MSA PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT SUMMIT
"Navigating your Career during the AI Revolution"
Join us for an exclusive event designed to provide ongoing development opportunities for graduates of our esteemed program. The summit is dedicated to fostering the growth and success of our MSA community, featuring a variety of sessions led by fellow MSA alumni.
This isn’t just another event—it’s a unique gathering where we come together to share knowledge, explore new ideas, and support each other’s professional journeys. We’re inviting our talented alumni to lead sessions, from dynamic lightning talks to potentially setting the tone as our keynote speaker. This is your chance to showcase your expertise, whether you’re passionate about a specific field or eager to test out new material in a supportive environment. The summit offers a fantastic opportunity to connect, learn, and grow with fellow alumni who share a common commitment to Georgia Tech.
Registration: $35.00
Hosted by: The MSA Program and MSA Alumni Steering Committee
Date & Location: Friday, November 8, at the GTRI Conference Center
MSA Professional Development Summit Schedule
Focus: Welcome and introduction, quick word about the current state of the data, analytics, data science, and AI space, purpose of the summit, plan for the day and how to gain the most value; plus a special word of encouragement (via video) from Mayor Andre Dickens.
Focus: Learn from this visionary leader as he delivers an inspiring keynote on the pivotal role of data and AI in shaping the careers of the future. Drawing from his extensive experience in the tech industry, hear how data and AI are not only driving innovation but also serve as essential tools for professionals looking to thrive in a rapidly evolving job market. Gain valuable insights into practical applications of data-driven strategies, and how these technologies can be harnessed to create impactful and fulfilling career paths.
Focus: Learn the importance beyond the models, technology, and AI applications about how to develop leadership skills to advance and improve your career journey
Focus: Embeddings are often viewed as feeding into larger models or algorithms as a means of support. However, learn this novel approach where embeddings themselves become the centerpiece of analysis. By mapping sequences into a latent space, we can track how the embedding of a sequence evolves as new events are added, which offers a unique perspective for causal analysis, allowing practitioners to observe with previously unattainable granularity how user actions impact their progression toward success.
Focus: Speed-dating style mentorship in roundtable format, 10 minutes each table with 4 mentors.
Focus: Learn practical techniques for network quantization, pruning, and compilation for efficient deployment and inference.
Focus: Gain insights from various industry sources about job types, growth, and responsibilities. Learn about industry job trends, and hear salary levels and bonus expectations for professionals in data, analytics, data science, and AI.
Focus: An enriching, honest conversation for working professionals and the future of AI.
Focus: Learn about available resources, future engagements, and other announcements.