The Data Science & Strategy Lecture Series seeks to provide an understanding of the role of data and statistical analysis in managerial decision-making. The focus is on the role of managers as both consumers and producers of information, illustrating how finding and/or developing the right data and applying appropriate statistical methods can help solve problems in business. In this video series, Haas lecturer and lecture series host Greg La Blanc interviews industry executives and data science practitioners on key topics in data science in conjunction with graduate courses in Data Science/Data Strategy and invited lectures.

Prof. Greg La Blanc
Lecture Series Host
Wednesday, May 2, 2018

Joseph Hellerstein
Chief Strategy Officer, Trifacta and Professor, UC Berkeley.

Monday, April 30, 2018

Heini Zachariassen
Board Member and Founder, Vivino

Thursday, April 26, 2018

Clark Sept
Principal, Gensler


Jon Slavet
Managing Director, wework US & Canada west

Wednesday, April 25, 2018

David Andre
CEO and CTO, Cerebellum Capital, Inc.


Daniel McAuley
Daniel McAuley, Principal Data Scientist, Wealthfront

Tuesday, April 24, 2018

Matt Killingsworth
Postdoctoral Fellow, UC Berkeley and Scientific Advisor, Facebook


Stacia Garr
Co-founder, RedThread Research

Wednesday, April 18, 2018

Ludovic Breger
Global Head Investor Data, BlackRock

Thursday, April 12, 2018

Newton Cheng
Health and Performance Innovation Manager, Google


Andreas Gyr
Sustainability Program Manager, Google

Wednesday, April 11, 2018

Jennifer Prendki
Head of Data Science, Atlassian

Friday, March 30, 2018

Gary Tang
Data Scientist, Airbnb

Thursday, March 29, 2018

Li Deng
Chief AI Officer, Citadel

Wednesday, March 28, 2018

Sanjit Singh Dang
Director of Investments, Intel Capital

Tuesday, March 27, 2018

Joshua Bloom
Professor of Astronomy, UC-Berkeley

Wednesday, March 21, 2018

Andreas Weigend
Director, Social Data Lab and Author, Data for the People

Wednesday, May 17, 2017

Michael Housman
Founder, RapportBoost.AI

Tuesday, May 16, 2017

Dean Abbott
Co-Founder and Chief Data Scientist, Smarter HQ

Monday, May 15, 2017

John Elder
Founder, Elder Research

Friday, May 5, 2017

Ming Leung
Asst. Professor, Haas School of Business, UC-Berkeley


Darren Kaplan
CEO & Founder at HiQ


Don Moore
Professor, Haas School of Business, UC-Berkeley

Tuesday, May 2, 2017

Sherif Botros
Chief Data Officer, Wells Fargo

Data Science for B2B Customer Success
(requires UCB password)

Rafael Pous
Prof. of Engineering, UPF-Barcelona and Co-founder, Keonn Technologies

Tuesday, April 25, 2017

Mohammed Guller
Principal Architect, Glassbeam


Reynold Xin
Chief Architect, Databricks

Tuesday, April 18, 2017

Mike Evans
Analytics Product Manager, New Relic


Francis Kendall
Digital Strategy Leader, Roche

Thursday, April 13, 2017

Steve Hirsch
Chief Data Officer, IntercontinentalExchange Group/NYSE

How Data Technology has Transformed Global Markets
(requires UCB password)
Wednesday, April 12, 2017

Anand Chandrasekhar
Senior VP, QualComm Data Center

Flat Earth? or Round Earth?
(requires UCB password)
Tuesday, April 11, 2017

Healey Cypher
CEO, Oak Labs

Thursday, April 6, 2017

Sineesh Keshav
SVP for IT, Experian

How Zero UI and APIs are Changing the World
(requires UCB password)

Victor Szczerba
CEO, Yeti Data

Friday, March 31, 2017

Ashok Srivastava
Chief Data Scientist, Verizon

Data Science in the Enterprise
(requires UCB password)

Vivek Wadwa
Carnegie-Mellon Silicon Valley

How Our Technology Choices Will Create the Future
(requires UCB password)

Arash Nourian
Lecturer, UC Berkeley School of Information

Thursday, March 30, 2017

Jeremy Stanley
VP Data Science, Instacart

Wednesday, March 29, 2017

Pedro Domingos
Professor, Machine Learning, University of Washington


Michael Li
Head of Analytics, LinkedIn

How Data Science Drives Business Value
(requires UCB password)
Tuesday, March 28, 2017

William High
Data Scientist, Netflix


Avinash Kaushik
Data Evangelist, Google

Tuesday, March 21, 2017

Bjorn Austraat
Global Leader, Cognitive Visioning and Strategy, IBM Watson

Tuesday, November 22, 2016

Anand Chandrasekhar
Senior VP, QualComm Data Center

Tuesday, May 3, 2016

Bill Pearce
Executive Chairman, RichRelevance


Amy Gershkoff
Chief Data Officer, Zynga

Enterprise Data & Analytics Architecture
(requires UCB password)
Saturday, April 30, 2016

Tatsiana Maskalevich
Data Science Manager, Stitch Fix


Nandini Nayak
Managing Director, Design Strategy, Fjord


Nathan Shetterley
Senior R&D Principal, Accenture Technology Labs


Carl Dukatz
Research and Development Manager, Accenture Technology Labs

Thursday, April 28, 2016

Laurent El Ghaoui
Associate Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer ScienceUniversity of California, Berkeley


Erik Wilde
Siemens

Tuesday, April 26, 2016

Tye Rattenbury
Director, Data Science and Solutions Engineering, Trifacta


Bennet Harvey
Multi-channel CX Management Consultant
Saturday, April 23, 2016

Steve Ramirez
CEO, Beyond the Arc

Tuesday, April 19, 2016

Jake Flomenburg
Partner, Accel Capital


Brian Busch
Director of Business Development, Captricity

Saturday, April 16, 2016

Roopesh Varier
Big Data, American Express


Arijit Sengupta
CEO, BeyondCore


Veronika Beloskhvostova
Analytics, Facebook

Marketing Attribution
(requires UCB password)
Thursday, April 14, 2016

Mike Olson
Co-founder and CSO, Cloudera

What’s Happening to Data?
(requires UCB password)
Saturday, April 9, 2016

David Reiley
Principal Scientist, Pandora

Controlled Experiments Measure the Effects of Advertising
(requires UCB password)

Gary Class
Senior VP, Wells Fargo

Thursday, February 4, 2016

Barry Kahn
Founder and CEO, QCue

Thursday, September 17, 2015

Bob Shanks
CFO, Ford Motor Company

Friday, September 11, 2015

Adam Grossman
Founder and President, Block 6 AnalyticsCo-Author, “The Sports Strategist”

Tuesday, May 5, 2015 (MBA)

Jonathan Ballon
VP, Internet of Things, Intel

Data Science and the Internet of Things
(requires UCB password)
Saturday, May 2, 2015 (EWMBA)

Sineesh Keshav
VP IT, Safeway

Safeway’s Big Data Journey
(requires UCB password)

Michael Lasmanis
CTO, Pulpo Media


Piyush Malik
Data Science Evangelist, IBM

Thursday, April 30, 2015 (MBA)

Juan Miguel Lavista
Principal Data Scientist, Bing


Max Simkoff
VP Analytics, Cornerstone OnDemand

Data Science for Talent
(requires UCB password)
Tuesday, April 28, 2015 (MBA)

Mike Glass
Director, Demand Side Systems, PG&E


Louis Beryl
Founder & CEO, Earnest

Saturday, April 25, 2015 (EWMBA)

John Miller
Data Insights Group Lead, Accenture


Piyanka Jain
Author, Behind Every Good DecisionFounder, Aryng


George Roumelioitis
@WalmartLabs

Data Science, Design Thinking
(requires UCB password)
Thursday, April 23, 2015 (MBA)

Lutz Finger
Director of Data Science, LinkedIn


Kaushik Das
Head of Data Science, Pivotal

Tuesday, April 21, 2015 (MBA)

Sumit Sharma
Strategy, MuleSoft

Saturday, April 18, 2015 (EWMBA)

Vince dell’Anno
Managing Director, Global Big Data Practice, Accenture

Thursday, April 16, 2015 (MBA)

Gaurav Agarwal
Head, Product Management and Strategy, GoodData

Tuesday, April 14, 2015 (MBA)

Juliet Hougland
Data Scientist, Cloudera


Daniel Bruckner
Co-Founder, Tamr

Saturday, April 11, 2015 (EWMBA)

Esteban Arcaute
Sr. Director, Software Engineering, @Walmart Labs


Rodolfo Martell
Sr. Portfolio Manager, Blackrock

Quant Investing in the 21st Century
(requires UCB password)

Achalesh Pandey
Machine Learning Lab ManagerGE Global Research

Thursday, April 9, 2015 (MBA)

Alexander Ross
Director, Data Science Programs, GE

Tuesday, April 7, 2015 (MBA)

Matt Schumpert
Datameer


Jose Plehn-Dujowich
Co-Founder, Powerlytics

Thursday, April 2, 2015 (MBA) & Saturday, April 4 (EWMBA)

Veronika Beloskhvostova
VP, Analytics and Strategy, Hotwire

Thursday, April 2, 2015 (MBA)

Ta Chiraphadhanakul
Data Scientist, Facebook

Visualizing Big Data at Facebook
(requires UCB password)
Tuesday, March 30, 2015 (MBA)

Gary Class
Senior VP, Wells Fargo


Jack Levis
Director of Process Management, UPS
