Introduction to Swift for Tensorflow

Please note that this is a hands-on meetup, please remember to bring your laptop. Also, in the interest of time, please register for an IBM cloud account if you do not already have one at https://cocl.us/cloud_registration_for_meetup

This workshop will introduce you to the world of Swift for TensorFlow - a brand new machine learning framework by Google. It uses the power of the Swift compiler, with its modularity and extensibility, to run source-to-source AD (Automatic Differentiation) and Tensor Operation Optimization, enabling a fast AND easy way to write machine learning code.

You'll be building 2 applications: the world's fastest 2048 bot using monte carlo tree search, and a reinforcement learning agent that plays Cartpole with OpenAI Gym.

Presenters:
Steve Martinelli (https://www.linkedin.com/in/stevemar/) is a Senior Technical Staff Member (STSM) at IBM focused on creating AI related content on IBM Developer. Steve is an open source enthusiast and has contributed to several projects, large and small, over the last 8 years. Steve has spoken at various Conferences such as Vivatech, Index, Open Infrastructure, Centre for Advanced Students Conference (CASCON), and the Cloud Identity Summit.

Tanmay Bakshi (https://www.linkedin.com/in/tanmay-bakshi-b15012a1/) is a 16-year-old Canadian author, AI and ML Systems Architect, TED & Keynote speaker, Google Developer Expert for Machine Learning, and IBM Champion for Cloud. He has addressed over 200,000 executives, developers, and various audiences worldwide at conferences, universities & schools, financial institutions, and international companies. The United Nations, NASSCOM, Linux Foundation, Apple, SAP, IBM and Walmart are a few of the organizations he has keynoted for.

6:30pm - Pizza/Pop
6:45pm - Presentations
8:15pm - Questions?