Brian Sletten

Machine Learning Workshop

9:00 AM MDT

Machine Learning is all the rage, but many developers have no idea what it is, what they can expect from it or how to start to get into this huge and rapidly-changing field. The ideas draw from the fields of Artificial Intelligence, Numerical Analysis, Statistics and more. These days, you'll generally have to be a CUDA-wielding Python developer to boot. This workshop will gently introduce you to the ideas and tools, show you several working examples and help you build a plan to for diving deeper into this exciting new field.

We will cover:

• The differences between data science, AI and machine learning
• The Five Tribes of Machine Learning (as defined by Pedro Domingos)
• Walkthroughs of some of the main algorithms
• Examples in Java, R and Python
• Tools such as Tensorflow and Pytorch
• The impact of GPUs on machine learning
• Stories about how companies are being successful with machine learning
• A discussion about the likely impacts of machine learning on the job market and society

Taming the Blockchain with Ethereum

8:30 PM MDT

Bitcoin has roundly entered the public consciousness, but it is limited in its use beyond the specific constraints of the cryptocurrency. Ethereum is a new platform that has enabled developers to innovate in creating their own cryptocurrencies, platforms, smart contracts and more.

This talk will introduce the larger concepts of blockchains and decentralized applications as well as details on how to build running applications on the Ethereum platform.

These ideas and tools will help innovators disrupt organizations, markets, entire industries and even aspects of society. It's sounds like science fiction, but these thing are already happening. Come learn how.

We will cover:

• The basics of Bitcoin and blockchains
• Smart contracts
• The Solidity Contract Language
• Setting up Ethereum clients
• Running private networks for development and testing
• Sample Decentralized Applications (DApps)

Machine Learning: Overview

1:30 PM MDT

Machine Learning is a huge, deep field. Come get a head start on how you can learn about how machines learn.

This talk will be an overview of the Machine Learning field. We’ll cover the various tools and techniques that are available to you to solve complex, data-driven problems. We’ll walk through the algorithms and apply them to some real but accessible problems so you can see them at work.

Machine Learning: Natural Language Processing

3:15 PM MDT

Documents contain a lot of information. We'll introduce you to a variety of techniques to extract them.

Machine Learning techniques are useful for analyzing numeric data, but they can also be useful for classifying text, extracting content and more. We will discuss a variety of open source tools for extracting the content, identifying elements and structure and analyzing the text can be used in distributed, microservice-friendly ways.

Machine Learning: TensorFlow

5:00 PM MDT

This open source machine learning framework from Google has taken off. Come learn what you can do with it in your own organization.

TensorFlow is a powerful data flow-oriented machine learning framework developed by Google's Brain Team. It was designed to be easy to use and widely applicable on both numeric, neural network-oriented problems as well as other domains. We'll cover the over view as well as apply it to several fun, realistic problems.

Electron : Cross-Platform Desktop Apps Meet the Web

9:00 AM MDT

For the last 20-30 years, there has been a never-ending set of solutions for building cross-platform desktop applications. Most of them suck. Electron is one that doesn't.

It is a new solution that forms the basis of the Atom Editor, Microsoft's Visual Studio Code, the Slack app and more.

Come see what happens when you combine the best of the Web, Node.js and Chromium to provide attractive, modern, flexible, useful, consistent cross-platform desktop applications.

Electron grew out of the work on the Atom Editor from GitHub. Developers familiar with JavaScript, Node and Web Development will be comfortable with an engine that uses the same technologies as they move to the Desktop. At the same time, the Chromium engine, which has support for modern technologies such as WebGL, WebRTC and desktop-integration hooks, as well as HTML 5 and CSS, rounds out the platform. The strength of the Web mixed with native desktop integration hooks and the performance and flexibility of Node strikes the right balance for avoiding sucky cross-platform applications.

WebAssembly Workshop

10:45 AM MDT

What happens if Web applications become super fast?
What if the ability to write code once but run it on lots of different platforms was true again?
What if Desktops are no longer interesting because you can do everything in a browser?
What if JavaScript wasn't your only language choice?

These are all starting to happen now that this W3C Standard is supported widely across all major browser vendors, Node and more. It's never been a better time to dig into the future that is playing out now faster than most people realize.

WebAssembly is emerging as an exciting vision for web applications that run at native speeds by using a size and load-time efficient, compiled binary format. Anything from computationally intensive business applications to fully rendered 3D video games will benefit from the mix of speed with other Web-oriented technologies. We'll let you know what is coming and how you'll benefit from it.

We will cover:

• The History of WebAssembly
• The JavaScript API
• The Stack Machine
• Shared Memory
• Dynamic Libraries
• The Text Format
• Building Web Applications using C, C++, Go, Rust, Kotlin and more
• Converting existing code and libraries into WebAssembly
• Running WebAssembly in Node

This is a hands on workshop of a truly mind-blowing next step evolution of the Web. Don't get left behind.

WebAssembly Workshop

1:30 PM MDT

What happens if Web applications become super fast?
What if the ability to write code once but run it on lots of different platforms was true again?
What if Desktops are no longer interesting because you can do everything in a browser?
What if JavaScript wasn't your only language choice?

These are all starting to happen now that this W3C Standard is supported widely across all major browser vendors, Node and more. It's never been a better time to dig into the future that is playing out now faster than most people realize.

WebAssembly is emerging as an exciting vision for web applications that run at native speeds by using a size and load-time efficient, compiled binary format. Anything from computationally intensive business applications to fully rendered 3D video games will benefit from the mix of speed with other Web-oriented technologies. We'll let you know what is coming and how you'll benefit from it.

We will cover:

• The History of WebAssembly
• The JavaScript API
• The Stack Machine
• Shared Memory
• Dynamic Libraries
• The Text Format
• Building Web Applications using C, C++, Go, Rust, Kotlin and more
• Converting existing code and libraries into WebAssembly
• Running WebAssembly in Node

This is a hands on workshop of a truly mind-blowing next step evolution of the Web. Don't get left behind.

The Decentralized Web

3:15 PM MDT

While the Web itself has strong decentralized aspects to how it is used, the backend technologies are largely centralized. The naming systems, the routing systems and the traffic that all points back to the same place for a website are all centralized technologies. This creates both a liability as well as a control point.

In order to break free of some of these limitations, new technologies are emerging to provide a more decentralized approach to the Web.

This talk will walk you through some emerging technology to provide decentralized content storage and distribution, edge computing and more. We will touch upon the Interplanetary Filesystem, WebTorrent, Blockchain spin offs and more.