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Cathy O'Neil
New York Times, best-selling author and mathematician
Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality
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Cathy O’Neil is the author of the New York Times best-selling Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy, which was also a semifinalist for the National Book Award. She is a columnist for Bloomberg Opinion and founded the company ORCAA, an algorithmic auditing company.
She earned a Ph.D. in math from Harvard, was a postdoctoral fellow in the MIT math department, and was a professor at Barnard College where she published a number of research papers in arithmetic algebraic geometry. She then switched over to the private sector, working as a quantitative analyst for the hedge fund, D.E. Shaw, in the middle of the credit crisis, and then for RiskMetrics, a risk software company that assesses risk for the holdings of hedge funds and banks. She left finance in 2011 and started working as a data scientist in the New York start-up scene, building models that predicted people’s purchases and clicks.
Cathy wrote Doing Data Science in 2013 and launched the Lede Program in Data Journalism at Columbia in 2014.
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Wanda Ganjehsani
Founder and CEO
Foundation of Performance, LLC.
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Wanda has over twenty years of experience in both the government and private sectors. She is passionate about helping organizations get the best from their people and optimize the business environment to deliver measurable results.
She is a creative, innovative educator, and engaging communicator with a track record of revitalizing operations and enabling business results, achieved through corporate training programs, employee engagement, change management, and other organizational effectiveness solutions. She does not subscribe to the "one size fits all" solution. Instead, she works as a strategic partner to identify performance gaps and provide solutions which align with individual business goals.
