Global AI experts to headline NVIDIA AI Conference in Sydney

Source: NVIDIA website. The NVIDIA AI Conference will enable participants to connect, learn, discover and innovate.

NVIDIA will be bringing its premier artificial intelligence (AI) and deep learning event, the NVIDIA AI Conference, to Sydney, Australia this September. The two-day event will gather experts in AI from NVIDIA and elsewhere, including many from Australia.

NVIDIA AI Conference is the platform for those interested to achieve a deeper understanding of AI, including CEOs, CTOs, CIOs, IT managers, data centre managers, data scientists, developers, and academics. It is designed to highlight innovative ways in which developers, businesses and academics are using AI and deep learning to transform the world. Participants will learn about the latest breakthroughs in areas such as healthcare, big data, high performance computing, self-driving cars, robotics, smart cities, and virtual reality (VR).

The speaker line-up includes:

- Marc Hamilton, VP of Solutions Architecture and Engineering, NVIDIA;

- Steve Oberlin, CTO of Accelerated Computing, NVIDIA;

- Professor Dacheng Tao, ARC Laureate Fellow and Professor of Computer Science, The University of Sydney;

- Professor Tom Drummond, Leader of Computer Vision Lab, Monash University;

- John McGiffin, MD, Deep Recognition;

- Dr Juxi Leitner, Research Fellow, Australian Centre for Robotic Vision;

- Kurt Janssen, CEO, Orbica;

- Fred Almeida, CEO, neuri.ai; and

- Dr Johan Barthelemy, Research Fellow, University of Wollongong SMART Infrastructure Facility. 

They will speak on AI and deep learning for enterprise; intelligent video analytics, autonomous machines and robotics; and large-scale AI and research. Their topics range from How to start the Deep Learning Journey for Businesses and Learning to Grasp the World to Edge computing with Jetson TX2 for monitoring flows of pedestrians and vehicles and Creative AI: the new frontier.

The conference will also feature a CXO lunch, tech demos, a VR Village, and an exhibition by leading AI organisations and NVIDIA Inception Program startups. The NVIDIA Inception Program is a virtual accelerator that provides critical resources for emerging AI companies seeking deep learning expertise and enablement. It has nurtured close to 3,000 startups globally that are revolutionising industries with advances in AI and data science.

The programme helps them during critical stages of product development, prototyping and deployment, including providing access to AI experts, resources and hardware. Among the startups are many from Australia and New Zealand, including Max Kelsen, a high-potential genomics startup that leverages AI and machine learning to turn big data to big ideas.

Preceding the conference is NVIDIA Deep Learning Institute (DLI), instructor-led hands-on training to equip researchers and developers with critical skills needed to apply AI. More than 100,000 unique developers have undergone DLI training. The training will be on the fundamentals of deep learning for computer vision; the fundamentals of accelerated computing with CUDA C/C++; and deep learning for finance trading strategy. CUDA is a parallel computing platform and programming model developed by NVIDIA for general computing on graphical processing units (GPUs). CUDA has been downloaded more than 2 million times.

Details:

NVIDIA AI Conference
September 3 and 4
International Convention Centre (ICC) Sydney
Registration for NVIDIA AI Conference and Deep Learning Institute are open online