Transforming revenues and profitability in the fast-moving Retail sector through the successful deployment of cost-effective, managed machine learning solutions

Today’s retail market is highly competitive after years of challenges and worldwide macro-economic shocks, meaning businesses have to make ever smarter decisions. Calligo offers a disruptive alternative to the build your own or off the shelf ML solutions, instead focusing on how to deliver successfully, rapidly and with reduced risk and investment. This session will explore more about the Machine Learning as a Service (MLaaS) methodology. 

This strategic session for the Retail sector, organised by Calligo, sponsored by Intel® and Lenovo, seeks to explore how data science and machine learning can be successfully deployed, transforming revenue and profitability by accurate targeting of specific Retail business challenges. 

A dynamic and interactive evening is assured, with the ability to discuss real world use cases relevant to your business directly with our thought leaders, including renowned data scientists with real world deployments across a variety of use cases and industries. 

Attendees will have the opportunity to submit challenge statements and use cases prior to the event and be entered into a prize draw for project sponsorship. 

Topics for discussion:

• 2023 and beyond: major ecommerce retail trends
• The increasing importance of machine learning to drive better business outcomes for Retailers
• What are the key applications for Machine Learning in the Retail space right now?
• Understand why machine learning can have a high failure rate and how Calligo can help organisations balance being innovative whilst ensuring business performance and strong ROI  

Speakers:

Adam Ryan, Chief Data Officer, Calligo

Adam Ryan is Calligo’s Chief Data Officer and has developed and deployed data strategies and data governance initiatives for numerous clients in the technology, retail and financial sectors, and even for national governments.
Adam is responsible for spearheading the transformation of our client’s data-driven strategies, leading our worldclass team of Global Data Strategists. He has previously co-founded successful start-ups, including VirtualizeIT and Virtustream, and he also holds patents in Cloud technologies. 

Tessa Jones, Chief Data Scientist, Calligo

Tessa is an accomplished and acclaimed data scientist, and has applied these skills to other areas of her scientific education, including genetics, volcanology and space exploration. Tessa even programmed the first-ever picture to prove that there was once running water on the surface of Mars and used data science to help operate the Rover on its surface.
Throughout her 18-year career, there is one consistent thread – the application of the scientific method to difficult problems. A substantial part of this is an extensive history of developing value-creating data science models that answer commercial questions, delivering quantifiable ROI for large and small enterprises.