Forget Big Data, Think Machine Learning – Jane Zavalishina, Yandex Data Factory

What does machine learning revolution mean? Jane Zavalishina from Yandex Data Factory is answering this question in her talk at Big Data Week Conference 2015.

What does machine learning revolution mean? Are our jobs going to be replaced by robots? How should companies prepare for this change? In this talk Jane will share examples of how machine learning can be applied in different industries – including retail, advertising, gaming – and guide on where to start and how to incorporate these new technologies in business strategies.

About Jane Zavalishina

Jane is CEO of Yandex Data Factory. She ensures that the company fulfills its mission of finding new ways for utilizing Yandex’s big data processing and machine learning technologies outside their core applications and markets.

Before taking up the leadership of this new business, Jane was serving as Chief Executive Officer of Yandex’s e-commerce payment service Yandex.Money, which she joined in 2005. Under Jane’s leadership Yandex.Money became one of the strongest players on the country’s e-commerce market and one of the most recognized e-payment brands in this county.

Prior to becoming head of Yandex.Money, Jane served as Chief Product Officer at Yandex. In this role, she helped Yandex to reach the leading position on the internet market in Russia and gain popularity with its wide range of web-based products and services.

Alongside her duties as CEO of Yandex Data Factory, Mrs Zavalishina remains on the board of directors of Yandex.Money.