Put AI to Work
April 15-18, 2019
New York, NY

Schedule: Automation in machine learning and AI sessions

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1:00pm1:40pm Wednesday, April 17, 2019
Machine Learning, Models and Methods
Location: Grand Ballroom West
Ameet Talwalkar (Carnegie Mellon University | Determined AI)
Average rating: *****
(5.00, 1 rating)
Neural architecture search (NAS) is a promising research direction that has the potential to replace expert-designed networks with learned, task-specific architectures. Ameet Talwalkar shares work that aims to help ground the empirical results in this field and proposes new NAS baselines. Read more.
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2:40pm3:20pm Wednesday, April 17, 2019
Machine Learning, Models and Methods
Location: Grand Ballroom West
Sanjay Krishnan (University of Chicago)
Average rating: ***..
(3.00, 2 ratings)
Drawing on his work building and deploying an RL-based relational query optimizer, a core component of almost every database system, Sanjay Krishnan highlights some of the underappreciated challenges to implementing deep reinforcement learning. Read more.
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4:05pm4:45pm Wednesday, April 17, 2019
Sarah Aerni (Salesforce Einstein)
Average rating: *****
(5.00, 1 rating)
How does Salesforce make data science an Agile partner to over 100,000 customers? Sarah Aerni shares the nuts and bolts of the platform and details the Agile process behind it. From open source autoML library TransmogrifAI and experimentation to deployment and monitoring, Sarah covers the tools that make it possible for data scientists to rapidly iterate and adopt a truly Agile methodology. Read more.
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4:55pm5:35pm Wednesday, April 17, 2019
AI Business Summit, Case Studies
Location: Sutton North/Center
Scott Clark (SigOpt), Matt Greenwood (Two Sigma Investments)
Average rating: **...
(2.00, 1 rating)
Companies are increasingly building modeling platforms to empower their researchers to efficiently scale the development and productionalization of their models. Scott Clark and Matt Greenwood share a case study from a leading algorithmic trading firm to illustrate best practices for building these types of platforms in any industry. Read more.
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11:05am11:45am Thursday, April 18, 2019
Implementing AI
Location: Rendezvous
Diego Oppenheimer (Algorithmia), Brendan Collins (Algorithmia)
Average rating: ****.
(4.00, 1 rating)
Diego Oppenheimer draws upon his work with thousands of developers across hundreds of organizations to discuss the tools and processes every business needs to automate model deployment and management so they can optimize model performance, control compute costs, maintain governance, and keep data scientists doing data science. Read more.
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1:00pm1:40pm Thursday, April 18, 2019
Machine Learning, Models and Methods
Location: Grand Ballroom West
Francesca Lazzeri (Microsoft), Wee Hyong Tok (Microsoft)
Average rating: ****.
(4.17, 6 ratings)
Automated machine learning (AutoML) enables both data scientists and domain experts (with limited machine learning training) to be productive and efficient. AutoML is a fundamental shift in how organizations approach machine learning. Francesca Lazzeri and Wee Hyong Tok demonstrate how to use AutoML to automate the selection of machine learning models and automate tuning of hyperparameters. Read more.
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4:05pm4:45pm Thursday, April 18, 2019
Paco Nathan (derwen.ai)
Average rating: ****.
(4.33, 3 ratings)
Effective data governance is foundational for AI adoption in enterprise, but it's an almost overwhelming topic. Paco Nathan offers an overview of its history, themes, tools, process, standards, and more. Join in to learn what impact machine learning has on data governance and vice versa. Read more.
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4:05pm4:45pm Thursday, April 18, 2019
Implementing AI
Location: Trianon Ballroom
Jaewon Lee (Naver/LINE), Sihyeung Han (Naver/LINE)
Jaewon Lee and Sihyeung Han walk you through implementing a self-trained dialogue model using AutoML and the Chatbot Builder Framework. You'll discover the value of AutoML, which allows you to provide better model, and learn how AutoML can be applied in different areas of NLP, not just for chatbots. Read more.