TensorFlow on Power : Deep Learning and ML Lecture Series

We are partnering with IBM and this is a first in a series of meetups to help members learn more about TensorFlow, machine learning, deep learning, SPARK, Caffe and more!

Featured Speaker:

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Clarisse Taaffe-Hedglin, Cognitive Senior Technical Architect, IBM Worldwide Client Centers.

Speaker Bio:

Clarisse Taaffe-Hedglin is an Executive IT Architect, with IBM Cognitive Computing with expertise on application performance and benchmarking. As a senior member of the IBM Systems Worldwide Clients Centers, she helps clients define their cognitive computing strategy including Analytics, AI, ML/DL to enhance insights from their data. Clarisse has 30+ years experience working with clients and their datasets to tune systems and applications for high performance computing. She previously held technical and management roles in IBM. Clarisse has a background in numerical analysis and parallel systems optimization with a Masters of Science from Purdue University.

Come join us to learn more about TensorFlow, an open source machine learning framework, TensorFlow was originally developed by Google for fast numerical computing, popular with Data Scientists for training machine learning models, We'll start with an introduction to TensorFlow to help beginners learn about applications and learning models followed by a Financial Market demo on TensorFlow and how easy it is to use with IBM's PowerAI. Pizza and soft drinks sponsored by IBM.

Quick video about TensorFlow by Google Developer Advocate => http://ibm.biz/TensorFlow_video

Venue:

IBM Executive Briefing Center ,Building 904.

11501 Burnet Road,Austin,TX

Agenda :

6:30 - 7:00: Registration, Pizza & Soft drinks
7:00 - 7:30: Tensorflow 101
7:30 - 7:45: Demo: Using TensorFlow for Financial Market Predictions on IBM POWER Systems
7:45 - 8:15: Networking

Direction :

Take the Loop 1 (Mopac) exit North and enter Loop 1 on left for about a mile.

Take first exit to Burnet Road.

Turn right on Burnet Road and go 1 mile to IBM on the left - 11501 Burnet Road, a complex of seven stone office buildings.

The center building is Building 904, which houses the Executive Briefing Center and site receptionist.

Uncovered parking is open to the north or south of Building 904 and there are open parking garages at the North and South end of the complex in case of rain or heat.