Learning AI by Seeing AI

There’s been a lot of talk about artificial intelligence (AI). Most notably, Google’s AlphaGo defeated Lee Se-dol last year. The most recent news was the announcement of Toronto-based Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence which is backed by Geoffrey Hinton, the Godfather of Deep Learning, and funded by the government together with over 30 companies. Executives of most Internet giants believe that the next decades will be a golden age for AI.

But how is this relevant to us，senior IT professionals? Do you think that AI is only for those PhDs working for Google Deepmind, Facebook, or professors in the Stanford Lab? If you don’t have an academic background in AI, does it mean that the AI trend is not within your reach? Is your job going to be impacted by AI?

To help you better position yourself to participate in rather than being hit by the AI wave, ACSIP will partner with IBM Canada to explore AI and deep learning with live demos. Some of the topics to be discussed include:

• Uncover the deep learning myth
• AlphaGO and reinforcement learning
• Computer vision (Demo)
• Natural Language Processing (Demo)
• Logistic regression classifier using TensorFlow (Demo)
• Style transfer using deep learning and TensorFlow (Demo)
• Current state of AI and it’s limitations
• How to participate in the big wave

Date: May 14, 2017 (Sunday)
Time: 1:30 – 4:00PM (door opens at 1pm, event starts at 1:30pm sharp).

Important: Admission at the gate without reservation is subject to availability and is NOT guaranteed. Reservation is highly recommended. Please print and bring your Eventbrite ticket to attend the event.

Speakers:

Alex Aklson is a data scientist in the Digital Business Group at IBM Canada. Before joining IBM, Alex worked as a data scientist at Datascope Analytics, a data science consulting firm in Chicago, IL. Alex received his Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Toronto.

Joseph Santarcangelo has a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, his research focused on using machine learning, signal processing, and computer vision to determine how videos impact human cognition. Joseph has been working for IBM since he completed his Ph.D.

Kent Yu is a software architect and certified Scrum Master, working for a world leading software company serving Fortune 500 clients. He is also an entrepreneur who founded and sold 2 startups. He is a co-founder of ACSIP, an association with 2000+ Chinese IT professionals. Kent possesses an MBA degree and a Computer Science degree. He studied Deep Learning from Jeremy Howard, former Kaggle president and chief data scientist. Kent proves with his own experiences that IT professionals without prior AI background can learn how to build state-of-art deep learning models that beat the best academic results.