BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Austin Technology Council - ECPv6.11.0.1//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Austin Technology Council X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://www.austintechnologycouncil.org X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Austin Technology Council REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Chicago BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:CDT DTSTART:20190310T080000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:CST DTSTART:20191103T070000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20191009T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20191009T190000 DTSTAMP:20260422T034140 CREATED:20190925T150033Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190925T152413Z UID:10001676-1570642200-1570647600@www.austintechnologycouncil.org SUMMARY:Austin AI Ecosystem Initiative DESCRIPTION:AI is potentially one of the most transformative technologies in human history—and may have impact that exceeds even the Internet and web\, laptop and smartphones\, and supercomputers. AI is poised to reshape mobility\, healthcare\, industry\, government\, safety\, national security\, and more. However\, the new wave of AI—machine learning and especially deep learning—is complex and evolving rapidly\, requires new hardware and software for maximum performance\, and faces challenges in adoption and measurement of ROI\, explainability and forensic analysis\, and bias and other ethical issues. Nonetheless\, AI is deemed by many innovators\, researchers\, business leaders\, and more as being the most revolutionary (and by a few\, potentially dangerous) technology of our time. \nAustin is one of the leading technology cities in the world\, as home to the major offices and headquarters of companies such as Dell\, IBM\, AMD\, Arm\, Apple\, Facebook\, Google\, Amazon\, and more\, with a creative entrepreneurial scene as well. Austin is now home to many AI-focused companies from startup to global in scale\, and Austin can promote itself to the center of this discussion by focusing not only on AI-technology\, but also on the numerous business\, security\, and societal impacts AI is projected to have. From healthcare diagnostics and treatments to smart cars buildings and smart cities\, AI will affect the lives of not only businesses and governments but of everyone in more ways than we can imagine. Understanding how this technology works\, and how to best shape its usage by both governmental and commercial entities will require us to go beyond just the latest advances of the state-of-the-art-AI. It will force us to confront the many challenges we will encounter as we move away from human-intensive manual processes to automated decision-making systems. \nThe objective of this first Austin AI Ecosystem Initiative meetup is to establish some guidelines of how we can best leverage Austin’s tech community and AI players as a leading city for AI development and application: in industry\, in research\, in education\, and in social impact. \nThere are there major objectives for this first meetup:\n1. Establish an Austin AI Consortium to promote collaboration on pre-competitive issues to advance innovation and application of AI\n2. Develop a report and recommendations for attracting funding—investment\, state\, and federal—for pre-competitive research\, for education\, and more\n3. Create an annual conference in Austin to bring together stakeholders and ecosystem partners united in a mission to accelerate AI impact for good: for business and economies\, for safety and society\, for security and welfare. \nWe will invite leaders from across the AI ecosystem in Austin\, provide an overview of the AI market and Austin ecosystem\, and form working groups to develop ideas and recommendations for the three objectives above (and maybe more) to be presented at the second meetup in November. URL:https://www.austintechnologycouncil.org/event/austin-ai-ecosystem-initiative/ LOCATION:Capital Factory: 8th Floor – Center for Defense Innovation\, 701 Brazos Street\, Austin\, 78701\, United States CATEGORIES:Community Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.austintechnologycouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/3c6fa4463bacfc2f627de1f2ad0c48f0.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Vizias Research Education &%3B Outreach":MAILTO:info@vizias.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20191009T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20191009T170000 DTSTAMP:20260422T034140 CREATED:20190925T152405Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190925T152405Z UID:10001678-1570626000-1570640400@www.austintechnologycouncil.org SUMMARY:Accelerated Introduction to AI & Machine Learning DESCRIPTION:AI is one of the most transformative technologies of our time\, and is already starting to revolutionize mobility\, healthcare\, business\, research\, public safety\, national security/defense\, and more. AI will transform society and the workforce—many jobs will be changed or eliminated\, while other jobs will be elevated or created. Thus\, learning AI is about to be very important for professional in all industries as well as government and education. However\, most current AI classes are either too brief for teaching machine learning (ML) and deep learning (DL) to be used for real work\, or too long for professionals to be able to devote sufficient time to complete. \nIn this class\, we will leverage experience working with real customers in industry\, government and higher education to deliver an accelerated introduction to ML and DL covering all stages—from data preparation to training to inferencing—with real examples showcasing the power\, and appropriate usage\, of both. We will use pre-prepared scripts\, data\, and codes\, and the ‘cooking show’ method of moving to completed versions of each step quickly\, enabling listeners to understand each step without spending hours/days of actual data manipulation and coding. \nAfter this class\, attendees will be able to:\n1. Understand what AI and machine learning (ML) are\, and learn the commonly used types – both classical ML and deep learning (DL).\n2. Learn how to choose the appropriate ML or DL techniques for different kinds of problems and purposes\, and why.\n3. Execute the entire process (steps) to get from raw data all the way to insight/prediction/decision with machine learning and deep learning. \nInstructors:\n– Jay Boisseau\, PhD- CEO of Vizias and AI & HPC Technology Strategist at Dell EMC\n– John Lockman- CTO of Vizias and AI Developer at Dell EMC\n– Luke Wilson\, PhD – Chief Analytics Officer of Vizias and AI & Data Analytics Researcher at Dell EMC\n___________________________________________________________________________________________________ \nStay after the workshop for our first Austin AI Ecosystem meetup. The meetup will take place in the same building on the 8th Floor of Capital Factory. Details are below. \nAustin AI Ecosystem\nOctober 9\, 2019\n5:30pm – 7:00pm\nCapital Factory | 8th Floor – Center for Defense Innovation\nWe will invite leaders from across the AI ecosystem in Austin\, provide an overview of the AI market and Austin ecosystem\, and form working groups to develop ideas and recommendations for the three objectives above (and maybe more) to be presented at the second meetup in November. URL:https://www.austintechnologycouncil.org/event/accelerated-introduction-to-ai-machine-learning/ LOCATION:Capital Factory: 1st Floor | Devvie Room\, 701 Brazos Street\, Austin\, 78701\, United States CATEGORIES:Community Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.austintechnologycouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/ai.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Vizias Research Education &%3B Outreach":MAILTO:info@vizias.com END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR