SYDNEY | SEP 3-4
NVIDIA AI Conference is the premier artificial intelligence and deep learning event, providing you with training, insights, and direct access to experts from NVIDIA and other leading organizations.
See the latest breakthroughs in healthcare, big data, high performance computing, self-driving cars, virtual reality and more.
Interact with technology experts from NVIDIA and other leading organizations.
Get valuable insight and hands-on training through hundreds of labs, talks, and research posters.
See how GPU technologies are creating amazing breakthroughs in important fields such as deep learning.
Hear about disruptive innovations as early-stage companies and startups present their work.
NVIDIA Vice President of Solutions Architecture and Engineering
ANZ Head Of Retail Risk
Deep Recognition Managing Director
Australian Centre for Robotic Vision Research Fellow
NVIDIA Healthcare Developers Relationship (DevRel)
Orbica CEO
NVIDIA Senior Product Marketing Manager, Deep Learning and Analytics
NVIDIA Senior Solutions Architect
neuri.ai CEO
NVIDIA Director, Developers Ecosystem, SEA
University of Wollongong SMART Infrastructure Facility Research Fellow
Procter & Gamble Principal Scientist
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Vice President of Solutions Architecture and Engineering, NVIDIA
ABOUT SPEAKER: Marc Hamilton leads the worldwide solutions architecture and engineering team at NVIDIA. He is responsible for working with customers and partners to deliver the world’s best end-to-end solutions for artificial intelligence and deep learning, professional visualization, and high performance computing.
Prior to joining NVIDIA in 2013, Hamilton worked at HP in the hyperscale business unit, and at Sun Microsystems in the HPC and data center groups. He also worked at TRW, developing HPC applications for the U.S. aerospace and defense industry.
Hamilton has published several technical articles and a book on software development.
Hamilton holds a Bachelor of Science in math and computer science from UCLA, and a Master of Science in electrical engineering from the University of Southern California.
CTO, Accelerated Computing, NVIDIA
ABOUT SPEAKER: Steve Oberlin joined NVIDIA in 2013 as chief technology officer for accelerated computing. Steve has been innovating in high performance computing since 1980, when he joined Cray Research bringing up CRAY-1 supercomputers. Career highlights include working for Seymour Cray designing the CRAY-2 and CRAY-3 vector supercomputers, and leading the architecture and design of Cray Research’s first massively parallel processors, the T3D and T3E. In the early 21st century, Steve stepped away from HPC to co-found and lead a couple of cloud computing startups.
Managing Director, Deep Recognition
ABOUT SPEAKER: With a background of Electrical Engineering, John has more than 30 years working for large corporates in the IT area across Application Development, Business Intelligence, Communications, Infrastructure Management and Security. John’s company Deep Recognition was asked to build a World First Recognition Solution around 3 years ago to recognise the Make/Model of Moving Vehicles and since then he has been hooked on Deep Learning Technologies. John’s background in IT has meant he understands the challenges incorporating Deep Learning technologies into existing platforms but more importantly he understands the importance to implement technologies which deliver strong business value leveraging existing infrastructure where possible.
Head Of Retail Risk, ANZ
ABOUT SPEAKER: Jason Humphrey is Head of Retail Risk for Australia. This role is responsible for the delivery of credit risk life cycle strategies from the point of acquisition through to collections. In this role key performance indicators are around capital and provision improvement strategies to loss, simplification and returns indicators.
Prior to joining ANZ, Jason was the Head of Retail Risk for GE Capital Asia covering Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Korea, China and India.
Jason joined ANZ in 2010 having spent 10 years we GE holding a variety of senior risk roles. More recent roles include CRO for GE New Zealand, Head of Risk for GE Automotive. He began his financial career as head of decision support for Telecom New Zealand in which he was in the role for 5 years. Over the last 20 years has been involved in numerous large commercial and retail acquisitions, various integrations of acquired businesses and delivered a business strategy during the GFC in which some business lines were exited.
Jason has strengths around problem solving and solution delivery with a returns and fact based focus and approach to strategy and execution. Jason graduated with a Honours Degree in Economics and a Dip Grad in Marketing from Otago University in Dunedin.
Dr Ankur Purwar, Principal Scientist, Procter & Gamble
ABOUT SPEAKER: Dr Ankur Purwar is a Principal Scientist in the Procter & Gamble Beauty Technology organization based in Singapore. A serial innovator with passion for transforming and designing experiences on how consumers interact with our products. His research is currently focused on linking perception and noticeability for appearance understanding leveraging computer vision, and machine learning techniques to measure skin and hair attributes. Ankur holds a PhD in Applied Mathematics with focus on Medical Imaging Analysis from IIT Kanpur, India.
Healthcare Developers Relationship (DevRel), NVIDIA
ABOUT SPEAKER: Fernanda Foertter has recently joined NVIDIA but has been a long time GPU/CUDA/OpenACC advocate in the HPC community. Prior to NVIDIA she was a member of the Advanced Data Workflow Group assigned to the Biomedical Science and Engineering Center at the National Center for Computational Sciences (NCCS) located at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), working on scalable deep learning algorithms on next generation high performance computing systems with application to cancer research. Foertter was also in charge of HPC training and is the original creator of the OLCF GPU Hackathons. Her interests include disrupting healthcare research and advocating for developer productivity for HPC and AI.
CEO, Orbica
ABOUT SPEAKER: Kurt is a geospatial entrepreneur and founder of Christchurch-based location data intelligence company Orbica. He has a BSc Hons (Geography) from the University of Canterbury and a wealth of experience working for central government and private companies in New Zealand and California, U.S. Kurt is passionate about geography and has developed a talented team of disruptive thinkers who apply their cumulative experience and knowledge to solve tough problems with cost-effective, location data enabled solutions. Orbica leads the geospatial sector with investment into artificial intelligence and its ability to automate traditional business workflows to improve accuracy, efficiency and value for clients.
Senior Product Marketing Manager, Deep Learning and Analytics, NVIDIA
ABOUT SPEAKER: Renee Yao is a senior product marketing manager at NVIDIA, focusing on deep learning and analytics solutions on DGX Systems, the essential instruments for AI development. She holds a B.S. from the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley and was named the top 50 B2B product marketers to watch by Kapost in 2016. When she has free time, she enjoys competitive Latin dancing, horseback riding, golfing, sculpturing.
Research Fellow, Australian Centre for Robotic Vision
ABOUT SPEAKER: Juxi Leitner is a researcher at the Australian Centre of Excellence for Robotic Vision (ACRV). His research focus is on integrating Robotics, Computer Vision and Machine Learning/Artificial Intelligence (AI) for robust grasping and manipulation in real-world scenarios. Juxi led Team ACRV to victory in the Amazon Robotics Challenge 2017, picking the most objects from a warehouse storage system. He founded Brisbane.AI and the Brisbane Robotics Interest Group to promote the knowledge and engagement of robotics and AI in Brisbane, Australia. Juxi holds a PhD in robotics and AI and finished a Joint European Master in Space Science and Technology with a focus on Space Robotics.
CEO, neuri.ai
ABOUT SPEAKER: Fred is the founder of Neuri, developing quantum-inspired algorithms for the financial markets. Neuri focuses on developing robust and stable AI driven simulation and modelling tools to support trading strategies across multiple markets and asset classes. Fred has also founded two other AI firms; one developing AI for self driving cars and another developing holograms that can talk like we do.
Fred comes from a background in Philosophy, Mathematics and now attending Harvard Business School. He spends his free time mostly on planes reading papers.
Senior Solutions Architect, NVIDIA
ABOUT SPEAKER: Scott McMillan is a Senior Solutions Architect at NVIDIA where he works on high performance computing. He focuses on making HPC more accessible and easier to use. Formerly he was a software architect and engineering manager at Intel. Scott holds a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from Northwestern University.
Director, Developers Ecosystem, SEA, NVIDIA
ABOUT SPEAKER: Dr Ettikan Kandasamy Karuppiah, Director of Developers Ecosystem at NVIDIA, South East Asia assists innovators, researchers and techno-entrepreneurs to accelerate GPU adaptation for their R&D and software solutioning needs. He has direct experience and passionate in accelerated computing/software research/deep learning, design and development covering end-to-end needs. He also has published numerous publications, patents and software libraries from his past work.
University of Wollongong, SMART Infrastructure Facility, Research Fellow
ABOUT SPEAKER: After his PhD in applied mathematics at the University of Namur (Belgium), Dr. Johan Barthélemy joined the SMART Infrastructure Facility of the University of Wollongong (Australia) where he is a Research Fellow. He is leading the SMART IoT Hub developing smart sensors and edge computing devices for IoT applications using LPWAN networks. At SMART, he is also developing large scale agent-based simulations for high performance computing facilities. At the Department of Mathematics of the University of Namur, he also collaborates on projects related to algorithmic complexity and data analytics and is teaching courses about data analytics and scientific programming.
ABOUT SPEAKER: Gabriel Noaje has more than 10 years of experience in accelerator technologies and parallel computing. Gabriel has a deep understanding of users’ requirements in terms of manycore architecture after he worked in both enterprise and public sector roles.
Prior to joining NVIDIA, he was a Senior Solutions Architect with SGI and HPE where he was developing solutions for HPC and Deep Learning customers in APAC. Previously, he was a Senior Computational Scientist at A*STAR Computational Resource Centre in Singapore (A*CRC) supporting users with deploying their applications on GPUs and large HPC systems. Gabriel was also involved in the commissioning of the first petaflop supercomputer in Singapore for the National Supercomputing Centre (NSCC) providing his expertise in all stages from specifications drafting to the production phase.
Gabriel has also held previous positions as Senior Research Engineer at the ADSC of Illinois at Singapore and Graduate Research Assistant at University of Reims in France conducting research on GPU compilers. He also has a vast experience in delivering GPU trainings and general HPC courses for universities and companies.
Gabriel holds a PhD in Computer Sciences from the University of Reims Champagne-Ardenne, France and a BSc and MSc in Computer Sciences from the Polytechnic University of Bucharest, Romania. He is also an NVIDIA CUDA Certified Programmer and Mellanox Infiniband Certified Professional.