Helsinki Data Science Meetup December 2017 - Analytics goes Gambling

Dear all,

Welcome to the next Helsinki Data Science Meetup! This time the get-together will be hosted by Veikkaus on Thursday, December 7, 2017. Our location is the new Veikkaus headquarters at Aku Korhosen tie 2 in Pohjois-Haaga, Helsinki.

Veikkaus is the Finnish state-owned gaming company that as of January 2017 consists of Fintoto, RAY, and (old) Veikkaus. Veikkaus operates all gambling games that are offered in Finland. It generates one billion Euros annually for the benefit of Finnish society. Veikkaus’ beneficiaries are active in the fields of culture, sports, science, youth work, social welfare, health and the equine industry.

In terms of consumer understanding and analytics, Veikkaus is known to be one of the forerunners in Finland. In our December meetup we will hear about and learn from their success stories.

The meetup agenda is as follows:

17:30-18:00 Networking, drinks & snacks

18:00-18:10 Welcome words, Eetu Paloheimo, Director, Digital Sales and Customer Communication & Saara Hyvönen, Partner, DAIN Studios

18:10-18:30 Tero Kallioniemi, Head of Customer Intelligence, ”Overview of Veikkaus’ Customer Analytics”

18:30-18:50 Jarno Kiviaho, Data Scientist, ”Recommending content with contextual bandits”

18:50-19:20 Carlo Hyvönen, Lead Developer, “Implementing a recommender system API with Python”

19:20-19:40 Anders Levitski, Data Scientist, “Veikkaus’ Responsibility Model”

19:40-20:30 Networking

Binding sign-ups by Friday, December 1.

Looking forward to seeing you on December 7!

Eetu Paloheimo and DAIN Studios