At Shopify, we have over 1.7 million merchants across over 175 countries, with hundreds of millions of consumers shopping at their stores. We’re focused on leveraging the scale of our data to not only empower Shopify, but to create new experiences for our merchants that are impossible without data. In our daily operations at Shopify, we are highly data informed. Some of the ways we’re leveraging advanced analytics is by building an...

Data quality is of the utmost importance when it comes to actionable insights and model performance. In this presentation, Vinay Malkani, Figure Eight Federal's Chief of Engineering will discuss why quality data is critical, opportunities and challenges associated with data, and how to integrate multiple data sources to produce consistent, accurate, and useful information. Jack Hild, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) Hall of Famer...

Far too often, agencies, organizations, and consulting firms are running data and AI projects without taking the right steps to ensure their success. Agile and iterative approaches have become adopted best practices for application development projects, but why don’t we have something similar when it comes to advanced analytics, big data, and AI projects? Without using best-practices approaches that standardize steps for data preparation...

Connected Possibilities Appian Government connects agency leaders focused on making the impossible possible. Learn first-hand how to connect people, technologies, and data into a single workflow to advance your mission to the next level. Our 5th annual Appian Government event will be a hybrid experience, taking place November 16th at the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center in Washington, DC and virtually.

The 3rd Annual AI World Government provides a comprehensive two-day forum to educate federal agency leaders on proven strategies and tactics to deploy AI and cognitive technologies. With AI technology at the forefront of our everyday lives, the current administration is announcing several new and updated AI initiatives. AI World Government will report on the state-of-the-practice on how federal agencies are deploying and integrating AI and dat...

Claims processing is a time-consuming process. The submitted claim documents have to be manually reviewed and verified for authenticity, while simultaneously digitizing the data and making outbound calls to request applicants for missing information. This makes the entire process inefficient, cumbersome and difficult to align with business priorities. To stay relevant amidst the changing landscape and meet shifting customer expectations, it is...

DESCRIPTION Much of life involves obstacles and challenges that are meant to wear everyone (government, industry, and individuals) down but yet teach us a lesson. However, resiliency over time becomes very important and can be strengthened as we continue to find solutions and gain intelligence from lessons learned. Today, after over a year of a pandemic, the health ecosystem, the mass vaccinations, and health care in general still continue to...

The mission of the Federal Data Strategy is to leverage data as a strategic asset to grow the economy, promote transparency and increase effectiveness of the Federal Government. Key government officials have been developing a long-term, government-wide Federal Data Strategy to leverage government data to allow use by the public, business and researchers. 2021 will continue to be a year of action for the Federal Data Strategy. The Federal Data...

DGI is proud to host this inaugural event! Key government and industry experts will discuss current technology solutions/requirements, policy updates/changes and review examples of successful electronic records and e-discovery programs, now in a virtual format.

ODSC is the best community data science event on the planet. There are other events that cover special topics, or industries, etc., but ODSC is comprehensive and totally community-focused: it's the conference to engage, to build, to develop, and to learn from the whole data science community. ODSC East 2021 is one of the largest applied data science conferences in the world. Our speakers include core contributors to many open source libraries...