LXAI: Six Months in the Making
You may already be familiar with my organization, Accel AI Institute, a 501c3 Non Profit lowering the barriers to entry in engineering artificial intelligence - this past year we launched the Latinx in AI Coalition, an initiative focused on creating harmony between AI and the Latinx community alongside the Latino Startup Alliance and Impact Hub in San Francisco.
The Latinx in AI Coalition has officially passed the six month threshold this June! This is a huge accomplishment which not many new organizations can affirm. LXAI leadership has been working diligently both outside and in contribution to this organization, let’s take a moment to highlight our accomplishments and celebrate our efforts!
Highlights
We couldn’t have asked for a better turn out for our premier gathering, including amazing speaker insights, and in-depth audience engagement. Check out the photo album and live recording, or read the recap!
Monthly Education Workshop Series
We’ve been privileged to feature talented Latinx AI and Data science engineers and researchers including Tairi Delgado, Luis Serrano, Orlando Torres, Cezanne Camacho, and coming up for June - Jorge Peñalva!
- Launched the Latinx in AI Publication
- New partnership with Latinos in Finance in preparation for the AI Fintech Forum
- Expanding our board to 8 members including education, research, and outreach committees
- Growing the LXAI Public directory to over 100 members!!!
- Connecting and collaborating with other community and diversity focused AI organizations including Women in ML, Black in AI, and AI4ALL
- Creating the MVPs of our website, social media channels, and deck all with cohesive community messaging
- Actively attending and engaging in AI conferences and events to ensure representation of our community and initiative. Check out our MIT AI Conference 2018 Recap.
Research Opportunities
LXAI is launching our own research initiative to mitigate affects of bias in machine learning algorithms. Check out our proposal to NIPS 2018 to learn more.
If you’re interested in contributing to our research efforts, reach out for more information via email latinxinai@accel.ai.
Volunteer Opportunities
- Volunteer with Latinx in AI Coalition: http://bit.ly/LXAI-Volunteer
- Volunteer with AI4ALL and support the next generation of diverse AI leaders: http://bit.ly/PartnerVolunteerAI4ALL
Upcoming & Featured Latinx AI Events
Intro to Natural Language Processing with Lang.ai , June 20th, 2018
Jorge Peñalva is the CEO and co-founder of Lang.ai, an Unsupervised AI platform to automate unstructured text data processes. He has been in the NLP industry for 6 years, launching a cashflow positive company into the market- Sentisis- a product for Social Media Understanding of Spanish language conversations. During his work, he has spearheaded the company’s vision, product and research and development (R&D) strategy that facilitated the international growth and expansion of the company to the United States, Colombia, Mexico, and Chile. He graduated with honors in ECE from UPM engineering school in Madrid and holds an MS in Computer Science from IIT in Chicago.
Lang.ai works on unsupervised learning for natural language processing, looking to redefine the NLP landscape. Lang.ai is democratizing the use of unstructured text data through a self-service platform that lets you discover intents/semantic contexts automatically without any pre-training or data labeling, enabling a new generation of NLP products, as currently people spend months in training and labeling data or creating rules.
AI Fintech Forum 2018, the first ever gathering on AI Fintech policy, engineering, and research, for and by diverse tech entrepreneurs July 21st, 2018.
We strive to offer opportunities and create a platform for high-level and diverse speakers to share their work with others working in or looking to break into the AI and Finance space.
Interested in sharing your knowledge? http://www.aiff.world/speaker-application
Interested in volunteering? http://www.aiff.world/volunteer
Do you want your brand to be featured as an official sponsor? http://www.aiff.world/sponsor
La primera “Reunion Internacional de Inteligencia Artificial y sus Aplicaciones” en Mexico (RIIAA@MEX) this 24, 25 yand 26 of august in Mexico City
Quieres participar como asistente, panelista, y/o estudiante de la escuela de verano? Visita la convocatoria! https://riiaa.org/convocatoria/
ACM Richard Tapia Celebration of Diversity in Computing 2018 September 19th to 22nd, 2018. LXAI board members will be participating as speakers, presenting on the topic of Dealing with Bias and Unfairness in Machine Learning Algorithms.
TECHSUYO 2018 is a non-profit event that will be held at MIT Massachusetts Institute of Technology from September 28th to 29th. Omar Florez, PhD, Research committee lead for LXAI will be participating as the Keynote for this conference.
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