Schedule

Uber applies natural language processing (NLP) and conversational AI in a number of business domains. Huaixiu Zheng details how Uber applies deep learning in the domain of NLP and conversational AI. You'll learn how Uber implements AI solutions in a real-world environment, as well as cutting-edge research in end-to-end dialogue systems.

Hagay Lupesko explores AI-powered personalization at Facebook and the challenges and practical techniques it applied to overcome these challenges. You'll learn about deep learning-based personalization modeling, scalable training, and the accompanying system design approaches that are applied in practice.

TensorFlow 2.0 has landed. Paige Bailey walks you through TensorFlow (TF) 2.0's new features, usability enhancements, performance increases, and focus on developer productivity. You'll use the TF 2.0 migration tool to transition a model from TensorFlow 1.x to 2.0 and deploy an end-to-end open source machine learning model.

Joseph Spisak and Hao Lu lead a deep dive into how PyTorch is being used to help accelerate the path from novel research to large-scale production deployment in computer vision, natural language processing, and machine translation at Facebook.

Moshe Wasserblat demonstrates the challenges and reviews the latest AI solutions in deploying natural language processing (NLP) in commercial environments, specifically dealing with the small amount of data available for training and scaling across different domains.

Over the last few years, convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have risen in popularity, especially in the area of computer vision. However, CNNs are by nature computationally and memory intensive, making them challenging to deploy on a mobile device. Siddha Ganju and Meher Kasam examine optimizing deep neural nets to run efficiently on mobile devices.

Artificial intelligence has revolutionized the way we live, work, and play. With the help of AI, electronic payments have become more secure and more convenient for consumers globally—regardless of currency or form factor. Chiranjeet and Shubham explore a use case in which data and deep learning converge to root out malicious actors and make the payments ecosystem more secure.

Putting together an ML production pipeline for training, deploying, and maintaining ML and deep learning applications is much more than just training a model. Robert Crowe explores Google's open source community TensorFlow Extended (TFX), an open source version of the tools and libraries that Google uses internally, made using its years of experience in developing production ML pipelines.

There aren't many systems in the world that need to run hundreds of computer vision models (from classification to segmentation) on billions of visual entities (images, videos, 3-D) daily. Roshan Sumbaly walks you through the challenges faced while building such a platform and how, surprisingly, a lot of the answers were found in traditional software engineering best practices.

Evan Sparks walks you through the current gap between the AI haves (Google, Facebook, Amazon, and Microsoft) and the AI have-nots (the rest of the industry), from the perspective of software infrastructure for model development. You'll learn some of the opportunities for end-to-end system design to enable rapid iteration and scale in AI application development.

Twitter has amazing and unique content generated at an enormous velocity internationally in multiple languages. Ashish Bansal provides you with insight into the unique recommendation system challenges at Twitter’s scale and what makes this a fun and challenging task.

Taking full advantage of data means using more of it, leading to larger, increasingly complex models with billions of hyperparameters requiring massive clusters of compute nodes, all while meeting ever-stricter latency and power requirements. Tingwei Huang explains how the way we compute AI has to be completely rethought so it can evolve to meet the promise of global business transformation.

To unleash the full potential of AI, Intuit envisions a future that melds the best capabilities of machines and humans to deliver personalized customer experiences, all on one secure platform. Bharath Kadaba examines how Intuit combines rules-based knowledge engineering with data-driven machine learning and natural language processing to build the human-expert-in-the-loop AI systems of the future.

Natural language understanding (NLU) underlies a wide range of applications and services. Rich resources available for English do not exist for most other languages, but the questions of how to expand these resources without duplicating effort and if it's possible to develop language-agnostic NLU-dependent applications remains. Huaiyu Zhu, Dulce Ponceleon, and Yunyao Li believe the answer is yes.

Statistical manufacturing has remained largely unchanged since postwar Japan. AI and DL allow for nonlinear feedback and feed-forward systems to be integrated for real-time monitoring and evolution of each part assembly. Vadim Pinskiy explores a system capable of detecting, classifying, and automatically correcting for manufacturing defects in a multinodal process.

Adam Cheyer explores what might take for an assistant to make the leap to a global paradigm and then illustrates the unique architecture and approach being taken by Samsung’s Bixby assistant with the goal of doing just that.

Cell shaping is used to configure radio antenna parameters to improve the service quality. Julien Forgeat explores a reinforcement learning (RL) approach to configuring radio antenna parameters using industry-leading radio simulators from Ericsson and UC Berkeley RISELab's Ray distributed compute framework together with its built-in RL algorithm in RLlib.

Robot technologies are becoming more capable and affordable. Yet even though technologies like natural language processing, mapping, and navigation are becoming more mature and standardized, it's often difficult to quantify human social behavior with algorithms. Dylan Glas and Phoebe Liu highlight some of the ongoing research to enable human-robot interaction.

Long training times are the single biggest factor slowing down innovation in deep learning. Today's common approach of scaling large workloads out over many small processors is inefficient and requires extensive model tuning. Urs Köster explains why with increasing model and dataset sizes, new ideas are needed to reduce training times.

Every NLP-based document-processing solution depends on converting documents or images to machine-readable text using an optical character recognition (OCR) solution, but accuracy is limited by the quality of the images. Nagendra Shishodia, Solmaz Torabi, and Chaithanya Manda examine how GANs can bring significant efficiencies by enhancing resolution and denoising scanned images.

Photographic defects such as noise, exposure, and blur can ruin the perfect shot. Adobe has developed a solution based on GAN that can identify the defective region in images and fix it. Akhilesh Kumar explores how this solution, which can also be applied to fix videos, is better than traditional algorithms and means you won't have to spend hours manually editing the images.

Real-time traffic volume prediction is vital in proactive network management, and many forecasting models have been proposed to address this. However, most are unable to fully use the information in traffic data to generate efficient and accurate traffic predictions for a longer term. Wei Cai explores predicting multistep, real-time traffic volume using many-to-one LSTM and many-to-many LSTM.

Tremendous progress has been made in applying machine learning to autonomous driving. Li Erran Li explores recent advances in applying machine learning to solving the perception, prediction, planning, and control problems of autonomous driving as well as some key research challenges.

Twitter is what’s happening in the world right now. To connect users with the best content, Twitter needs to build a deep understanding of its noisy and temporal text content. Sijun He and Ali Mollahosseini explore the named entity recognition (NER) system at Twitter and the challenges Twitter faces to build and scale a large-scale deep learning system to annotate 500 million tweets per day.

AI product managers (PMs) are rising. With the shift from the digital revolution to the AI revolution, the old product management workflow and frameworks are crumbling down. Mayukh Bhaowal explores new ways to manage AI products and outlines how AI executive roles are different and what toolbox you'll need to succeed in the era of artificial intelligence.

AI has the potential to create substantial value for business and the global economy. It's less well understood how it can address some of the world’s biggest societal challenges. Michael Chui and James Manyika examine the ethical implications of AI and how you can leverage the technology for good while considering the wide-reaching repercussions on business and human society alike.

Consumers want everything now, at their fingertips, with very little effort. To meet these demands and compete, companies need to fundamentally rethink how they operate. Yi Zhang explores some predictions on how conversational technology will evolve from its current state in 2019. She outlines some common misunderstandings about the technologies and provides case studies from several industries.

Despite a meteoric rise in data volumes within modern enterprises, enabling nontechnical users to put this data to work in diagnostic and predictive tasks remains a fundamental challenge. Peter Bailis details the lessons learned in building new systems to help users leverage the data at their disposal, drawing on production experience from Facebook, Microsoft, and the Stanford DAWN project.

New AI solutions in question answering, chatbots, structured data extraction, text generation, and inference all require deep understanding of the nuances of human language. David Talby outlines challenges, risks, and best practices for building NLU-based systems, drawing on examples and case studies from products and services built by Fortune 500 companies and startups over the past seven years.

5G promises to change our lives in a big way. Mazin Gilbert provides a technical- and market-landscape overview of how AI creates the 5G world, highlighting how recent developments in AI help accelerate widespread adoption of 5G-based applications for consumers and enterprises. He explores the roles of open source and open platforms as key ingredients of this 5G AI transformation.

Advances in AI and deep learning enable new technologies to mimic how the human brain interprets scenes, objects, and images, which has major implications for businesses that need to extract meaning from overwhelming quantities of unstructured data. Josh Weisberg walks you through how implementing computer vision based in deep neural networks allows machines to see images in an entirely new way.

Document understanding is a company-wide initiative at Intuit that aims to make data preparation and entry obsolete through the application of computer vision and machine learning. A team of data scientists, Joy Rimchala, TJ Torres, Xiao Xiao, and Hui Wang, detail the design and modeling methodologies used to build this platform as a service.

Sequence to sequence (S2S) modeling using neural networks is increasingly becoming mainstream. In particular, it's been leveraged for applications such as speech recognition, language translation, and question answering. Arun Kejariwal and Ira Cohen walk you through how S2S modeling can be leveraged for the aforementioned use cases, visualization, real-time anomaly detection, and forecasting.

Organized crime inflicts human suffering on a massive scale: upward of 700,000 people per year are "exported" in a $40 billion human-trafficking industry enslaving an estimated 40 million people. Such nefarious industries rely on sophisticated money-laundering schemes to operate. Mark Weber explores how a new field of AI called graph convolutional networks can help.

Much business data still exists as challenging scanned or snapped documents. Stacy Ashworth and Alberto Andreotti explore a real-world case of reading, understanding, classifying, and acting on facts extracted from such image files using state-of-the-art, open source, deep learning-based optical character recognition (OCR), natural language processing (NLP), and forecasting libraries at scale.

There are 15 million trips a day on the Uber platform. Anu Gali walks you through how Uber leverages AI to automate its business model via its unique platform. You'll learn about technology that evolves based on current market insights and dynamically adjusts for the future. She shares best practices and the architecture that enables organizations like Uber to grow and scale rapidly.

Enhao Gong and Greg Zaharchuk detail AI solutions, cleared by the FDA and powered by industry framework, that deliver 4x–10x faster MRI scans, 4x faster PET scans, and up to 10x dosage reduction. Clinical evaluation at hospitals such as Hoag Hospital, UCSF, and Stanford demonstrates the significant and immediate values of AI to improve the productivity of healthcare workflow.

Developments in ML and DL provided remarkable advances in the predictive capabilities of AI. However, the black box nature of the modern models creates challenges for those looking to adopt these techniques. Bahman Bahmani examines a framework and presents design and operating principles, recommendations, and best practices for human-AI integration in enterprise workflows, products, and services.

Dave Ferrell explores three examples of nontraditional techniques pushing the boundaries of computer vision in industries today, including identifying "unseen" objects.

Machine learning has enabled the move from manually programming robots to allowing machines to learn from and adapt to changes in the environment. Bastiane Huang examines how AI-enabled robots are used in warehouse automation, including recent progress in deep reinforcement learning, imitation learning, and real-world requirements for various industrial problems.

Typically, large healthcare institutions have large-scale quantities of clinical data to facilitate precision medicine through an AI paradigm. However, this hardly translates into improved care. Dexter Hadley details how UCSF uses NLP to curate clinical data for over 1M mammograms and how deep learning, blockchain, and other approaches translate this into precision oncology.

Across segments, enterprises are exploring novel ways of providing stellar customer service. Conversational AI is delivering just that—high-quality customer service, available 24-7, and in a geography-agnostic manner. Juby Jose and Rohit Israni explore how enterprise customer service is being reimagined with the power of conversational AI.

With the potential to transform businesses, AI has become a strategic imperative for most enterprises. A lot of investment is toward machine learning and deep learning models to support business applications. However, as Manish Bhide and Rohan Vaidyanathan explain, these models bring about risks and uncertainties that are difficult to manage.

Data scientists and machine learning engineers need the flexibility to work in multiple environments without wasting precious time configuring hardware and software and modifying code. Ramesh Radhakrishnan and John Zedlewski walk you through deploying a simple set of technologies for executing end-to-end pipelines entirely on GPUs.

Sina Bari explores how to overcome obstacles to creating high-quality ground truth data for ML applications.

Join Pankaj Goyal and Nanda Vijaydev to learn how HPE put AI into action and helps enterprises unlock the value of their data with a proven, practical approach to AI.

With the rapid advancement of AI technology and commercial breakthroughs, building a strong AI team becomes increasingly critical for business success in the high-tech era. Margaret Laffan helps tech and talent leaders to better understand the AI talent market and explores best practices for building, nurturing, and retaining the right team to accelerate their business growth.

Labhesh Patel explores how deep learning informs computer vision through smarter data extraction, fraud detection, and risk scoring. Labhesh details what it takes to put AI in production and how a machine learning infrastructure needs to be fundamentally thought out to allow for better human-in-the-loop AI workflows.

We're rapidly closing in on a future where large companies across different sectors will be enriching every business process and decision with AI and gaining a sustained competitive edge as a result. Join Kurt Muehmel on a forward-looking exploration of companies that are already well on their way toward this target. He details Dataiku's vision of the journey ahead.

Sunil Mallya walks you through how to build complex ML-enabled products using reinforcement learning (RL), explores hardware design challenges and trade-offs, and details real-life examples of how any developer can up level their RL skills through autonomous driving.

Sunil Mallya explores how to use data from equipment to build, train, and deploy predictive models. You'll dive deep into the architecture, deployment guide, and development resources for using the turbofan degradation simulation dataset to train the model to recognize potential equipment failures.

A key step in the data science workflow is rapid model development; however, gaps still exist. Teams are moving from siloed to sharing and reusing models, code, and results. There are also in challenges deploying models into production using tools like Kubeflow and TensorFlow. Moon Soo Lee and Louis Huard examine how leading companies solve these issues, and how you can improve your workflow.

Navdeep Gill takes a deep dive into how to combine innovations from several subdisciplines of machine learning research to train understandable, fair, trustable, and accurate predictive modeling systems.

One of the most important tasks of AI has been to understand humans. People want machines to understand not only what they say but also what they mean and to take particular actions based on that information. This goal is the essence of conversational AI. Yishay Carmiel explores the latest breakthroughs and revolutions in this field and the challenges still to come.

Program chairs Ben Lorica, Julie Choi, and Roger Chen open the first day of keynotes.

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Businesses recognize the transformational potential for advanced analytics, machine, and deep learning but often get lost on their path to AI. Eric Gardner spends his days advising customers about AI and shares a four-step journey that organizations of every kind can use to evaluate their unique path from data to insight.

Dinesh Nirmal examines how, with a unified, prescriptive information architecture, organizations can successfully unlock the value of their data for AI as well as trust and control the business impact and risks of AI while coexisting in a multicloud world.

Researchers and practitioners from different disciplines have highlighted the ethical and legal challenges posed by the use of machine learning in many current and future real-world applications. Sarah Bird outlines her perspective on some of the major challenges in responsible AI development and examines promising new tools and technologies to help enable it in practice.

With the adoption of AI in the enterprise accelerating, its impacts—both positive and negative—are rapidly increasing. Triveni Gandhi explores why the builders of these new AI capabilities all bear some moral responsibility for ensuring that their products create maximum benefit and minimal harm.

The first announced element of the Cerebras solution is the Wafer Scale Engine (WSE). The WSE is the largest chip ever built. It contains 1.2 trillion transistors and covers more than 46,225 square millimeters of silicon. In this talk, we will share some of the details of WSE and discuss its impact on the industry.

The emphasis in AI is on replicating human performance. Examples abound: ImageNet, self-driving cars, etc. It’s the same in medicine. Daniel Russakoff explains how Voxeleron LLC is working on what’s next—AI algorithms that do things that humans can’t, such as the prediction of age-related macular degeneration (AMD) progression, critical to successful treatment of this leading cause of vision loss.

Srinivas Narayanan takes you beyond fully supervised learning techniques, the next change in AI.

O'Reilly AI program chairs close the first day of keynotes.

Topic Table discussions are a great way to informally network with people in similar industries or interested in the same topics.

If you’re looking to make new professional connections and hear ideas for supporting inclusion, come to the diversity networking lunch.

Join us for a networking lunch with AI Business Summit attendees on Wednesday. You’ll have the opportunity to network and discuss the AI technologies that are transforming business and industry with other attendees.

Come enjoy delicious snacks and beverages with fellow AI conference attendees, speakers, and sponsors at the Attendee Reception, happening immediately after the afternoon sessions on Wednesday.

Ready, set, network! Meet fellow attendees who are looking to connect at the AI Conference. We'll gather before Wednesday and Thursday keynotes for an informal speed networking event. Be sure to bring your business cards—and remember to have fun.

Relax and network at AI at Night, happening on Wednesday evening.