Beyond Data Engineering: Careers in AI + DevOps

*This is a joint event with DataCouncil.ai: https://www.meetup.com/DataCouncil-AI-NYC-Data-Engineering-Science/

Schedule:
6:00 - Doors & Food
6:30 - Talk 1
7:15 - Talk 2
7:45 - Wrap & Chat

Talk 1: Lessons from Building and Deploying AI Systems

• Speaker: Chuck Yee, ML Research Engineer @ Bloomberg
• Abstract: AI has experienced unprecedented hype over the past seven years, but what is the reality of applied AI within a business ecosystem? In this talk, I’ll be sharing stories of success and failure building and deploying AI systems, and personal observations from my time in the industry.
• Bio: Chuck-Hou is an Insight Fellow who recently joined Bloomberg’s NLP team after gaining experience building deep learning models for x-ray interpretation at Imagen Technologies.

Talk 2: CICD From the Ground Up

• Speaker: Max McKittrick, Data Engineer, ECI @ Capital One
• Abstract: At Capital One, ECI team manages a clickstream application, and pipeline durability is a critical consideration. In this talk, I want to discuss our lessons learned, and how we have improved our CICD practices over the past few months.
• Bio: Max McKittrick is a data engineer at Capital One, where he started after completing Insight Data Engineering New York. He received his MS from the University of Illinois and worked as a researcher and data consultant prior to attending Insight.