Using Machine Learning in E-Commerce w/ Rokt

Speaker

Yan Xu

Details

Join us on premise at the Rokt headquarters to learn about how ML is used in e-commerce!

Rokt is an e-commerce technology company that uses ML across all aspects of the e-commerce landscape. From recommender systems to demand forecasting, they use ML at scale in production for e-commerce across many different industries.

This presentation will be given by their head of ML, and will be an in depth guide to how they use ML inside their own company to solve a variety of real-world problems.

Items discussed will include the following:

- Overview of the use of ML in e-commerce
- How to overcome the cold start problem in recommender systems
- Challenges in behavior prediction and how to overcome sampling bias
- Modeling market concentration

Refreshments will be provided and guests will have a chance to talk with one another after the event with company employees and each other.

This promises to be a super relevant talk that cuts right to the heart of what actually works in production within an industry from a leading voice in the field.

This talk will be held on-premise at Rokt NY headquarters, to give you an up-close look at how the company operates.

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July 12, 2023
6:30 pm
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8:30 pm
July 12, 2023
In Person
175 Varick St, Level 10, New York, NY 10014

While this event is FREE, tickets are required & space is limited!

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About the speaker

Yan Xu

Data Scientist

Yan is the director of ML Engineering at Rokt. He has worked as an ML Engineer at Meta, and a Research Scientist at AWS. He specializes in applying ML to large scale solutions to in AdTech, Recommenders and Behavior sampling.

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