Open ML Helsinki Pilot meetup

This meetup is dedicated to recommender systems and their application in the industry. The event includes presentations, discussions, and networking, and might be useful for people, who apply machine learning in industry and academia. The speakers are Alexey Bogatyrev and Denis Kotkov.

!!!Note!!!
The event is free to attend, but we require registration in advance to ensure we have enough space for everyone.

The schedule of the meetup is as follows:
18:00 - 18:05: Introduction to ML Meetups Initiative
18:10 - 18:20: Introduction to Recommender Systems
18:20 - 18:50: Prod Scale MVP Recommender System Design
18:50 - 19:00: Conference Report (CHIIR 23)
19:00 - 19:15: Multi-Arm Bandits vs AB Test (Discussion)
19:20 - 20:00: Introduction of Peers, Discussion, Networking
We will organize more and larger events in the future, if this meetup gains sufficient interest.

Speakers:

Denis Kotkov
Postdoctoral researcher of University of Helsinki working on recommender systems, exploratory search, user experience and machine learning.
http://denis.kotkov.me/

Alexey Bogatyrev
AI engineer building recommender systems and ML based products.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/mighty-alex/