This is awesome Naveen and Sandeep! +1 to encourage the community to spread the word and raise awareness of MXNet.
On a similar note, I recently had the opportunity to introduce MXNet in two occasions: - Conducting an MXNet workshop in the Nordics ML Summit conference <https://www.nordicdatasciencesummit.com/>: “Emotion recognition in images: from an idea to a model in production with MXNet” (deck <https://www.slideshare.net/HagayLupesko/emotion-recognition-in-images-from-idea-to-a-model-in-production-nordic-dsml-summit-oct-17-2018>, code <https://github.com/TalkAI/facial-emotion-recognition-gluon>). 100+ people attended the workshop, most were not familiar with MXNet - so it was a net gain! - Vandana, Sandeep and I did a technical lecture at SJSU to CS students: "What is deep learning and why you should care" (deck <https://www.slideshare.net/HagayLupesko/what-is-deep-learning-and-why-you-should-care-talk-at-sjsu-oct-2018>), including a coding session with MXNet to train a sentiment analysis model. The students were very engaged, and it was great. Introducing MXNet and showing how it can be useful for both practitioners and newbies is super important for the growth of MXNet and the community, and is also a fun experience for the presenter - I'd encourage folks to actively advocate MXNet. Cheers, Hagay On Sun, Nov 4, 2018 at 9:56 AM Naveen Swamy <mnnav...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hey guys, > > I wanted to let you know that I and Sandeep conducted a Hands on workshop > in ODSC, SF on November 1st, I conducted a similar session in London last > month. This session had 30 attendees join us and the response was positive > and engaging especially for the fact that they could try out MXNet and see > a trained model. I covered some basics of DL and CNN, and conducted a > exercise of transfer learning a Facial Emotion Recognition model using a > VGG13 pre-trained model from GluonCV. Sandeep covered NLP concepts and an > exercise on training a sentiment analysis model using GluonNLP pre-trained > embedding/model. > > The notebooks are here: https://github.com/TalkAI/apache-mxnet-odsc-2018 > > Slides are here: > https://www.slideshare.net/apachemxnet/apache-mxnet-odsc-west-2018 > > I also want to encourage you to participate in spreading the word about > MXNet by conducting workshops and/or present how you solve your business > problem using Apache MXNet in breakout sessions. > > If you have feedback or questions please reach out to me. > > Thanks, Naveen >
