Description:

CDL and MLDS are proud to welcome Adam Stokes, Director of Data Science, Modeling, and Segmentation at Ahold Delhaize USA for his seminar "Demand Modeling Overview – Examples and reflections from a career in forecasting"

Abstract: Adam will cover his journey through his Data Science career – how I landed in data science and the projects I have worked on. Additionally, Adam will showcase some example of projects he and his teams have worked on throughout his data science journey. Along with project examples, Adam will provide his commentary on popular business problems, implementation issues, and what trends he sees for the future.

Bio: Adam has spent most of his post-graduate career in demand modeling and the use cases attached to demand. He has led data science teams responsible for building and maintaining the demand models for all McDonald’s restaurants across North America and Japan, was the Development lead for McDonald’s A/B testing platform for mobile offers, led the development of Machine Learning capabilities in Demand Forecasting across the globe for Kraft Heinz, and currently leads a team at Ahold Delhaize responsible for customer level modeling, segmentation, and forecasting.