The Future of Machine Learning for Business - Wisdom from Danny Lange

Danny Lange talking about the “future of machine learning for business” at Kaizen Data

In this talk, Danny Lange (formerly Head of Machine Learning at Uber) gives a talk at the Kaizen Data Conference about the future of machine learning for business and ML as a platform at Uber.

What You’ll Learn:

• Examples of machine learning solving tough problems at top companies
• A brief history of artificial intelligence
• Where machine learning and artificial intelligence is headed
• Uber’s self driving car program
• The Feedback Loop: Dogfights and Bandits
• Multi-armed Bandit
• The Key Tenets of Machine Learning at Uber
• Machine Learning as a service at Uber
• Resources for implementing machine learning as a service

About Danny Lange

Danny Lange is the Head of Machine Learning at Uber. He runs the machine learning platform team — providing machine learning as a service offered across Uber.

Previously, Danny ran the machine learning platform team at Amazon. He lead the launch of machine learning as a public service on AWS.

Before Amazon, Danny ran the machine learning tools team at Microsoft and did the first push of ML tools into the Azure cloud as a service.

Uber’s Mission

“Transportation as reliable as running water, everywhere, for everyone.”