ADS Festive Drinks & Data: 2018 Highlights & Looking Forward to 2019

ADS Drinks & Data: 2018 Highlights & Looking Forward to 2019

Amsterdam Data Science (https://amsterdamdatascience.nl) would like to invite you to our Festive Drinks & Data afternoon on Thursday 06 December at 15:00 where we will celebrate our 2018 highlights and share our plans for 2019. After we will have drinks & delicious snacks.

Date: Thursday 06 December 2018

Time: 15:00-18:00

Location: Amsterdam Science Park Congress Center – Turing & Newton Rooms (next to CWI, Amsterdam Science Park 123)

Registration: https://www.meetup.com/Amsterdam-Data-Science/events/255294331/

15:00-15:30

Coffee & posters from the Amsterdam Academic Alliance (AAA) Data Science projects in the Newton Room

– Peter Bloem (VU)

– Davide Ceolin (CWI)

– Evangelos Kanoulas & Bob van de Velde (UvA)

– Benno Kruit (CWI): Information Extraction from Tables for Knowledge Base Augmentation

– Chantal van Son (VU): The Vaccination Debate: An Exploration of Long Term Concept and Perspective Mining (Serge ter Braake, Chantal van Son, Davide Ceolin, Julia Noordegraaf, Inger Leemans, Piek Vossen, Lora Aroyo, Rens Bod)

15:40-15:45

Lynda Hardman

Introduction and opening

15:45-16:55

ADS 2018 Highlights & Looking Forward to 2019

Four minute madness presentations followed by one minute question time on:

Data Science & Artificial Intelligence Highlights and Plans in:

Research, Education, Entrepreneurship & Network Outreach

2018 Highlights:

– Emmanuelle Beauxis-Aussalet (AUAS, CWI) on Classification Errors

– Mark Siebert (Elsevier) on AI Report

– Marco Virgolin (CWI) on Radiation Treatment in Cancer

– (AUAS) on the Digital Society School

– Nanda Piersma (AUAS, CWI) on the Education Innovation Lab

– Ana Maldonado (Qualogy) on Hackathons and Collaborations

– ACE Startup

Looking forward to 2019:

– Koen Hindriks (VU) on Social Robots

– Julien Rossi (UvA) on Text Analytics for Legal

– Maarten Sukel (UvA, Gemeente Amsterdam) on Classification methods for urban service requests

– Paul Groth – (UvA) on Data Engineering

– Herbert Bos (VU) on the Amsterdam Cyber Security Center

– Esther Smit (UvA) on the Amsterdam Data Exchange

16:55-17:00

Lynda Hardman

Next Steps for ADS, 2019 & Beyond

17:00-18:00

Posters & Networking over Festive Drinks & Snacks in the Newton Room

– Peter Bloem (VU)

– Davide Ceolin (CWI)

– Evangelos Kanoulas & Bob van de Velde (UvA)

– Benno Kruit (CWI)

– Chantal van Son (VU)

Registration is free but please RSVP on our Meetup page:

https://www.meetup.com/Amsterdam-Data-Science/events/255294331/

The event will be in English.