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

Web Security Workshop

1:00 PM MDT

If you're not terrified, you're not paying attention.

Publishing information on the Web does not require us to just give it away. We have a series of tools and techniques for managing identity, authentication, authorization and encryption so we only share content with those we trust.

Before we tackle Web Security, however, we need to figure out what we mean by Security. We will pull from the worlds of Security Engineering and Software Security to lay the foundation for technical approaches to protecting our web resources. We will also discuss the assault on encryption, web security features and emerging technologies that will hopefully help strengthen our ability to protect what we hold dear.

Topics include:

• Security Engineering
• Software Security
• Encryption
• Authentication and Authorization Mechanisms
• Emerging Web Security Technologies

Web Security Workshop

2:45 PM MDT

If you're not terrified, you're not paying attention.

Publishing information on the Web does not require us to just give it away. We have a series of tools and techniques for managing identity, authentication, authorization and encryption so we only share content with those we trust.

Before we tackle Web Security, however, we need to figure out what we mean by Security. We will pull from the worlds of Security Engineering and Software Security to lay the foundation for technical approaches to protecting our web resources. We will also discuss the assault on encryption, web security features and emerging technologies that will hopefully help strengthen our ability to protect what we hold dear.

Topics include:

• Security Engineering
• Software Security
• Encryption
• Authentication and Authorization Mechanisms
• Emerging Web Security Technologies

Rust

4:30 PM MDT

Rust has quickly become an incredibly popular language with exceptional tooling, documentation and a renowned community that welcomes and helps those who are new. It is intended as a systems programming such as C/C++ but has modern functional capabilities and intentionally-designed safety features.

We will not assume knowledge of Rust and will introduce the major features of this modern systems programming language. This will include:

• The Rust memory model
• Traits and Generics
• Lifetimes
• Functional programming
• The Standard Library
• Concurrency

Come learn why Rust is one of the most popular and important programming languages of the 21st Century.

The Decentralized Web

8:30 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.

WebAssembly Workshop

9:00 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

11:00 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.

Linked Data

1:30 PM MDT

Everyone understands the Web as a platform, but not as many can see the thread that connects the Web to APIs to linked interoperable data models. In this design workshop, we will investigate the properties of the Web and how they can be applied to data, documents, services and concepts as the basis of truly spectacular vision for information interchange.

We will start with the basics and build up to flexible, evolvable data models and everything in-between.

Topics will include

• REST and Hypermedia
• LinkedData
• JSON-LD
• SPARQL

Linked Data

3:15 PM MDT

Everyone understands the Web as a platform, but not as many can see the thread that connects the Web to APIs to linked interoperable data models. In this design workshop, we will investigate the properties of the Web and how they can be applied to data, documents, services and concepts as the basis of truly spectacular vision for information interchange.

We will start with the basics and build up to flexible, evolvable data models and everything in-between.

Topics will include

• REST and Hypermedia
• LinkedData
• JSON-LD
• SPARQL

Machine Learning: Overview

9:00 AM 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

10:45 AM 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: Deep Learning

1:30 PM MDT

Deep Learning is an evolution of the capabilities of more conventional machine learning to take advantage of the extra data available from Big Data systems. With more data, many of the manual aspects of feature selection and other machine learning steps can be derived automatically. We will highlight many of the main deep learning frameworks and give you a hands on introduction to what is possible and how you can start to use them.

We will cover:

• Basic Neural networks
• Recurrent neural networks
• Convolutional neural networks
• Deep Learning frameworks such as TensorFlow, Pytorch, H20, DeepLearning4J and more.

Machine Learning: TensorFlow

3:15 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.