As was the case last year, Kainos once again ran a two week AI Camp in Birmingham, taking place 9th – 21st September 2019, with around two dozen participants from across half a dozen Universities taking part. The AI Camp was again hosted at BCU Computing. One of the key highlights of the AI Camp occurred in the second week, that being the AWS Deep Racer (online) (online).
The camp was capped off with a Hackathon event at Kaino’s Office in Alpha Tower which required the participants to work in teams to develop and idea making use of AI, implement and present same to a panel of Judges with a number of prizes being awarded. The following tweets below should give you a good sense of what the event was like.
AI Camp 2019 Summary
Kainos AI Camp and Hackathon – Week 2 Summary (online)
Kainos AI Camp and Hackathon – Week 1 Summary (online)
AI Camp 2020 Registration
If you wish to participate in 2020 then you can register your interest (online).
That's a wrap in the Kainos AI Camp 2019. What an amazing evening with amazing projects presented, great achievement. Well done everyone! 🤓 #BhamAICamp2019 #Kainos @KainosSoftware @KainosAcademy pic.twitter.com/VxHmHG4E2Z
— misskayanne (@misskayanne) September 21, 2019
Was great to see all the demos and presentations @KainosAcademy #bhamaicamp2019 #hackathon today, looking forward to next year.
— Daniel C. Doolan (@dcdoolan) September 21, 2019
Team Intelligence representing women in technology 👏🏼 @KainosAcademy @KainosSoftware #bhamaicamp #kainos pic.twitter.com/fSzg27Y4t5
— misskayanne (@misskayanne) September 21, 2019
Presentations for AI Camp have began! 2 weeks of learning put to the test for our campers! 🤓 @KainosAcademy @KainosSoftware #Kainos #bhamAIcamp pic.twitter.com/1yDL3Lg13C
— misskayanne (@misskayanne) September 21, 2019
Prizes are waiting for their winners at #bhamaicamp2019 #Hackathon @KainosSoftware Including some subscriptions provided by @PacktPub ! pic.twitter.com/l6paKpZxRP
— Kainos Academy (@KainosAcademy) September 21, 2019
Have you cracked our code challenges yet? This one is all about #SQL. Write the right SQL queries below to get the requested data from our challenge database. How far can you get in 20 minutes? 🎮😆#KainosChallenge #KainosGradLifehttps://t.co/pMnzkodwgG pic.twitter.com/td9BcJkG3Y
— Kainos Academy (@KainosAcademy) September 20, 2019
After a week of learning #NLP techniques we have the winners for our second Kaggle #Competition on Amazon reviews sentiment analysis with 88% accuracy! Congratulations to @bunaciubianca, Sam Dowell, German Lopez! #bhamaicamp2019 #textclassification pic.twitter.com/lZy5iyz62a
— Kainos Academy (@KainosAcademy) September 20, 2019
Last recap session of the #bhamaicamp2019 before tomorrow's hackathon! Campers are also enjoying an interactive presentation skills workshop today. #presentations #hackathon #ML #AI pic.twitter.com/o2gelqsnE9
— Kainos Academy (@KainosAcademy) September 20, 2019
This summer, we masterminded some custom coding challenges. Designed for undergrads, play them now on our website! Crack the code, find the password, unzip the file, organise the puzzle – there's a challenge for everyone! Get cracking, coding and sharing! https://t.co/zG6vf62YGM pic.twitter.com/VXOuv9fBDu
— Kainos Academy (@KainosAcademy) September 20, 2019
Another great talk at #bhamaicamp2019 by @pedsm one of our @KainosSoftware software engineers about #AI and graph databases. Pedro also talked about his final year project on web crawling and knowledge graphs, sharing his lessons on the explore-exploit tradeoff! #Neo4j #NLP pic.twitter.com/lLhKFfCOmh
— Kainos Academy (@KainosAcademy) September 19, 2019
The AWS DeepRacer workshop took place yesterday at the #bhamaicamp2019 run by @M_Nevin and @awscloud. The campers had fun racing their cars driven by reinforcement learning! #ReinforcementLearning #MachineLearning pic.twitter.com/DpF07vikHL
— Kainos Academy (@KainosAcademy) September 19, 2019
Have you tried out our #CodeChallenges? Sharpen your wits before you go back to class with our #JavaScript #SQL and #Linux challenges! Play them today right here #KainosChallenge #KainosGradLife https://t.co/m7MguRKDXh pic.twitter.com/RpNC8TcWD4
— Kainos Academy (@KainosAcademy) September 18, 2019
Great event yesterday at #bhamaicamp2019 with the best time being the fastest time lap time the #AWSDeepRacer staff on site had seen in person! https://t.co/EVUtX51oxl
— Marc Nevin (@M_Nevin) September 19, 2019
Have you been following #AICamp #Birmingham this year, and want to be a part of it next year? Sign up for updates! 🔜 https://t.co/GbqkARiSXl pic.twitter.com/Gw2PEGfM92
— Kainos Academy (@KainosAcademy) September 18, 2019
Undergrads – we designed these code challenges just for you 😆! Use our Linux emulator to crack the code, grab the password and unzip the folder – how quickly can you complete the challenge? PLAY NOW 👩💻🕹️ #Bash #Linux #KainosChallenge https://t.co/39VT6gHT4p
— Kainos Academy (@KainosAcademy) September 18, 2019
Our first #bhamaicamp2019 car has made it around the track! pic.twitter.com/XG2G6HXNAv
— Marc Nevin (@M_Nevin) September 18, 2019
Quick update from @KainosAcademy #AI Camp here at @MyBCU … 👀‼️
This afternoon students will be racing AWS Deep Racer Cars around an 8 x 4 meter racetrack! 🚗💥
Visit Curzon C581 to see the race LIVE! Plus, if you like a challenge try this ➡️ https://t.co/NxQyWeC1YL 🧐 pic.twitter.com/uqsuc0R7E1
— BCU CEBE 💻🛠🏙️ (@bcucebe) September 18, 2019
Enjoyed this session with the #bhamaicamp2019 team https://t.co/BimlReGF1t
— Austin T (@AustinTanney) September 17, 2019
Data Scientist @PiersCampbell was at #bhamaicamp2019 yesterday talking about the award-winning work done by @KainosSoftware and DVSA improving the MOT test! #innovation #MachineLearning pic.twitter.com/2EbK4fwipy
— Kainos Academy (@KainosAcademy) September 17, 2019
One of yesterday's speakers was Dr. @AustinTanney Head of AI Engineering at @KainosSoftware talking about the hype behind AI, how AI greatly benefits the healthcare sector already and what the future may hold! #bhamaicamp2019 #healthcare #AI pic.twitter.com/NTxdarVElB
— Kainos Academy (@KainosAcademy) September 17, 2019
We have our winners for the first Kaggle competition! @bunaciubianca and @samchatfield97 classified images to one of eight different classes with >95% accuracy. Well done! #bhamaicamp2019 #Competition pic.twitter.com/PgC5iXagUb
— Kainos Academy (@KainosAcademy) September 16, 2019
Second week of the #bhamaicamp2019 starts with a recap quiz! pic.twitter.com/kyPCSnvoXn
— Kainos Academy (@KainosAcademy) September 16, 2019
Ending the week with an AWS Sage Maker workshop delivered by @ChloeMcAteer3 and @ScottKelso07, this year's Belfast AI Camp mentors! The campers also started a Kaggle competition with great prizes on offer! #bhamaicamp2019 #kaggle #AI #AWS pic.twitter.com/DqvrViTntQ
— Kainos Academy (@KainosAcademy) September 13, 2019
Today we had a special guest @KariLawler giving a talk & workshop about media perception and data ethics in AI, which is on a lot of people's minds nowadays. Looking forward to having Kari as a judge at our hackathon! #ethics #data #media #Hackathon #bhamaicamp2019 pic.twitter.com/kie3LbAXIn
— Kainos Academy (@KainosAcademy) September 13, 2019
Had a great morning guest speaking on the subjects of #AI Perception & #DataEthics to the students attending this year's @KainosAcademy #BhamAICamp2019 at @MyBCU. Can't wait now till Saturday's #Hackathon to judge the AI projects the teams come up with!🤓 @Youth4AI #Youth4AI pic.twitter.com/cEMK2lBXZ3
— Kari (car-ee) (@KariLawler) September 13, 2019
Yesterday we had @dolhasz sharing some tips and tricks to the #bhamaicamp2019 campers about how to get started with a career in deep learning! #DeepLearning pic.twitter.com/y41qUyO9Vn
— Kainos Academy (@KainosAcademy) September 13, 2019
During today's practicals we learned more about image classification and even covered Style Transfer! Lots of interesting results from our campers #BhamAICamp2019 #StyleTransfer #MachineLearning pic.twitter.com/SSOzX41Ear
— Kainos Academy (@KainosAcademy) September 12, 2019
CNN intro task – our picture of peppa pig… I honestly cannot tell the difference #bhamaicamp2019 pic.twitter.com/6qULtDJGHN
— JMillar (@Jayjay8722) September 11, 2019
It's drawing time! Who knew Peppa Pig would help us understand how Convolutional Neural Networks work? #BhamAICamp2019 #peppapig #CNN pic.twitter.com/D9JiqHFoas
— Kainos Academy (@KainosAcademy) September 12, 2019
It was a hugely enjoyable day. Nothing like enthusiastic and enquiring young minds to keep you on your toes.The questions were insightful and equally interested in the technology and the social impact of technology. Exactly the type of questions we should all be asking about Tech
— Tom Gray (@thomas_d_gray) September 11, 2019
We're excited to have @thomas_d_gray talk about his roles as the Kainos CTO and Innovation Leader, touching on insightful topics like the impact of AI on software development and different industries! #innovation #BhamAICamp2019 pic.twitter.com/lLLdjSA1Vg
— Kainos Academy (@KainosAcademy) September 11, 2019
Starting the third day of Birmingham AI Camp with Neural Networks. Dom is keeping everybody on their toes with the Fashion MNIST exercise.#BhamAICamp2019 #NeuralNetworks pic.twitter.com/SsxTyXVmsR
— Kainos Academy (@KainosAcademy) September 11, 2019
Our amazing Bham office Lead @tonyamcmorrow offered a Kainos overview to our campers today! Oneeb and Sadiq also talked about Data and how it can be biased, as well as the different roles available within the Data and Analytics capabilities! #bhamaicamp2019 #data #AI pic.twitter.com/fsFKE46Fov
— Kainos Academy (@KainosAcademy) September 10, 2019
Sadiq sharing an overview of roles within the Data and Analytics capability with in @KainosSoftware at #BhamAICamp @KainosAcademy #kainos pic.twitter.com/1hmognQzTf
— misskayanne (@misskayanne) September 10, 2019
Oneeb talking about Bias in data for AI at #BhamAICamp @KainosAcademy @KainosSoftware #Kainos pic.twitter.com/Wle96krEH0
— misskayanne (@misskayanne) September 10, 2019
@tonyamcmorrow doing her thing and introducing @KainosSoftware at AI Camp in Birmingham @KainosAcademy #Kainos #BhamAICamp pic.twitter.com/B764Jwac6f
— misskayanne (@misskayanne) September 10, 2019
First recap of the previous day in Birmingham AI Camp and we are delighted to see the campers are really engaged with the course!#bhamaicamp2019 #Recap #MachineLearning #AI pic.twitter.com/Pz5Y8biuhB
— Kainos Academy (@KainosAcademy) September 10, 2019
What a great way to spend my birthday!🎁🎉 Learning about AI and machine learning at #bhamaicamp2019 💻 followed by my favourite large falafel meal 😋then chill with family! 😊
Can't wait to learn more over the next two weeks @KainosAcademy pic.twitter.com/laekZi8yR9
— Chloë Allen-Ede (@EdeChloe) September 9, 2019
First day of the Birmingham AI Camp is now over having covered an introduction to Artificial Intelligence, icebreakers, python challenges and the very first practical machine learning exercise about linear regression! #bhamaicamp2019 #AI #Python #MachineLearning pic.twitter.com/HTCQuxK6ch
— Kainos Academy (@KainosAcademy) September 9, 2019
Icebreakers! #bhamaicamp2019 pic.twitter.com/9ftXcbZZE9
— Kainos Academy (@KainosAcademy) September 9, 2019
Icebreakers! #bhamaicamp2019 pic.twitter.com/9sUhUaTdF7
— Kainos Academy (@KainosAcademy) September 9, 2019
Birmingham AI Camp has officially begun! #bhamaicamp #kainos pic.twitter.com/ydfhFMfqdW
— Kainos Academy (@KainosAcademy) September 9, 2019
Looking forward to @KainosAcademy two week #AICampBirmingham starting 9th Sept, taking place @BCUComputing @bcucebe @MyBCU https://t.co/A2WgTJV8Fy
— Daniel C. Doolan (@dcdoolan) September 3, 2019
#AICampBirmingham kicks off next week! Make sure you're following us to get all the updates after what was an amazing edition in Belfast. pic.twitter.com/rAkR6wrApI
— Kainos Academy (@KainosAcademy) September 3, 2019
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