Speed-up distributed deep learning with Spark on AWS

We are happy to announce that the second meetup of this season will be about Deep Learning on Apache Spark. It is a pleasure to have with us our third international speaker, Vincent Van Steenbergen, who is stopping by Barcelona in his trip to Valencia, where he will give this same talk at PAPIs Connect (http://www.papis.io/connect) the following week.

Big thanks to Trovit Search for sponsoring the venue & networking (free beers & sandwiches) !!

Abstract:

Training deep networks is a time-consuming process, with networks for object recognition often requiring multiple days to train. For this reason, leveraging the resources of a cluster to speed up training is an important area of work. In this talk we'll show how to use an AWS Spark cluster to train a model quickly from a laptop at a very little cost (around 10€).

Bio:

Vincent Van Steenbergen is a freelance (big) data engineer who's working on a range of international projects, implementing systems able to handle terabytes of data, usually involving Spark, Scala, Kafka, Hadoop and Cassandra. His main interest right now is applying these techniques to solve machine learning problems. Vincent was previously a technical architect at Property.Works, a real estate startup in London and before that an R&D engineer at IDAaaS.