Open Tech Calendar

Welcome to our November PyData Edinburgh meetup! We're looking forward to hearing from someone who's a familiar face at our meetups, and as always we'll have our lightning talks, all followed by pizza and chat. This month we're delighted to be heading along to Lloyds - so remember we need your full name & and matching Photo ID for security.

MAIN TALK: Make any company an AI company!

PRESENTER: Greg Fousas

Greg is a data scientist with work experience that spans more than 20 projects, 15 brands, 5 industries and 5 countries and still counting! He studied Production Engineering and Management, he has a MSc in Operational Research from the University of Edinburgh and studied a bit of Cognitive Science. Recently he completed a self-driving car nanodegree. Greg also runs an amateur online Python course entitled “your 10 minutes of Python per day” and is happy to be able to call Scotland home.

DESCRIPTION

AI and Machine Learning have become must-haves for almost all industries and companies. H2O.ai's goal is to help companies all over the world to use Machine Learning.

H2O.ai's opensource toolset, which includes packages R, Python and Spark, starts from offering products which can accelerate the data preparation, then help with ML model building and finally make the deployment easier and platform agnostic!

LIGHTNING TALKS

Share your stories! Share your successes & failures! Share your hints & tips! Whether you are a beginner or an expert, we want to hear from you.

If you want to give a lightning talk at this event, send us a message either here on Meetup, through Twitter @PyDataEdinburgh or any other way you know how to find us!

Just 5 minutes, still informal, no need for slides unless you want them — go on, give it a go!

LOGISTICS

Please note all attendees MUST sign up to the Meetup to be admitted.

1815: Doors open, drinks & networking
1845: Talks start - welcome & community announcements followed by our main speaker, then lightning talks.
We'll end the evening with pizza and more refreshments, wrapping up by 2100.

SPONSORS & REFRESHMENTS

As always, we couldn't do this without our sponsors help to provide a venue and drink & pizzas — Cathcart Associates (www.cathcartassociates.com), Solarwinds (www.solarwinds.com), Wood Mackenzie (www.woodmac.com), Lloyds Banking (www.lloydsbank.com) and Canon Medical (research.eu.medical.canon)

CODE OF CONDUCT

The PyData Code of Conduct (pydata.org) governs this meetup. To discuss any issues or concerns relating to the code of conduct or the behavior of anyone at a PyData meetup, please contact the local group organizers (message us on the meetup page). Please also submit a report of any potential Code of Conduct violation directly to NumFOCUS using the link found at numfocus.org.

Thank you for helping us to maintain a welcoming and friendly PyData community!

PHOTO CREDIT

Carlo "Granchius" Bonini (www.flickr.com)
Licence: CC BY-SA 2.0 (creativecommons.org).
On Flickr: flic.kr