Sponsors and Community Partners

Intel Nervana
Intel Nervana, leveraging Intel's world leading position in silicon innovation and proven history in creating the compute standards that power our world, is transforming Artificial Intelligence (AI) with the Intel Nervana platform. Harnessing silicon designed specifically for AI, end to end solutions that broadly span from the data center to the edge, and tools that enable customers to quickly deploy and scale up, Intel Nervana is inside AI and leading the next evolution of compute.

BOOTH #201 

O'Reilly Media
O'Reilly Media spreads the knowledge of innovators through its books, online services, magazines, research, and conferences. Since 1978, O'Reilly has been a chronicler and catalyst of leading-edge development, homing in on the technology trends that really matter and galvanizing their adoption by amplifying 'faint signals' from the alpha geeks who are creating the future. An active participant in the technology community, the company has a long history of advocacy, meme-making, and evangelism.

IBM Watson
Watson represents a new era of cognitive computing where systems can think like humans. Watson's cognitive technologies can understand all forms of data, interact naturally with people, and learn and reason, at scale. Gain insights from unstructured content like text, images and videos. With our suite of cognitive APIs and solutions, clients are already achieving business outcomes from improving customer engagement and scaling expertise, to driving innovation and growth.

BOOTH #200 

Microsoft
Microsoft believes anyone should be able to get insights from Big Data. So, we bring the power of the cloud to Big Data making it easier than ever to work with all data types. With Microsoft data solutions, everyone can bring Big Data business insights to life through advanced analytics and stunning visualizations - all powered by our enterprise-grade, flexible and open cloud. Explore our solutions at www.microsoft.com/bigdata.

Google
Google is a global technology leader focused on improving the ways people connect with information. Google's innovations in web search and advertising have made its website a top internet property and its brand one of the most recognized in the world.

BOOTH #210 

Intel Saffron
As part of Intel, Intel® Saffron™ Cognitive Solutions utilize an unsupervised learning approach to Artificial Intelligence that continuously learns associations and makes connections about people, places and things. The Saffron Cognitive Solution supports homogenous structured and unstructured data sets across varied sources. The solution reasons the way humans do to accelerate decision making with higher accuracy than alternative solutions. With Saffron Cognitive Solutions, unbiased decision making is now possible while at the same time explaining how the results leading to these decisions were determined. Learn more at www.saffrontech.com

BOOTH #. 

Teradata
Teradata helps companies get more value from data than any other company. Our big data analytic solutions, integrated marketing applications, and team of experts can help your company gain a sustainable competitive advantage with data. Teradata helps organizations leverage all of their data so they can know more about their customers and business and do more of what's really important. With more than 10,000 professionals in 43 countries, Teradata serves top companies across consumer goods, financial services, healthcare, automotive, communications, travel, hospitality, and more. A future-focused company, Teradata is recognized by media and industry analysts for technological excellence, sustainability, ethics, and business value. Visit teradata.com.

SAP
SAP helps companies of all sizes and industries run better. From back office to boardroom, warehouse to storefront, desktop to mobile device, SAP empowers people and organizations to work together more efficiently and use business insight more effectively to stay ahead of the competition. We do this by extending the availability of software across on-premise installations, on-demand deployments, and mobile devices. We believe that the power of our people, products, and partners unleashes growth and creates significant new value for our customers, SAP, and, ultimately, entire industries and the economy at large. Our mission is to help companies of all sizes and industries to run better. Our vision is to help the world run better. www.sap.com

BOOTH #212 

Alegion
Alegion provides human intelligence solutions designed for today's AI & machine learning initiatives. Alegion helps data science teams with large-scale, custom training datasets, human-scored results verification, and human-in-the-loop exception processing. The Alegion platform supports a wide array of business needs using custom-tailored automation solutions for large-scale processing challenges requiring human intelligence. For more information, visit www.alegion.com.

BOOTH #109 

Ayasdi
Ayasdi is a leader in the design, development and deployment of artificial intelligence applications for the financial services, healthcare and public sectors. Developed at Stanford and seeded by DARPA, the Ayasdi technology has solved some of the hardest challenges in multiple industries - earning it recognition as one of the world's most innovative companies from Fast Company and the World Economic Forum Based in Menlo Park, CA, Ayasdi is backed by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, IVP, Khosla, CenterView Partners, Draper Nexus, Citi Ventures, GE Ventures and Floodgate Capital. https://www.ayasdi.com/

BOOTH #204 

Bonsai
Bonsai offers an AI platform that empowers enterprises to build and deploy intelligent systems. By completely automating the management of complex machine learning libraries and algorithms, Bonsai enables enterprises to program AI models that improve system control and enhance real-time decision support. Businesses use these models today to increase automation and improve operational efficiency of industrial systems including robotics, manufacturing, supply chain, logistics, energy and utilities. Based in Berkeley, CA, Bonsai is backed by leading investors including NEA. To learn more, please visit: https://bons.ai/ or follow us on Twitter @BonsaiAI.

BOOTH #208 

CrowdFlower
CrowdFlower is the essential human-in-the-loop AI platform for data science teams. CrowdFlower helps customers generate high quality customized training data for their machine learning initiatives, or automate a business process with easy-to-deploy models and integrated human-in-the-loop workflows. The CrowdFlower software platform supports a wide range of use cases including self-driving cars, intelligent personal assistants, medical image labeling, content categorization, customer support ticket classification, social data insight, CRM data enrichment, product categorization, and search relevance. Headquartered in San Francisco and backed by Canvas Venture Fund, Trinity Ventures, and Microsoft Ventures, CrowdFlower serves data science teams at Fortune 500 and fast-growing data-driven organizations across a wide variety of industries. For more information, visit www.crowdflower.com.

BOOTH #206 

Databricks
Databricks was founded out of the UC Berkeley AMPLab by the creators of Apache Spark. We've been working for the past six years on cutting-edge systems to extract value from Big Data. We believe that Big Data is a huge opportunity that is still largely untapped, and we're working to revolutionize what you can do with it.

BOOTH #206 

iMerit
iMerit offers an on-demand, human-empowered computing workforce. We partner with the world's most innovative companies to unlock the value hidden within unstructured data and to improve technical process efficiencies while making a social impact. iMerit partners with the Anudip Foundation, a nonprofit training facility, to bring bright, underserved youth and meaningful careers together in the digital economy. As technology professionals and valued members of the global digital economy, they're an inspiration not only to their family and communities, but to all of us at iMerit as well.

Sift Science
Sift Science is a trust and safety platform that applies insights from a global network of data to detect account takeover, payment fraud, content and promo abuse, and fake accounts. Companies like Airbnb, Yelp, and Jet.com rely on Sift Science's real-time machine learning to slash costs, increase revenue, and create outstanding user experiences.

BOOTH #214 

Algorithmia
Algorithmia's goal is to make applications smarter by building a community around building smarter applications. As developers, we want to advance the development, discovery, and accessibility of algorithmic intelligence. That's why we're building the largest marketplace for algorithms in the world available through a simple, scalable API. Today more than 50,000 developers have access to a growing library of 2,500 algorithmic microservices. Our team is dedicated to reaching developers on every corner of the earth, we hope you consider joining us.

Anodot
Anodot illuminates data blind spots with AI-based analytics, so you will never miss another revenue leak or brand-damaging incident. Its automated machine learning algorithms continuously analyze all your business data and alert you in real time whenever an incident occurs, even for questions you never thought to ask. By detecting the anomalies that matter, and identifying why they happen by correlating across multiple data sources, Anodot lets you remedy urgent problems faster and capture opportunities sooner. Anodot customers include Microsoft, Waze (a Google company), AppNexus, VF Corporation, Comcast and many others. Contact us for a demo.

BOOTH #P6 

Avata Intelligence
Since launching in 2013, Avata Intelligence has been innovating how organizations utilize AI and data-driven solutions. Avata is the creator of the Artificial Intelligence Management system, the first AI ecosystem designed to coordinate enterprise-level AI within a single, manageable framework. Avata Intelligence is headquartered in Venice, California, in the heart of Silicon Beach. For more information, visit us at avata.ai

BOOTH #P1 

BitFusion
Bitfusion provides data scientists and AI developers the software and tools they need to accelerate and simplify AI application development.

BOOTH #P10 

ParallelM
ParallelM automates the deployment, orchestration, and management of Machine Learning (ML) in production to unlock the business value of AI. Current approaches are fragile, manual, risky, and difficult to scale. ParallelM helps companies accelerate time to value of AI by safely deploying ML pipelines at scale, automating orchestration to guarantee ML quality and continuity, while also monitoring and diagnosing ML Health in real time to flag inaccurate predictions and quickly resolve issues before they impact the business. Finally, ParallelM provides a unified center of collaboration for data scientists, operations, and business analysts to ensure the success of your AI initiatives.

SigOpt
SigOpt is an optimization platform that seamlessly tunes AI and ML model parameters through a state-of-the-art ensemble of Bayesian and global optimization algorithms behind a simple API. This results in captured performance left on the table by conventional techniques and reduces the time and cost for developing and optimizing models.

BOOTH #P3 

Skymind
Skymind is the company behind Deeplearning4j, the only commercial-grade, open-source, distributed deep-learning library written for Java and Scala. Integrated with Hadoop and Spark, Deeplearning4j is designed to run in business environments on distributed GPUs and CPUs. Skymind builds custom deep learning solutions for Fortune 2000 corporations and national governments.

BOOTH #P2