As part of Cognifest, the meetup for the 24th will be hosted at 590 Madison Avenue, Room 1219 - 12th floor.

Reah Miyara, Senior Offering Associate - Watson Horizontal Applications, IBM Watson & Cloud Platform, will offer an overview of the developing era of Cognitive Computing. He will illustrate potential use cases for cognitive technologies & demonstrate advancements in processing the ever increasing volume & complexity of data today, a collaboration between mankind & machine.

BIO:

ReahMiyara is acurrentproduct manager on the Watson Industry Applications teamand a formersoftwareengineer on the Watson Life team.A graduate of UC Berkeley with a degree in electrical engineering & computer science, Reahs experience includes developing enterprise technologies for the Mars Curiosity Rover at NASAs Jet Propulsion Laboratory, fraud detection systems using machine learning at Intuit, & cognitive cooking assistantChef Watsonat IBMs Watson group. When he is not driving technical strategy & development at IBM, empowering companies to make smarter business decisions, he can be seen DJ-ing for some of Hollywoods hottest celebrities.