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Techstars Startup Week Edmonton: AI Mentor Session

Do you want to learn about Artificial Intelligence (AI) but don’t know where to start?

Are you taking some online AI courses but lack of real world hands-on project experiences?

Are you at the advanced level but having difficulty understanding a state-of-the-art algorithm or looking for peers who can learn from each other?

No matter what level of your AI knowledge, you can come to AlbertaAI Mentor Session to find peers and seek help and guidance from AlbertaAI senior members. We will break out attendees into the Beginner, Intermediate, and Advanced levels. In each breakout room, our senior members will provide help and guidance and the attendees at the same level can discuss and exchange ideas with each other.

We are excited to announce that his month Alberta AI mentor session will be a part of Startup week Edmonton. You can register for the event here: https://techstarsstartupweekedmonton2020.sched.com/event/ecJC/ai-mentor-session-with-albertaai?iframe=no

Alberta AI Monthly Mentor Session

Alberta AI association has started a series of monthly sessions on every third Tuesday of the month to guide people, whether they have no background in Artificial Intelligence and want to learn about it or have taken few courses but want to know more and land a job in the field or consider themselves as an expert and want to meet other AI professionals, this monthly mentor session is for everyone. 


On 18th August, Alberta AI association held its first monthly mentor session hosted by Dr. Lihang Ying, the President of Alberta AI, in which around 50 people attended the event. The experts in the panel guided attendees and discussed the resources available to learn and improve their knowledge of AI.   

Here is the summary of the resources shared by the experts. 

Beginner

If you are beginner and would like to learn about AI, you may find these links useful.

SirajRaval AI Education 

Deep Learning

Convolutional Neural Networks for Visual Recognition 

Computer Vision Resource 

Course on Tableau 

Python for Data Science

IBM Data Science Professional Certificate

Amazon’s Machine Learning University 

Natural Language Processing with Deep Learning

Intermediate

judea pearl, madelyn glymour, nicholas p. jewellcausal inference in statistics: a primer 

judea pearl – home 

Reinforcement Learning Specialization 

Spinning Up in Deep RL

Dive into Deep Learning

THE BOOK OF WHY: THE NEW SCIENCE OF CAUSE AND EFFECT

Deep Learning 

Before we wrapped up, some of the attendees discussed their queries, related to the project they are working on, with the experts and after that Calvin L, who is an insurance advisor, discussed how they have deployed AI in their business.


We would like to thank all the experts on the panel for generously sharing their time and expertise and all the attendees for joining us.

If you missed the event, you can watch it on our Youtube channel here. Our next event will be on 15th of September, you can register for the session on eventbrite and don’t forget to follow Alberta AI at Eventbrite for our future events.

Computational Psychiatry

AlbertaAI cordially invite you to join our “New Normal and Opportunities of Post COVID-19 World” virtual speaking series lecture 3 Computational Psychiatry presented by Dr. Bo Cao, a psychiatry researcher in the U of A’s Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, led a research team that used a machine learning algorithm to examine functional magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) images of both newly diagnosed schizophrenia patients and healthy subjects.

Click HERE to join or watch the recording in case you missed the event.

Looking forward to seeing you there.

Invitation of Annual General Meeting 2020

Dear member,

You are cordially invited to attend our 2nd Annual General Meeting on August 9th, 2020. Our virtual AGM supports as many participants as possible with limited resources. Please confirm your attendance no later than July 31st by registering  HERE.

The details are as follows:

WHEN:

Time: 2:30 PM – 4:30 PM,  August 9, 2020 (Sunday) 

WHERE:

Virtual conference :  Zoom meeting ID: 868 868 9898.

AGENDA:

  • Call to order
  • President’s Opening Remarks
  • Approval of 2019 A.G.M. Minutes – motion
  • Approval of 2020 A.G.M. Agenda – motion
  • President’s Report – motion
  • Treasurer’s Report – motion
  • Election of new board member
    • Election/Voting procedure
  • New Business
  • Call to adjourn – motion