LONDON, April 3, 2017 /PRNewswire/ --

Deep learning owes its rising popularity to its vast applications across an increasing number of fields. From healthcare to finance, automation to e-commerce, the RE•WORK Deep Learning Summit (27-28 April) will showcase the deep learning landscape and its impact on business and society.

Of notable interest is speaker Jeffrey De Fauw, Research Engineer at DeepMind. Prior to joining DeepMind, De Fauw developed a deep learning model to detect Diabetic Retinopathy (DR) in fundus images, which he will be presenting at the Summit. DR is a leading cause of blindness in the developed world and diagnosing it is a time-consuming process. De Fauw's model was designed to reduce diagnostics time and to accurately identify patients at risk, to help them receive treatment as early as possible.

Joining De Fauw will be Brian Cheung, A PhD student from UC Berkeley, and currently working at Google Brain. At the event, he will explain how neural network models are able to extract relevant features from data with minimal feature engineering. Applied in the study of physiology, his research aims to use a retinal lattice model to examine retinal images.

Deep learning's extended applications in privacy and security will be touched on by Nicolas Papernot, a Google PhD Fellow in Security from Penn State University. Machine intelligence and deep learning exposes a new and current risk to security and privacy. He will describe the process where an "attacker" tricks deep learning models into make wrong predictions.

Learn more from De Fauw, Cheung and Papernot at the Deep Learning Summit in Singapore. Joining them will be 30 extraordinary speakers, including representatives from Facebook, P&G and Visa. Topics covered include Predictive Intelligence, Autonomous Vehicles, Natural Language Understanding, Deep Learning Algorithms, Computer Vision, AI for Business Efficiency, and Deep Learning for Enterprise. Held concurrently will be the Deep Learning in Finance Summit with notable speakers from HSBC, BNP Paribas, AXA, NTUC Income and Societe Generale.

Click here for more information and to register for the Deep Learning Summit or here for the finance track. View our comprehensive brochure here.

Summit attendees will also gain access to presentation slides, summit recordings and exclusive interviews on the RE•WORK Video Hub. Can't attend? On-demand passes are also available.

For further enquiries, please email hello@re-work.co .

SOURCE RE•WORK