Navigating the New Normal: How Advances in AI Teach Humans a Better Way to Learn

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​TechBirmingham is continuing its popular Navigating the New Normal webinar series. Navigating the New Normal is designed for TechBirmingham members and member companies to present practical information, tips, and suggestions to our community.

Join us in welcoming Matt Cowell and Nathan Black from QuantHub.

Many of our long-standing learning methods have been largely misguided. How could we as humans apply machine learning methods to improve our own learning habits? In this discussion, we will talk through challenges with common learning practices, contrasting those with methods machines successfully use to learn, and drawing parallels to recent cognitive psychology research on effective learning. If you’re trying to learn new skills during quarantine but the information doesn’t seem to stick – this presentation is for you!
 
Matt Cowell serves as the CEO at QuantHub, spearheading the drive to help companies overcome the extreme analytics talent shortage and build exceptional data science and engineering teams. Matt has a passion for developing authentic relationships with customers to truly understand what drives them, and then crafting creative solutions to their most critical problems. Prior to joining QuantHub, Matt spent the last 15 years running product and tech at PE-backed companies, including building a product and engineering organization at Daxko to deliver 10xrevenue growth, 7 acquisitions, and 3 enormously successful recapitalizations in just 10 years. While at Daxko, Matt led the team to deliver the first machine learning/AI solution to the market, predicting customer membership churn and also propensity to donate.

Nathan Black is a Data Science Professional and AI Researcher with over 5 years of experience leading and working alongside quant teams to develop cutting-edge, end-to-end data solutions in manufacturing, healthcare, food retail, finance, and education industries. Nathan has a proven track record of using data to help people thrive, assisting organizations in capturing value from data and technology through the deployment of BI, Prescriptive Modeling, and Artificial Intelligence applications.

Navigating the New Normal is a free and open resource for our community members to learn more about different aspects of the tech space. We welcome members and nonmembers to join our webinars to learn more about the technology products we use in everyday business and life.

QuantHub is a TechBirmingham member organization.