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- 1. OpenPOWER & AI Tutorial at University of Oregon By OpenPOWER Academia Spend half a day learning about Artificial Intelligence and gather the latest insights from pioneers in the industry, leveraging the POWER9 systems also used in the world's largest supercomputer. Learn about POWER9/OpenPOWER systems. Discover advances in deep learning tools and techniques. Learn how to use OpenPOWER systems and PowerAI tools to do your AI projects. An introduction for everyone interested in using AI. Go deeper with those who have especially challenging projects. on Aug 13th 2018 ICPP Conference University of Oregon Eugene
- 2. Agenda 2.00 pm to 2.30pm 2.30 pm to 3.00pm 3.00 pm to 3.30 pm 3.30 pm to 4.00 pm 4.00 pm to 6.00 pm OpenPOWER and Power 9 features by Steve Fields Discover Accelerated Deep Learning and Machine Learning by Dr. Amit Juneja Simplify model training with distributed deep learning for high resolution images and other dense data types (e.g., massive IoT data) by Amit Juneja Break Introduction to Running AI Workloads on PowerAI by Catherine C Diep and Paul Van Eck
- 3. Dr. Amit Juneja currently works as a Cognitive Solution Specialist within IBM Systems group helping industry customers with starting, monetizing and streamlining their deep learning projects. He has over 15 years of experience and in-depth knowledge of machine learning and deep learning algorithms and systems, and a doctoral degree in applying machine learning to spoken language technology. Speaker : Amit Juneja ( IBM ) Steve Fields is an IBM Fellow and is the Chief Engineer of Power Systems at IBM, leading the team responsible for Architecture and Design of IBM’s Power Systems servers. His background is POWER microprocessor design focused on I/O, memory, caches and SMP interconnect, and has led system design since 2008. Speaker : Steve Fields ( IBM )
- 4. Catherine C. Diep is a Solutions Architect and Performance Engineer of the Cognitive Technologies & Performance team at the Silicon Valley Lab, California. Her responsibilities include providing technical leadership for proof-of-concept, scalability design & testing. Speaker : Catherine C. Diep ( IBM ) Paul is a software engineer in the Cognitive OpenTech group at IBM. He has several years experience working in cloud open source technologies such as OpenStack and Kubernetes. More recently, Paul has been actively working with TensorFlow, where he not only contributes, but teaches and advocates for the technology. Speaker : Paul Van Eck ( IBM )