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

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TAO.ai(https://tao.ai), Artificial Intelligence Driven Career Coach

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