Past events

Welcome Back / AI tooling

How has your workflow changed over the past year

Whale Health Hackday

We hosted a hackathon based on David’s whale health presentation

Building a Birdsong Recognizer: AI Meets Ornithology

Training a CNN model to detect birdsong

Michael Gallimore

Lightning Talks

The goal was to provid a space for people to present a problem they’re working on, and get input and ideas from the community.

Getting High for Marine Conservation

Using drone footage to measure the health of whales

Let’s chat about Deep Seek

Presentation and reading of DeepSeek whitepapers

Peter O’Connor, Mike Gallimore

Lightning Talks 2

The goal was to see what technologies people in the community had been working with since our last meetup.

Elliot Salisbury, Guillaume Slevan-Tremblay, Elliot Salisbury

Building meaningful voice technology with hybrid AI+Human solutions

Miguel from Rev gave a talk on cutting edge ASR.

Collaborative Filtering (AKA recommender systems)

Here’s a link to the accompanying slideshow for the embeddings section of the talk.

Eagle Eyes Search

Computer vision for drones for SAR

Peter O’Connor

Version Control 101

In this double feature, Mike walked us through how to get set up using Git…

Mike Gallimore & Peter O’Connor

AI Alignment - why AI: might or might not kill us all

Ilva gave a great introduction to the…

Developing Chatbots in an evolving AI landscape

In this presentation, Guillaume described his process to…

Guillaumen Slevan-Tremblay

Geospatial 101

Elliot gave an excellent 101 class on processing geospatial data for data scientists who haven’t worked on that kind of data before.

Elliot Salisbury

Eric’s talk on Quantum ML

This was a fascinating talk on quantum physics, quantum computing and some applications of machine learning within all of this.

From scratch model part 2: training an image recognition model using fastai

In this presentation Mike walked us through how to train an image classifier using the fastai library. This was a group coding session from no-code to a working model.

From Scratch Model part 1: Getting set up with a free cloud machine learning environment in six easy steps

This is part 1 of Mike’s model from scratch presentation. This was a…

Intro to machine learning

This evening was an overview of machine learning for the benefit of newcomers, or people working in related fields.

Chat-GPT: The architecture behind the model

There is a slideshow accompanying this section.

Peter O’Connor

Numpy deep dive

This evening Peter hosted a talk on NumPy, a python numeric processing package which runs on C under the hood.

Peter O’Connor