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AI Field Day 2

Row 1 (L-R): Stephen Foskett, David Klee
Row 2 (L-R): Marc Staimer, Frederic Van Haren
Row 3 (L-R): Chris Grundemann, Steph Locke, Keith Parsons, Ray Lucchesi
Row 4 (L-R): Ayodele Odubela, Josh Fidel, Demetrios Brinkmann, Gina Rosenthal

AI Field Day 2

May 27–May 28, 2021

#AIFD2

Who: AI

What: Field Day

When: Past

Location: Virtual

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Delegate Panel

Delegates are selected by the Field Day Delegate community. For more information on our selection process, please see our page about becoming a Field Day Delegate.

Andy Thurai

@AndyThurai

Andy Thurai is a technology influencer and a thought leader who focuses on emerging technologies such as Cloud, AIOps, AI, ML, DL, Edge, IoT

Ayodele Odubela

@DataSciBae

Ayodele Odubela is a Data Science Advocate for Comet ML. She combines her background in marketing and passion for data and analytics to educate Data Scientists on model reproducibility and experiment tracking. She earned her Master’s degree in Data Science from Regis University after working in various digital marketing roles. She’s passionate about data justice, kayaking, and hockey.

Chris Grundemann

@ChrisGrundemann

Independent advisor, analyst, and consultant. Specializing in internet routing, network architecture, and automation.

David Klee

@KleeGeek

Microsoft MVP and VMware vExpert focused on the convergence of infrastructure and data

Demetrios Brinkmann

@DPBrinkm

MLOps Community co-founder, but i really like to call myself the chief happiness engineer.

Frederic Van Haren

@FredericVHaren

Frederic is the CTO at HighFens Inc (active in the HPC & AI market). He spent more than a decade building large HPC & AI environments from the ground up and is frequently invited to speak at events to provide his vision on AI, Big Data and HPC.

Josh Fidel

With 20 years experience in IT, Josh is always digging through marketing mud to find diamonds.

Keith R. Parsons

@KeithRParsons

Keith is Managing Director of Wireless LAN Professionals, and focuses his energy on providing great WLAN education, design and consulting to global customers.

Marc Staimer

@ChiefDS

Technology marketeer extraordinaire with > 40 years on ongoing success.

Ray Lucchesi

@RayLucchesi

Ray Lucchesi is president of Silverton Consulting, blogs at RayOnStorage.com, co-hosts GreyBeardsOnStorage.com podcast and has worked in data storage for over 30 years mostly in marketing and engineering new disk and tape automation products.

Steph Locke

@TheStephLocke

Data Scientist and Startup Founder in AI

Presentation Calendar

Most presentations are streamed live on this page, at TechFieldDay.com, and on the Tech Field Day LinkedIn page. After the event, the following pages contain video recordings of these presentations.

Thursday, May 27 8:00-9:00
Scality Presents at AI Field Day 2
Presenters: Brad King, Giorgio Regni, Paul Speciale
Thursday, May 27 10:00-11:30
Liqid Presents at AI Field Day 2
Presenters: George Wagner, Josiah Clark, Sumit Puri
Friday, May 28 8:00-9:30
BrainChip Presents at AI Field Day 2
Presenters: Anil Mankar
Friday, May 28 10:30-12:30
MemVerge Presents at AI Field Day 2
Presenters: Beau Beauchamp, Dale Kim, Frank Berry, Yong Tian, Yue Li
Friday, May 28 13:30-14:30
Intel Presents at AI Field Day 2
Presenters: Arijit Bandyopadhyay, Jason Dai, Ramesh Peri, Roshan Dathathri
All dates and times listed are local time in Virtual, US/Pacific.

Event Staff

Ben Gage

@BenTGage

Ben Gage has a professional background which started in logistics and supply chain for manufacturing and agriculture. To subsidize the methodical nature of these fields he started and performs with an original Americana band. With a penchant for the ra …

Matt Garvin

@MrMattGarvin

Matt Garvin is an Event Manager and brings nine years of event support and logistics experience to Tech Field Day for Gestalt IT

Stephen Foskett

@SFoskett

Stephen is the President of the Tech Field Day business unit for The Futurum Group and focuses on AI, edge, and cloud


12 Links with Tag #AIFD2

  1. Coverage: Episode 14 – Having a Field Day With AI Expert Stephen Foskett
    • Stephen Foskett
    • BrainChip
  2. Coverage: Enabling Efficient Big Memory for AI and Other Operations With MemVerge
    • Zach DeMeyer
    • MemVerge
  3. Coverage: BrainChip Akida Puts AI at the Edge
    • Zach DeMeyer
    • BrainChip
  4. Coverage: Tackling Big Data With Intel’s Open-Sourced Analytics Zoo
    • Zach DeMeyer
    • Intel
  5. Coverage: Liqid Makes AI Composable
    • Zach DeMeyer
    • Liqid
  6. Coverage: Improving Data Availability for AI Models With Scality’s ARTESCA
    • Tech Field Day Presents Scality and HPE: Making the Future of Data Possible
    • Zach DeMeyer
    • Scality
  7. Coverage: Meet Field Day Delegate – Demetrios Brinkmann
    • Demetrios Brinkmann, Matt Garvin
  8. Coverage: New Era of Graphical AI Is Near
    • Ray Lucchesi
    • Intel
  9. Coverage: Meet Field Day Delegate – Marc Staimer
    • Tech Field Day Presents Scality and HPE: Making the Future of Data Possible
    • Marc Staimer
  10. Coverage: BrainChip Highlights Its Akida Neural Processor at AI Field Day 2
    • BrainChip
  11. Coverage: The Enterprise Is Not Ready for AI
    • Ayodele Odubela, Chris Grundemann, Frederic Van Haren, Stephen Foskett
  12. Coverage: AI Field Day Returns May 27 and 28
    • Stephen Foskett

More Information

If you would like to sponsor or attend these events as a delegate, please contact Tech Field Day, [email protected].


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