AWS Machine Learning / AI

Mike Erickson has worked professionally as a developer, architect and trainer for over 20 years. Over the years he has worked on many different platforms and with many programming languages. For the past several years he has primarily focused on Microsoft technologies. He holds several industry certifications and continually focuses on learning. As a consultant he has worked in multiple industries for clients throughout the United States and internationally. In 2009 he launched the Salt Lake Cit... morey Windows Azure user group and continues to run the group as well as speak at various user groups, code camps and conferences.

Mark Nunnikhoven explores the impact of technology on individuals, organizations, and communities through the lens of privacy and security. Asking the question, ""How can we better protect our information?"", Mark studies the world of cybercrime to better understand the risks and threats to our digital world. As a researcher and educator, he applies this approach by helping organizations around the world use technology transform their work. This provides a unique opportunity to improve their a... morepproach to security and privacy while simplifying operations and focusing on their core goals. Mark is a forensic scientist and security leader who has spent more than 20 years helping to defend private and public systems from cybercriminals, hackers, and nation states. A sought after speaker, writer, and technology pundit, his message is simple: secure and private systems are a requirements in today's world, not a luxury. You can find Mark online @marknca and https://markn.ca.

Ralu Bolovan is a DevOps engineer specializing in cloud computing, with a penchant for AWS. She runs her own consultancy company, and her clients have included Fortune 500, e-commerce and FinTech companies. She has worked in her career so far in most aspects of technology roles, ranging from front-end development with Django and JavaScript to back-end with microservices in Java 8 and Postgres and more recently as a DevOps engineer and Solutions Architect on AWS, focusing on introducing and enhan... morecing the role of serverless computing and infrastructure as code in her clients' organizations. She graduated with a first class honors Meng degree in Computing (Software Engineering) from Imperial College London. She is an avid learner and looks to constantly innovate her projects by exploring new technologies.

Fernando works full time learning the newest trends and tools in application development in order to share them with application developers and architects. Before this, he worked as a Data Engineer at Curalate, where he analyzed data from products used by hundreds of the world's leading visual brands. He also writes frequently about serverless development, and data and security topics. He especially enjoys helping others learn about cloud infrastructure offerings to better support the needs of d... moreevelopers and the organizations that they work with. Fernando organized the Serverless Philadelphia Meetup and taught courses for the Python User Group and Girl Develop It. He loves giving back to his community by helping beginners learn how to code. His adorable puppy Riley will also be making cameos in each of his courses.

Tom has spent over 24 years across multiple industries building products and platforms including: banking, tele-communications, e-commerce, retail, and manufacturing. He has designed and built recommendation engines, consumer banking platforms, and mobile applications, as well as business and consumer facing e-commerce SaaS platforms. Recently he leveraged his technology background to build business, product, and IT strategies for companies like O.C Tanner, State Farm, and USAA Insurance. He is ... morepassionate about creating high performing agile teams, and building software architectures that are lean yet scalable and perfectly fulfill the business need. He developed a keen interest in Lean principles while building manufacturing systems - and is constantly looking for new ways to leverage those concepts to improve IT. Tom holds a dual bachelor degree in Computer Science and Business Information Systems and an MBA from Westminster College/Gore School of Business.

Eduardo is a technology enthusiast, software architect and customer success advocate. He's designed enterprise .NET solutions that extract, validate and automate critical business processes such as Accounts Payable and Mailroom solutions for all types of organizations. He's designed and supported production systems for global names such as Coca Cola, Enel, Pirelli, Fiat-Chrysler, Xerox and many others. He's a well-known specialist in the Enterprise Content Management market segment, specifically... more focusing on data capture & extraction and document process automation. He designed a supplier invoice processing system for Agfa that achieved 50% straight-through processing (50% of invoices extracted from paper, validated and exported into SAP without any human validation). He's also loves to write about cutting-edge technologies. He loves helping customers succeed. In his free time, he enjoys spending time with his family and being outdoors. He loves running and sports.

Alan Jones has worked in software development for over 25 years. He has experience in Web, PC, and embedded technologies for the Telecommunications industry. His latest interests are cloud (specifically Amazon Web Service) and Android app development.

Jorge is a passionate person who loves building quality software that allows people to solve their problems. He also loves to teach, that's why he works several years ago teaching programming and software development to university students. He has experience developing highly performant backend systems with Java and Node.js, building ETL processes with Python and Scala and working with cloud platforms such as Amazon Web Services. His current areas of interest include Deep Neural Networks, Comput... moreer Vision, Natural Language Processing and Reinforcement Learning. When not developing software or teaching, he enjoys photography and spending time with his family.

David is a Webby Award winning cloud development consultant that focuses on cloud native web, mobile, and IoT applications. For over fifteen years as a consultant David has led custom software development on emerging platforms for companies such as FedEx, AT&T, Sony Music, Intel, Comcast, Herman Miller, Principal Financial, and Adobe (as well as many others). David regularly writes and speaks on the digital landscape with published works for O'Reilly and Lynda.com. He has written for Mashable,... more Smashing Magazine, and VentureBeat, and he has spoken at events like AdTech, Interop, and Adobe Max.