2022 Program
Day 1 | Open Source
Tuesday, October 4
(All times are US Eastern Time)
12:00 pm ET – 12:10 pm ET
NLP Trends – 2022 Edition
David Talby – CTO at John Snow Labs
12:10 pm ET – 12:25 pm ET
Vision Transformers and Automatic Speech Recognition in Spark NLP
Maziyar Panahi – Principal AI/ML Engineer – Senior Team Lead at John Snow Labs
12:25 pm ET – 12:45 pm ET
Deploying BLOOM: A 176B Parameter Multi-Lingual Large Language Model
Sanchit Gandhi – Machine Learning Research Engineer at Hugging Face
Suraj Patil – Machine Learning Engineer at Hugging Face
12:45 pm ET – 1:05 pm ET
How to Harness Wikipedia and Wikidata for Entity Recognition
John Bohannon – Director of Science at Primer.ai
1:05 pm ET – 1:25 pm ET
Sparse Expert Models: Past and Future
Barret Zoph – Member of the Technical Staff at OpenAI
Liam Fedus – Member of the Technical Staff at OpenAI
1:25 pm ET – 1:45 pm ET
Using NLP to Transform an Industry – How NLP Enables Gong to Change the Way People Sell
Omri Allouche – Head of Research at Gong.io
2:00 pm ET – 2:30 pm ET
The State Of The Art On Knowledge Graph Construction From Text
Jennifer D’Souza – Postdoctoral researcher TIB – Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology
Nandana Mihindukulasooriya – Research Scientist at IBM
Content Graphs: Multi-Task NLP Approach for Cataloging
Sakshi Bhargava – Staff Data Scientist at Chegg
Accelerating Topic modeling with RAPIDS and BERT models
Vibhu Jawa – Senior Data Scientist at Nvidia
2:35 pm ET – 3:05 pm ET
No-Code Transfer Learning from Rules & Models in the Annotation Lab
Dia Trambitas – Head of Product at John Snow Labs
Creating ‘Civil Sanctuaries’ Online with NLP
Brian Ulicny – Senior Technical Scientist at Raytheon Intelligence & Space
Vasanth Sarathy – Senior Researcher at SIFT (Smart Information Flow Technologies)
Automating Legal Document Extraction and Review
Jacob Wilson – Principal, Products & Technology at PwC
3:10 pm ET – 3:40 pm ET
Building, Analyzing and Querying Biomedical Knowledge Graphs using Graphster: A New Spark-Based Open-Source Library
Vishnu Vettrivel – Founder at Wisecube
Alex Thomas – Principal Data Scientist at Wisecube
How Robust is your NLP System? An introduction to Adversarial Evaluation in NLP
Panos Alexopoulos – Head of Ontology at Textkernel BV
Natural Language Processing and Dynamic Shapes for Inference Acceleration
Ragesh Hajela – Senior AI Engineer and Evangelist at Intel Corporation
3:45 pm ET – 4:15 pm ET
Entity Matching in NLP
Avinash Pathak – Expert Data Scientist at TomTom
Creating custom vocabularies for sequence prediction models
Swagata Ashwani – Senior Data Scientist at Boomi
Day 2 | Healthcare
Wednesday, October 5
(All times are US Eastern Time)
12:00 pm ET – 12:25 pm ET
Automated Bias, Robustness, and Data Quality Testing for NLP Models
Veysel Kocaman – Head of Data Science at John Snow Labs
12:25 pm ET – 12.45 pm ET
Leveraging NLP to Improve Quality and Patient Safety at a Large Academic Health System
Robbie Freeman – System Vice President & Chief Nursing Informatics Officer at Mount Sinai Health System
12:45 pm ET – 1:05 pm ET
Deep Learning for Relation Extraction from Clinical Documents
Vishakha Sharma – Principal Scientist at Roche
1:05 pm ET – 1:25 pm ET
Artificial Intelligence for Pharmacovigilance Processing – What is Possible Today
Martin Holm-Petersen – CEO at Insife
Amit Arora – Data Scientist at Insife
1:25 pm ET – 1:45 pm ET
Next Generation Speech Synthesis and Speech-to-Speech Technologies
Yishay Carmiel – Chief Executive Officer at Meaning
2:00 pm ET – 2:30 pm ET
A Pretrained Language Model for Public Health Surveillance on Social Media
Usman Naseem – PhD Candidate at University of Sydney
Intelligent Publication Monitoring using NLP and Ontologies
Jayant Thomas – Senior Director AI/Machine Learning Engineering at Change Healthcare
Utilizing NLP for Structure Learning to Understand Cancer Screening Uptake
Matthew Davis – PhD Canidate Biomedical Data Science and Informatics at Medical University of South Carolina
2:35 pm ET – 3:05 pm ET
Language Tasks in Clinical Natural Language Processing: Where We Are and What’s Next
Yanjun Gao – Postdoctoral Research Associate at University of Wisconsin-Madison
Applying Natural Language Processing to Cancer Genomics
Lena Pfitzer – Principal Data Scientist at myNEO
Template Based Information Extraction with Dendograms to Classify News Articles
Daniel Svoboda – NLP Research Scientist at Johnson & Johnson
3:10 pm ET – 3:40 pm ET
Therapy Specific Outcomes – Rheumatology Insights using NLP
Samuel Konstanty – Data Scientist at Loopback Analytics
How Standards for NLP Output can Revolutionize Healthcare
Sam Schifman – Chief Architect at Diameter Health
Automating Annotation Process Using Rule-Based Algorithm
Priya Shaji – Data Scientist at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
3:45 pm ET – 4:15 pm ET
Detecting and Mitigating Covariate Shift for Large Language Models
Ayush Singh – Sr. NLP ML Engineer at Cigna
Natural Language Processing (NLP) Approach to Automate Patients’ Testimonials Analysis
Mélissa Rollot – Data Science Manager at Quinten Health
From Unstructured Documents to a Longitudinal Health Record
Isaac Palka – Senior Director of Engineering at Invitae
Timothy Laurent – Principal Engineer – Machine Learning at Invitae
Day 3 | Applications
Thursday, October 6
(All times are US Eastern Time)
12:00 pm ET – 12:25 pm ET
Introducing Spark NLP for Finance and Legal
Jose Juan Martinez – Lead Data Scientist at John Snow Labs
12:25 pm ET – 12:45 pm ET
Advances in NLP: Finance Perspective
Gary Kazantsev – Head of Quant Technology Strategy, Office of the CTO at Bloomberg
12:45 pm ET – 1:05 pm ET
BERTopic: Topic Modeling by Combining the Old with the New
Maarten Grootendorst – Data Scientist at IKNL and Creator of BERTopic, PolyFuzz, and KeyBERT
1:05 pm ET – 1:25 pm ET
Evolution through Large Language Models
Joel Lehman – Researcher at Stochastic Labs
1:25 pm ET – 1:45 pm ET
NLP and Language Models at Stitch Fix and Beyond
Olivia Liao – Senior Director of Data Science at Stitch Fix
2:00 pm ET – 2:30 pm ET
NLP for Finance – Automated Invoice Classification for Submission Compliance
Harsha Gurulingappa – Head of Text Analytics at Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany
Shobha Iyer – Lead Expert Big Data at Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany
Building an Integrated Data Approach to Pharma Medical Affairs
Adam Hirsch – Vision Transformers and Automatic Speech Recognition in Spark NLP at Real Chemistry
2:35 pm ET – 3:05 pm ET
Challenges in Financial Document Understanding – NLP and Beyond
Neelesh Shukla – Research Scientist & Manager AI State at Street Corporation
Review2topic: Building Topics Detection Model to Leverage Reviews Data in Booking.com
Moran Beladev – Machine Learning Manager – NLP & Computer Vision at Booking.com
The Role of NLP in Enterprise Value Prediction
Chandrasekhar Subramanyam – Senior Professor at IFIM Business School
3:10 pm ET – 3:40 pm ET
Decoding Financial Literacy Using Customer Feedback
Anjali Sreekumar – Engineering Manager at Lending Tree
Call Center Analytics – Enhancing Customer Service using Actionable Insights (AI)
Swati Sharma – AI Lead, Head of Data Science at Brillio
Natural Language Understanding – Nested NER and WSD
Mustafa Jarrar – Professor of Artificial Intelligence at Birzeit University
3:45 pm ET – 4:15 pm ET
Creating and Maintaining Pipelines for Machine Learning Operations
Zach Wimpee – Clinical Effectiveness Analyst at Pieces
Accelerating NLP Pipelines with Hardware-Software synergies
Tim Santos – Director of Devrel at Graphcore
NLP Training
Spark NLP for Data Scientists
Training & Certification
October 11, 2021 – 9:00 to 13:00 PST
October 12, 2021 – 9:00 to 13:00 PST
Spark NLP for Healthcare Data Scientists
Training & Certification
October 13, 2021 – 9:00 to 13:00 PST
October 14, 2021 – 9:00 to 13:00 PST
