Fireside Chat: Why is Taking AI to Production So Difficult?


Date:  Wednesday, May 26

Start Time: 10:00 am

End Time: 10:30 am

80% of AI projects never reach broad deployment. In this roundtable discussion, we’ll have a lively debate and dialogue to re-think the promise of AI and uncover why successfully taking AI solutions to production—to actually doing something wonderful in the world—has been so difficult. Lack of proper deep learning software optimization skills? Architectural challenges matching the full model-plus-application workload with appropriate hardware? Difficulty finding the right solution partners to meet a customer’s needs? Gear up for a very lively discussion and potential solutions for the pain points raised.

Track

Session Speakers

  • Ken serves as the Chief Executive Officer of Epic IO, IntelliSite & Broad Sky Networks. With over 20 years of business-to-business technology, prior to joining IntelliSite, Ken was the General Manager & Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at Dell Technologies Safety & Security, IoT, and Computer Vision business unit. Ken is a member of the Security Industry Association (SIA) and serves as an Advisory Board Member for the National Center for Spectator Sports Safety and Security and a member of the Forbes Technology Council, among others.

  • Matthew Formica runs Intel’s OpenVINO AI software product marketing, helping developers and customers leverage Intel’s AI inferencing developer tools. Getting the best performance and ROI in an AI solution requires the right tools. With OpenVINO, developers can easily accelerate their inferencing solution performance by several times using the general-purpose Intel processor already built into their solutions, and using OpenVINO APIs they can write once and deploy across a wide range of Intel solutions.

  • Aaron Tersteeg is Global Sales Director for Artificial Intelligence & Edge Inference at Intel Corporation. He works closely with the global sales team to support AI product designs and software development. He is responsible for accelerating the adoption of advanced AI enabling technology such as the OpenVINO toolkit and the Intel DevCloud for the Edge. Aaron leads a global team of technical specialists with significant experience in AI adoption growth areas such as computer vision and convolutional neural network deployments.


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Fireside Chat: Why is Taking AI to Production So Difficult?