Neural networks are both computationally and memory intensive, making them difficult to deploy on embedded systems with limited hardware resources. Song Han explains how deep compression addresses this limitation by reducing the storage requirement of neural networks without affecting their accuracy and proposes an energy-efficient inference engine (EIE) that works with this model.

TensorFlow is an open source software library for numerical computation with a focus on machine learning. Its flexible architecture makes it great for research and production deployment. Sherry Moore offers a high-level introduction to TensorFlow and explains how to use it to train machine-learning models to make your next application smarter.

E. Dunham walks attendees through the best practices for getting started with a new programming language, using the popular, new systems programming language Rust as an example. You'll leave this talk fully prepared to start working on your first Rust project and take full advantage of the language's famously welcoming community.

Every engineer dreams at some point of rewriting a legacy system. Rewrites introduce bugs, duplicate effort, and delays. Architectural evolution or incremental rewrites can be an alternative, but only if done properly. Michelle Brush explores good and bad patterns for evolving architectures, offering a framework for deciding what approach to take.

Some workloads work better on a hypervisor hosted within an existing operating system, while others work better on a hypervisor run directly on bare metal with no operating system host. Russell Pavlicek explores a growing breed of solutions that specifically leverage the architecture of a bare-metal hypervisor to address new concepts.

TensorFlow is an open source software library for numerical computation with a focus on machine learning. Rajat Monga offers an introduction to TensorFlow and explains how to use it to train and deploy machine-learning models to make your next application smarter.

If creating great design were easy, everyone would do it. The reality is that successful design takes an incredible commitment across an organization. So how do you embed great design practice in your culture? Robert Brunner, founder and partner at renowned design studio Ammunition, shares his experience creating meaningful products and services for Fortune 500 companies and startups alike.

Autodesk CEO Carl Bass talks about designing for our connected future. With sensors embedded all around us, data and design will need to converge to realize the promise of the Internet of Things (IoT). Carl examines the tools, techniques, and trends that will affect how things are made, with a particular focus on the connected products, buildings, and infrastructure hinted at by the IoT.