ODSC Europe 2021
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Half-Day Training | Deep Learning | Intermediate-Advanced
In this session, participants will be introduced to recent advances in audio-visual speech enhancement and separation, which has a variety of different applications…more details
Prof. Zheng-Hua Tan is a Professor of Machine Learning and Speech Processing, a Co-Head of the Centre for Acoustic Signal Processing Research (CASPR), and Machine Learning Research Group Leader in the Department of Electronic Systems at Aalborg University, Denmark. Prof. Zheng-Hua Tan was a Visiting Scientist/Professor at the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, USA, an Associate Professor in the Department of Electronic Engineering at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China, and a postdoctoral fellow at AI Spoken Language Lab, in the Department of Computer Science at KAIST, Korea. He received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering from Hunan University, China, in 1990 and 1996, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in electronic engineering from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China, in 1999. His research interests include machine learning, deep learning, pattern recognition, speech and speaker recognition, noise-robust speech processing, multimodal signal processing, and social robotics. He has over 200 publications. He edited the book Automatic Speech Recognition on Mobile Devices and over Communication Networks (Springer, 2008). He is the elected Chair of the IEEE Machine Learning for Signal Processing Technical Committee. He is an Associate Editor for the IEEE/ACM TRANSACTIONS ON AUDIO, SPEECH AND LANGUAGE PROCESSING. He has served as an Editorial Board Member/Associate Editor for several journals including Computer Speech and Language, and Digital Signal Processing. He was a Lead Guest Editor of the IEEE Journal of STSP and a Guest Editor of several journals including Neurocomputing. He was the General Chair of IEEE 28th International Workshop on Machine Learning for Signal Processing (MLSP 2018), Aalborg, Denmark, and was a Program Co-Chair for IEEE Workshop on Spoken Language Technology (SLT 2016), San Diego, California, USA. He has served as a Chair, Program Co-chair, Area and Session Chair, and Tutorial Speaker of many international conferences. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE.
Daniel Michelsanti is an Industrial Postdoctoral Researcher at Demant and Aalborg University. He has a PhD in Electrical and Electronic Engineering obtained at Aalborg University. Currently, he is investigating cutting-edge technologies for next-generation hearing assistive devices, with the goal of improving the life quality of people with hearing loss.
Full-Day Training | NLP | Machine Learning | All Levels
In this course, we will go through Natural Language Processing fundamentals, such as pre-processing techniques,tf-idf, embeddings, and more. It will be followed by practical coding examples, in python, to teach how to apply the theory to real use cases...more details
Leonardo De Marchi holds a Master in Artificial intelligence and has worked as a Data Scientist in the sports world, with clients such as the New York Knicks and Manchester United, and with large social networks, like Justgiving.
He now works as Head of Data Scientist and Analytics in Badoo, the largest dating site with over 420 million users. He is also the lead instructor at ideai.io, a company specialized in Reinforcement Learning, Deep Learning, and Machine Learning training.
Full-Day Training | Machine Learning | Beginner-Intermediate
This session is a hands-on introduction to Machine Learning in Python with scikit-learn. You will learn to build and evaluate predictive models on tabular data using the main tools of the Python data-science stack (Jupyter, numpy, pandas, matplotlib and scikit-learn)…more details
Olivier Grisel is a machine learning engineer at Inria. He is a member of the team of maintainers of the scikit-learn project. Scikit-learn is an Open Source machine learning library written in Python. His work is supported by the Fondation Inria and its partners
Full-Day Training | NLP | Deep Learning | Intermediate-Advanced
Being specialized in domains like computer vision and natural language processing is no longer a luxury but a necessity which is expected of any datascientist in today’s fast-paced world! With a hands-on and interactive approach, we will understand essential concepts in NLP along with extensive hands-on examples to master state-of-the-art tools, techniques and methodologies for actually applying NLP to solve real- world problems. We will leverage machine learning, deep learning and deep transfer learning to learn and solve popular tasks using NLP including NER, Classification, Recommendation \ Information Retrieval, Summarization, Classification, Language Translation, Q&A and Topic Models…more details
Anuj Gupta is a head the Machine Learning and Data Science teams at Vahan. Prior to this, he was heading ML efforts for Intuit, Huawei Technologies, Freshworks, Chennai and Airwoot, Delhi. He did his masters in theoretical computer science from IIIT Hyderabad and he dropped out of his Phd from IIT Delhi to work with startups.
He is a regular speaker at ML conferences like Pydata, Nvidia forums, Fifth Elephant, Anthill. He has also conducted a bunch of workshop attended by machine learning practitioners. He is also the co-organizer for one of the early Deep Learning meetups in Bangalore. He is also Editor of “”Anthill-2018″” – deep learning focused conference by HasGeek.
Half-Day Training | Data Analysis | Beginner-Intermediate
Working with data can be challenging: it often doesn’t come in the best format for analysis, and understanding it well enough to extract insights requires both time and the skills to filter, aggregate, reshape, and visualize it. This session will equip you with the knowledge you need to effectively use pandas – a powerful library for data analysis in Python – to make this process easier.
Pandas makes it possible to work with tabular data and perform all parts of the analysis from collection and manipulation through aggregation and visualization. While most of this session focuses on pandas, during our discussion of visualization, we will also introduce at a high level matplotlib (the library that pandas uses for its visualization features, which when used directly makes it possible to create custom layouts, add annotations, etc.) and seaborn (another plotting library, which features additional plot types and the ability to visualize long-format data)....more details
Stefanie Molin is a data scientist and software engineer at Bloomberg in New York City, where she tackles tough problems in information security, particularly those revolving around anomaly detection, building tools for gathering data, and knowledge sharing. She is also the author of “Hands-On Data Analysis with Pandas,” which is currently on in its second edition. She holds a bachelor’s of science degree in operations research from Columbia University’s Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science. She is currently pursuing a master’s degree in computer science, with a specialization in machine learning, from Georgia Tech. In her free time, she enjoys traveling the world, inventing new recipes, and learning new languages spoken among both people and computers.
Half-Day Training | Machine Learning | Beginner
The objective of the session is to provide some basic understanding of Python as a language to be used for data processing. Python syntax is very readable and easy to work with, and its rich ecosystem of libraries makes it one of the most popular programming languages in the World.
We will see some common tools and characteristics of Python that are basic to analyse data, like how to import data from files and to generate results in multiple formats. We will also see some ways to speed-up the processing of data.
This workshop is aimed at people with little to no knowledge of Python, though some programming knowledge is required, even if it’s in a different language…more details
Jaime Buelta has been a professional programmer since 2002 and a full-time Python developer since 2010. He has developed software for a variety of fields, focusing, in the last 10 years, on developing web services in Python in the gaming and finance industries. He is a strong proponent of automating everything to make computers do most of the heavy lifting, so humans can focus on the important stuff. He published his first book, “Python Automation Cookbook”, in 2018 (now updated recently with an extended second edition), followed by “Hands-On Docker for Microservices with Python” the following year. He is currently working as Software Architect in Double Yard in Dublin, Ireland, and is a regular speaker at PyCon Ireland.
Half-Day Training | Quant Finance | Machine Learning | Intermediate
The rapid progress in machine learning (ML) and the massive increase in data availability has enabled novel approaches to quantitative investment and increased the demand for the application of data science to develop discretionary and automated trading strategies.
This workshop covers popular ML use cases for the investment industry. In particular, it focuses on how ML fits into the workflow of developing a trading strategy, from the engineering of financial features to the development of an ML model that generates tradable signals, the backtesting of a trading strategy that acts on these signals and the evaluation of its performance.
We’ll use common Python data science and ML libraries as well as Zipline, Pyfolio, and Alphalens. The code examples will be presented using jupyter notebooks and are based on the second edition of my book ‘Machine Learning for Algorithmic Trading’…more details
Stefan is the founder and Lead Data Scientist at Applied AI. He advises Fortune 500 companies, investment firms and startups across industries on data & AI strategy, building data science teams, and developing machine learning solutions. Before his current venture, he was a partner and managing director at an international investment firm where he built the predictive analytics and investment research practice. He also was a senior executive at a global fintech company with operations in 15 markets.
Earlier, he advised Central Banks in emerging markets, worked for the World Bank, raised $35m from the Gates Foundation to cofound the Alliance for Financial Inclusion, and has worked in six languages across Asia, Africa, and Latin America. Stefan holds Master degrees in Computer Science from Georgia Tech and in Economics from Harvard and Free University Berlin and is a CFA Charterholder. He is the author for ‘Machine Learning for Algorithmic Trading’ and has been teaching data science at Datacamp and General Assembly.
Half-Day Training | Big Data | Beginner
This tutorial will introduce you to the wonderful world of Bayesian data science through the lens of probabilistic programming in Python. In the first half of the tutorial, we will introduce the key concepts of probability distributions via hacker statistics, hands-on simulation, and telling stories of the data-generation processes. We will also cover the basics of joint and conditional probability, Bayes’ rule, and Bayesian inference, all through hands-on coding and real-world examples. In the second half of the tutorial, we will use a series of models to build your familiarity with PyMC3, showcasing how to perform the foundational inference tasks of parameter estimation, group comparison (for example, A/B tests and hypothesis testing), and arbitrary curve regression…more details
Hugo Bowne-Anderson is Head of Data Science Evangelism and VP of Marketing at Coiled, a company that makes it simple for organizations to scale their data science and machine learning in Python. He has extensive experience as a data scientist, educator, evangelist, content marketer, and a data strategy consultant at DataCamp, the online education platform for all things data. He also has experience teaching basic to advanced data science topics at institutions such as Yale University and Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, conferences such as SciPy, PyCon, and ODSC and with organizations such as Data Carpentry. He has developed over 30 courses on the DataCamp platform, impacting over 500,000 learners worldwide through his own courses. He also created the weekly data industry podcast DataFramed, which he hosted and produced for 2 years. He is committed to spreading data skills, access to data science tooling, and open-source software, both for individuals and the enterprise.
Workshop | Big Data | All Levels
In many data science ecosystems data frame is a pivotal object. It is not only very useful conceptually, but also ensures that data transformation operations can be performed efficiently. Therefore packages like data.table in R or pandas in Python are star players.
With the Julia language the situation is different because it gives you the speed out of the box. Therefore the DataFrames.jl package is designed to be a sidekick that conveniently supports your core data analysis pipeline. It has a more focused functionality than e.g. pandas, but at the same time it seamlessly integrates with the whole Julia data science ecosystem.
During this workshop, using hands-on examples, I will discuss the design principles behind DataFrames.jl and walk you through key functionalities provided by this package. All presented materials will be made available before the workshop in a blog post on https://bkamins.github.io/…more details
Bogumił Kamiński is Head of Decision Analysis and Support Unit at Warsaw School of Economics, Poland, and Adjunct Professor at Data Science Laboratory, Ryerson University, Canada. His research interests are techniques of large scale mathematical modelling of complex systems combining simulation, optimization, and machine learning. A particular area of his expertise are agent based simulation and modeling and analysis of complex networks.
Bogumił is one of the core developers of DataFrames.jl package for data wrangling in the Julia language. He is also a top answerer for the [julia] tag on StackOverflow and regularly discusses a wide range of data science related topics on his blog https://bkamins.github.io/.
Workshop | Machine Learning | Beginner-Intermediate
In this session, we will work through the basics of solving a classification-based machine learning problem using python and scikit-learn, and do a comparative study of two popular algorithms…more details
Yamini Rao is a Developer Advocate for IBM. She complies various developer scenarios and training material, including demos, writing blog posts, creating audio-visual artefacts and giving hands-on workshops and training sessions based on IBM Cloud technologies. She works with various developer communities across the UK. As a developer advocate, Yamini is involved in public speaking engagements at conferences and meetups and also organises some of these events as part of the role. The other part of Advocacy involves closing the loop, to collect feedback from the developer community about how they are using the technology and channel this back to the engineering and product management teams. She has a background in computer science and has previously worked as an Implementation Engineer for various IBM Analytical tools.
Tutorial | Machine Learning | Intermediate-Advanced
Advances in information extraction have enabled the automatic construction of large knowledge graphs (KGs) like DBpedia, YAGO, Wikidata of Google Knowledge Graph. Learning rules from KGs is a crucial task for KG completion, cleaning and curation. This tutorial presents state-of-the-art rule induction methods, recent advances, research opportunities as well as open challenges along this avenue...more details
Daria Stepanova is a research scientist at Bosch Center for Artificial Intelligence. Her research interests include Knowledge Representation and Reasoning with the special focus on automatic acquisition of rules from structured knowledge. Previously Daria was a senior researcher at Max Plank Institute for Informatics (Germany), where she was heading a group on Semantic Data. Daria got her diploma degree in Applied Computer Science from the department of Mathematics and Mechanics of St. Petersburg State University (Russia) in 2010 and a PhD in Computational Logic from Vienna University of Technology (Austria) in 2015. Before starting her PhD she worked as a visiting researcher at the school of Computing Science at Newcastle University (UK) in an industrially-oriented project.
Workshop | Machine Learning | Intermediate
This workshop will feature a comprehensive tutorial on using CatBoost library.
We will walk you through all the steps of building a good predictive model.
We will cover such topics as:
– Working with different types of features, numerical and categorical
– Working with inbalanced datasets
– Using cross-validation
– Understanding feature importances and explaining model predictions
– Tuning parameters of the model
– Speeding up the training..more details
Workshop | Deep Learning | Intermediate
Learn the basics of building a PyTorch model using a structured, incremental and from first principles approach. Find out why PyTorch is the fastest growing Deep Learning framework and how to make use of its capabilities: autograd, dynamic computation graph, model classes, data loaders and more.
The main goal of this session is to show you how PyTorch works: we will start with a simple and familiar example in Numpy and “torch” it! At the end of it, you should be able to understand PyTorch’s key components and how to assemble them together into a working model.
We will use Google Colab and work our way together into building a complete model in PyTorch. You should be comfortable using Jupyter notebooks, Numpy and, preferably, object oriented programming…more details
Daniel is a data scientist, teacher, and author of “Deep Learning with PyTorch Step-by-Step: A Beginner’s Guide”.
He has been teaching machine learning and distributed computing technologies at Data Science Retreat, the longest-running Berlin-based bootcamp, since 2016, helping more than 150 students advance their careers. Daniel is also the main contributor of two Python packages: HandySpark and DeepReplay.
His professional background includes 20 years of experience working for companies in several industries: banking, government, fintech, retail, and mobility.
Workshop | Deep Learning | Intermediate-Advanced
CNNs, specialized neural networks for Computer Vision tasks, are used in sensitive contexts and exposed in the wild. While extremely accurate, they are also sensitive to imperceptible perturbations that can’t be detected by human eyes. For this reason, they have been targeted by hackers which implemented AI-based techniques for their malicious purposes. During this workshop we are going to learn some synthetic attacking techniques and a defence strategy to mitigate the effect of such attacks and make neural networks more robust to them, while at the same time keeping minimal impact on the accuracy of the model and implementation costs. We would also try to understand if Transformers applied to Computer Vision tasks are immune to Adversarial Attacks…more details
Guglielmo is part of MSD (Merck & Co. in North America). He is currently busy unlocking business value through Computer Vision and other ML/DL/AI applications to the biotech manufacturing space. He has an extensive background in Software Engineering and Data Science across other big organizations including IBM, Optum and FAO of the UN in diverse contexts (such as Healthcare, DevOps, Cyber Security). Guglielmo has been recognized as DataOps Champion at the Streamsets DataOps Summit 2019 and awarded as one of the Top 50 Tech Visionaries at the 2019 Dubai Intercon Conference. Since 2018 he is also an international speaker (almost 30 international conferences so far, including Big Things 2019 and 2020, Spark+AI Summit 2019, Annual Cyber Security and AI Summit 2019 and 2020), author of a tech book on distributed Deep Learning with Apache Spark and planning about a second tech book which should be probably released at the end of 2021.
Tutorials | Machine Learning | Intermediate
Automated machine learning is the science of building machine learning models in a data-driven, efficient, and objective way. It replaces manual trial-and-error with automated, guided processes. In this tutorial, we will guide you through the current state of the art in hyperparameter optimization, pipeline construction, and neural architecture search. We will discuss model-free blackbox optimization methods, Bayesian optimization, as well as evolutionary and other techniques. We will also pay attention to meta-learning, i.e. learning how to build machine learning models based on prior experience. Moreover, we will give practical guidance on how to do meta-learning with OpenML, an online platform for sharing and reusing machine learning experiments, and how to perform automated pipeline construction with GAMA, a novel, research-oriented AutoML tool in Python…more details
Joaquin Vanschoren is Assistant Professor in Machine Learning at the Eindhoven University of Technology. His research focuses on machine learning, meta-learning, and understanding and automating learning. He founded and leads OpenML.org, an open science platform for machine learning. He received several demo and open data awards, has been tutorial speaker at NeurIPS and ECMLPKDD, and invited speaker at ECDA, StatComp, AutoML@ICML, CiML@NIPS, DEEM@SIGMOD, AutoML@PRICAI, MLOSS@NIPS, and many other occasions. He was general chair at LION 2016, program chair of Discovery Science 2018, demo chair at ECMLPKDD 2013, and he co-organizes the AutoML and meta-learning workshop series at NIPS and ICML. He is also co-editor of the book ’Automatic Machine Learning: Methods, Systems, Challenges’.
Pieter Gijsbers is a Ph.D. student at the Eindhoven University of Technology. His areas of interest are automated machine learning and meta-learning. He is the main author of GAMA, a research-focused open-source AutoML tool. While GAMA is easy to use for end-users, it also allows researchers to try different search techniques and visualize the optimization process. He is a co-author of the Open Source AutoML Benchmark. He is also part of the team working on the openml-python package, providing an easy to use Python interface to OpenML.
Tutorial | NLP | Deep Learning | Beginner-Intermediate
Have you wondered what is the technology behind the GPT models? In this talk, we are going to discuss the Transformer neural networks, introduced in 2017…more details
A former theoretical physicist turned machine learning engineer, Olga is now building a smart data annotation platform at Scaleway as a technical product manager. On the community side, she enjoys blogging about the latest advancements in AI both in and out of working hours. Some of her writing can be seen on medium.com/@olgapetrova_92798.
Workshop | Quant Finance | Intermediate-Advanced
This target of this workshop is twofold. On one hand, it is familiarizing attendees with mechanics of reinforcement learning (RL) applied to financial environments. On the other side, it aims to uncover key differences between popular RL applications (as playing video games) and financial ones, ignoring which inevitably will lead to losses of time and capital. With such insights and code boilerplates, attendees will be able to avoid harsh mistakes and implement environment-driven strategies faster…more details
Alex Honchar is a tech entrepreneur and educator. Currently, he is co-founder and ML director at Neurons Lab – a consulting firm specializing in healthcare, finance, and IoT. Also, he writes a popular blog on Medium about machine learning applications and leadership. Previously he worked as an independent consultant with SMBs and startups on rapid go-to-market ML solutions and taught machine learning courses at the University of Verona and Ukrainian Catholic University.
Workshop | Responsible AI | Beginner
This workshop offers a gentle introduction to reproducible and elegantly formatted document generation with R Markdown. R Markdown presents a framework for reproducible workflows. It allows you to use multiple languages including R, Python, and SQL and helps you automate the production of HTML or PDF reports by relying on the power of Pandoc together with Lua-filters.
Participants will learn how to implement literate programming practices to make their workflows fully reproducible and produce automated reports. We will first cover the basics of narrative text and code integration. Then, we focus on working on a template that is fully optimized for two different output formats, HTML and PDF. While in the stage of explorative data analysis and with an eye on content only, our template allows you to produce beautiful HTML reports of your analyses, optimized for the interactive exploration of your data. While in the stage of dissemination and with an eye on the presentation of results, our template allows you to produce beautifully typeset PDF reports, ready to be circulated or published any time…more details
Julia Schulte-Cloos is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie funded LMU Research Fellow at the Geschwister Scholl Institute of Political Science at LMU Munich. Her main research interests lie in comparative politics, political behavior, research methodology, and reproducibility. Julia Schulte-Cloos has earned her PhD from the European University Institute.
Workshop | Machine Learning | All Levels
By completing this workshop, you will develop an understanding of the different freely available RS data sources out there and open-source software tools that can be used for analysing these...more details
I joined the Center for Environmental Policy (CEP), Imperial College London as a Research Fellow in 2018. Before that, I completed a PhD from the University of Cambridge in 2017 where I focussed on implementing data science techniques for quantifying the impact of forest loss on tropical ecosystems. I hold an MPhil (School of Geography and Environment) and an MSc (Department of Engineering) from Oxford University. I have nearly 10 year’s experience in conducting academic research at the interface of tropical ecology, data science, earth observation (EO) and artificial intelligence (AI)and published 14 first author peer-reviewed papers in international journals since 2013 including PLoS One. I have obtained research funding of approximately £275,000 since 2018 and provided research, consultancy and data science support to startups and industry partners including Treeconomy and Morphobotics LLC. I am a Fellow of the Royal Geographic Society (RGS)and Royal Statistical Society (RSS) as well as serving as an Associate Fellow at the Data Science Institute, Imperial College London. I am also a best selling course-instructor on the online MOOC platform Udemy where I provide online teaching to more than 71,000 students from across the world on machine learning, earth observation and deep learning related topic
Tutorial | Quant Finance | Intermediate
This tutorial explores machine learning applications in economics and finance using TensorFlow 2. It starts by examining how TensorFlow and machine learning can be used to solve empirical and theoretical models in economics…more details
Isaiah Hull is a senior economist in the research division of Sweden’s Central Bank (Sveriges Riksbank). He holds a PhD in economics from Boston College and conducts research on computational economics, machine learning, and quantum computing. He is also the instructor for DataCamp’s “Introduction to TensorFlow in Python” course and the author of “Machine Learning for Economics in Finance in TensorFlow 2.”
Workshop | MLOps | Intermediate-Advanced
Airflow is a leading open-source workflow orchestrator that offers a very wide range of possibilities. It can be integrated with Kubernetes using the KubernetesPodOperator to create pipelines that are extremely customizable. This is what we use to preprocess data and train ML models for PowerOP, Dataswati’s SAAS for optimizing food industry production lines…more details
Luis spent his education and early career in the realm of Transport (Civil Engineering Diploma, MSc Transport from Imperial College London, French Civil Aviation Authority) but he took the train of data science and machine learning in 2014 with Kaggle and Coursera as teachers. He spent about 3 years as a Data Scientist at Quantmetry, a Data Science and AI Consultancy based in Paris where he helped several big companies in multiple sectors develop solutions involving Natural Language Processing, Geospatial data, and Time series. He has recently joined Dataswati to take the lead of the Data Science team. At Dataswati, they develop a SAAS called PowerOP that offers agro-industrial companies easy integration and visualization of their production data as well as explainable and actionable AI services like quality analysis, smart alerting and recipe or settings recommendation.
Workshop | Big Data
By completing this workshop, you will develop an understanding of various vectors of AI risks to companies and be able to improve the governance inside your organization. Additionally, you will get hands-on experience on the problem of biased data and simulate an adversarial attack on a neural network model…more details
Lukas Csoka, working as Head Big Data Foundations in Swiss Re, one of the biggest global reinsurers, combines data science, consultative thinking and business partnering as the main skills used daily in his job to push design and develop new AI products. His MS in software engineering from Slovak University of Technology and MBA in global management from City University of Seattle are supporting him during this journey. His projects include innovative solutions for farmers using satellites, the application of predictive methods to manage costs inside Swiss Re or the analysis of thousands of client meetings from text and the provision of recommendations to Swiss Re’s traders and many others.
Workshop | Responsible Ai | Machine Learning | Intermediate-Advanced
Recently, academics as well as policy makers have written many papers, on responsible data science / AI. Moreover, many open-source packages for bias dashboards or tools for `fairness’ have been proposed. This session aims to provide attendees a broad overview as well as the specific technical background to use the available ` fairness’ tools. In addition, a governance framework describing the precise responsibilities of data scientists will be discussed…more details
Ramon van den Akker works as a data scientist at the AI Center of Excellence and the Risk Modelling departments of de Volksbank, a Dutch retail bank located in Utrecht. He also works, as an associate professor, at the econometrics group of Tilburg University. His research interests cover various fields in data science, machine learning, econometrics and statistics and his research findings have been published in leading journal in econometrics and statistics. In his work at de Volksbank, Ramon mainly works on data science projects and the exploration of new opportunities, but also on governance aspects like frameworks for responsible AI & data science and the use of privacy-preserving data analytics.
Daan Knoope works as an AI Engineer at de Volksbank, the Dutch parent company of several banks and mortgage providers. He has a background in Computer Science (MSc) and has specialized in Algorithmic Data Analysis. During his studies, he researched the application of Dynamic Bayesian Networks on practical use cases to help further the development of explainable AI. Currently, he is focusing on developing AI-models for the bank as well as providing fellow AI Engineers the tools they need to efficiently explore data and build production-ready models
Joris Krijger (1991) works as an Ethics & AI specialist at the Dutch bank de Volksbank while also holding a PhD position at the Erasmus University Rotterdam on that topic. He has a background in Economic Psychology (MA), Philosophy (MA) and Film and Literary Studies (BA) and studied in Glasgow, Buenos Aires and Leiden, where he was awarded a national thesis prize in 2017 by the Royal Dutch Society of the Sciences for his graduation thesis on technology ethics and the financial crisis of 2008. He co-founded high-tech startup Condi Food (Rabobank Wijffels Innovation Award 2014) and was involved in various biomedical initiatives related to bacteriophages. He presently works on bridging the gap between principle and practice in AI Ethics by studying the operationalization of ethical principles from an academic and practical perspective and is reviewer for the AI Ethics Journal, Subject Matter Expert for CertNexus’ ‘Certified Ethical Emerging Technologist’ and Editorial Board Member for Springer’s AI and Ethics Journal.
Workshop | Machine Learning | All Levels
This will be a 90 minute workshop that will walk through how to set up, run and deploy a federated learning project from scratch…more details
At Scaleout, we are solving the data access challenge in AI. We are developing a world-leading solution for federated learning. In federated learning, you distribute the training of machine learning models to the data. You avoid collecting all data in one place.
Daniel is the CEO and co-founder of Scaleout and has a long background as an entrepreneur and leader in deep tech companies. He co-founded Scandinavia’s first personal DNA-testing company in 2008, was CTO at a multinational growing medtech company for 7 years, and then co-founded the first international accelerator for blockchain startups. As CTO and CEO, he has many years of experience in leading deep tech projects and taking them to market.
Workshop | Life Sciences & Pharma | All Levels
A real-world scenario of applying ML in genomics will be discussed, where we shall build a predictor of a special type of DNA structures out of DNA sequence information alone…more details
Alex is a principal investigator at the University of Oxford, leading a group focused on integrative computational biology and machine learning in the MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Radcliffe Department of Medicine. In past, he did his undergraduate studies in pharmaceutical sciences with a research focus on quantum/structural chemistry and NMR spectroscopy. He next moved to the University of Cambridge, first obtaining an MPhil degree in computational biology (Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics), followed by a PhD in theoretical chemical biology (Department of Chemistry). He then became an interdisciplinary research fellow in computational genomics and epigenetics (Department of Chemistry and Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute), before joining the University of Oxford. His research aims at combining machine learning, computational biology, computational chemistry, data from experimental genomics and biophysical techniques to reach a new level of precision in biology at both genome and proteome levels.
Workshop | MLOps | Intermediate
This session will explore and demonstrate how DataRobot’s MLOps can speed up deployment, monitor drift and accuracy, ensure governance and ongoing model lifecycle management, including how to do automation retraining and have challenger models in production…more details
Asger holds a master of Computer Science and has for many years been leading software development teams as the CTO of several startup companies. Following that he has been helping many of the biggest enterprises around the world becoming successful with monitoring critical application services in production, and today at DataRobot he is focused on bringing some of the best practices from the DevOps world into the new growing field of MLOps, where some of the principles can be reused but where there is also a great need to have AI and Machine Learning specific capabilities to be able to scale in a standardised and governed way.
Qian Zhao is a London-based data scientist at DataRobot who helps fintech, banking, and healthcare customers accelerate their machine learning capabilities by using the DataRobot platform. Before he joined DataRobot, Qian was a data science manager at PwC and Deloitte, where he led a team of data scientists, delivering innovative and cutting-edge AI and machine learning solutions to enterprise businesses. Qian received his Ph.D. in Neuroscience from UCL in 2012.
Pavel Ustinov is a Lead AI Engineer at DataRobot, where he applies his scientific background and more than 15 years’ experience in software engineering to successfully deliver end-to-end Augmented Intelligence solutions driven by the DataRobot platform. He takes care of EMEA region customers. Pavel began his career as a researcher in the nonlinear dynamics of energy conversion systems before moving to the software engineering and machine learning industry. Prior to joining DataRobot, he also spent time at Anaplan, Société Générale CIB, BNP Paribas Securities Services, and ML/DL startups holding senior/leading technical positions and delivering large scale analytical projects. Pavel received his PhD from Orel State Technical University (Orel, Russia) in Automation and Control of Industrial Systems and PhD from University of Reims Champagne-Ardenne (Reims, France) in Computer Science, Automation and Signal Processing. When not working out over technology he enjoys a high altitude mountaineering.
Workshop | MLOps | NLP | Intermediate
In this workshop we will explore the concept of MLOps Orchestration and how it can simplify the process of getting data science to production in any environment (multi-cloud, on-prem, hybrid), from the step of data collection and preparation (across real-time / streaming, historic, structured, or unstructured data), through automated model training to model deployment and monitoring. We will demonstrate how to drastically cut down the time and efforts needed to get data science to production. We’ll show how to map a business problem into an automated ML production pipeline and identify the right tools for the job, and ultimately how to run Al models in production at scale to accelerate business value with AI – all using open source technologies. The session will include a live demo and real customer case studies across use cases such as fraud prevention, real-time recommendation engines and NLP…more details
Yaron Haviv is a serial entrepreneur who has been applying his deep technological experience in data, cloud, AI and networking to leading startups and enterprise companies since the late 1990s. As the co-founder and CTO of Iguazio, Yaron drives the strategy for the company’s data science platform and leads the shift towards real-time AI. He also initiated and built Nuclio, a leading open source serverless platform with over 3,400 Github stars and MLRun, Iguazio’s open source MLOps orchestration framework.
Prior to co-founding Iguazio in 2014, Yaron was the Vice President of Datacenter Solutions at Mellanox (now NVIDIA), where he led technology innovation, software development and solution integrations. He was also the CTO and Vice President of R&D at Voltaire, a high-performance computing, IO and networking company which floated on the NYSE in 2007. Yaron is an active contributor to the CNCF Working Group and was one of the foundation’s first members. He presents at major industry events and writes tech content for leading publications including TheNewStack, Hackernoon, DZone, Towards Data Science and more.
Workshop | MLOps
Ivana is a data scientist, passionate about machine learning and artificial intelligence. As part of the Data Science and Strategy competence center at element61, she helps organizations build and grow business with data. Ivana is an engineering professional with a Master’s degree in Artificial Intelligence from KU Leuven.
Workshop | Machine Learning | Responsible AI | Beginner
In the days where we have autonomous cars, drones, and automated medical diagnostics, we want to learn more about how to interpret the decisions made by the machine learning models. Having such information we are able to debug the models and retrain it in the most efficient way.
This talk is dedicated to managers, developers and data scientists that want to learn how to interpret the decisions made by machine learning models. We explain the difference between white and black box models, the taxonomy of explainable models and approaches to XAI. Knowing XAI methods is especially useful in any regulated company.
We go through the basic methods like the regression methods, decision trees, ensemble methods, and end with more complex methods based on neural networks. In each example, we use a different data set for each example. Finally, we show how to use model agnostic methods to interpret it and the complexity of the interpretability of many neural networks…more details
Karol Przystalski obtained a PhD degree in Computer Science in 2015 at the Jagiellonian University in Cracow. He is the CTO and founder of Codete where he’s leading and mentoring teams as they work with Fortune 500 companies on data science projects. He also built a research lab for machine learning methods and big data solutions at Codete. Karol gives speeches and trainings in data science with a focus on applied machine learning in German, Polish, and English.
Workshop | Machine Learning | Beginner
General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is now in place. Are you ready to explain your models? This is a hands-on tutorial for beginners. I will demonstrate the use of open-source H2O platform (https://www.h2o.ai/products/h2o/) with both Python and R for automatic and explainable machine learning. Participants will be able to follow and build regression and classification models quickly with H2O AutoML. They will then be able to explain the model outcomes with various methods...more details
Jo-fai (or Joe) has multiple roles (data scientist / evangelist / community manager) at H2O.ai. Since joining the company in 2016, Joe has delivered H2O talks/workshops in 40+ cities around Europe, US, and Asia. Nowadays, he is best known as the H2O #360Selfie guy. He is also the co-organiser of H2O’s EMEA meetup groups including London Artificial Intelligence & Deep Learning – one of the biggest data science communities in the world with more than 11,000 members (https://www.meetup.com/London-Artificial-Intelligence-Deep-Learning/).
Workshop | Machine Learning | Quant Finance | Beginner
Unlike some of my prior presentations and tutorials that covered both statistical and neural network-based models for time series analysis, this talk will be introductory in nature and will focus on the discussion of a couple of workhorse statistical time series models that are frequently applied to solving time series forecasting problems…more details
Jeffrey is a VP of Data Science, Data Engineering, and Platform Engineering at the Store Associate Technology of Walmart Global Technology. His prior roles include the Chief Data Scientist at AllianceBernstein, a global asset-management firm that managed nearly $700 billion, Vice President and Head of Data Science at Silicon Valley Data Science, and senior leadership position at Charles Schwab Corporation and KPMG. He has also taught econometrics, statistics, and machine learning at UC Berkeley, Cornell, NYU, University of Pennsylvania, and Virginia Tech. Jeffrey is active in the data science community and often speaks at data science conferences and local events. He has many years of experience in applying a wide range of econometric and machine learning techniques to create analytic solutions for financial institutions, businesses, and policy institutions. Jeffrey holds a Ph.D. and an M.A. in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania and a B.S. in Mathematics and Economics from UCLA.
Tutorial | Quant Finance | Beginner-Intermediate
This tutorial aims to demystify ML by uncovering its underlying mathematics and showing how to apply ML methods to real-world financial data…more details
Dr. Hao Ni is an associate professor in financial mathematics at UCL and a Turing fellow at Alan Turing Institute since September 2016. Prior to this Dr. Hao Ni was a visiting postdoctoral researcher at ICERM and Department of Applied Mathematics at Brown University from 2012/09 to 2013/05 and continued her postdoctoral research at the Oxford-Man Institute of Quantitative Finance until 2016. Dr. Hao Ni finished her D.Phil. in mathematics in 2012 under the supervision of Professor Terry Lyons at University of Oxford.
Tutorial | MLOps | All Levels
Machine learning has evolved from the experimenting stage to real-world production systems with a need for automated quality assurance and delivery, reproducibility and deployment consistency…more details
Magda is a full stack developer at Valohai and one of the organizers of the Turku.py Python meetup. She is passionate about open source, open data and MLOps.
Workshop | Deep Learning | Beginner-Intermediate
This workshop will walk you through how to convert mathematical concepts into code to build AI models. At the end of the workshop, you’ll learn how to write code from scratch to do the magic i.e. generate images and deepfake video…more details
Soon-Yau Cheong is the founder of Sooner.ai. It helps businesses to devise and implement AI strategies. Past projects include helping ARM to research using computer vision in automotive camera, and scaling up federated learning software infrastructure with Samsung Research. He has a wide interest in many AI domains including computer vision, NLP and productizing AI. Soon-Yau is also the author of “Hands-on Image Generation with TensorFlow” where he implemented many state-of-the-art models from scratch.
Workshop | Machine Learning | Intermediate-Advanced
In this workshop you will learn when and why federated learning should be used, basic algorithms for implementing it, as well as more advanced ones covering a variety of use-cases. Towards the end of the workshop participants will be offered a hands-on experience of training a federated model together…more details
Mikhail is a Research Staff Member at IBM Research and MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab in Cambridge, Massachusetts. His research interests are Model fusion and federated learning; Algorithmic fairness; Applications of optimal transport in machine learning; Bayesian (nonparametric) modeling and inference. Before joining IBM, he completed Ph.D. in Statistics at the University of Michigan, where he worked with Long Nguyen. He received his bachelor’s degree in applied mathematics and physics from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology.
Chaitanya Kumar is a Machine Learning Engineer with the Real World AI team in the IBM Research Singapore Lab, where his work focuses on Federated Learning. Owing to his background in distributed systems, he contributes to the orchestration and deployment of Federated Learning pipelines.
Dr. Laura Wynter is the head of the RealWorld AI team at the IBM Research Singapore Lab. Laura has degrees from MIT and the Ecole des Ponts (Paris, France). Her areas of expertise involve the use of AI as well as optmization, equilibrium modeling and statistics-based methods for enabling effective real-time decision making for planning and operational problems in numerous domains. She has been named an IBM Master Inventor. Her work spans the full lifecycle of a research solution from the definition of the research problem and its characterization, to the development of effective algorithms, to collaborations with the IBM software division culminating in the creation of commercial software products from the models and algorithms developed.
Workshop | Deep Learning | NLP | All Levels
Over the past few years speech synthesis or text-to-speech (TTS) has seen rapid advances thanks to deep learning. As anyone who owns a voice assistant will know, artificial voices are becoming more and more natural and convincing. The good news is you can recreate this impressive technology yourself, using high quality open-source tools.
In this workshop, we’ll learn all about TTS and create a custom speech synthesis system from scratch. We’ll take a look at the development of TTS systems up to the present day, investigate the challenges that researchers are still grappling with, and walk through and end-to-end example of creating a deep learning-based TTS system – including data preparation, training, inference and evaluation. This workshop doesn’t require any prior knowledge of TTS or deep learning…more details
Alex Peattie is the co-founder and CTO of Peg, a technology platform helping multinational brands and agencies to find and work with top YouTubers. Peg is used by over 1500 organisations worldwide including Coca-Cola, L’Oreal and Google.
An experienced digital entrepreneur, Alex spent six years as a developer and consultant for the likes of Grubwithus, Huckberry, UNICEF and Nike, before joining coding bootcamp Makers Academy as senior coach, where he trained hundreds of junior developers. Alex was also a technical judge at this year’s TechCrunch Disrupt conference.
Workshop | NLP | Intermediate-Advanced
Transformers have taken the AI research and product community by storm. We have seen them advancing multiple fields in AI such as NLP, Computer Vision, Robotics. In this talk, I will be giving some background in Conversational AI, NLP and Transformers based Large Scale Language Models such as BERT and GPT-3…more details
Chandra Khatri is the Chief Scientist and Head of AI at Got It AI, wherein, his team is transforming the AI space by leveraging state-of-the-art technologies in order to deliver Self-Discovering, Self-Training, and Self-Optimizing products. Under his leadership, Got It AI is democratizing Conversational AI and related ecosystems through automation. Prior to Got-It, Chandra was leading various kinds of applied research projects at Uber AI such as Conversational AI, Multi-modal AI, and Recommendation Systems.
Prior to Uber AI, he was the founding member of the Alexa Prize Competition at Amazon, wherein he was leading the R&D and got the opportunity to significantly advance the field of Conversational AI, particularly Open-domain Dialog Systems, which is considered as the holy-grail of Conversational AI and is one of the open-ended problems in AI. Prior to Alexa AI, he was driving NLP, Deep Learning, and Recommendation Systems related Applied Research at eBay. He graduated from Georgia Tech with a specialization in Deep Learning in 2015 and holds an undergraduate degree from BITS Pilani, India.
His current areas of research include Artificial and General Intelligence, Democratization of AI, Reinforcement Learning, Language Understanding, Conversational AI, Multi-modal and Human-agent Interactions, and Introducing Common Sense within Artificial Agents.
Tutorial | Machine Learning | Beginner-Intermediate
Faces are a fundamental piece of photography, and building applications around them has never been easier with open-source libraries and pre-trained models. In this tutorial, we’ll help you understand some of the computer vision and machine learning techniques behind these applications. Then, we’ll use this knowledge to develop our own prototypes to tackle tasks such as face detection (e.g. digital cameras), recognition (e.g. Facebook Photos), classification (e.g. identifying emotions), manipulation (e.g. Snapchat filters), and more…more details
Gabriel is the founder of Scalar Research, a full-service artificial intelligence & data science consulting firm. Scalar helps companies tackle complex business challenges with data-driven solutions leveraging cutting-edge machine learning and advanced analytics.
Previously, Gabriel was a B.S. & M.S. student in computer science at Stanford, where he conducted research on computer vision, deep learning, and quantum computing. He’s also spent time at Google, Facebook, startups, and investment firms.
Keynote
In this keynote, Turkcell and Red Hat will provide an overview of Turkcell’s AI use cases, and how they went about building a flexible, secure cloud platform to accelerate AI development, and associated delivery of intelligent applications. Technologies such as Red Hat OpenShift, JupyterLab, NVIDIA GPUs helped provide the much needed execution agility for Turkcell’s AI strategy…more details
İnanç Çakıroğlu is an executive manager with more than 20 years of experience. He joined Turkcell Group as a business analyst in 2000 and took various managerial positions at ICT including establishment of Lifecell (Turkcell Ukraine) and Turkcell Europe operations. He’s currently working as “Director, Artificial Intelligence, Data Analytics and Data Science” in Turkcell, specialized on new technologies and disruptive concepts such as digital transformation, big data, AI and machine learning. İnanç Çakiroğlu graduated from Bogazici University Electrical Electronics Engineering and studied MBA in Yeditepe University.
Abhinav Joshi is a Senior Manager, Product Marketing in the Cloud Platforms Business Unit at Red Hat. He and his team are focused on cloud-native workloads on OpenShift, including AI/ML, data analytics, databases, etc. Abhinav has over 20 years of industry experience around Hybrid Cloud, AI/ML, Data Analytics, Digital Workspace, and Software Defined Data Center focused products and solutions. Throughout his career, Abhinav has held strategic roles in Product Management, Product Marketing, Sales, and Consulting Services at Red Hat, VMware, Cisco, NetApp, etc. He holds MS in Systems Engineering from the University of Maryland College Park, Strategic Management Graduate Certificate from Harvard University, and a B.Tech in Chemical Engineering from Nagpur University, India. is a Senior Manager, Product Marketing in the Cloud Platforms Business Unit at Red Hat. He and his team are focused on cloud-native workloads on OpenShift, including AI/ML, data analytics, databases, etc. Abhinav has over 20 years of industry experience around Hybrid Cloud, AI/ML, Data Analytics, Digital Workspace, and Software Defined Data Center focused products and solutions. Throughout his career, Abhinav has held strategic roles in Product Management, Product Marketing, Sales, and Consulting Services at Red Hat, VMware, Cisco, NetApp, etc. He holds MS in Systems Engineering from the University of Maryland College Park, Strategic Management Graduate Certificate from Harvard University, and a B.Tech in Chemical Engineering from Nagpur University, India.
Keynote
In my talk, I will describe the work that we have done as Commissioner on AI and COVID-19 for the President of the Valencian Region. Since March 2020, I have been leading a multi-disciplinary team of 20+ volunteer scientists been working on 4 large areas…more details
Nuria Oliver is the Commissioner to the President of the Valencian Government on AI Strategy and Data Science against COVID-19; Cofounder and Vicepresident of ELLIS; Cofounder of the ELLIS Alicante Unit Foundation; Chief Data Scientist at Data-Pop Alliance. Nuria earned her PhD from MIT; is a Fellow of the IEEE, an ACM Fellow and Fellow; Member of the Spanish Royal Academy of Engineering, SIGCHI Academy and Academia Europaea. She has 25+ years of research experience in human-centric AI and is the author of 160+ widely cited scientific articles as well as an inventor of 40+ patents and a public speaker. Her work is regularly featured in the media and has received numerous recognitions, including the Spanish National Computer Science Award (Angela Ruiz Robles category), the MIT TR100 (today TR35) Young Innovator Award (first Spanish scientist to receive this award); 2019 Data Scientist of the Year in Europe; 2020 Data Scientist of the Year by ESRI. She has recently co-led ValenciaIA4COVID, the winning team of the 500k XPRIZE Pandemic Response Challenge.
Keynote
Open-source software is at the foundation of machine learning and there are numerous projects supporting various parts of the machine learning lifecycle – from building to deploying and managing models. Join us to learn how Microsoft is investing across open source projects – both by starting new projects, like ONNX Runtime, InterpretML, and FairLearn as well as contributing to existing projects, such as ONNX, DeepSpeed, and PyTorch. We’ll also deep dive into some of our most recent work with PyTorch and share how organizations are using PyTorch on Azure to drive innovation...more details
John leads Program Management for Microsoft Azure AI and is responsible for designing products and services that data scientists and ML experts around the world love and use. He leads a team of program managers, researchers, and designers responsible for products and services including Azure Machine Learning, Azure Cognitive Services, ML.NET, and ONNX Runtime. Prior to this role, John has led the Program Management team for Microsoft’s Developer Division, including Visual Studio, Visual Studio Code, and Azure Notebooks. He has also held positions as director of marketing for Visual Studio, as well as a program manager for Microsoft’s participation in several standards organizations, including ISO, IETF, and ECMA. Prior to joining Microsoft in 1998, John worked as a writer and editor for several computer and technology publications, including BYTE Magazine, PC/Computing, and Corporate Computing, as well as being the Chief Information Officer for Imagine Publishing.
Emma Ning is a Senior Product Manager in the AI Framework team under Microsoft Cloud + AI Group, focusing on AI model operationalization and acceleration with ONNX/ONNX Runtime for open and interoperable AI. She has more than five years of product experience in search engines taking advantage of machine learning techniques and spent more than three years exploring AI adoption among various businesses. She is passionate about bringing AI solutions to solve business problems as well as enhancing product experience.
Geeta Chauhan leads AI Partnership Engineering at Facebook AI with expertise in building resilient, anti-fragile, large-scale distributed platforms for startups and Fortune 500s. As a core member of the PyTorch team, she leads TorchServe and many partner collaborations for building a strong PyTorch ecosystem and community. She is a winner of Women in IT – Silicon Valley – CTO of the year 2019, an ACM Distinguished Speaker and thought leader on topics ranging from Ethics in AI, Deep Learning, Blockchain, IoT. She is passionate about promoting the use of AI for Good.
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In this talk, I will highlight the environmental cost of modern AI and describe some of the ongoing research that is attempting to make AI more environmentally sustainable...more details
Prof. John Kelleher is the academic leader of the Information, Communication, and Entertainment (ICE) research institute at TU Dublin. He is the TU Dublin lead for the Science Foundation Ireland funded ADAPT research centre (https://www.adaptcentre.ie) and PhD Centre for Research Training in Digitally Enhanced Reality (https://d-real.ie), and the H2020 project PRECISE4Q which focuses on using Artificial Intelligence to develop clinical decision support systems for the treatment of stroke (https://precise4q.eu). He has published three books on Machine Learning: Deep Learning (https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/deep-learning-1), Data Science (https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/data-science), and Fundamentals of Machine Learning for Predictive Data Analytics (https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/fundamentals-machine-learning-predictive-data-analytics-second-edition).
Demo Talk
Data science projects can fail before ever being realized. Integrating data science into your application development workflow and tooling from the beginning can greatly improve chances of success. In this demo, we show how a data scientist uses Red Hat OpenShift Data Science, along with partners and open source software, to develop a model and integrate it as part of a heterogeneous application...more details
Sophie Watson is a data scientist at Red Hat, where she helps customers to solve business problems using machine learning in the hybrid cloud. She has previously conducted research in the areas of researched Bayesian Statistics and Recommendation Engines, and is focused on using her data science and statistics skills to inform next-generation infrastructure for intelligent application development.
Chris Chase is a developer at Red Hat, where he develops next-generation applications in the hybrid cloud. He is an expert in application development, and has experience in supporting data scientists deploying their models in production applications.
Talk | MLOps | Beginner-Intermediate
In this presentation, we will review the challenges of handling real-time data in research and production environments and solutions that exists to enable you to build a real-time operational ML pipeline, that can handle events arriving in ultra-high velocity and high volume, calculate and trigger an action in seconds.
We will cover online and offline feature engineering and ML calculations in development and production, and how to monitor your real-time AI applications in production to detect and mitigate drift, using real customer case studies…more details
Yaron Haviv is a serial entrepreneur who has been applying his deep technological experience in data, cloud, AI and networking to leading startups and enterprise companies since the late 1990s. As the co-founder and CTO of Iguazio, Yaron drives the strategy for the company’s data science platform and leads the shift towards real-time AI. He also initiated and built Nuclio, a leading open source serverless platform with over 3,400 Github stars and MLRun, Iguazio’s open source MLOps orchestration framework.
Prior to co-founding Iguazio in 2014, Yaron was the Vice President of Datacenter Solutions at Mellanox (now NVIDIA), where he led technology innovation, software development and solution integrations. He was also the CTO and Vice President of R&D at Voltaire, a high-performance computing, IO and networking company which floated on the NYSE in 2007. Yaron is an active contributor to the CNCF Working Group and was one of the foundation’s first members. He presents at major industry events and writes tech content for leading publications including TheNewStack, Hackernoon, DZone, Towards Data Science and more.
Track Keynote | Responsible AI | All Levels
I will talk about how the normative idea and aim behind EU non-discrimination law is “substantive equality” and so to actively dismantle inequality. As we show this means that most fairness metrics clash with this idea because they freeze the status quo. But the status quo is not neutral…more details
Professor Sandra Wachter is an Associate Professor and Senior Research Fellow focusing on law and ethics of AI, Big Data, and robotics as well as Internet regulation at the Oxford Internet Institute at the University of Oxford. Professor Wachter is specialising in technology-, IP-, data protection and non-discrimination law as well as European-, International-, (online) human rights,- and medical law. Her current research focuses on the legal and ethical implications of AI, Big Data, and robotics as well as profiling, inferential analytics, explainable AI, algorithmic bias, diversity, and fairness, governmental surveillance, predictive policing, and human rights online.At the OII, Professor Sandra Wachter also coordinates the Governance of Emerging Technologies (GET) Research Programme that investigates legal, ethical, and technical aspects of AI, machine learning, and other emerging technologies.Professor Wachter is also a Fellow at the Alan Turing Institute in London, a Fellow of the World Economic Forum’s Global Futures Council on Values, Ethics and Innovation, a Faculty Associate at The Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University, an Academic Affiliate at the Bonavero Institute of Human Rights at Oxford’s Law Faculty, a Member of the European Commission’s Expert Group on Autonomous Cars, a member of the Law Committee of the IEEE and a Member of the World Bank’s task force on access to justice and technology.
Track Keynote | Machine Learning
In this talk, I will take the opposite approach: throw all math out the window and explain the underlying concepts in an intuitive way…more details
Thomas Wiecki is the Chief Executive Officer at PyMC Labs (www.pymc-labs.io), the world’s first Bayesian consultancy. Prior to that Thomas was the VP of Data Science at Quantopian, where he used probabilistic programming and machine learning to help build the world’s first crowdsourced hedge fund. He is an author of the popular PyMC3 package — a probabilistic programming framework written in Python. He holds a PhD from Brown University.
Track Keynote | Big Data | Deep Learning | Intermediate
In this session, learn how Red Hat, the world’s leading provider of enterprise open source solutions, in partnership with C3.ai, is helping customers develop scalable intelligent applications leveraging AI and machine learning…more details
John Senegal is a Principal Solution Architect for IoT, Edge, and AI/ML as part of Red Hat’s Global Partners and Alliances team. His responsibilities include building technology and solution partnerships with Red Hat’s strategic partners.
Shouvik Mani is a Data Scientist at C3.ai, where he has built AI applications for customers in the defense, manufacturing, and oil and gas industries. He studied statistics and machine learning at Carnegie Mellon University. In his free time, he enjoys running and playing soccer.
Talk | Responsible AI | Machine Learning | Intermediate
We will deep dive into the tool functionalities by presenting case studies and a live step-by-step demo. Finally, we will conclude with a discussion on future opportunities we are considering on further integrations with other RAI tools, as a quest towards a better integrated RAI ecosystem…more details
Besmira Nushi is a researcher in the Adaptive Systems and Interaction group at Microsoft Research. Her interests lie at the intersection of human and machine intelligence focusing on Reliable Machine Learning and Human-AI Collaboration. In the last five years, she has made practical and scientific contributions on implementing and deploying Responsible AI tools for debugging and troubleshooting ML systems. Prior to Microsoft, Besmira completed her doctoral studies at ETH Zurich in 2016 on optimizing data collection processes for Machine Learning.
Mehrnoosh Sameki is a senior technical program manager at Microsoft, responsible for leading the product efforts on machine learning interpretability and fairness within the Azure Machine Learning platform. She earned her PhD degree in computer science at Boston University, where she currently serves as an adjunct assistant professor and lecturer, offering courses in responsible AI. Previously, she was a data scientist in the retail space, incorporating data science and machine learning to enhance customers’ personalized shopping experiences.
Track Keynote | MLOps | All Levels
Join me as we deconstruct several definitions of MLOps and find the essential practices which even a solo researcher should adopt. We will distill the demands for reproducibility and deployments to a bare minimum shared by all stakeholders in the operational ML process. Searching for this “lowest common denominator,” we will discover the fundamental charter of MLOPs, and draft basic recipes for incrementally crafting functional MLOps units – already during R&D...more details
Researcher first, developer second. Over the last 5 years, Ariel has worked on various projects; from the realms of quantum chemistry, massively-parallel supercomputing to deep-learning computer-vision. With AllegroAi, he helped build an open-source R&D platform (Allegro Trains), and later went on to lead a data-first transition for a revolutionary nanochemistry startup (StoreDot). Answering his calling to spread the word, he recently took up the mantle of Evangelist at ClearML. Ariel received his PhD in Chemistry in 2014 from the Weizmann Institute of Science. Ariel recently made the transition to the bustling startup scene of Tel-Aviv, and to cutting-edge Deep Learning research.
Track Keynote | Big Data | All Levels
In this session, Data Scientists from DataRobot will show how modern techniques are able to make any model explainable, and put to bed the black box debate once and for all…more details
Kayne is the Director of Data Science in the UK&I. He has 10 years of experience in helping organisations get value from data science, working both client-side and vendor-side. In his spare time, he is an avid sports player, and is always seeking his next travel adventure…which is currently particularly challenging!
Vyas Adhikari is a Customer Facing Data Scientist at DataRobot, working with customers to solve data science problems across numerous industries.
Demo Talk
In this presentation, we will cover what a feature store is, how it works and why it provides such an advantage in developing, deploying and monitoring AI in real business environments…more details
Adi Hirschtein contributes 20 years of experience as an executive, product manager and entrepreneur building and driving innovation in technology companies. As the VP of Product at Iguazio, the data science platform built for production and real-time use cases, he leads the product roadmap and strategy.
His previous roles spanned technology companies such as Dell EMC, Zettapoint and InfraGate, in diverse positions including product management, business development, marketing, sales and execution, with a strong focus on machine learning, database and storage technology. When working with startups and corporates, Adi’s passion lies in taking a team’s ideas from their very first day, through a successful market penetration, all the way to an established business.
Adi holds a B.A. in Business Administration and Information Technology from the College of Management Academic Studies.
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During this session we will explore the main tasks that can be solved using computer vision, discuss three real-world examples and examine business value and implementation considerations..more details
Federica is a Data Scientist at SAS, working across EMEA on the latest technologies involving Artificial Intelligence. She is excited about combining business and data science to help companies make better decisions, grounded in trusted data and assisted by analytics. You will likely find her working around Computer Vision or Natural Language Processing, but she enjoys everything that is data-related.
Talk | Machine Learning | All Levels
In this talk, I will discuss the technical methods behind recent progress towards robust and efficient AutoML systems. After a brief recap of the early AutoML systems Auto-WEKA and Auto-sklearn, I will discuss the next generation, Auto-learn 2.0 and Auto-PyTorch. The talk will focus on the components that make these approaches far more efficient than Auto-sklearn 1.0, including practical considerations, multi-fidelity optimization, portfolio construction, and automated policy selection…more details
Frank Hutter is a Full Professor for Machine Learning at the Computer Science Department of the University of Freiburg (Germany), as well as Chief Expert AutoML at the Bosch Center for Artificial Intelligence.
Frank holds a PhD from the University of British Columbia (UBC, 2009) and a Diplom (eq. MSc) from TU Darmstadt (2004). He received the 2010 CAIAC doctoral dissertation award for the best thesis in AI in Canada, and with his coauthors, several best paper awards and prizes in international competitions on machine learning, SAT solving, and AI planning. He is the recipient of a 2013 Emmy Noether Fellowship, a 2016 ERC Starting Grant, a 2018 Google Faculty Research Award, a 2020 ERC PoC Award, and he is a Fellow of ELLIS. Frank’s recent research focuses on automated machine learning (AutoML), where he co-organized the ICML workshop series on AutoML every year since its inception in 2014, co-authored the prominent AutoML tools Auto-WEKA, Auto-sklearn, and Auto-PyTorch, won the first two AutoML challenges with his team, co-authored the first book on AutoML, worked extensively on efficient hyperparameter optimization and neural architecture search, and gave a NeurIPS 2018 tutorial with over 3000 attendees.
Talk | Big Data | Machine Learning | Intermediate
It starts innocently – few misspellings here and there, an inappropriate date or two, a few missing cells, … suddenly your hair turns grey and your friends consider funding you a therapy. Does cleaning indeed have to be a nightmare? How to speed up the process, transform the majority of your project into fun and not just wait impatiently for the modelling phase?
This speech gathers most helpful tricks and hacks with special emphasis on the usage of Machine Learning for the cleaning tasks purposes. Pieces of advice are domain agnostic, so proposed approaches can be leveraged regardless of the business area of interest…more details
Currently Senior (Big) Data Scientist at InPost and Lecturer at Wroclaw University of Economics and Business, previously Head of Data Science at Objectivity, with background in Mathematical Statistics. For almost 10 years, she has been discovering the potential of data in various business domains, from medical data, through retail, HR, finance, aviation, real estate, logistics, … She deeply believes in the power of data in every area of life. Articles’ writer, conference speaker and privately – passionate dancer and hand-made jewellery creator.
Talk | MLOps | Big Data | Beginner-Intermediate
After this session, you should get a better understanding on how to get your models in production, how to automate some data engineering workflows, and how to build a resilient production-grade data workflow infrastructure…more details
Guillaume Moutier is a Sr. Principal Data Engineering Architect at Red Hat, focusing his work on data services, AI/ML workloads and data science platforms. Former CTO of Laval University in Canada, he is constantly looking for and promoting new and innovative solutions, but always with a focus on usability and business alignment brought by 20 years of IT management experience.
Talk | MLOps | Intermediate
We are building a unified AML Kubernetes native agent that will allow you to seamless train ML models on Kubernetes. Supported frameworks include SciKit, TensorFlow , PyTorch and MPI.
The Kubernetes cluster can be AKS in the Azure cloud or it can be on-prem Kubernetes (including Azure Stack Hub, Edge) that you bring to Azure through Azure Arc for Kubernetes. This allows you to centrally manage and govern all your Kubernetes resources in one place and use capacity flexibly for all workloads including AML…more details
Saurya Das is a PM in the Azure ML organization focused on the Hybrid strategy and Kubernetes.
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This session discusses the data challenges facing AI companies today. Data is the “new code” and developing a solution for complex edge cases requires the right mix of experience, knowledge and tools to produce high-quality data. Jeff discusses the “data challenge” and the trends within data annotation that are enabling companies to overcome these hurdles to be more successful…more details
Jeff brings vast experience in marketing, sales and organizational management. In his current role as the CRO at iMerit Technologies, a company that specializes in data annotation services, he brings unique insights on the challenges AI companies are trying to solve today through unique solutioning and their pursuit of high quality data. Prior to iMerit Jeff was the Chief Revenue Officer at 1-Page which he helped bring public in 2014. Jeff was also the CRO of Gengo, which was acquired by Lionsbridge.Ai. He’s also held management positions at Criteo, Yahoo, Sojern and SideStep (which was acquired by Kayak).
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Analyzing and improving large-scale deep learning model performance is an ongoing challenge that continues to grow in importance as the model size increases. Come learn how to detect and troubleshoot common performance bottlenecks in PyTorch models using state-of-the-art profiling tools….more details
Elena Neroslavskaya – AI Frameworks Program Manager at Microsoft focusing on Open Source frameworks for AI. Elena is passionate about all things Cloud Native and AI and helping developers and data scientists be more efficient. She has 20+ years in IT – building large-scale distributed systems, microservices, AI, and cloud-native applications. Elena holds a Master in Computer Science majoring in AI.
Geeta Chauhan leads AI Partnership Engineering at Facebook AI with expertise in building resilient, anti-fragile, large-scale distributed platforms for startups and Fortune 500s. As a core member of the PyTorch team, she leads TorchServe and many partner collaborations for building a strong PyTorch ecosystem and community. She is a winner of Women in IT – Silicon Valley – CTO of the year 2019, an ACM Distinguished Speaker and thought leader on topics ranging from Ethics in AI, Deep Learning, Blockchain, IoT. She is passionate about promoting the use of AI for Good.
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