AI By the Bay: March 6–8, 2017, San Francisco
tl;dr: AI By the Bay — oh.hai.ai, self.driving.cars, ai.vision (use the code CICEROAI for 20% off for following) and Data By the Bay is in May (CFP Now Open until 1/31/2017).
By the Bay meetups and communities are at the forefront of building systems where AI components are integrated in modern data pipelines. The fact there’s always a SMACK Stack (smack.wtf) running the data pipelines supporting the MIND stack (mind.wtf) in production is not yet an established story arc in “Data Science”, and need elucidation. The fields themselves are only settling down. It is an exciting time.
In the established tradition, we figure out the truth in a vigorous and rigorous debate. Three technical conferences in the AI By the Bay sequence are designed to answer multiple questions of AI emergence via hands-on demonstration and discussion by full-stack AI leaders — those can both build production-quality, scalable AI systems, and reason about AI strategy from the vantage point of their actual leadership.
Data By the Bay, which was an amazing success in 2016, is returning a year later in May 2017. The CFP is now open. Last year we had 150+ speakers in 7 sub-conferences, and they promised to come back and bring their colleagues — submit a strong talk early!
Here’s how it’s going to run:
March 6 — oh.hai.ai. Hour-long, code-heavy talks by the technical leaders building and teaching advanced AI/ML systems. Including Adam Gibson, the creator of deeplearning4j; Chris Fregly, the creator of pipeline.ai; Vitaly Gordon, VP of Data Engineering and Data Science at Salesforce; Stephen Merity, Senior Research Scientist at Salesforce (MetaMind); Lukas Biewald, Co-founder and Chief Scientist at CrowdFlower; Mike Tamir, Chief Data Science Officer at Takt; and more.
March 7 — self.driving.cars. This is a very specific, well-defined AI problem, exercising fields of deep learning, IoT, and ethics of AI. Sebastian Thrun, the founder of Google self-driving car program and now Udacity, keytnoting. Uber, Otto, Nvidia, self-racing cars, open-source cars, and more!
March 8 — AI.vision. This is not about computer vision, although we might mention it — it is the human vision for AI. Stuart Russell, the founder of Human-Compatible AI Institute at Berkeley, keynoting. Jeremy Howard, Richard Socher, Pedro Domingos, Peter Skomoroch, David Hall, Lyle Ungar and others will define AI, ask and debate the real questions for the makers of the field, beyond “will it take out jobs”.
May 2017 — data.bythebay.io, a three-day, three-track conference, the deepest, most engineering-heavy open-source data engineering and science conference coming back with a matrix of domain applications crossed by algorithms and data stacks.
Each conference is a single day, single track event, held at The Pearl SF — a new venue with amazing ambiance and a rooftop party every evening. There’s only 300 seats capacity and it cannot be exceeded. Every day will be sold out completely; we’re starting outreach with our core meetups before wider announcements, and we recommend reserving your ticket at the Early Bird rate until 12/31. You can register for each day separately, and there are passes with graduated discounts for 2 or 3 days. If your company is interested in sponsorship, please contact sponsors@bythebay.io for more information (sponsorship comes with passes).
