Overstock.com to Deliver Keynote at Spark + AI Summit
May 30 2018 - 9:00AM
Overstock.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:OSTK) has been selected to
deliver a keynote address during the world’s largest Apache Spark
event, the Spark + AI Summit taking place in San Francisco from
June 4-6. Chris Robison, lead data scientist at Overstock, has been
instrumental in building the leading artificial intelligence and
machine learning technologies to achieve real-time personalization
at Overstock. He will present on martech innovations in building a
successful marketing technology infrastructure for instantaneous
individualized marketing experiences.
“I’m honored to showcase our team’s work at the Spark + AI
Summit,” said Robison., “Our team is filled with some of the
industry’s leading minds, focused on creating cutting-edge
technology. What we have built, with tools like Databricks, brings
millisecond speeds to personalization.”
Robison is part of a keynote speaker lineup that features
presenters from companies at the cutting-edge of technology. More
than 4,000 attendees at the Spark + AI Summit, previously known as
Spark Summit, will participate in three days of training sessions,
presentations, and networking events. This year’s event will take
place at the Moscone West Convention Center and will include more
than 180 talks.
“Overstock’s marketing data science team built impressive
real-time personalization capabilities by combining real-time data
and AI using the Databricks Unified Analytics Platform,” said Rick
Schultz, Chief Marketing Officer at Databricks. “Having Overstock
showcase its ability to unify data engineering and data science
during the Spark + AI Summit keynote session will be extremely
valuable for our audience, who is looking to hear real world
examples of artificial intelligence.”
Robison’s keynote, titled From Batch to Real Time: Overstock’s
Journey towards Unifying Analytics Across Data Engineering and Data
Science, will be held on Wednesday, June 5 at 8:45 a.m. Following
the keynote, Overstock will hold a breakout session on Wednesday,
June 5 at 11:00 a.m., titled Data Science and Enterprise
Engineering, delving deeper into how data scientists and engineers
work in tandem to achieve real-time personalization at
Overstock.
For more information about the conference and to buy tickets,
visit databricks.com/sparkaisummit.
About Overstock.com
Overstock.com, Inc. Common Shares (NASDAQ:OSTK) / Series A
Preferred (Medici Ventures’ tZERO platform: OSTKP) / Series B
Preferred (OTCQX:OSTBP) is an online retailer based in Salt Lake
City, Utah that sells a broad range of products at low prices,
including furniture, décor, rugs, bedding, and home improvement. In
addition to home goods, Overstock.com offers a variety of products
including jewelry, electronics, apparel, and more, as well as a
marketplace providing customers access to hundreds of thousands of
products from third-party sellers. Additional stores include Pet
Adoptions and Worldstock.com dedicated to selling artisan-crafted
products from around the world. Forbes ranked Overstock in its list
of the Top 100 Most Trustworthy Companies in 2014. Overstock
regularly posts information about the company and other related
matters under Investor Relations on its website,
http://www.overstock.com.
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This press release contains certain forward-looking statements
within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and
Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. Such
forward-looking statements include all statements other than
statements of historical fact. Additional information regarding
factors that could materially affect results and the accuracy of
the forward-looking statements contained herein may be found in the
Company's Form 10-Q for the quarter ended March 31, 2018, which was
filed with the SEC on May 8, 2018, and any subsequent filings with
the SEC.
SOURCE: Overstock.com, Inc.
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