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Recorded LIVE at the TopCoder Open 2019 in Houston, Texas! Topcoder’s Global Director for Data, Analytics, & Artiificial Intelligence, Andy LaMora, and General Manager for Public Sector, Michael Contreras, join IQT CosmiQ’s Ryan Lewis and Adam Van Etten at the Topcoder Open 2019, the annual programming and design tournament that took place on November 13 -16, 2019. Learn how Topcoder has evolved over the past almost 20 years, including their involvement with SpaceNet 5 which challenged participants to automatically extract road networks and routing information from satellite imagery.
John Sipple, Senior Software Engineer for Machine Learning at Google and the Artificial Intelligence (AI) Portfolio Joint Reserve Lead for the Defense Innovation Unit, joins IQT CosmiQ Works’ Ryan Lewis and Nick Weir to share lessons learned from designing and executing machine learning projects. The group dives into Sipple’s past experiences, current research areas, and future AI trends and areas of interest, such as attention networks.
Ryan Ashley and John Speed, from IQT’s cybersecurity lab (Cyber Reboot), join IQT CosmiQ’s Ryan Lewis to discuss outcomes from Hacktoberfest, a month-long celebration of open source software. Hear how Cyber Reboot led Hacktoberfest efforts at In-Q-Tel (IQT) to create awareness about and contribute to IQT’s open source projects and beyond. The group also discusses upcoming cybersecurity projects and what to look out for next!
CARTO’s Chief Strategy Officer, Javier de la Torre, and Director of Spatial Data Science, Matt Forrest, join IQT CosmiQ Works’ Ryan Lewis and Nick Weir to discuss how spatial analytics tools can be designed for a variety of different end users, ranging from data scientists to business analysts. They also consider how historically GIS functions are being incorporated in business intelligence (BI) tools. The group closes on a conversation about the Spatial Data Science Conference which was hosted on October 16th at Columbia University.
Special guest Will Porteous, General Partner and COO at RRE Ventures, joins host Ryan Lewis, IQT CosmiQ, and Tom Gillespie, a Managing Partner on IQT’s investment team, to discuss investment strategies, technology trends and predictions, and what’s next for the commercial space and aerospace industry. Commercial space and, more broadly, Frontier Technologies have been a key investment area within IQT in recent years, requiring a comprehensive strategy and close coordination with investment partners like RRE.
This episode features special guest Hilary Mason, Data Scientist in Residence at Accel Partners, co-founder of hackNY.org, and founder of Fast Forward Labs, which is now part of Cloudera. Hilary joins CosmiQ’s Ryan Lewis and Nick Weir as they explore lessons learned and recommendations on executing artificial intelligence (AI) beyond research teams. The discussion explores how machine learning technologies can be applied at an enterprise level for corporations that are looking to move beyond basic prototypes and into real product development that shows results.
The final part of our three-part series featuring special guests from Azavea, Rob Emanuele, VP of Research, and Joe Morrison, Product Specialist. Join them for a discussion with CosmiQ’s Nick Weir and Jake Shermeyer as they highlight recent work exploring how to integrate some of the novel insights obtained from unique geospatial datasets, such as multi-spectral imagery and elevation information, and how these additional features can augment existing computer vision models trained on standard red, green, blue imagery and video.
Part two of a three-part series featuring special guests from Azavea, Rob Emanuele, VP of Research, and Joe Morrison, Product Specialist. In this episode, IQT’s Ryan Lewis and Azavea’s Rob and Joe dive into the workings of Azavea, a company focused on using geospatial tech and open source software to solve difficult problems across a variety of domains. Listen in to learn how businesses can be structured around open source software and what drives work in the geospatial market and beyond.
Part one of a three-part series featuring special guests from Azavea, Rob Emanuele, VP of Research, and Joe Morrison, Product Specialist. Join them for a discussion with CosmiQ’s Ryan Lewis and Nick Weir to learn how artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning can impact the geospatial industry both technically as well as operationally, and the utility of pre-training AI models and multi-spectral satellite imagery data.
SpaceNet LLC is a non-profit organization dedicated to accelerating open source, artificial intelligence applied research for geospatial applications, specifically foundational mapping. Since its founding, the data set has been downloaded millions of times in over 80 countries. How did all of this get started? In the second of a two-part series, Ryan Lewis (CosmiQ Works), Todd Bacastow (Maxar), Joe Flasher (AWS), and Alexei Bastidas (Intel AI) discuss how SpaceNet has evolved over the years and where they see it going in the future.