The Applied Data Science Invited Talks will provide a venue for leading experts in the world of applied data mining and knowledge discovery. These invited talks will feature highly influential speakers who have directly contributed to successful data mining applications in their respective fields. The talks and discussions will focus on innovative and leading-edge, large-scale industry or government applications of data mining in areas such as finance, health-care, bio-informatics, public policy, infrastructure, telecommunications, social media and computational advertising.

Algorithms, Data, Hardware and Tools - a Perfect Storm
Edo LibertyAmazon Web Services

Algorithms, Data, Hardware and Tools - a Perfect Storm
Alex SmolaAmazon Web Services

The Pinterest Approach to Machine Learning
Grace Huang
The U.S. Census Bureau Adopts Differential Privacy
John AbowdUS Census Bureau

Building Nearline Contextual Recommendations for Active Communities on LinkedIn
Hema Raghavan
Data Science at Flipkart - An Indian E-Commerce company
Mayur DatarFlipkart

Challenges and Innovations in Building a Product Knowledge Graph
Luna DongAmazon

Computational Advertising at Scale
Suju RajanCriteo

Planet-Scale Land Cover Classification With FPGAs
Joseph SiroshMicrosoft

Data Science and Entertainment Production
Jen WalravenNetflix

Humans, Jobs, and the Economy: The Future of Finance in the Age of Big Data
James HodsonCognism, Ltd.

SysML: On System and Algorithm co-design and Automatic Machine Learning
Eric XingCMU and Petuum

Software 2.0 and Snorkel: Beyond Hand-Labeled Data
Christopher RéStanford, University
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KDD 2018 - London, United Kingdom. 19 - 23 August 2018
The annual KDD conference is the premier interdisciplinary conference bringing together researchers and practitioners from data science, data mining, knowledge discovery, large-scale data analytics, and big data.