VANCOUVER, British Columbia--(BUSINESS WIRE)--PHEMI, the company delivering big data solutions with built-in privacy, security, and governance and enterprise-grade management, today announced the participation of its Chief Data Science Officer Dr. Roy Wilds in an upcoming free webinar to be held Thursday, September 29 from 1:00-2:00 PM ET.
The webinar entitled “Big Data from the Trenches: The Researcher and Data Scientist Weigh In” will also include perspectives from Rebecca Laborde, Principal Field Scientist, Oracle, and will be moderated by Sean Sigmon, Healthcare Business Development Director at Oracle. Speakers will focus on defining a future for big data and information analytics that can lead to a more successful information technology environment. Discussion will explore how accelerated research in areas like cancer, precision medicine, and genomics can be achieved by empowering data science and discovery teams with tools to realize new insights more quickly.
WEBINAR
Big Data from the Trenches: The Researcher and Data
Scientist Weigh In
MODERATOR
Sean Sigmon, Healthcare Business Development
Director, Oracle
SPEAKERS
Roy Wilds, PhD, Chief Data Science Officer, PHEMI
Rebecca
Laborde, PhD, Principal Field Scientist, Oracle Health Science
WHEN/WHERE
Thursday, September 29 from 1:00-2:00 PM ET.
Register
Free Online
SPEAKER BIOS
Roy Wilds, PhD, Chief Data Science Officer,
PHEMI
Roy Wilds leads the data science team at PHEMI Systems,
and is responsible for designing and building data analytics and data
science software to extract insights from data. Prior to becoming the
Chief Data Science Officer, Roy was the Director of Product Management
responsible for PHEMI Central™ product development and strategy. PHEMI
Central is a big data warehouse that takes advantage of the power,
scalability, and flexibility of Hadoop while providing fully integrated
privacy, security, governance, and data management—all built right in.
Roy has advanced knowledge in machine learning theory, a strong background in Python, R, and SQL, and substantial expertise using Hadoop's distributed technologies. He graduated with an Honors Bachelor of Science from Simon Fraser University in the Department of Physics, obtained his Master of Science from McGill University in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, and holds a Doctor of Philosophy in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics from McGill University
Rebecca Laborde, PhD, Principal Field Scientist, Oracle Health Science
Rebecca
earned her PhD in Molecular Genetics from Iowa State University before
moving onto postdoctoral studies at Mayo clinic in Rochester MN. Her
work at Mayo focused on genomic studies in solid tumor, hematology and
immunotherapy to support translational research and precision medicine.
Rebecca also held an adjunct faculty position at the University of
Minnesota with the bachelors of health science program. She now supports
translational research and precision medicine product lines with Oracle
healthcare in a customer-facing role as a principal field scientist.
About PHEMI
PHEMI delivers privacy, security, governance and
enterprise-grade management for big data. Its flagship product, PHEMI
Central, embeds and enforces consent, data sharing agreements and
privacy policies at the data level, removing a critical roadblock
standing in the way of enterprises that aim to become data-driven.
PHEMI Central lets organizations easily access and mine any variety of data at any volume to drive insights that lower costs, improve outcomes, and allow better decisions faster. PHEMI brings both privacy and performance to big data. For more information visit http://www.phemi.com/ and follow us on Twitter.
