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To create healthy online communities where people want to spend time, companies need better strategies for weeding out harmful posts. How do you break free of one-size-fits-all moderation techniques to stay ahead of harmful content and evolving language?

Don't miss this VB On-Demand event, where AI/ML experts from Cohere and Google Cloud get into the nitty gritty of managing user-generated content, from new innovations in natural language processing (NLP) models to state-of-the-art AI solutions. And you'll learn how to build safer communities that thrive by addressing toxicity, reducing user churn, maintaining a good reputation – and how to scale moderation efforts without hiring more staff.

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Agenda
  • Tailoring tools to your community’s unique vernacular and policies
  • Increasing the capacity to understand the nuance and context of human language
  • Using language AI that learns as toxicity evolves
  • Significantly accelerating the ability to identify toxicity at scale
Presenters
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David Wynn
Head of Solutions Consulting, Google Cloud for Games
David Wynn is a Solutions Consultant in the Games Industry Solutions Team at Google Cloud. In this role, he works across product, solutions, and sales teams to bring Google’s open source solutions to studios, publishers, and partners in the industry, and advises on cloud trends in games. With over six years of experience working in the intersection of cloud technology and games, David has helped studios and publishers of all sizes to grow, optimize, and reimagine the platforms they build to create meaningful experiences for players around the world. This work has included infrastructure modernization, analytic overhauls, and solving some of today's toughest machine learning problems. Before joining Google Cloud, David held positions in various fields including legal IT, logging and monitoring, and economic forecasting. He brings his easy-going spirit and love of the game everywhere he goes.
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Mike Lavia
Enterprise Sales Lead, Cohere
Mike Lavia, the Enterprise Sales Lead for Cohere, works to expand the reach of natural language processing (NLP) for all developers. Through his work, he has helped enterprise developers realize the power of NLP to solve complex language problems in order to better understand the content being posted on, and improve the trust & safety within their platforms. Mike brings over 15 years of experience in enterprise level sales in the tech space from Audience, Cisco, Twilio, and Cohere. His passion for AI and the future of NLP shines through his, and the team at Cohere’s, work in their efforts to protect people online and help businesses connect better with their customers.
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Dean Takahashi
Lead Writer, GamesBeat (moderator)
Dean Takahashi is the lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat. He has been a tech journalist for more than 28 years, and he has covered games for 21 years. He has been at VentureBeat since 2008. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat and GamesBeat Summit conferences. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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