11-02, 10:10–10:50 (America/New_York), Central Park East (Room 6501a)
Have questions after a keynote? Excited to learn more from one of our keynote speakers? Fireside chats are a great opportunity meet our speakers in a more intimate setting.
Join the moderator Erin Mikail Staples for a fireside chat with keynote speaker Soumith Chintala.
Soumith Chintala is an Engineer at Meta, where he works on high-performance Artificial Intelligence (AI). Soumith co-created PyTorch, a major scientific computing framework within the AI community. Soumith also holds a visiting research position at NYU, focusing on Robotics. Soumith focuses on high-performance computing, computer vision, generative AI and robotics.
No previous knowledge expected
Soumith Chintala is an Engineer at Meta, where he works on high-performance Artificial Intelligence (AI). Soumith co-created PyTorch, a major scientific computing framework within the AI community. Soumith also holds a visiting research position at NYU, focusing on Robotics. Soumith focuses on high-performance computing, computer vision, generative AI and robotics.
Erin Mikail Staples is a developer advocate, community human, tech educator, and comedian living in Brooklyn, NYC🗽 by way of Reno, NV 🤠.
She is currently a Developer Experience Engineer at LaunchDarkly. Erin hosts the DevRel(ish) podcast and performs and produces comedy in NYC.
Erin's various shenanigans have taken her to speaking at events like PyData Berlin and PyCon, garnered Jeff Staple's attention, appeared in The New York Times, broadcasted across the sound waves on the Practical AI podcast, or in USA Today's Storytellers Project, exist in the archive of the Museum of Alternate History and her mom's dogs's Instagram account.