11:00 AMCoffee Break

11:00 AM

11:00 AM - 11:05 AM

Kevin Stofan

Session intro
11:05 AM

11:05 AM - 11:20 AM

Stuart Lynn

Enabling Social Impact Organizations with Spatial Analysis Techniques
11:20 AM

11:20 AM - 11:35 AM

Esteban Moro

Exploring The Atlas of Inequality in US Cities
11:35 AM

11:35 AM - 11:50 AM

Alona Nadler

Geo Exploration with Elasticsearch and Kibana
11:50 AM

11:50 AM - 12:05 PM

Alex Singleton

Why the future of urban data might not be open…
12:05 PM

12:05 PM - 12:20 PM

Neera Chatterjee

From Growth Hacking to Growth Mapping
12:20 PM

12:20 PM - 12:35 PM

Jack Linshi

Geospatial Processing & Natural Experiments for Regulatory Affairs

12:35 PM - 1:35 PMLunch

1:35 PM

1:35 PM - 2:05 PM

Data Streams Panel

Improving spatial models with new location data streams chaired by Javier Perez Trufero, Head of Data at CARTO.
2:05 PM

2:05 PM - 2:20 PM

Mengdie Zhuang

Using complex datasets for infectious disease identification and intervention
2:20 PM

2:20 PM - 2:35 PM

Rayne Gaisford

Applications of geo-spatial analysis within fundamental investment research
2:35 PM

2:35 PM - 2:50 PM

Anna Dixon

Spatial Data Science for Social Good: Improving Haitian’s access to dignified sanitation through data

2:50 PM - 3:10 PMCoffee Break

3:10 PM

3:10 PM - 3:25 PM

Speed Talks

A series of Spatial Stories from leading Data Scientists.
3:25 PM

3:25 PM - 3:40 PM

James McClain

The Vehicle Routing Problem: Optimizing School Bus Routes in Philadelphia through Spatial Analysis
3:40 PM

3:40 PM - 3:55 PM

Julia Koschinsky

Making Spatial Access Measurement Accessible
3:55 PM

3:55 PM - 4:10 PM

Carolina Pinzón

From Outsmarting Traffic to Eliminating it All Together
4:10 PM

4:10 PM - 4:25 PM

Dunia Simunovic

What is Data Strategy?
4:25 PM

4:25 PM - 4:40 PM

Violet Whitney

Data Mining the City: Agent Based Simulation for Spatial Behavior Prediction
4:40 PM

4:40 PM - 4:55 PM

Tim Kiely

Using Whitespace Analysis for PE Investment Decision Making
4:55 PM

4:55 PM - 5:10 PM

Danil Kirsanov

Satellite image analysis at scale
5:10 PM

5:10 PM - 5:25 PM

Chris Groer

Location Intelligence and Optimization for the Enterprise