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Pau Agulló
Director of Neo Metrics Barcelona
Pau holds a BA in Economics from Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona and an MSc in Economics and Econometrics from the European University Institute in Florence. Professionally he has developed in analytical consulting in telecom, banking among other sectors, working in several countries. Currently, he heads the Barcelona office of Neo Metrics, a leading consulting company specialized in marketing intelligence.
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Pat Moore
Statistician, Bloomberg.com
Pat has a Masters Degree in Statistics from Cornell University, a Masters Degree in Math from the University of Nevada and a Masters Degree in Economics from the University of Colorado. He has worked as a statistician at several prominent web sites including: NYTimes.com and Bloomberg.com. Among other things, Pat is an expert in the design and evaluation of online page tests generating millions of dollars of revenue through the execution of almost 200 tests. In his current role at Bloomberg.com, Pat manages the Content Personalization Research project which involves experimentation across a variety of content types and recommendation algorithms.
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Palash Nandy
Manager, YouTube Discovery
Palash Nandy currently heads up the Discovery group at YouTube focusing on developing algorithms and systems such as personalized recommendations that allow users to find the best videos on the site. At YouTube for 3.5 years Palash is also interested in anomaly detection and spam prevention. Prior to YouTube, Palash managed the Fraud R&D team at PayPal which applied machine learning and genetic algorithm to find financial fraud. In his copious spare time, he likes to hack on microcontrollers, build walking robots and fly kites. Palash holds a B.Sc. in Computer Science from Stanford University.
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Chahab Nastar
Sr. Scientific Director, SAP BusinessObjects
Chahab is the head the SAP BusinessObjects Academic Research Center (ARC), an open innovation effort focused on Business Intelligence. Previously, he was a successful entrepreneur in computer vision software, as well as the head of a research group on multimedia indexing at INRIA. Chahab graduated from Ecole des Ponts ParisTech (Engineering’91, PhD’94) and is a former fellow of the MIT Media Lab.
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Henrik Schinzel
CTO, Avail Intelligence
As Chief Technology Officer at Avail Intelligence, Henrik’s role is to foresee and understand the market trends, capture new ideas and translate these into features for Avail’s software. Prior to co-founding Avail, Henrik was an AI expert and led developer at e-commerce software company Absalon (later Infobank and Izodia).
