25/03/2021
Session 1 - A Journey with Technology: My Learnings and Perspective
What we think we know might not work tomorrow. Technology is always evolving as there is innovation. As we go through our lives' journey, in our careers, are we picking up the right tools? Joining the correct groups? Are we brave enough to fight the hindrances that keep holding us from within us?
Speaker : Anj D. Cerbolles
Anj is an Application Analyst in Singapore that focuses on Microsoft 365 and Power Platform, and Microsoft MVP. She is curious about how things work especially when it comes to technology. Learning and connecting are her great companions. During her free time, she loves to read books, watch anime, write blogs, and explore new things.
Session 2 - Onboarding the Data science/AI journey: Challenges, myths and impact
AI/ DATA science, cloud are the current buzz words and every one is eager to jump on the band wagon. This field has heavily skewed gender ratio. In the talk, we will discuss about beginning a career in data science and debunking some myths about the all pervading nature of AI! We will also talk about the various challenges faced by AI/ML developers, especially, the females, in this field. Finally, we talk about responsible AI and AI for better initiatives.
Speaker : Priyanka Shah
Priyanka is a Microsoft MVP for AI, 10 + years of experience in analysis, design and development of client/server, web based and n-tier application in both Java and C #.net technologies as well as UI Frameworks like Angular, Mobile development with NativeScript etc.
Speaker at Microsoft and other technical events for Microsoft Technology stack and ML.NET, Conversation AI, Bot Framework, Azure Cognitive services like speech to text, Face recognition, Custom vision.
Working with Fund managers in Data Science and Analytics with Python, ML.NET, web scraping tools and methodologies for sentiment analysis, sales predictions etc.
Currently leading innovation technology team with projects architected with Elastic Search, Bot framework, text analytics, spam detection, machine learning algorithms related to neural word embedding, topic modelling like word2vec, LSTM for text completion, auto caption generation. Solution architect for micro services deployed with Azure Kubernetes cluster, Signal R, Azure Cognitive services and more. Active blogger on AI/ML topics.
