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Programme - Deep Learning Indaba 2018
Programme
This is the official programme of the 2018 Deep Learning Indaba.
You can find videos and slides in our resources about these sessions.
Sunday, 09 September
Welcome Day and Background
| 09:00 - 18:00 | Arrivals in Stellenbosch and check-in |
| 11:00 - 14:00 | Registration |
| 14:00 - 16:00 | Practical: Machine Learning Basics Stephan Gouws; Avishkar Bhoopchand; Ulrich Paquet, DeepMind |
| 16:30 - 18:30 | Mathematics for Machine Learning |
| 18:30 - 19:00 | Transfer to Evening Welcome Event |
| 19:00 - | Evening Welcome Event |
Tuesday, 10 September
Fundamentals and Convolutional Models
| 07:30 - 08:30 | Registration and Morning Coffee |
| 08:30 - 09:30 | Indaba Opening and Welcome Keynote Nando de Freitas, DeepMind |
| 09:30 - 10:30 | Deep Learning Fundamentals 1 Moustapha Cisse, Google |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Break |
| 11:00 - 12:00 | Deep Learning Fundamentals 2 Moustapha Cisse, Google |
| 12:00 - 14:00 | Lunch and Poster Session |
| 14:00 - 16:00 | Practical 1: Deep Feedforward Models Stephan Gouws; Avishkar Bhoopchand; Ulrich Paquet, DeepMind |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Break |
| 16:30 - 18:30 | Convolutional Models Naila Murray, Naver Labs |
| 18:30 - 19:30 | Free Time |
| 19:30 - 21:00 | AlphaGo Movie Screening |
| 19:00 - 22:00 | Women in Machine Learning |
Wednesday, 11 September
Recurrent Models
| 07:30 - 08:30 | Morning Coffee |
| 08:30 - 10:30 | Practical 2: Convolutional Networks Stephan Gouws; Avishkar Bhoopchand; Ulrich Paquet, DeepMind |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Break |
| 11:00 - 12:00 | Probabilistic Thinking Yabebal Fantaye, AIMS South Africa |
| 12:00 - 14:00 | Lunch and Poster Session |
| 14:00 - 16:00 | Recurrent Neural Networks Kyunghyun Cho, New York University |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Break |
| 16:30 - 18:30 | Practical 3: Recurrent Models Stephan Gouws; Avishkar Bhoopchand; Ulrich Paquet, DeepMind |
| 18:30 - 19:00 | Free Time |
| 19:30 - 21:00 | AlphaGo Movie Screening |
| 19:30 - 21:30 | Topical session: "How to write a great research paper" |
Thursday, 12 September
Generative Models and Reinforcement Learning
| 07:30 - 08:30 | Morning Coffee |
| 08:30 - 10:30 | Generative Models Asja Fischer, University of Bochum |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Break |
| 11:00 - 12:00 | Kambule and Maathai Awards session |
| 12:00 - 14:00 | Lunch and Poster Session |
| 14:00 - 16:00 | Reinforcement Learning Katja Hofmann, Microsoft Research Cambridge |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Break |
| 16:30 - 18:30 | Practical 4: Reinforcement Learning Stephan Gouws; Avishkar Bhoopchand; Ulrich Paquet, DeepMind |
| 18:30 - 19:00 | Free Time |
| 19:30 - 21:00 | AlphaGo Movie Screening |
| 19:00 - | Mentorship Evening Events (x2) |
Friday, 13 September
Parallel Tracks
| 07:30 - 08:30 | Morning Coffee |
| 08:30 - 10:30 | Parallel: Non-Recurrent Sequence Models Kyunghyun Cho and others |
| 08:30 - 10:30 | Parallel: Frontiers of Computer Vision Daniela Massiceti, University of Oxford; Sara Hooker, Google Brain, Saumya Jetley, University of Oxford |
| 08:30 - 10:30 | Parallel: AI for Africa Sumir Panji, Linet Kwamboka, David Sengeh, Jon Lenchner, Moustapha Cisse |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Break |
| 11:00 - 12:00 | Democratizing Machine Learning on the African Continent |
| 12:00 - 14:00 | Lunch and Poster Session |
| 14:00 - 16:00 | Success Stories of Reinforcement Learning David Silver, DeepMind |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Break |
| 16:30 - 18:30 | Parallel: Generative Models and Healthcare Konstantina Palla, Microsoft Research; Shakir Mohamed, DeepMind |
| 16:30 - 18:30 | Parallel: Natural Language Processing Herman Kamper, University of Stellenbosch; Sebastian Ruder, AYLIEN |
| 16:30 - 18:30 | Parallel: Life of a Machine Learning Startup Andrea Böhmert, Knife Capital; Karim Beguir, InstaDeep; Blaise Thomson, Apple |
| 18:30 - 19:00 | Transfer to Evening Event |
| 19:00 - | Evening Farewell Event |
Saturday, 14 September
Closing
| 07:30 - 08:30 | Morning Coffee |
| 08:30 - 10:30 | Parallel: Reinforcement Learning II Talk: Benjamin Rosman, CSIR. Panel: David Silver, DeepMind; Katja Hofmann, Microsoft Research Cambridge |
| 08:30 - 10:30 | Parallel: Machine Learning in Production Stuart Reid, NMRQL Research; Amine Kerkerni, InstaDeep; Omoju Miller, GitHub |
| 08:30 - 10:30 | Parallel: AI Ethics and Policy Facilitators: Vukosi Marivate; Muthoni Wanyoike Speakers: Timnit Gebru; Mmaki Jantjies; Osonde Osoba; Linet Kwamboka |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Break |
| 11:00 - 13:00 | TensorFlow and Real Life Machine Learning Jeff Dean, Google |
| 13:00 - 13:30 | Closing, Poster Prizes, Farewell |
| 13:30 - 14:30 | Lunch |
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