# data[].attributes.body
I'd like to hear how your very first stand-up was.

# data[].attributes.headline
Ideas for breaking down silos within the team. Trying to get more cross functional but I keep hearing we don't have time or resources to spend on training.

# data[].attributes.subject
Ideas for breaking down silos within the team. Trying to get more cross functional but I keep hearing we don't have time or resources to spend on training.

# data[].attributes.body
Is that thing called "acceptance criteria" really that important?

# data[].attributes.headline
I'm Erin Hill, aka your facilitator for this session and ScrumRVA Organizer.

# data[].attributes.subject
I'm Erin Hill, aka your facilitator for this session and ScrumRVA Organizer.

# data[].attributes.body
This year, I have finally started writing to share publicly, in hopes of helping people along their continuous learning journeys. Please check out my blog, The Agile Educator. I would love your feedback and suggestions! Let's connect on LinkedIn, too: https://www.linkedin.com/in/erinmhill/

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.description
While these methods work in most adjacent career fields, I specifically tested them with success in charting my course from being a high school humanities teacher to Agile Delivery Lead/scrum master in a financial firm that operates like a tech organization. I will share these transition steps in the vein of a "stop, start, continue" retrospective.

# data[].attributes.body
Hi guys, my name is Srabana Aich and I am a newly certified scrum master. I look forward to discussing scrum and hope to network with fellow CSM. I am hoping for guidance on how to gather experience in this field since I don't have any Scrum related experience.

# data[].attributes.headline
Scan QR Code with Your Camera to Access Padlet

# data[].attributes.subject
Scan QR Code with Your Camera to Access Padlet

# data[].attributes.body
Hi! My name is Sandy Brown and I am a newly certified scrum master looking to connect with a group of like-minded Agile professionals. I hope to learn from the experiences of others!

# data[].attributes.body
Hi I'm Jenn Moore. I'm a SM, ADL and Kanban Ninja.

If you are looking for a SM or PO role or know someone who is have them reach to me on LinkedIn www.linkedin.com/in/jenngmoore/

# data[].attributes.body
Good afternoon everyone!! I am a New IT Project Manager/Scrum Master. Former Systems Engineer. Now scrum master since 10/2021 I have currently have PSM I,PSM II, and SAFe 5 Scrum Master cert. 😬 I am new looking here so hello everyone!

I am also currently looking for a job opportunity as an IT Project/Scrum Master

# data[].attributes.body
Hello everyone! I'm a scrum master and quality professional responsible for manual and automated/performance testing. I'm curious about others' experiences with their teams and look to hopefully pick up some tips along the way.
www.linkedin.com/in/eric-meyers-0411392/

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.description
750 million+ members | Manage your professional identity. Build and engage with your professional network. Access knowledge, insights and opportunities.

# data[].attributes.headline
Evening folks!  I'm Heather ex-director of innovation (and now director of enterprise architecture)

# data[].attributes.subject
Evening folks!  I'm Heather ex-director of innovation (and now director of enterprise architecture)

# data[].attributes.body
Hi, Andrew Coiner Ashburn VA currently at Oracle , Hope to be in Richmond soon.

# data[].attributes.body
Long time scrum stalker.  Have job open for SM role and other roles @ https://www.flashpoint-intel.com/careers/

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.description
Help pioneer a paradigm shift in Business Risk Intelligence and Dark Web. We’re undertaking unprecedented work here at Flashpoint. Our challenges are at

# data[].attributes.body
I am Marianne from Chesterfield. Happy to be with you all tonight

# data[].attributes.headline
I'm Detra Washington! I am an ESOL Teacher. I am currently looking into changing careers to a Scrum Master

# data[].attributes.subject
I'm Detra Washington! I am an ESOL Teacher. I am currently looking into changing careers to a Scrum Master

# data[].attributes.body
I'm the second cousin twice removed, I am a SM and a PMP

# data[].attributes.body
Hello everyone, my name Tony, I am a scrum master in training, I am a TV/Film production personnel and I am based in Mississauga ,Ontario. Looking to learn and take up any volunteer opportunity .

# data[].attributes.body
DoD Knowledge Manager, focused on business process, operating rhythm management and general staff mayhem

# data[].attributes.body
Technical Product Owners

# data[].attributes.body
Review product owner responsibilities

# data[].attributes.headline
This is Ratha, ex Scrum Master, ex RTE, now manage an Agile Delivery team for a health care company doing scaled agile now....   it was difficult explaining what a scrum master is to my in-laws as they think I made it up :-)

# data[].attributes.subject
This is Ratha, ex Scrum Master, ex RTE, now manage an Agile Delivery team for a health care company doing scaled agile now....   it was difficult explaining what a scrum master is to my in-laws as they think I made it up :-)

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.readable_text
RVA's leading Data Conference Returns March 2022.

Join the technology community March 2022, for our next conference full of innovation, in-depth workshops, and incredible presentations given by a diverse line-up of expert speakers + thought leaders at rvatech/DataSummit. Get immersed in the world of Data & discover the trends, and innovations shaping the future of technology!

Register Now

About the Event
Tech is continuously evolving and innovating, making it essential to stay ahead of the curve and explore the year's trending technology. In 2022, artificial intelligence and data science are continuing to move from the realm of university research to be a critical part of a software developers toolkit and a key differentiator for forward-leaning companies.

Schedule
9:30 AM - 5:oo PM

Student Tickets

Discount Rate - The special discounted rate for student tickets is 25% off. That's $50 off the regular ticket price!

Discount code: DATA22STUDENT
**All student tickets must provide a student .edu email address when registering**

Venue
Science Museum of Virginia - Dewey Gottwald Center
2301 W Leigh Street Richmond, VA 23220

Where exactly am I going?

The Dewey Gottwald Center is located behind the museum. Parking lot entrance located off of West Leigh Street or DMV Drive.

Where do I park?

Science Museum parking is ample and free. Spaces near the front of the building are designated for guests with mobility challenges. All other guests should park in the lot located directly behind the Science Museum off West Leigh Street or DMV Drive.

You may also view a detailed parking map here.

Dr. Scott Penberthy

Director, Applied AI, Office of the CTO

at Google

Session: Thinking like Newton

Dr. Scott will share his perspective and personal experience on the journey from being a kid playing baseball and writing code in Midlothian Va, to the rise of AI and Machine Learning, its use in business and most recently the discovery of the source code to life. He'll show how simple curiosities can lead to grand discoveries, often by making naive observations and asking what at first appear to be stupid questions. These are now leading to the vaccination of millions against terrible disease, the prevention of cancer, and soon perhaps a cure for gray hair.

Ovetta Sampson

V.P. Machine Learning Experience Design & Responsible Artificial Intelligence at Capital One

Dr. Timothy Haas

Professor of Statistics and Wildlife Conservation

Author at University of Wisconsin

Session: How Firms can Apply Data Science to Save Species

Ecosystem loss, extinctions and climate change are ongoing challenges to life on Earth, and coming up with a plan to tackle their effects requires an accurate picture of what's happening where, and who is involved.

Prof Tim Haas, University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, has taught and refined such models for years. In his latest paper, he lays out the case for a model unifying human behaviour, climate and ecosystem data, the computational power required to run it, and the credibility criteria any model should meet to prove its worth.

9:30 - 10 AMRegistration + Morning Networking

10 - 10:50 AM | Keynote - Dr. Timothy Haas"How Firms can Apply Data Science to Save Species"

Speaker: Dr. Timothy Haas - Univ. of Wisconsin
Ecosystem loss, extinctions and climate change are ongoing challenges to life on Earth, and coming up with a plan to tackle their effects requires an accurate picture of what's happening where, and who is involved.

Prof Tim Haas, University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, has taught and refined such models for years. In his latest paper, he lays out the case for a model unifying human behaviour, climate and ecosystem data, the computational power required to run it, and the credibility criteria any model should meet to prove its worth.

10:50 - 11:20 AM | Keynote - Ovetta Sampson V.P Machine Learning Experience Design & Responsible AI at Capital One

11:25 AM - 12:05 PM | Breakout Session #1"Machine Learning Orchestration with Airflow"Data Ethics Panel

Session: Machine Learning Orchestration with Airflow Speaker: Dr. Santona Tuli - Astronomer
While more popular as a ETL and data engineering tool, Airflow is also extremely powerful at orchestrating machine learning pipelines. In this talk, I show how you can write complete end-to-end pipelines starting with retrieving raw data to serving ML predictions to end-users, entirely in Airflow.

A plethora of tools have flooded the field of data science, many of which have overlapping functionality. As a data scientist‚ especially as one from a traditionally disenfranchised background with limited resources‚ selecting and learning the right tools in order to maximize one's competitiveness in the job market, can be intimidating and, possibly, challenging. In this talk, I will walk through an end-to-end data science workflow using only easily accessible open-source software (OSS). Many of these OSS in fact form the basis of the enterprise products that companies purchase as tools for their data professionals to use. Knowing the underlying software can give data scientists the competitive advantage of being tool-agnostic and quick at picking up new tools in an ever-evolving landscape. We will use OSS for data featurization, machine learning model training and serving as well as validation and visualization of results.

Session: Panel on Data Ethics
Speakers: Abigail Byram - Data Engineer at SingleStone Consulting Jodi Kuhn - Director, Office of Data Quality and Visualization at Commonwealth of Virginia Zachary Knitter - Data Engineer, Office of Data Quality and Visualization at Commonwealth of Virginia

12:05 - 1 PMLunch Break + NetworkingLive Data Privacy Podcast Session

Lunch provided by Groovin' Gourmet Live Podcast on Data Privacy and Governance
Featured Guests:

Marcus Thornton, Deputy Chief Data Officer - Virginia Office of Data Governance and Analytics

Souj Narasimhacharya, Senior Vice President of Engineering - Koalafi

Ford Prior, Principal Cloud Engineer - CarMax

1- 1:45 PM | Breakout Session #2"From Model to Micro-service - ML Deployments At Scale" "Achieving Data Acumen: Improving Workforce Literacy"

Session: From Model to Micro-service - ML Deployments At Scale
Speaker: Ed Shee, Head of Developer Relations at Seldon
Until recently, the data science / machine learning field has been pretty immature in it's adoption of DevOps tools and processes. That's now changing rapidly as engineering teams realise that, in order to gain any value from their ML models, they need to get them into production.

In this talk, Ed will introduce the open source Seldon Core library and show how it simplifies the steps required to containerise, serve, log and monitor an ML model during deployment. Ed will demonstrate live how to build a model using popular machine learning tools, save and store the model artefact and then deploy it to Kubernetes to handle production traffic.

You will learn how to turn an ML model into a production microservice that handles REST/gRPC traffic and how to scale your deployment. You'll also learn how to use complex model deployment techniques and how to monitor both the infrastructure and the models themselves, spotting drift and outliers as they take place.
Session: Achieving Data Acumen: Improving Workforce Literacy Speaker: Peter Aiken - VCU & Anything Awesome

1:50- 2:25 PM | Breakout Session #3"Sculpting Data for Machine Learning""Principles of Building Greenfield Data Platforms"

Session: Sculpting Data for Machine Learning

Speakers: Jigyasa Grover, Machine Learning Engineer at Twitter Rishabh Misra, Machine Learning Engineer at Twitter

In the contemporary world of machine learning algorithms - "data is the new oil". For the state-of-the-art ML algorithms to work their magic it's important to lay a strong foundation with access to relevant data. Volumes of crude data are available on the web nowadays, and all we need are the skills to identify and extract meaningful datasets. This talk aims to present the power of the most fundamental aspect of Machine Learning - Dataset Curation, which often does not get its due limelight. It will also walk the audience through the process of constructing good quality datasets as done in formal settings with a simple hands-on Pythonic example. The goal is to institute the importance of data, especially in its worthy format, and the spell it casts on fabricating smart learning algorithms.

Session: Principles of Building Greenfield Data Platforms
Speaker: Sam Portillo, Data Engineer at Ippon

2:30 - 3:15 PM | Breakout Session #4"The Pre-cloud to Multi-Cloud journey with Cassandra on Kubernetes" "Not-so-good-vibrations: Electric Grid Oscillations and Unearned Data Wisdom"

Session: The Pre-cloud to Multi-Cloud journey with Cassandra on Kubernetes
Speaker: Raghavan "Rags" Srinivas, Lead multi-cloud Developer Advocate at Datastax
Although some of today's cloud properties, like elasticity, scalability, self-healing, durability, DR, etc. seemed revolutionary during the pre-cloud days, Cassandra had many of these properties already. With the ever growing popularity of Kubernetes, the k8ssandra open source project is intended to bring Cassandra's advantages to the cloud and help simplify operations.

The biggest challenge in the Kubernetes world today is multi-cloud. Although it is easy to conceptualize, it is hard to implement. Attend this session for a quick overview of Cassandra, k8ssandra and Astra (DBaas). You will see how the worlds of Cassandra and Kubernetes on the cloud collide in a remarkably cohesive way to incorporate the best of both.

After attending this primarily demo driven session, attendees will walk away with a good understanding of the k8ssandra project and how it is evolving to support multi-region and multi-cloud. Along this journey we will look at one-off deployments on GKE, EKS including multi-cloud (GKE and EKS). On EKS, we leverage EKS Kubefed.
Session: Not-so-good-vibrations: Electric Grid Oscillations and Unearned Data Wisdom
Speaker: Kevin Jones, Manager - Electric Transmission Operations Engineering Support at Dominion Energy
This will be a fun and novel session that will expose participants to new flavors of data as well as electric grid use cases that address some of the more pernicious challenges of decarbonization. The talk will be grounded (no pun intended) for the practitioner audience by then exploring the perils of applying unearned wisdom on data-focused digital transformation through the lens of this unique set of use cases and data types. It will conclude by providing a (possible) alternative framework, as well as its contemporary significance and necessity, for the transfer and application of such wisdom.

3:20 - 3:55 PM | Keynote - Dr. Scott Penberthy - Director of Applied AI, Office of the CTO at Google"Thinking like Newton"

Session: Thinking like Newton Speaker: Dr. Scott Penberthy, Director of Applied AI, Office of the CTO at Google
Dr. Scott will share his perspective and personal experience on the journey from being a kid playing baseball and writing code in Midlothian Va, to the rise of AI and Machine Learning, its use in business and most recently the discovery of the source code to life. He'll show how simple curiosities can lead to grand discoveries, often by making naive observations and asking what at first appear to be stupid questions. These are now leading to the vaccination of millions against terrible disease, the prevention of cancer, and soon perhaps a cure for gray hair.

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.title
2022 rvatech/Data Summit - Register Today!

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.description
Join the technology community March 2022, for our next conference full of innovation, in-depth workshops, and incredible presentations given by a diverse line-up of expert speakers + thought leaders at rvatech/DataSummit. Get immersed in the world of Data & discover the trends, and innovations shaping the future of technology!

# data[].attributes.headline
Have already started an Agile CoP, Product CoP, QA Automation CoP, any advice to starting an DevSecOps coP? ~Ratha

# data[].attributes.subject
Have already started an Agile CoP, Product CoP, QA Automation CoP, any advice to starting an DevSecOps coP? ~Ratha

# data[].attributes.headline
Hi, I'm James Stein.  I work as a Scrum Master for a large bank.  We are looking for scrum masters and agile coaches.  Please connect on LinkedIn if you are interested.

# data[].attributes.subject
Hi, I'm James Stein.  I work as a Scrum Master for a large bank.  We are looking for scrum masters and agile coaches.  Please connect on LinkedIn if you are interested.

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.description
750 million+ members | Manage your professional identity. Build and engage with your professional network. Access knowledge, insights and opportunities.

# data[].attributes.body
Hello, my name is Melanie (Lane) Anderson, I'm a member of Chris Eide's delivery team! I recently got a minor certification in scrum from Udemy, but I'm mostly here to learn from scrum masters what I can do better

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.readable_text
System Engineer with a demonstrated history of working in the Information Technology & Services industry. Over five years of experience of working with internal and external customers with diverse backgrounds. Capabilities in Microsoft Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Outlook, Access, SharePoint, Axure, Azure DevOps, Adobe XD, Software Integration Testing (SIT) and User Acceptance Testing (UAT). Strong skills in time management, prioritizing tasks and meeting tight deadlines. Familiarity of the Agile, Waterfall, and Kanban project management structures with a focus on Agile. Detailed oriented and organized with the ability to quickly learn new computer/mobile application and policies. Currently looking for Scrum Master, Project Manager/ Agile Coach Remote positions.

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.title
Monnazjea Finney-Thomas, M.S., PSM, PSM II,SSM - Information Technology Project Manager/ Scrum Master - Newport News Shipbuilding, A Division of Huntington Ingalls Industries | LinkedIn

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.description
System Engineer with a demonstrated history of working in the Information Technology & Services industry. Over five years of experience of working with internal and external customers with diverse backgrounds. Capabilities in Microsoft Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Outlook, Access, SharePoint, Axure, Azure DevOps, Adobe XD, Software Integration Testing (SIT) and User Acceptance Testing (UAT).

# data[].attributes.headline
Biggest gripe from a scrum master with the delivery team?

# data[].attributes.subject
Biggest gripe from a scrum master with the delivery team?

# data[].attributes.body
As a FedGov guy but the perspectives here are so interesting and different from my usual view. So thanks for the insights!

# data[].attributes.headline
PO on a team is talented, but taking over scrum master responsibilities. How much of a problem is that really? (Assuming team is highly functional)

# data[].attributes.subject
PO on a team is talented, but taking over scrum master responsibilities. How much of a problem is that really? (Assuming team is highly functional)

# data[].attributes.headline
How to get the team to engage in a retrospective?

# data[].attributes.subject
How to get the team to engage in a retrospective?

# data[].attributes.headline
(We've done it here before, but...) team building activities for virtual teams

# data[].attributes.subject
(We've done it here before, but...) team building activities for virtual teams

# data[].attributes.headline
Best practices for a scrum master in the transition to agile ~Cheryl

# data[].attributes.subject
Best practices for a scrum master in the transition to agile ~Cheryl

# data[].attributes.body
Anyone have experiences with SAFe to share? Or leading a team with non-traditional roles (no dev, no QA)?

# data[].attributes.headline
Best practices for a scrum master in the transition to agile ~ Cheryl

# data[].attributes.subject
Best practices for a scrum master in the transition to agile ~ Cheryl

# data[].attributes.body
Creative ways to keep scrum team engaged throughout the various scrum events.

# data[].attributes.body
Zum Stammtisch -best German food in Glendale,NY

# data[].attributes.body
Ho Wan
https://www.tripadvisor.com/Restaurant_Review-g48492-d1132244-Reviews-Ho_Wan-Richmond_Hill_New_York.html

Recommendation by Brett Patron

# data[].attributes.headline
Role of traditional managers in an Agile environment 

# data[].attributes.subject
Role of traditional managers in an Agile environment 

# data[].attributes.body
Andrew Coiner
https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrew-coiner-7a366432