ISyE Seminar “So What? (and Sideways)”

3:00 - Reception
3:30 p.m. - Graduate seminar

*Required attendance for students in IE 5773, 8773, and 8774
*Note time change of reception and seminar

About the seminar

This talk will outline a career spent in the analytics field, offering insights into what matters in the real world and reflections on things that don't. Students will leave with additional perspectives that will assist them in their careers. Atkins will also talk about the tech community locally and why students should engage with it.

About the speaker

Dan Atkins is the President of MinneAnalytics, acting as a particle collider that smashes together not only tech, math, and the domain, but also enterprise, startups, and academia to create new elements of community engagement.

Atkins is a classically trained capitalist, but culturally a startup operating in the enterprise. He spent two decades successfully running an independent analytics consultant. Over nights and weekends, he co-founded and has led the nation's largest local emerging tech and data science community.