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Optimising your big data opportunityEvery business is exploring the opportunities presented by big data. But as the volume, variety and velocity of data increases, so does uncertainty. In fact, we can never get away from it and it’s undermining the promise of better business insights and optimum decision making.

This world-first one-day conference will provide the latest insights into how data science can quantify uncertainty to substantially improve the value of data, as well as how to manage and communicate it. It’s a unique opportunity to hear from world-leading data scientists and engage collaboratively with industry and government.

Gain valuable insights, including:

– How to identify areas of uncertainty in your data strategy and mitigate future uncertainty

– How data science can quantify and manage uncertainty and how to communicate it to your board

– How to use data science to deliver better decisions

Who should attend?

Senior executives, advisers, managers and data scientists from industry, government and academia whose organisations rely on multiple data sources to enable accurate, timely decisions or predictive analytics.

Hosted by the Centre for Translational Data Science, University of Sydney

The Centre is a world-recognised leader in data science research. With global connections to leading institutions, including a partnership with The Alan Turing Institute in the UK, it stays at the forefront of data science research to offer new insights and solutions for our collaborative partners.

Our sponsors

“All of the things we say in science, all of the conclusions are uncertain. It is of paramount importance in order to make progress that we recognise this ignorance and this doubt. Because we have this doubt, we can then propose looking for new ideas.”Richard P. Feynman, The Meaning of It All

Data. Uncertain.The world’s first collaborative conference on data uncertainty

When Thursday October 24, 2019 8:00am – 5:30pm 5:30pm – 7:30pm drinks

Where Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia

TicketsSingle $7952–4 $6365+ $598

Registerbit.ly/datauncertain

More informationsydney.edu.au/data-science

Contact Alexandra Harrington alex.harrington@sydney.edu.au

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7:45am Registration

8:00am Welcome, opening remarks – Professor Sally Cripps, Director, Centre for Translational Data Science and Data Analytics for Resources and Environments (DARE) Centre

8:10am Welcome to Country – Uncle Charles ‘Chicka’ Madden

Keynote presentations

8:20am The Probability of CorrectnessProfessor Hugh Durrant-Whyte, NSW Chief Scientist & Engineer

8:35am The Statistical Crisis in Science Professor Andrew Gelman, Columbia University

8:55am Data and Decision-making Under Duress Captain David Evans, Qantas QF32

9:45am Creating Value by Quantifying Uncertainty Professor Mark Girolami, University of Cambridge

10:20am Morning Tea

10:45am Keynote presentation People, Politics and Certainty Professor Simon Jackman, CEO, United States Studies Centre at the University of Sydney

11:05am Panel 1 Society, Health and Justice – Professor Simon Jackman, CEO, United States Studies Centre – Professor Sally Cripps, Director, Centre for Translational Data Science – Dr Michelle Cretikos, Medical Epidemiologist, NSW Health – Dr Marco Rizzi, Senior Lecturer, The University of Western Australia Law School– Group Capt Jerome Reid, Director, Plan Jericho, Royal Australian Air Force

12:05pm Keynote presentation Data Visualisation to Communicate Uncertainty Associate Professor Leanna House, Dept of Statistics, Virginia Tech

Conference Program

Enjoy keynote presentations from global thought leaders, participate in panel discussions and end the day with networking drinks and canapés, providing an excellent opportunity to connect and engage across sectors and industries.

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12:25pm Lunch

1:25pm Keynote presentation A Case Study in Managing and Communicating Uncertainty Distinguished Professor Kerrie Mengersen, Queensland University of Technology

2:00pm Panel 2 The Unknown Environment: Above and Below Ground– Distinguished Professor Kerrie Mengersen, Queensland University of Technology– Professor Mark Girolami, University of Cambridge – Professor Edward Cripps, University of Western Australia – Rob McLean AM, Advisory Board Chair, The Nature Conservancy– Speaker TBA, Geoscience Australia

2:55pm Panel 3 Data Science and Uncertainty in Industry and Government – Kate Carruthers, Chief Data & Insights Officer, University of NSW – Kelley Yohe, Director Analytics, Westpac – Julie Batch, Chief Customer Officer, IAG – Peter Worthington-Eyre, Chief Data Officer, South Australian Government– Dr Richard George, Chief Data Scientist, Faethm AI

3:55pm Afternoon Tea

4:10pm Panel 4 Where to Now? – Distinguished Professor Kerrie Mengersen, Queensland University of Technology– Dr Richard George, Chief Data Scientist, Faethm AI – Kelley Yohe, Director Analytics, Westpac – Professor Sally Cripps, Director, Centre for Translational Data Science – Professor Mark Girolami, Strategic Director, The Alan Turing Institute – Kate Carruthers, Chief Data & Insights Officer, University of NSW

5:10pm Continuing the Conversation

5:25pm Priorities

5:30-7:30pm Networking Drinks

Note: Program may be subject to change

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Host and Speakers

The event will be held at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney and hosted by the Centre for Translational Data Science at the University of Sydney. The Centre is a world leader in data science research. Led by Professor Sally Cripps, an internationally recognised scholar in Bayesian statistics, the Centre is at the forefront of the application of data science to solve real world challenges.

Professor Sally Cripps is Director of the Centre for Translational Data Science and the Data Analytics for Resources and Environments (DARE) Centre. She was awarded her PhD in 2002 and her work has appeared in the world’s most prestigious statistical journals. Her research has focused on the development of new and novel methods to flexibly model and analyse complex data.

Professor Hugh Durrant-Whyte is the NSW Chief Scientist & Engineer. He is a world authority on machine learning and robotics, and their application in areas including cargo handling, mining and defence. From 2016-2018, Professor Durrant-Whyte was Chief Scientific Advisor to the UK Ministry of Defence.

Captain David Evans was the Senior Check Captain on the Qantas A380 during the incident in Singapore that saw an uncontained engine failure with substantial damage occur at 7,000 feet in 2010. Captain Evans gives a spine-tingling firsthand account of what happens when you have to accept uncertainty and manage data in a crisis.

Professor Mark Girolami is the Sir Kirby Laing Professor of Civil Engineering within the Department of Engineering at the University of Cambridge and holds the Royal Academy of Engineering Research Chair in Data Centric Engineering. He currently serves as the Editor-in-Chief of Statistics and Computing and the new open access journal Data Centric Engineering published by Cambridge University Press.

Professor Andrew Gelman is a Professor of Statistics and Political Science and Director of the Applied Statistics Center at Columbia University. He has received the Outstanding Statistical Application Award from the American Statistical Association, the award for best article published in the American Political Science Review, and the Council of Presidents of Statistical Societies Award for outstanding contributions by a person under 40.

Professor Simon Jackman is the CEO of the United States Studies Centre at the University of Sydney. He holds a PhD in political science and focuses on web-based survey research, the political and scientific consequences of under-representing hard-to-reach populations in social research, and developing methodologies for assessing the partisan symmetry and fairness of electoral redistricting.

Distinguished Professor Kerrie Mengersen is one of Australia’s leading statisticians with extensive experience in using and developing new statistical and computational methods to help solve complex problems in the fields of environment, genetics, health, medicine and industry. She was awarded the title of Distinguished Professor by Queensland University of Technology in 2016 for her achievements in mathematics and statistical research.

Dr Leanna House is an Associate Professor at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech) in Statistics. Previously, she was a post-doctoral research associate in the Department of Mathematical Sciences at Durham University in the UK. Leanna received her PhD in Statistics from Duke University in North Carolina and holds a BS in Biometry/Statistics and a MA in Teaching from Cornell.