Agenda
DAY 1
13 December 2018, 6:00 pm - 11:00 pm
6:00 pm - 6:05 pm
Welcome Address
Navdeep Manaktala, Head - BD, Amazon Internet Services
6:05 pm - 6:25 pm
AI at Amazon
Olivier Klein, Head of Emerging Technologies, APAC, AWS
6:25 pm - 7:05 pm
Panel discussion : Beyond the hype, AI is already delivering real value for business
Dale Vaz - Head Of Engineering & Data Science, Swiggy
Subramanian M S – Head of Analytics, bigbasket.com
Vikram Chandra – Founder, editorji
Anubhab Goel - Head - Digital Transformation, HDFC Life
Navdeep Manaktala, Head - BD, Amazon Internet Services
7:05 pm - 7:20 pm
Transform with AI
Kapil Bansal, Head of Alliance - Amazon, APJ, Intel Corporation
7:20 pm - 7:30 pm
Making AI real – At speed and scale
Jayant Swamy, Chief Data Architect, Data Business Group, Accenture Technology
7:30 pm - 7:45 pm
Global AI/ML opportunities for Indian Entrepreneurs
Dinesh Katiyar, Partner, Accel
7:45 pm - 7:55 pm
India Voice Story - Alexa
Dilip RS, India Country Head - Alexa Skills
7:55 pm - 8:05 pm
Alexa Fund
Rodrigo Prudencio, Amazon Global Corporate Development
8:05 pm - 8:45 pm
Amazon AI and Alexa Awards
Hosted by Shradha Sharma, Founder and Chief Editor, YourStory
8:45 pm - 11:00 pm
Dinner and Networking
DAY 2
14 December 2018, 9:00 am - 5:15 pm
9:00 am - 9:40 am
Keynote and AWS re:Invent 2018 updates
Ranju Das, Director - Amazon Rekognition, AWS
9:40 am - 10:00 am
AI at Amazon.com
Rajeev Rastogi, Director of Machine Learning, Amazon India
10:00 am - 10:15 am
Fast and Affordable AI on Intel
Akanksha Balani, Region lead -Intel® Software
10:15 am - 10:30 am
Raising Responsible AI with Teach and Test
Arati Deo, Managing Director, AI Capability Lead, Accenture Advanced Technology Centers in India
10:30 am - 10:45 am
Alexa Overview
Akersh Srivastava, Sr. Manager, Solutions Architect, Voice Design Education
10:45 am - 11:00 am - Break
Track 1
AI Developers
Mysore Hall 1 & 2
Track 2
AI Engineer & Scientists
Mysore Hall 3
Track 3
Next frontier of AI
Magnolia Hall
Track 4
Customer Track
Plumeria Hall
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Accelerate AI applications on AWS using Intel® Software
Naina Patil, Developer Evangelist, Intel
Simplify DevOps of Machine Learning with Amazon SageMaker
Kumar Venkateswar, Head of Product, Amazon SageMaker, AWS
Building a 3D Amazon Sumerian VR Bot - Ripping the tech apart
Atanu Roy, Specialist AI/ML Architect, Amazon and Girish Nair, Solutions Architect, Amazon
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Get to Know Alexa – Architecture, Features, and What’s New
Akersh Srivastava, Sr. Manager, Solutions Architect, Voice Design Education
Alexa in Banking
Ritesh Raj Saxena, Head-Savings & Digital Business, IndusInd Bank
Improve model quality with Amazon SageMaker Automatic Model Tuning
Kumar Venkateswar, Head of Product, Amazon SageMaker, AWS
Democratizing Reinforcement Learning
Madhu Shekar, Head - Digital Innovation, Amazon & Rahul Kulkarni, GSI Architect, Amazon
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm - Lunch Break
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Voice User Interfaces – How designing for the ear differs from designing for screens
Sohan Maheshwar, Alexa Evangelist, India
Keeping Astrology Human - through Voice
Raj Rao, Director, Pandit Ventures Pvt Ltd
Unsupervised Learning - How it works and benefits
Prof. Chiranjib Bhattacharya, Department of Computer Science and Automation, Indian Institute of Science
Alexa Skills Workshop for developers
Building an AI/ML Business on AWS
Fireside chat with Kris Skrinak, AI/ML Architect, AWS & Madhu Shekar, Head, Digital Innovation, Amazon
Lightning talks
3:30 - Haptik
Swapan Rajdev, Lead DevOps Engineer
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Building applications powered with computer vision
Ranju Das, Director - Amazon Rekognition, AWS
Multi-paradigm deep learning training
Cyrus Vahid, Deep Learning Evangelist, AWS
Alexa Skills Workshop for developers
Lightning talks
3.00 PM - Capillary Technologies- Building our first AI powered footfall counter for retail
Subrat Panda, PhD - Principal Architect
3.30 PM - Active.ai
Siva Sai Nellore, SVP - AI Product at Active Intelligence
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Building applications powered with Natural Language Processing
Vikram Anbazhagan, Head of Product - Language Technologies, AWS
How to speed up Deep Learning training and inferencing, cutting cost & improving performance
Thomas Delteil, Machine Learning Scientist, AWS
Alexa Skills Workshop for developers
Lightning talks
4.00 PM - Unbxd
Prasad Joshi, Head of Data Science & Relevance
5:00 pm - 5:30 pm - Tea Break
