OpenPOWER Foundation US Summit 2018: Full Schedule

OpenPOWER Foundation Technical Sessions

13:00 PDT

High-Performance MPI and Deep Learning on OpenPOWER Platform

Speakers

Dhabaleswar K Panda

Professor, The Ohio State University

Dhabaleswar K. (DK) Panda is a Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the Ohio State University. His research interests include parallel computer architecture, high-performance networking, InfiniBand, Exascale computing, Big Data, programming models, GPUs and accelerators... Read More →

Hari Subramoni

Ohio State University (OSU)

Monday March 19, 2018 13:00 - 13:30 PDT
311 Breakout Sessions MGM Grand

13:35 PDT

AI Demystified - Neural Networks and Deep Learning with IBM Power and Tensorflow

Speakers

Ajay Arasanipalai

HLC International

I am 16-year-old high school student that is passionate about math, physics, and computer science. Together, my friends and I at HLC International school formed a small team (named “Green Shadow”) and work on various projects, including: a waste recognition and management app... Read More →

Sanjit Sudarsan

HLC International

Monday March 19, 2018 13:35 - 14:05 PDT
311 Breakout Sessions MGM Grand

14:15 PDT

Implementing Long-term Recurrent Convolutional Network Using HLS on POWER System

Speakers

Xiaofan Zhang

Ph.D. student, UIUC

I am a Ph.D. student in CAD for Emerging System Group (ES-CAD) and IBM-Illinois Center for Cognitive Computing Systems Research (C3SR) of University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), advised by Prof. Deming Chen. I am interested in research relating to deep learning, hardware-software... Read More →

Monday March 19, 2018 14:15 - 14:45 PDT
311 Breakout Sessions MGM Grand

14:50 PDT

Business AI: Auditable, Explainable, Fair, Causal - General Cognitive Solutions & Use Cases

A session from fatbrain.ai

Speakers

Rajarshi Das

CTO, Co-founder, Fatbrain

Augmenting business decision-making with AI that is auditable, explainable, fair and trusted.

Peter Ritz

Managing Director, Co-founder, Fatbrain

Business AI and enterprise cloud focus, having led or critically contributed to several successful eight and nine-figure outcomes.

Monday March 19, 2018 14:50 - 15:20 PDT
307 Breakout Sessions MGM Grand

14:50 PDT

Deep Learning on OpenPOWER at Virginia Tech

Deep Learning on OpenPOWER at Virginia Tech. An overview of how we leveraged distributed deep learning to push the limits by creating a 16,000 layers deep model at Virginia Tech

Speakers

Ahmed Ibrahim

Computational Scientist, Virginia Tech

Deep Learning, Computer Vision, High-Performance Computing.

OpenPower VT pdf

Monday March 19, 2018 14:50 - 15:20 PDT
311 Breakout Sessions MGM Grand

15:25 PDT

Powering Deep Learning for the Enterprise - a NLP case study

Speakers

Sumit Sanyal

Founder - CEO, minds.ai

We are a deep learning consultancy led by our CTO Tijmen Tieleman. Tijmen received his PhD from Geoffrey Hinton's lab at University of Toronto in 2014. We provide all services necessary to design, build and deploy a deep neural network powered application for Enterprise.

Monday March 19, 2018 15:25 - 15:55 PDT
311 Breakout Sessions MGM Grand