Beena Ammanath, Head of Data Science, GE

Beena Ammanath, Head of Data Science, GE

Author: AnalyticsWeek September 23, 2016 Duration: 42:32
In this session, Beena Ammanath, Data Science Products at General Electric, sat with Vishal Kumar, CEO AnalyticsWeek and shared her journey as an analytics executive, life @ GE, future of analytics in the industrial sector, how Predix is helping other industrial companies cope up with growing data, and some challenges/Opportunities she's observing as an analytics executive. Timeline: 0:29 Beena's journey. 5:19 Data science in the manufacturing sector. 7:03 Driving data science in the manufacturing sector. 9:39 Bringing in the data culture into the manufacturing sector. 11:35 Upskilling and being relevant as a data scientist. 13:27 Hacks to managing data teams well. 16:08 What's Predix? 19:06 Investment opportunities for data science in manufacturing. 21:07 Challenges manufacturing businesses in data. 24:46 IoT and manufacturing. 25:18 Dealing with IoT vendors at Predix. 26:24 Ontology of data at Predix. 29:43 Dealing with the new rules and laws in the IoT sector. 31:30 Interesting use cases in the manufacturing industry. 34:37 Open source vs. enterprise. 35:35 Getting recruited as a data scientist in manufacturing. 40:07 Pitching your product for a manufacturing company. Podcast link: https://futureofdata.org/leadership-playbook-with-beena-ammanath-ge/ Here's Beena's Bio: Beena Ammanath is Board Director at ChickTech and Head of Data Science Products at General Electric. She is a seasoned technology leader with over 24 years of a proven track record of building, and leading high-performance teams from the ground-up focused on strategy and successful execution of industrial scale technology products and services. She has an impressive track record, having worked at recognized international organizations British Telecom, E*trade, Thomson Reuters, Bank of America, and Silicon Valley startups in engineering and management positions. She is also helping build the next-gen of computer scientists through her role on the Industry Advisory Board for Cal Poly. She holds a Masters in Computer Science and an MBA in Finance. She has been a featured speaker on the topics of data science, big data, technology transformation, and women in leadership at numerous industry conferences. Throughout her career in technology, Beena has been a strong advocate for women in positions of technology leadership and has established herself as a voice for resolving gender disparities. Follow @beena_ammanath The podcast is sponsored by: TAO.ai(https://tao.ai), Artificial Intelligence Driven Career Coach About #Podcast: #FutureOfData podcast is a conversation starter to bring leaders, influencers, and lead practitioners to discuss their journey to create the data-driven future. Want to Join? If you or any you know wants to join in, Register your interest @ http://play.analyticsweek.com/guest/ Want to sponsor? Email us @ info@analyticsweek.com Keywords: #FutureOfData #DataAnalytics #Leadership #Podcast #BigData #Strategy

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