What is the event about?
This session will be the opening ceremony for the Machine Learning and Deep Learning Show (MLDLS) Summer School 2022. We will guide the audience through a series of engaging AI/ML demos, and also discuss how they can continue their learning journey into AI.

Who is it aimed at?
All students/learners wishing to start their learning journey into AI

Why should you attend?
Attend this session to learn more about MLDLS Summer School and to get some inspiration and guidance about where to go next to learn exciting AI topics

Any pre-requisites
None

Speaker Bios
Carlotta Castelluccio
Carlotta Castelluccio is a Cloud Advocate at Microsoft, focused on Data Analytics and Data Science. As a member of the Developer Relationships Academic team, she works on skilling and engaging educational communities to create and grow with Azure Cloud, by contributing to technical learning content and supporting students and educators in their learning journey with Microsoft technologies. Before joining the Cloud Advocacy team, she have been working as an Azure and AI consultant in Microsoft Industry Solutions team, mainly involved in customer-face engagements focused on Conversational AI solutions. Carlotta earned her Master’s Degree in Computer Engineering from Politecnico di Torino and her Diplôme d’ingénieur from Télécom ParisTech, by completing a E+/EU Double Degree Program.

Dmitry Soshnikov, Cloud Advocate Microsoft
Dmitry is a Microsoft veteran, working for more than 15 years. He started as a Technical Evangelist, and in this role presented on numerous conferences, including twice being on stage with Steve Ballmer. He then worked for 2 years as Senior Software Engineer, helping big European companies to start pilot digital transformation projects based on in AI and ML. As Cloud Developer Advocate, Dmitry focuses on creating educational content and working with academic and research institutions. He is also an Associate Professor at MIPT, HSE and MAI in Moscow, a big fan of functional programming and F#, and a maintainer/primary developer of mPyPl library. In his spare time, Dmitry explores Science Art and Technological Magic, as well as performs Chinese tea ceremonies. He can be reached at http://soshnikov.com.

Vedant Bahel
Vedant Bahel is Gold Microsoft Learn Student Ambassador. He is an author and researcher with multiple published papers and books. Vedant’s primary area of research is in domain of Applied Machine Learning and Product Designing. He is a 2021 MITACS Canada GRI Scholar and also was awarded IEEE Richard E Merwin Award in 2021. He is also a two-times TEDx speaker. Vedant is an incoming graduate student at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada.

Harsh Aryan
Harsh Aryan is a Gold Microsoft Learn Student Ambassador pursuing B.Tech MBA Dual Degree in Information Technology at Indian Institute of Information technology, Allahabad with experience in in Deep Learning, Software Engineering and Product Management. Harsh will be joining Goldman Sachs as a Technology Analyst in Bangalore. He loves making complex Technology understandable and accessible to all, and will be instructing the MLDLS for the third year in a row. He is the fun guy who adds the M to MLDLS which sometimes(mostly) stands for Memes.

Rucha Yagnik
Rucha Yagnik is a Gold Microsoft Learn Student Ambassador. She is graduate student at University of Southern California and is currently a ML intern at VISA. She loves community and never stops contributing to it. She is a IamRemarkable facilitator and a GHC Scholar 2021. Rucha has been part of the MLDLS team since 2021.

Prathmaesh Shanbhag
Prathamesh Shanbhag is a Microsoft Learn Student Ambassador and a Hack Club Lead, and also the very recent addition to MLDLS, with his interests primarily focused in the Front-End Domain/ He focuses on creating a amalgamation between Machine Learning and the Immersive Web.
Apart from that he is into Content Creation and Documenting his journey, just like your friendly neighborhood spiderman but in tech!

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