Why Attend
Data has gravity.
It is well known that the network edge, in the Internet of Things, is where the critical mass of digital data resides, and where it is collected. Scalability bottlenecks to ubiquitous AI, such as power consumption, bandwidth, latency, connectivity and security have led to recent innovations in on-device processing and edge infrastructure such as micro-data centers and distributed computing architecture.
The Edge Computing market will reach $34 billion by 2023, growing at 35% annually, unleashing a wave of services and applications at the network edge that can be optimized with artificial intelligence. As a recent explosion in hardware innovation provides the necessary compute to migrate diverse AI workloads to the Edge, a new generation of edge-native and edge-enhanced software applications is emerging.
The Edge AI Summit will bring together 200+ key thought-leaders and industrial practitioners to discuss the challenges and opportunities of decentralized, distributed intelligence. Join us to examine use cases of edge-based artificial intelligence applications and explore this new computing paradigm that promises to accelerate and democratize AI adoption across the globe.
This event is intended for Senior Director/VP-level attendees and above, and is a high-level networking and business development meeting, with content tracks focusing on both business and technology.
Who Will Be There
The Speakers
Satyen Yadav
Stacey Higginbotham
Haseeb Budhani
Simon Crosby
Moji Solgi
Nicole Hemsoth
Rahul Vijay
Helenio Gilabert
Jemsheer Thayyullathil
Modar Alaoui
Maria Karaivanova
Maria joined Madrona in early 2017. As part of the investment team, Maria is focused on sourcing and evaluating new investment opportunities, working with portfolio companies to explore and evaluate business strategies and developing investment themes for the firm. She is particularly interested in founders doing new things in the enterprise software, cloud security, IOT, and infrastructure arena. She serves on the board of Madrona companies including Pulse Labs and Rigado.
Maria has nearly a decade of deep technology experience, garnered through roles at some of the world’s leading technology companies, including Cloudflare, Intel and Boeing. Maria joined Madrona from the executive team member at Cloudflare, a San Francisco – based web performance and security company, where she led business development and helped build the company from 25 employees to unicorn status.
While at Cloudflare, Maria built a global ecosystem of over five thousand partners and launched strategic partnerships with Google, Rackspace and other leading cloud platforms, delivering significant revenue and distribution. Prior to Cloudflare, Maria was an investor at Intel Capital with a focus on enterprise technologies and cloud security. She was also part of the Intel-McAfee strategic engagement team helping integrate security into firmware. Before that, Maria held various positions at Boeing specializing in intellectual property management and international business development for the Chinook, Apache and F-15 programs, and unmanned aircraft. She started her career as an analyst at Citibank. Maria has an MBA from Harvard Business School and a BSBA in Finance with high honors from Saint Louis University.
Yves Boudreau
Darren Liccardo
Rashmi Gopinath
Mike Henry
Robert High
Matt Trifiro
Ali Farhadi
Mohammad Rastegari
Gary Brown
Ian Chen
Val Cook
Peter Vajda
Richard Newcombe
Cheng Wang
CHENG WANG. Senior VP Engineering: Architecture, Software, Silicon. Originally from Shanghai, PRC. BSEECS, UC Berkeley. Cheng has led the architecture, silicon implementation and software development for eFPGA over two generations from 180nm-16nm and now neural inferencing. Two years as VLSI designer at Zoran. MSEE, EE PhD UCLA: designed 5 FPGA chips from 90nm to 40nm. 2013 Distinguished PhD Dissertation Award. 2014 ISSCC Lewis Winner Award for Outstanding Paper. Multiple patents at UCLA and Flex Logix.
Flex Logix’s NMAX platform excels at getting high hardware utilization at batch=1, which is critical for edge applications. Most of the new information is in the 2nd half of the slide deck.
NMAX delivers from 1 to 100+TOPS, as you need, at 10x lower cost and 3-5x lower power than existing solutions because we get 50-80% MAC utilization on tough models, meaning we need less silicon area, and we achieve it with 10x less DRAM bandwidth, meaning less DRAM cost and system power.
Paul Washkewicz
Igor Taber
Pete Warden
James Allworth
Gold Partner
Flex Logix
Website: http://www.flex-logix.com
Flex Logix’ NMAX inferencing accelerators provide very high throughput and hardware utilization even at batch size = 1, with low system cost and system power.
NMAX MAC utilization is over 50% even at batch size = 1. For most inferencing engines utilization drops dramatically from batch 10 to batch 1 because they stall loading weights. High MAC utilization means less silicon area needed for the same throughput.
NMAX uses proprietary Flex Logix interconnect technology to utilize local, distributed SRAM very efficiently generating very high local bandwidth and dropping DRAM bandwidth requires to that of 1 or 2 LPDDR4 DRAMs, even for YOLOv3 at 30 frames/second. This lowers power and lowers cost.
NMAX will be available in TSMC16FFC/12FFC in mid 2019.
Event Partner
Bitmain
Website: https://www.bitmain.com/?lang=en
Bitmain is a blockchain and semiconductor company, dedicated to the design and manufacture of high performance computing chips and software. They serve their customers globally with industry-defining technology – blockchain securitization, AI machine learning and more.
Bitmain envisages a world of limitless potential. A decentralized global eco-system which connects and benefits all connected to it.
Research Partner
XNOR
Website: https://www.xnor.ai/
XNOR is dedicated to accelerating AI and deep learning adoption in consumer and business devices. Its enterprise AI algorithms and self-serve developer platform deliver AI everywhere, for everyone. Unlike traditional AI systems that run in the cloud on massive data centers, XNOR enables AI to run on inexpensive devices with no internet connectivity. This new, highly scalable approach ensures complete privacy of data, eliminates the need for connectivity, and significantly reduces memory load and power demands without compromising accuracy. It is used by global corporations in aerospace, automotive, retail, photography and consumer electronics. XNOR’s platform is built on award winning research conducted at the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence.
Media Partners
Mind Commerce
Website: https://mindcommerce.com/insights/edge-computing/
Mind Commerce provides business information, market and technology insights for and about the global ICT industry. Coverage areas include communications, applications, content, and commerce. Premium B2B service customers include global ICT companies, enterprise, government, and NGOs.
Mind Commerce practice areas are directed at the ongoing transformation within communications, applications, content, and commerce. While our research practice covers a relatively wide range of ICT topics, we maintain a concentrated focus on certain key emerging and highly disruptive technology areas including Artificial Intelligence, Broadband, Computing, Data Management and Analytics, Immersive Technologies, and the Internet of Things.
Tractica
Website: http://www.tractica.com
Tractica, an Informa business, is a market intelligence firm that focuses on emerging technologies. Tractica’s global market research and consulting services combine qualitative and quantitative research methodologies to provide a comprehensive view of the emerging market opportunities surrounding Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, User Interface Technologies, Advanced Computing, Connected & Autonomous Vehicles, and Wearables & Digital Health. For more information, visit www.tractica.com.
NS Tech
Website: https://tech.newstatesman.com/
NS Tech is a new division of the century-old and globally respected New Statesman.
Their mission is to report at the intersection of technology, business and politics, and help IT leaders in business and government to find answers to the big questions:
Disruption: The digital revolution is reshaping the economy, but which sectors are being disrupted fastest, and why?
Transformation: How is technology helping organisations to transform their operations?
Policy: Are politicians and regulators keeping pace with technological change?
Security: As businesses move more processes online, how can they protect themselves from cybercrime?
The NS has a long history of talking to people at the top of business, politics and culture, and explaining how their views will affect the wider world.
Cognilytica
Website: http://www.cognilytica.com
Cognilytica is an Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning focused analyst firm producing adoption-focused research on application, use cases & market intelligence on Cognitive Technologies.
Verdict AI
Website: http://www.nridigital.com/verdict-ai-magazine/
Verdict AI is the magazine for managers and decision makers who need to keep informed about the latest developments in artificial intelligence, robotics and automation, and how they can be used to maintain the competitive edge of their businesses.
Stacey on IoT
Website: https://staceyoniot.com/
Stacey on IoT is a news publication covering the Internet of Things.
The Next Platform
Website: https://www.nextplatform.com/
The Next Platform is published by Stackhouse Publishing Inc and formally launched February 23, 2015, in partnership with the UK’s top technology publication, The Register. It offers in-depth coverage of high-end computing at large enterprises, supercomputing centers, hyperscale data centers, and public clouds.
Wire19
Website: https://wire19.com/
Wire19 is your quality news portal dedicated to the digital transformation, brought about by cloud and advanced technologies like Artificial Intelligence, IoT and more that’re driving innovation in different industry verticals like ICT, healthcare, retail, managed services etc.
We are the one stop IT news shop for key decision makers, service providers and managed service providers in the cloud business.
Solid State Technology
Website: http://www.solid-state.com
Solid State Technology reaches the largest, most qualified community of decision makers for semiconductor and electronics manufacturing through the magazine, email newsletters, website, webcasts and The ConFab Conference & Networking event. Topics include Advanced Packaging, MEMS, LEDs and Displays as well as current trends in the industry.
Visit us here www.solid-state.com
Chip Design Magazine
Website: http://chipdesignmag.com/index.php
Please visit our website for more information.IoT Now
Website: https://www.iot-now.com/
Launched in 2010 and read in more than 100 countries, IoT Now has become the leading global publication dedicated to IoT-enabled business. Online and in print quarterly, IoT Now analyses the opportunities and challenges in connected business, and reports on lessons from the real world of next generation IoT services.
CEX.IO
Website: https://cex.io/
CEX.IO is a leading Bitcoin exchange since 2013, developing and delivering innovative products to the market using blockchain technologies. At CEX.IO you can easily buy, sell and trade Bitcoins - no matter if you're beginner or an experienced trader.
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