Beena Ammanath, Head of Data Science, GE

In this session Beena Ammanath, Data Science Products at General Electric sat with Vishal Kumar, CEO AnalyticsWeek and shared her journey as an analytics executive, life @ GE, future of analytics in industrial sector, how Predix is helping other industrial companies cope up with growing data, and some challenges/Opportunities she's observing as an analytics executive. Here's Beena's Bio: Beena Ammanath is Board Director at ChickTech and Head of Data Science Products at General Electric. She is a seasoned technology leader with over 24 years proven track record of building and leading high performance teams from the ground-up focused on strategy and successful execution of industrial scale technology products and services. She has an impressive track record having worked at recognized international organizations British Telecom, E*trade, Thomson Reuters, Bank of America and also, Silicon Valley startups, in engineering and management positions. She is also helping build the next gen of computer scientists through her role on the Industry Advisory Board for Cal Poly. She holds a Masters in Computer Science and MBA in Finance. She has been a featured speaker on the topics of data science, big data, technology transformation and women in leadership, at numerous industry conferences. Throughout her career in technology, Beena has been a strong advocate for women in positions of technology leadership and has established herself as a voice for resolving gender disparities. Follow @beena_ammanath Podcast is sponsored by: TAO.ai(https://tao.ai), Artificial Intelligence Driven Career Coach About #Podcast: #FutureOfData podcast is a conversation starter to bring leaders, influencers and lead practitioners to come on show and discuss their journey in creating the data driven future. Wanna Join? If you or any you know wants to join in, Register your interest @ http://play.analyticsweek.com/guest/ Want to sponsor? Email us @ info@analyticsweek.com Keywords: FutureOfData Data Analytics Leadership Podcast Big Data Strategy