Speaker

Keynote

• InnovatorMD Startup Showcase Keynote. May 16, 2024.

• Across the STEMverse: Keynote. Graduate Women in Sciences (GWiS), Los Angeles. March 9, 2024.

• International InspireSTEM Summit 2025: Keynote. NexHer for International Women's Day. Long Beach. March 30, 2025.

Founders

• AI Product Integration: The Good, The Bad, The Ugly + How to Navigate It. 

  • • Grid110. Virtual. April 25, 2025.

    • Mucker Capital. Mucker Growth Day at LATechWeek. October 15, 2024.

• Cutting Through the AI Hype: Tips to Prepare for AI Due Diligence.

  • • M Accelerator. Virtual. April 17, 2025.

    • Swissnex. Digital Trust + AI, Fall 2024 cohort.  Virtual. September 19, 2024.

• Reverse Pitch: Interactive Pitch Advice to Tell Your Product, Tech, and AI. Story. 

  • • Pasadena Coffee Meetup. Pasadena, CA. April, 2024.

    • Pitch Prep Workshop for First Look SoCal Presenters. Virtual. May 2, 2024.

• Office Hours with Me, virtually.

  • • SoCal Venture Pipeline: AI Venture Hour, March 8, 2024.

    • 805 Start-ups: Office Hour, April 25, 2024.

• AI AMA: Horror Stories, Wins, Advice, virtually.

  • • Emmeline Ventures, January 29, 2024.

    • Post-Exit Founders Community, February 16, 2024.

    • InnovatorMD University MasterClass on September 5, 2024.

• Top 3 Tips to Improve your (pre)Seed Pitch Deck Today

  • • Founder Institute. San Francisco 2024 (previously Health Tech). Virtual. November 13, 2024.

    • InnovatorMD Startup Showcase Keynote. Virtual. May 16, 2024.

    • Founder Institute. Health Tech Program. Virtual. April 16, 2024.

    • InnovatorMD World Congress 2023. Virtual. July 15, 2023.

• Power of Data for Product Market Fit, previously "Your Product Market Fit Roadmap to Escalate your Growth"

  • • CoFoundersLab Start-up Accelerator. Virtual. January 2023.

    • FoundersBoost, formerly Startup Boost Accelerator. Virtual. October 2021 + April 2022.

    • Glendale Tech on Tap. Virtual. January 2021.

    • CoLab Accelerator, formerly Alley: Tech for Good Accelerator. Virtual. August 2020.

Data Professionals

• I. Kukuyeva. Tell me what you want, what you really really want: How to identify the real business question. 

  • • ASA Consulting Statistical Practice. (Feb 28, 2024)

    • Summer Community Days with OA Club & Census (July 28, 2022)

• I. Kukuyeva. Tips for the Data Scientist: Top 5 Reasons Why Your Data Science Project Didn’t Make It and How to Get It Right the First Time. 

  • • ASA Consulting Statistical Practice. Virtual. Feb 18, 2021

    • IDEAS. Los Angeles. Oct 2019

    • LA Springboard Community Meet-up. Oct 2019

    • Customer Data Science LA meetup, Los Angeles. 25 Sept 2019

    • SoCal PyData meetup. DataScience.com, Los Angeles.  26 Apr 2018

    • SoCal Python meetup. Google, Los Angeles. 30 Jan 2018

    • Big Data Day LA. USC, Los Angeles.  5 Aug 2017

• I. Kukuyeva. Writing your First Testing Suite with pytest for your Machine Learning model. 

  • • IDEAS. Los Angeles. 20 Jul. 2019 (Webinar recording)

    • PyLadies Los Angeles meetup, Los Angeles. 7 Nov 2018

• I. Kukuyeva. Examples of Descriptive and Predictive Analysis in R: A Lightening Talk. R-Ladies Meetup.  UCLA, Los Angeles.  13 Oct 2016.

• I. Kukuyeva. Deep Learning at a Fashion Startup FindMine: A Lightning Talk. DataScience.LA Meetup. Venice, CA. 12 May, 2016. 

• M. Aczon, J. Casse-Echeandia, D. Ghosh, I. Kukuyeva, D. Ledbetter, N. Sanchez-Pinto, R. Wetzel, J. Williams.  VPICU Data Science Update.  Meaningful Use of Complex Meaningful Data (MUCMD) 2015.  Saban Auditorium, Los Angeles. 8 Aug 2015.

• J. Williams, J. Casse-Echeandia, D. Ghosh, I. Kukuyeva, N. Sanchez-Pinto, R. Wetzel.  Exploratory Analysis for Patient Similarity from ICU Data.  Poster session presented at: Meaningful Use of Complex Meaningful Data (MUCMD) 2015.  Saban Auditorium, Los Angeles. 8 Aug 2015.

• I. Kukuyeva. Statistical Consulting: Improving Care in Pediatric ICUs.  CHLA/ISD Symposium. 2015.  Children's Hospital Los Angeles, Los Angeles. 16 Jan 2015.

• I. Kukuyeva.  Principal Component Analysis with Applications in R and Python.  ACM Data Science Camp Silicon Valley 2014.  eBay Town Hall, San Jose. 25 Oct. 2014.

• M. Egner, I. Kukuyeva, R. Timpone.  Casual Search, Bootstrap Aggregation and Bayesian Networks: An Application to the Consumer Packaged Goods Industry.  20th ASA/IMS Spring Research Conference (SRC 2013) on Statistics in Industry and Technology. UCLA, Los Angeles. 21 June 2013.

• I. Kukuyeva. Array Component Analysis with Application to Remote Sensing Atmospheric Science Data.  Joint Statistical Meetings 2012.  San Diego Convention Center, San Diego. 29 July 2012.

• I. Kukuyeva. Exploratory Data Analysis of Three Mode Atmospheric Science Data. Center for Environmental Statistics. UCLA, Los Angeles. 30 Nov 2010.

• I. Kukuyeva. Multivariate Statistical Analysis for Planetary Science. Center for Environmental Statistics. UCLA, Los Angeles. 18 May 2010.

• I. Kukuyeva. Graphical Exploratory Data Analysis in R: Part I. Los Angeles Area R Users Group. UCLA, Los Angeles. 20 Aug. 2009. 

• I. Kukuyeva, A. Braverman, P. Yanamandra-Fisher, J. de Leeuw, A. Simon-Miller.  Multivariate Analysis in Planetary Science: Understanding Jupiter's Atmosphere. Joint Statistical Meetings 2009.  Walter E Washington Convention Center, Washington DC.  3 Aug 2009.

• I. Kukuyeva. What Can You Do With Statistics? UCLA Statistics Undergraduate Club.  UCLA, Los Angeles. 14 Oct. 2008.

• I. Kukuyeva, J. Wang, Y. Yaglovskaya. Popcorn Popping Yield: An Investigation. Joint Statistical Meetings 2008. Colorado Convention Center, Colorado.  5 Aug. 2008.

• J. De Leeuw and I. Kukuyeva. Traffic on the I-5, Between Routes 14 and 99. Center for Environmental Statistics. UCLA, Los Angeles.  6 May 2008. Unpublished, 2008.

• J. Sanchez, I. Kukuyeva.  Is there Evidence of Global Warming in April-July Natural River Runoff in California? An Investigation with Time Domain Time Series Methods. Southern California Conference for Undergraduate Research 2006.  Occidental College, Los Angeles.  18 Nov. 2006.