Sri Lankan Data Community May 2021 Online Meetup

Hi Everyone,

We hope you are doing great and staying safe!

This month, we are great to have two experts joining us to share their knowledge at Sri Lankan Data Community on Data Engineering and Data Science.

SESSION #1: Fantastic ANNs and How to Debug Them

Session details:
Inspired by the biological neural networks, artificial neural networks mimic the predictive and analytical ability of the biological brain. ANN based machine learning and deep learning models are popular with their ability of learning non-linear relationships of data. This session discusses about different types of ANNs, their usages, ways of implementing them and tips for training ANNs efficiently.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER:
Haritha Thilakaratne
PhD Candidate | Microsoft MVP (AI) | Deep Learning Enthusiast
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hthilakarathne/
Twitter: @naadiya007

SESSION #2: Azure Synapse SQL architecture

Session details:
Many organizations try out Azure Synapse Analytics for modern cloud data implementations, addressing various requirements such as data warehousing, big data processing or analytics. For all of these, data repositories and processing using our familiar way, SQL is important, and something we should know very well. Let's have a quick discussion on Azure Synapse SQL architecture.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER:
Dinesh Priyankara
Microsoft MVP - Data Platform
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dineshpriyankara/
Twitter: @dineshpriya

Agenda

16:30 - Welcome
16:35 - SESSION #1
17:00 - SESSION #2
18:00 - End