ABOUT THE SPEAKER:
Shashank works as a Research Engineer on the Foundational Research Incubation team at Google DeepMind on post-training systems for foundation models and agents. Previously, he co-founded Dice Health, an AI automation platform for veterinary healthcare providers, and grew it from bootstrapping to acquistion. His research at Meta AI received the NeurIPS 2022 best paper award, at the most prestigious AI research conference. Outside of work, he also runs the Toronto Machine Learning systems group which covers topics like training, inference and deployment of AI systems from consumer devices to large datacenters. He has served as a technical advisor to the Vector Institute and various seed and Series A stage startups.
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Practitioners can start to think about how they can use self-improving AI agents for tasks relevant to them
Business Leaders: C-Level Executives, Project Managers, and Product Owners will get to explore best practices, methodologies, principles, and practices for achieving ROI.
Engineers, Researchers, Data Practitioners: Will get a better understanding of the challenges, solutions, and ideas being offered via breakouts & workshops on Natural Language Processing, Neural Nets, Reinforcement Learning, Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs), Evolution Strategies, AutoML, and more.
Job Seekers: Will have the opportunity to network virtually and meet over 30+ Top Al Companies.
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