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Peter Skomoroch

Former Head of AI Automation at Workday

Workday

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Peter Skomoroch is an entrepreneur, investor, and the former Head of Data Products at Workday and LinkedIn. He was Co-Founder and CEO of SkipFlag, a venture backed deep learning startup acquired by Workday in 2018. Peter is a senior executive with extensive experience building and running teams that develop products powered by data and machine learning. He was an early member of the data team at LinkedIn, the world's largest professional network with over 500 million members worldwide. As a Principal Data Scientist at LinkedIn, he led data science teams focused on reputation, search, inferred identity, and building data products. He was also the creator of LinkedIn Skills and Endorsements, one of the fastest growing new product features in LinkedIn's history.</p>
<p>Before joining LinkedIn, Peter was Director of Analytics at Juice Analytics and a Senior Research Engineer at AOL Search. In a previous life, he developed price optimization models for Fortune 500 retailers, studied machine learning at MIT, and worked on Biodefense projects for DARPA and The Department of Defense. Peter has a B.S. in Mathematics and Physics from Brandeis University and research experience in Machine Learning and Neuroscience.

Conference Sessions

Foundations for ML at Scale: Where to Start in Your Organization

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TWIMLcon 2019

How do you set up machine learning projects to be successful, and what are the systems and processes you need to get the most out of your AI platform? This talk will describe the key patterns many organizations have followed to start shipping ML at scale. With the right conditions in place, you will see outsized impact across your company as new data products and ML models rapidly deploy at scale.