Learn about some of the key building blocks needed to develop intelligent machines. This one-day, online interactive event will give you experience with machine learning, voice recognition and computer vision.
This free event includes workshops, tutorials and a Q&A session with technical experts from MATRIX Labs, 96Boards, miniNodes, OpenMV, MbientLab and Acutronic Robotics.
This online event is brought to you by the Arm Innovator Program and Hackster.io
Learn how to do machine learning on an Arm Cortex-M microcontroller
Develop voice
controlled systems
Build an open source pick and place machine
Discover how to do edge computing everywhere
Keynote:
Rex St John, Sr. Manager Arm Ecosystem
Meet the expert tech talks:
Dr. Rand Hindi, CEO, Snips; The power and future of AI
Innovator Tutorial:
Innovator Tutorial:
Let's talk about robotics! with Chris Anderson, CEO of 3DR and Victor Mayoral Vilches, CTO of Acutronic Robotics
Q/A panel session with industry experts.
Panelists Nick Ni, Rand Hindi and Nisha Panjabi, with moderator Adam Benzion
DevDay concludes
In order to participate in the hands-on Innovator Workshop with MATRIX Creator, please make sure to have the following hardware.
Fully-featured IoT development board based on an Arm Cortex-M3 CPU, that also includes a Xilinx Spartan FPGA, sensors and wireless capabilities.
Single-board computer based on a Quad-core Arm Cortex-A53 CPU cluster with wireless LAN and Bluetooth connectivity
Includes Matrix Creator, Raspberry Pi, SD card and power supply
Note: In order to follow the workshop please make sure to have an SD Card (at least 8GB) to pre-load with this
Director of Product Marketing, AI & Edge Computing
Xilinx
Founder, CEO and Author
3DR
CEO, Entrepreneur and Data Scientist
Snips
Dr. Hindi is the CEO at Snips, the first decentralized, private by design voice assistant.
Nick Ni is the Director of Product Marketing, AI and Edge Computing for Xilinx.
Program Manager - Cloud AI
Director
Babilim Light Industries
Alasdair Allan is a scientist and researcher who has authored over 80 peer reviewed papers, eight books...
CEO and Co-Founder AdMobilize and MATRIX Labs
Community Manager and Engineer Linaro 96Boards
Robert Wolff is a technical writer, open source evangelist, community leader and engineer.
CEO and Founder
miniNodes
For over a decade, David supported advanced users in the hosting and dedicated server industry.
President & Co-founder MbientLab
President and Co-Founder
OpenMV
CTO
Acutronic Robotics
Laura is a former SoC engineer who now spends her time mentoring start-ups in the wearable and AI space.
Kwabena is a computer chip designer by trade who enjoys helping people solve computer vision problems in the real-world.
Victor Mayoral Vilches is an engineer who has specialized in robotics, and has experience leading research initiatives and projects in the fields of robotics and artificial intelligence.
This event is brought to you by the Arm Innovator Program that supports Arm’s global ecosystem of developers—talented individuals building innovative solutions to transform the way we live and work. Click here for more information about the program.
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Innovator workshop: Learn how to use the MATRIX Creator to unleash the power of voice recognition
9:15 – 11am
Voice controlled systems are at the forefront of technological innovation today. During this workshop you will be introduced to the MATRIX Creator, a versatile Internet of Things (IoT) development board. It was built with the mission to give everyone a complete, affordable, and user-friendly tool for prototyping and creating the next IoT device.
You will learn how easy it is to deploy Snips’ voice assistant on the MATRIX Creator using the MATRIX Core programming layer in JavaScript, to control various aspects of the MATRIX Creator.
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Innovator tutorial: Open-source low power deep learning on the OpenMV Cam H7
12 - 12:45
Deep learning algorithms are gaining popularity in IoT-edge devices due to their human-level accuracy in many tasks, including image classification and speech recognition. This creates increasing interest in deploying neural networks (NNs) on low-power processors found in always-on systems, such as those based on Cortex-M microcontrollers.
This tutorial will show you how to run image classification on an Arm Cortex-M microcontroller using CMSIS-NN, a library of optimized software kernels for running NNs on Cortex-M cores. This demo will take advantage of the flows optimized by OpenMV.
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Innovator tutorial: Solar-powered mobile developer workstation and extreme edge computing box with 96Boards and miniNodes
1:15 - 2pm
Learn how to build a solar charging, battery powered, developer platform powered by a 96Boards Arm single board computer with Designer, Gabriel Peterson. With the addition of an LTE and sensor mezzanine, this device is also capable of remotely monitoring environmental conditions.
This platform also contains a miniNodes small carrier board holding 5 Raspberry Pi Computer-on-Modules. These additional compute modules enable you to run small, specialized workloads or containers that can be remotely deployed to the box. This development platform can remotely be managed and updated in all conditions.
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Innovator tutorial: MbientLab open-source pick and place (PNP) robotic fantasy!
2:15 - 3pm
Electronic prototyping time and cost for small businesses and makers is limited by lack of personal access to SMT assembly technology. Affordable PNP machines are available to serve this market, but lack refined, localized and easy to use software.
Open Source software is available, but incompatible with any of these machines. This tutorial explains how to port an existing firmware project for CNC controllers to run on one of these machines.
Rodolfo is a serial entrepreneur productizing complex technologies. AdMobilize is a machine intelligence technology company reimagining humanity's relationship with the physical world. Joined by a brilliantly diverse team of 35, the company is recognized as one of the most promising companies revolutionizing the convergence of artificial intelligence, hardware, and software.
AdMobilize operates in two units: AdMobilze connects the physical world to the online grid by utilizing proprietary instant-detection computer vision and artificial intelligence technology for smart cities and retail businesses. The second business unit is MATRIX Labs that creates a brand-new app economy anchored on IoT and the democratization of artificial intelligence. MATRIX Labs is the brand behind MATRIX Creator and MATRIX Voice.
CEO and Co-Founder AdMobilize and MATRIX Labs
Community Manager and Engineer Linaro 96Boards
Robert Wolff is a technical writer, open source evangelist, community leader and engineer with a history of working in esteemed academic institutions and STEAM (science, technology, engineering, art and mathematics) educational programs.
Right now, Robert works as a community manager for 96Boards at Linaro. He helps maintain several of 96Boards’ Open Source orgs and repositories, runs a variety of community driven projects and initiatives, and hosts his own live, weekly online video podcast dubbed 96Boards OpenHours.
For over a decade, David supported advanced users in the hosting and dedicated server industry. During his career, David found all sorts of people doing innovative things with Arm technologies. Hackers and tinkerers were already making small robotics projects, IoT devices, machine learning, computer vision, and AI projects, automotive and self-driving applications.
If all these small devices run on Arm, and are communicating with servers in the Cloud, then why not simply have Arm servers on the other end processing that data and powering the Cloud?
miniNodes exists to evangelize Arm servers, and prove that not every application requires big, expensive, power hungry servers. The home automation hackers, IoT developers, Raspberry Pi enthusiasts, and casual coders of the world can get by just fine on a cost effective yet capable single board computer, functioning as a server.
CEO and Founder
miniNodes
President and Co-Founder
OpenMV
Kwabena is a computer chip designer by trade who enjoys helping people solve computer vision problems in the real-world. Kwabena, along with Ibrahim Abdelkader, founded OpenMV to make building and deploying machine vision powered devices easier and fun.
The goal of the OpenMV Cam project is to enable designers to put cameras into any product with minimal effort and be able to treat the whole camera/processor subsystem as just another sensor in a project or device. Previously, Kwabena developed the CMUcam4 as an undergraduate at Carnegie Mellon University before helping to had it manufactured in Asia, and sold in over 500 retail locations in three countries.
Laura is a former SoC engineer who now spends her time mentoring start-ups in the wearable and AI space. Laura is the co-founder of MbientLab, a wireless sensing solution provider used for product development, research, location and people tracking, asset and cargo monitoring.
Developers can use the platform to build a fitness tracker, monitor cold cargo, conduct medical trials, build a smart running t-shirt, or to simply send raw accelerometer data to the Cloud!
President & Co-founder MbientLab
Victor Mayoral Vilches is an engineer who has specialized in robotics, and has experience leading research initiatives and projects in the fields of robotics and artificial intelligence. Mayoral was selected in 2017 as one of the ten most innovative individuals under 35 in Spain by the MIT Technology Review for his work around modular robots. Supported by DARPA and SONY, Víctor and his team created a common infrastructure for robot components that allows to "standardize" the system integration process in robotics named H-ROS, the Hardware Robot Operating System.
Today Víctor is CTO of Acutronic Robotics where he manages the scientific and technological development of the company, acts as a technical advisor for several robotics companies and holds the ISO national expert position representing Spain in new standards for robots.
CTO
Acutronic Robotics
Dr. Rand Hindi (@randhindi) is an entrepreneur and data scientist. He is the CEO at Snips, the first decentralized, private by design voice assistant.
Rand started coding at the age of 10, founded a Social Network at 14 and a web agency at 15 before getting into Machine Learning at 18 and starting a PhD at 21. He has been elected as a TR35 by the MIT Technology Review, as a "30 under 30" by Forbes, and is a lecturer at Sciences Po in Paris. He was previously a member of the French Digital Council where he focused on AI and Privacy issues.
He holds a BSc in Computer Science and a PhD in Bioinformatics from University College London (UCL), as well as two graduate degrees from Singularity University in Silicon Valley and THNK in Amsterdam.
CEO, Entrepreneur and Data Scientist
Director of Product Marketing, AI & Edge Computing
Nick Ni is the Director of Product Marketing, AI and Edge Computing for Xilinx. His team’s responsibilities include product planning, business development and outbound marketing for Xilinx’s artificial intelligence products and software defined development environment for embedded systems.
Ni joined Xilinx in 2014. Prior to Xilinx he held multiple roles in R&D and applications focusing on embedded system design and high-level synthesis at ATI, AMD, Qualcomm, and Altera.
Chris Anderson is the CEO of 3DR, founder and chairman of the Linux Foundation's Dronecode Project, and founder of the DIY Drones and DIY Robocars communities, including the ArduPilot autopilot project.
From 2001 through 2012 he was the Editor in Chief of Wired Magazine. Before Wired he was with The Economist for seven years in London, Hong Kong and New York. He's the author of the New York Times bestselling books The Long Tail and Free as well as Makers: The New Industrial Revolution.
Founder, CEO and Author
Nisha Panjabi is a Program Manager at Google Cloud. Nisha works closely with the machine learning team on the early stages of new AI products and has helped successfully kick off several new products in the last year.
After graduating from the University of Arizona with a BA in Economics she explored several different career paths and eventually decided the tech industry is where she would flourish. Nisha has been with Google for a year. She started off as a sales representative and has recently grown into her current position as a program manager.
Program Manager - Cloud AI
Alasdair Allan is a scientist and researcher who has authored over eighty peer reviewed papers, eight books, and has been involved with several standards bodies.
Originally an astrophysicist, he now works as a consultant and journalist, focusing on open hardware, machine learning, big data, and emerging technologies — with expertise in electronics, especially wireless devices and distributed sensor networks, mobile computing, and the "Internet of Things.” He runs a small consulting company, and has written for Make: Magazine, Motherboard/VICE, Hackaday, Hackster.io, and the O’Reilly Radar. In the past he has mesh networked the Moscone Center, caused a U.S. Senate hearing, and contributed to the detection of what was—at the time—the most distant object yet discovered.
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