Cognitive Builder Faire New York - Attendee Registration

Welcome to the era of cognitive business!

Data, in all forms, is expanding as a resource to be analyzed and used to build your business. Cognitive computing is able to unlock the potential in all data – internal, external, structured, unstructured, voice, and visual – and make it work together. Enterprises can make better operational decisions, understand customer wants and needs, communicate in real time, and optimize business processes – infused with the cognitive ability to understand, reason, and learn.

This innovative 3-day event is designed to show you the power cognitive solutions, including Watson, Data Science Experience (DSX) and the IBM Bluemix Cloud. Discover how you can develop a product utilizing these cutting-edge tools with insights and direction from leading-industry experts.

These skills can help you transform your business by:

• Introducing super-powered data to your company’s current database.
• Providing you the best open source tooling with IBM innovation.
• Harnessing the power of the community through shared data sets, notebooks, and articles in the IBM set of resources.

With IBM Watson and DSX, you can solve your toughest data challenges. Don’t miss out on the opportunity to get your hands on the best tools and expertise in this social and community-focused setting.

Start transforming your business

• Build super-powered data products
• Use the best of open source tooling with IBM innovation
• Solve your toughest data challenges with the best tools and the latest expertise in a social environment built by data scientists 

Charge your laptop and great ready to learn how to build with IBM platforms and tools!

Suggested roles of attendees:

• Developer
• Software Engineer
• Technical Architect
• Analytics Engineer/Developer
• Data Engineer
• Data Scientist
• Enterprise Architect
• Solution Architect

Agenda

Friday - Kickoff!

6:00p - 6:30p: Check-in & Networking

6:30p - 6:45p: Introduction and Kickoff Speakers: Kelcey Gosserand, Galvanize & Bruce Weed, IBM

6:45p - 7:15p: Keynote Speakers: Matt Kamen, VP of Engineering @ Foursquare

7:15p - 7:30p: Computer Setup: Jean-Francois Omhover, Galvanize

7:30p-8:15p: Foursquare API Tutorial and Preparation for Hackathon: Chyld Medford, Galvanize

8:15p - 8:30p: Closing Remarks Speakers: Kelcey Gosserand, Galvanize & Bruce Weed, IBM

8:30p - 9:00p: Networking

Saturday

9:00a - 9:30a: Check-in and Breakfast

9:30a - 10:00a: Welcome and Recap of days events Speakers: Kelcey Gosserand, Galvanize

10:00a - 11:30a: Tutorials & Lightning Talks

• Tutorial + Lab Using Node.js and the Watson Conversation Service - Instructor: Mark Watson

• Tutorial + Lab Machine Learning Fundamentals with Python/R - Instructor: Candi Halbert 

• Tutorial + Lab Cognitive Builder Course - Instructor: Jean-Francois Omhover

• Tutorial + Lab Watson Conversation Scenario - Instructor: Remko De Knikker

• Tutorial + Lab Data Science Foursquare API - Instructor: Alex Aklson

• Lightning Talks: Dataiku, SuperBright, Datacamp, Skymind.io, IBM Power AI, Anaconda/Continuum, OpenTopic, Dexter, Intent Media, Centiment, Zignifica

11:30a - 12:00p: Lunch Break

12:00p- 1:30p: Tutorials

• Tutorial + Lab Using Node.js and the Watson Conversation Service - Instructor: Mark Watson

• Tutorial + Lab Machine Learning Fundamentals with Python/R - Instructor: Candi Halbert 

• Tutorial + Lab Cognitive Builder Course - Instructor: Jean-Francois Omhover

• Tutorial + Lab Watson Conversation Scenario - Instructor: Remko De Knikker

• Tutorial + Lab Data Science Foursquare API - Instructor: Alex Aklson

• Lightning Talks: Dataiku, SuperBright, Datacamp, Skymind.io, IBM Power AI, Anaconda/Continuum

1:30p: Team Formations & Hackathon Instructions; Chyld Medford, Galvanize

1:45p: Choose your Challenge and Build!  

10:00p: Closing Remarks Day 1: Recap, expectations for day 2  Kelcey Gosserand, Galvanize 

Sunday

8:00a - 8:30a - Check-in and Breakfast

8:30a - 1:00p - BUILD!

1:00p - 1:30p - Lunch Break

1:30p - 4:00p - Project Showcase & Awards

Meet the Event Sponors:

Master the art of data science with IBM Data Science Experience
Solve your toughest data challenges with the best tools and the latest expertise in a social environment built by data scientists. Get more information and sign up for your 30 day free-trial here: https://datascience.ibm.com

Learn more about the Cognitive Builder series here: www.cogntivebuilder.com