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Make Data Work
March 5–6, 2018: Training
March 6–8, 2018: Tutorials & Conference
San Jose, CA
Ari Gesher

Ari Gesher
Director, Software Engineering, Kairos Aerospace

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Ari Gesher is the founding director of software engineering at Kairos Aerospace, a startup building and operating the next-generation of airborne and spaceborne sensors for monitoring oil and gas infrastructure. Ari also serves as consulting architect for Jupiter, a company productizing high-quality datasets that describe the long-term effects of climate change. Previously, he was a very early engineer at Palantir Technologies and later served as Palantir’s engineering ambassador to the tech community at large; before Palantir, he was the maintainer of the SourceForge.net open source archive. Ari is the coauthor of The Architecture of Privacy, which explains how to responsibly hold data about people while preserving their privacy to the greatest extent possible. Ari is a frequent speaker on various topics, including the need for modern, high-leverage engineers to work on substantive problems, human-computer symbiosis as system design aesthetic, the limits of automated decision making, and privacy architectures for a world where everything is recorded.

Sessions

11:50am–12:30pm Wednesday, March 7, 2018
Big data, big problems: Predicting climate change
Big data and data science in the cloud, Data engineering and architecture, Data science and machine learning, Strata Business Summit
 Location: 210 D/H
Ari Gesher (Kairos Aerospace)
A warming planet needs precise, localized predictions about the effects of climate change to make good long-term and medium-term economic decision making. Ari Gesher demonstrates how to use a mix of physical simulation, enhanced scientific models, machine learning verification, and high-scale computing to predict and package climate predictions as data products. Read more.