Roman Mogylnyi, Reface. Three pillars of a successful deep learning startup: the story behind Reface
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Roman has been working with deep learning technology for the last nine years. The startup Neocortext (the predecessor of Reface) was focused on natural language processing and soon it pivoted into computer vision. For some time, the team functioned as an ML studio, providing services to Hollywood post productions. In 2018, the team created the first app based on the face swap technology – Reflect. In 2020, Reface was launched, a face-swapping app in videos and GIFs. It started a new era in the company’s life as well as a whole new market of content personalization. Now, Reface has 50 million installs and has become the first Ukrainian-born app that reached #1 in the US App Store and TOP positions in 100+ countries. Speech Overview: In September 2020, Reface became a #1 app in the American App Store, outpacing Netflix, TikTok and Youtube. It has reached 50 million installs in a short period of time and continues to revolutionize the market of content creation. Behind the success, there is a story of great and wrong decisions and understanding of three main pillars that transform super cool ideas into a super cool company: – technology – team – product Roman will share some personal stories and also approaches Reface use in their work.
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Yaroslav has been working in IT industry since 2008, delivering more than 50 projects in different domains across the globe. In the last few years, he’s been cooperating with high profile clients to provide guidance and support on their organizations’ journey to digital transformation. He worked with the biggest retailers in North America and tech giants such as Cisco, Dell, Suse, and Canonical. His most significant recent project is Data Science Platform (ML) developed in collaboration with Dell, Canonical, SUSE, and Intel (officially announced on February 2020). Today, he is a head of the IT Advisory Group at the Intellias Technology Office.
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Kostiantyn Bokhan, N-iX. CD4ML based on Azure and Kubeflow
Kostiantyn Bokhan, a technical lead at N-IX, focuses on data science projects. He leads data science projects in several areas: Computer vision, NLP, and signal processing as well as consults clients regarding digital transformations with AI. When free, he conducts research in the deep machine learning area. Kostiantyn has been an associate professor and faculty member of several universities since 2002. His research focuses on machine learning, deep learning, signal, and image processing. He received a PhD degree in network and telecommunications systems with research in digital signal processing in 2013. He has served on the scientific committees and review boards of several conferences.
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Applying machine learning to make business applications and services intelligent is more than just training models and serving them. It requires implementing end-to-end and continuously repeatable cycles of training, testing, deploying, monitoring, and operating the models. Continuous delivery for machine learning (CD4ML) is a technique that enables reliable end-to-end cycles of development, deploying, and monitoring machine learning models. There are a lot of tools and frameworks that can be used to implement CD4ML. One of them is Kubeflow. Our experience of using Kubeflow for implementing CD4ML for the manufacturing area based on Azure Kubernetes service will be described in this speech.
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Alexandra Motulskaya is a Data Warehouse and Big Data Specialist at Exadel, an international software development company. As a Data Engineer, she works with a global team that covers a multitude of AI, data engineering, research and programming related functions.
In addition to her regular project-based work with a top American data and measurement client, Alexandra is the leader of the Exadel Big Data Community, where she drives a number of initiatives through community events and other activities.
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Martin Kaszubowski currently serves as the Executive Director of the Institution for Innovation and Entrepreneurship at Old Dominion University. Marty has over 35 years of experience with a broad spectrum of public- and private-sector organizations promoting new venture formation, early-stage investment, technology commercialization, and innovation-led economic development. Marty has traveled with the CRDF Global STEP team since 2010, having made 12 separate trips to the former Soviet States: Ukraine, Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia. In addition, he has spent significant time with CRDF mentoring entrepreneurs remotely, reviewing program applications, judging entrepreneurship competitions, and working with incubators, accelerators, and others interested in promoting innovation-based entrepreneurship in the region. Marty holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Michigan, and a Master’s Degree in Technology Management from George Washington University.
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