PyData Berlin 2024 May Meetup

Welcome to the PyData Berlin May meetup!

We would like to welcome you all starting from 18:45. There will be food and drinks. The talks begin around 19.30.

Please provide your first and last name for the registration because this is required for the venue's entry policy. If you cannot attend, please cancel your spot so others are able to join as the space is limited.

Host:
Bonial is excited to welcome you for this month's version of PyData.
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The Lineup for the evening

Talk 1: Beyond the Continuum: The Importance of Quantization in Deep Learning
Abstract: Quantization is a process of mapping continuous values to a finite set of discrete values. It is a powerful technique that can significantly reduce the memory footprint and computational requirements of deep learning models, making them more efficient and easier to deploy on resource-constrained devices. In this talk, we will explore the different types of quantization techniques and discuss how they can be applied to deep learning models. In addition, we will cover the basics of NNCF and OpenVINO Toolkit, seeing how they collaborate to achieve outstanding performance - everything in a Jupyter Notebook, which allows you to try it at home.

Speaker: Adrian Boguszewski is an AI Software Evangelist at Intel. Adrian graduated from the Gdansk University of Technology in the field of Computer Science 7 years ago. After that, he started his career in computer vision and deep learning. As a team leader of data scientists and Android developers for the previous two years, Adrian was responsible for an application to take a professional photo (for an ID card or passport) without leaving home. He is a co-author of the LandCover.ai dataset, creator of the OpenCV Image Viewer Plugin, and a Deep Learning lecturer occasionally. His current role is to educate people about OpenVINO Toolkit. In his free time, he’s a traveler. You can also talk with him about finance, especially investments.

Talk 2: A Meat-ing of Minds
Abstract: In this far wandering talk we consider the big meaty questions:
What can AI learn from Neuroscience? What can Neuroscience learn from AI? Do LLMs "understand" language? What does "meaning" mean? Am I just a robot made of meat?
These huge questions and more... will remain completely unanswered, but we will have a good time talking about them! AI, Neuroscience, Philosophy, Semantics. What more could you want?

Speaker: Andy Kitchen is the co-founder of Cortical Labs, a synthetic intelligence company growing live biological neurons inside computer chips and teaching them inside a matrix world. He is a 10+ year start-up veteran and turbo nerd. Beer, bad philosophy and type theory will be the death of him.

Lightning talks
There will be slots for 2-3 Lightning Talks (3-5 Minutes for each).
Kindly let us know if you would like to present something at the start of the meetup :)

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