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AI & Whiskey Chat
September 28, 2022 | 8:00-9:30 p.m. CDT | Event Type: In-person, Discussion |
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Event Type: In-person, Discussion
Location Trifecta The 360 Tower 360 Nueces St #30 Austin, TX 78701 Moderators Jay Boisseau Executive Director, Austin Forum on Technology & Society Dr. Steve Kramer Chief Scientist, KUNGFU.AI Matt Sanchez Founder and CTO, CognitiveScale, Advisory Board Member, Austin Forum on Technology & Society |
While the event is "full," and there are no more tickets available, anyone can attend by showing up BUT free tastings are limited to the first 25 registered.
Join our team’s AI and whiskey experts, led by Matt Sanchez of CognitiveScale, Steve Kramer of KUNFU.AI, and Jay Boisseau of Austin Forum and Dell Technologies, for another “AI & Whisky Chat” as we collectively catch up on the latest important and cool developments and news in the field of AI—and do so while sampling and discussing some really good whiskey! Novices are welcome, but the discussion may evolve towards more advanced topics as the discussion and tasting go on! We will have a couple of whiskeys for the tasting (for free), and we hope you’ll support Trifecta, our generous host, while you’re there! |
Moderator
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Jay is the executive director and founder of The Austin Forum on Technology & Society, which he started in 2006 and is now the leading monthly technology outreach and engagement event in Austin--and starting to attract national and even international attendees online. The Austin Forum is one of the pillars of the Austin tech scene, providing connections to information, ideas, collaborations, and community overall. Through Vizias, Jay also founded the Austin Smart City Alliance (July 2015, formerly Austin CityUP Consortium) and currently serves as the Executive Director, with a vision of creating an integrated smart city fabric throughout Austin—leveraging mobile devices and IoT data collectors, as well as supercomputers and AI for predictive analytics and scenario simulation—in the years ahead to address city issues, empower city planning, and improve city life in general.
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Dr. Steve Kramer, Chief Scientist of KUNGFU.AI is a computational physicist and data science entrepreneur with 29+ years of post-PhD experience in data science, research, software, and business management. He earned a Ph.D. in physics in the Center for Nonlinear Dynamics at The University of Texas at Austin. Steve has extensive research experience spanning data mining, machine learning, anomaly detection, bot/cyborg detection, clustering, network graph analysis, deep learning, spatiotemporal forecasting, predictive analytics, social media analytics, and pattern discovery/recognition. In 2014, he patented a robust method for dynamic anomaly detection based on chaos theory. Steve spoke at Data Day Texas in 2014 and 2018 and at Data Day Seattle in 2016. Since 2011, he has served as a program committee member and reviewer for the ACM KDD and IEEE Security and Intelligence Informatics conferences. He recently acted as the Principal Investigator on multiple subcontracts for DARPA's Information Innovation Office and on two different prototype contracts for the Defense Innovation Unit (DIU). He is proud to serve on the board of technical advisors for data.world.
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Matt Sanchez
Founder and CTO, CognitiveScale, Advisory Board Member, Austin Forum on Technology & Society |
Matt Sanchez is the Founder and Chief Technology Officer at CognitiveScale where he leads products and technology including the award winning Cortex platform. As the technology visionary at CognitiveScale, Matt has led the development of the world's 4th largest AI patent portfolio and has helped clients realize the business value of Trusted AI across financial services, healthcare, and digital commerce industries. Before starting CognitiveScale, Matt was the leader of IBM Watson Labs and was the first to apply IBM Watson to the financial services and healthcare industries. Before joining IBM, Matt was Chief Architect and employee number three at Webify, which was acquired by IBM in 2006. Matt earned his BS degree in Computer Science from the University of Texas at Austin in 2000.
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