{"id":659,"date":"2015-06-23T20:02:42","date_gmt":"2015-06-23T17:02:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/imagga.com\/blog\/?p=659"},"modified":"2019-06-06T16:06:22","modified_gmt":"2019-06-06T13:06:22","slug":"machine-learning-meetup-in-sofia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/imagga.com\/blog\/machine-learning-meetup-in-sofia\/","title":{"rendered":"Machine Learning Meetup in Sofia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Three year ago when we publicly talked about machine learning, deep learning, convolutional neural networks and AI not many people were getting it. It was hard to explain what all this is about. Things have changed, and for good.<\/p>\n<p>Last week we\u2019ve invited a bunch of people to Machine Learning meetup. The first in Sofia. 60 people attended and it was awesome. It\u2019s awesome to see so many people interested in AI and machine learning. And they were getting it. We are sure machine learning will be widely adopted in many tech verticals \u00a0in an year or so and are proud to be helping Bulgarian AI\/ML community to exchange ideas and grow.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Judging by the number of people and cases that has been discussed, lots of startups are already exploring the power of machine learning in various industries &#8211; e-commerce, bitcoin landing, real estate, to mention few. It\u2019s still the early days of ML community in Sofia, so we\u2019ve started with some basics. Judging by the variety of the questions after our short intro presentation, next editions of Sofia Machine Learning Meetup will be quite geeky and interesting.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<p><iframe style=\"border: 1px solid #CCC; border-width: 1px; margin-bottom: 5px; max-width: 100%;\" src=\"\/\/www.slideshare.net\/slideshow\/embed_code\/key\/w8WhFEeHFJ548S\" width=\"595\" height=\"485\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"> <\/iframe><\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-bottom: 5px;\"><strong> <a title=\"Machine Learning Meetup SOF: Intro to ML\" href=\"\/\/www.slideshare.net\/imagga\/machine-learning-meetup-intro-to-ml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Machine Learning Meetup SOF: Intro to ML<\/a> <\/strong> from <strong><a href=\"\/\/www.slideshare.net\/imagga\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Imagga Technology<\/a><\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three year ago when we publicly talked about machine learning, deep learning, convolutional neural networks and AI not many people [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":667,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,42],"tags":[52,58,91,92,93],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v17.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Machine Learning Meetup in Sofia, Bulgaria - Imagga Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"First machine learning meet in Bulgaria was led by Georgi Kadrev - CEO Imagga. 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