#8 Deep Learning Montreal @ MILA, sponsored by Dataperformers

Welcome to a new great event on AI and Deep Learning @ MILA.

We're inviting researchers, students, professionals, large organizations and startups to learn about the latest Deep Learning advancements and to share about the concrete applications of Machine learning systems.

This event is organized by Deep Learning Montreal, kindly hosted by MILA and funded by Dataperformers (security, drinks, logistics, etc).

Public: intermediate or advanced in machine learning

6:00 pm: Introduction to Deep Learning Montreal,
By: Mehdi Merai, Ph. D (c) @ Concordia, CEO @Dataperformers

6:10 pm: Non-saturating Recurrent Units.
By Sarath Chandar, Ph. D (c) at MILA & Assistant Professor at Polytechnique Montreal and MILA.

6:30 pm: Deep learning approaches to tackle Visual Inspection Problematics
By Riddhi Dasani, AI engineer @ Dataperformers

6:50 pm: Reproducibility in machine learning, or why benchmarks are lotteries
By Xavier Bouthillier, Researcher at Mila

7:10 pm: Oríon: A framework for distributed hyperparameter optimisation
By Xavier Bouthillier, Researcher at Mila

7:30 pm: Networking