Description

Join us on Wed Feb 8 @ 1:00 – 3:00 PM EST, and learn how state-of-the-art techniques in Recommender Systems can be leveraged within your organization.

This virtual event will feature presentations by Vector sponsors, showcasing proof of concepts developed from various classes of approaches such as Sequence Aware-, Session Based-, Content Enriched-, Knowledge Graph Based- and Reinforcement Learning Based- Recommender Systems.

Subject to change

1:00 PM – 1:10 PM

Welcome and Project Recap
Winnie Au, Project Manager, Vector Institute
John Jewell, Technical Lead & Associate Applied Machine Learning Specialist, Vector Institute 

1:10 PM – 1:20 PM

Dest2Vec: Learning a Representation for Air Canada Travel Destinations
Yury Sambale, Data Scientist, Air Canada

1:20 PM – 1:30 PM

Sequence-Aware Recommender Systems for Push Notification
Vivian Wen, Data Scientist, Bell
Claudia Nguyen, Senior Data Scientist, Bell

1:30 PM – 1:40  PM

Product Recommender System for Canadian Tire Retail stores 
Shashank Iyer, Data Scientist, Canadian Tire

1:40 PM – 1:50 PM

Efficacy of Graph-Based Recommender Systems 
Peter Shih, Senior Associate, PwC Canada
Reza Yassin, Senior Associate, PwC Canada
Ken Lee, Associate, PwC Canada

1:50 PM – 2:00 PM

Explorations of Reinforcement Learning Based Recommender Systems
Lu Xin, Director, Data Science, RBC

2:00 PM – 2:10 PM

Recommending products to users based on past purchase history
Preeti Padelkar, Data Scientist, RBC

2:10 PM – 2:20 PM

Using Knowledge Graph to Recommend Banking Products
Hadi Jahanshahi, Senior Data Scientist, RBC

2:20 PM – 2:30 PM

Next Generation of Banking Product Recommender 
Helena Yu, Data Analytics Manager, Scotiabank
Amin Rafatian, Data Science Manager, Scotiabank
Mohan Mulakkamparambil, Senior Data Scientist, Scotiabank
Francesco Berardi, Data Scientist, Scotiabank

2:30 PM – 2:40 PM

News Recommender Systems
Rabiya Noori, Data Scientist, Scotiabank
Shimona Narang, Data Scientist, Scotiabank
Brenda Jimenez, Data Scientist, Scotiabank

2:40 PM – 2:50 PM

Realtors Recommender System 
Tuhin Ranjan, Machine Learning Engineer, Wahi

2:50 PM – 3:00 PM

Wrap-up and Next Steps

Yury Sambale
Air Canada
Data Scientist
Yichen Wen
Bell
Data Scientist
Claudia Nguyen
Bell
Data Scientist
Shashank Iyer
Canadian Tire
Data Scientist
Peter Shih
PwC
Manager
Reza Yassin
PwC
Senior Associate, One Analytics
Ken Lee
PwC
Associate
Lu Xin
RBC
Director, Data Science
Preeti Padelkar
RBC
Data Scientist
Hadi Jahanshahi
RBC
Senior Data Scientist
Helena Yu
Scotiabank
Data Scientist
Amin Rafatian
Scotiabank
Data Science Manager
Mohan Mulakkamparambil
Scotiabank
Senior Data Scientist
Frank Berardi
Scotiabank
Data Scientist
Rabiya Noori
Scotiabank
Data Scientist
Shimona Narang
Scotiabank
Data Scientist
Brenda Jimenez
Scotiabank
Data Scientist
Tuhin Ranjan
Wahi
Data Sceintist

This event is open to Vector Sponsors, Vector Researchers, and invited health partners only. Any registration that is found not to be a Vector Sponsor, Vector Researcher or invited health partner will be asked to provide verification and, if unable to do so, will not be able to attend the event. Please contact events@vectorinstitute.ai with any questions.