Track: Hands-on Codelabs & Speakers Office Hours
Location: Mission
Day of week: Tuesday
Track Host: Wes Reisz
Wes Reisz joined QCon in 2015 and leads QCon Editorial as the conference chair. Wes focuses his energies on providing a platform for practicing engineers to tell their war stories so innovative/early adopter stage engineers can learn, adopt, and, in many cases, challenge each other. Before joining the QCon Team, Wes held a variety of enterprise architecture and software development roles with HP. His focus with HP was around developing/federating identity, integration/development of Java stack applications, architecting portal/CM solutions, and delivering on mobility in places like US Army’s Human Resources Command (HRC), Army Recruiting Command, and Army Cadet Support Program. In 2002, Wes began teaching as an adjunct faculty member at the University of Louisville. He continues to teach 400-level web architecture and mobile development courses to undergraduates. He is currently teaching Mobile Application Development with Android.
10:40am - 10:50am
IBM Watson
Yacine Rezgui, Developer Advocate @IBM
Ross Cruickshank, Developer Advocate @IBM
11:00am - 11:50am
AI Benefits for the Lazy Hacker
AI Benefits for the Lazy Hacker: Get fast usable access to AI services with Node-RED
The purpose of this code lab is to give you quick and easy access to the IBM Watson Cognitive Services APIs and allow you to experiment with image classification, speech to text and text to speech, document discovery, language identification and and translation with little or no code, and more.
Link of the codelab
11:00am - 11:50am
iOS CoreML & Watson Visual Recognition
Classify images using IBM Watson Visual Recognition on device and offline using the latest CoreML APIs on iOS with Swift.
11:00am - 11:50am
IBM Watson Codelabs Speakers Office Hours [10:50am - 12:50pm]
Codelabs are a self-guided tutorial of a product, API, or tool kit followed by an Office Hour period with the lab’s creator. The idea is to give attendees hands on experience using the tools and techniques of data science and then provide a space to have the questions generated from working with the tool answered. We'll provide an environment for developers to get up and running quickly on a product, walk through a series of steps.
JeanCarl Bisson, Developer Advocate @IBM
Ross Cruickshank, Developer Advocate @IBM
11:00am - 11:50am
Create Cognitive Retail Chatbot
Codelabs are a self-guided tutorial of a product, API, or tool kit followed by an Office Hour period with the lab’s creator. The idea is to give attendees hands on experience using the tools and techniques of data science and then provide a space to have the questions generated from working with the tool answered. We'll provide an environment for developers to get up and running quickly on a product, walk through a series of steps.
11:00am - 11:50am
Conversational Robot
Train TJBot, a Raspberry Pi-powered robot, to listen to natural language, understand intents and entities, and speak a response. In this exercise, use the IBM Watson Speech-to-Text service to transcribe audio into text, process it using the Watson Assistant service, and speak out a response to a question using the Watson Text-to-Speech service. The example Assistant workspace enables TJBot to share a little bit about this open-source project.
Link of the codelab
12:50pm - 1:00pm
[CANCELED] Go for ML/AI
1:05pm - 1:55pm
Tensorflow Recurrent Neural Network Codelab Office Hours
Codelabs are a self-guided tutorial of a product, API, or tool kit followed by an Office Hour period with the lab’s creator or person that can answer specific questions. The idea is to give attendees hands on experience using the tools and techniques of data science and then provide a space to have the questions generated from working with the tool answered. We'll provide an environment (or sandboxed quickstart) for developers to get up and running quickly on a product, walk through a series of steps.
1:10pm - 2:00pm
[CANCELED] Docker-izing your Data Science Applications Codelab
Codelabs are a self-guided tutorial of a product, API, or tool kit followed by an Office Hour period with the lab’s creator. The idea is to give attendees hands on experience using the tools and techniques of data science and then provide a space to have the questions generated from working with the tool answered. We'll provide an environment for developers to get up and running quickly on a product, walk through a series of steps.
2:25pm - 2:35pm
Tooling & Setup for My Neural Network
2:45pm - 3:35pm
TensorFlow without a PhD Codelab Speaker Office Hours
Codelabs are a self-guided tutorial of a product, API, or tool kit followed by an Office Hour period with the lab’s creator. The idea is to give attendees hands on experience using the tools and techniques of data science and then provide a space to have the questions generated from working with the tool answered. We'll provide an environment for developers to get up and running quickly on a product, walk through a series of steps.
2:45pm - 3:35pm
Tensorflow without a PhD Codelab Speaker Office Hours
Codelabs are a self-guided tutorial of a product, API, or tool kit followed by an Office Hour period with the lab’s creator or person that can answer specific questions. The idea is to give attendees hands on experience using the tools and techniques of data science and then provide a space to have the questions generated from working with the tool answered. We'll provide an environment (or sandboxed quickstart) for developers to get up and running quickly on a product, walk through a series of steps.
4:00pm - 4:10pm
What One Should Know About Spark MLlib
4:20pm - 5:10pm
End to End ML Without a Data Scientist
Machine Learning is super cool, but what about those of us who maybe got a D in statistics (or maybe didn't bother taking the class). With modern systems, it's relatively simple to train a model regardless of your background, but how do you know if the model you've trained does the "right" thing and how do you actually use your model? This talk will explore how to train models (using big data because that's what the presenter works with, but it will work just fine on small data as well), and how to serve them. We'll then talk about basic validation techniques, why you should A/B test, and the importance of keeping your models up to date (the world & humans keep _changing_ right after we've fit our models, its very frustrating).
Despite how fun deep learning is, this talk will focus on more easily explainable & spot checked models, like linear regression and decision trees.
Tracks
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Deep Learning Applications & Practices
Deep learning lessons using tooling such as Tensorflow & PyTorch, across domains like large-scale cloud-native apps and fintech, and tacking concerns around interpretability of ML models.
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Predictive Data Pipelines & Architectures
Best practices for building real-world data pipelines doing interesting things like predictions, recommender systems, fraud prevention, ranking systems, and more.
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ML in Action
Applied track demonstrating how to train, score, and handle common machine learning use cases, including heavy concentration in the space of security and fraud
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Real-world Data Engineering
Showcasing DataEng tech and highlighting the strengths of each in real-world applications.
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Handling Sequential Data Like an Expert / ML Applied to Operations
Discussing the complexities of time (half track) and Machine Learning in the data center (half track). Exploring topics from hyper loglog to predictive auto-scaling in each of two half-day tracks.
Half-day tracks -
AI Meets the Physical World
The track where AI touches the physical world. AI use cases around drones, self-driving cars, ROS, NVidia Jetson, & Amazon Deep Lens.