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Our next CTO Roundtable on Applied AI: Process Optimization will be held on Thursday, Nov 7, 2019 from 8 to 10 AM.
Process Automation is one of the primary areas where IT has delivered significant value to all business over the past several decades. Business and IT professionals are very comfortable with acquiring and implementing new technology solutions to continue to streamline processes and create efficiencies. Therefore, it is not surprising that this is where we are seeing quick adoption of ML / AI technologies. During our next Roundtable, 3 very knowledgeable speakers would review two generalized solutions in the space and discuss the broader use of this new technology in Process Optimization. I expect this to be a valuable discussion with immediate applicability within your business. If you are looking for a way to introduce ML / AI solutions to your organization, this is where you might wish to start. You should make it a point to attend! We have a packed agenda and need to start the presentations earlier than usual (please arrive at 8AM!):
About our Presenters
The team at Sphere Of Influence has again graciously agreed to host us at: 1420 Spring Hill Rd., Lobby Level McLean, VA 22102 After our very successful and well received 3-part series on Serverless Technologies, our next session would be a review of the Patent Landscape for CTOs on Friday, September 27, 2019 from 8 to 10 AM.
The session will be led by Hussein Akhavannik, a Partner at BakerHostetler, one of the nation’s largest law firms. Today, CTOs should have a solid understanding of intellectual property issues. One of the core items that needs to be well understood is how the Patent system works in the US and globally. During the session, we will review the different types of patents and protection that can be utilized for different technologies. We will cover the some of the newest changes to Patent Law, Open Source and Trade Secret elements. Thad Scheer and the Management team at Sphere Of Influence have again graciously agreed to host us at: Tysons Corner Studios – Conference Center 1420 Spring Hill Rd., Lobby Level McLean, VA 22102 We are organizing a 3-part series (one Roundtable for each of the three major cloud providers), to discuss Application Modernization with Serverless Technologies.
The next session would be led by Logan Vadivelu, a senior Cloud Customer Engineer at Google Cloud. As businesses continue to expand the use of Cloud computing, we constantly seek to increase the benefits by improving agility and flexibility while significantly lowering cost. Serverless is an operational model that can offer those benefits through the abstraction of infrastructure and operations. On the Google Cloud Platform (GCP), the Serverless model goes beyond web applications to cover databases, data warehouses and data pipelines and extends the benefits of on-demand, pay-as-you-go computing model to the data layer. We will get an opportunity to understand and discuss the Serverless model on GCP, it's trade-offs and adoption trends. Logan is a technology thought leader with over two decades of global experience. He routinely enables clients successfully adopt emerging technologies for digital transformation, achieve business differentiation and drive innovation. Presently, he focuses on AI/ML and Big Data Analytics in a multi and hybrid-cloud architecture. Logan frequently speaks at technology conferences and is a mentor and blogger. Logan earned a master's degree in engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT-Madras) and an MBA in marketing. WHEN: June 7, 2019 from 8 AM - 10 AM WHERE: Sphere Of Influence, 1420 Spring Hill Rd., Lobby Level, McLean, VA 22102 The session would be led by Microsoft Cloud Architect Kyle Wilson. The initial part of this talk focuses on exploring a simple model for application modernization strategy. We then dive into the Serverless capabilities of Azure and how they can be leveraged in support of the application modernization process. We will cover technical insights into the pros and cons of various approaches along with some specific examples and demonstrations. The goal of the talk is to bring more clarity on the Serverless offerings in Azure and how they fit into a broader cloud/application modernization strategy.
Kyle Wilson has been working in technology for over 20 years. As a technical resource at Microsoft he interacts with customers on a daily basis, helping them take advantage of the cloud to change the way they think about their business and their digital transformation journey. He spent a long time in the consulting world helping customers adopt collaboration portals and other web technologies before joining Microsoft 5 years ago. He currently works as an Azure architect and technical specialist helping enterprise customers and partners digitally transform their businesses with Azure based services. David McDonald, Director of the Reston Microsoft Technology Center, would kick off the event and join Kyle for follow-up Q&A. At the Reston MTC, Microsoft empowers customers and partners to digitally transform their organizations through the Microsoft Cloud. The MTC Director is the leader of a high performing team of technical architects as well as a customer centric facility designed to engage customers and help them envision the art of the possible with Microsoft Cloud Solutions. Prior to being the MTC Director, David was the Technical Director of the MTC and a Technical Architect. Throughout David’s career, including 25 years at Microsoft, he has worked with Government and Commercial enterprises helping them develop and deploy mission critical enterprise business solutions. WHEN: May 10, 2019 from 8 AM - 10 AM WHERE: Sphere Of Influence, 1420 Spring Hill Rd., Lobby Level, McLean, VA 22102 The first session in our series on Application Modernization with Serverless Technologies was presented by Amazon Web Services (AWS). The session was led by Rory Richardson, Head of Business Development for Serverless at AWS, and she will discuss how enterprises can apply DevOps, microservices and serverless to innovate faster, at scale. Learn how Amazon got from four to over 60 million deployments per year and benefit from their key learnings from building modern apps at Amazon.com. Covering the transition from a monolithic application to event-driven serverless microservices, this session will dive into the reasons more and more Amazon customers are choosing the serverless operational model. By leveraging AWS Lambda, AWS Step Functions, AWS Fargate, SNS, SQS, and the entire serverless portfolio, customers are able to innovate faster and focus more on their core businesses.
Rory has been driving business development with some of the fastest growing and innovative services at AWS such as Aurora and DynamoDB. She is now head of business development for Amazon’s Serverless technologies which include Lambda, StepFunctions and API Gateway, as well as, enterprise messaging such as AmazonMQ, SNS, and SQS. These technologies enable customers to move to a microservice architecture. A serverless microservice architecture lets companies increase business agility, reduce undifferentiated heavy lifting, and optimize costs by paying only for what they use. WHEN: April 5, 2019 from 8 AM - 10 AM WHERE: Sphere Of Influence, 1420 Spring Hill Rd., Lobby Level, McLean, VA 22102 In domain after domain, Deep Learning is outperforming both people and competing algorithms at practical tasks:
These breakthroughs are visible as both product offerings (Siri, Real-time Ray-tracing on NVIDIA Turing cards, Netflix Recommendations, etc.) as well as breakthrough results on international open benchmarks. All successful deep learning product teams:
We will review all four of these considerations, understand some of the key discriminators between product success and failure, and learn how to identify opportunities best suited for the application of Deep Learning. Dr. John Kaufhold, data scientist and managing partner at Deep Learning Analytics, will lead the discussion. Deep Learning Analytics was one of the four fastest growing companies by revenue in Arlington, Virginia in 2015, and again in 2016. Dr. Kaufhold also serves as Secretary of the Washington Academy of Sciences and is a regular contributor to the DC Data Community, where he moderates the DC2 Deep Learning Discussion list. Prior to founding Deep Learning Analytics, Dr. Kaufhold investigated deep learning algorithms at NIH, SAIC and at GE's Global Research Center. Dr. Kaufhold is named inventor on 10 issued patents in image analysis, and author/coauthor on 40+ publications in the fields of machine learning, image understanding and neuroscience. WHEN: December 17, 2018 from 8 AM - 10 AM WHERE: Sphere Of Influence, 1420 Spring Hill Rd., Lobby Level, McLean, VA 22102 |
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