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

Matt Conners
Data Sciences , Microsoft

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Matt Conners is a statistician and data sciences practitioner with extensive business operations and industry domain experience. He has over 20 years of financial technology experience across sales, marketing, business operations, securities, and banking. He has worked at Microsoft since 1995. He is a program manager in the Data Group working with customers, partners, and data scientists on financial forecasting solutions.

Sessions

9:05am–9:30am Tuesday, March 6, 2018
How to successfully reinvent productivity in finance with machine learning (Hint: machine learning is only part of it.)
Data-driven business management
 Location: LL20 A
Matt Conners (Microsoft)
Microsoft’s finance organization is reinventing forecasting using machine learning that its leaders describe as game changing. Matt Conners shares the lessons the data sciences and finance teams learned while bringing machine learning forecasting to the office of the CFO by improving forecast accuracy and frequency and driving cultural change through a finance center of excellence. Read more.