DJ Patil and Andreas Weigend sit down and have a fascinating discussion covering the following “LinkedIn-related” topics: product development, organization, manipulation of data, being clever, exclusive LinkedIn insight. and much more!

DJ Patil‘s has diverse experiences in a wide range of domains. Strong experience in working in ambiguity to solve complex problems. Focus on strategy, development , operations, and defining unique solutions. Experience in developing unique solutions via broad partnerships. Always looking to innovate by bringing smart people together.

DJ has an excellent track record of innovating using data & machine learning to develop revenue generating products. Some of LinkedIn’s products include “People You May Know“, “Who Viewed My Profile” & “Groups You Might Like“. Currently DJ is Chief Scientist & Sr. Director – Product Analytics at LinkedIn.

Andreas Weigend is a former Chief Scientist at Amazon.com and the author of over 100 scientific papers on the application of machine learning techniques to finance and business problems.

Video filmed and produced by Shaun Tai.

LinkedIn is a business-oriented social networking site founded in December 2002 and launched in May 2003 mainly used for professional networking. As of May 2009, it had more than 40 million registered users, spanning 170 industries.

Reid Hoffman (Executive Chairman and co-Founder of LinkedIn) and Andreas Weigend have a great conversation covering the following topics: People are participants / interaction, psychological ecosystem, the idea that everybody is a small business, lead generation (of someone who looks ‘me’ up) vs. traditional advertising, looking at people in common: help with decision making, using the LinkedIn network as a lens, social construction, the notion of asymmetry, and the future of jobs namely “free agent nation.”

Reid Hoffman (born August 5, 1967) is an American entrepreneur and angel investor. Hoffman is best known as the founder of LinkedIn, a social network used primarily for business connections and job searching.

Andreas Weigend is a former Chief Scientist at Amazon.com and the author of over 100 scientific papers on the application of machine learning techniques to finance and business problems.

Video filmed and produced by Shaun Tai.

LinkedIn Tech Talk Series 6/05/2009 Panel Discussion: Going from SCALA to scale!

Martin Odersky – Creator of SCALA / Professor at EPFL.

Moderated by Arnold Goldberg – VP, Platform Engineering at LinkedIn.

Martin Odersky (born 5 September 1958) is a professor of programming methods at the EPFL. He specialises in code analysis and programming languages. Odersky designed the Scala programming language and Generic Java. Scala is a new programming language which fuses object-oriented and functional programming while staying completely interoperable with Java. Odersky was programme Chair of ECOOP 2004. In 2007 he was inducted as a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery.

Martin Odersky – Creator of SCALA / Professor at EPFL – Photo by Linda Poeng.

Nick Kallen – Systems Architect at Twitter – Photo by Linda Poeng.

David Pollak – Team lead for the LIFT Web Framework – Photo by Linda Poeng.

Some of the great team over at LinkedIn! – Photo by Linda Poeng.

LinkedIn is a business-oriented social networking site founded in December 2002 and launched in May 2003 mainly used for professional networking. As of May 2009, it had more than 40 million registered users, spanning 170 industries.

TECHAFFAIR would like to thank Reid Hoffman, Arnold Goldberg, and Mario Sundar for allowing us access to this intriguing tech talk.

Video filmed and produced by Shaun Tai.