Allstate's Analytics Center of Excellence Pushes the Data Science Innovation Pedal
Learn how Allstate puts models at the heart of its business.
Allstate serves as a leader in insurance by putting models at the heart of its business, leveraging data as a transformational enterprise asset. Using data and analytics to support claims processing, help deliver quotas, and guide thousands of decision-making actions across products, sales, operations, marketing, and claims, Allstate leads the industry in applying models and AI to critical business problems. At the core of this transformation is Allstate’s Analytics Center of Excellence, led by Meg Walters.
In this panel discussion, Meg, alongside Nick Elprin, CEO of Domino Data Lab, and John Ashley, GM of Finserve & Tech at NVIDIA, discuss how Allstate has scaled the Analytics CoE into a model building factory using Domino’s Enterprise MLOps platform to deliver massive productivity gains for data scientists. Watch now to learn:
- How to build a "Center of Excellence" to scale and operationalize data science productivity.
- What skillsets are required to bridge the gap across technical data scientists and line-of-business leaders.
- How Allstate creates an innovative culture around the latest data science techniques such as NLP, computer vision, weather, autonomous vehicles, & multi-modal modeling.
Meg Walters
Head of Analytics Center of Excellence, Allstate
Meg leads the Analytics Center of Excellence (ACOE), a data science unit tasked with providing access to cutting edge techniques, setting best practices, and expanding data science across Allstate.
The ACOE partners with universities to stay current with the latest academic research, applying research results to solve problems throughout the company while providing solutions and consulting in areas such as computer vision, natural language processing, general machine learning, and prescriptive analytics.
Prior to joining the ACOE, Meg developed analytics products for telematics, using sensors from phones and vehicles to assess driving risk. Meg has a Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of Rochester, New York.
Meg Walters
Head of Analytics Center of Excellence, Allstate
Nick Elprin
CEO and Co-founder, Domino Data Lab
Nick Elprin is the CEO and co-founder of Domino Data Lab, provider of the Enterprise MLOps platform that powers model-driven companies such as J&J, Ford, Dell, and Verizon.
Before starting Domino, Nick built tools for quantitative researchers at Bridgewater, one of the world’s largest hedge funds. He has over a decade of experience working with data scientists at advanced enterprises. He holds a B.A. and an M.S. in computer science from Harvard University.
Nick Elprin
CEO and Co-founder, Domino Data Lab
John Ashley
General Manager, Financial Services and Technology, NVIDIA
John Ashley leads the Global Financial Services Industry strategy team at NVIDIA. He started and led the Professional Services Deep Learning practice for NVIDIA and the NVIDIA Deep Learning Professional Services Partner program, working to help customers and partners adopt and deliver deep learning solutions.
John holds a doctorate in computational sciences and informatics, and B.S. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering. He also holds a U.S. patent in predictive analytics.
John Ashley
General Manager, Financial Services and Technology, NVIDIA
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