PIE & AI: Lebanon’s Deep Learners Meetup

The first deeplearning.ai meetup in Lebanon was hosted on 20 February by AI Readiness program in Lebanon which is a brand of Rebaie Analytics Group. This meetup is the kick start of building the AI hub in Lebanon and gathering AI and data enthusiasts and building the AI community in Lebanon.

The meetup started with a welcome video from the deeplearning.ai team, followed by demystifying AI terminology and defining Artificial Intelligence, Data Science, Machine Learning and Deep Learning, after that there was an open discussion about the future of AI and the intersection between AI innovation and real world. After that, there was a showcasing of AI use cases in real world applications, such as facial recognition in Facebook, Speech recognition in Whatsapp, virtual reality headsets, recommender systems, self-driving vehicles, digital twins technology, and intelligent robots. Moving to AI trends, we talked about using knowledge graphs, AI applications in healthcare and how we can apply AI systems to business industries. At the end, we distribute the print out papers about deeplearning.ai online program including AI for everyone course, Deep Learning specialization and Tensorflow in Practice specialization, also we encouraged attendees to take deeplearning.ai courses at Coursera with discount on courses for them.

Special thanks to deeplearning.ai and CIS College Nabatieh.