Cognitive Builder Faire: San Francisco (4.21-4.23)

Master the Art of Data Science & Cognitive Computing
Start your data science and cognitive business journey by learning more about cognitive solutions like Watson and the IBM Bluemix Cloud platform!
Join a community of data scientists and application builders for an amazing 3 days of learning and data innovation. Whether you’ve been a data scientist for years, or whether you are just getting started, this is the forum to engage with industry leaders from leading research institutes such as NASA, to level up your application building skills.
Watch tutorials provided by experts teaching a suite of data engineering and cognitive computing skills in the areas of data wrangling, application building with Watson APIs, and other cognitive solutions to reimagine your workflow. 
You and your team of fellow community of developers will be able to apply what you've learned towards building a working application to showcase at the end of the 3-day event.

Start Transforming Your Business

Build super-powered data products
Use the best of open source tooling with IBM innovation
Solve your toughest data challenges with the best tools and the latest expertise in a social environment built by data scientists

Who should be there?
If you work in one of the following areas, this is a must-attend event:

Data Science
Data Engineering
Cloud Computing
Machine Learning
Data Strategy
Enterprise Data Management
Information Technology
Big Data
Data Analytics
Open Data

Agenda
Friday - Kickoff!
6:00p - 6:30p: Check-in & Networking
6:30p - 6:45p: Introduction and Kickoff Speakers: Jonas Jacobi IBM; Andrew Fitch, Galvanize
6:45p - 7:15p: Keynote Speaker: To Be Announced Soon
7:15 - 8:15: Computer Setup with Jared Thompson, IBM
8:15p - 8:30p: Closing Remarks Speakers: Jonas Jacobi, IBM; Andrew Fitch, Galvanize
8:30p - 9:00p: Networking
Saturday
7:30a - 8:00a: Check-in and Breakfast
8:00a - 8:20a: Welcome and Recap of days events Speakers: Andrew Fitch, Galvanize
8:30a - 11:40a:

Tutorial + Lab Cognitive/Watson Instructors: Josh Zheng & Jean-Carl Bisson
Tutorial + Lab R & Python Instructor: Polong Lin 
Tutorial + Lab Data Science Instructor: To Be Announced
Cognitive Builder Course  To Be Announced

11:45a - 12:15p - Lunch Break
12:15 Team Formations!
12:20p  Choose your Challenge and Build!  Watson/Cognitive Project  OR   Data Science Project
7:45p - 8:00p: Closing Remarks Day 1: Recap, expectations for day 2  Andrew Fitch, Galvanize 
Sunday
8:00a - 8:30a - Check-in and Breakfast
8:30a - 1:00p - BUILD!
1:00p - 1:30p - Lunch Break
1:30p - 4:00p - Project Showcase