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