"LAST CALL" -join 220 AWS enthusiasts for Dublin MeetUp #21

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AWS UG Dublin is delighted to welcome several awesome speakers to Dublin on May 9th.

This is a joint event combining the AWS User Group Dublin and Alexa Devs Dublin.

Session focus is AI, specifically Deep Learning, featuring Lex, Polly & Rekognition. We'll also feature live object recognition demos using MXNet and round off the evening with a look at the new Alexa Skills Builder from Amazon.

We welcome Julien Simon - Principal Technical Evangelist with AWS and one of the most sought after presenters on this topic.

This event is not to be missed!

Don't forget to RSVP!

17:45 – DOORS OPEN / Registration / Networking

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18.00 – START - AWS UG Dublin - March 7th, 2017

Intro by Jason O'Conaill, Group Leader. Sponsor thanks / Speaker welcomes / latest news & announcements from the AWS UG Dublin.

18:05 -Julien Simon - Principal Technical Evangelist at Amazon Web Services.

Julien will take us on a journey through Deep Learning with AWS covering the evolution of AI theory and the latest tools with AWS.

Julien will conduct a series of live demos using MXNet.
Apache MXNet is a fully-featured, flexibly-programmable and ultra-scalable deep learning framework supporting state-of-the-art deep models including convolutional neural networks (CNNs), and long short-term memory networks (LSTMs)

Running MXnet on AWS provides a highly scalable, flexible and fast model training experience for developers using deep learning. AWS provides Deep Learning AMIs and CloudFormation templates optimized for both CPU and GPU EC2 instances.

This is a must see presentation for AWS engineers interested in AI / Machine Learning.

During the event, Julien will be available to chat with members of the UG, so get your questions ready.

Before joining AWS, Julien served for 10 years as CTO/VP Engineering in top-tier web startups. He’s particularly interested in all things architecture, deployment, performance, scalability and data.

As a Principal Technical Evangelist with AWS, Julien speaks frequently at conferences and technical workshops, where he meets developers and enterprises to help them bring their ideas to life thanks to the Amazon Web Services infrastructure.

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18.35: Sri Rajan - AI / LEX Deep Dive

Sri Rajan is the UK Principal AWS Architect at Rackspace.

Fanatical Support for AWS is caters for businesses facing challenges with migration, architecture design, security and operations. Rackspace blends technology and automation plus human experts to deliver ongoing architecture, security, and 24x7x365 operations backed by AWS certified engineers and architects.

Sri will take us on an expert tour of the AWS AI Ecosystem covering the key areas in varying degrees of depth.

LEX Deep Dive.

Amazon Lex is a service for building conversational interfaces into any application using voice and text. Amazon Lex provides the advanced deep learning functionalities of automatic speech recognition (ASR) for converting speech to text, and natural language understanding (NLU) to recognize the intent of the text, to enable you to build applications with highly engaging user experiences and lifelike conversational interactions. With Amazon Lex, the same deep learning technologies that power Amazon Alexa are now available to any developer, enabling you to quickly and easily build sophisticated, natural language, conversational bots (“chatbots”)

• Amazon AWS Website

Sri's main focus will be a LEX deep dive featuring a live demo and covering key insights such as limitations and use cases.

• Live Demo and example code
• Brief talk about how one of our customers is looking to use it.
• What else is possible?

General brainstorm and Q/A

Lightening Talk before the break:

19:10 Sam Machin - Call your LEX Bot with Nexmo

We also have huge pleasure in welcoming back Sam to the meetup.

His talk tonight neatly follows on from Sri's focus on LEX.

"Call your Lex Bot with Nexmo"

Sam is Developer Advocate at Nexmo will be joining us to show that company's latest feature the Nexmo Lex Connector which allows you to connect a Nexmo powered phone number to any Lex Bot with a few lines of config and make your bot accessible to the world.

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19:25 Quick Networking break - Craft Beer & Food

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19:35 Alan Kiernan - Ryanair Labs / Cation Dynamics

New Alexa skill builder

Overview of the New Skills Builder beta.

Alan is an AWS Certified Solutions Architect & Developer, Certified Scrum Master, Security Advocate with a passion for Cloud.

20:05: 15 Minute Panel Q&A - Wrap up and Prize Winners Draw.

20:20: Home, An Older But Wiser Engineer...!