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Presenters: Sky Sun & Adam St. Arnaud, SamDesk
Title: Leveraging AI to detect crisis events
Abstract: Samdesk is an Edmonton-based startup that uses AI to detect and monitor global crises events in real-time. Our system ingests a range of social media and traditional web sources, and the scope of problems that our AI tackles include text classification, source trustworthiness estimation, input geo-localization, text similarity, and clustering. In this talk, we present how Samdesk helps our customers act smarter and faster, we examine some of the main ML and AI systems within Samdesk, and we discuss some practical lessons that we have picked up in terms of gathering and processing data and applying AI in production.
Presenter Bios:
Sky Sun finished her MA in Digital Humanities at the U of A and is working full time at Samdesk as Data Intel Team Lead. Her role at Samdesk is to enrich and manage data to support AI performance. She is passionate about taking a humanistic and interdisciplinary approach to solving technical problems.
Adam St Arnaud received his MSc in Computing Science at the U of A in 2017 under the supervision of Greg Kondrak. Adam is a Lead Machine Learning Engineer at Samdesk, where he has been working since 2017.
This presentation is co-hosted with AB Technology
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