Live from Cloud City Seattle, this Just IN. This new Microsoft Reactor series is for developers, entrepreneurs and passionate technologists that want to build tech that’s game-changing, useful or just plain interesting

this Just IN: Data Science’s powerful combination of ubiquitous data, cloud compute, and powerful machine learning tools continue to help humanity unlock new insight and tackle some of our hardest collective challenges from accessibility to healthcare to sustainability. And demand for data scientists as well as analysts, engineers, architects and AI developers continues to grow as ever. The possibilities are limitless yet it can be difficult to know where to begin.
Are you a developer pro looking to better understand the tools of data science? Or a business leader looking to better understand how data science can help you solve the next big challenge? Or a student looking to explore a new career? Come join Microsoft’s Principal Cloud Advocate Justin Garrett and Principal Data Scientist Manager, Francesca Lazzeri as we share what we’ve learned, what’s new in the toolkit and invite you into a conversation about innovation in data science and machine learning.

Who is it aimed at?

• Aspiring Data Scientists
• Aspiring AI Developers
• Data Analysts and Domain Experts
• Business leaders & decision-makers
• Students or learning professionals interested in learning more about data science and machine learning

Why should I attend?

• Learn about the latest libraries and tools in the data sciences
• Get a pulse at where data science and machine learning are headed
• Share your thoughts on what data science means to you and to our community
• Network with other professionals interested in data science and machine learning

More learning / prerequisites:

• https://aka.ms/ExploreVisualToolsforML
• https://aka.ms/UnderstandDataScienceforML

Speakers:
Justin Garrett is host of this Just IN and a Principal Cloud Advocate in Cloud + AI Engineering at Microsoft. Justin works closely with learner communities to help address the skills gap in cloud development and manages a team of Cloud Advocates from around the world that do likewise. You’ll find him leading workshops at Microsoft Reactors, mentoring Student Ambassadors, and helping engineers improve Azure, GitHub and Visual Studio. Justin’s career at Microsoft also spans 16 years across Analytics, Windows, Bing search, Edge browser, Web Platform and Cloud Computing. In his spare time, he enjoys gardening and is an avid Pacific Northwest mountaineer. Follow him on www.linkedin.com/in/justgar and https://twitter.com/justgar

Francesca Lazzeri, Ph.D. is a data and machine learning scientist with over 15 years of academic research, tech industry and engineering team building/management experiences. She is author of the book “Machine Learning for Time Series Forecasting with Python” (Wiley) and many other publications, including technology journals and conferences.
Francesca is Adjunct Professor of machine learning at Columbia University and Principal Data Scientist Manager at Microsoft, where she leads a team of data scientists focusing on data science and machine learning applications for Microsoft customer retention, fraud/payments, finance and experimentation use cases. Before joining Microsoft, she was a research fellow at Harvard University in the Technology and Operations Management Unit. She is also on the Advisory Board Member of the European Union, the Women in Data Science (WiDS) initiative, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. You can find her on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/francescalazzeri/, Twitter: @frlazzeri, and Medium: https://medium.com/@francescalazzeri