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Topic

Getting started with AI on Amazon Web Services

Abstract

Deep learning is a powerful tool that is helping big companies like Amazon build innovative businesses, and AWS is democratizing AI, helping you build deep learning systems in any scale, in any team size and skill, and for every use case. Joseph Spisak discusses the state of deep learning, the tools that can take advantage of its power, and best practices for building successful businesses in the cloud, including data handling, models learning, deployment, and integration to other parts of the business. He'll also talk about how to quickly get started using AI on AWS and how to partner with Amazon to leverage the scale and reach of AWS.

Profile

Joseph Spisak is part of AmazonAI and and heads up strategic partnerships and leads the partner ecosystem team. He and his team are dedicated to building tools and solutions to help democratize deep learning for the developer community and ultimately accelerate the development of deep-learning-based applications. Prior to Amazon, Joseph was at Intel where he defined and drove their Deep Learning Strategy culminating in significant investments in M&A, open source community enabling and augmentation/open sourcing of Intel’s MKL library for Deep Learning. Joseph holds a bachelor’s in Electrical Engineering from Michigan State University, an MBA and MS in Finance from the University of Denver, and is a graduate of the Entrepreneurial and Innovation program at Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business.