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8-9 Oct 2018: Training
9-11 Oct 2018: Tutorials & Conference
London, UK
Yangqing Jia

Yangqing Jia
VP, Engineering, Alibaba Group

@jiayq

Yangqing Jia leads Alibaba’s AI and Big Data org, supporting the large-scale applications both inside the company and on Aliyun, the number one cloud provider in China and a market leader globally. The org provides advanced AI systems and service combined with conventional big data wisdom (EMR, Flink, and Spark) as well as battle-tested solutions to serve every cloud client.

Sessions

10:20–10:35 Wednesday, 10 October 2018
Rethinking software engineering in the AI era
Implementing AI
 Location: King's Suite
Secondary topics:  Computer Vision, Edge computing and Hardware
Yangqing Jia (Alibaba Group)
Yangqing Jia shares a series of examples to illustrate the uniqueness of AI software and its connections to conventional computer science wisdom. Yangqing then discusses future software engineering principles for AI compute. Read more.
11:05–11:45 Wednesday, 10 October 2018
Applied machine learning at Facebook: An infrastructure perspective
Implementing AI
 Location: King's Suite - Sandringham
Secondary topics:  Deep Learning tools, Edge computing and Hardware
Yangqing Jia (Alibaba Group), Dmytro Dzhulgakov (Facebook)
Machine learning sits at the core of many essential products and services at Facebook. Yangqing Jia and Dmytro Dzhulgakov offer an overview of the hardware and software infrastructure that supports machine learning at global scale. Read more.