We invite you to Data Fest⁴ February 11 and 12

In almost two weeks, Data Fest⁴ will be held in our Moscow office - the fourth conference that brings together researchers, engineers and developers associated with Data Science in all its manifestations. You will find a rich program, a lot of theoretical and practical sections. Read the details under the cut.

Two-day program of lectures, workshops and interaktivov.
More than 30 speakers with advanced results and developments.
16 sections for every taste, with a sea of ​​new knowledge, skills and acquaintances.
Great company and even more networking with the data science community.

Program for February 11

11:00 - registration
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Atrium, main section

12:00 - opening of the conference. Alexey Natekin (Open Data Science, DM Labs), Mikhail Firulik (Mail.Ru Group).

12:05 - “ML-competitions” . What do machine learning contests give and what will they never learn at the university?

• Stas Semenov, Top-1 Kaggle: “What does kaggle teach?”
• Alexander Fonarev, Rubbles SBDA Group: "Machine Learning Competitions: Opportunities, Limitations, Pitfalls"
• Moderator of the section: Mikhail Trofimov, ML Works

13:50 - "ML in the industry . " How does machine learning solve real practical problems of companies?

• Dmitry Solomentsev, Yandex: “Technologies of hyper local weather forecasts”
• Evgeny Nekrasov and Dmitry Bolkunov, Mail.Ru Group: “Segmentation of users in space-money dimensions”
• Evgeny Burnaev, Skoltech, IITP: “Machine Learning in Engineering and Industrial Applications”
• Moderator: Igor Kretinin, Mail.Ru Group

15:20 - break

16:30 - “ ML in social networks” . From the first person: what does machine learning look like in the two most popular social networks in Russia?

• Pavel Kalaydin, Vkontakte: "Machine Learning at VK"
• Dmitry Bugaychenko, Mail.Ru Group: “Machine Learning at OK”
• Moderator of the section: Mikhail Firulik, Mail.Ru Group

18:20 - "NLP" . Recent achievements and results of new approaches to machine learning in the tasks of working with texts.

• Sergey Nikolenko, HSE: “Deep Architectures for Natural Language Processing”
• Mike Schuster, Google Brain: "Machine Learning behind Google Translate"
• Moderator: Alexey Natekin, Open Data Science, DM Labs

First negotiation

12:05 - “Free microphone” . An opportunity to talk about your professional activity within 2 minutes. Leading sections: Alexander Notchenko, IITP; Irina Goloshchapova, TsMAKP.

13:50 - "ML-training . " Analysis of solutions for online contests from the winners of recent competitions.

• Evgeny Patekh, freelancer: Analysis of the decision of the competition Santander (7th place)
• Dmitry Zagorulkin, Mikhail Gorkunov, Sbertekh: Analysis of the decision of the Sberbank contest on boosters (1st place)
• Leading sections: Sergey Savvateev, Emil Kayumov, Yandex

16:30 - "NLP-tools . " Surveys and master classes on modern methods of text analysis and processing and practical problem solving in NLP.

• Anna Potapenko, HSE: “Vector Representations of Words and Documents”
• Alexander Romanenko, MIPT: “BigARTM workshop”
• Moderator: Konstantin Vorontsov, MIPT, HSE, Yandex

18:20 - “Scraping and data collection” . What tools can I extract?

• Mikhail Korobov, Konstantin Lopukhin, Scrapinghub: “How to collect data from the Internet in 2 parts”
• Dmitry Sergeev, Zeptolab: "Writing spiders, or what to do when you are calculated by IP"
• Lead section: Mikhail Korobov, Scrapinghub

Program for February 12

Atrium

12:00 - "Data & Science" . How to use machine learning in various scientific fields?

• Oleg Bartunov, GAISH-MSU: “Scientific challenges to data analysis”
• Andrei Ustyuzhanin, Yandex: “Learning machine learning on the tasks of the Large Hadron Collider”
• Lead section: Daria Kosovets, Yandex

13:50 - “Make ML great again!” . Analysis of famous myths, prejudices and bad practices, swept on the wave of popularity of DS, ML, BigData and AI. A series of 5 short speeches:

• Vyacheslav Baranov, MyMind
• Yuri Kashnitsky, Mail.Ru Group
• Mikhail Trofimov, ML Works
• Alexey Ozerin, DeepHack Lab
• Pavel Nesterov, freelance
• Moderator: Alexey Natekin, Open Data Science, DM Labs

15:20 - break

16:30 - “Artistic Intelligence” . Reviews and demonstrations of the latest research and development in the machine transformation of media content.

• Dmitry Ulyanov, Yandex, Skoltech: “Neural style transfer for music”
• Ivan Yamshchikov, Yandex: “Neural networks and creativity. Who is to blame and where is the line? ”
• Moderator: Sergei Ovcharenko, NTechLab

18:20 - DeepHack Final . The finale of the international hackathon DeepHack . Agents-decisions of hackathon finalists will compete with each other on the big screen. Moderator of the section: Mikhail Burtsev, MIPT, DeepHack Lab.

First negotiation

12:00 - Pitch session . Presentation of the projects of the conference participants. 1 slide, 4 minutes. If you want to participate, send us the slides by mail . Moderator: Roman Degtyarev, Quantum Brains

13:50 - “ML in science” . In the continuation of the Data & Science section, we will examine case studies, tools and solutions with machine learning in science.

• Alexey Osadchy, HSE: “Neuroscience Tasks, Neurohacaton Analysis”
• Elena Ericheva, BrainGarden: “ML vs Oncology: the tasks of design and optimization of therapeutic proteins”
• Leonid Danilchenko, Game Insight: "The Path from the Economy to Data Science"
• Moderator: Ivan Drokin, Machine Learning Consultant

15:20 - break

16:30 - “ML Failconf” . The speakers will disassemble cases in the section, when machine learning turned out to be in the role of a microscope with which nails are hammered.

• Ilya Saitanov, DSM Group: “Fighting emissions, deadlines and windmills”
• Andrey Chertok, Sbertech: “RL and a shy market maker”
• Dmitry Bugaychenko, Mail.Ru Group: “Fedor score vs Machine Learning”
• Nikolay Markov, Aligned Research: “Data Analysis on the Command Line”
• Moderator: Peter Yermakov, Mail.Ru Group

18:20 - Speed ​​dating . On the eve of February 14, in the format of a classic speed dating, participants will be able to fix a pair for themselves. Participants registered for the conference will receive an invitation in a separate letter. Leading sections: Aida Fazylova, XOR.

Come, it will be interesting! Address: Leningradsky Prospect, 39, p. 79. Participation is free. Pre- registration is required. Answers to frequently asked questions on the link . Live stream will be available here .

PS: We are planning to print memorable T-shirts. If you are interested in buying one, please fill in a separate form .