Data Science and Data Engineering Lightning Talks!

​UPDATE: The event will be held at the new Virginia Tech Innovation Campus in Potomac Yards (could have a nice view)!

Join the Data Science DC, Data Engineering DC meetup groups for an evening of lightning talks on all things data!

If you like Data, Data Engineering, Software Engineering, or any type of data movement, management, or analysis at scale, this event is for you!

Agenda:

• ​6:00-6:30pm: food, drinks, and networking

• ​6:30-7:45pm: lightning talks

• ​7:45-8:00pm: closing remarks

​Speakers Lineup:

• ​Amitha Kalaichandran (Co-Founder, Evra Health): The Predictive Body: How Data Science and Agentic AI Can Reverse the Chronic Disease Curve

• ​Sanchit Vijay (Senior Data Engineer, Pure Insurance): Real-time Streaming Multi-catalog Lakehouse

• ​Anastassia Kornilova (Director of ML and Founding Engineer, Trustible): Judging LLM-as-a-Judge: Strengths and Weaknesses of AI-powered evals.

• ​Shafkat Farabi (Ph.D. Student, Virginia Tech): Value-Added Based Algorithmic Matching of Mediators to Court Cases in Kenya

• ​Patrick Stingley (AI VP, Bureau of Land Management): Grounding AI: How to Identify AI Mistakes and Fix Them

​Signup to give a 5 minute lightning talk! https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd2BA5p_kgD3rrdYL6BKPuXM4jXmc5rLalgxctUk2nIcnnK9w/viewform

Anyone can give a Data Engineering DC lightning talk in the future! Tell us about a project you worked on, a bug that brought your pipelines down, a fun tool that you're learning about and want to share, or some gnarly data governance / AI context data engineering problem that want help with!