Taking place at the Reliaquest Auditorium in Tampa startup space Embarc Collective, the event featured a discussion about different ways to think about how we measure the value of work in the new world of AI, remote work, ubiquitous internet, and economic uncertainty.
Want to learn how AI can be used in your business or career, meet key people from Tampa Bay’s dynamic South Asian community, and enjoy some Indian food? Then you’ll want to attend the Indo-U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s panel, Practical AI: Turning Technology into Business Value, taking place next Tuesday, September 16th at 6:30 p.m. at Embarc Collective!
Learn how AI can be applied beyond theory to solve real business challenges.
Hear from leaders in academia, entrepreneurship, and applied technology.
Network with Tampa Bay’s growing AI and tech community.
Enjoy complimentary Indian cuisine while connecting with innovators and peers.
Speakers & Moderator
Moderator: Sam Kasimalla Sam’s one of the movers and shakers in the Tampa tech scene, and helped grow one of its most active meetups, Tampa Java User Group. An accomplished developer and business leader, he’s worked with hundreds of customers to achieve business objectives through technology.
You may have had the expression pictured above when you saw that The A-Z of Machine Learning comes from Packt, of all places. Given their reputations for “shovelware” books, I’d be suspicious too, and I was even a technical reviewer for one of their books:
My new gig doing developer relations for HP’s ZGX Nano AI station will require me to create a lot of tutorials, so I purchased The A-Z of Machine Learning as well as the Humble Bundle below to get a better feel for the sorts of AI tutorials that are out there.
Having gone through a couple of the courses in The A-Z of Machine Learning and skimming the others, I can say that it’s not bad. I’d feel robbed if I paid full price for all 19 courses, but at 18 bucks — less than a buck each — it’s a pretty good deal, and an inexpensive way for the beginning AI/ML developer to get started.
(While I generally only buy Packt’s stuff when it’s on Humble Bundle, there are exceptions. The iOS books by Tampa’s own Craig Clayton are quite good, and I paid full price for them.)
At the time of writing, The A-Z of Machine Learning will be available for 14 more days.
This one’s a little pricier that the Packt offering, but it’s from Manning, which has a stronger reputation than Packt’s, and goes beyond just Python and AI. If you’re looking for a mix of books and online lessons and want to be a little more well-rounded, this Humble Bundle is for you!
I also purchased this bundle. At the time of writing, the Create the Future Now bundle will be also be available for 14 more days.
In every thriving community, there are a handful of people you can point to as the ones who acted as the catalyst, the one who brought people together and helped them become something larger than the sum of its parts. In the Tampa Bay tech community, Vincent was a catalyst.
He was a co-founder of Tampa Devs, a non-profit organization that’s been bringing together programmers, technologists, and people who work in the technology field together since September 2021. They’ve held meetups, hackathons, socials, and all manner of get-togethers that have made the tech scene here in “The Other Bay Area” so much better than it was.
Vincent was a key part of the change in the local tech community, bringing his enthusiasm, energy, spirit, and curiosity to whatever project he took on. I had many long chats with him about what he wanted to do during the quieter moments at big tech gatherings.
Near the start of last year, Vincent went off to see the country. He asked me about a few places I’d been to, and I told him about some favorite spots and even made some introductions to some friends in other cities. He’d occasionally send me a text with photos from wherever he was a the time — Dallas, Chicago, and a couple of wide-open spaces he didn’t identify — with the last message from him earlier this year.
I hadn’t heard from him in months, and that happens with friends who travel; also, life sometimes just gets in the way.
So it was a surprise to find out last week that Vincent had died. He was too damned young, and even if he’d lived to a ripe old age, he was so sweet a guy that it still would’ve been too soon.
Happy Saturday, everyone! Here on Global Nerdy, Saturday means that it’s time for another “picdump” — the weekly assortment of amusing or interesting pictures, comics,
and memes I found over the past week. Share and enjoy!
Last night, Fractio hosted Back to the Future of Work, an event built around a panel discussion about changing the way we assign value to work in the age of AI.
I arrived early to set up my computer to run the pre-panel video…
…and check that the panel seats and mics were set up properly…
…then had some quick breakfast-for-dinner (which was symbolic of how our understanding of paying for time was about to be turned upside-down):
The event took place at Embarc Collective, who’d set up the room in a way that would let people comfortably eat “brinner” while watching the panel…
…and when the doors open, a room-packing crowd came in.
After a little time to let people get their food, breakfast cocktail, and mingle, they were seated…
…and the panel got under way!
Fatin Kwasny, organizer of the panel and Fractio CEO, moderated…
I enjoyed participating on the panel, and it appears that my fellow panelists did as well! I also heard from many audience members who found the event informative and entertaining.
Thanks to Florida CFO Group for sponsoring breakfast-for-dinner and breakfast cocktails…
…and to Byron Reese for providing us with copies of his book, We are Agora, to give to attendees!
