Watson Voice Agents, Neural Networks and Serverless for Mobile – watch November 2019 online meetup recordings
Tags: meetup, webinar, onlinemeetup, ibmcloud
Published: 2019-12-03 22:37:16

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title: Watson Voice Agents, Neural Networks and Serverless for Mobile – watch November 2019 online meetup recordings
description: Watson Voice Agents, Neural Networks and Serverless for Mobile – watch November 2019 online meetup recordings
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date: 2019-11-26 23:26:41 UTC
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[IBM Developer SF team](https://www.meetup.com/IBM-Developer-SF-Bay-Area-Meetup/) hosts weekly online meetups on various topics. [Online events are one of the best ways to scale](https://dev.to/ibmdeveloper/using-online-meetups-to-scale-your-developer-relations-program-17li) your Developer Relations program and reach developers anywhere, anytime and for a long time after the event.

The following online meetups we hosted in November 2019 with links to watch the recordings.  I also encourage you to join our [meetup](https://www.meetup.com/IBM-Developer-SF-Bay-Area-Meetup/) so you will always know when our online meetups are scheduled. Our meetups are hosted by the wonderful [Lisa Jung](https://twitter.com/LisaHJung) 👋.

**📹 Build Watson-Enhanced Voice Agents on IBM Cloud with Nexmo (November 6, 2019)**

In this online meetup with [Dave Nugent](https://twitter.com/drnugent)developers learned how through the IBM Voice Gateway and Nexmo platform integration, you can direct voice interactions with a cognitive self-service agent—IBM Voice Agent with Watson—or access real-time transcriptions of a phone call between two people.

[Watch the recording](https://www.crowdcast.io/e/build-watson-enhanced) 📺

**📹 Designing Your Neural Networks: A Step By Step Walk-through (November 13, 2019)**

In this online meetup with [Lavanya Shukla](http://@lavanya.ai) from Weights and Biases and [Upkar Lidder](https://twitter.com/lidderupk) developers learned:

- Different facets of neural networks
- How to setup a basic neural network (including choosing the number of hidden layers
- The role momentum and learning rates play in influencing model performance
- The problem of vanishing gradients and how to tackle it using non-saturating activation functions, BatchNorm, better weight initialization techniques and early stopping
- The Model Asset eXchange (MAX) on IBM Developer, a place where you can find and use free open source deep learning models for text, image, audio, and video processing

[Watch the recording](https://www.crowdcast.io/e/designing-your-neural) 📺

**📹 Serverless for Mobile Developers (November 20, 2019)**

In this online meetup with [Marek Sadowski](https://twitter.com/blumareks) developers learned:

- Who are the players in the Serverless ecosystem?
- What are some use cases for Serverless solutions – with using a Docker as the Polyglot action
- Best practices for the Serverless architecture for Mobile Backend as a Service
- Whether going Serverless is really faster, better, cheaper for developers and organizations
- Live coding examples using Swift, iOS, and Java and Android

[Watch the recording](https://www.crowdcast.io/e/online-meetup-serverless) 📺