Podcasts about Reza Zadeh

In this episode, Athletes in Action staff member and Denver Broncos team chaplain Reza Zadeh discusses his journey to following Christ and working in ministry and what it practically looks like to live out the great commission (Matthew 28:16-20). Learn more about Uncommon Sports Group or connect with our community.

How did God use Bathsheba's messy story as a prelude to the coming of Immanuel?

Join us this weekend as Reza walks us through Acts 14:1-7!

What is PRIDE? How does it look in our lives? And how can pride become a comfort zone?

God doesn't need perfect people, but what happens when we have elements in our lives that go unchecked? When everyone but you knows it's a problem? It's easy to see something, become enamored with it and let it lead us to sinning. Thankfully, as we see in today's message, Jesus' power is at it's greatest when we acknowledge that WE are too weak to handle the mess we've gotten into.

None of us wants to live a life preoccupied with ourselves. The message of the Gospel propels us to take the attention off of ourselves and redirects our attention from what we get out of relationships to how we serve within them.

This week we're doing something a little different on Inside the Chapel. Instead of hearing a message from a guest chaplain, the show's co-hosts, Ikki Soma and Reza Zadeh, have a conversation processing Buffalo Bills defensive back Damar Hamlin's on-field collapse a couple weeks and where their roles as chaplains come into play when something like that happens. Soma serves with the NBA's Houston Rockets while Zadeh serves the Denver Broncos. Zadeh shares what it was like being in an NFL facility in the wake of the incident and gives some insight on how he and other NFL chaplains served their teams in the days that followed. Chaplain serve a unique role within professional sports organizations, and this conversation offers a peek into how important their role is during tragedies or hard circumstances. "Inside the Chapel" is part of the Sports Spectrum Podcast Network. This episode is presented by Compassion International. To learn more about Compassion and what it means to sponsor a child, visit compassion.com/sportsspectrum. If you enjoyed this message, we know you'll enjoy these as well: — Steelers Chaplain Kent Chevalier – ‘False Religion' — Broncos chaplain Reza Zadeh on ‘Becoming the G.O.A.T' — Rockets Chaplain Ikki Soma – ‘What We Have in Christ'

What if heaviness in dark times, and seeming silence from God, is the precise way we can see the reality of Christmas? Jesus stepped into the darkness after 400 years of silence from God; how did believers keep their faith over all that time? When life feels most dark, the promises of God are the promises that we can cling to to carry us out of our hardest seasons and bring us into His light.

Is Jesus Christ really God? This is a question humans have been wrestling with since the day Jesus was born. Even when he was in his mother's womb. Different religions land on opposite sides when it comes to answering this question. Some say he was God. Some say he was a prophet of God. Some say he was an excellent teacher of Jewish Law with a unique rabbinic teaching method. Some say that he was just a good moral teacher. And still, some just don't care. This week on "Inside the Chapel," Pittsburgh Steelers chaplain Kent Chevalier lets listeners in on an episode of his own podcast, "False Jesus," where he explores claims that Jesus makes about himself: He came from Heaven (John 6:35-38). He has the power to perform miracles (John 10:36-39). He was sinless (John 8:45-47). He has the authority to forgive sin (Mark 2:5-7). He would die and come back to life (Mark 8:31). He is the only way to Heaven (John 14:6). He is God (John 10:30-33). You cannot believe one without believing the others. Either all these claims are true or none of them are true because these claims are tied to the person who's making them. Join us as we explore those claims this week. "Inside the Chapel" is part of the Sports Spectrum Podcast Network. This episode is presented by Compassion International. To learn more about Compassion and what it means to sponsor a child, visit compassion.com/sportsspectrum. RELATED PODCASTS: — Rutgers Football Chaplain Tyler Stowell – ‘Our Father In Heaven' — Broncos chaplain Reza Zadeh on ‘Becoming the G.O.A.T' — Jaguars Chaplain Maurice Williams – ‘Audience of One'

Control issues always stem from a place of fear. We push God out when we try to steer on our own. Since being a parent exposes our control issues like no other, you may be wondering if you can trust God with one of your greatest blessings, your children.

Rutgers football team chaplain Tyler Stowell joins "Inside the Chapel" again, this time to share a message about the Lord's Prayer. Stowell takes a deep look at who the God is that we pray to in Heaven and what it means for Him to be "our" father. This message shows what prayer looks like and how relational God is. There's never a bad time to go our Father in prayer. "Inside the Chapel" is part of the Sports Spectrum Podcast Network. RELATED PODCASTS: — Rutgers chaplain Tyler Stowell on worth – ‘Am I Good Enough?' — Broncos chaplain Reza Zadeh on ‘Becoming the G.O.A.T' — FCA minister Fleceia Comeaux on seeking God first

We've heard the phrase and asked the question: "Who is the G.O.A.T." — the greatest of all time? Every athlete pursues greatness, but being the greatest of all time in something is a feat only few can claim to have reached. On this week's episode, Denver Broncos team chaplain and "Inside the Chapel" co-host Reza Zadeh shares a message that he gave to a college football team from John 13 on what it looks like to pursue greatness. "It's great for us to pursue being great at what God has called us to do, he says, but our problem isn't in pursuing greatness. It's in how we define greatness. We try to be successful in the world's eyes, which doesn't always match being great and successful in God's kingdom. Listen in as he unpacks that concept. "Inside the Chapel" is part of the Sports Spectrum Podcast Network. This episode is presented by Compassion International. To learn more about Compassion and what it means to sponsor a child, visit compassion.com/sportsspectrum. If you enjoyed this message, we know you'll enjoy these as well: — Rockets Chaplain Ikki Soma – ‘What We Have in Christ' — FCA minister Fleceia Comeaux on seeking God first — Broncos chaplain Reza Zadeh on ‘God's Masterpiece'

How many of us are playing dress-up as a Christian, but the Gospel hasn't permeated our soul? The exact same spirit that raised Jesus from the dead dwells in us once we follow Christ and are redeemed in Him. Learn more from Reza as he tells us about freedom from human rituals and instead being motivated by what will bring glory to God.

Christ dwells in us through our faith in Jesus. When we are not plugged into the Holy Spirit, there are abundant resurrection resources that we fail to access by distancing ourselves from God. Jesus can handle everything we're struggling to manage. Take time to examine your current faith-state, and commit to reconnect.

One of the greatest questions we can ask ourselves is, “Who or what do I worship?" We all worship something, it's how we are designed. As we look at 1 Kings 18 and a showdown between Elijah and the prophets of Baal, we can draw parallels to our own lives and ask ourselves this question: "Are we giving our worship to powerless idols or the living God?"

Andy Young serves as the team chaplain for the United States men's national soccer team, and this week on "Inside the Chapel," he takes us inside the locker room with his message to the team before their World Cup qualifying win over Costa Rica on March 30 — the win that clinched the team's first World Cup berth since 2014. His message is about being on mission and discerning what we are called to do as followers as Jesus. He uses the idea of an "ambassador" and how we should be ambassadors for the gospel. What does it look like for a professional athlete to be radically different from his teammates and others? How do they use their platforms to be ambassadors for Christ? His message unpacks all of that. "Inside the Chapel" is part of the Sports Spectrum Podcast Network. If you enjoyed this message, we know you'll enjoy these as well: — Broncos chaplain Reza Zadeh on ‘God's Masterpiece' — Rockets chaplain Malcolm Marshall on the ‘Woman at the Well' — Western Kentucky chaplain Andrew Hammond on talents

Today on "Inside the Chapel," Denver Broncos chaplain, and co-host of the podcast, Reza Zadeh walks us through the core foundation of what salvation is and what it means that Jesus extends grace and mercy to every one of us. "Inside the Chapel" is part of the Sports Spectrum Podcast Network. This episode is presented by Compassion International. To learn more about Compassion and what it means to sponsor a child, visit compassion.com/sportsspectrum. If you enjoyed this message, we know you'll enjoy these as well: — Rockets chaplain Malcolm Marshall on ‘Woman at the Well' — Rockets chaplain Ikki Soma on Psalm 55, betrayal — Texas State FCA director Pat Ford on ‘Daniel in the Lions Den'

We want to focus on ways for each of us to strengthen our faith, move forward, and avoid stagnation. Being a faith-filled follower of Jesus does not mean we don't ever experience fear - it just means that FAITH is the FUEL that propels us through our moments of FEAR. And trusting that faith requires building your "faith muscles" through training and repetition.

God is good. He judges sin and loves those who live in the wake of sin's consequences. He had every right to walk away, yet he chose his son to become one of us to suffer with us. Our present sufferings are reminders of the global consequences of sin and our need for a Savior.

Today on "Inside the Chapel," Halifax Mooseheads team chaplain Andrew Pepper shares a message from Matthew 6:19-22 on storing our treasures in Heaven instead of pursuing temporal earthly treasures. This was his message to the team as they headed home for Christmas holiday season. "Inside the Chapel" is part of the Sports Spectrum Podcast Network. This episode is presented by Compassion International. To learn more about Compassion and what it means to sponsor a child, visit compassion.com/sportsspectrum. If you enjoyed this episode, we know you'll enjoy these as well: — Denver Broncos chaplain Reza Zadeh on ‘Perspective of Advent' — Rutgers chaplain Tyler Stowell on worth – ‘Am I Good Enough?' — WNBA volunteer chaplain Freda Doxey on identity – ‘Who Are You?'

God loves the world so much! Love is all over the story of Jesus' birth. He sent Jesus to be Good News for us. God sent his son that through him you might be brought into relationship with God. And that gift is available to anyone who will believe.

Today on "Inside the Chapel," Denver Broncos team chaplain and co-host of the show Reza Zadeh offers a message that shares the proper perspective on Advent. In this message, Reza how Advent means "waiting" and how in our walk with Jesus, there will be plenty of times where we have to wait on God and what God's plan truly is. "Inside the Chapel" is part of the Sports Spectrum Podcast Network. If you enjoyed this episode, we know you'll enjoy these as well: — Rutgers chaplain Tyler Stowell on worth – ‘Am I Good Enough?' — Rockets chaplain Ikki Soma on ‘Being a Witness' — Broncos chaplain Reza Zadeh on how to ‘Be Watchful'

Thanksgiving is a posture to be taken all of our lives. Being grateful is an action; when we choose not to express gratitude, we convey an attitude of ingratitude.

Today on "Inside the Chapel," University of Georgia men's basketball team chaplain Nolen Wood shares a message from 1 Corinthians 9:24-27 called "Run to Win" about self-discipline and finishing the race. Verse 24 reads, "do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one gets the prize? Run in such a way as to get the prize." As Wood explains, the prize at the end of our race is Jesus. "Inside the Chapel" is part of the Sports Spectrum Podcast Network. This episode is presented by Compassion International. To learn more about Compassion and what it means to sponsor a child, visit compassion.com/sportsspectrum. -- If you enjoyed this episode, we know you'll enjoy these as well: — Rockets chaplain Ikki Soma on ‘Being a Witness' — Broncos chaplain Reza Zadeh on how to ‘Be Watchful' — Oklahoma softball chaplain Sarah Roberts on feeling ‘Overlooked and Overwhelmed'

We see God's motives for commandments through Jesus' teachings. When it comes to the sixth commandment, it moves deeper than a prevention of physical murder to capping emotional harm. Earthly judges view your actions, but God judges your heart.

Today on "Inside the Chapel," Houston Rockets chaplain Malcolm Marshall shares a message from 1 Corinthians 10:23 on the decisions we face in life. Inside the Chapel is part of the Sports Spectrum Podcast Network. -- If you enjoyed this message, we know you'll enjoy these as well: — Broncos chaplain Reza Zadeh on how to ‘Be Watchful' — Pistons chaplain Jonathan Wynne on ‘Imminent Presence of God' — Rockets chaplain Ikki Soma on finding ‘Peace and Rest'

Reza Zadeh is a first-generation Iranian immigrant who was forced to learn American Culture through immersion. How to speak, how to act, and how to interact was learned through the lens of life in southern California and pop culture. Today the way he is as a husband, father, NFL chaplain, national ministry board member, and sought out mentor, is influenced by that. Listen to this week's episode to hear how Reza is inspecting his need to hurry, his approach to ministry, and the way that he parents through the lens of Jesus as compared to the teachings of the world. Don't forget to check out our https://www.theoveradrinkpodcast.com (website) and join our email list to receive updates and shared testimonies.  If you would like to support the mission financially, you can partner with us https://www.buymeacoffee.com/Overadrink (here). You can support monthly or in a one-time capacity.  Please email me at overadrinkpodcast@gmail.com ! Follow us on https://www.instagram.com/theoveradrinkpodcast (Instagram) Subscribe- Share- Write a Review!

Today on "Inside the Chapel," Denver Broncos chaplain and co-host of the show Reza Zadeh delivers a message from 1 Corinthians 16:13-14. Inside the Chapel is part of the Sports Spectrum Podcast Network. -- If you enjoyed this message, we know you'll enjoy these as well: — Detroit Pistons chaplain Jonathan Wynne on ‘Imminent Presence of God' — Houston Rockets chaplain Ikki Soma on finding ‘Peace and Rest' — Steelers chaplain Kent Chevalier on ‘Facing the Storms of Life' Receive our 10-day Sports Spectrum Devotional written by professional athletes for FREE when you sign up for our Sports Spectrum Weekly Email Newsletter. Sign up here.

Reza is a husband, father, NFL Chaplain for the Denver Broncos, and a campus director for Athletes in Action. He is originally from Abadan, Iran, yet spent most of his life in Southern California. He attended Colorado State University and had the opportunity to play football for the Rams. His love of investing in others and athletics lead him to coach at the collegiate level for 2 years before he started pouring his life into others on and off the playing field. He currently coaches business men and women, helping organizations align vision and mentor athletes. 

We are wired to worship and as we move through life, we must make sure to keep our attention on God and not give our worship to other "things" that are not worthy of our focus. We can strengthen our relationship with God by following his commandments and this week we are guided through the pitfalls of modern idolatry.

What spiritual challenges do young, wealthy, superstars face? How can we reach athletes with the message of Christ? Reza Zadeh grew up a Muslim but met Jesus through Athletes in Action (AIA) while playing football at Colorado State University. Reza pastored in Northern Colorado for 11 years before leaving to join AIA staff in 2015. He lead ministry on 3 college campuses before exclusively working with the Dever Broncos (5 seasons) and preaching around the country.

This week's sermon concludes our series on Galatians with the vital message that we as his followers do not need to behave a certain way to belong to God. Instead, our belonging to God and being a part of his family comes solely from the truth that because of what Jesus did on the cross we are new creations IN CHRIST.

Inside the Chapel is a brand new podcast produced by Sports Spectrum. Denver Broncos team chaplain Reza Zadeh and Houston Rockets team chaplain Ikki Soma are your hosts as sports pastors and chaplains from the around the pro and college level will bring a teaching message of faith and hope. Tune in July 13, 2021 and tell someone about the brand new Sports Spectrum Inside the Chapel podcast!

The story of Noah and the Ark isn't the fairytale it's advertised as. Noah acted by faith on something he couldn't see, requiring repeated acts of faith to move forward because there was so much uncertainty in what God was asking him to do. If we see God for who he is, it helps us to respect his discipline, boundaries and directives.

Managing our money is about our posture before God. We are stewards of what we have. Our giving isn't about supporting the church or God; we gain freedom through living with a generous heart by getting out from under something that cannot give back to us.

When shame screams, reminding you of what you've done, the God who stoops, kneels down and whispers, reminding you of who you are. God did not intend for you to carry the burden of shame. Jesus was sent, not to condemn, but to save you from sin and its separation from God.

Everyone has questions about suffering and why it is all around us. We know that even as believers in Christ we will still experience pain in this life. But our Christian hope is that we are now placed in Christ for eternity and we look to the future glory to come. We wait for that glory, making our way there through patience and prayer, knowing that to experience resurrection, you must first experience a death. We wait for that time with eager anticipation.

Why is light so central in the Bible? It’s the first thing God says in Genesis – “Let there be light” – and at Christmas we celebrate the coming of Jesus, the light of the world. This week we’ll look into the importance of light, and the good news delivered to humble shepherds on the night Jesus was born.

Now that Thanksgiving is over, how do we stay thankful moving forward? Jesus doesn't ever demand gratitude; however, expressing thankfulness unlocks an opportunity for us to be in relationship with God. We must move from just having grateful hearts to employing grateful habits which lead to appreciation that shows itself through actions.

We continue our study in the book of Titus looking specifically at how church elders are ordered to conduct themselves and how being gospel-centered and others-focused leads us to God’s design for the good life.

Continuing in our series on finding peace in spite of our circumstances, Reza speaks on what righteousness is; how God wants us to have a heart that seeks to be set apart, purified and restored through Him, leading to a peace we cannot achieve on our own.

False praise is not the same as an honest compliment. In continuation of our series on toxic talk, Reza addresses flattery and the impact that its excessive praise can have on our relationships with others.

An unwillingness to surrender your self-sufficiency to God creates a barrier to his ability, power and plans for you. You do not have to to have all the skills when setting out in reliance on God; God will equip you with what you need.

– W Iranie spotkałem Polaków, którzy pokazali mi piękno swojego kraju. Zaprosili mnie na swoje wesele, w Polsce mi się spodobało i stwierdziłem, że zostanę – mówi Michał Reza Zadeh, który mieszka tu od ponad dwóch lat.

Have you ever wondered why some PPC specialists get the most out of their campaigns while others can't get their ads to convert? In many cases, it's because they are using bid optimization tools for their marketing campaigns. Bidding software is used to optimize bids (how much you're willing to pay for ad clicks) many times a day. The software bases its decisions on many different data points such as profit, conversion value, and more. In this episode, I am talking with Reza Zadeh from AdSpert (adspert.net) about bid optimization tools, which they provide for Google Ads, Amazon, Bing, and Yandex. Follow Me Online Here: ------------------------------------------------------ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/artemdaniliants/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/artem.daniliants Twitter: http://twitter.com/artemd Website: http://www.daniliants.com

In this third installment of our series we focus on how men can have the best relationships ever by allowing themselves to become submissive as Jesus did for the church.

In a new step for The 10,000 Podcast, it's not just Sawyer and Matt on the podcast! We are joined by our first guest, Reza Zadeh, chaplain for the Denver Broncos, to dive deeper into his message from this past Sunday about withstanding the waves of this storm that we are currently in and how we can still have peace through putting our trust in a person - Jesus. If you haven't listened to his message, we definitely encourage you to check it out (www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0fbHkz2DwI&t=1s). Listen in for a great discussion about finding peace, how ministry looks different due to stay-at-home restrictions and COVID-19, and a lament of the lack of good Iranian food on the Front Range.

In a new step for The 10,000 Podcast, it's not just Sawyer and Matt on the podcast! We are joined by our first guest, Reza Zadeh, chaplain for the Denver Broncos, to dive deeper into his message from this past Sunday about withstanding the waves of this storm that we are currently in and how we can still have peace through putting our trust in a person - Jesus. If you haven't listened to his message, we definitely encourage you to check it out (www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0fbHkz2DwI&t=1s). Listen in for a great discussion about finding peace, how ministry looks different due to stay-at-home restrictions and COVID-19, and a lament of the lack of good Iranian food on the Front Range.

In a new step for The 10,000 Podcast, it's not just Sawyer and Matt on the podcast! We are joined by our first guest, Reza Zadeh, chaplain for the Denver Broncos, to dive deeper into his message from this past Sunday about withstanding the waves of this storm that we are currently in and how we can still have peace through putting our trust in a person - Jesus. If you haven't listened to his message, we definitely encourage you to check it out (www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0fbHkz2DwI&t=1s). Listen in for a great discussion about finding peace, how ministry looks different due to stay-at-home restrictions and COVID-19, and a lament of the lack of good Iranian food on the Front Range.

This week we get to be encouraged through a special message from Reza Zadeh, Denver Broncos Team Chaplain. We all are experiencing feelings of fear, worry, anxiety and unease during this unprecedented time. This week's message offers an antidote to these emotions and give us the secret to experiencing the peace we all desperately long for.

This week we get to be encouraged through a special message from Reza Zadeh, Denver Broncos Team Chaplain. We all are experiencing feelings of fear, worry, anxiety and unease during this unprecedented time. This week's message offers an antidote to these emotions and give us the secret to experiencing the peace we all desperately long for.

This week we get to be encouraged through a special message from Reza Zadeh, Denver Broncos Team Chaplain. We all are experiencing feelings of fear, worry, anxiety and unease during this unprecedented time. This week's message offers an antidote to these emotions and give us the secret to experiencing the peace we all desperately long for.

Evangelism simply means sharing the Good News of Jesus and as a follower it is something you are tasked with by God; you are on the missions field in your everyday life as part of the church. Think it sounds daunting? The message this week has easy (and reassuring) tips for starting if you haven't been sharing already.

Welcome back to the Clarity podcast for the second episode of 2020. We're so excited to bring you another episode that strives to bring you insight and applications for communicating and preaching. Today we have an awesome guest with us, Reza Zadeh. Reza played football at Colorado State University (Go Rams!), pastored at Timberline Church in Fort Collins, CO, and in 2014, he and his wife Allyson joined staff with Athletes in Action. Listen in today as Craig and Reza discuss communicating with clarity to a variety of audiences, the amount of emphasis we place on sports in our culture and our role within that, as well as digging into who God created us to be, individually. You don't want to miss this.

Welcome back to the Clarity podcast for the second episode of 2020. We're so excited to bring you another episode that strives to bring you insight and applications for communicating and preaching. Today we have an awesome guest with us, Reza Zadeh. Reza played football at Colorado State University (Go Rams!), pastored at Timberline Church in Fort Collins, CO, and in 2014, he and his wife Allyson joined staff with Athletes in Action. Listen in today as Craig and Reza discuss communicating with clarity to a variety of audiences, the amount of emphasis we place on sports in our culture and our role within that, as well as digging into who God created us to be, individually. You don't want to miss this.

This week we examine John's account of the blind beggar and Jesus' healing of his sight. This is a message about blindness and the progression from (spiritually) blind to becoming equipped to lead others to see what Jesus can do in your life. Our suffering can show others that we need to be in a place of surrender to God, rather than expecting that God will do things in the way that we would plan them, in order to pass from our darkness to his light.

In this episode of the Data Exchange I speak with Reza Zadeh, founder and CEO of Matroid, a startup focused on making computer vision applications easy to build and deploy. Reza is also an adjunct professor at Stanford.This particular conversation spanned many topics pertaining to computer vision, including:Challenges in building large-scale, real-time computer vision applications.Robustness of computer vision applications (adversarial attacks, deepfakes).Impact of computer vision technologies on society: security, privacy and surveillanceWe also preview the upcoming 2020 edition of the ScaledML conference: Reza is the main organizer behind one of my favorite conferences in the SF Bay Area.[full show notes can be found on the Data Exchange site.]

In today's world, having humility isn't necessarily seen as a personality trait of power, but being impressive and being blessed are not the same thing. Join Reza Zadeh as he discusses humility as having a subdued strength in recognition of a higher authority.

Dying Seeds / Reza Zadeh / Sept 14 & 15 by Plum Creek Church

This week guest speaker Reza Zadeh shares his story of transformation, and how he continues to live his life on mission with Jesus daily. We'll walk through the story of the prodigal son, sharing that each son in the story was striving for affirmation and worth in things of this world.

Buddhismus in der heutigen Zeit

Episode 191 Reza Zadeh was born in Iran in 1977. He came to the United States in 1980 at the age of 3.  Through his teen years in high school, Reza was focused on football and school but it was during his time at Colorado State in college that he was first introduced to Jesus Christ.  Today, he's the chaplain for the Denver Broncos and working for Athletes in Action ministering to college athletes at various schools across the state of Colorado. In part 2 of our conversation, Reza tells us what his Iranian family's reaction was when they heard his son had become a Christian, why community and establishing relationship with people allows us to share our faith, what the biggest spiritual battles he's seen athletes struggle, and how he gets fed in his spiritual life when so much of what he's doing is feeding others.  For more, log on to http://SportsSpectrum.com 

Episode 190 Reza Zadeh was born in Iran in 1977. He came to the United States in 1980 at the age of 3.  Through his teen years in high school, Reza was focused on football and school but it was during his time at Colorado State in college that he was first introduced to Jesus Christ.  Today, he's the chaplain for the Denver Broncos and working for Athletes in Action ministering to college athletes at various schools across the state of Colorado. In part 1 of our conversation, Reza shares his powerful testimony of coming to faith in Christ at college, why he came to the USA from Iran with his family and why ministering to pro and college athletes is something he has a passion for.  For more, log on to http://SportsSpectrum.com 

In this session, Reza Zadeh, CEO of Matroid, presents a Kubernetes deployment on Amazon Web Services that provides customized computer vision to a large number of users. Reza offers an overview of Matroid's pipeline and demonstrates how to customize computer vision neural network models in the browser, followed by building, training, and visualizing TensorFlow models, which are provided at scale to monitor video streams.

My guest for the fourth show in the O'Reilly AI Series is Reza Zadeh. Reza is an adjunct professor of computational mathematics at Stanford University and founder and CEO of the startup Matroid. Reza has a background in machine translation and distributed machine learning, along with having helped build Apache Spark, and the"Who to Follow" feature on Twitter, which is based on a chapter from his PhD thesis. Our conversation focused on some of the challenges and approaches to scaling deep learning, both in general and in the context of his company’s video object detection service. Our conversation focused on some of the challenges and approaches to scaling deep learning, both in general and in the context of his company’s video object detection service. We also spoke about the advancement of computer vision technologies, using CPU's, GPU's, the upcoming shift to TPU's and we get below the surface on Apache Spark.

The O'Reilly Radar Podcast: A special holiday cross-over of the O'Reilly Data Show Podcast.O'Reilly's Ben Lorica chats with Apache Spark release manager and Databricks co-founder Patrick Wendell about Spark's roadmap and interesting applications he's seeing in the growing Spark ecosystem.Here are some highlights from their chat: We were really trying to solve research problems, so we were trying to work with the early users of Spark, getting feedback on what issues it had and what types of problems they were trying to solve with Spark, and then use that to influence the roadmap. It was definitely a more informal process, but from the very beginning, we were expressly user driven in the way we thought about building Spark, which is quite different than a lot of other open source projects. … From the beginning, we were focused on empowering other people and building platforms for other developers. One of the early users was Conviva, a company that does analytics for real-time video distribution. They were a very early user of Spark, they continue to use it today, and a lot of their feedback was incorporated into our roadmap, especially around the types of APIs they wanted to have that would make data processing really simple for them, and of course, performance was a big issue for them very early on because in the business of optimizing real-time video streams, you want to be able to react really quickly when conditions change. ... Early on, things like latency and performance were pretty important. In general in Spark, we are trying to make every release of Spark accessible to more users, and that means getting people super easy-to-use APIs—APIs in familiar languages like Python and APIs that are codable without a lot of effort. I remember when we started Spark, we were super excited because you can write a k-means cluster in like 10 lines of code; to do the same thing in Hadoop, you have to write 300 lines. The next major API for Spark is this API called Spark R that was merged into master branch [early in 2015], and it's going to be present in the 1.4 release of Spark. This is what we saw as a very important part of embracing the data science community. R is already very popular and actually growing rather quickly in terms of popularity for statistical processing, and we wanted to give people a really nice first-class way of using R with Spark. We have an exploration into [deep learning] going on, actually, by Reza Zadeh, who's a Stanford professor who's been working on Spark for a long time and works at Databricks as well, as a consultant. He's starting to look into it; I think the initial deliverable was just some support for standard neural nets, but deep learning is definitely on the horizon. That may be more of the Spark 1.6 time frame, but we are definitely deciding which subsets of functionality we can support nicely inside of Spark, and we've heard a very clear user demand for that. Subscribe to the O'Reilly Radar Podcast: Stitcher, TuneIn, iTunes, SoundCloud, RSS

The O'Reilly Radar Podcast: A special holiday cross-over of the O'Reilly Data Show Podcast.O'Reilly's Ben Lorica chats with Apache Spark release manager and Databricks co-founder Patrick Wendell about Spark's roadmap and interesting applications he's seeing in the growing Spark ecosystem.Here are some highlights from their chat: We were really trying to solve research problems, so we were trying to work with the early users of Spark, getting feedback on what issues it had and what types of problems they were trying to solve with Spark, and then use that to influence the roadmap. It was definitely a more informal process, but from the very beginning, we were expressly user driven in the way we thought about building Spark, which is quite different than a lot of other open source projects. … From the beginning, we were focused on empowering other people and building platforms for other developers. One of the early users was Conviva, a company that does analytics for real-time video distribution. They were a very early user of Spark, they continue to use it today, and a lot of their feedback was incorporated into our roadmap, especially around the types of APIs they wanted to have that would make data processing really simple for them, and of course, performance was a big issue for them very early on because in the business of optimizing real-time video streams, you want to be able to react really quickly when conditions change. ... Early on, things like latency and performance were pretty important. In general in Spark, we are trying to make every release of Spark accessible to more users, and that means getting people super easy-to-use APIs—APIs in familiar languages like Python and APIs that are codable without a lot of effort. I remember when we started Spark, we were super excited because you can write a k-means cluster in like 10 lines of code; to do the same thing in Hadoop, you have to write 300 lines. The next major API for Spark is this API called Spark R that was merged into master branch [early in 2015], and it's going to be present in the 1.4 release of Spark. This is what we saw as a very important part of embracing the data science community. R is already very popular and actually growing rather quickly in terms of popularity for statistical processing, and we wanted to give people a really nice first-class way of using R with Spark. We have an exploration into [deep learning] going on, actually, by Reza Zadeh, who's a Stanford professor who's been working on Spark for a long time and works at Databricks as well, as a consultant. He's starting to look into it; I think the initial deliverable was just some support for standard neural nets, but deep learning is definitely on the horizon. That may be more of the Spark 1.6 time frame, but we are definitely deciding which subsets of functionality we can support nicely inside of Spark, and we've heard a very clear user demand for that. Subscribe to the O'Reilly Radar Podcast: Stitcher, TuneIn, iTunes, SoundCloud, RSS

Pastor Reza Zadeh, lead Pastor at Timberline Windsor, continues the Exodus Series: Off Road

Pastor Reza Zadeh, lead Pastor at Timberline Windsor, continues the Exodus Series: Off Road

Pastor Reza Zadeh, lead Pastor at Timberline Windsor, continues the Exodus Series: Off Road

Pastor Reza Zadeh, lead Pastor at Timberline Windsor, continues the Exodus Series: Off Road

Pastor Reza Zadeh, lead Pastor at Timberline Windsor, continues the Exodus Series: Off Road

Pastor Reza Zadeh, lead Pastor at Timberline Windsor, continues the Exodus Series: Off Road