Artificial Intelligence in Practice

This is the first meetup for AI in Practice with the goal of bringing together scientists, engineers, product managers, and entrepreneurs. Everyone that already works on, uses Machine Learning, or has a challenge that requires advanced use of Machine Learning is welcome!

Technologies to cover include but not limited to:
— Computer Vision on Images & Video
— Spoken Dialog Systems & Chat Bots
— Natural Language Processing & Machine Translation
— Speech Recognition & Transcription
— Content & Language Comprehension
— Machine Learning

Domains to cover include but not limited to:
— Retail & Industry
— Media & Entertainment
— Healthcare & Medicine
— Society & Environment
— Security
— Education

Friday June 22nd event:

Tutorials include:
09:00am - 01:00pm — MxNet, focus on Computer Vision and Natural Language Processing
10:30am - 01:00pm — Introduction to Amazon Transcribe, Amazon Translate, Amazon Comprehend, Amazon Lex, Amazon Rekognition, Amazon Rekognition Video

Lunch:
01:00pm - 02:00pm — Lunch

02:00pm - 05:00pm — Presentations:
Presentations Session A
Chime Link: https://chime.aws/6723903272 Meeting ID: 6723 90 3272

Bryan Rich, Accenture — “Tactical AI and The Evolutionary Vortex”
Philip Nelson, Google — “Advances in Applied Science: Artificial Intelligence for Healthcare”
Eric DeLuca, Translators Without Borders — “Languages in Crises: the Challenges and Opportunities of Language Technology in Humanitarian Crises”
Christopher LeBoa, Stanford — “Evaluating the Environmental Effects of the Rohingya Refugee Crisis”
Atif Javed, Tarjimly — "Translating Refugees' Voices with Tarjimly"

Presentations Session B:
Chime Link: https://chime.aws/9120444491 Meeting ID: 9120 44 4491

Mike Ferzacca, Ignite-Tek — “Customer Conversations and Interactions to Provide Valuable Insights”
Carlos Escapa, Amazon — “Framing Business problems as ML problems”
Mohammad Shihadah & Mark Hughes, IdenTV — “Leveraging Modern AI for Video Understanding and Analytics”
Ram Natarajan & John Zhang, Altia Systems — “AI/CNN Driven Multi-Camera Arrays”
Baian Chen, Amazon/MIT — “Computer Vision on Video”

05:00pm - 08:00pm — Socializing and Happy Hour