2024 Inaugural Fall Conference at UT

The inaugural fall conference of the UT Data Science Institute was held from September 12-13, 2024 on the UT Agricultural Campus in the new ‘Agriculture and Natural Resources’ building. Thirty-four attendees across seven companies participated in this inaugural conference. Member companies included Hexion, Huber Engineered Woods, Louisiana-Pacific Corp., and Roseburg Forest Products. Non-member companies that accepted a special invitation to participate were Dieffenbacher, Hood Industries, and West Fraser.

The first day of the conference included four keynote speakers:

Dr. Marianne Wanamaker, Dean - UT Baker School — Dr. Marianne Wanamaker, Dean UT Baker School (‘*Labor Markets and Future Employees in the Era of Data Science’*)

Mikhail Golovnya, Senior Advisory Data Scientist - Minitab — Mikhail Golovnya, Senior Advisory Data Scientist – Minitab (*‘Data Science and Future for Machine Learning and AI’*)

Ross Metusalem, Senior Systems Engineer - JMP Statistical Discovery — Ross Metusalem, Senior Systems Engineer – JMP Statistical Discovery (*‘Data Science for Manufacturing Excellence: From Six Sigma t Deep Learning’*)

Bob Muenchen, Creator of 'r4stats' — Bob Muenchen, Creator of ‘r4stats’ (*‘Open Source Data Science User Interfaces’*)

Members showcased their companies with presentations to UT students. A networking dinner was held at the end of day one with the UT students’ and staff at the annual fall ‘Welcome Back Barbecue’.

Day two of the conference included technical workshops on JMP, Minitab and R. The conference concluded with the 2024 Executive Board Meeting.

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