The inaugural Deep Learning World (all about the commercial deployment of deep learning) is headed to Las Vegas alongside Predictive Analytics World and we're excited to announce a top-notch list of speakers and companies who are confirmed to deliver sessions at Caesar's Palace on June 3-7, 2018. Don't miss talks from Capital One, Microsoft, PayPal, and more. Get started at the full-day, hands-on workshop "Deep Learning in Practice" Speakers & Session Topics Include: Check out the speaker list and stay tuned for more announcements. Register now and save with Early Bird Prices to the first ever Deep Learning World conference. In 2018, there will be only ONE PAW in the U.S. – Mega-PAW – with five (5) parallel events amounting to seven (7) tracks: PAW Business, PAW Financial, PAW Healthcare, PAW Manufacturing, and Deep Learning World.

Just like many organisations, Australian airline Qantas is grappling with the challenge of how to be innovative while managing risk. But according to its new CTO Rob James, the flying kangaroo is fast evolving into a digital business. Having joined Qantas in August from a four-year tenure as CIO at online betting player William Hill, James said the contrast between an all-online company to one that delivers tangible services to customers is what attracted him to the role. He touted Qantas as an organisation that is performing well financially, but one that has a strong desire to look at technology to help it keep the numbers up. "Coming across to Qantas, what has been interesting is that Qantas as an organisation has really started to embrace technology as a differentiator in the business," James told the Gartner Symposium/ITxpo on the Gold Coast this week.