Joint meetup - AWS AI and Machine Learning Special

Amazon Web Services' Global Evangelist for AI and Machine Learning Julien Simon will be joining us on Thursday 9 May for this special joint meetup between AWS South Wales User Group, Cloud Native Wales, and AI Wales. Please note: this is the second Thursday of the month, not the first.

This event page will be updated over the coming week with more details. Julien will also be running an Amazon SageMaker lab for developers and data scientists in the afternoon on Thursday 9th May. Keep an eye on AWS SWUG to RSVP for that:

https://www.meetup.com/AWS-South-Wales-User-Group/

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Title: AI and ML on AWS

Presenter: Julien Simon, Global Evangelist for AI and Machine Learning, Amazon Web Services

Level: Intermediate to Advanced

Abstract:
As the AWS Global Evangelist for Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning, Julien focuses on helping developers and enterprises bring their ideas to life. He frequently speaks at conferences and he's also actively blogging at https://medium.com/@julsimon. Prior to joining AWS, Julien served for 10 years as CTO/VP Engineering in top-tier web startups where he led large Software and Ops teams in charge of thousands of servers worldwide. In the process, he fought his way through a wide range of technical, business and procurement issues, which helped him gain a deep understanding of physical infrastructure, its limitations and how cloud computing can help. Last but not least, Julien holds all ten AWS certifications.

Julien's talk will be focused around using AI on AWS and will include a mix of content for the intermediate to the hardcore user!

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Title: Knative Serve and cloud native pipelines using Tekton with Jenkins X

Presenter: James Strachan, James Wralings

Level: TBA

Abstract: TBA

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Yolk Recruitment and DevOps Group are kindly sponsoring the food* and drink, Tramshed Tech are graciously providing the venue, and our thanks to ARTIMUS for their continued sponsorship of the group. We will also have some prizes and goodies courtesy of Cloud Native Wales and AWS SWUG.

Look forward to seeing you there!

*please message us >in advance< with any specific dietary requirements - we usually provide Domino's pizzas, as well as beers, cider and soft drinks