Event Schedule
Day -1 (April 27th 8:00AM-7:30PM )
| 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM | Registration |
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| 9:00 AM - 9:40AM |
Technical Track: Amazon Machine Learning Platform for Smart Contact Center (Vadim Astakhov, Solution Architect, Amazon Web Services) (Room 2B) (Preview Video) |
| 9:40 AM - 10:20AM | Keynote: Zillow: AI in Real Estate (Jasjeet Thind, VP Data Science & Engineering, Zillow) (Room 2B) |
| 10:20AM -10:40AM | Break |
| 10:40 AM - 11:20AM |
NLP Track: Introducing Spark NLP: State-of-the-art natural language processing at scale (David Talby, CTO, Pacific AI) (Room 2B) Technical Track: Microsoft AI Platform (Anusua Trivedi, Data Scientist, Microsoft) (Room 205) |
| 11:20 AM - 12:00PM |
Technical Track: Discovering your AI Super Powers - Tips and Tricks to Jumpstart your AI project (Wee Hyong Tok, Principal Data Scientist, Microsoft) (Room 2B) Use Case Track: Conversational AI: What we’ve learned from millions of AI conversations for thousands of customers (Dr. Sid J Reddy, SVP, Conversica) (Room 205) |
| 12:00 PM - 1:00PM | Lunch Break |
| 1:00PM - 1:40PM |
Keynote: Business Transformation Through AI - Explosive Development of AI Powered By Big Data (Yoshi Tanaka, Director, Softbank) (Room 2B) Technical Track: Applications of Deep Learning Architectures for Feature Engineering in Image Processing (Roberto Reif, Data Scientist, Metis) (Room 205) (Preview Video) |
| 1:00PM - 1:20PM | Technical Track: Robotics (Shamal Dias & Jeremy Moon, Executive Director Advanced Robotics, University of Washington) (Room 2A) (Preview Video) |
| 1:20PM - 2:00PM | Use CaseTrack: How AI is transforming marketing and sales in B2B organizations? (Vijay Kasireddy, CEO, Find & Subramanian Muthukrishnan, Chief Architect, Fiind )(Room 2A) |
| 1:40PM - 2:20PM |
IoT Track: Igniting Location AI (Rajeev Rajan, VP, HERE Technologies) (Room 2B) Technical Track: Anomaly Detection for Preventive Maintenance (Shanti Subramanyam, CEO, Orzota) (Room 205) (Preview Video) |
| 2:20PM - 3:00PM |
Keynote Panel : AI from Investment perspective (Room 2B) |
| 3:00PM - 3:30PM | Afternoon Break |
| 3:30PM - 4:10PM |
Technical Track: Natural Language Visualization with Scattertext (Jason Kessler, Data Scientist, CDK Global) (Room 2B) Use Case Track: The Need for Fair and Interpretable Models in Machine Learning (Muhammad Ahmad, Principal Data Scientist, Kensci) (Room 205) |
| 4:10PM - 4:50PM |
Use Case Track: Medical Discoveries When Big Data, AI & HPC Converge (Rangan Sukumar, Director, Cray) (Room 2B) Technical Track: The Operating System for AI: How Microservices and Serverless Computing Enable the Next Generation of Machine Intelligence (Jon Peck, Developer Advocate & Software Engineer, Algorithmia) (Room 205) |
| 4:50PM - 6:00PM |
Keynote Panel: The Future of Artificial Intelligence (Room 2B) |
| 4:50PM - 5:25PM | Technical Track: Modern Data Science with R (Javier Luraschi, Software Engineer, RStudio) (Room 205) (Preview Video) |
| 6:00PM - 7:30PM | PM RECEPTION (Room 204) Sponsor: Nvidia |
Day -1 (April 27th Workshop Track)
| 9:00AM - 12:00 PM | Workshop: Introduction to Deep Learning with TensorFlow (Paige Bailey, Microsoft, Data Scientist) (Room 2A) |
| 12:00 PM - 1:00PM | Lunch Break |
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| 2:00PM - 3:00PM | Workshop: Two DL Workflows on AWS Sagemaker - Design, Training, and Deployment (Miro Enev, Data Scientist, Nvidia) (Room 2A) |
| 3:00PM - 3:30PM | Break |
| 3:30PM - 6:00PM | Workshop: Two DL Workflows on AWS Sagemaker - Design, Training, and Deployment (Miro Enev, Data Scientist, Nvidia)(Contd..) (Room 2A) |
Day -2 (April 28th 7:45AM-6:00PM )
| 7:45 AM - 9:00 AM | Registration |
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| 9:00 AM - 9:40 AM | Use Case Track: Decentralized AI: Convergence of AI and Blockchain (Geeta Chauhan, CTO, SVSG) (Room 2B) |
| 9:40 AM - 10:20 AM | Technical Track: Applying NLP in Sentiment Classification & Entity Recognition Using Azure ML and the Team Data Science Process (link) (Debraj Guhathakurta, Senior Data Scientist, Microsoft) (Room 2B) |
| 10:20AM - 10:40AM | Break |
| 10:40 AM - 11:20 AM | Keynote: Making Sense of Unstructured Data (Navneet Kesher, Head of Data Sciences, Facebook) (Room 2B) |
| 11:20 AM - 12:00 PM | Use Case Track: AI and Healthcare: a data and process approach (Sanjay Joshi, Chief of Technology, Healthcare and Life Sciences, H2O.ai) (Room 2B) |
| 12:00 PM - 1:00PM | Lunch Break |
| 1:00 PM - 1:40PM | Chatbot Track: Current State of Chatbots (Manisha Srivastava, Data Scientist, Amazon) (Room 2B) |
| 1:40 PM - 2:20 PM | Technical Track: Scale your ML and Data pipelines with Cadence (Maxim Fateev, Software Engineer, Uber) (Room 2B) |
| 2:20 PM - 3:00 PM | Keynote: Using AI To Provide Insights And Recommendations From Activity Data (Shardul Vikram, Sr. Director Saleforce & Joe Chrzanowski, Manager, Salesforce) (Room 2B) |
| 3:00PM - 3:30PM | Break |
| 3:30 PM - 4:10 PM | Use Case Track: Using AI and machine learning to build trust and safety in Mobile Advertising (Rajiv Bhat, SVP, Inmobi) (Room 2B) |
| 4:10 PM - 4:50 PM | Technical Track: Recent advances in Deep Learning and Tensorflow (Sourabh Bajaj, Software Engineer, Google Brain) (Room 2B) |
| 4:50 PM - 6:00 PM |
Keynote Panel: Solving Business Problems With AI (Room 2B) Rajiv Bhat (SVP, Inmobi) Manisha Srivastava (Data Scientist, Amazon) Pallavi Gupta (Director, Fractal Analytics) Siddharth Mahapatra (Director, Ex-Providence Health and Services) Mark Koss (Director, Expedia) - Moderator |
Day -2 (April 28th Workshop Track)
| 8:00AM - 12:00 PM | Workshop: Data Science with Python (Tim Fox, Big Data Architect, ElephantScale) (Room 2A) |
| 8:00AM - 12:00 PM | Workshop: Spark Machine Learning (Tim Fox, Big Data Architect, ElephantScale) (Room 2A) |
| 12:00 PM - 1:00PM | Lunch Break |
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| 1:00PM - 3:00PM | Workshop: Spark Machine Learning (Tim Fox, Big Data Architect, ElephantScale) (Room 2A) |
| 3:00PM - 3:30PM | Break |
| 3:30PM - 6:00PM | Workshop : NLP (Tim Fox, Big Data Architect, ElephantScale) (Room 2A) |
Day -3 (April 29th 7:45AM-5:30PM)
| 7:45AM - 8:00 AM | Registration |
| 9:00AM - 9:40 AM | General Track: Planning for the inevitable AI Techlash: the Public Policy and Regulatory Landscape (Joseph Williams, Director, State of Washington) (Room 2B) |
| 9:40AM - 10:20 AM |
Use Case Track: Predicting Employee Turnover: A Machine Learning Approach (Alexander Smith, Head of Data Science, Limeade) (Room 2B) |
| 10:20AM - 10:40AM | Break |
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| 10:40AM - 11:20 AM | Keynote Track: AI and ML in healthcare- Hype versus Reality(Siddharth Mahapatra, Director, Ex-Providence Health and Services) (Room 2B) |
| 11:20AM - 12:00 PM | Finance Track: Is the Market Predictable? (Shankar Vaidyanathan, CEO, Noonum) (Room 2B) (Preview Video) |
| 12:00 PM - 1:00PM | Lunch Break |
| 1:00PM - 1:40PM | Use Case Track: How Artificial Intelligence can Deliver Value to Companies (Krishnan Venkata, VP, Business Development, LatentView Analytics Corporation) (Room 2B) (Preview Video) |
| 1:40PM - 2:20PM | Use Case Track: Practical Data Science - An Overview of Data Science Best Practices for Common Business Problems (Kevin Sun, Data Scientist, Deloitte) (Room 2B) (Preview Video) |
| 2:20PM - 3:00PM | Cloud-Based AI Track: Business applications of AI technologies (Elena Windgate, CMO, MosaicTrack)(Room 2B) |
| 3:00PM - 3:30PM | Break |
| 3:30PM - 4:10PM | Cloud-Based AI Track: Use AI to build AI (Ning Jiang, CTO, OneClick.ai ) (Room 2B) |
| 4:10PM - 4:50PM | Use Case Track: Improving revenue and bottom line by aligning analytics activities with business problems: Case Studies from the Retail/Consumer Sectors (Ujjwal Sinha, CEO, Ex-Target(VP Analytics) & Management Foresight) (Room 2B) |
| 4:50PM - 5:20PM | Technical Track: Apache REEF: stdlib for big data (Sergiy Matusevych, Research Engineer, Microsoft) (Room 2B) |
Day -3 (April 29th Workshop Track)
| 8:00AM - 12:00 PM | Workshop: Tensorflow (Tim Fox, Big Data Architect, ElephantScale) (Room 2A) |
| 12:00 PM - 1:00PM | Lunch Break |
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| 1:00PM - 3:00PM | Workshop: Keras (Tim Fox, Big Data Architect, ElephantScale) (Room 2A) |
| 3:15PM - 5:15PM | Workshop: Blockchain Smart Contract with Ethereum (Tim Fox, Big Data Architect, ElephantScale) (Room 2A) |
NOTE: Agenda and speakers subject to change without notice. Exhibit Hours ( 8:30AM-6:00PM April 27th)
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Global Artificial Intelligence Conference
Date: Apr 27th to 29th, 2018 Venue: Seattle, WA, USA - Event Info