Ahad Shoaib
Ahad Shoaib is a Lead Data Scientist in the Infrastructure Data Science team at Salesforce, where he is responsible for taking time series forecasting and machine learning models all the way from “ideation” to “production”. Ahad holds a bachelor's degree in Computer Science & Math from the University of Waterloo.
Sessions
Beneath the buzz of AI breakthroughs, a quiet revolution is unfolding in the world of forecasting: foundational time series models. These models promise to change the game for operational forecasting, but don’t expect magic. You won’t suddenly become a stock market oracle just by throwing data at them.
In this talk, we’ll peel back the layers of these new time series models, starting with how they work and how they evolved from transformers. We’ll tackle the big problems of limited data and overhyped algorithms, and explore the real-world challenges that make or break forecasts (hint: human input matters).