AI_Night - Chief Scientist of Amazon, and AI Machine Learning pioneer (There will be another one next year)
Andreas Weigend, former Chief Scientist of Amazon, and an early AI pioneer who published research on neural networks with his Stanford PhD advisor David Rumelhart (first author of the seminal Backpropagation paper, co-authored with Nobel Prize winner Geoffrey Hinton) will be in Singapore.
He was close friends with Daniel Kahneman the author of Thinking Fast and Slow, involved with Loopt early on, classmates with Reid Hoffman the LinkedIn founder, an author of several books, a speaker, an advisor appointed by Angela Merkel for the Digital Council of Germany, and an advisor to startups, including some Singaporean AI startups.
He also lectures at Stanford, Berkeley, Tsinghua.
You can submit your questions inside this registration form, or you can also think of new questions later, and submit your questions later at this other Luma page if you think of new questions later - https://luma.com/2gq3i3hx
UPDATE: A number of investors from a VC Fund or Family Office, or are Angel Investors, have registered and will be attending.
Startup Founders may indicate interest to interact with them in a separate area at the event.
Key Timings
- 5:30pm - Doors open for people to mingle
- 6:30pm - Speaker arrives and will be having his dinner at the venue
- 6:55pm - Please be seated
- 7pm - Speaker starts
- The entire schedule can be found below.
- You can subscribe to the AI_Night Calendar page by going to this page and clicking the Subscribe button at the top-right corner of the page - https://luma.com/ai_night
There are also openings for companies to provide sponsorship for this event or the next event, including sponsorship of credits for AI models to be given to attendees. If you would like to sponsor, you can select the Sponsor option above.
If you know of people who could be potential sponsors of credits for AI models to be given to attendees, the more the merrier for attendees, you can send this Luma event to them.
This will be a rare opportunity for Singaporeans and startup founders to find out from a primary source about first hand experiences on what it was like in the very early stages of the now $2T Amazon when it was still just a $1M seed-funded startup at $5M valuation.
Or for ML researchers to find out first hand experiences on what it was like in the early days of AI, the trends in AI over the decades 1990s-2020s, and how it was like working directly with AI greats like David Rumelhart, who is remembered as Rumelhart and Hinton by AI textbook aficionados and all serious AI researchers.
This is also a rare opportunity for you ask questions to someone who has had first hand experiences in closely interacting directly with high-performing people like Daniel Kahneman (Thinking Fast and Slow), Jeff Bezos (Amazon, AWS), Sam Altman (OpenAI), Angela Merkel (German Chancellor), the Berlin Philharmonic, and many other enterprise C-Suite executives from major multi-national corporations (Alibaba, BMW, GE, Hyatt, Lufthansa, MasterCard, Tencent, SingTel, etc) that you know of.
Books by Andreas:
- Time Series Prediction
- Computational Finance
- Decision Technologies for Financial Engineering
- Neural Networks in Financial Engineering
- Data for the People
Talks by Andreas:
- https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=andreas+weigend
- Google - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mupTR-lnQfU
- Stanford GSB - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-c1Wj2gnxmU
- Berkeley HAAS - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nm7l6dk1Ghw
- NetEase - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0GORVKz8hk
- NTUEE - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zS087SsAKmI
You could also easily find out more about Andreas by putting his name together with the association that you are interested about into any LLM service such as ChatGPT or Whatsapp. For example:
- Andreas Weigend, David Rumelhart, Geoffrey Hinton, backpropagation paper, neural networks
- Andreas Weigend, Jeff Bezos, Amazon Chief Scientist
- Andreas Weigend, World Economic Forum
- Andreas Weigend, Google Ventures
- Andreas Weigend, Andreessen Horowitz
- Andreas Weigend, Stanford
- Andreas Weigend, Berkeley
- Andreas Weigend, Tsinghua
Good questions will be given to the speaker during the event. If you have questions, your questions must be submitted before the event because you know what happens (1 minute wasted x 100 attendees listening = 100 minutes wasted) when you choose to value the time of the attendees.
You can submit your questions inside this registration form, or you can also think of new questions later, and submit your questions later at this other Luma page if you think of new questions later - https://luma.com/2gq3i3hx
A subset of the attendees, who have submitted great questions, will be given a separate 🍭🌈 wristband color when they arrive at the registration counter. During the event, they will also be seated at the first few rows nearer to the speaker so that the microphone can be passed faster on to them during the Q&A session.
Schedule:
- Before event - You can submit questions if you have any
- Before 5pm - Doors open for people to set up
- 5pm - Start of mini exhibition of projects or things made by the community between 5pm-6:30pm
- 5:30pm - Doors open for people to mingle
- 6:30pm - Speaker arrives and will be having his dinner at the venue
- 6:55pm - Please be seated
- 7pm - Speaker starts
- 8:30pm - Mingling
- 9:30pm - Wrap up
- 10pm - Doors close at the venue
- 10pm - More mingling elsewhere after hours
There is NO dinner provided at the venue.
You CAN bring your own dinner purchased somewhere else to the event venue because there are tables and chairs provided at the venue, so you can mingle while you sit.
Directions to Venue (Very Important)
Kindly read the instructions below. The instructions will appear below after you have been added into the event.
Followup
If you would like to follow up with anything you saw at the mini exhibition of projects or things made by the community - (Pending) af7epob3
Special Thanks
To these people:
- The Venue Sponsor
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