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SUMMARY:Artificial Intelligence: Creating\, Discovering\, and Listenin
 g to Music
DESCRIPTION:What does it mean to be human? Many would argue that it’s 
 our ability to create art and music. Yet we’ve seen. Can computers “li
 sten” to music? And how can you generate music with AI? This week\, we
 're exploring the intersection of music\, creativity and artificial in
 telligence with experts from Spotify\, Amper and Audioburst.\n\nSchedu
 le:\n\n6:00pm - Networking and Pizza\n6:30pm - Kickoff and Sponsors (T
 houghtWorks\, IBM)\n6:40pm - Talk #1: Drew Silverstein\, Amper Music: 
 How to Create Music with AI\n7:10pm - Talk #2: Assaf Gad\, Audioburst:
  Building the Google of Audio Discovery\n7:40pm - Talk #3: Eric Humphr
 ey\, Spotify: Machine “Listening" for Music\n8:10pm - Extended Q&A and
  Open Member Discussion\n\nTalk #1: How to Create Music with AI\n\nBio
 : Drew Silverstein is the CEO and a founder of Amper Music. Previously
 \, Drew was an award-winning composer\, producer\, and songwriter for 
 film\, television\, and video games in Los Angeles at Sonic Fuel Studi
 os. Drew graduated from Vanderbilt University's Blair School of Music\
 , where he studied Music Composition and Italian\, and holds an MBA fr
 om Columbia Business School.\n\nTalk #2: Building the Google of Audio 
 Discovery\n\nBio: Assaf Gad is VP Marketing & Strategic Partnership at
  Audioburst\, which aims to be the Google of audio search. Assaf has h
 elped build the world’s largest-growing audio library at Audioburst\, 
 an audio search engine pioneering the future of audio consumption/inte
 raction. At Audioburst\, Assaf has managed to partner with popular sma
 rt home devices such as Amazon Alexa\, Google Home and Microsoft Corta
 na and was an integral part in the acquisition of Robin\, an AI on-roa
 d assistant. Prior to N-trig\, Assaf served as CMO at PointGrab Ltd.\,
  a leading provider of IoT smart sensors for the building automation i
 ndustry. Before joining PointGrab\, Assaf led product management and m
 arketing teams at Powermat Technologies\,modu Mobile and Telmap Ltd. (
 acquired by Intel). Assaf holds BSc. in Computer Science from The Inte
 rdisciplinary Center Herzliya.\n\nTalk #3: Machine “Listening" for Mus
 ic\n\nBio: Eric J. Humphrey is a research scientist at Spotify\, and a
 cting Secretary on the board of the International Society for Music In
 formation Retrieval (ISMIR). Previously\, he has worked or consulted i
 n a research capacity for various companies\, notably THX and MuseAmi\
 , and is a contributing organizer of a monthly Music Hackathon series 
 in NYC. He earned his Ph.D. at New York University in Steinhardt's Mus
 ic Technology Department under the direction of Juan Pablo Bello\, Yan
 n LeCun\, and Panayotis Mavromatis\, exploring the application of deep
  learning to the domains of audio signal processing and music informat
 ics. When not trying to help machines understand music\, you can find 
 him running the streets of Brooklyn or hiding out in his music studio.
LOCATION:Thought Works  99 Madison Ave.\, 15th Floor  New York\, NY 10
 016-7409\, Thought Works\, 99 Madison Ave.\, 15th Floor\, New York
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 overing-and-listening-to-music-tickets-39153914412
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