ML DevFest 2021

THIS IS A FREE EVENT - PLEASE FINISH YOUR RSVP IN THE LINK BELOW

https://gdg.community.dev/events/details/google-gdg-cloud-san-francisco-presents-ml-devfest-2021/

We have 5 sessions which will walk you through ML problem framing, ML research, Building proof of concepts using existing ML APIs and models, Building ML pipelines and finally some success stories and looking towards the future.

8:15-9:00
Mehul Smriti Raje | @mehulsmritiraje | she/her
Mehul is Software Engineer at Google on Google Photos team. In the past she has worked on Brain-Computer Interaction and ML at MIT Media Lab and Harvard SEAS.

9:00-9:45
Rosanne Liu | @savvyRL | she/her
Rosanne Liu is a research scientist in Google Brain, and co-founder and executive director of ML Collective, a nonprofit organization for open collaboration and accessible mentorship. More: rosanneliu.com

9:45-10:30
Suzana Ilic | @suzatweet | she/her
Suzana is a Technical Program Manager at HuggingFace where she’s working on BigScience. She’s the Founder of MLT, a machine learning community and nonprofit organization working towards open education, open source and open science in AI.

10:30-11:15
Vikram Tiwari | @Vikram_Tiwari | he/him
Vikram Tiwari is Co-founder, tech at Omni Labs where they are building the future of work and automation. He focuses on the cloud and machine learning aspects of technology. Vikram focuses on finding novel solutions to tough problems because he believes there is always a way! Vikram enjoys public speaking and helping individuals and startups when he is not actively writing code.

11:15-12:00
Paige Bailey | @DynamicWebPaige | she/her
Paige is Director of ML and ML ops at GitHub. She is passionate about using machine learning to deliver business value; drive the creation and development of products; and empower end users. 12+ years of experience in applied ML, predictive modeling, data science and visualization, public speaking, and programming outreach.

Join us and bring your friends and colleagues along.

Agenda

8:00 AM: Welcome and housekeeping

Welcome and housekeeping

8:15 AM: Mehul's Session

Introduction to problem solving with Machine Learning

9:00 AM: Rosanne's Session

How to make a research community that’s positive, vibrant and wholesome? Ten years into what’s called the deep learning revolution, we are left with an ML society that is instead filled with false promises, misguided idealism, one where “influence” becomes the biggest determinant of money and power, and one that promotes feelings of self-doubt and isolation. In this talk, I will share what I had felt a disconnected, stagnated ML community (or the lack thereof) in the beginning of 2020 changed my career and life goal, and our ongoing efforts since then of creating a working community for all.

9:45 AM: Suzana's Session

In this talk I’ll give an overview of BigScience – a one-year long research workshop on large multilingual datasets and large language models and the biggest international AI research collaboration to date. We’ll also have a look at T0, the first model released by the Prompt Engineering Working Group and how we can go from a research idea to building a demo using HuggingFace Spaces.

10:30 AM: Vikram's Session

More than 50% of the ML projects end up being scrapped before are put into production. Reasons vary but a significant portion is due to lack of clear mechanisms around ML operations. In this talk we will go through some basics about how to get a ML project up and running for your use case. We will build a model, deploy it and add pipelines in place to perform retraining and auto-deployments. Let's take your ideas into production.

11:15 AM: Paige's Session

Current and future of Machine Learning

12:00 PM: Thanks, Survey and Prizes

Hang around to participate in our survey, learn about upcoming events and win some cool prizes!

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Hosted By

Vikram Tiwari, GDG Organizer

Co-founder, Tech @OmniLabsInc where I help build the future of work. @GoogleDevExpert @GoogleCloud and #MachineLearning helping others learn, build and excel.

Riya Dashoriya, GDG Organizer

Patti Shin, Software Engineer

I am a software engineer with heavy JavaScript experience. While I'm not developing, I spend time organizing tech meetups, making pour-over coffee, and sketching. I've been involved with co-organizing meetups for GDG San Francisco, GDG Berkeley, and Women Who Code East Bay.

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THIS IS A FREE EVENT - PLEASE FINISH YOUR RSVP IN THE LINK BELOW

https://gdg.community.dev/events/details/google-gdg-cloud-san-francisco-presents-ml-devfest-2021/