TU Wien Informatics

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Talk: Developing software and ML models at IBM, Amazon, and integrate.ai

  • 2019-05-23

Colin Toal, Toronto, leader of several SW development groups at large and small companies, will present case studies and stories from his experience

ABSTRACT:

How do large companies like IBM and Amazon organize, and how does that steer how they find problems to tackle? How is that different from a smaller company like integrate.ai? What is expected from newly recruited people in large vs small companies?

How to build fair, ethical and powerful predictive ML models? How to build a ML model in practical terms and what are the steps taken to protect data, preserve privacy, measure bias, and deliver impact? At this meeting, Colin Toal will give a brief presentation, based on case studies and stories from his experience.

BIO:

Colin Toal is a Toronto-based software developer. He is an accomplished leader with a proven track record of building high-performance, scalable software products for some of the world’s top technology companies. Prior to joining integrate.ai, Colin led highly successful engineering teams at IBM Watson’s Cloud Platform, Amazon and Oracle.

http://www.vcla.at/2019/05/colin-toal/

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