Tue 29 May 2018 | 6:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Rise Auditorium 5th floor - Ahad Haam 54, Tel AViv, FREE
* This event will be held in English.
Details
18:30-19:00 – Networking
19:00-19:40 – Full Stack Culture @ Booking.com
19:40-19:50 – 10 minutes break
19:50 – 20:30 – Recommender Systems: A view from the trenches.
Talk 1 – Full Stack Culture @ Booking.com
How does the Booking.com culture helps a developer to quickly start contributing to code? What are the responsibilities of a developer in Booking.com? How much impact do you have as an employee in a really large company.
Join Ronen and learn about the full stack culture in Booking.com and hear about his career growth.
Talk 2 – Recommender Systems: A view from the trenches.
Booking.com, the world’s largest online travel agent applies Recommender Systems to improve customers experience at every step of their journey. We successfully design, build, and deploy dozens of recommender systems that today serve predictions for hundreds of millions of users every day. In this talk we present our business cases, how we solve them, what challenges we found and what we have learnt ‘from the trenches’.
Speakers:
Ronen Kluska | Full Stack Developer
Ronen has more than 5 years of experience as a developer in the Israeli Tech industry. He joined Booking.com 6 months ago and is currently working in a team that is responsible for improving the experience for frequent bookers by using latest AI models.
Lucas Bernardi | Principal Data Scientist
Lucas is a Principal Data Scientist at booking.com. His main focuses are Recommender Systems and Personalization. He leads the Machine Learning Productionization team and also contributes to the Booking.com experimentation framework. He blogs about data science and has contributed to articles published in SIGIR, RecSys and WSDM. He is an Engineer with background in Computer Science and Software Engineering.
