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FEATURED 2018 SPEAKERS

John McGiffin

JOHN MCGIFFIN

Deep Recognition
Managing Director

Dr Ettikan Kandasamy Karuppiah

Dr Ettikan Kandasamy Karuppiah

NVIDIA
Director, Developers Ecosystem, SEA

Dr Juxi Leitner

DR JUXI LEITNER

Australian Centre for Robotic Vision
Research Fellow

Dr Johan Barthelemy

Dr Johan Barthelemy

University of Wollongong
SMART Infrastructure Facility
Research Fellow

John McGiffin

JOHN MCGIFFIN

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.

DR JUXI LEITNER

DR JUXI LEITNER

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.

Dr Ettikan Kandasamy Karuppiah

Dr Ettikan Kandasamy Karuppiah

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.

Dr Johan Barthelemy

Dr Johan Barthelemy

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.

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