Schedule

8:00 - 8:30      Coffee and Settle In

8:30 - 8:45      Welcome, Sidhartha Sen, Microsoft Research

AI Systems Research in Academia

(Chair: Garth Gibson, CMU/Vector Institute)

8:45 - 9:15      Eric Xing, Professor, CMU

9:15 - 9:45      TensorFlow, Paul Barham, Principal Scientist, Google Brain (changed to accommodate schedule conflict)

9.45 - 10:10    Joseph Gonzalez, Assistant Professor, UC Berkeley [slides]

10:10 - 10:30   Break

AI Systems Bonanza

(Chair: Aparna Lakshmiratan, Facebook)

10:30 - 11:30   Systems Spotlights: Tianqi Chen (TVM), Takuya Akiba (ChainerMN), Jun Xu (EasyML), Siddhartha Sen (Decision Service)

11.30 - 12:00   Poster Previews

12:00 - 1:30    Lunch

AI Systems in Industry I

(Chair: Sarah Bird, Facebook)

1:30 - 2:00      Bryan Catanzaro, Vice President of Applied Deep Learning Research, Nvidia [slides]

2:00 - 2:30     Matei Zaharia, Assistant Professor, Stanford (changed to accommodate schedule conflict)

2:30 - 3:30      Poster Session + Coffee Break

AI Systems in Industry II

(Chair: Dan Crankshaw, UC Berkeley)

3:30 - 4:00     Caffe2 + PyTorch, Yangqing Jia, Research Scientist in Applied ML, Facebook

4:00 - 4:30     MXNet, Alex Smola, Director of Machine Learning, Amazon

Discussion

4:30 - 5:15     The Future of AI Systems Panel (Moderator: Joseph Gonzalez, UC Berkeley)

5:15 - 5:30     Wrap-up and Announcements

Reception

6:00 - 8:00     Reception at Shanghai Tower sponsored by Ant Financial