Toronto MLOps January Community Meetup

Event:
The community meetup is an in-person social event for learning about ML and MLOps through live talks/discussion, as well as connecting with fellow MLOps enthusiasts.

Talks:
Code Centric MLOps is all you need (Hossein Sarshar, Microsoft).
Reflecting on 18 months of building an ML Platform (Denys Linkov, Voiceflow).

Free beer and pizza will be provided to those who get there early enough.

Agenda:
5:30 - Doors Open
6:15 - MLOps talks
7:00 - Networking
8:30 - Doors Close

Location:
OneEleven, 325 Front St W

Time/Date:
5:30pm - 8:30pm
Tuesday Jan 31st

Contact:
If you have any questions please message us via the Meetup app.

Thank you to our host Covalent and our community partner [Neptune.ai](http://neptune.ai/).

Speakers Bio:

Hossein Sarshar is a Senior ML Architect at Microsoft and for the past five years, he helped Microsoft enterprise customers solve their machine learning problems on Microsoft Azure. During his tenure, he led several ML projects from NLP to RecSys. One of his main activities has been around engineering aspects of ML projects including MLOps. He actively implemented and advised several initiatives in this regard which helped to significantly reduce the total cost of ownership of ML projects in complex settings. Prior to his career in ML, he was a software engineer for almost a decade. Hossein holds a bachelor's and a master's degree in Computer Science (distributed computing and machine learning).

Denys Linkov is an ML lead at Voiceflow focused on building the ML platform and data science offerings. His focus is on real-time NLP systems that help Voiceflow's 60+ enterprise customers build better conversational assistants and for 100,000 hobbyists to explore their creativity.