BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//132.216.98.100//NONSGML kigkonsult.se iCalcreator 2.20.4// BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20250912T110408EDT-16480BKFIz@132.216.98.100 DTSTAMP:20250912T150408Z DESCRIPTION:It's a big deal if you haven't heard! The term “Big Data” descr ibes any voluminous amount of structured\, semi-structured and unstructure d data that has the potential to be mined for information. Join us to hear from a panel of professionals from various Big Data and Data Analytics sp ecialties! Learn more about their jobs\, current trends\, and future oppor tunities in this fast growing career area.\n\n \n\nJason Stanley\n Head of Insights & Senior Research at Breather\n\nJason Stanley is Head of Insight s and Senior Researcher at Breather\, a Montreal-based start-up providing on-demand access to highly-curated private space for work and relaxation. In the past\, he has worked as Head of Product for a food-technology compa ny\, as a labor market policy analyst for the Federal Government\, and as a researcher in the United States\, Canada\, Europe\, India\, and elsewher e. Jason holds a Ph.D. in Sociology from New York University and graduate degrees in the social sciences from Oxford University.\n\nGeneviève Smith \n Program Director at Insight Data Science\n\nGeneviève Smith is a Program Director at Insight Data Science (http://insightdatascience.com)\, an edu cation startup up that helps scientists and engineers transition to career s in data science\, analytics\, and data engineering. Founded in 2012\, In sight has over 500 alumni working as data scientists and engineers at comp anies such as Facebook\, LinkedIn\, Airbnb\, Bloomberg\, the New York Time s\, the Broad Institute and many others. Geneviève has a PhD in Ecology\, Evolution & Behavior from the University of Texas at Austin. Prior to that \, she completed her B.Sc. and M.Sc. at 91\, in the department of Biol ogy.\n\nJean-François Bélisle\n Manager\, Data Aggregation and Reporting\, National Bank of Canada.\n\nOver the last 10 years\, Jean-François Bélisle has managed teams and provided expertise in Customer Intelligence (Loyalt y Marketing\, Advanced Segmentation Methods)\, in Digital Marketing (Web A nalytics\, Strategic Planning\, SEM / PPC) and in Advanced Statistical Met hods.  Jean-François Bélisle studied at the Ph.D. level in Marketing and C omputational Statistics at 91\; he earned an M.Sc. in Marke ting from HEC Montréal\, a B.Sc. in Economics from Université de Montréal and an Award of Achievement in Web Analytics from the University of Britis h Columbia.  Prior to joining the National Bank of Canada\, Jean-François managed ROI-Driven Analytics teams for Digital Agencies (Adviso\, Parkour3 \, K3 Media) and in Loyalty Marketing at LoyaltyOne (AIR MILES). He has al so been a consultant in Strategy and Analytics primarily in: Banking (Nati onal Bank of Canada\, BDC)\, Retailing (Jean Coutu\, Rona)\, Tourism (Hyat t\, Hôtellerie Champêtre\, Tourisme Laval)\, Media (RDS\, Bell\, Astral Me dia) and for Governments & Associations (BDC\, Quebec’s Casinos\, OIIQ\, F TQ\, AQT\, OACIQ). He also taught Market Analysis\, Digital Marketing and Web Analytics to Undergraduate and MBA students at HEC Montréal and Univer sité Laval and is frequently invited to present at events organized by Les Affaires and Infopresse.\n\nLuis Da Costa\n Data Scientist and Data Archit ect\,  Mediative\n\nLuis works as a Data Scientist and Data Architect at M ediative (mediative.com)\, a thought leader in digital marketing. Part of the Yellow Pages Canada Group\, Mediative helps businesses cut through the digital clutter so they can better perform in an otherwise complex digita l landscape\, and ultimately reach\, engage\, and convert more potential c ustomers. Some of Mediative's clients are Disney\, P&G\, RBC and Walmart. Luis' work at Mediative involves high-level research and development posit ion in a specialized big data team that is the analytics hub for the overa ll organization.  Luis has a PhD in computer science and comes from the ac ademic ranks\, where he researched and applied evolutionary optimization m ethods to a variety of problems. He has also worked in the field of artifi cial intelligence and in more traditional computer science problems (e.g.\ , compiler design and implementation\, systems development).\n\nSolmaz Sha halizadeh\, Senior Data Team LEad\, Shopify\n\nSolmaz is senior data team lead at Shopify\, providing financial data-driven insights to the world’s fastest growing e-commerce platform. With multiple graduate degrees in mac hine learning and computer science\, she has employed her skills in cancer research\, finance and e-commerce for the past 8 years. At Shopify\, her team owns the implementation and analysis of all non-GAAP metrics using te chnologies such as Apache Spark\, Hadoop\, etc. She has a passion for buil ding high quality data warehouses and data products that ensure accuracy a nd agility of analysis and impact the user's daily life. Prior to Shopify\ , she worked at Morgan Stanley as an analyst and a developer.\n\nAzadeh Sh ohoudi\, Biostatistician\, Montreal Health Innovations Coordinating Center \n\nAzadeh shohoudi is a Biostatistician at the Montreal Health Innovation s Coordinating Center (MHICC)\, clinical academic research organization\, that provides services to the academic community and to the pharmaceutical \, biotechnology and medical device industries\, in the fields of cardiolo gy\, neurology\, oncology\, dermatology\, endocrinology and Pharmacogenomi cs. She is the Biostatistician of a research team at the electrophyso card iology department of the Montreal Heart Institute\, ranked in first place in Canada for research intensity\, as revealed in 'Canada's Top 40 Researc h Hospitals List'. She assists researchers and cardiologists\, conducting research studies and analyze their data\, as well as in their publications . She has been doing a part-time postdoctoral study for last five months a t the department of Mathematics and Statistics at 91 where she has com pleted her doctoral program. Her PhD thesis was on dimension reduction in large data problem with change-points. She has been working with administr ative data such as RAMQ as well as multinational epidemiology studies. She has completed a two years of PhD in Iran as well as her B.Sc.\, and M.Sc. . She has thought university course levels in Iran and worked as a statist ical consultant for  business companies as well as research teams in Iran as well.\n DTSTART:20160224T190000Z DTEND:20160224T203000Z LOCATION:5001\, Brown Student Services\, CA\, QC\, Montreal\, H3A 0G3\, 360 0 rue McTavish SUMMARY:Big Data & Data Analytics Panel URL:/caps/channels/event/big-data-data-analytics-panel -258431 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR