The Race for AI: Deep Learning - Past, Present & Future

• What we'll do
Agenda:
18:00-18:30 - Gathering (food and drinks)

18:30 –20:00 - The Race for AI: Deep Learning - Past, Present & Future

by Eran Paz, CTO @ VizScribe.

Talk Abstract:
Although deep learning has been around for over 20 years, it gained most of its popularity only in recent years. The emergence of Alexnet late in 2012 is considered ancient history in this fast paced field and new applications and architectures are published constantly. In this talk we will review some basics deep learning architectures, take a look into more recent and advanced models and peek into the hottest topics in the field today
This is an introduction level, non technical talk and doesn't require any prior knowledge.

Speaker Bio:
Eran is a deep learning researcher at SAP innovation center, where he's working on deep learning research for almost 4 years.
His main research areas are object detection in videos, tracking, generative models and more.
Eran hold's a B.Sc and M.Sc in Industrial engineering from Ben Gurion Univ and working towards finishing his M.Sc in computer science from the Open University.

• Important to know
Gathering, eating and mingling starts at 18:00, talk starts at 18:30