It is no surprise that reducing operational IT expenditures and increasing software capabilities is a top priority for large enterprises. Given its advantages, open source software has proliferated across the globe. Ron Bodkin explains how Teradata drives open source adoption inside enterprises using open source data management and AI techniques leveraged across the analytical ecosystem.

James Bradbury offers an overview of PyTorch, a brand-new deep learning framework from developers at Facebook AI Research that's intended to be faster, easier, and more flexible than alternatives like TensorFlow. James makes the case for PyTorch, focusing on the library's advantages for natural language processing and reinforcement learning.

Keynote with Michael I. Jordan

In 2016, digital advertising overtook TV in spend, requiring companies to cut through the noise to reach their audience. Manny Puentes explains how Rebel AI decides which ads to serve across devices and how it delivers multidimension reporting in milliseconds.

Wee Hyong Tok and Danielle Dean explain how the global, trusted, and hybrid Microsoft platform can enable you to do intelligence at scale, describing real-life applications where big data, the cloud, and AI are making a difference and how this is accelerating the digital transformation for these organizations at a lighting pace.