ISyE Seminar Series: Dan Atkins
"So What? (and Sideways)"Presentation by Dan Atkins Wednesday, October 20 *Required attendance for students in IE 5773, 8773, and 8774 |
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About the seminar: This talk will wander through a career spent in analytics offering insights into what matters in the real world and reflections on things that don't. Hopefully, students will leave with additional perspective that will assist them in their careers. Atkins will also talk about the tech community locally and why students should engage. |
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Bio:
Dan Atkins is the President of MinneAnalytics, acting as a sort of particle collider smashing together not only tech, math, and the domain, but also enterprise, startups, and academia to create new elements of community entanglement. Atkins is a classically trained capitalist that's 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.
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