Presented by Jeff Jonas on March 13, 2018

Bio:

Jeff Jonas — Data Scientist, Former IBM Fellow, Serial Entrepreneur, Senzing, Founder and Chief Scientist Jonas is an acclaimed Data Scientist who thrives on solving some of the world’s most complex business challenges. He has developed systems and applications (Non-Obvious Relationship Awareness - NORA) that tackle high-profile challenges including identifying potential terrorists, connecting loved ones after a natural disaster, and earlier detection of surprise asteroids, to name a few. His work in Las Vegas played a role in defeating notorious card count teams as depicted in the bestselling book by Ben Mezrich, “Bringing Down the House” and the movie “21”. As an IBM Fellow and Chief Scientist of Context Computing, Jonas led a team focused on next-generation “context computing”, code-named “G2". In August of 2016, Jonas announced the launch of his start-up - www.senzing.com - which uses G2 to democratize Entity Resolution -- delivering affordable, accurate, real-time, Entity Resolution to the world at large. He is a highly sought after speaker and his work is referenced in chapters of “Safe: The Race to Protect Ourselves in a Newly Dangerous World”, “The Numerati”, and “The Watchers”. Most recently Jonas was profiled as a Big Data innovator in a National Geographic profile entitled “Decoding Jeff Jonas, Wizard of Big Data.”

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