Bristol Meetups

Bristol Machine Learning #9 - FiveAI

We've very pleased to announce that our next meet-up is going to be hosted by FiveAI at their Bristol offices - https://five.ai/

As many of you will already know, FiveAI is a venture-funded UK company based in London, Cambridge, Oxford, Bristol, Edinburgh and Millbrook.

They are developing the software that will make autonomous vehicle services a reality in Europe, and are already testing their systems on the streets of London.

Talks:

- "Scene Understanding at FiveAI" - Blaine Rogers. Blaine is a Research Engineer working in FiveAI's Perception Team.

- "Where to commit a crime and get away with it using PySpark" - Alistair Rogers. Alistair is a data scientist at OnCorps, a company that applies ML to the Asset Management and Sales sector. Alistair has worked with a number of organisations within the Healthcare, Banking and Government spaces.

Schedule:

18:00 - Doors/Food/Drinks/Networking
18:50 - Opening Introduction/Community Messages
19:00 - Alistair Rogers - "Where to commit a crime and get away with it using PySpark"
19:30 - Short Break
19:40 - Blaine Rogers - "Scene Understanding at FiveAI"
20:30ish - Tidy up & head to a local pub to continue the conversation

Please note the talks will be filmed.

The Bristol ML meet-up is defined by its community. If you have ideas for speakers, venues or suggestions for how we can in anyway improve please don't hesitate to contact one of the organisers.

This is a going to be a really great set of talks, hope to see you there!

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