{"id":58065,"date":"2018-12-18T08:49:06","date_gmt":"2018-12-18T06:49:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tehnopol.ee\/?p=58065"},"modified":"2018-12-18T12:11:29","modified_gmt":"2018-12-18T10:11:29","slug":"north-star-ai-2019-gathering-of-the-brightest-minds-in-data-science-and-machine-learning-from-around-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tehnopol.ee\/en\/north-star-ai-2019-gathering-of-the-brightest-minds-in-data-science-and-machine-learning-from-around-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"North Star AI 2019 &#8211; gathering of the brightest minds in data science and Machine Learning from around the world"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tehnopol.ee\/en\/north-star-ai-2019-gathering-of-the-brightest-minds-in-data-science-and-machine-learning-from-around-the-world\/north-star-ai\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-58066\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-58066\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tehnopol.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/north-star-ai-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tehnopol.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/north-star-ai-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.tehnopol.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/north-star-ai-600x338.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.tehnopol.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/north-star-ai-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.tehnopol.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/north-star-ai-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.tehnopol.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/north-star-ai-400x225.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.tehnopol.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/north-star-ai-200x113.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.tehnopol.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/north-star-ai.jpg 1279w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Experienced Machine Learning practitioners from Google\u2019s DeepMind, Netflix, Spotify, and other world-leading tech companies applying AI will speak at the stage of North Star AI conference in Tallinn on March 7.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p>North Star AI is an international conference on Machine Learning and Data Science organised by a group of AI leaders in Estonia. Next year, the conference will host around 500 developers, machine learning experts, data practitioners, CTOs, and startup leaders visiting Estonia from around the world.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNorth Star AI 2018 proved to be practical and inspiring machine learning discussion thanks to the the wealth of knowledge and experience presented by AI &amp; data science champions such as\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Travis_Oliphant\">Travis Oliphant<\/a>\u00a0(creator of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.numpy.org\/\">NumPy<\/a>, library for the Python programming language),\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.edx.org\/bio\/sayan-pathak-phd\">Sayan Pathak<\/a>\u00a0(principal ML scientist at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/\">Microsoft<\/a>),\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/siimsikkut\">Siim Sikkut<\/a>\u00a0(Government CIO of Estonia) and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ahti_Heinla\">Ahti Heinla<\/a>\u00a0(co-developer of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.skype.com\/\">Skype<\/a>\u00a0and co-founder of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.starship.xyz\/\">Starship<\/a>) among many others. We will take it further next year, continuing discussions on the practicalities and advantages of machine learning data, so that your organization can get the most value out of the data,\u201d says\u00a0<b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/triin-mahlakoiv\/\" target=\"_self\">Triin<\/a><\/b><b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/triin-mahlakoiv\/\" target=\"_self\">Mahlak\u00f5iv<\/a><\/b>, organizer of North Star AI.<\/p>\n<p>North Star AI 2019 will be themed around\u00a0<b>data as an enabler of machine intelligence<\/b>, with the topics ranging from\u00a0<b>data engineering<\/b>\u00a0to\u00a0<b>meta-learning<\/b>, with applications in speech recognition, text processing, healthcare, transportation, deliveries, music, movies and more. You\u2019ll be able to get a full stack overview of state of the art in machine learning and data science technologies and meet the best and the brightest of the field. Some of this year\u2019s top speakers are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Samuel Ritter<\/b>, Research Scientist @<b>Google\u2019s DeepMind<\/b>;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/villetuulos\/\" target=\"_self\">Ville Tuulos<\/a><\/b>, ML Infrastructure Architect @<b>Netflix<\/b>;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/henrik-lindstr%C3%B6m-2075b3141\/?originalSubdomain=se\" target=\"_self\">Henrik Lindstr\u00f6m<\/a><\/b>, Product Lead in Search @<b>Spotify<\/b>;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/juliensimon\/\" target=\"_self\">Julien Simon<\/a><\/b>, Principal Technical Evangelist, AI\/ML @<b>Amazon Web Services<\/b>;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/frank-seide-36ab258\/\" target=\"_self\">Frank Seide<\/a><\/b>, Senior Researcher and Research Manager @<b>Microsoft<\/b>;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/alexvk\/\" target=\"_self\">Alex Kozlov<\/a><\/b>, Enterprise Solutions Architect @<b>Nvidia<\/b>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u201cIt is important to shift the focus from algorithms to data as the way you use data, and how you use it, will define the success of your projects,\u201c says\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/andre-karpistsenko\/\" target=\"_self\"><b>Andre Karpi\u0161t\u0161enko<\/b><\/a>, Head of Data Science at Taxify and co-organizer of North Star AI. \u201cDevelopers and data-driven leaders participating at North Star AI will understand how to solve the hardest problems that exist within organising and analysing massive noisy data sets.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/startupestonia.ee\/blog\/north-star-ai-2019-gathering-of-the-brightest-minds-in-data-science-and-ml-from-around-the-world?fbclid=IwAR3Snb6-gL4FnA_ZUeBMPxxWPBh0l2Mswzo9QCh7Yx41QQ1iTOYIzfjYKVs\">Read more here.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>(Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/startupestonia.ee\/blog\/north-star-ai-2019-gathering-of-the-brightest-minds-in-data-science-and-ml-from-around-the-world?fbclid=IwAR3Snb6-gL4FnA_ZUeBMPxxWPBh0l2Mswzo9QCh7Yx41QQ1iTOYIzfjYKVs\">Startup Estonia<\/a>)<\/p>\n<div class=\"edy-texteditor-container image-container edy-positionable-container-center edy-positionable-container-maxwidth\" contenteditable=\"false\" data-image-id=\"11149817\">\n<div class=\"edy-padding-resizer-wrapper\"><picture title=\"\"><source srcset=\"\/\/media.voog.com\/0000\/0037\/5345\/photos\/29214558_206858896729186_478001126713589760_o.jpg 1848w, \/\/media.voog.com\/0000\/0037\/5345\/photos\/29214558_206858896729186_478001126713589760_o_large.jpg 1280w, \/\/media.voog.com\/0000\/0037\/5345\/photos\/29214558_206858896729186_478001126713589760_o_block.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"100vw\"><\/source><\/picture><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Experienced Machine Learning practitioners from Google\u2019s DeepMind, Netflix, Spotify, and other world-leading tech companies applying AI will speak at the stage of North Star AI conference in Tallinn on March 7. North Star AI is an international conference on Machine Learning and Data Science organised by a group of AI leaders in Estonia. 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