DAAG 2019

DAAG 2019, Denver, March 5-8

Presentations

25 Years of DAAG
- Tom Spradlin, David Skinner, John Palmer, Ellen Coopersmith

Keynote Presentation: AI is Decision-Making at Scale
- Cassie Kozyrkov, Google 

Panel Session 1: Bringing out the Data Scientist in the Decision Analyst
- Brad Powley, Salesforce; Isaac Faber, MatrixDS; Dennis Buede, Innovative Decisions; David Blum, Next Tier Concepts; Stephen Malinak, TruValue Labs

Panel Session 2: Bringing out the Decision Scientist in the Data Analyst
- Brad Powley, Salesforce; John Mark Agosta, Microsoft; Zahit Guneri, MZG Data; Aaron Schaffrina, Chevron; John Busbice, Keen Decision Systems

Lunch and Fireside Chat: Decision Analysis and Data Science in Pricing
- Thomas Seyller, Google

Panel Session 3: Building Data Products
- Ram Rampalli, Walmart; Stephen Malinak, TruValue Labs; Wenhao Liu, Salesforce; Suhui Chen, SmartOrg

Panel Session 4: Data Science and Decision Analysis in Venture Investing
- Kemal Anbarci, Chevron; Clint Korver, Ulu Ventures; Tom Kehler, CrowdSmart; Victor Koosh, Investor and Entrepreneur

Panel Session 5: Decision Quality and Data in Entrepreneurship and Leadership
- Victor Koosh, Investor and Entrepreneur; Clint Korver, Ulu Ventures; Carl Spetzler, SDG; Jim Driscoll, Intel

Panel Session 6: Data Science+Decision Analysis in Financial Innovation
- Tom Keelin, SmartOrg; Stephen Malinak, TruValue Labs; Sheldon Bernard, A440 Management

Keynote Presentation: Humans and Technology, Love and Hate
- Humans and Technology, Love and Hate – Michael Norton, Harvard Business School

Life Sciences Mini-Conference

• Fireside Chat: "How Sure Are You?”: Epistemology of Clinical Research and DA - Steven Goodman, Stanford
• Panel Discussion: Decision Analysis and Medical Benefit-Risk Decision Making with the FDA - Robert Reynolds, Pfizer; Telba Irony, FDA; Theresa Mullin, FDA; Becky Noel, Eli Lilly
• Panel Discussion: Why do we need DA when we have AI? - Joanna Wolkowski, Pfizer; Julie Schiffman, Pfizer; Leslie Lippard, Genetech; Pratap Khedkar, ZS Associates
• Panel Discussion: Data and Decision Making in Drug Development - David Wolter, IQVIA; Kirk Solo, Lexidyne Consulting; Thomas Abbott, Real World Informatics; Ian Bonzani, IQVIA

Energy Mini-Conference

• Fireside Chat: Causality and Decision Analysis in Energy and Environment - Warner North, NorthWorks
• Panel Discussion: Leveraging data to make great decisions - Dan Violette, Lumina Decision Systems; Cory Welch, Lumidyne Consulting; Kurt Rinehart, EpiX Analytics; Mazen Skaf, SDG
• Panel Discussion: Risk and the Energy Industry: A Tightrope Walk - Jeremy Walker, Decision Frameworks; Sam Savage, Probability Management.org; Jim Hoppenworth, DCP Midstream; Rob Lazenby, Chevron
• Panel Discussion: The battle for the future - Max Henrion, Lumina Decision Systems; Charlie Atkins, Eratosthenes; Logan Grizzel, Blackhorn VC; Eric Bickel, University of Texas

Hi-Tech Mini-Conference

• Panel Discussion: AI for automating decisions at scale - Cassie Kozyrkov, Google; John Mark Agosta, Microsoft; Chris Farrar, Google; Wenhao Liu, Salesforce
• Panel Discussion: Building decision tools responsibly - Cassie Kozyrkov, Google; Michael Norton, Harvard Business School; Clint Korver, Ulu Ventures; Dan Connors, Boulder AI
• Panel Discussion: Creating a Decision Quality Culture in Hi-Tech - Carl Spetzler, SDG; Shashi Jain, Intel; Amy Farrow, Lyft
• Panel Discussion: Making Innovation Management Predictable - Kelly Herwisk, Intel; David Matheson, SmartOrg; Rich Duncombe, Innovation Catalyst Group; Lindsay Benjamin, Intel

DAS/SDP Award Talk: Modeling the Value of Agents in Supply Chains of Malaria Rapid Diagnostic Test Kits with Decision Analysis
- Gilberto Montibeller, Loughborough University, England, United Kingdom (joint work with Corinne Carland and Jarrod Goentzel, MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA)

Raiffa-Howard Award Talk: China Mobile
- Presented by Jim Driscoll

Frontiers of DA Talk:
- Tom Keelin, SmartOrg

Session: Sharing DA/DQ/DS* in Front of Teens or Behind the Scenes
- Amy Day, Clarity4Action; Tyler Ludlow, Decision Skills Institute

Session: The Metalog Distributions: Flexible, Easy-to-Use, Probability Distributions for Use in Decision Analysis, Modelling, Simulation, and Learning from Empirical Data
- Tom Keelin, SmartOrg

Tech / Case Study Session

• Organizational decision quality from the bottom up - Andrew Thrift, Teck Resources Limited
• Enhancing Decision Quality by blending Operations Research techniques with classical Decision Analysis - Bobby (Gopesh) Rana, Bill Klimack, Chevron

Tech / Case Study Session

• They Hate Us and Can’t Be Trusted: Formulating Development Strategy in a Cloud of Suspicion - Bill Haskett, Haskett Consulting
• Self-Serve, Multi-Use Decision Frameworks: A Case Study Exemplifying the Top 5 Techniques - Tyler Ludlow, Decision Skills Institute