We're excited to announce our first ever MLUX Seattle meetup with Getty Images! For this event, Andrea Gagliano, Head of Data Science at Getty Images and Josh Lovejoy, design lead for Ethics & Society at Microsoft, will share their tried-and-true user-centric approaches toward machine learning in society-impacting technologies. Andrea and Josh bring deeply human-first perspectives to machine learning systems, from their consistent considerations for the end user to the humans involved in creating training data, as well as the guardrails which will ensure ethical development of ML systems.

** Space is limited, so please register on Eventbrite to guarantee your spot. For security purposes, we will be closing RSVPs 48 hours before the event, checking IDs, and cannot honor transferred tickets **

About Getty Images

Getty Images is proactively innovating visual storytelling by putting the perfect image or video in every customer’s hands, be it for a society-changing headline or a brand’s next big campaign—and truly moving the world with images at the same time. Getty has the most trusted, esteemed and diverse visual content in the world with over 250 million images and videos encompassing the latest global news coverage from red carpet events to football stadiums to conflict zones, as well as conceptual creative images, and use machine learning to leverage all of it. With a global presence, Getty Images’ search interaction data comes from 50+ million unique visitors a quarter, from nearly every country in the world.

Our fantastic speaker lineup...!

Andrea Gagliano

Andrea Gagliano, Head of Data Science at Getty Images, builds ML/AI to fuel new products for creatives. She works with UX designers to support the creative experience and educates data scientists, engineers, product designers, and business leaders on building ethical AI products. Andrea studied ML/creativity at UC Berkeley.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/andreagagliano/

Josh Lovejoy

Josh Lovejoy leads design for Ethics & Society at Microsoft, guiding technical and experience innovation towards ethical, responsible, and sustainable outcomes. He believes that human-centered design thinking can change the world for the better; that by seeking to address the needs of people - especially those at the margins — in ways that respect, restore, and augment their capabilities, we can invent forms of technological innovation that would have otherwise been invisible.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/josh-lovejoy-b3080812

https://twitter.com/jdlovejoy

About the Machine Learning and User Experience Meetup

We’re excited about creating a future of human-centered smart products, and we believe the first step to doing this is to connect UX and Data Science/Machine Learning folks to get together and learn from each other at regular meetups, tech talks, panels, and events.

Interested to learn more? Join our meetup, be the first in the know about our events by joining our mailing list, watch past events on our youtube channel, and follow us on twitter. We also have a resource list of our favorite MLUX examples on Medium!

Sounds cool, right? Interested in joining the Getty team? Good news! There’s job openings - check em out!:

Want to join the Getty Images team? Getty Images is actively hiring for Data Scientists, ML Engineers, UX Researchers, and Designers who have experience working with machine learning, computer vision and natural language processing. Our challenges include personalization, making search results more diverse and inclusive, and enabling customer exploration and discovery. Reach out if you’re interested!

https://jobs.jobvite.com/gettyimages/jobs/all-jobs

While you learn, enjoy light snacks and refreshments provided by Getty!

Wednesday, February 12th, 2020, 6 – 9pm

doors open 6pm, start at 6:30pm

Getty Images

605 5th Ave S Suite 400, Seattle, WA 98104

You’ll find greeters in the lobby to direct you to Getty’s office on the 4th floor.

We are conveniently located above the International District Lightrail Station.

Agenda

6:00 - doors open, social hour

6:30 - 6:45 - mlux overview

6:50 - 7:00 - Getty Images welcome

7:00 - 8:00 - Lightning talks by speakers

8:00 - 8:20 - Panel discussion

8:20 - 9:00 - social hour

Ticket cancellation policy

Due to security purposes, we must close registration/RSVP for our events 48 hours before the event. We kindly ask that if your plans change, please cancel your ticket on eventbrite at least 72 hours before the event so we can release spare tickets to our waitlist. Thanks so much! :)

MLUX event are free to allow everyone access, no matter where they are in their career or industry. We have been super fortunate to have a fellowship from the Center for Technology, Society & Policy and the Algorithm Fairness and Opacity working Group at UC Berkeley to help us fund logistics, and fantastic speakers and sponsors to support us!

If you are interested in giving back and supporting us and helping enable us to invite other speakers who might not otherwise have access to speaking, please consider supporting us on Patreon!
https://www.patreon.com/m/mluxmeetup