Sep 23–26, 2019

Jakov Kucan
Senior Archiitect, Manifold

Jakov Kucan is a senior architect at Manifold, an artificial intelligence engineering services firm with offices in Boston and Silicon Valley. Previously, Jakov was chief architect at Kyruus and director of product strategy at PTC. He’s a skilled architect and engineer, able to see through the details of implementations, keep track of the dependencies within a large design, and communicate the vision and ideas to both technical and nontechnical audiences. Jakov earned his PhD in computer science from MIT and his MA degree in mathematics and BSE degree in computer science and engineering from the University of Pennsylvania. He’s an author of several publications and patent applications.

Sessions

9:00am–12:30pm Tuesday, September 24, 2019

Location: 1A 12/14

Efficient ML engineering: Tools and best practices

Data Science, Machine Learning, & AI

Secondary topics: Culture and Organization, Model Development, Governance, Operations

Sourav Dey (Manifold), Jakov Kucan (Manifold)

Sourav Dey and Jakov Kucan walk you through the six steps of the Lean AI process and explain how it helps your ML engineers work as an an integrated part of your development and production teams. You'll get a hands-on example using real-world data, so you can get up and running with Docker and Orbyter and see firsthand how streamlined they can make your workflow. Read more.