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April 29-30, 2018: Training
April 30-May 2, 2018: Tutorials & Conference
New York, NY

Tutorials

On Monday, April 30, choose from all-day and half-day tutorials. These expert-led presentations give you a chance to dive deep into the subject matter. Please note: to attend, you must register for a Gold or Silver pass; does not include access to training courses.

Monday, April 30

9:00am–5:10pm Monday, April 30, 2018
Location: Sutton North/Center
Kristian Hammond (Northwestern Computer Science)
Average rating: ****.
(4.88, 17 ratings)
Even as AI technologies move into common use, many enterprise decision makers remain baffled about what the different technologies actually do and how they can be integrated into their businesses. Rather than focusing on the technologies alone, Kristian Hammond provides a practical framework for understanding your role in problem solving and decision making. Read more.
9:00am–12:30pm Monday, April 30, 2018
Location: Nassau East/West
Bruno Goncalves (Data For Science)
Average rating: ***..
(3.80, 5 ratings)
Bruno Gonçalves explores word2vec and its variations, discussing the main concepts and algorithms behind the neural network architecture used in word2vec and the word2vec reference implementation in TensorFlow. Bruno then presents a bird's-eye view of the emerging field of "anything"-2vec methods that use variations of the word2vec neural network architecture. Read more.
9:00am–12:30pm Monday, April 30, 2018
Location: Sutton South
Amy Unruh (Google)
Average rating: **...
(2.75, 4 ratings)
Amy Unruh walks you through training a machine learning system using popular open source library TensorFlow, starting from conceptual overviews and building all the way up to complex classifiers. Along the way, you'll gain insight into deep learning and how it can be applied to complex problems in science and industry. Read more.
9:00am–12:30pm Monday, April 30, 2018
Location: Regent Parlor
Ashwin Vijayakumar gives you a hands-on overview of Intel's Movidius Neural Compute Stick, a miniature deep learning hardware development platform that you can use to prototype, tune, and validate your AI programs (specifically deep neural networks). Read more.
9:00am–12:30pm Monday, April 30, 2018
Location: Beekman
Chris Butler (IPsoft)
Average rating: ****.
(4.58, 12 ratings)
Purpose, a well-defined problem, and trustworthiness are important factors to any system, especially those that employ AI. Chris Butler leads you through exercises that borrow from the principles of design thinking to help you create more impactful solutions and better team alignment. Read more.
1:40pm–5:10pm Monday, April 30, 2018
Location: Regent Parlor
Robert Nishihara (University of California, Berkeley), Philipp Moritz (University of California, Berkeley), Ion Stoica (University of California, Berkeley)
Average rating: ***..
(3.00, 1 rating)
Ion Stoica, Robert Nishihara, and Philipp Moritz lead a deep dive into Ray, a new distributed execution framework for reinforcement learning applications, walking you through Ray's API and system architecture and sharing application examples, including several state-of-the art RL algorithms. Read more.
1:40pm–5:10pm Monday, April 30, 2018
Location: Sutton South
Greg Werner (3Blades), N C
Average rating: ****.
(4.00, 2 ratings)
Greg Werner walks you through using MXNet and TensorFlow to train deep learning models and deploy them using the leading serverless compute services in the market: AWS Lambda, Google Cloud Functions, and Azure Functions. You'll also learn how to monitor and iterate upon trained models for continued success using standard development and operations tools. Read more.
1:40pm–5:10pm Monday, April 30, 2018
Location: Beekman
Radhika Dutt (Radical Product), Geordie Kaytes (Fresh Tilled Soil), Nidhi Aggarwal (Radical Product)
Average rating: **...
(2.88, 8 ratings)
AI is a powerful tool, but often companies get more excited about their technology than in the customer value they’re creating. Radhika Dutt, Geordie Kaytes, and Nidhi Aggarwal share a framework for building customer-centered AI products. You'll learn how to craft a far-reaching vision and strategy centered around customer needs and balance that vision with the day-to-day needs of your company. Read more.
1:40pm–5:10pm Monday, April 30, 2018
Location: Nassau East/West
Mo Patel (Independent)
Average rating: ***..
(3.67, 3 ratings)
Computer vision has led the artificial intelligence renaissance, and pushing it further forward is PyTorch, a flexible framework for training models. Mo Patel and Neejole Patel offer an overview of computer vision fundamentals and walk you through PyTorch code explanations for notable objection classification and object detection models. Read more.