Date/Time
Date(s) - 13/09/2016
2:30 pm - 6:00 pm

Location
Air New Zealand Customer innovation and collaboration centre

Categories

We are delighted to invite you to the third Auckland Analytics Forum event of 2016, focusing on deriving insight and value from unstructured data.

Our speakers, from Air New Zealand, Text Ferret, Mindhive and TRA will take us on a journey through analysing many different forms of unstructured data from image and audio processing to dealing with the vast amounts of social network data.

The event will take place in the Air New Zealand Customer innovation and collaboration centre on Tuesday the 13 of September 2016. Talks will begin at 2:30pm followed by social drinks. This event is kindly sponsored by TRA and thanks also to Air New Zealand for their support through the use of this great venue.

As always, the event is free of charge, but places are limited.

 

Speakers:

Carol McGrath, Air New Zealand

Carol has a varied background starting with Intellectually Handicapped special needs training; Newspaper Sales & Marketing; Accountant; Application Administration; CRM Specialist; Business Analyst; BI Manager and now Senior Data Business Analyst with Air New Zealand. All roles have ended up working with data and use of analytics to drive businesses with insights. She is a ‘purple’ person – a person who can translate and speak both business and IT who loves data!

 

Isaac Wilson, Text Ferret.com

Text Ferret is an app that ferrets through raw text, spots patterns and serves them up as clear, useful insights to help you make better business decisions. Isaac’s presentation will take you on a journey of text analysis and will show how Text Ferret has been applied in the real world.

 

Dion Bettjeman, Mindhive

Dion heads the technical and development side of Mindhive, an industrial R&D firm based in Auckland. He and his team of dedicated, self confessed, geeks churn out bespoke technologies for their customers – all aimed at solving complex productivity challenges to deliver real value and strong commercial results.

Dion will be speaking about one of Mindhive’s applications utilising machine learning, machine vision and the resulting unstructured data it produces to replace human decision making in a complex industrial grading process.

 

Antony Ede, TRA

Antony is a Partner at TRA, an insight agency that uses human behaviour to identify opportunities for their clients to grow. He will talk about why TRA is investing heavily in developing capabilities around unstructured data and why you should do the same. In particular he will talk about social media data and how it’s giving us a whole new window into peoples’ lives.

 

We look forward to seeing you there!

The New Zealand Analytics Forum Steering Committee

 

 

Please note: The event is free but requires a booking. Due to the limited number of seats available, we recommend that you book early and request that you make this unique opportunity a priority. If after booking you are unable to attend, please cancel your booking so that others can participate..

 

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