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Accelerating NLP with Transformers:

AWS & Hugging Face

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Mackenzie Kosut

Global Startup Evangelist, Amazon Web Services

Mackenzie is the Global Startup Evangelist at AWS. His days are spent traveling the globe to meet startups, share their stories, and connect engineering teams together. Every day there are a large number of startups launching on AWS across every imaginable industry. It’s Mackenzie’s mission to find stories of startups that are helping to improve the world and share these stories with a wide audience.

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Are you building Natural Language Processing (NLP) ML workloads and early in your journey using Transformers? Are you looking for ways to explore Transformers but unsure about the learning curve and ROI? Are you a startup technology leader looking to create world-leading NLP performance?


If you answered "yes" to any of the questions above, this workshop is for you!


AWS has partnered with Hugging Face to make it easier for companies to leverage state-of-the-art ML models and ship cutting-edge NLP features faster.

 

Learn how the new Hugging Face Deep Learning Containers make it easier than ever to train Transformer models on Amazon SageMaker. Get started with (literally) a few lines of code, using variants specially optimized for TensorFlow and PyTorch and variety of infrastructure options.

 

Space is limited, reserve your seat today.  

 

Who should attend

Technical Leaders, Infrastructure Heads, System Architects and Developers in Startups

What's in it for you

-  Best practices for cost aware system architectures


- How to use AWS services in the most cost-effective. manner, such as choosing the right service and matching supply with demand


- AWS platform features and tools that support cost optimization for better visibility and monitoring


- Actionable tips that can be implemented immediately

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Startup Evangelist of the Month

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9:00AM - 10:00AM

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Deepam Mishra

Sr ML Advisor, Startup Business Development

Deepam Mishra is a 4-time ML founder, ex-VC and a ex-ML researcher. Currently he is a Senior Business Advisor to ML Startups, at AWS. Before AWS, Deepam was the VP of Innovation at Wipro Technologies as well as a founder of startups in financial services, drone surveillance and medical imaging. He has 5 US Patents and multiple publications.

Julien Simon

Chief Evangelist, Hugging Face

Julien is currently Chief Evangelist at Hugging Face. He's recently spent 6 years at Amazon Web Services where he was the Global Technical Evangelist for AI & Machine Learning. Prior to joining AWS, Julien served for 10 years as CTO/VP Engineering in large-scale startups.

Ana Simoes

Principal Specialist, ML Frameworks, AWS

Ana is a Principal Specialist in the AWS ML Frameworks team, where her role is to help the world’s leading ML and NLP innovators leverage AWS technology services. Ana has had several leadership roles at startups and large corporations such as Intel, leading ML inference and linguistics related products. Ana has a Masters from Brown University and has been a visiting scholar in Linguistics at Stanford. She has a deep technical background in NLP, Machine Learning and Linguistics.

Ankur Srivastava

Sr Solution Architect, AWS Machine Learning

Ankur is an expert in Cloud and Machine Learning, Data Science and Probabilistic Design. Currently, he is part of AWS ML Frameworks team and helps customers with compute intensive Machine Learning workloads such as NLP. Ankur has worked with various leading startups such as, Uptake as well as at large corporations such as GE Global Research and Atos. Ankur has completed a post-doc from MIT and a Ph.D. from Rice University.

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Welcome & Intro to Machine Learning on AWS

Breakfast. Registration will take place five minutes before breakfast.

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Intro to Transformers and benefits for NLP

The Emerging World of Aritifical Intelligence and Machine Learning by Matthew Hartman and Partner, Betaworks.

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Develop Transformers in a few-clicks with HuggingFace & SageMaker integration

Welcome Mackenzie Kosut, AWS Startup Evangelist

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If you answered "yes" to any of the questions above, this workshop is for you!


AWS has partnered with Hugging Face to make it easier for companies to leverage state-of-the-art ML models and ship cutting-edge NLP features faster.

 

Learn how the new Hugging Face Deep Learning Containers make it easier than ever to train Transformer models on Amazon SageMaker. Get started with (literally) a few lines of code, using variants specially optimized for TensorFlow and PyTorch and variety of infrastructure options.

 

Space is limited, reserve your seat today.  

 

Are you building Natural Language Processing (NLP) ML workloads and early in your journey using Transformers? Are you looking for ways to explore Transformers but unsure about the learning curve and ROI? Are you a startup technology leader looking to create world-leading NLP performance?


If you answered "yes" to any of the questions above, this workshop is for you!


AWS has partnered with Hugging Face to make it easier for companies to leverage state-of-the-art ML models and ship cutting-edge NLP features faster.

 

Learn how the new Hugging Face Deep Learning Containers make it easier than ever to train Transformer models on Amazon SageMaker. Get started with (literally) a few lines of code, using variants specially optimized for TensorFlow and PyTorch and variety of infrastructure options.

 

Space is limited, reserve your seat today.  

 

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