RavenPack's prestigious annual event has experienced growing interest, with attendance exceeding 260 buy-side professionals. Word on the street is RavenPack's research symposium is a "must attend event" for quantitative investors and financial professionals that are serious about Big Data. An excellent set of senior finance professionals shared their latest research and experience with big data and machine learning.

Using algorithms that learn iteratively, machine learning lets you discover hidden insight from your data. Strata is a unique opportunity to get up to speed quickly on the latest in machine and deep learning. Take a look at the machine learning sessions available to you at Strata.

New York City was all about AI this week, with AI experts and business leaders coming together at the sold-out O'Reilly Artificial Intelligence Conference. One notable announcement from the event is that Intel is now joining forces with O'Reilly to co-present the Artificial Intelligence Conference series going forward. This new collaboration will offer exciting ways to define and drive advances in AI. The first event with Intel is the AI Conference in San Francisco, happening Sept. 17-20, with more events planned in New York and San Francisco in 2018. The AI Conference stands out for bringing together business leaders and AI innovators to talk about the most promising applied AI developments across all fields--from logistics and transportation to health and media.

Underneath the hype, real breakthroughs in AI are transforming businesses. Intelligence engineers are creating software that doesn't just do what it's told, but also anticipates the needs of its users and customers through knowledge, pattern recognition, and reasoning. O'Reilly AI brings together leaders and innovators to explore the most promising applied deep learning and edge intelligence topics, including: If you're looking for groundbreaking research, compelling use cases, rock-solid technical skills--and maybe one or two crazy ideas that just might change the world--join us in New York June 26–29 for the O'Reilly AI Conference. Need help convincing your manager? Each training course takes place June 26–27 and is limited in size to maintain a high level of learning and instructor interaction.

Jupyter is an excellent interface for executing deep learning development and training. In fact, many of the tutorials that help you get started with deep learning frameworks use Jupyter notebooks because of the ability to provide small blocks of commented, executable code with easy reproducibility, ability to display intermediate feature extraction information, and useful metrics and console output. However, one of the major challenges with using Jupyter and with deep learning more generally is the complexity of context switching between prototyping with CPUs and accelerated training with GPUs. At Bitfusion, we've developed custom kernels coupled with network-attached Elastic GPUs to make it quick and easy to switch from CPUs to GPUs and back again with only a couple clicks.

Jana Eggers is a tech executive focused on products and the messages surrounding them. Jana has started and grown SMBs and led large organizations within enterprises. Jana's software and technology experience includes technology and executive positions at Intuit, Blackbaud, Basis Technology (internationalization technology), Lycos, American Airlines, Los Alamos National Laboratory (computational chemistry and supercomputing), Spreadshirt (customized apparel ecommerce), and acquired startups that you've never heard of. Jana is a frequent speaker, writer and CXO educator on innovation, change and technology.

Underneath all the hype, real breakthroughs in AI are happening, transforming how we do business. Intelligence engineers and developers are creating software that doesn't just do what it's told, but has the ability to anticipate the needs of its users and customers through a combination of pattern recognition, knowledge, planning, and reasoning. The O'Reilly AI Conference brings the growing AI community together to explore some of the most promising applied deep learning and edge intelligence topics, including: If you're looking for groundbreaking research, compelling use cases, rock-solid technical skills, teardowns of successful AI projects--and maybe one or two truly crazy ideas that just might change the world--make plans to join us June 26–29 in New York for the O'Reilly AI Conference. Take a look at the schedule and start making your plans today. Need help convincing your manager?

The O'Reilly Artificial Intelligence Conference call for speakers is open Underneath all the AI hype, real breakthroughs are happening--and obstacles to applied AI are being overcome--allowing AI developers to create software that doesn't just do what it's told, but has the ability to anticipate the needs of its users through a combination of pattern recognition, knowledge, planning, and reasoning. Enterprise bots are emerging to participate in conversations and carry out repetitive tasks. Deep learning toolkits are becoming essential tools for software engineers and data scientists. Frameworks are being developed that promise point-and-click development of intelligent conversational interfaces to relatively unsophisticated developers. There is a growing--and urgent--need for information on applied AI, as opposed to the kind of research presented at academic conferences.