Cross Section and Deep Dive into TensorFlow

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AGENDA 5:30 - Doors open. Initiation of the new guild members.

5:45 - Networking & Pizza. Meet members.
6:45 - Welcome. Members to share topics of interests for future meetings.

7:00 - Fireside chat + Q&A on TensorFlow with Geoffrey Irving, Software Engineer @ Google Brain

7:15 - Talk #1 - Overview of Tensorflow by Alex Londeree, Sr Data Scientist at Knit Health.

7: 45 - Lightning talk (5 min): "Last Mile Analytics with Juttle: A dataflow language for everyone" by Dari Mehra, Director of Quality at Jut.io (http://www.jut.io/)

7:50 - Lightning talk (5 min): Ubuntu TensorFlow Sandbox VM by David Winters, Director and Chief Architect @ThePostOffice.io

7:55 - Fireside Chat on OpenAI with Gregory Renard, Chief Visionary Officer @XBrain.

8:10 - Deep dive into TensorFlow. An end-to-end example of using Tensorflowby Delip Rao, Joostware.

8:45 - Q&A & wrap-up.

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Parking guidelines:

There is some limited parking after 5pm behind the building, but it'd
be best if you:

• took a Lyft
• parked on the street
• there is a lot on 17th and Folsom that a lot of people use

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DETAILED AGENDA AND PROFILES OF SPEAKERS:

Talk #1: Overview of Tensorflow by

Alex Londeree, Sr Data Scientist at Knit Health

Alex is primarily training deep learning networks to do the necessary computer vision tasks for their product. Alex has got a production background in deep learning and distributed machine learning systems.

• What is Tensorflow, really?

• What does TensorFlow bring to the table

• TensorBoard: Visualizing Learning

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• TensorFlow Mechanics

• Likely scenarios for evolution of TensorFlow

• The new world ahead - places you've never been before where TensorFlow may take you today and tomorrow

Lightning talk: Ubuntu TensorFlow Sandbox VM by David Winters, Director and Chief Architect @ThePostOffice.io

Fireside Chat: The Possible Impact of OpenAI with Gregory Renard, Chief Visionary Officer @XBrain

Gregory is an artificial intelligence solutions architect and big data guy working on Personal Assistant for Cars, IoT data (Machine Learning, Deep Learning), connected things and Voice/Semantic Search (NLU, DeepNLP) for over than 15 years. Based on his experience and vision about Personal Assistant, he co-founded xBrain, Inc., which has created an easy to use artificial intelligence cloud-based platform for next generation intelligent web and personal assistant developers.

Talk #2: Deep dive into TensorFlow. An end-to-end example of using Tensorflow

In this talk, we will focus on just the bare bones TensorFlow with an actual code example. Our goal is to the learn the various TF concepts in the context of a working application.

Speaker: Delip Rao, Joostware

Delip Rao is the founder of Joostware, a San Francisco based company, that specializes in consulting and building highly scalable, bespoke solutions involving machine learning, search, and natural language processing. Delip has worked on NLP and ML research problems involving semi-supervised learning, graph based ranking, sequence learning, distributed machine learning, and more, and has published several highly-cited papers in these areas. At Joostware, Delip works 1-1 with his clients (early-mid stage startups) to help them set up their big data infrastructure, identify and implement novel machine learning, search, and natural language processing based solutions, and training on machine learning. Prior to founding Joostware, Delip worked on building ML/NLP research & products at Amazon, Twitter, and Google Research.