SESSION + Live Q&A
Building a Data Science Capability From Scratch
This talk will cover the challenges, both technical and cultural, of building a data science team and capability in a large, global company. It will discuss best practices, lessons learned, and rewards of leveraging data effectively in the next frontier of data science: commercial insurance.
Speaker
Victor Hu
Head of Data Science @QBE
Victor Hu is the Head of Data Science at QBE and comes from a background of leveraging data intelligently to benefit and transform industries. Previously he was the Chief Data Officer at Tictrac and built the data science team at Next Big Sound, a music analytics startup acquired by Pandora in...
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Location
Windsor, 5th flr.
Track
Data Engineering : Where the Rubber meets the Road in Data Science
Topics
Data ScienceShare
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