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Recap of H2O World India 2023: Advancements in AI and Insights from Industry Leaders
On April 19th, the H2O World made its debut in India, marking yet another milestone in its global journey. The conference gathered an array of notable experts and enthusiasts from deep learning, artificial intelligence, and data science. A broad spectrum of topics was covered, shedding light on the strides made in AI technology and its ...
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Insights from AI for Good Hackathon: Using Machine Learning to Tackle Pollution
At H2O.ai, we believe technology can be a force for good, and we’re committed to leveraging its power to create a positive impact in the world. As part of this commitment, we recently organized an AI for Good Hackathon during the H2O World India event, where participants had the opportunity to apply their data science skills to a real-wor...
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How Commonwealth Bank is transforming operations with Document AI
Sonal Surana , General Manager at Commonwealth Bank of Australia shares recent innovative ideas at H2O World Sydney. It’s been a rollercoaster of a ride this first year of our partnership with H2O.ai, and the momentum continues to get even more exciting. We’ve heard from Matt about our AI ambition and how front and center it is for CBA s...
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Introduction to H2O Document AI
Mark Landry, H2O.ai Director of Data Science and Product, and Kaggle Grandmasters showcases H2O Document AI during the Technical Track Sessions at H2O World Sydney 2022. Mark Landry: I’m Mark Landry, with some different titles than you see on the screen here. I’ve got a bunch at H2O, so I’ve been at H2O for about seven and a half years...
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AI in Insurance: Resolution Life's AI Journey with Rajesh Malla
Rajesh Malla , Head of Data Engineering – Data Platforms COE at Resolution Life insurance takes the stage at H2O World Sydney 2022 to discuss AI transformation within the insurance industry. Resolution Life is the largest life insurer in Australasia. Malla discusses the use of H2O Driverless AI to predict claim triage and other insurance ...
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AT&T panel: AI as a Service (AIaaS)
Mark Austin, Vice President of Data Science at AT&T joined us on stage at H2O World Dallas, along with his colleagues Mike Berry, Lead Solution Architect; Prince Paulraj, AVP of Engineering; Alan Gray, Principal-Solutions Architect; and Rob Woods, Lead Solution Architect, CDO to discuss what they’re doing today and where they see the ...
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Deploy a WAVE app on an AWS EC2 instance
This article was originally published by Greg Fousas and Michelle Tanco on Medium and reviewed by Martin Turoci (unusualcode) This guide will demonstrate how to deploy a WAVE app on an AWS EC2 instance. WAVE can run on many different OSs (macOS, Linux, Windows) and architectures (Mac, PC). In this document, Ubuntu Linux will be used. T...
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How Horse Racing Predictions with H2O.ai Saved a Local Insurance Company $8M a Year
In this Technical Track session at H2O World Sydney 2022, SimplyAI’s Chief Data Scientist Matthew Foster explains his journey with machine learning and how applying the H2O framework resulted in significant success on and off the race track. Matthew Foster: I’m Matthew Foster, the Chief Data Scientist for SimplyAI. So, I’m going t...
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AI and Humans Combating Extinction Together with Dr. Tanya Berger-Wolf
Dr. Tanya Berger-Wolf , Co-Founder and Director of AI for conservation nonprofit Wild Me , takes the stage at H2O World Sydney 2022 to discuss AI solutions for wildlife conservation, connecting data, people, and machines. AI can turn a massive collection of images into high-resolution information databases about wildlife, enabling scienti...
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What it means—and takes—to be at AI’s edge with Dr. Tim Fountaine
Dr. Tim Fountaine, Senior Partner at McKinsey & Company joins us at H2O World Sydney 2022 to discuss why business leaders should care about AI, what mindset to adopt, and what actions to take to effectively bring AI into your organization. Dr. Fountaine discusses real-world examples and insights from McKinsey’s collaboration with the ...
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H2O World Dallas Customer Talks
After three long years of not having an #H2OWorld, we finally held our first one in Sydney to a sold-out crowd! We then followed it up with H2O World Dallas in the same week! It was a fantastic and jam-packed event with customers, partners, colleagues, and community members sharing how they leverage H2O.ai to accelerate and transform AI l...
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Make with H2O.ai Recap: Validation Scheme Best Practices
Data Scientist and Kaggle Grandmaster, Dmitry Gordeev, presented at the Make with H2O.ai session on validation scheme best practices, our second accuracy masterclass. The session covered key concepts, different validation methods, data leaks, practical examples, and validation and ensembling. Key Concepts While the validation topics cove...
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Make with H2O.ai Recap: Getting Started with H2O Document AI
Product Owner, Data Scientist, and Kaggle Grandmaster, Mark Landry presented at the Make with H2O.ai session on getting started with H2O Document AI. The session covered an overview of H2O Document AI , a tool to extract insights and automate document processing. The session also included a product demo, looking at documents as data sets...
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Advice for Those Getting Started on Their AI Journey
H2O.ai Innovation Day Summer ‘22 included a customer insights panel made up of Prince Paulraj, AVP, Data Insights and Chief Data Officer at AT&T , Chris Throop, Managing Director and Global Head of Data Science at Castleton Commodities International and Sean Otto, Director of Advanced Analytics at AES . One of the questions panelists...
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Scalable AutoML in H2O
Note: I’m grateful to Dr. Erin LeDell for the suggestions, corrections with the writeup. All of the images used here are from the talks’ slides. Erin Ledell’s talk was aimed at AutoML : Automated Machine Learning , broadly speaking, followed by an overview of H2O’s Open Source Project and the library. H2O AutoML provides an easy-to-use ...
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Image Tasks on H2O Driverless AI
I’d like to thank Grandmaster Yauhen Babakhin for reviewing the drafts and the very useful corrections & suggestions. Link to the video. IntroductionIn this talk Kaggle GrandMaster and Data Scientist at H2O.ai: Yauhen Babakhin shows us a few prototype demos of how DriverlessAI’s upcoming release will work with Image Data and the relat...
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Natural Language Processing in H2O’s Driverless AI
Note: I’d like to thank Grandmaster SRK for a lot of suggestions and corrections with the writeup.Note: All images used here are from the talk. Link to the slides Link to the video Note 2: All of the discussion here is related to NLP. DriverlessAI also supports other domains that are covered in other talks and posts (releasing soon). Driv...
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Highlights of H2O World New York 2019
H2O World New York happened a few days ago and we are still in awe of the conference. It is rewarding to see such a strong community and recognized industry professionals making meaningful connections and learning with each other. We are grateful for having so many makers and customers joining us – in person and via live stream – for a fu...
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H2O World New York: The Countdown is On!
Every H2O World is magical. The preparation for the conference starts many months in advance and we put a lot of effort and love in every single detail to provide our beloved community with the best experience possible. Our upcoming H2O World New York on October 22 is the third edition I work on as part of the marketing team at H2O.ai. My...
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Startup Aims to Democratize AI
Adam Janofsky at the Wall Street Journal wrote a wonderful article about our company, and our eloquent and philosophical CEO and Founder, Sri Ambati. The makers at H2O.ai believe deeply in our mission to democratize AI for everyone, and we can see a future where every company can be an AI company. Read more below, and enjoy! Startup Aims ...
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6 Tips to Having it All
I posted this blog on Medium two years ago, thought I’d share a slight rework of it with all the Mothers and Makers out there again.It’s Mother’s Day, and today is when I count my blessings. I am the mother of a wonderful blended family. I have four children of my own, and three stepchildren. Do the math… that’s 7! They are all great you...
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8 Tips to Make AI Happen Without Getting Fired
“AI is the fastest growing workload on the planet,” Mike Gualtieri of Forrester Research.Last week, during H2O World San Francisco, we had the privilege to hear featured speaker Mike Gualtieri from Forrester Research offer tips on how to make AI happen without getting fired. This knowledge, he explained, was acquired by talking to enterp...
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The Journey of Pi and AI: An AI conference with heart
I was in San Francisco this (past) week as part of H2O World 2019. I flew in the week before and took a red-eye flight back home right after the conference on Tuesday night. Like any technology conference, this one had fantastic presentations, training, and product roadmap presentations. We even live streamed it if you couldn’t be there i...
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The Making of H2O Driverless AI - Automatic Machine Learning
It is my pleasure to share with you some never before exposed nuggets and insights from the making of H2O Driverless AI, our latest automatic machine learning product on our mission to democratize AI. This has been truly a team effort, and I couldn’t be more proud of our brilliant makers who continue to relentlessly create and innovate. T...
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Top 5 things you should know about H2O World London
We had a blast at H2O World London last week! With a record number of attendees on-site and through the live stream, it’s clear that our AI and machine learning conference was indeed a huge success and we strongly believe this achievement is a result of dedicated preparation and great love – for and from – our community and makers. So, fi...
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Launching the Academic Program … OR ... What Made My First Four Weeks at H2O.ai so Special!
We just launched the H2O.ai Academic Program at our sold-out H2O World London. With nearly 1000 people in attendance, we received the first online sign-up forms submitted by professors and students alike. This program will massively democratize AI in academia, increasing the number of AI-skilled graduates – with both technical and busine...
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Makers in Action: Community, Partners and Team Members at #GTC18
NVIDIA’s GPU Technology Conference (GTC) has been incredible! Folks from all over the world are exploring the latest breakthroughs in self-driving cars, smart cities, healthcare, high performance computing, virtual reality, and more, all propelled by the AI movement. If you’re attending GTC and would like to see our solutions in action (r...
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Come meet the Makers!
NVIDIA’s GPU Technology Conference (GTC) Silicon Valley, March 26-29th is the premier AI and deep learning event, providing you with training, insights, and direct access to the industry’s best and brightest. It’s where you will see the latest breakthroughs in self-driving cars, smart cities, healthcare, high-performance computing, virtu...
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It’s all Water (or should I say H2O) to me!
By Krishna Visvanathan, Co-founder & Partner, Crane Venture Partners In the career of any venture capitalist, one dreads the “oh shit moment” . For those unfamiliar with this most technical of terms – it is that moment of clarity when a VC, in the immediate aftermath of closing one’s latest investment (often at the first post invest...
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Interview with Carolyn Phillips, Sr. Data Scientist, Neurensic
During Open Tour Chicago we conducted a series of interviews with data scientists attending the conference. This is the second of a multipart series recapping our conversations. Be sure to keep an eye out for updates by checking our website or following us on Twitter @h2oai. H2O.ai: How did you become a data scientist? Phillips: Until ...
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Interview with Svetlana Kharlamova, Sr. Data Scientist, Grainger
During Open Tour Chicago we conducted a series of interviews with data scientists attending the conference. This is the first of a multipart series recapping our conversations. Be sure to keep an eye out for updates by checking our website or following us on Twitter @h2oai. H2O.ai: How did you become a data scientist? Kharlamova: I’m a...
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H2O Day at Capital One
Here at H2O.ai one of our most important partners is Capital One, and we’re proud to have been working with them for over a year. One of the world’s leading financial services providers, Capital One has a strong reputation for being an extremely data and technology-focused organization. That’s why when the Capital One team invited us to t...
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Drink in the Data with H2O at Strata SJ 2016
It’s about to rain data in San Jose when Strata + Hadoop World comes to town March 29 – March 31st. H2O has a waterfall of action happening at the show. Here’s a rundown of what’s on tap. Keep it handy so you have less chance of FOMO (fear of missing out). Hang out with H2O at Booth #1225 to learn more about how machine learning can hel...
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The Top 10 Most Watched Videos From H2O World 2015
Now that we’re a few months out from H2O World we wanted to share with you all what the most popular talks were by online viewership. The talks covered a variety of topics from introductions, to in-depth examinations of use cases, to wide-ranging panels. Introduction to Data Science Featuring Erin LeDell, Statistician and Machine Learnin...
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H2O World from an Attendee's Perspective
Data Science is like Rome, and all roads lead to Rome. H2O WORLD is the crossroad, pulling in a confluence of math, statistics, science and computer science and incorporating all avenues of business. From the academic, research oriented models to the business and computer science analytics implementations of those ideas, H2O WORLD inform...
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H2O.ai at ODSC SF 2015!
As promised, we’re here reporting from the floor of the (H2O.ai-sponsored) Open Data Science Conference (ODSC). It’s been another wild day for us, with an early start at 7:30am to set up ahead of the show. However, the long days are all worth it for a chance to see you all in the field. While we thought bringing two boxes of booklets woul...
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H2O at ML Conf SF 2015
H2O is ubiquitous, and just like H2O, our team is everywhere! Today we attended the (H2O.ai-sponsored) 2015 Machine Learning Conference in San Francisco. Located at the gorgeous Julia Morgan Ballroom the ML Conference brought together some of the world’s foremost experts on machine learning, including the tireless Xavier Amatriain, VP of...
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H2O World Third Day Wrap-Up
H2O fans, we know that distance and the twin holidays of Veteran’s Day and Diwali kept many of you from attending the grand finale of H2O World, but we want to at least give you a taste of all that went on at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View. Day 3 of H2O World got off to a strong start with a massive panel on creating a cultu...
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H2O World Second Day Wrap-Up
H2O fans, we didn’t think that our second day could top our first, but somehow it did! Still, although we had record attendance, we know that a lot of you aren’t here. While we can’t hope to get across all that’s happened, we do want to share some of the highlights. The morning started off with CEO Sri Ambati welcoming attendees and givin...
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H2O World First Day Wrap-Up
H2O fans, we wish that all of you were here, but we also know that our community is spread across the globe and not all of you could make it to H2O World. However, those of you not able to attend the conference are just as much a part of our community as those that are. While we can’t hope to convey the energy and excitement of H2O World,...
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Pre-H2O World, Part 2
H2O fans, we have a day of data delights in store you for you tomorrow! The first day of H2O World is totally devoted to demos and walkthroughs designed to help YOU get the most out of your data. In fact, we have so many sessions planned that unless you have Hermione’s Time Turner, you won’t be able to attend them all. So choose wisely! A...
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Pre-H2O World, Part 1
H2O fans, the H2O.ai team is burning the midnight oil to get H2O World ready for you all. With an audience size twice that of last year’s event we’re going to pack the house at the Computer History Museum! This year’s event will feature 70+ speakers spread out over 41 talks, 22 training sessions and eight panels during the course of the m...
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