Data Fest 2018: announcement and registration

Friends, we invite you to the fifth Moscow Data Fest, which will be held on April 28 in the territory of the design factory FLACON. Data Fest is the largest free conference for researchers, engineers, and developers involved in machine learning, data analysis and processing, and what the press likes to call AI.

You will learn about AI in Mail.Ru Group products and “smart” answers in Mail.Ru Mail, how recommendations and computer vision work on VKontakte and Odnoklassniki, as well as machine translation in Alibaba and what Quantum Machine Learning is, as well as many, many things another!

Entry to the conference is free, but pre- registration is required.
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About Data Fest Moscow 2018

Data Fest 2018 - more than 30 different sections in 7 rooms, where you will plunge into the world of Data Science and find out how the community of specialists in this rapidly developing area lives.

Special master classes by leading Russian research groups:

1. will teach text analysis and thematic modeling at the BIGARTM master class by Konstantin Vorontsov group, MIPT;
2. give advanced experience in recommender systems at the RecSys master class of Evgeny Sokolov, FKN HSE;
3. help to understand the tensor methods at the master class of the DeepTensor group Ivan Oseledets, Skoltech;
4. show the depths of the Bayesian approach at the master class of DeepBayes by Dmitry Vetrov, FKN HSE;
5. they will tell you how computer vision works at the master class of Deep Computer Vision of the group of Viktor Lempitsky, Skoltech;
6. will teach conversational intelligence and interactive systems at the iPavlov master class of the group of Mikhail Burtsev, MIPT.

MAIN STAGE, a large pavilion, 1000 people

• 11.00 - 12.45 - speeches by the leaders of leading Russian research groups in Machine Learning;
• 13.00 - 14.30 - speeches by leaders of leading Russian research groups in Deep Learning;
• 15.30 - 17.30 - keynote-speeches from foreign speakers (in English);
• 17.45 - 19.15 - ML in large business: how ML is organized and implemented in large companies: Sberbank, MTS and Mail.Ru Group;
• 19.30 - 21.00 - Make ML Great Again: entertaining and educational format of mysteries about DS, ML and the imperfection of the world.

PROD STAGE, small pavilion, 350 people

• 11.00 - 12.45 - real Big Data and how to prepare machine learning for billions of observations;
• 13.00 - 14.30 - Sys ML 1: how the architecture of ML solutions is arranged in algorithmic trading, weather prediction and recruiting boards;
• 15.30 - 17.30 - Sys ML 2: what the real ML stuffing looks on on VKontakte, Yandex “Alice”, smart answers and e-commerce;
• 17.45 - 19.15 - Fit ML: how to cram ML and computer vision with severe restrictions on iron - in autopilot Yandex, Prisma and Odnoklassniki;
• 19.30 - 21.00 - ML failconf, Or the whole truth about those projects where machine learning went awry.

SPACE, 250 people

• 11.00 - 12.45 - PyData, Or practice Python on current Data Science tasks and fresh ML-libraries;
• 13.00 - 14.30 - BigARTM workshop: how to start analyzing the text and building thematic models from the masters of the NLP school in Russia;
• 15.30 - 17.30 - DeepBayes workshop: analysis of the latest articles and Deep Learning projects from a group of Bayesian methods;
• 17.45 - 19.15 - True story case club: analysis of real cases, how and with what results ML helps business;
• 19.30 - 21.00 - DS in E-sports, Or all you need to know about eSports: how and who needs Data Science in it.

LUMIERE HALL 1, large hall, 200 people

• 11.00 - 12.45 - ML Training: the traditional section with a thorough analysis of the decisions of the winners in the competitions in ML;
• 13.00 - 14.30 - RecSys workshop: best practices and best practices recommender systems;
• 15.30 - 17.30 - Deep Computer Vision workshop: how to prepare tasks and applications in computer vision;
• 17.45 - 19.15 - NLP in industry: a section with advanced solutions with text analysis found in practice;
• 19.30 - 21.00 - Sigbovik, known as the ML-treshugar section: participants present their insane applications and fan projects.

LUMIERE HALL 2, small hall, 140 people

• 11.00 - 12.45 - Pitch-session: participants can present their projects to the audience in the form of short pitches for 3 + 2 minutes;
• 13.00 - 14.30 - DeepTensor workshop: how tensor methods of machine learning work;
• 15.30 - 1 7.30 - iPavlov workshop: how to train conversational intelligence and complex interactive systems in ML;
• 17.45 - 19.15 - WiML workshop: the first in the CIS official Women in ML workshop with female speakers serving to popularize ML among girls;
• 19.30 - 21.00 - entertaining surprise from the organizers of the conference.

LUMIERE HALL 3, second floor, 70 people

• 11.00 - 14.30 - Mock Interview: interactive between the participants, where you practice in conducting and passing interviews;
• 15.30 - 17.30 - express-interview: a series of interviews from partner companies of the conference;
• 17.45 - 21.00 - Data Speed ​​Dating: classic speed-dating for those who want to meet and find a soul mate.

UNCONFERENCE ZONE, next to the Space, 130 people

• 11.00 - 12.45 - Open Mic: a free microphone, where anyone can, in a 2 + 1 minute format, introduce themselves and tell them what they do;
• 13.00 - 21.00 - Unconference + Mini Meetups: participants in a free format cooperate in an open area, conduct mini-meetings and tell each other lectures and workshops.

Registration for Data Fest will begin at 9.00, the first reports will begin at 11:00.

During the lunch break, interesting activities are planned from partner companies, as well as informal communication with the Data Science community. Afterparty will take place after the event :)

Entry to the conference is free, but pre- registration is required.

More information and news - on the official site .

See you at Data Fest!