AWS AI/ML Immersion Day (Central Valley)

11/18/2019 Hosted by Amazon Web Services and Fresno State Hub of Digital Transformation

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Join us for a free event to learn about AWS Cloud and Artificial Intelligence services!

Machine learning is still in its evolutionary stage with much of the progress coming from research on innovative algorithms, better data collection and preparation methods, and newer techniques such as reinforcement learning. Until recently, lack of access to the latest compute, storage, and networking has been a blocker for ML research. This day will help you understand how to leverage AWS AI and machine learning (AI/ML) services for research and to build innovative, student-centric, scalable solutions in the cloud. The AWS team will present a series of sessions on examples of AI and machine learning in education and research, provide an overview of AI/ML capabilities, and demo some AI/ML-powered applications.

Who should attend

This AWS AI/ML Immersion Day is designed for faculty, students, researchers, data scientists, IT professionals, data engineers, developers, and innovators interested in gaining experience on AWS AI Services.

Schedule

** Cloud for Researchers Morning Sessions — Invitation Only! **

Fresno State Faculty — please contact Max Tsai (8–4180) for RSVP.

  • When to use Cloud (vs. a computer with lots of GPU)
  • Using AWS tools in combination with other commonly used data science and ML tools for research (e.g. MATLAB and Simulink)
  • Cost Model and Estimation (how to incorporate into grant proposal and classes)

** General Sessions **

13:00–14:00 Introduction to AWS AI/ML Services

  • Textract for extracting text and data from scanned documents
  • Comprehend for natural language processing
  • Transcribe for converting speech to text
  • Translate for neural machine translation

Venue

Alice Peters Auditorium (PB 191)
University Business Center, Fresno State
5245 N. Backer Ave M/S PB5, Fresno, CA 93740

Speakers

Joe Pringle

Joe Pringle is a Technical Business Development Manager at AWS supporting education customers in their adoption and use of AI and machine learning. Joe’s passion is helping customers unlock new insights and value from data, and he brings 20 years of experience working with public sector organizations in government, the non-profit sector, and academia.

Varun Pole

Varun Pole has seven years of experience in cloud computing technology. He holds a Master’s Degree from New York University in Electrical and Computer Engineering. Varun joined AWS in 2013 as a Support and Network Engineer and currently works as an AWS Solutions Architect where he collaborates and helps customers in Higher Education accelerate adoption of cloud computing.

Hosted by

DX Innovation at Fresno State

Digital Transformation at Fresno State offers Creative Collaboration spaces, Design Thinking framework, and Incubation opportunities to transform our student learners to tomorrow’s global leaders via emerging technological innovations.

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Digital Transformation at Fresno State offers Creative Collaboration spaces, Design Thinking framework, and Incubation opportunities to transform our student learners to tomorrow’s global leaders via emerging technological innovations.

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