Keynote from the Alma Angels event in collaboration with Google.This is a high level overview of what's happening in the world of AI as of mid-January 2024, and it represents my point of view rather than Google's.

In this session I focused on image processing using Convolutional Neural Networks. These algorithms were introduces in the 50s and 60s thanks to studies on cats' brains, and are quite different from other Neural Networks, trying to mimic the functioning of our visual cortex.

Spark + AI Summit is the biggest event worldwide concerning Apache Spark, which has become the de facto standard for Big Data Analytics in just a few years.

In my session here I presented a proprietary solution ideated by Dataskills to carry out semi-real time analysis of a huge amount of time series data, for which to give a precise prediction of future behavior by use of a single computational engine.

This year at WPC I covered a central topic in Machine Learning, useful especially when working with images, videos and text.That is, transfer learning, which means exploiting existing models, usually very powerful because trained on huge amounts of data, in order to create better ad-hoc models for our own problem, but much faster and with better predictive performances.

Speaking to a crowd of 200+ students and young professionals, I shared my passion for Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence and Data Mining with some examples of the lastest applications of Machine Learning models.

WPC is the biggest italian event on Microsoft technologies and I was very honored and excited to give a one-hour class on a very cutting-edge topic such as that of Deep Learning.

While working at Metail, I proposed and organized an event to open our office's doors to end-clients and let them try our technology in an informal, fun way. The feedback received were gathered in this video.