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Andreas Weigend is the former Amazon Chief Scientist. He specializes in understanding the behavior of people and customers on the Internet.
Andreas Weigend’s expertise is the future of big data, social-mobile technologies, and consumer behavior. He studies people and the data they create. In today's increasingly digitized world, consumers share data in unprecedented ways. Weigend advises companies that want to embrace this new reality of social data. In collaboration with him, they design interactive platforms and real-time systems that empower them and their customers to make better decisions. As Amazon's former chief scientist, Weigend helped create the firm's data strategy and customer-centric culture.
Andreas Weigend is a professor at Stanford University and UC Berkeley, Director of the Social Data Lab, and is also a speaker at corporate events and top conferences around the globe. He received his Ph.D. in Physics from Stanford University after studying in Germany and Cambridge, UK.
For the last 20 years, Andreas Weigend has worked with global clients including Alibaba, Best Buy, Goldman Sachs, Lufthansa, SAP, SingTel, Thomson Reuters, and the World Economic Forum, as well as with many successful and exciting startups. In workshops and corporate seminars, he helps clients define customer-centric metrics of engagement and design incentives that inspire users to create and share. Weigend takes pride in the co-creation of innovative products and business models that are anchored in a solid data strategy.
Andreas Weigend gave the keynote at the Federal Trade Commission's symposium on Comprehensive Data Collection and at MasterCard's International Advisory Board meeting on The Untapped Power of Data: Refining the New Oil. He has spoken at GE's Data Forecast event on What's Next in Data Science and the Tata Innovation Forum on The Art of Big Data. Weigend also shared the stage with Phil Kotler at the World Marketing Forum 2013 and with Susan Athey and Hal Varian at the NBER Summer Institute.
Andreas Weigend teaches undergraduate, graduate, MBA, and executive courses at top schools in the US and China. He leverages his broad industry experience on the untapped power of data and encourages his students to explore real-world scenarios and solve actual business problems.
Andreas Weigend likes to challenge the audience to see the amazing possibilities the social data revolution has for people, business, and society. He shares his insights at corporate events for companies including Google, HP, IBM, Capital One, Otto, Sony and Volkswagen, as well as at conferences organized by The Economist, Condé Nast, and others.
