Machine learning (ML) is one of the most disruptive technologies we will encounter in our generation, but we're just getting started. The Machine Learning Summit brings together industry-leading scientists, AWS customers, and experts to dive deep in to the art, science, and impact of machine learning. You'll hear from industry leaders on the latest science breakthroughs in ML, get real-world learnings on how ML is impacting business, learn best practices in building ML, and learn how to get started with no expertise required. The Machine Learning Summit is free to attend, features over 30 sessions, and includes a live Q&A.

Can we design recommenders that encourage user trajectories aligned with the true underlying user utilities? Besides engagement, user satisfaction and responsibility arise as important pillars of the recommendation problem. Motivated by this, we will discuss various efforts utilizing the reward function as an important lever of Reinforcement Learning (RL)-based recommenders, so to guide the model learning that for certain states (i.e., latent user representation at a certain point of the trajectory) certain actions (i.e., items to recommend) will bring higher user utility than others. We will also outline current and future directions on overcoming challenges of signals' sparsity and interplay among various reward signals. I am a Research Engineer at Google, leading several efforts on recommender systems and reinforcement learning in Google Brain.

If you are in the ML/AI field, and are interested in enhancing your skills, while networking and learning from Google's ML/AI experts, this is the event for you! Attendees should have prior knowledge and experience with Machine Learning and/or AI technologies. We want to create a learning journey for developers around Google's ML content - from data to decisions.

The Machine Learning Summit is designed for everyone from data scientist to business professionals. If you've ever been curious about artificial intelligence and machine learning, whether you're just getting started on your machine learning journey or already a machine learning practitioner, this Summit will provide you with knowledge of what's on the horizon for machine learning. To attend the Machine Learning Summit, purchase a ticket to AWS re:Invent 2019. Once reserved seating opens in the fall, you will be able to register for a seat.