PROGRAM

Day 1 (30 April)

8:15-9:00	Breakfast & Registration
9:00-9:15	Welcome by organizers and by SAS
9:15-9:45	Presentation of the vision for comprehensive data science initiative
9:45-10:15	NSERC Presentation: NSERC Partnership Grant Programs Speaker: Dr. Alejandra de Almeida, Research & Innovation Development Officer
10:15-10:45	Coffee break
10:45-11:45	Keynote 1: Creating a Data Science Centric Organization - Challenges and Opportunities Speaker: Dr. Sallie Keller, Director, Social and Decision Analytics Lab and Professor of Statistics, Virginia Tech
11:45-12:00	Organization for break-out sessions
12:00-13:30	Lunch
13:30-15:00	Break-out sessions
15:00-15:30	Coffee break
15:30-17:00	Panel: User perspectives of data science           Panelists (alphabetical):                     Michael Friedman, Scotiabank                     Claude Julien, Statistics Canada                     Brian Keng, Rubikloud                     Brian Mereweather, Roche Canada                     Eugene Wen, Manulife

Day 2 (1 May)

8:15-9:00	Breakfast & Registration
9:00-10:30	Break-out session reports
10:30-11:00	Coffee break
11:00-12:00	Keynote 2: Building a Data Science Environment: A View from the Trenches Speaker: Dr. Juliana Freire, Executive Director, NYU Moore-Sloan Data Science Environment and Professor of Computer Science & Engineering and Data Science, NYU
12:00-13:30	Lunch
13:30-14:30	Discussion and next steps
14:30	Adjournment