2019

Cory Hefner is a graduate of North Carolina State University with both a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering and a Master’s degree in Advanced Analytics. His studies in Analytics covered topics including advanced modeling, data mining techniques, data visualization, and interpretation of these methods into meaningful and impactful results. Cory has proficiency with R, Splunk, […]

Tim Hetherington received his Master of Science in Analytics from North Carolina State University. His passion for data began with tracking basketball stats while attending the University of Pittsburgh basketball games as a child. Tim began his career in the home improvement industry working on an omni-channel analytics team. Understanding customers’ purchasing trends was his […]

Erin Illman is a partner at Bradley and chair of Bradley’s Cybersecurity and Privacy Practice Team. Erin is one of only nine North Carolina Board Certified Specialists in Privacy and Data Security Law. Erin is also designated as an ANSI Certified Information Privacy Professional (CIPP/US) by the International Association of Privacy Professionals. Erin is a […]

Doug, a 13-year Lowe’s veteran, was appointed to lead the Data, Analytics and Customer Insights organization in January 2017. In this role, he oversees the Enterprise Data Management, Consumer Research, Customer Analytics, Business Intelligence and Data Science functions. Doug is responsible for leading teams at Lowe’s Corporate locations in Mooresville, NC, Bangalore, India and Montreal, […]

Chris Johannessen is an analytics, workplace automation, digital transformation and marketing technology pioneer, who has contributed innovations and leadership and volunteer service to the broader industry and academia over the course of his career. He has over 20 years of experience in analytics, digital strategy, and process automation / digitization. Chris current serves Sia Partners […]

Kyra is a graduate from Clemson University with a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science. She is currently working on her Master’s in Machine Learning from Georgia Tech, while also working full time. She is proficient in Python, C, C++, and Java, though Python will always be her favorite (don’t tell the others). She started at […]

Michael Korvink is a Senior Data Scientist for Premier, Inc. and a past adjunct instructor of Computer Science at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Michael has over 10 years of experience in data analytics in the healthcare and pharmaceutical industries and further serves on UNC Charlotte’s Healthcare Informatics and Analytics (HIAN) Board of […]

Siddharth Krishnan is an assistant professor of computer science at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. His research uses Web mining, computational social science and applied machine learning to build explanatory and predictive models of actions of large groups of people and societies.

Viktor Mayer-Schönberger is the Professor of Internet Governance and Regulation at Oxford. His research focuses on the role of information in a networked economy. Earlier he spent ten years on the faculty of Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. He has published eleven books, including the international bestseller, Big Data

As a Data Scientist in the Chief Data Scientist Organization (CDSO), Di Miao facilitates information advantage and a unified data science strategy across Bank of America. Di is recognized as expert in providing information products to allow users to access extensive customer transaction information, unlock revenue enhancement and risk mitigation opportunities. Di initiated the use […]