Zach is building a Machine Learning platform company upon which 12,000 developers are building apps. This is a terrific conversation that spans how to build developer networks for a PaaS company, and numerous related issues. Sramana Mitra: Let's start by introducing our audience to yourself as well as Edge Impulse. Zach Shelby: I am the co-founder and CEO of Edge Impulse. We are the company that helps to democratize the use of machine learning on real edge computing and real industrial types of systems. That is an area that machine learning is new to. There are a lot of differences in how we have to enable all these developers and companies that want to make use of it. Sramana Mitra: Does that mean that you have a cool engine or platform that you would then have other developers build on top off? Zach Shelby: A really common trend in the industry right now is to use developers as a way to get to market. That is something that we are passionate about. Especially when you

Talend senior product manager David Talaga spoke to the Computer Weekly Developer Network this month to talk about data, programming, computer vision systems, advances in AI and garden weeds. Using the now well-seasoned example of how computer vision systems learn, Talaga reminded us that a human infant might typically only need to see four or five dogs to be able to recognise a dog in the future. But, as we know, training a computer to recognise a dog in an image – and eradicate false positives (computers can mistake a dog for a fox, or a coyote, a wolf, a dingo or a jackal) – is likely to require large data sets of hundreds of thousands of images. He thinks that no matter how much technology improves, we're unlikely to ever be able to train a computer vision system in the same way as a human baby because of the unacceptable margin for error which would be present. Talaga says that when training machine systems, data integrity is key.

As every good competent and loquacious speaker knows, no true gift of the gab is ever reasonably achieved without first visiting the Irish city of Cork to kiss the Blarney Stone. Digital transformation - the buzzword that we can't get away from. Enterprises need to accelerate their digital transformation journeys to avoid being left behind in an increasingly digital world. It's not an easy feat, but one that can be costly to get wrong. Join us as Computer Weekly takes a look at how businesses can stay on track through collaboration, innovation, and listening to user needs.