May 28, 2019

How to get plugged into the AI community

1 hour 2 minutes

Chris and Daniel take you on a tour of local and global AI events, and discuss how to get the most out of your experiences. From access to experts to developing new industry relationships, learn how to get your foot in the door and make connections that help you grow as an AI practitioner.

Then drawing from their own wealth of experience as speakers, they dive into what it takes to give a memorable world-class talk that your audience will love. They break down how to select the topic, write the abstract, put the presentation together, and deliver the narrative with impact!

Join the discussion

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Sponsors:

DigitalOcean – Check out DigitalOcean’s dedicated vCPU Droplets with dedicated vCPU threads. Get started for free with a $50 credit. Learn more at do.co/changelog.

strongDM – Manage access to any database, server, and environment. strongDM makes it easy for DevOps to enforce the controls InfoSec teams require.

Discover.bot – A digital space for bot developers and enthusiasts of all skill levels to learn from one another, share stories, and move the bot conversation forward. Want to learn more about building bots? Get started with their Guide to Bot Building Frameworks.

GitPrime – Download GitPrime’s 20 Patterns book, a field guide to help engineering managers recognize achievement, spot bottlenecks, and debug development processes with data.

Featuring:

Chris Benson – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Daniel Whitenack – Website, GitHub, X

Show Notes:

Local Meetups - Great for first steps, local help and relationship building, job connections, involvement in local projects, etc. Mostly free!

PyData

TensorFlow

PyTorch

Deep Learning

etc.

Large industry conferences - Great to see what some of the larger companies and innovative startups are doing with AI, application and infra focused, etc. Expensive.

O’Reilly AI, Strata Data, TensorFlow World

QCon AI, QCon

Spark Summit

MLConf

Applied Machine Learning Days

PyCon

LiveWorx

etc.

Smaller, topical events or events focused on particular tools - Great if you are heavily invested in particular tech or a topic like NLP. In general you have to look around quite a bit to find these.

TensorFlow dev summit

Spacy IRL

PyTorch developers conference

AllenNLP Summit

Applied Artificial Intelligence Conference

DataSciConhttps://datascicon.tech/

Etc.

Research conferences - Meant to be an outlet for original research. Great to see how research orgs/institutions are pushing the boundaries and doing groundbreaking things. Hard to get into and very academic.

NeurIPS

EMNLP

ICLR

CVPR

etc.

Some conference talks from the Practical AI hosts:

Chris Benson’s upcoming talk at LiveWorx 2019 in Boston on Wednesday, June 12, 2019: Artificial Intelligence Strategy: Digital Transformation Through Deep Learning

Examples of previous AI talks by Chris Benson

Building GPU-Accelerated Workflows with TensorFlow and Kubernetes

Fully Reproducible ML Deployment with Spark, Pachyderm, and MLeap

Join the community — it’s free! Connect with us in the #practicalai Slack channel. The community is here for you as a place to below, to bounce ideas around, or to get feedback on a conference to attend or talk you’d like to give.

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

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May 28, 2019

How to get plugged into the AI community

1 hour 2 minutes

Join the discussion

Changelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!

Sponsors:

DigitalOcean – Check out DigitalOcean’s dedicated vCPU Droplets with dedicated vCPU threads. Get started for free with a $50 credit. Learn more at do.co/changelog.

strongDM – Manage access to any database, server, and environment. strongDM makes it easy for DevOps to enforce the controls InfoSec teams require.

GitPrime – Download GitPrime’s 20 Patterns book, a field guide to help engineering managers recognize achievement, spot bottlenecks, and debug development processes with data.

Featuring:

Chris Benson – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Daniel Whitenack – Website, GitHub, X

Show Notes:

Local Meetups - Great for first steps, local help and relationship building, job connections, involvement in local projects, etc. Mostly free!

PyData

TensorFlow

PyTorch

Deep Learning

etc.

Large industry conferences - Great to see what some of the larger companies and innovative startups are doing with AI, application and infra focused, etc. Expensive.

O’Reilly AI, Strata Data, TensorFlow World

QCon AI, QCon

Spark Summit

MLConf

Applied Machine Learning Days

PyCon

LiveWorx

etc.

Smaller, topical events or events focused on particular tools - Great if you are heavily invested in particular tech or a topic like NLP. In general you have to look around quite a bit to find these.

TensorFlow dev summit

Spacy IRL

PyTorch developers conference

AllenNLP Summit

Applied Artificial Intelligence Conference

DataSciConhttps://datascicon.tech/

Etc.

NeurIPS

EMNLP

ICLR

CVPR

etc.

Some conference talks from the Practical AI hosts:

Chris Benson’s upcoming talk at LiveWorx 2019 in Boston on Wednesday, June 12, 2019: Artificial Intelligence Strategy: Digital Transformation Through Deep Learning

Examples of previous AI talks by Chris Benson

Building GPU-Accelerated Workflows with TensorFlow and Kubernetes

Fully Reproducible ML Deployment with Spark, Pachyderm, and MLeap

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

...more