Here is a sample of our incredibly insightful session topics for 2020 Building a Smarter Artificial Intelligence Strategy for the Enterprise Accelerating Business Innovation with Deep Learning Leading Data Science Teams: A Framework to Help Guide Data Science Project Managers From Cognitive Computing to Artificial Intelligence, the Next 10 Years Democratizing Artificial Intelligence in a Business Context Accelerating AI Development with Deep Learning & Transfer Learning Recent Advances in Machine Learning with Applications to Internet of Things (IoT) Building & Managing World Class Data Science Teams Data Ethnography: Understanding Bias in Machine Learning Models How to Ruin your Business with Data Science & Machine Learning Day 2 & 3 -AI Workshops & Tutorials AI - The One Skill You Need to Ensure Future Success Gain proficiency in essential AI skills & accelerate your insights by attending one of our many introductory level talks & workshops. After attending these sessions, you will better understand the basics of AI & its incredible potential for accelerated growth. Co-located at ODSC West, we have some of the best & brightest speakers on the planet presenting on topics including: AI for Executives Workshop Introduction to Deep Learning Data Science 101 Data Visualization Workshop Introduction Machine Learning Predictive Analytics Workshop Voice AI & Speech Recognition Image Recognition & Machine Vision Why Attend? AI & data science is transforming business. The CxO summit will give you the knowledge & connections to be at the forefront.

Every year, ODSC West gets hundreds of submissions from an array of incredibly talented data science practitioners. Those submissions offer a unique insight into what are some of the most important topics in data science right now. In this article, we'll outline just a few of these topics that our speakers will be presenting on at ODSC West October 29th - November 1st. Deepfakes: Identified as one of the major threats to governments, politicians, businesses, and private individuals alike, deepfakes–both innocent and malevolent–have been dominating the news for several months. Originally only known as a side effect of GANs, deepfakes can create images, videos, and voice files capable of deceiving, at least initially, the general public.

Editor's note: Sayak is a speaker for ODSC West in San Francisco this November! Be sure to check out his talk, "Interpretable Machine Learning -- Fairness, Accountability and Transparency in ML systems," there! The problem is it is much harder to evaluate machine learning systems than to train them. "It requires responsibly requires doing more than just calculating loss metrics. Before putting a model into production, it's critical to audit training data and evaluate predictions for bias."