All Software Architecture, All the Time
June 10-13, 2019
San Jose, CA
Noah Gift

Noah Gift
Machine Learning Lecturer, UC Davis

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Noah Gift is lecturer and consultant at both the UC Davis Graduate School of Management MSBA Program and the Graduate Data Science Program at Northwestern, where he designs and teaches graduate machine learning, AI, data science courses and consults on machine learning and cloud architecture for students and faculty. These responsibilities including leading a multicloud certification initiative for students. As the founder of Pragmatic AI Labs, he also consults with companies on machine learning, cloud architecture, and CTO-level concerns. In the last 10 years, he’s been responsible for shipping many new products at multiple companies that generated millions of dollars of revenue and had global scale. His previous roles have included CTO, general manager, consulting CTO, consulting chief data scientist, and cloud architect, at companies such as ABC, Caltech, Sony Imageworks, Disney Feature Animation, Weta Digital, AT&T, Turner Studios, and Linden Lab. As an SME on machine learning for AWS, he helped created the AWS machine learning certification.

Noah is a Python Software Foundation Fellow, AWS Subject Matter Expert (SME) on machine learning, AWS Certified Solutions Architect and AWS Academy Accredited Instructor, Google Certified Professional Cloud Architect, and Microsoft MTA on Python. He has published close to 100 technical publications, including two books on subjects ranging from cloud machine learning to DevOps, for companies like Forbes, IBM, Red Hat, Microsoft, O’Reilly, and Pearson. He’s also led workshops and talks around the world, for organizations including NASA, PayPal, PyCon, Strata, and Foo Camp. His most recent book is Pragmatic AI: An Introduction to Cloud-Based Machine Learning (Pearson), and his most recent video series is Essential Machine Learning and AI with Python and Jupyter Notebook LiveLessons. He holds an MBA from UC Davis, an MS in computer information systems from Cal State Los Angeles, and a BS in nutritional science from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo.

Sessions

1:30pm–5:00pm Tuesday, June 11, 2019
Secondary topics:  Framework-focused
Noah Gift (UC Davis ), Robert Jordan (Pragmatic AI Labs)
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The next evolution of AI and ML is cloud native, managed platforms, and custom-hardware AI. Noah Gift and Robert Jordan teach you how to use managed AI and ML platforms to create solutions in a fraction of the time as a “roll your own" ML solution. Join in to see how these cloud-managed solution compare so you can pick the right solution for the task at hand. Read more.