Accelerating AI from research to production in the enterprise

Ari Kamlani (Skymind)

3:50pm–4:00pm Tuesday, September 10, 2019

Location: 230 A

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Skymind is the company behind Eclipse Deeplearning4j, the most widely used, open source, distributed deep learning library for the Java Virtual Machine (JVM). With native support for big data infrastructures such as Hadoop and Spark, Skymind brings AI to legacy enterprise environments, both on-premises and in the cloud, for use on distributed Intel CPUs.

Join Ari Kamlani to learn how, in collaboration with Intel, Skymind supports Intel Xeon Scalable Processors and MKL-DNN to accelerate machine learning workloads from conception to deployment. As a result, organizations can obtain the flexibility and the speed required to deliver faster results in their AI journey. Supported use cases include natural language processing (e.g., chatbots), computer vision (e.g., object detection), and many others.

Ari Kamlani

Skymind

Ari Kamlani is a Principal Deep Learning Technologist @Skymind with 20+ years of experience. He is a recognized Creative Thought Leader, Data Practitioner and Technology Strategist delivering value across a wide range of Industrial Sectors and Clients, such as Financial Services, Retail, Healthcare, Consumer & Industrial IoT, Broadcast Media, and many others.

He is experienced in enabling R&D Incubation Divisions and Large Scale Enterprise Organizations scaling their Product Offerings from Research to Production.

Prior to Skymind, he worked with ThoughtWorks, a Digital Global Software Consultancy, JP Morgan Chase in their Digital Intelligence Division, Techstars Accelerator within their IoT Division, and many others. Today he focuses on Machine Intelligence, with specialization in Natural Language, Computer Vision, and Simulation Modeling along with advancing their AI Infrastructure.