Open Q&A with Jeremy Howard (of Fast.ai, Masks4All, Enlitic, Kaggle, FastMail)

UPDATE: The Queensland AI Hub is opening their brand new space in the Precinct prior to the meetup, so come down an hour early and join us for some private tours and discussion about how you can be involved prior to the meetup!
5:30pm - Hub opened to Queensland AI meetup attendees for private tours (running until 6:30pm)
6pm - Doors open for meetup, networking with drinks & food
6:30pm - Talk starts, followed by Q&A
7:30pm - Further networking

Overview:
Jeremy Howard joins us for an open Q&A session after freshly relocating back from San Francisco to Australia. Many of our community members have had direct experience with the courses, tools and platforms Jeremy has worked on over the years, so we’re opening up the meetup for you to ask the questions you’re most interested in. To kick things off, Jeremy will share with us a short update on what he is working on and his plans following the move back to Australia, and then we’ll open the floor for an extended 45 minute Q&A session of your questions, direct from the in-person audience & online via Zoom (see link below). If you're located outside of Brisbane and/or have never attended the meetup before, feel free to join in and bring your questions as well.

Bio:
Jeremy Howard is a data scientist, researcher, developer, educator, and entrepreneur. Jeremy is a founding researcher at fast.ai, a research institute dedicated to making deep learning more accessible. He is also a Distinguished Research Scientist at the University of San Francisco, the chair of WAMRI, and is Chief Scientist at platform.ai.

Previously, Jeremy was the founding CEO Enlitic, which was the first company to apply deep learning to medicine, and was selected as one of the world’s top 50 smartest companies by MIT Tech Review two years running. He was the President and Chief Scientist of the data science platform Kaggle, where he was the top ranked participant in international machine learning competitions 2 years running. He was the founding CEO of two successful Australian startups (FastMail, and Optimal Decisions Group–purchased by Lexis-Nexis). Before that, he spent 8 years in management consulting, at McKinsey & Co, and AT Kearney. Jeremy has invested in, mentored, and advised many startups, and contributed to many open source projects.

He has many media appearances, including writing for the Guardian, USA Today, and the Washington Post, appearing on ABC (Good Morning America), MSNBC (Joy Reid), CNN, Fox News, BBC, and was a regular guest on Australia’s highest-rated breakfast news program. His talk on TED.com, “The wonderful and terrifying implications of computers that can learn”, has over 2.5 million views. He is a co-founder of the global Masks4All movement.

To signup to attend online, click here: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ESp-LzQ4TDSUJ9XMsyIrag

Date: Thursday 1st of April
5:30pm - Hub opened to Queensland AI meetup attendees for private tours (running until 6:30pm)
6pm - Doors open for meetup, networking with drinks & food
6:30pm - Talk starts, followed by Q&A
7:30pm - Further networking

Venue Limit: Due to COVIDSafe restrictions the venue is limited to 79 attendees and we will be turning away anyone beyond this number. Please only RSVP to the meetup event if you are able to make it on the night, and if you have RSVPed but are unable to make the event in person, please update your RSVP to ensure someone else can take your spot. To RSVP for the online event, click the Zoom link and sign up there.

Note: Please stay at home if unwell or have a cough, fever, sore throat, fatigue, shortness of breath, or any other COVID-19 symptoms.