biggest AI conference NVidia GTC is
only few days away it's gonna run from
April 12
to 15. and the biggest news this year
is it's totally free for everyone to
attend.
So if you're interested in attending I
have a link in the video description
below
anyone can attend it's a virtual
conference and it is totally free.
Usually
this is an expensive conference but
since it is virtual
I think you all should grab this
opportunity
I'm going to attend it myself and if you
have an interest in data science and
machine learning
make sure you attend it because you will
learn a lot of things.
Joshua Benjio Yan Lacoon and Joffrey
Hinton are called godfathers of deep
learning
and all these three legends
will be presenting in this conference so
you will be hearing from
the legends the godfathers of AI
and it won't be just the
talks or the seminars there will be
workshops for example there is a deep
learning institute workshop which I'll
be attending
there will be one-on-one session with
the experts so you'll be able to
interact with those folks
there will be dinner session with which
you can
which is a great opportunity to interact
with
your fellow GTC attendees so I'm gonna
attend
all of that. I'm gonna cover all of those
things in this video and at the end of
the video
there is an interesting giveaway so make
sure you watch till then
there are many exciting workshops
available for hands-on
training throughout the event so if you
click on hands-on training on NVidia GTC
website
you will find all the workshops
available in your region.
For example, North America has all these
awesome workshops
most of them are eight hour long
instructor-led
training workshops and I'm going to be
attending this particular one which is
fundamentals of deep learning and I'll
just
quickly give an overview of this
particular
workshop so it is going to happen on
tuesday it is an eight-hour workshop
where you start with an introduction
then you spend two hours
in understanding the mechanics of deep
learning
you'll build your first computer vision
model and then remaining
next two hours you will be spending in
again like pre-trained image
classification model to create an
automatic doggy door and then you'll
also be
training a model to auto complete text
based on new york time headlines
then there will be a project to do a
classification between
rotten and fresh fruits so you will be
using
tensorflow keras pandas numpy and I have
videos on all these topics so
this will be an amazing opportunity to
try out some hands-on project in a group
setting
where experts are available to answer
your questions.
So I will be attending this particular
workshop if you are in a different
region let's say if you're in India
don't worry there are workshops
available as per your
time zone so you can still attend this
fundamentals of deep learning
there are many other works of like
rapids for example is a distributed data
frame created by NVidia which is
optimized to run on GPU
this one is also pretty good but if
you're just starting out and if you want
to learn fundamentals for deep learning
then this is the one I recommend and I
will be attending this myself it is 250
dollar but I think
it's worth it because you have this
whole
day of very you know like
interactive learning and you will be
interacting with not only the experts
but
with the similar people who are
attending the workshop and
you will learn a lot of things
also it participants will be given a
dedicated
access to fully configured GPU
acceleration
accelerated workstation so we'll be
running our deep learning job
on GPUs on the cloud now if you are also
planning to attend this maybe.
I will post a video on kind of
summarizing this whole workshop and we
can kind of have a debrief
session on what we learned uh during
this workshop and we can
kind of brainstorm different ideas that
we learn together
once you register for free you will be
able to see
all the events. Now I already mentioned
that there will be talks by the
godfathers of
AI for example this talk is from Joshua
Benjio and there are talks from Joffrey
Hinden and so on you can explore all
those sessions here
now there are various themes for example
this one is AI startup so if you right
click
and open this you will see all the
events related to ai startups and the
things which I'm interested
in are particularly deep learning so if
you open
deep learning session you will see
sessions on deep learning framework
conversational
AI for example I'm going into that
because that is an area of interest for
me
and you'll be able to explore all the
sessions okay so you see
so you can add them to your calendar and
kind of make a schedule
for all those five days there are events
such as connect with experts so in
these sessions
you will be able to connect with
different experts and the way it works
is you get a chance to
have interaction one-on-one interaction
with these experts
either in a one-on-one setting or in a
group setting
but this is still good because you get
to interact with
other industry experts and many of these
folks are from NVidia
or they are leading researchers and the
people data scientists and
machine learning engineers throughout
the globe so this
is the area where I'm interested in and
I'm planning to
interact with a couple of folks
there are other sessions such as for
example this one is
specifically for exploring data science
this whole thing is about automotive so
if you are a
mechanical engineer or into automotive
industry you can probably attend
these sessions there are
country specific sessions as well for
example this one
is specific to India where you see
people from for example IIT Jyothpur are
giving some talk and
these are all very regional centric
uh sessions and they are available for
like Africa
and Japan Taiwan and so on so various
countries
the other thing that i'm particularly
interested in is dinner with strangers
so
while it is important to interact with
the experts who are delivering lectures
you can also learn a lot of things from
your fellow colleagues
who are attending gtc event because
these folks will be data scientists,
machine learning, engineers students
you learn a lot by interacting with
these folks
and dinner with stranger is a great way
to explore
that avenue so if you look at that
particular thing here
you can add an event to a calendar where
you know in front of
of your web camera you will be having
your own lunch or dinner and then
you talk with those people and these
talks are moderated by NVidia folks
so these will be a great avenue to build
networking like whenever I go to
conference
my biggest goal is to build a network to
connect with
people on LinkedIn so make sure this
thing
you attend it's very very important to
build connection during the event
already now let's talk about giveaway so
NVidia was
generous enough to give me five passes
of their online deep learning institute
self-paced courses these courses are
worth ninety dollar value so I have five
passes which I am going to
give away and three of these passes will
go to my discord server so I have a code
basic discord server where
there are many people who have been
helping other people you know with their
questions and moderation of the
discord server so I have picked three of
these peoples who are
actually discord mentors there are more
mentors but
I have picked only three and remaining
people I will
I will make sure they also get similar
reward in the future
so those three folks are going to be Mr.
Invincible
geek Prasannas and Mr Kumar
and for remaining two passes what you
have to do is
in the video comment below post
a course of your interest so I'm going
to provide a link
of NVidia's online safe
self-paced learning page so you pick
up a course which you are interested in
attending
and only post like one comment per
person if one person post multiple
comments that person will be
disqualified
and what I'm going to do is based on the
comments that you have posted
I will use python random number
generator so let's say if I got
300 comments I will run python random
number generator
I will ask that code to give me a random
number between 0 and 300
and I will pick two folks that way so
those two folks will get
online NVidia self-paced learning
course pass which is worth 90 dollar
see you in GTC 2021