This year at Microsoft Ignite we explore how organizations can activate AI and automation directly in their business workflows and empower developers to use those same intelligent building blocks to deliver their own differentiated experiences. The global pandemic has created unprecedented levels of uncertainty, as well as the need to sense and reshape our physical and digital environments, sometimes in completely new ways. Leaders across industries recognize innovation as the only path forward. Critically, we've seen a shift from "innovation for innovation's sake" toward a desire to lower operating costs, anticipate trends, reduce carbon footprints, and improve customer and employee experiences. Automation and AI are key ingredients for digital perseverance and helping organizations drive efficiency.

New York (CNN Business)Disinfectant gadgets, next-generation fitness equipment and robots that help you cook dinner. Those are a few of the countless new products expected to be unveiled next week at the Consumer Electronics Show, the annual splashy tech conference that typically sets the tone for the biggest trends of the year. Home automation, health and 5G will once again be buzzy topics, but many companies will also introduce pandemic-specific features to reflect our increased time at home. Each year, reporters, exhibitors and investors typically explore Las Vegas showrooms filled with giant TVs, smart cars and robots fixing martinis, but CES will be online only for the first time in its 54-year history due to Covid-19. The Consumer Electronics Association, the nonprofit behind the four-day event starting Monday, said 1,800 exhibitors from around the world will fill its "digital venue" this year -- a number that's down significantly from 4,000 in-person exhibitors last year.

Human-AI Interaction (HAII) was taught twice in a fully remote fashion over 12 weeks at Williams College to only undergraduates. The course was organized around 11.5 modules (i.e., topics), and each module included: 2x pre-recorded lecture videos, 2-3 readings (1 research paper 2 popular media), a 7 question quiz on that module's materials, a 60 minute synchronous [remote] class meeting with 8 students, followed by discussion forum posts and 2x responses to peers. The course was implemented in Canvas, referred to as "GLOW" at Williams, but I have made available some versions of the materials via Google documents on this website (apologies for any formatting issues!). Context for each course component is below, but details can be found on the Schedule and Syllabus pages. Lectures: Pre-recorded lectures for a module were posted twice per week (Thursdays & Mondays), which were recorded in 15 minute sections and linked together in a YouTube playlist for no more than 50 minutes total, although usually around 30-40 minutes.

ATTEND FROM HOME: Tech Socials bring together passionate technologists to chat with other like-minded people & have a great time. Don't miss out, join us as we explore different ways of connecting our tech nerd communities in the coming months! "HackerNest feels like coming home" - attendees First timer? THIS HACKERNEST TECH SOCIAL: Reception: where you land once you first join - tips & guidelines, etc. SpeedMeets: Talk 1-on-1 with other guests, chatroulette style! Breakout Sessions: Various smaller group discussions - Join in the first 30 mins for SuperConnect!* & help decide on which custom sessions to run! Direct Chats & Calls: Follow-up directly with people for more conversation Finally leave, exhausted from great convos with awesome people!

Come meet the Fortinet team to see how we can secure your future business initiatives. Moving into 2020, digital transformation remains a top priority for business leaders – around the world and across industries. As the solutions available to enable digital transformation continue to advance, leaders are often left wondering how to best select and implement digitization tools that not only incorporate edge-to-edge technologies that align with their future business goals, but that also ensure that those transformation efforts don't compromise their security. Fortinet is participating in this year's AT&T Business Summit to help today's leadership answer questions like this. This summit will offer insight into how businesses can make smart investments in their technology, and their team, to take full advantage of the opportunities afforded by digital transformation.

With less than 40 days to re:Invent 2019, the excitement is building up and we are looking forward to seeing you all soon! Continuing our journey on artificial intelligence and machine learning, we are bringing a lot of technical content this year, with over 200 breakout sessions, deep-dive chalk talks, hands-on exercises with workshops featuring Amazon SageMaker, AWS DeepRacer, and deep learning frameworks such as TensorFlow, PyTorch, and more. You'll hear from many customers including Vanguard, BBC, Autodesk, British Airways, Fannie Mae, Thermo Fisher, Intuit, and many more. We are also hosting the Machine Learning Summit again this year, where you will hear from researchers and entrepreneurs about the latest breakthroughs today and the future possibilities tomorrow. To get you started on planning, here are a few highlights for the AI and ML sessions from the re:Invent 2019 session catalog.

THIS EVENT IS 100% FREE! Industry 4.0 and Smart Manufacturing – these are the buzzwords that are floating around manufacturing facilities across the United States. What does this mean for you? How are you gaining knowledge about these new technologies? Are you keeping up with your competitors who are being innovative and implementing smart manufacturing in their facilities?

Spark AI Summit is the premier global event for the data and machine learning community to discuss the latest advances in open-source technologies such as Apache Spark, Delta Lake, MLflow, Koalas and TensorFlow as well as best practices for deploying AI in the real world. In addition to over 100 exciting breakout sessions, this year's Spark AI Summit in Amsterdam 15-17 October will feature keynotes from some of the leading thinkers and innovators in AI. We're pleased to announce Katie Bouman's keynote address at this year's Spark AI Summit Europe. Katie was a postdoctoral fellow in the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, and she received her Ph.D. from MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory in EECS. Currently, she specializes in using emerging computational methods to push the boundaries of imaging.

Oracle OpenWorld 2019 will take place September 16-19 in San Francisco, with over 1,000 planned sessions on topics including transformational technologies, growth acceleration, intelligent cloud applications, and more. Here are 5 of the upcoming, fascinating marketing sessions. You can also view the full CX session catalog here. Today, companies are struggling to provide a complete customer experience due to the disconnected nature of the underlying data. Staying ahead of the curve by connecting all customer intelligence across all interactions will shape the leaders of tomorrow.

This article brings together all of the breakout sessions, labs and workshops that deal with machine learning on VMware. This is for your convenience so that you can build your schedule to include some or all of these very interesting talks, labs and workshops in your schedule.