14–17 Oct 2019

Monday, 14/10/2019

8:00

8:00–9:00 Monday, 14 October 2019
Morning Coffee (1h)

9:00

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9:00–17:00 Monday, 14 October 2019
Training
Implementing AI
Rich Ott (The Pragmatic Institute)
PyTorch is a machine learning library for Python that allows you to build deep neural networks with great flexibility. Its easy-to-use API and seamless use of GPUs make it a sought-after tool for deep learning. Join Rich Ott to get the knowledge you need to build deep learning models using real-world datasets and PyTorch. Read more.
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9:00–17:00 Monday, 14 October 2019
Secondary topics:  Machine Learning
Angie Ma (Faculty), Richard Sargeant (Faculty), Joshua Muncke (Faculty Science Ltd)
Average rating: *****
(5.00, 2 ratings)
Angie Ma and Richard Sargeant offer a condensed introduction to key AI and machine learning concepts and techniques, showing you what is (and isn't) possible with these exciting new tools and how they can benefit your organization. Read more.
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9:00–17:00 Monday, 14 October 2019
Training
Secondary topics:  Computer Vision
Umberto Michelucci (TOELT LLC)
Average rating: ****.
(4.00, 1 rating)
Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are the basis of many algorithms that deal with images, from image recognition and classification to object detection. Using practical examples, Umberto Michelucci walks you through developing convolutional neural networks, using pretrained networks, and even teaching a network to paint. TensorFlow or Keras will be used for all examples. Read more.
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9:00–17:00 Monday, 14 October 2019
Training
Implementing AI
Michael Cullan (Pragmatic Institute)
Average rating: ****.
(4.00, 1 rating)
The TensorFlow library provides computational graphs with automatic parallelization across resources—ideal architecture for implementing neural networks. Michael Cullan walks you through TensorFlow's capabilities in Python, from building machine learning algorithms piece by piece to using the Keras API provided by TensorFlow with several hands-on applications. Read more.

10:30

10:30–11:00 Monday, 14 October 2019
Morning Break (30m)

12:30

12:30–13:30 Monday, 14 October 2019
Lunch (1h)

15:00

15:00–15:30 Monday, 14 October 2019
Afternoon Break (30m)

Tuesday, 15/10/2019

8:00

8:00–9:00 Tuesday, 15 October 2019
Morning Coffee (1h)

9:00

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9:00–12:30 Tuesday, 15 October 2019
Secondary topics:  Machine Learning
Ira Cohen (Anodot), Arun Kejariwal (Independent)
Average rating: ***..
(3.25, 8 ratings)
While the role of the manager doesn't require deep knowledge of ML algorithms, it does require understanding how ML-based products should be developed. Ira Cohen explores the cycle of developing ML-based capabilities (or entire products) and the role of the (product) manager in each step of the cycle. Read more.
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9:00–12:30 Tuesday, 15 October 2019
Tutorial
Edward Oakes (UC Berkeley Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences), Peter Schafhalter (UC Berkeley RISELab), Kristian Hartikainen (University of Oxford)
Average rating: *****
(5.00, 5 ratings)
Edward Oakes, Peter Schafhalter, and Kristian Hartikainen take a deep dive into Ray, a new distributed execution framework for distributed AI applications developed by machine learning and systems researchers at RISELab, and explore Ray’s API and system architecture and sharing application examples, including several state-of-the-art distributed training, hyperparameter search, and RL algorithms. Read more.
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9:00–12:30 Tuesday, 15 October 2019
Tutorial
Implementing AI
Danielle Dean (iRobot), Mathew Salvaris (Microsoft), Wee Hyong Tok (Microsoft)
Average rating: ****.
(4.33, 6 ratings)
Danielle Dean, Mathew Salvaris, and Wee Hyong Tok outline the recommended ways to train and deploy Python models on Azure, ranging from running massively parallel hyperparameter tuning using Hyperdrive to deploying deep learning models on Kubernetes. Read more.
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10:30

10:30–11:00 Tuesday, 15 October 2019
Morning Break (30m)

12:30

12:30–13:30 Tuesday, 15 October 2019
Lunch sponsored by Intel (1h)

13:30

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13:30–17:00 Tuesday, 15 October 2019
Tutorial
Implementing AI
Pramod Singh (Walmart Labs ), Akshay Kulkarni (Publicis Sapient)
Average rating: **...
(2.40, 10 ratings)
An estimated 80% of data generated is an unstructured format, such as text, an image, audio, or video. Vijay Srinivas Agneeswaran, Pramod Singh, and Akshay Kulkarni explore how to create a language model that generates natural language text by implementing and forming a recurrent neural network and attention networks built on top of TensorFlow 2.0. Read more.
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13:30–17:00 Tuesday, 15 October 2019
Tutorial
Implementing AI
Robert Crowe (Google), Pedram Pejman (Google)
Average rating: **...
(2.90, 10 ratings)
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 and Pedram Pejman explore Google's 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. Read more.
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13:30–17:00 Tuesday, 15 October 2019
Tutorial
Sergey Ermolin (Amazon Web Services), Vineet Khare (Amazon Web Services)
Average rating: *....
(1.50, 4 ratings)
Sergey Ermolin and Vineet Khare provide a step-by-step overview on how to implement, train, and deploy a reinforcement learning (RL)-based recommender system with real-time multivariate optimization. They show you how leverage RL to implement a recommender system that optimizes an advertisement message that promotes adoption of merchant's services. Read more.

15:00

15:00–15:30 Tuesday, 15 October 2019
Afternoon Break (30m)

17:00

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17:00–18:30 Tuesday, 15 October 2019
Event
Average rating: ****.
(4.60, 5 ratings)
If you had five minutes on stage, what would you say? What if you only got 20 slides, and they rotated automatically after 15 seconds? Would you pitch a project? Launch a website? Teach a hack? We’ll find out at our Ignite event at AI London. Read more.

Wednesday, 16/10/2019

8:00

8:00–9:00 Wednesday, 16 October 2019
Break (1h)

8:15

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8:15–8:45 Wednesday, 16 October 2019
Event
Average rating: ****.
(4.50, 2 ratings)
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. Read more.

9:00

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9:00–9:05 Wednesday, 16 October 2019
Keynote
Ben Lorica (O'Reilly), Roger Chen (Computable), Alexis Crowell Helzer (Intel)
Average rating: *****
(5.00, 2 ratings)
Program chairs Ben Lorica, Roger Chen, and Alexis Helzer open the first day of keynotes. Read more.

9:05

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9:05–9:15 Wednesday, 16 October 2019
Keynote
Ben Lorica (O'Reilly), Roger Chen (Computable)
Average rating: ****.
(4.50, 4 ratings)
Details to come. Read more.

9:15

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9:15–9:30 Wednesday, 16 October 2019
Keynote
Average rating: **...
(2.80, 5 ratings)
The AI revolution is poised to scale both machine and human knowledge. To generate that knowledge, companies must think differently about AI and how to deploy it. Alexis will cover the three “Be’s”, and how to approach AI systematically to truly harness knowledge at scale. Read more.

9:30

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9:30–9:40 Wednesday, 16 October 2019
Keynote
Average rating: ***..
(3.56, 9 ratings)
Ritika Gunnar explores why you need to focus on your organization’s culture and build a data-first approach to shape a strong, AI-ready organization. Read more.

9:40

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9:40–9:55 Wednesday, 16 October 2019
Keynote
Secondary topics:  Reinforcement Learning
Emily Webber (Amazon Web Services)
Average rating: ****.
(4.40, 15 ratings)
If you've ever wondered if you could use AI to inform public policy, join Emily Webber as she combines classic economic methods with AI techniques to train a reinforcement learning agent on decades of randomized control trials. You'll learn about classic philosophical foundations for public policy decision making and how these can be applied to solve the problems that impact the many. Read more.

9:55

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9:55–10:00 Wednesday, 16 October 2019
Keynote
Arash Ghazanfari (Dell Technologies)
Average rating: **...
(2.67, 6 ratings)
As we look toward more demanding applications of artificial intelligence to unlock value from data, it's increasingly essential to develop a sustainable big data strategy and to efficiently scale artificial intelligence initiatives. Arash Ghazanfari covers the fundamental principles that need to be considered in order to achieve this goal. Read more.

10:00

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10:00–10:15 Wednesday, 16 October 2019
Keynote
Kim Hazelwood (Facebook), Mohamed Fawzy (Facebook)
Average rating: ****.
(4.00, 12 ratings)
AI plays a key role in achieving Facebook's mission of connecting people and building communities. Nearly every visible product is powered by machine learning algorithms at its core, from delivering relevant content to making the platform safe. Kim Hazelwood and Mohamed Fawzy explain how applied ML has continued to change the landscape of the platforms and infrastructure at Facebook. Read more.

10:15

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10:15–10:30 Wednesday, 16 October 2019
Keynote
Jeff Jonas (Senzing)
Average rating: ****.
(4.36, 11 ratings)
Entity resolution—determining “who is who” and “who is related to whom”—is essential to almost every industry, including banking, insurance, healthcare, marketing, telecommunications, social services, and more. Jeff Jonas details how you can use a purpose-built real-time AI, created for general-purpose entity resolution, to gain new insights and make better decisions faster. Read more.

10:30

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10:30–10:35 Wednesday, 16 October 2019
Keynote
Average rating: ****.
(4.00, 2 ratings)
O'Reilly AI program chairs close the first day of keynotes. Read more.

10:35

10:35–11:05 Wednesday, 16 October 2019
Morning Break sponsored by Dell Technologies (30m)

11:05

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11:05–11:45 Wednesday, 16 October 2019
Session
Implementing AI
Yan Zhang (Microsoft), Mathew Salvaris (Microsoft)
Average rating: ***..
(3.67, 3 ratings)
When IoT meets AI, a new round of innovations begins. Yan Zhang and Mathew Salvaris examine the methodology, practice, and tools around deploying machine learning models on the edge. They offer a step-by-step guide to creating an ML model using Python, packaging it in a Docker container, and deploying it as a local service on an edge device as well as deployment on GPU-enabled edge devices. Read more.
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11:05–11:45 Wednesday, 16 October 2019
Qun Ying (Microsoft)
Average rating: *****
(5.00, 2 ratings)
Anomaly detection may sound old fashioned, yet it's super important in many industry applications. Tony Xing, Bixiong Xu, Congrui Huang, and Qun Ying detail a novel anomaly-detection algorithm based on spectral residual (SR) and convolutional neural network (CNN) and explain how this method was applied in the monitoring system supporting Microsoft AIOps and business incident prevention. Read more.
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11:05–11:45 Wednesday, 16 October 2019
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Implementing AI
Alex Ingerman (Google)
Average rating: ****.
(4.29, 7 ratings)
Federated learning is the approach of training ML models across many devices without collecting the data in a central location. Alex Ingerman explores learning concepts and the use cases for decentralized machine learning, drawing on Google's real-world deployments. You'll learn how to build your first federated models with the open source TensorFlow Federated. Read more.
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11:05–11:45 Wednesday, 16 October 2019
Bahman Bahmani (Rakuten)
Average rating: ***..
(3.20, 5 ratings)
Amid fears of sentient killing robots and a freezing AI winter, AI has a true potential to transform the enterprise. Actualizing this potential requires a well-informed organizational strategy and consistent execution of best practices regarding people, processes, and platforms. Bahman Bahmani examines these strategies and best practices and provides insights into their successful execution. Read more.
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11:05–11:45 Wednesday, 16 October 2019
Adithya Hrushikesh (Vodafone)
Average rating: ****.
(4.00, 4 ratings)
Every day, millions of Vodafone Germany customers reach out through various social media channels about issues related to mobile, internet, signal issues, etc. Adithya Hrushikesh details how to build and deploy an ensemble model to classify 26 (originally 56) complaint classes using machine learning over deep learning. He also touches on the business case, data product development, and GDPR. Read more.
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11:05–11:45 Wednesday, 16 October 2019
Session
Implementing AI
Steve Flinter (Mastercard Labs), Ahmed Menshawy (Mastercard Labs)
Average rating: ****.
(4.00, 3 ratings)
Steve Flinter and Ahmed Menshaw explore the work that Mastercard Labs undertook to build an end-to-end machine learning pipeline, suitable for both R&D and production, using Kubernetes and Kubeflow. They demonstrate how the pipeline can be defined, configured, connected to a data streaming service, and used to train and deploy a model, which can be exposed for inference via an API. Read more.
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11:05–11:45 Wednesday, 16 October 2019
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Sponsored
Ritika Gunnar explores why you need to focus on your organization’s culture and build a data-first approach to shape a strong, AI-ready organization. Read more.

11:55

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11:55–12:35 Wednesday, 16 October 2019
Arun Kejariwal (Independent), Ira Cohen (Anodot)
Average rating: ****.
(4.00, 5 ratings)
Sequence to sequence (S2S) modeling using neural networks has become increasingly mainstream in recent years. In particular, it's been used 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 these use cases, visualization, real-time anomaly detection, and forecasting. Read more.
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11:55–12:35 Wednesday, 16 October 2019
Biraja Ghoshal (Tata Consultancy Service)
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(1.00, 2 ratings)
Deep learning, which involves powerful black box predictors, has achieved state-of-the-art performance in medical imaging analysis, such as segmentation and classification for diagnosis, but knowing how much confidence there is in a prediction is essential for gaining clinicians' trust. Biraja Ghoshal explores probabilistic modeling with TensorFlow Probability in cancer prediction. Read more.
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11:55–12:35 Wednesday, 16 October 2019
Chang Liu (Georgian Partners ), Ji Chao Zhang (Georgian Partners)
Average rating: ****.
(4.33, 3 ratings)
The world is increasingly data driven, and people have developed an awareness and concern for their data. Chang Liu and Ji Chao Zhang examine differential privacy—the component of the TensorFlow Privacy library that allows users to train differentially private logistic regression and support vector machines—along with real-world use cases and demonstrations for how to apply the tools. Read more.
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11:55–12:35 Wednesday, 16 October 2019
Ted Malaska (Capital One)
Average rating: ****.
(4.25, 4 ratings)
While at a big tech conference on AI, it's important to reflect on the human components. Ted Malaska walks you through scenarios and strategies to help different groups work together and explains how to evaluate success and sniff out trouble areas. You'll look at every part of the pipeline to see who's involved and how to optimize the interaction points throughout the pipeline—and how to have fun. Read more.
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11:55–12:35 Wednesday, 16 October 2019
Martin Benson (Jaywing)
Machine learning has been used in credit scoring for three decades. Martin Benson discusses the history of machine learning in credit scoring and the need for explainable and justified decisions made by machine learning systems. Come find out if it's possible to overcome the black box problem and learn how machine learning systems are evolving and how to bypass the challenges to adoption. Read more.
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11:55–12:35 Wednesday, 16 October 2019
Konrad Wawruch (7bulls.com)
Average rating: ****.
(4.00, 2 ratings)
Real business usage of most advanced methods for financial time series forecasting (based on winning methods from M4 competition) and assets portfolio optimization (based on Monte Carlo Tree Search with neural networks - Alpha Zero approach). Complete investments platform with the AI workflow and real time integration with the brokers. Real usage demo. Read more.
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11:55–12:35 Wednesday, 16 October 2019
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Sponsored
Thomas Henson (Dell Technologies)
Average rating: ****.
(4.00, 1 rating)
As machine learning and deep learning techniques reach mainstream adoption, the architectural considerations for platforms that support large-scale production deployments of AI applications change significantly as you mature beyond small-scale sandbox and POC environments. Thomas Henson walks you through eliminating I/O bottlenecks to keep your GPU-powered AI rocket ship fueled with data. Read more.
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11:55–12:35 Wednesday, 16 October 2019
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Sponsored
Average rating: ****.
(4.50, 2 ratings)
Advances in artificial intelligence have meant that it's now more accessible than ever before—and this accessibility means that it can be both the hunter and the hunted. In the race to ensure cybersecurity, AI is an essential tool to protect your most sensitive assets. Join Matt Armstrong-Barnes to find out how this new dimension is changing the threat landscape and how to make AI your friend. Read more.

12:35

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12:35–13:45 Wednesday, 16 October 2019
Event
Average rating: ****.
(4.50, 2 ratings)
Topic Table discussions are a great way to informally network with people in similar industries or interested in the same topics. Read more.

13:45

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13:45–14:25 Wednesday, 16 October 2019
Session
Implementing AI
Antje Barth (AWS)
Average rating: ****.
(4.71, 14 ratings)
Container and cloud native technologies around Kubernetes have become the de facto standard in modern ML and AI application development. Antje Barth examines common architecture blueprints and popular technologies used to integrate AI into existing infrastructures and explains how you can build a production-ready containerized platform for deep learning. Read more.
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13:45–14:25 Wednesday, 16 October 2019
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Implementing AI
Douglas Calegari (Independent)
Average rating: ****.
(4.00, 3 ratings)
Douglas Calegari details a solution that classifies and routes emails coming into a busy insurance service center. Join in to discover how his team evaluated NLP models, leveraged various techniques to increase classification and entity recognition accuracy, designed a scalable end-to-end machine learning data pipeline, and integrated them into an existing transactional system. Read more.
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13:45–14:25 Wednesday, 16 October 2019
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Implementing AI
Average rating: ****.
(4.67, 3 ratings)
Michael Friedrich and Stefanie Grunwald explore how an algorithm capable of playing Space Invaders can also improve your cloud service's automated scaling mechanism. Read more.
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13:45–14:25 Wednesday, 16 October 2019
Average rating: *****
(5.00, 3 ratings)
In the rapidly changing world of AI, adopting the right design principles is key. From data scientists and business users to client end users, IBM Watson always seeks to augment their capabilities. Ariadna Font Llitjós examines how IBM Watson applies ethical AI and user-centered design principles from the beginning and leverages them throughout the product development cycle. Read more.
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13:45–14:25 Wednesday, 16 October 2019
Martin Goodson (Evolution AI)
Average rating: ****.
(4.75, 4 ratings)
Data leakage occurs when the model gains access to data that it shouldn't have. AI systems can fail catastrophically in production if leakage is not dealt with properly. Martin Goodson details the four main manifestations of data leakage and explains how to recognize the warning signs. By mastering several key scientific principles, you can mitigate the risk of failure. Read more.
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13:45–14:25 Wednesday, 16 October 2019
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Implementing AI
Paris Buttfield-Addison (Secret Lab), Tim Nugent (lonely.coffee)
Average rating: ****.
(4.75, 8 ratings)
On-device ML and AI is the future for privacy-conscious, cloud-averse users of modern smartphones. Paris Buttfield-Addison and Tim Nugent explore what's possible using CoreML, Swift, and associated frameworks in tandem with the powerful ML-tuned silicon in modern Apple iOS hardware. They demonstrate and create ML and AI features with Swift to show how much you can do without touching the cloud. Read more.
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13:45–14:25 Wednesday, 16 October 2019
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Sponsored
Brett A Phaneuf (Submergence Group (US) and MSubs (UK))
Average rating: *****
(5.00, 2 ratings)
Brett Phaneuf outlines how similar types of AI can fit into your company solutions and how technologies like containers, deep learning, cloud, machine learning, and more all fit together to drive innovation for the "new world" of the future. Read more.

14:35

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14:35–15:15 Wednesday, 16 October 2019
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Implementing AI
Danielle Dean (iRobot), Wee Hyong Tok (Microsoft), Mathew Salvaris (Microsoft)
Average rating: ****.
(4.00, 2 ratings)
Dive into the the newly released GitHub repository for recommended ways to train and deploy models on Azure with Danielle Dean, Wee Hyong Tok, and Mathew Salvaris. The repository ranges from running massively parallel hyperparameter tuning using Hyperdrive to deploying deep learning models on Kubernetes. Read more.
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14:35–15:15 Wednesday, 16 October 2019
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Implementing AI
Abhishek Kumar (Publicis Sapient)
Abhishek Kumar outlines how to industrialize capsule networks by detailing capsule networks and how capsule networks help handle spatial relationships between objects in an image and how to apply them to text analytics and tasks such as NLU or summarization. Join in to see a scalable, productionizable implementation of capsule networks over KubeFlow. Read more.
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14:35–15:15 Wednesday, 16 October 2019
Arun Verma (Bloomberg)
Average rating: ***..
(3.50, 4 ratings)
To gain an edge in the markets, quantitative hedge fund managers require automated processing to quickly extract actionable information from unstructured and increasingly nontraditional sources of data. Arun Verma shares NLP, AI, and ML techniques that help extract derived signals that have significant trading alpha or risk premium and lead to profitable trading strategies. Read more.
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14:35–15:15 Wednesday, 16 October 2019
Secondary topics:  Design, Interfaces, and UX
Tim Daines (QuantumBlack), Philip Pilgerstorfer (QuantumBlack)
Data scientists feel naturally comfortable with the language of mathematics, while designers think in the language of human empathy. Creating a bridge between the two was essential to the success of a recent project at an energy company. Tim Daines and Philip Pilgerstorfer detail what they learned while creating these bridges, showcasing techniques through a series of “aha” moments. Read more.
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14:35–15:15 Wednesday, 16 October 2019
Tobias Martens (whoelse.ai)
Average rating: ***..
(3.50, 2 ratings)
More than 50% of all interactions between humans and machines are expected to be speech-based by 2022. The challenge: Every AI interprets human language slightly different. Tobias Martens details current issues in NLP interoperability and uses Chomsky's theory of universal hard-wired grammar to outline a framework to make the human voice in AI universal, accountable, and computable. Read more.
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14:35–15:15 Wednesday, 16 October 2019
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Implementing AI
Secondary topics:  Machine Learning tools
Ahmed Kamal (Careem)
Average rating: ****.
(4.00, 7 ratings)
Every day Careem’s platform relies on machine learning (ML) in production to enable the movement of millions of its users. Ahmed Kamal outlines the challenges Careem faced while productionizing ML on scale and explains how to build an in-house ML platform that facilitates development and fast deployment of scalable ML services and accelerates the impact of ML everywhere. Read more.
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14:35–15:15 Wednesday, 16 October 2019
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Sponsored
Sergey Ermolin (Amazon Web Services)
Average rating: ***..
(3.25, 4 ratings)
Sunil Mallya walks you through building 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. Read more.
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14:35–15:15 Wednesday, 16 October 2019
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Sponsored
Thomas Phelan (HPE BlueData)
Join Thomas Phelan to learn whether the combination of containers with large-scale distributed data analytics and machine learning applications is like combining oil and water or like peanut butter and chocolate. Read more.

15:15

15:15–16:00 Wednesday, 16 October 2019
Afternoon Break (45m)

16:00

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16:00–16:40 Wednesday, 16 October 2019
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Implementing AI
Thomas Phelan (HPE BlueData)
Average rating: ****.
(4.50, 2 ratings)
Today, organizations understand the need to keep pace with new technologies when it comes to performing data science with machine learning and deep learning, but these new technologies come with their own challenges. Thomas Phelan demonstrates the deployment of TensorFlow, Horovod, and Spark using the NVIDIA CUDA stack on Docker containers in a secure multitenant environment. Read more.
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16:00–16:40 Wednesday, 16 October 2019
Average rating: ****.
(4.00, 2 ratings)
AI-powered market research is performed by indirect approaches based on sparse and implicit consumer feedback (e.g., social network interactions, web browsing, or online purchases). These approaches are more scalable, authentic, and suitable for real-time consumer insights. Gianmario Spacagna proposes a novel algorithm of audience projection able to provide consumer insights over multiple domains. Read more.
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16:00–16:40 Wednesday, 16 October 2019
Rajib Biswas (Ericsson)
Average rating: ****.
(4.00, 2 ratings)
Rajib Biswas outlines the application of AI algorithms like generative adversarial networks (GANs) to solve natural language synthesis tasks. Join in to learn how AI can accomplish complex tasks like machine translation, write poetry with style, read a novel, and answer your questions. Read more.
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16:00–16:40 Wednesday, 16 October 2019
Anastasia Kouvela (A.T. Kearney ), Bharath Thota (A.T. Kearney)
Average rating: ***..
(3.50, 2 ratings)
The Analytics Impact Index gives organizations an understanding of the value potential of analytics as well as the capabilities required to capture the most value. Anastasia Kouvela and Bharath Thota walk you through the 2019 results and the analytics journey of leading global organizations and empower companies to develop a case for change. Read more.
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16:00–16:40 Wednesday, 16 October 2019
Danielle Deibler (MarvelousAI)
Average rating: ****.
(4.57, 7 ratings)
Danielle Deibler examines an approach to detecting bias, fine-grained emotional sentiment, and misinformation through the detection of political narratives in online media. As building blocks, the methodology uses human-in-the-loop, alongside other natural language processing and computational linguistics techniques, with examples focused on the 2020 US presidential election. Read more.
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16:00–16:40 Wednesday, 16 October 2019
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Average rating: ***..
(3.00, 1 rating)
Demand for AI compute is doubling every three months. Alexis Crowell Helzer explains why the way we compute AI has to be completely rethought so it can evolve to enable the promise of global business transformation. Read more.
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16:00–16:40 Wednesday, 16 October 2019
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Sponsored
Average rating: ***..
(3.80, 5 ratings)
Lyndon Leggate walks you through a step-by-step demonstration of how you can up level your reinforcement learning (RL) skills through autonomous driving. Read more.

16:50

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16:50–17:30 Wednesday, 16 October 2019
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Implementing AI
Bruno Wassermann (IBM Research)
Average rating: ****.
(4.00, 2 ratings)
Imagine there's a new version of your complex machine learning pipeline, but you need to make sure it doesn't negatively impact the performance of large numbers of existing customer models in production. Bruno Wassermann explains how IBM Research tackled the challenge for the natural language understanding layer of the IBM Watson Assistant service and demonstrates a new tool called Clue. Read more.
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16:50–17:30 Wednesday, 16 October 2019
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Implementing AI
James Fletcher (Grakn)
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(3.50, 2 ratings)
Statistical approaches alone are not sufficient to tackle the complexity of AI challenges today. Being smarter with the data we already have is critical to achieving machine understanding of any complex domain. James Fletcher explains how knowledge graph convolutional networks (KGCNs) demonstrate the usefulness of combining a connectionist deep learning approach with a symbolic approach. Read more.
16:50–17:30 Wednesday, 16 October 2019
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16:50–17:30 Wednesday, 16 October 2019
Charlotte Han (Independent)
Average rating: *****
(5.00, 1 rating)
According to research by AI2, China is poised to overtake the US in the most-cited 1% of AI research papers by 2025. The view that China is a copycat but not an innovator may no longer be true. Charlotte Han explores what the implications of China's government funding, culture, and access to massive data pools mean to AI development and how the world could benefit from such advancement. Read more.
16:50–17:30 Wednesday, 16 October 2019
TBC
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16:50–17:30 Wednesday, 16 October 2019
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Implementing AI
Average rating: ****.
(4.25, 12 ratings)
Developing perception algorithms for autonomous vehicles is incredibly difficult, as they need to operate in thousands of driving conditions and locations. Adam Grzywaczewski explores the challenges involved in data collection, processing, and management, as well as model development and validation. He also provides an overview of the necessary hardware and software infrastructure. Read more.
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16:50–17:30 Wednesday, 16 October 2019
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Sponsored
Average rating: *****
(5.00, 7 ratings)
Your company has a large amount of data locked into thousands or millions of scanned paper documents. You'd like to extract and analyze it, but you first have to prove that your algorithm works and brings business value. Ciprian Tomoiaga explains how to start. Read more.

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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. Read more.

18:30

18:30–19:00 Wednesday, 16 October 2019
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19:00

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Don't miss AI at Night, happening on Wednesday after the Attendee Reception. Read more.

Thursday, 17/10/2019

8:00

8:00–9:00 Thursday, 17 October 2019
Morning Coffee (1h)

8:15

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8:15–8:45 Thursday, 17 October 2019
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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. Read more.

9:00

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9:00–9:05 Thursday, 17 October 2019
Keynote
Ben Lorica (O'Reilly), Roger Chen (Computable), Alexis Crowell Helzer (Intel)
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(5.00, 1 rating)
Program chairs Ben Lorica, Roger Chen, and Alexis Helzer open the second day of keynotes. Read more.

9:05

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9:05–9:20 Thursday, 17 October 2019
Keynote
Zhe Zhang (LinkedIn)
Average rating: ****.
(4.12, 8 ratings)
From people you may know (PYMK) to economic graph research, machine learning is the oxygen that powers how LinkedIn serves its 630M+ members. Zhe Zhang provides you with an architectural overview of LinkedIn’s typical machine learning pipelines complemented with key types of ML use cases. Read more.

9:20

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9:20–9:30 Thursday, 17 October 2019
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Secondary topics:  Reinforcement Learning
Ian Massingham (Amazon Web Services)
Average rating: ****.
(4.00, 8 ratings)
Reinforcement learning is an advanced machine learning technique that makes short-term decisions while optimizing for a longer-term goal through trial and error. Ian Massingham dives into state-of-the-art techniques in deep reinforcement learning for a variety of use cases. Read more.

9:30

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9:30–9:45 Thursday, 17 October 2019
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Ihab Ilyas (University of Waterloo)
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(4.30, 10 ratings)
Ihab Ilyas highlights the data-quality problem and describes the HoloClean framework, a state-of-the-art prediction engine for structured data with direct applications in detecting and repairing data errors, as well as imputing missing labels and values. Read more.

9:45

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9:45–9:55 Thursday, 17 October 2019
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Secondary topics:  Hardware
Walter Riviera (Intel)
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(2.64, 11 ratings)
Walter Riviera details three key shifts in the AI landscape—incredibly large models with billions of hyperparameters, massive clusters of compute nodes supporting AI, and the exploding volume of data meeting ever-stricter latency requirements—how to navigate them, and when to explore hardware acceleration. Read more.

9:55

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9:55–10:10 Thursday, 17 October 2019
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Secondary topics:  Ethics, Security, and Privacy
Marta Kwiatkowska (University of Oxford)
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(4.79, 19 ratings)
Machine learning solutions are revolutionizing AI, but Marta Kwiatkowska explores their instability against adversarial examples—small perturbations to inputs that can catastrophically affect the output—which raises concerns about the readiness of this technology for widespread deployment. Read more.

10:10

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10:10–10:25 Thursday, 17 October 2019
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Raffaello D’Andrea (Verity | ETH Zurich)
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(4.69, 13 ratings)
It's hard ignore the attention given to autonomy and robotics. The impact is significant and the reach is extensive, hitting transportation with self-driving cars, logistics and supply with mobile robots, and remote sensing applications with aerial vehicles or drones. Raffaello D'Andrea explores how autonomous indoor drones will drive the next wave of autonomous robotics development and growth. Read more.

10:25

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10:25–10:35 Thursday, 17 October 2019
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O'Reilly AI program chairs close the second day of keynotes. Read more.

10:35

10:35–11:05 Thursday, 17 October 2019
Morning Break (30m)

11:05

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11:05–11:45 Thursday, 17 October 2019
Secondary topics:  Machine Learning
Ted Dunning (MapR, now part of HPE)
Average rating: ****.
(4.50, 4 ratings)
Evaluating machine learning models is surprisingly hard, but it gets even harder because these systems interact in very subtle ways. Ted Dunning breaks the problem into operational and functional concerns and shows you how each can be done without unnecessary pain and suffering. You'll also get to see some exciting visualization techniques to help make the differences strikingly apparent. Read more.
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11:05–11:45 Thursday, 17 October 2019
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Implementing AI
Zaid Tashman (Accenture Labs)
Average rating: *****
(5.00, 3 ratings)
Today traditional approaches to predictive maintenance fall short. Zaid Tashman dives into a novel approach to predict rare events using a probabilistic model, the mixed membership hidden Markov model, highlighting the model's interpretability, its ability to incorporate expert knowledge, and how the model was used to predict the failure of water pumps in developing countries. Read more.
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11:05–11:45 Thursday, 17 October 2019
Secondary topics:  Design, Interfaces, and UX
Casey Dugan (IBM Research), Zahra Ashktorab (IBM Research)
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(3.67, 3 ratings)
Casey Dugan and Zahra Ashktorab challenge you to guess the backdoor of a hacked classifier. Join them to learn more about novel AI technologies through the design and development of engaging games. Take a look at their latest research around improving the interactions between humans and AI systems from empathy building to feedback design. Read more.
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11:05–11:45 Thursday, 17 October 2019
Secondary topics:  Reinforcement Learning
Rebecca Gu (Electron), Cris Lowery (Baringa Partners)
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(4.33, 3 ratings)
In a future of widespread algorithmic pricing, cooperation between algorithms is easier than ever, resulting in coordinated price rises. Rebecca Gu and Cris Lowery explore how a Q-learner algorithm can inadvertently reach a collusive outcome in a virtual marketplace, which industries are likely to be subject to greater restrictions or scrutiny, and what future digital regulation might look like. Read more.
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11:05–11:45 Thursday, 17 October 2019
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Karim Beguir (InstaDeep)
Average rating: ****.
(4.75, 4 ratings)
Karim Beguir discusses a system in which an agent that learns to pack boxes efficiently in containers while respecting multiple physical constraints. The agent is trained using reinforcement learning to minimize the wasted space. Without any human knowledge, the agent achieves superhuman performance and outperforms commercial optimization software. Read more.
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11:05–11:45 Thursday, 17 October 2019
Secondary topics:  Deep Learning, Deep Learning tools
Michael Mahoney (UC Berkeley)
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(3.00, 4 ratings)
Developing theoretically principled tools to guide the use of production-scale neural networks is an important practical challenge. Michael Mahoney explores recent work from scientific computing and statistical mechanics to develop such tools, covering basic ideas and their use for analyzing production-scale neural networks in computer vision, natural language processing, and related tasks. Read more.
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11:05–11:45 Thursday, 17 October 2019
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Sponsored
Carlos Escapa (Amazon Web Services)
Average rating: *****
(5.00, 5 ratings)
Carlos Escapa takes a deep dive into how to identify use cases for ML, acquire cutting-edge best practices to frame problems in a way that key stakeholders and senior management can understand and support, and set the stage for delivering successful ML-based solutions for your business. Read more.

11:55

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11:55–12:35 Thursday, 17 October 2019
Julien Simon (AWS)
Average rating: ****.
(4.86, 7 ratings)
Many natural language processing (NLP) tasks require each word in the input text to be mapped to a vector of real numbers. Julien Simon explores word vectors, why they’re so important, and which are the most popular algorithms to compute them (Word2Vec, GloVe, BERT). You'll get to see how to solve typical NLP problems through several demos by either computing embeddings or reusing pretrained ones. Read more.
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11:55–12:35 Thursday, 17 October 2019
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Implementing AI
Alasdair Allan (Babilim Light Industries)
Average rating: ****.
(4.50, 4 ratings)
The future of machine learning is on the edge and on small, embedded devices that can run for a year or more on a single coin-cell battery. Alasdair Allan dives deep into how using deep learning can be very energy efficient and allows you to make sense of sensor data in real time. Read more.
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11:55–12:35 Thursday, 17 October 2019
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Implementing AI
Secondary topics:  Machine Learning
Jewel James (Gojek), Mudit Maheshwari (Gojek)
Average rating: ****.
(4.00, 2 ratings)
GoFood, Gojek's food delivery product, is one of the largest of its kind in the world. Jewel James and Mudit Maheshwari explain how they prototyped the search framework that personalizes the restaurant search results by using ML to learn what constitutes a relevant restaurant given a user's purchasing history. Read more.
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11:55–12:35 Thursday, 17 October 2019
Katharine Jarmul (KIProtect)
Average rating: *****
(5.00, 2 ratings)
Katharine Jarmul sates your curiosity about how far we've come in implementing privacy within machine learning systems. She dives into recent advances in privacy measurements and explains how this changed the approach of privacy in machine learning. You'll discover new techniques including differentially private data collection, federated learning, and homomorphic techniques. Read more.
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11:55–12:35 Thursday, 17 October 2019
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Implementing AI
Siddha Ganju (NVIDIA), Meher Kasam (Square)
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(4.80, 5 ratings)
Over the last few years, convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have risen in popularity, especially in the area of computer vision. Many mobile applications running on smartphones and wearable devices would benefit from the new opportunities enabled by deep learning techniques. Siddha Ganju and Meher Kasam walk you through optimizing deep neural nets to run efficiently on mobile devices. Read more.
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11:55–12:35 Thursday, 17 October 2019
Ganes Kesari (Gramener), Soumya Ranjan (Gramener)
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(5.00, 1 rating)
In many countries, policy decisions are disconnected from data, and very few avenues exist to understand deeper demographic and socioeconomic insights. Ganes Kesari and Soumya Ranjan explain how satellite imagery can be a powerful aid when viewed through the lens of deep learning. When combined with conventional data, it can help answer important questions and show inconsistencies in survey data. Read more.
11:55–12:35 Thursday, 17 October 2019
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12:35

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12:35–13:45 Thursday, 17 October 2019
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Topic Table discussions are a great way to informally network with people in similar industries or interested in the same topics. Read more.

13:45

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13:45–14:25 Thursday, 17 October 2019
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Implementing AI
Tyler Dunn (Rasa)
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(4.00, 4 ratings)
AI assistants are getting a great deal of attention from the industry and research. However, the majority of assistants built to this day are still developed using a state machine and a set of rules. That doesn’t scale in production. Tyler Dunn explores how to build AI assistants that go beyond FAQ interactions using machine learning and open source tools. Read more.
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13:45–14:25 Thursday, 17 October 2019
Cam Buscaron (Amazon Web Services)
As robots and AI systems become more prevalent in enterprise, industrial, and home settings, there's an increasing need for well-maintained, reliable, and secure development tools and frameworks for the next-generation production-grade robots and systems. Cam Buscaron explains how to leverage large-scale cloud simulation and the Robot Operating System (ROS) to build such systems. Read more.
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13:45–14:25 Thursday, 17 October 2019
Sridhar Alla (BlueWhale)
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(1.67, 3 ratings)
Any business, big or small, depends on analytics, whether the goal is revenue generation, churn reduction, or sales or marketing purposes. No matter the algorithm and the techniques used, the result depends on the accuracy and consistency of the data being processed. Sridhar Alla examines some techniques used to evaluate the quality of data and the means to detect the anomalies in the data. Read more.
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13:45–14:25 Thursday, 17 October 2019
Umit Cakmak (IBM)
In every AI initiative, there’s a demand from businesses to protect or increase market share or decrease operational costs. Your competitors are a growing threat, seemingly adopting new technologies better than you. Umit Cakmak examines critical steps from countless client engagements on how to consistently deliver successful AI projects. Read more.
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13:45–14:25 Thursday, 17 October 2019
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Implementing AI
Holger Kyas (Open Group, Helvetia Insurances, University of Applied Sciences)
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(1.00, 1 rating)
Holger Kyas details the AI multicloud broker, which is triggered by Amazon Alexa and mediates between AWS Comprehend (Amazon), Azure Text Analytics (Microsoft), GCP Natural Language (Google), and Watson Tone Analyzer (IBM) to compare and analyze sentiment. The extended AI part generates new sentences (e.g., marketing slogans) with a recurrent neural network (RNN). Read more.
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13:45–14:25 Thursday, 17 October 2019
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Zhe Zhang (LinkedIn)
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(3.43, 7 ratings)
Machine learning (ML) engineering differs fundamentally from traditional software engineering in the level of uncertainty and unpredictability of an idea until fully verified in production. Join Zhe Zhang to explore the deciding factor in ML-based products (e.g., recommendation, ranking)—the speed of the trial-and-error loop. Read more.
13:45–14:25 Thursday, 17 October 2019
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14:35

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14:35–15:15 Thursday, 17 October 2019
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Implementing AI
Laurence Moroney (Google)
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(4.86, 7 ratings)
Laurence Moroney explores how to go from wondering what machine learning (ML) is to building a convolutional neural network to recognize and categorize images. With this, you'll gain the foundation to understand how to use ML and AI in apps all the way from the enterprise cloud down to tiny microcontrollers using the same code. Read more.
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14:35–15:15 Thursday, 17 October 2019
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Implementing AI
Secondary topics:  Deep Learning, Machine Learning
Carlos Rodrigues (Siemens)
Average rating: *****
(5.00, 3 ratings)
An evolving landscape of cyber threats demands innovation. It's time to bring AI to the fight. Carlos Rodrigues explains why it's mandatory to use bleeding-edge AI in production to improve threat detection in a worldwide company such as Siemens. The corporate network has more than 500,000 endpoint and more than 370,000 employees. The attack vectors are endless; thus, legacy approaches don't scale. Read more.
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14:35–15:15 Thursday, 17 October 2019
Alejandro Saucedo (The Institute for Ethical AI & Machine Learning)
Average rating: ****.
(4.00, 4 ratings)
Alejandro Saucedo demystifies AI explainability through a hands-on case study, where the objective is to automate a loan-approval process by building and evaluating a deep learning model. He introduces motivations through the practical risks that arise with undesired bias and black box models and shows you how to tackle these challenges using tools from the latest research and domain knowledge. Read more.
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14:35–15:15 Thursday, 17 October 2019
Paco Nathan (derwen.ai)
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(4.50, 2 ratings)
Paco Nathan outlines the history and landscape for vendors, open source projects, and research efforts related to AutoML. Starting from the perspective of an AI expert practitioner who speaks business fluently, Paco unpacks the ground truth of AutoML—translating from the hype into business concerns and practices in a vendor-neutral way. Read more.
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14:35–15:15 Thursday, 17 October 2019
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Implementing AI
Jameson Toole (Fritz AI)
Average rating: *****
(5.00, 1 rating)
Getting machine learning models ready for use on device is a major challenge. Drag-and-drop training tools can get you started, but the models they produce aren’t small enough or fast enough to ship. Jameson Toole walks you through optimization, pruning, and compression techniques to keep app sizes small and inference speeds high. Read more.
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14:35–15:15 Thursday, 17 October 2019
Ilya Feige (Faculty)
Average rating: *****
(5.00, 2 ratings)
Ilya Feige explores AI safety concerns—explainability, fairness, and robustness—relevant for machine learning (ML) models in use today. With concepts and examples, he demonstrates tools developed at Faculty to ensure black box algorithms make interpretable decisions, do not discriminate unfairly, and are robust to perturbed data. Read more.
14:35–15:15 Thursday, 17 October 2019
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15:15

15:15–16:00 Thursday, 17 October 2019
Afternoon Break (45m)

16:00

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16:00–16:40 Thursday, 17 October 2019
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Implementing AI
Paris Buttfield-Addison (Secret Lab), Tim Nugent (lonely.coffee)
Average rating: ****.
(4.80, 5 ratings)
You're building a high-volume, expensive, robot-driven warehouse. Your robots need to get to the right place quickly, find the right item, and sort it to the right place without colliding with each other, the shelves, or people. But you don't have any robots, and you need to start writing the logic and training them. Paris Buttfield-Addison and Tim Nugent outline how to use a simulation to do it. Read more.
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16:00–16:40 Thursday, 17 October 2019
Manas Ranjan Kar (Episource)
Natural language processing (NLP) is hard, especially for clinical text. Manas Ranjan Kar explains the multiple challenges of NLP for clinical text and why it's so important that we invest a fair amount of time on domain-specific feature engineering. It’s also crucial to understand to diagnose an NLP model performance and identify possible gaps. Read more.
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16:00–16:40 Thursday, 17 October 2019
Tuhin Sharma (Binaize), Bargava Subramanian (Binaize)
Average rating: ****.
(4.50, 2 ratings)
There's an exponential growth in the number of internet-enabled devices on modern smart buildings. IoT sensors measure temperature, lighting, IP camera, and more. Tuhin Sharma and Bargava Subramanian explain how they built anomaly-detection models using federated learning—which is privacy preserving and doesn't require data to be moved to the cloud—for data quality and cybersecurity. Read more.
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16:00–16:40 Thursday, 17 October 2019
Mark Madsen (Teradata)
The growing complexity of data science leads to black box solutions that few people in an organization understand. Mark Madsen explains why reproducibility—the ability to get the same results given the same information—is a key element to build trust and grow data science use. And one of the foundational elements of reproducibility (and successful ML projects) is data management. Read more.
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16:00–16:40 Thursday, 17 October 2019
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Case Studies
Secondary topics:  Ethics, Security, and Privacy
Walter Riviera (Intel)
What are the essentials steps to take in order to develop an AI solution? How long would this process would take? As machine learning is teaching us, the answers can be learned from previous experience. Walter Riviera walks you through a collection of real-life stories, looking for successful and misleading behavioral patterns. Read more.
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16:00–16:40 Thursday, 17 October 2019
Weifeng Zhong (Mercatus Center at George Mason University)
Average rating: ****.
(4.00, 1 rating)
Weifeng Zhong explores a novel method to learn structural changes embedded in unstructured texts based on the Policy Change Index (PCI) framework developed by economists Julian Chan and Weifeng Zhong. He explains how an off-the-shelf application of deep learning—with an important twist—can help you detect structural break points in time series text data. Read more.
16:00–16:40 Thursday, 17 October 2019
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16:50

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16:50–17:30 Thursday, 17 October 2019
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Implementing AI
Jim Dowling (Logical Clocks), Ajit Mathews (AMD)
Average rating: *****
(5.00, 1 rating)
The Radeon open ecosystem (ROCm) is an open source software foundation for GPU computing on Linux. ROCm supports TensorFlow and PyTorch using MIOpen, a library of highly optimized GPU routines for deep learning. Jim Dowling and Ajit Mathews outline how the open source Hopsworks framework enables the construction of horizontally scalable end-to-end machine learning pipelines on ROCm-enabled GPUs. Read more.
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16:50–17:30 Thursday, 17 October 2019
Tom Sabo (SAS)
Average rating: ****.
(4.50, 2 ratings)
Efforts to counter human trafficking internationally must assess data from a variety of sources to determine where best to devote limited resources. Tom Sabo explores text-based machine learning, rule-based text extraction to generate training data for modeling efforts, and interactive visualization to improve international trafficking response. Read more.
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16:50–17:30 Thursday, 17 October 2019
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Implementing AI
Vignesh Gopakumar (United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority)
Vignesh Gopakumar explores image mapping of the temporal evolution of physics parameters as plasma interacts with the reactor wall using a data-inferred approach. The model captures how parameters such as temperature and density evolve across space and time. By analyzing the patterns found in simulation data, the model learns the existing physics relations implicitly defined within the data. Read more.
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16:50–17:30 Thursday, 17 October 2019
Secondary topics:  Text, Language, and Speech
Voiced-based AI continues to gain popularity among customers, businesses, and brands, but it’s important to understand that, while it presents a slew of new data at our disposal, the technology is still in its infancy. Andreas Kaltenbrunner examines three ways voice assistants will make big data analytics more complex and the various steps you can take to manage this in your company. Read more.
16:50–17:30 Thursday, 17 October 2019 TBC
16:50–17:30 Thursday, 17 October 2019
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  • Intel AI
  • O'Reilly
  • Amazon Web Services
  • IBM Watson
  • Dell Technologies
  • Hewlett Packard Enterprise
  • AXA

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