3. Deep Learning Frameworks: Trends and Outlook

The third community meeting will engage creators of deep learning frameworks and computing infrastructures, to understand trends in framework development and hardware acceleration, insights into existing or upcoming features of platforms that may fulfill Kaldi needs, and possibilities for interoperability or interchangeability of ASR tools and models between frameworks.

Agenda (all times in EDT)

11:30-11:32 Welcome and Housekeeping Notes (Jan “Yenda” Trmal)
11:32-11:40 Historical Context and Meeting Goals (Sanjeev Khudanpur)
11:40-11:52 What is being planned — k2 (Dan Povey)
11:52-12:00 What is being planned — Lhotse (Piotr Zelasko)
12:00-13:00 Panel Discussion (Moderated by Jan Trmal)
13:00-13:15 Audience Q&A (All Panelists)

Confirmed and Prospective Panelists

Alex Smola, Director, Amazon Web Services
Arindam Mandal, Director, Conversational AI, Amazon Alexa
Ariya Rastrow, Senior Principal Research Scientist, Amazon Echo
Bhuvana Ramabhadran, Manager/Researcher, Google AI
Brian Kingsbury, Manager, Speech Technologies, IBM T J Watson Research Center
Hugo Braun, AI Developer Technology Engineer, NVIDIA
Jian Wu, Principal Speech Scientist Manager, Microsoft
Jinyu Li, Partner Applied Scientist, Microsoft AI
Joe Spisak, Product Lead — Artificial Intelligence, Facebook AI
Katrin Kirchhoff, Senior Applied Science Manager, Amazon AI
Michael Riley, Distinguished Research Scientist, Google
Ryan Leary, Engineering Manager, AI Applications: Speech & NLP at NVIDIA
Vijay Peddinti, Research Scientist, Google
Vincent Quenneville-Belair, Machine Learning Scientist, Facebook AI