Beer & Analytics XI

Jason is a Sr. Data Architect with Export Development Canada. Jason has over 25 years of experience in the data space, working with companies such as Rogers Communications, Hewlett Packard Enterprise / DXC and Innovapost to help provide innovative solutions to complex data problems.

As Director of Advanced Analytics, Carol is fully engaged in the data driven strategy and transformation at Canada Post. She leads of team of data scientists as they leverage cloud computing, machine learning and visualizations to fulfil their mandate to understand and optimize their business.

Carol is an engaging speaker, having presented at several international research conferences and national events including locations such as San Diego, Marrakesh and Toronto. She specializes in statistics and research methods, presenting topics such as Random Forest, Time Series Analysis and Natural Language Processing.

Carol holds a master’s degree in Experimental Psychology and Statistics from McMaster University and a bachelor’s degree from Mount Allison University. She currently resides in Ottawa, Ontario.

Dennis Halfpenny is the current CRO for Palantir Canada and in charge of expanding Palantir’s Canadian presence. Prior to Palantir, Dennis spent 15 years leading & building high performing sales engines and selling a variety of analytics, automation, and data integration software into Canada’s largest organizations with a few stops as a strategic consultant along the way. He has founded, operationalized, and divested multiple start-ups over the past two decades. He is a native French speaker from the Maritimes on Canada’s East Coast. Dennis feels most at home solving complex business problems in challenging situations and winning in a team environment.

Dr. Khaled El Emam is co-founder and General Manager of Replica Analytics, an Aetion company that develops data synthesis technology. He is a Canada Research Chair (Tier 1) in Medical AI at the University of Ottawa, where he is a Professor in the School of Epidemiology and Public Health.  He is also a Senior Scientist at the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario Research Institute.

As an entrepreneur, Khaled founded or co-founded six companies involved with data management and data analytics. In 2003 and 2004, he was ranked as the top systems and software engineering scholar worldwide by the Journal of Systems and Software based on his research on measurement and quality evaluation and improvement.

Previously, Khaled was a Senior Research Officer at the National Research Council of Canada. He also served as the head of the Quantitative Methods Group at the Fraunhofer Institute in Kaiserslautern, Germany.

Khaled held the Canada Research Chair in Electronic Health Information at the University of Ottawa from 2005 to 2015. He has a PhD from the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, King’s College, at the University of London, England.