Business Data Challenge : Kick-off for the Arenametrix edition

Every year, ENSAE Paris organizes the Business Data Challenge: in collaboration with the school's teacher-researchers, a company proposes an economic or financial topic and provides the data on which several groups of students work for a full semester, in partnership with Datastorm, the GENES consultancy specializing in economics, statistics, data science and artificial intelligence.

Founded in 2013 by Ludovic Bordes and Kévin Vitoz, both ENSAE alumni from the Class of 2013, the company Arenametrix offers a platform for the automatic centralization and efficient exploitation of data for event structures. Accompanied by Alexandre Princ -Head of Data at Arenametrix, Kévin Vitoz - CEO of the French startup, came to the premises of his former school on Wednesday December 13, 2023 to unveil the subject of the competition for this 5th edition of the Business Data Challenge.

Divided into five mixed teams, 21 3rd-year students from the engineering cycle of the Data Science and Business Decision track, the Data Science specialized master's degree and the Quantitative Methods for Economic Decisions specialized master's degree will work together over a four-month period to solve a problem submitted by this year's partner company. To achieve this challenge, they can count on the support and assistance of :

• their teacher-researchers: Azadeh Khaleghi, Elia Lapenta et Michael Visser ;
• the Datastorm team: Patrice Michel, CEO et Hassan Maissoro, Data Scientist ;
• Yuanzhe Tang, microeconomics coordinator at ENSAE Paris and Cédric Couralet, head of DSIT at GENES.

See you on April 18, 2024 to discover the winning team!