Sep 23–26, 2019

Arup Nanda
Managing Director, ML, Data and Payment Platforms, Capital One

Arup Nanda is the managing director of ML, AI, and data platform at Capital One. He’s an Oracle ACE director and has been working in the Oracle technologies field for 25 years, spanning all aspects of data management from modeling to performance tuning and data science. He’s written six books and more than 700 articles and presented more than 500 sessions in conferences in 25 countries. He blogs at arup.blogspot.com.

Sessions

11:30am–12:00pm Tuesday, September 24, 2019

Location: 1A 06

Business transformation with a visitor funnel

Business Analytics and Visualization

Arup Nanda (Capital One)

Arup Nanda explains how combining multiple data elements, businesses, and systems and charting visitor drop-offs, along with A/B testing—using Cloudera, Airflow, and machine learning with regression and classification models—has allowed Priceline to redefine its business, change product design, and offer incentives to customers. Read more.

2:05pm–2:45pm Wednesday, September 25, 2019

Location: 1E 10/11

Executive Briefing: Building a data-assisted organization

Strata Business Summit

Secondary topics: Culture and Organization, Financial Services

Arup Nanda (Capital One)

Every organization wants to use data more effectively and as a weapon, but few succeed. Arup Nanda explores how Priceline started on this journey and how it was successful using different techniques and tools. Join in to learn how to streamline data assets, make it easier for end users, define KPIs, create value from data, and build sponsorships to build a data organization. Read more.