March 29, 2019
1505 Van Munching Hall
College Park, Md.
The 2019 Thought Leadership Conference will be held on Friday, March 29 at the Smith School of Business in Van Munching Hall. The conference will feature presentations by faculty, industry leaders, and student finalists from a data competition that will take place earlier the same week. The tentative conference agenda is below.
CONFIRMED SPEAKERS INCLUDE
Bill Eggers, Deloitte
Cenk Tunasar, KPMG
Nathan Miller, Merkle
Liye Ma, Associate Professor of Marketing
Gordon Gao, Associate Professor of Decision, Operations, and Information Technology
Confirmed Agenda
| Time | Event |
| 8:30 a.m. | Continental Breakfast |
| 9:00 a.m. | Welcome |
| 9:10–9:40 a.m. |
AI and the Future of Work |
| 9:40–10:10 a.m. | Using M.B.A. to Fix Healthcare Gordon Gao, DOIT |
| 10:10–10:25 a.m. | Break |
| 10:25–10:55 a.m. | The Role of Analytics and Technology in People-Based Marketing Nathan Miller, Merkle |
| 10:55–11:25 a.m. | Image Network and Interest Group - Analyzing Social Curation on Pinterest Using Heterogeneous Network Embedding Liye Ma, Smith School, Marketing |
| 11:25–11:55 a.m. |
Analytics for Decision Making: Growing Choice Space and How to Deal With It |
| 11:55 a.m.–1:15 p.m. | Lunch |
| 1:15–2:45 p.m. | Presentations from Datathon Finalists |
| 2:45–3:00 p.m. | Break |
| 3:00–3:45 p.m. |
Panel on Analytics and Innovation Marcus Jones, Deloitte |
| 3:45–5:00 p.m. | Datathon Awards Presentation and Networking Reception |