YOW! presents two great talks on data and machine learning, from
experts in the field.
_DAVE THOMAS: NEWSQL_ - THE NEW UNIVERSAL QUERY LANGUAGE FOR
EVERYTHING.
Back to the Future! In 2020 many new and legacy data systems, such
as Spark, Teradata, Mongo, Cassandra, Splunk, Kafka, Flink, Azure,
Google, Oracle…, will support a NewSQL.
We begin with a very brief review of the current state of data
engineering practice - NoSQL, Big Data, Streaming, Time Series, BASE
versus ACID, Graphs; DSLs, Map Reduce, Functional Programming etc. We
look at the challenges presented by the plethora of different data
formats, languages/tools and eventual consistency.
What if we didn’t have to deal with the challenges of sharding and
eventual consistency? We discuss the recent increased use of
new distributed ACID databases such as Google Spanner, AWS AuroraDB,
Azure CosmosDB etc.
What if we didn’t need to worry about different languages,
APIs for programming different databases? What if we could use one
language for both batch and streaming? Very recently, at the ACM
SIGMOD 2019 database conference, a new emerging data language was
presented which seeks to provide a solution.
We refer to this emerging standard as NewSQL, which extends SQL to
deal with both streaming and batch. It removes major limitations in
SQL and provides the additional capabilities to SQL needed to deal
with the velocity, volume and variety of diverse data sources. In
this talk, we describe the evolution and major features of the new
language. We conclude with a brief discussion of the impact on data
engineering, data science and data consumers.
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_AGUSTINUS NALWAN: MYSTIQUE - THE FIGHT AGAINST REGO PLATE CLONING_
In the rise of AI technologies, there is no doubt that privacy is a
very popular topic which normally revolves around the negative impact
of AI to our privacy. However despite the norm, we at Carsales built
and deployed an AI tech called Mystique which fights crimes and
protects user privacy. Mystique detects a rego plate in a photo and
blurs it, protecting our private seller and dealer from rego plate
cloning.
Rego plate cloning “involves falsifying a genuine number plate and
attaching it to another vehicle which is often the same make, model
and colour. The criminal may then use the car with cloned plates to
drive on tollways without consequences, drive dangerously or conduct
other criminal activity, with the genuine vehicle owner often sought
to pay fines or tolls.”
In this talk, we are going to share the story about how we built and
delivered Mystique and more importantly what lessons we learned in
deploying tech at this scale, which processes 150,000 photos a day and
touches many areas of business at Carsales.
ABOUT THE PRESENTER: DAVE THOMAS
Dave Thomas, Chief Scientist/CSO, Kx Systems, Co-Founder and past
Chairman of Bedarra Research Labs (BRL), creators of the Ivy visual
analytics workbench and ACM Distinguished Engineer. Founder and past
CEO of Object Technology International (OTI), becoming CEO of IBM OTI
Labs after its sale to IBM.
With a unique ability to see the future and translate research into
competitive products, he is known for his contributions to Object
Technology including IBM VisualAge and Eclipse IDEs, Smalltalk and
Java virtual machines. Dave is founder and chairman of the YOW!
Australia and Lambda Jam conferences, and is a GOTO Conference Fellow.
ABOUT THE PRESENTER: AGUSTINUS NALWAN
Passionate in technology innovation to make people’s life easier and
with over 20 years of experience in software development, Gus has been
working in various industries from 3D/Animation, Games Development,
Desktop Software, mobile apps and very recently Computer Vision and
Machine Learning. Well-known for unorthodox ways of solving difficult
problems, Gus currently works at Carsales as the Head of AI, inventing
and building many cool AI projects such as Cyclops Image Recognition
and providing technical direction to various teams across Carsales on
AI.
PROGRAM
5:30 pm Welcome networking with refreshments
6:00 pm Presentations followed by Q&A
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