Overview

In this half day in-person event, you will be introduced to concepts and terminologies of machine learning, and hear how businesses can use AWS AI services to innovate faster. We'll then dive deeper into how you can leverage the Amazon SageMaker platform to build a machine learning pipeline, and get hands-on building an Amazon Lex chatbot. We will also share how you can get started with your training and certification journey.

Agenda

Time (AWST) Session
12:00 PM Arrivals, light lunch, networking
12:30 PM Machine learning on AWS (Level 100 - Introductory)
Get started with machine learning on AWS. In this session, participants will be introduced to concepts and terminologies of machine learning, and hear how businesses can use AWS AI services to innovate faster. We provide an overview of services such as Amazon Comprehend and Amazon Lex, and how to address use-cases such as sentiment analysis, automated text processing, and building conversational interfaces into applications without any machine learning experience.
1:40 PM Boosting data science productivity (Level 200 - Intermediate)
Building a machine learning pipeline can be a complex, time-consuming process comprising of several phases. In this session, we share how to leverage Amazon SageMaker platform to tackle the challenges of building a ML pipeline, from data labelling, feature engineering, model training, tuning, to deployment. Using Amazon SageMaker, data scientists and engineers will be able to focus on their core values while Amazon SageMaker does the heavy-lifting of large scale and distributed model training, and infrastructure management.
2:50 PM Afternoon tea break
3:10 PM Workshop: Build an Amazon Lex Chatbot (Level 100 - Introductory)
Amazon Lex is a fully managed artificial intelligence service with advanced natural language models to design, build, test, and deploy conversational interfaces in applications. This workshop will allow you to get hands-on with AWS services, and create a chatbot using Amazon Lex that understands intent, maintains context, and automates simple tasks across many languages. Please bring a laptop and a charger to participate in this workshop.
4:00 PM Training and certification pathways (Level 100 - Introductory)
Find out how to kick start your AWS training journey with practical advice, resources, and Certification pathway information to be shared by our AWS experts. Whether you’re new to the cloud, or an experienced user, you’ll walk away with an understanding of the steps you can take in your learning journey.
4:45 PM Networking and close
This event will comply with the local health measures in Perth.

Event Details

Date: Tuesday, 28 June 2022
Time: 12:00 PM - 5:00 PM AWST
Venue: Pan Pacific, Northern Ballroom, 207 Adelaide Terrace, Perth WA 6000 (View map)
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