Going Virtual

The event is September 15-25 from 9 am – 2 pm PT. The primary days are Tuesdays and Thursdays (September 15, 18, 23 and 25). Other dates within that time period are filled with additional opportunities at the Summit.

The Tuesdays and Thursdays within the timeframe of the event are spent on the core conference activities. This includes keynotes, speaker presentations and Q&A sessions, product presentations, networking opportunities, visiting exhibit booths and expert bars. During the Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays between September 15-25, additional opportunities are available, like Technology Workshops, Over-the-Shoulder Sessions, scheduled meetings and on-demand content. You can see the Schedule at a Glance and we’ll have a more detailed schedule posted as we get closer to September.

You attend via your browser with a networking and virtual event web app. You can think of it as a combination of video conferencing, email and personalized agenda all in one.

You’ll be able to watch presentations (both live and on-demand), ask questions of speakers, visit the virtual exhibits hall, see live demos of products, interact with vendors … in short, pretty much everything that you could do at the in-person Summit, but from the convenience of your home or office.

In the weeks leading up to the event, we will email you the information you’ll need to prepare yourself for all that is available at the conference. In the meantime, start creating your list of must-see speakers by looking at our line-up of speakers and their sessions.

An Over-the-Shoulder Session is a 50-minute intimate, deep-dive session with a subject matter expert. This is intended to be a screen sharing-based session during which your expert leads the audience through a step-by-step process. The audience will almost literally be watching over your expert’s shoulder as they demonstrate their product or system (e.g., Pete Warden shows how to build a lightweight deep neural network for execution on a microcontroller using TensorFlow Lite Micro).

An Expert Bar is an hour-long event in which sponsors and exhibitors can be connected with attendees directly, both as a group or in individual 1-on-1 sessions via breakout rooms in Zoom.

This year, we will be offering four workshops live online—three from Intel and one from Synopsys—covering the following topics:

• Intel: Using the Intel Distribution of the OpenVINO Toolkit for Deploying Accelerated Deep Learning Applications
• Intel: Edge AI for Retail
• Intel: Edge AI for Industrial
• Synopsys: Beyond 2020—Vision SoCs for the Edge

To learn more details about the workshops, please visit our Technology Workshops page.

We traditionally have offered several in-depth trainings and workshops at the in-person Summit, and we’ve moved these to an online format.  You can find our popular Deep Learning for Computer Vision with TensorFlow 2.0 and Keras training here, and we’ve partnered with OpenCV.Org for their online trainings as well.

We know making valuable connections at the Summit is paramount, so we’ve devised a series of ways to connect and get your important questions answered. 

• Engaging in live Q&A sessions with industry experts after their presentations
• Connecting directly with dozens of exhibitors and sponsors in the Technology Showcase
• Watching live product demos and getting immediate access to supplier experts in live video sessions to learn more about building-block technologies
• Scheduling meetings with others at the event
• Participating in live chats throughout the event

Before attending, we will send additional in-depth information about all of your opportunities to do so as well as instructions.

Yes, if you have questions for the speaker, visit the live Q&A sessions following the speaker’s presentation.

Please contact us!