Applied Natural Language Processing
Join the wold’s largest applied NLP community at this third edition of the virtual NLP Summit! Three days of immersive content including over 50 technical sessions, with focus days on open source, healthcare, and finance. Attend live Q&A sessions with the speakers, connect with others through networking features, and access all content on-demand after the event.
The second week will feature beginner to advanced live training workshops with certifications. Learn, share, and apply best practices for putting AI to good use!
Past Speakers

Barret Zoph
Member of the Technical Staff at OpenAI

Vishakha Sharma
Principal Scientist at Roche

Veysel Kocaman
Head of Data Science (Healthcare) at John Snow Labs

Moran Beladev
Machine Learning Manager - NLP & Computer Vision at Booking.com

Omri Allouche
Head of Research at Gong.io

Liam Fedus
Member of the Technical Staff at OpenAI

Lena Pfitzer
Principal Data Scientist at myNEO

David Talby
CTO at John Snow Labs

Sakshi Bhargava
Staff Data Scientist at Chegg

Gary Kazantsev
Head of Quant Technology Strategy, Office of the CTO at Bloomberg

Yishay Carmiel
Chief Executive Officer at Meaning

Maarten Grootendorst
Data Scientist at IKNL and Creator of BERTopic, PolyFuzz, and KeyBERT

Juan Martinez
Lead Data Scientist at John Snow Labs

Robbie Freeman
System VP & Chief Nursing Informatics Officer at Mount Sinai Health System

Joel Lehman
Researcher at Stochastic Labs

John Bohannon
Director of Science at Primer.ai

Suraj Patil
Machine Learning Engineer at Hugging Face

Sanchit Gandhi
Machine Learning Research Engineer at Hugging Face

Olivia Liao
Senior Director of Data Science at Stitch Fix

Daniel Svoboda
NLP Research Scientist at Johnson & Johnson

Usman Naseem
PhD Candidate at University of Sydney

Samuel Konstanty
Data Scientist at Loopback Analytics

Dia Trambitas
Head of Product at John Snow Labs

Brian Ulicny
Senior Technical Scientist at Raytheon Intelligence & Space

Vibhu Jawa
Senior Data Scientist at Nvidia

Mélissa Rollot
Data Science Manager at Quinten Health

Jayant Thomas
Senior Director AI/Machine Learning Engineering at Change Healthcare

Anjali Sreekumar
Engineering Manager at Lending Tree

Timothy Laurent
Principal Engineer - Machine Learning at Invitae

Neelesh Shukla
Research Scientist & Manager AI at State Street Corporation

Isaac Palka
Senior Director of Engineering at Invitae

Zach Wimpee
Clinical Effectiveness Analyst at Pieces

Jennifer D'Souza
Postdoctoral researcher at TIB – Leibniz Information Centre for Science & Technology

Mustafa Jarrar
Professor of Artificial Intelligence at Birzeit University

Tim Santos
Director of Devrel at Graphcore

Ragesh Hajela
Senior AI Engineer and Evangelist at Intel Corporation

Yanjun Gao
Postdoctoral Research Associate at University of Wisconsin-Madison

Harsha Gurulingappa
Head of Text Analytics at Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany

Jacob Wilson
Principal, Products & Technology at PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC)

Panos Alexopoulos
Head of Ontology at Textkernel BV

Ayush Singh
Sr. NLP ML Engineer at Cigna

Priya Shaji
Data Scientist at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Nandana Mihindukulasooriya
Research Scientist at IBM

Shobha Iyer
Lead Expert Big Data at Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany

Vasanth Sarathy
Senior Researcher at SIFT (Smart Information Flow Technologies)

Vishnu Vettrivel
Founder at Wisecube

Alex Thomas
Principal Data Scientist at Wisecube

Adam Hirsch
Vision Transformers and Automatic Speech Recognition in Spark NLP at Real Chemistry

Sam Schifman
Chief Architect at Diameter Health

Maziyar Panahi
Principal AI/ML Engineer – Senior Team Lead at John Snow Labs

Avinash Pathak
Expert Data Scientist at TomTom

Swati Sharma
AI Lead - Head of Data Science at Brillio

Chandrasekhar Subramanyam
Senior Professor at IFIM Business School

Swagata Ashwani
Senior Data Scientist at Boomi

Matthew Davis
PhD Canidate Biomedical Data Science & Informatics at Medical University of South Carolina

About
The NLP Summit is the gathering place for those putting state-of-the-art natural language processing to good use. This third edition of the virtual conference showcases NLP best practices, real-world case studies, challenges in applying deep learning & transfer learning in practice – and the latest open source libraries, models & transformers you can use today. The NLP Summit brings together the growing NLP community interested in building language understanding applications used in healthcare, life science, finance, eCommerce, media, recruiting, and more.

Topics Covered
- Scaling NLP pipelines
- Machine translation in practice
- De-identification of sensitive free-text data
- Speech-to-text models and applications
- Ethical issues in natural language processing
- Object character recognition (OCR)
- Applications of natural language generation
- Tuning transformers for domain-specific NLP
- Optimizations & benchmarks on deep learning chips
- Multi-lingual NLP models and applications
- Question answering systems
- Conversational AI and dialog systems
- Building knowledge graphs from large document repositories
- Comparing BERT, Albert, Roberta, Ernie & friends
- Applying the “pre-train and fine-tune” paradigm
- Clinical natural language understanding
- Information extraction from natural language documents