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The theme of the 2015 Cyber Summit was "Generation D: Data Scientists of Tomorrow".

The cross-Prairies conference focused on the evolving discipline of data science and how it affects all citizens, from children to professionals.

The event took place September 29-30, 2015 at The Banff Centre, with pre-conference workshops on September 28.

Keynote Speakers

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Kayur Patel

Google Research

Kayur Patel makes data science tools easier to use, and studies how people apply machine learning to solve problems and build software. As a researcher at Google, he spends a lot of time making data analytics accessible to more people, and has taught classes on visualization and data science, most recently the "Introduction to Data Science" course at Columbia University.

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Pushpraj Shukla

Microsoft

Pushpraj is a Principal Data Scientist at Microsoft. He has worked on large scale machine learning solutions for improving Search Quality and has built Cloud-based platforms for Big Data experimentation at Bing. These days, he finds unique social and industry applications for machine-learnt predictions from Microsoft's Big Data assets.

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Organizers

Take a look at our past Cyber Summits!