THE 8^TH WORKSHOP ADVANCED ANALYTICS AND DATA SCIENCE

Advanced Analytics
and Data Science

Business Analytics & Academia

Free Virtual Event, ON-DEMAND

If you couldn’t make it to the Advanced Analytics and Data Science 2021 or if there were any presentations
you didn’t manage to see, watch the recorded sessions right here.

Welcome to the 8th International Workshop Advanced Analytics and Data Science! The 2021 conference will gather academic and industry leaders, professionals and students to uncover the potential of analytics and artificial intelligence as the key drivers of digital transformation and discuss how employers and educators can collaborate to improve education of the next generation of analytical talents.

About the Conference

Take the opportunity to participate in a learning and networking event where academic and industry leaders discuss how to transform data into decisions that improve operations and results in turbulent times.

Keep up with the newest technology innovations and find out how to make efficient use of analytics and artificial intelligence to reimagine strategies and processes, build resilience and prepare for the future.

Share knowledge, experience and best practices and discuss challenges impacting higher education analytics programs and potential damaging effects for business that arise from data science skills gap.

Conference Host

The conference is organized by the SGH - Warsaw School of Economics (Collegium of Economic Analyses - Institute of Statistics and Demography – Statistical Methods & Business Analytics Unit) under the honorary patronage of HM Rector – Professor Piotr Wachowiak, Ph.D.

Agenda


9:15	Conference Online Registration
9:30	Welcome Address Speech Professor Piotr Wachowiak, Ph.D., Rector of SGH Warsaw School of Economics Professor Agnieszka Chłoń-Domińczak, Ph.D., Vice Rector of SGH Warsaw School of Economics Hana Kvartova, Regional Director, Central Europe, SAS Institute
	Session: Advanced Analytics for Data Scientists
9:50	Ascent of the Intelligent Internet of Things: Opportunities and Challenges of Connected People, Machines and Environments Mark Wolff, Advisory Industry Consultant and Chief Health Analytics Strategist, SAS Institute
10:20	Explanatory Model Analysis Professor Tomasz Burzykowski, Full Professor of Biostatistics at Hasselt University and Vice-President of Research at the International Drug Development Institute in Belgium
10:50	Combining multiple data science and statistical methods to solve critical problems Carlos Pinheiro, Ph.D., Principal Data Scientist, SAS Institute and a Visiting Professor at Data ScienceTech Institute in France.
11:25	Connecting the new Data Literate workforce Glyn Townsend, Sr. Director, Education Services, SAS
	Session: AI and Analytics in Action
11:45	Stormwater Prediction & Preparedness with SAS Viya Peter Pugh-Jones, Head of IoT Operations, EMEA & AP, SAS Institute
12:15	Inspirational applications of AI in Health Care, Agriculture and more Piotr Kaczyński, Senior Business Solutions Manager, SAS Institute
12:45	PLAI - bringing together SAS expertise and Open Source flexibility Monika Książek, Head of Data Science, Play – Iliad Group
13:15	Change Point Plots: A Graphical Method for Identifying Changes in the Distribution of a Random Variable Professor James Cochran, Associate Dean for Research, Professor of Applied Statistics, and the Rogers-Spivey Faculty Fellow, The University of Alabama
13:45	Break
	Session: Academia & Business Links
14:10	Bridging the gap between education and employment –Advanced Analytics – Big Data major at SGH Warsaw School of Economics Professor Beata Czarnacka-Chrobot, Professor SGH, Ph.D. Dean of the Collegium of Economic Analysis. Director of the Institute of Information Systems and Digital Economy, SGH Warsaw School of Economics
14:20	Real-time analytics for students Sebastian Zając, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, SGH Warsaw School of Economics
14:40	Teaching Big Data in cooperation with business partners Mariusz Rafało, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Institute of Computer Science and Digital Economy, SGH Warsaw School of Economics
15:00	Teaching modern data analytics tools and methods at SGH Warsaw School of Economics – examples of Cloud Computing and Simulation Modelling with Julia Przemysław Szufel, Ph.D., Assistant Professor at Decision Analysis and Support Unit, SGH Warsaw School of Economics
	Closing Session
15:20	Closing Remarks Ewa Frątczak, Prof. SGH, Ph.D., Head of the Statistical Methods & Business Analytics Unit, SGH Warsaw School of Economics
15:30	End of the Conference