Sep 23–26, 2019

James Kotecki
Director of Marketing & Communications, Infinia ML

James Kotecki is the Director of Marketing and Communications for Infinia ML, a machine learning company helping enterprise firms deploy data science to automate complex challenges.

James is the former Head of Communications for Automated Insights, where he helped an international audience understand the concepts of natural language generation. He later started his own firm to help technology marketers tell customer stories.

As a professional content creator for over a decade, he’s worked with brands including YouTube, Politico, Business Insider, LinkedIn, and DHL. He’s spoken about customer storytelling from North Carolina to South Korea, and you can see his on-camera interviews with leading executives every year at the CES electronics trade show.

Sessions

1:15pm–1:55pm Thursday, September 26, 2019

Location: 1E 14

Communication breakdown: Facing machine learning’s all-too-human failure

Executive Briefing and best practices, Strata Business Summit

James Kotecki (Infinia ML)

Miscommunication between business leaders and technical experts can doom even the best data science project. Don’t let it drive you insane! In this session, we’ll dissect many flavors of communication failure, from goal misalignment to technical misunderstanding. Then, we’ll explore practical ways to bridge these gaps. Read more.