Agenda

IDSS Retail Conference 2018 Agenda
“Data Driven Disruption in the Retail Sector”
Microsoft New England Research and Development Center
One  Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA
#idssretail

8:30am-9:00am         Registration and Check-In / Breakfast

9:00am-9:10am         Opening Remarks

• Devavrat Shah, Professor, MIT, Electrical Engineering & Computer Science (EECS),
  Lab for Information and Decision Systems (LIDS),
  Director of MIT Statistics & Data Science Center (SDSC),
  Co-founder of Celect Inc.

9:10am-10:30am        Industry Panel: Current Challenges in the Retail Industry

• Anil Kamath, Fellow & VP Technology, Adobe                                                                                                                                                “Designing and Delivering Experiences using Machine Learning and AI”
• Zineb Laraki, Deep Learning Senior Product Management, Salesforce                                                                                                               “Deep Learning for Retail Executions”
• Ilan Reiter, Principal Data Science Manager, Microsoft                                                                                                                                   “Practical, Cloud Based Implementations of Retailer Use Cases”

10:30am-10:45am        Break

10:45am-11:45am         Academic Session, Part I: Supply Chain and Manufacturing

• Steve Graves, Professor, MIT, Management Science
  “Retail Supply Chains: Some Challenges of Matching Supply to Demand”

• Sanjay Sarma, Professor, MIT, Mechanical Engineering
  “Advances in RFID”

11:45am-1:00pm         Lunch

1:00pm-2:00pm         Academic Session, Part II: Predictive Analytics in the Retail Industry

• Guy Bresler, Assistant Professor, MIT, Electrical Engineering & Computer Science (EECS),
  Lab for Information and Decision Systems (LIDS), Statistics and Data Science Center (SDSC)                                                                      “A Mathematical Framework for Recommendation System Design”

• Devavrat Shah, Professor, MIT,  Director of Statistics and Data Science Center (SDSC)
  “Frontiers of Machine Learning through Lens of Retail”

2:00pm-2:15pm        Break

2:15pm-3:00pm         Plenary Talk: Differentiating by Data Science

• Eric Colson, Chief Algorithms Officer, Stitch Fix

3:00pm-3:15 pm        Break

3:15pm- 4:00 pm       Industry Session: New Approaches and Solutions in the Retail Industry

• Kamelia Aryafar, Chief Algorithms Officer, Overstock                                                                                                                                              “Machine Learning and AI: Building the Future of Online Retail”

4:00pm                          Closing Remarks