Please accept our apologies - due to the unforeseen circumstance, we have to reschedule this event for Monday, July 24th, 2017.
July 24th, 2017th event description:
Our panel of three experts will discuss the topic of learning deep learning. In a round table format, Umair Akeel, Partner at Bessemer Venture Partners, Vivek Kumar, Director, Advanced Technology Group at Dolby & our own SVDLG founder, Adrian Kaehler, will discuss their own experiences & those of people & companies they have worked with in training & growing talent in deep learning. Topics will include things that have been found to work, things that have been found to not work, how long students & practitioners have taken to "get up to speed", what tools & techniques helped, & which hurt, & what their experiences have been building their own skills & those of their teams & companies. Our event is generously sponsored byRoyse Law Firm.
Speaker Bios:
Umair Akeel Partner at Bessemer Venture Partners
Chief technology officer in residence (CTO-IR) Umair Akeel is an operating partner at Bessemer Venture Partners. Umair brings 15 years of experience in technology development & leadership to Bessemer, focusing on machine learning, self driving/mobility as a service, & developer tools.
Umair loves the process of building & growing products, teams & organizations, & as CTO in residence, he works closely with BVP-funded companies as an advisor. Interestingly, hes been in their shoes before, having worked at two BVP-funded companies: he was Eloquas chief architect through its IPO & subsequent acquisition by Oracle (where he served as VP of product development), & earlier, he worked as a software engineer for Trigo Technologiesa company founded by BVP partner Byron Deeter.
Umair is a lifelong maker, & his compulsion to build, break & hack is a trait that extends beyond his workday & as the CTO-in-the-Akeel-residence, Umair provides
Vivek Kumar, Director, Advanced Technology Group at Dolby
Vivek Kumar is the Director, Advanced Technology Group at Dolby, currently focusing on creative applications of Deep Learning. He manages a cross-functional team with a charter of creating new technologies & experiences to evaluate feasibility & business viability. This team operates on lean startup principles, focusing on new business incubation.
Adrian Kaehler, Founder, Silicon Valley Deep Learning Group
Dr. Adrian Kaehler is a recognized expert & inventor in numerous advanced technology domains. Throughout his career, his primary focus has been on intellectual & practical leadership for complex technology innovation efforts for both privately or publicly held companies & enterprises, as well as for the many commercial & government institutions he advises. At this time,Adrian is a start-up founder & entrepreneur in Silicon Valley.
In 1996, Adrian won the Gordon Bell Prize for building the highest performance computer in the world. In 2005 he won the DARPA Grand Challenge 1st place award for building what is now considered to be the world's first functional autonomous car, Stanley, which is now located in the Smithsonian Institute. He holds a Ph.D. degree in theoretical particle physics from Columbia University which, after enrolling in university at the age of 14 & graduating with a bachelor's degree at 18, he received at the age of 25.
His fields of expertise include robotics, deep learning, artificial intelligence, machine learning, physics, electrical engineering, computer algorithms, machine vision, biometrics, computer games, system engineering, human machine interface, numerical programming, & design. He is the author of numerous papers & patents in these & other subjects, as well as a best-selling book on computer vision, & a second, recently published book on computer vision, Learning OpenCV 3.
Event schedule:
6:45 PM - 7:15 PM: Food & Sign in
7:15 PM - 8:15 PM: Talk followed by Q&A
8:15 PM - 9:00 PM: Social Hour, Soft Drinks & Networking
9:00 PM Event close [please note that we need to be cleared out of the sight by this time.]
