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Scott Weller

Scott Weller
Cofounder and CTO, SessionM

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Scott Weller is cofounder and CTO of SessionM. Scott has over 18 years of development, operational, and leadership experience turning ideas into reality and leading technology teams through the challenges of early-stage growth. Previously, he was vice president of product and technology for Scientific Games (SGMS), where he oversaw the development and integration of interactive technologies into MDI’s products and services; vice president of product and technology at GameLogic (acquired by Scientific Games in 2010); cofounder and GM of SnapYap.com; principal software engineer at Terra/Lycos, where he spent several years innovating data and advertising platform technologies; and senior software engineer at Gamesville.com (acquired by Lycos in 1999). At the age of 16, he joined a team of eight motivated geeks to help build the country’s first internet service provider, later acquired by Conversant Communications. Scott holds a BS in computer science from the University of Rhode Island.

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11:55am–12:35pm Wednesday, May 2, 2018
The vital role of failure in machine learning
AI Business Summit, AI in the Enterprise
 Location: Sutton South
Scott Weller (SessionM)
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In video games, players learn by failing, sometimes “dying” hundreds of times before learning how to succeed. By enabling us to simulate scenarios and predict outcomes, AI has essentially made the world like a game. Scott Weller explores the role of failure in machine learning, explaining how to set realistic expectations and sharing examples of good and bad AI deployments in the wild. Read more.