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06:30pm - Doors open, food and drink served

07:00pm - Welcome

07:05pm - Lu Wilson. TLDraw "Beyond chat: Bringing models to the canvas"

Whenever a new technology appears, our first instinct as developers is to offer "text" as the primary method of interaction. This has happened throughout computing history, with the computer terminal, with early smartphones, and now it's happening again with AI.
At tldraw, we’ve been working on moving AI interaction away from the chat-based interface, towards a richer canvas environment. It hasn't been easy! I'll show you all the challenges we've faced, and how we're currently overcoming them. Some of the solutions have been surprising.

07:45pm - Break

08:00pm - Wendy Mak. Senior Data scientist at the Stepstone Group "SetFit for efficient few-shot classification"

08:40 - Sean Tracey, Bacalhau "Generating alt-text with LVMs for Bluesky with Bacalhau"
alt-text makes the web more accessible for everyone, but not everybody takes the time to describe content they upload to social media platforms. So, we thought "Wouldn't it be great if we can use AI to automate that for people a touch?" And that's what we've done! Using Bacalhau.org and LLaVA (a Large Vision Model), we've built a Bluesky Bot which can generate alt-text for any image on Bluesky with just a single post!

09:00pm - Wrap up, drinks at Angel London

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06:30pm - Doors open, food and drink served

07:00pm - Welcome

07:05pm - Rachel Lee Nabors, Fractional Developer Experience Leader "AI/ML Cram Session"

What do acronyms like RAG and GPT really mean? What is the math behind the “magic” of deep learning? What is a “perceptron” and why is it called a “neural network?” This talk demystifies AI’s field of machine learning for AI-curious technical and non-technical audiences alike. The concepts, mental models, and history needed to grok are colorfully illustrated and explained. From the award-winning cartoonist turned engineer/keynote speaker who has taught millions of developers via react.dev and MDN.

07:45pm - Break

08:00pm - Rhea Mendonca, MSc in Data Science Greenwich University "Unlocking the Potential of Dark Data with Machine Learning"

This talk will focus on how machine learning can unlock the untapped potential of dark data—vast amounts of collected but unused information stored by organizations. I will explain how machine learning techniques can process and analyze this complex, unstructured data to uncover valuable insights that traditional methods often overlook. Through real-world examples from industries like healthcare, finance, and education, I will demonstrate how dark data can drive innovation, improve decision-making, and offer a competitive advantage.
Additionally, I will address the ethical considerations and challenges that come with harnessing dark data, including privacy concerns and data management. Attendees will leave with actionable strategies to begin leveraging dark data within their own organizations, transforming it from a hidden resource into a powerful tool for growth and discovery.

08:40 - Jason Chao, Director, Hongkongers in Britain (HKB) "Understanding immigrants' challenges with help from LLM"
Jason will share HKB's journey of building a tool that summarises and translates UK Hongkongers' discussions of their challenges. The talk will touch on the role of GPT-4o in this tool and the approach to ensuring participants' anonymity. The tool's output will help UK policymakers/local authorities understand UK Hongkongers' settlement challenges in a timely manner.

09:00pm - Wrap up, drinks at Angel London

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06:30pm - Doors open, food and drink served

07:00pm - Welcome

07:05pm - A short talk from our hosts Daemon

07:10pm - Ivan Kavalerov, CTO at Quantly "Unexpected learnings from deploying LLM products in enterprise"

07:50pm - Break

08:00pm - Sapnil Bhatnagar - Manager at Insife "AI Augmented Agile Product Development"

This talk will explore emerging AI tools which can now be utilized in your product development lifecycle and we will explore AI augmentation within your SDLC process.

08:40 - Artur Chakhvadze, Machine Learning Engineer at Stealth "Data as API: a principled data management approach for ML projects"

09:00pm - Wrap up, drinks at Angel London

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06:30pm - Doors open, food and drink served

07:00pm - Welcome

07:05pm - A short talk from our hosts Daemon

07:10pm - Thomas Wood, Director of Fast Data Science "Project Harmony: a free online tool using LLMs for research in psychology and social sciences"

Thomas Wood will present our work on Harmony, harmonydata.ac.uk, which is a free online tool that uses generative AI and LLMs to help researchers compare items in questionnaires such as GAD-7 (used to measure anxiety), even when they are written in different languages. Harmony is open source under MIT License and is written in Python, and uses HuggingFace Sentence Transformers to find similarities between questionnaires. Harmony will soon allow researchers to discover datasets using a vector search.

07:50pm - Break

08:00 - Vikram Haridas, Lead Product Manager at Groupon "Implementing AI-Driven Product Innovations: Strategic Insights and Practical Applications"

Vikram Haridas, from Groupon, will reveal how AI can supercharge product roadmaps. Learn how to balance excitement with realism as you scale AI features and discover practical use cases. Get insights into Groupon's success with AI-powered deal optimization and automated merchant onboarding, and learn how to implement these strategies in your own business.

08:40 - Shubhangi Goyal, Data Analyst @ ICS.AI Ltd and Nidhi Agrawal Director @UBS, "Generative AI and its use cases"

Our session will explore the transformative potential of Generative AI, focusing on its use cases in matching algorithms and its applications in the financial industry. We'll dive into how AI models enhance person-matching processes by analyzing large datasets for customer service, and personalization. Additionally, we’ll examine how Generative AI is revolutionising the financial sector.

09:10pm - Wrap up, drinks at Angel London

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06:30pm - Doors open, food and drink served

07:00pm - Welcome

07:05pm - A short talk from our sponsor Daemon

07:10pm - John Sandall, CEO & Principal Data Scientist at Coefficient "Fairness Tales: Investigating the use of AI tools in hiring and recruitment"

07:50pm - Break

08:00 - Andreas Varotsis, Head of AI Capability at 10 Downing Street "Measuring Bias and Impact in GovAI"

09:00pm - Wrap up

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06:30pm - Doors open, food and drink served

07:00pm - Welcome

07:05pm - A short talk from our hosts Daemon

07:10pm - James Jackson, Associate Director at S-RM, "Using LLMs to make complex assessments without knowledge loss"

07:50pm - Break

08:00 - Tom Scott, Founder and CEO at Streambased, "Enhancing AI with real time data: unlocking contextual insights"

08:40 - Pearl Prakash, Comcast, "Building trip itinerary planner with RAG"

09:00pm - Wrap up, drinks at The Bear

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06:30pm - Doors open, food and drink served

07:00pm - Welcome

07:05pm - An opening statement from Daemon

07:10pm - Konrad Bachusz, Lead Data Engineer at Credera, "State of AI in 2024"

Konrad Bachusz has a broad range of experience in finance and data, working in various industries including accounting, government, trading, healthcare, transportation, finance, and consulting. Currently, he is a Lead Data Engineer at a global boutique consultancy called Credera. His current role involves helping enterprise clients deliver data engineering, data platforms, and AI solutions. Konrad's interest in AI stems from his background in data analytics, data science, machine learning and data engineering. Outside of work he enjoys travelling, playing his guitars and programming.

07:50pm - Break

08:00 - Lucy Thomas ML Engineer at the Natwest Group and Dr. Ariadna Blanca Romero Senior Data Scientist / AI-Machine Learning Engineer at the Natwest Group, "Enterprise Scale MLOps at NatWest"

Lucy and Ariadna will take us on NatWest Group's journey of building an MLOps platform that streamlines the entire machine learning lifecycle, and examples of using additional tools to support MLOps. This platform has boosted team productivity, reduced manual workflows for building, training, and deploying models, and enhanced security and compliance.

Lucy Thomas is a Senior AI/ML Engineer at NatWest Group, working in the Data Innovation team. Her focus at the moment is building ML solutions for conversational intelligence that are reliable and robust. Outside of work she enjoys going to the gym, swimming in the sea and reading.

Dr. Ariadna Blanca Romero is a Senior Data Scientist/AI-ML Engineer at NatWest with a background in computational material science. She is passionate about creating tools for automation that take advantage of the reproducibility of results from models and optimize the process to ensure prompt decision-making to deliver the best customer experience. Ariadna volunteers as a STEM virtual mentor for a non-profit organization helping the professional development of Latin-American students and young professionals, particularly for empowering women. She is passionate about practising yoga, cooking, and playing her electric guitar.

09:00pm - Wrap up, drinks at The Bear

Agenda

06:30pm - Doors open, food and drink served

07:00pm - Welcome

07:05pm - An opening statement from Daemon

07:10pm - Damien Jade Duff, Senior Machine Learning Consultant at Daemon, "Building an educational video chatbot"

07:50pm - Break

08:00 - Steve Morris, Innovation Coach and Design Thinking Practioner "Storytelling to inspire"

09:00pm - Wrap up, drinks at The Bear

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06:30pm - Doors open, food and drink served

07:00pm - Welcome

07:05pm - An opening statement from WeWork about their exciting new offering for AI organisations

07:10pm - Ingrid Kolderup and Kari Mo, Software Engineers at Cisco, "How Deep Learning empowers video meetings"
In this talk, we will share insights into the use of ML techniques, such as object detection and classification, to improve video meetings on our Cisco devices. We'll discuss our wide range of ML models and their respective use cases. The session will include a focused examination of our head detection model, detailing the fundamental principles and demonstrating the specific functionalities it facilitates to refine the video meeting experience.

07:35 - Peter Kemp, Principal Consultant & Digital Transformation at FSP, "Launching Copilot for Microsoft 365"
Copilot for Microsoft 365 has the power to positively transform the modern workplace. Using LLMs and integrating your data and Microsoft 365 Apps, Copilot for M365 supports employees to be more productive, creative and collaborative. Pete will shared some of our experiences working with a number of organisations on launching Copilot for M365, including some of benefits and challenges it presents.

08:00pm - Break

8:20pm - Ian Osvald, Principal Data Scientist at Mor Consultin, "Llama.cpp for fun and (maybe) profit"
Running models locally on the CPU and possibly a GPU means we can experiment with the latest quantised models on real client data without anything leaving the machine. We can explore text question answering, image analysis and calling these tools via a Python API for rapid PoC experimentation. This quickly exposes the ways that LLMs go weird and maybe that helps us avoid some of the examples of early LLM deployments making embarrassing mistakes!

09:00pm - Wrap up, drinks at The Globe

Agenda

06:30pm - Doors open, food and drink served

07:00pm - Welcome

07:05pm - An opening statement from WeWork about their exciting new offering for AI organisations

07:10pm - Ingrid Kolderup and Kari Mo, Software Engineers at Cisco, "How Deep Learning empowers video meetings"
In this talk, we will share insights into the use of ML techniques, such as object detection and classification, to improve video meetings on our Cisco devices. We'll discuss our wide range of ML models and their respective use cases. The session will include a focused examination of our head detection model, detailing the fundamental principles and demonstrating the specific functionalities it facilitates to refine the video meeting experience.

07:35 - Peter Kemp, Principal Consultant & Digital Transformation at FSP, "Launching Copilot for Microsoft 365"
Copilot for Microsoft 365 has the power to positively transform the modern workplace. Using LLMs and integrating your data and Microsoft 365 Apps, Copilot for M365 supports employees to be more productive, creative and collaborative. Pete will shared some of our experiences working with a number of organisations on launching Copilot for M365, including some of benefits and challenges it presents.

08:00pm - Break

8:20pm - Ian Osvald, Principal Data Scientist at Mor Consultin, "Llama.cpp for fun and (maybe) profit"
Running models locally on the CPU and possibly a GPU means we can experiment with the latest quantised models on real client data without anything leaving the machine. We can explore text question answering, image analysis and calling these tools via a Python API for rapid PoC experimentation. This quickly exposes the ways that LLMs go weird and maybe that helps us avoid some of the examples of early LLM deployments making embarrassing mistakes!

09:00pm - Wrap up, drinks at The Globe

Join us at the Huckletree Shoreditch Auditorium March 6th for a special event all about development with AI. Come along for an evening of talks, food, and conversation with ML and AI industry pros, generously sponsored by SambaNova.

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06:30pm - Doors open, food and drink served

07:00pm - Welcome

07:15pm - Kunle Olukotun, SambaNova, An exciting announcement

07:55pm - Break

8:10pm - Anton McGonnell, SambaNova, Demo

8:30pm - John Sandall, Coefficient, How to build an open-source LLM chat agent

09:00pm - Wrap up, drinks at The Singer Tavern

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06:30pm - Doors open, food and drink served

07:00pm - Welcome

07:15pm - Henry Musto, PhD candidate at Goldsmiths University of London, "Artificial Intelligence in Alzheimer's modelling - Challenges and missteps"

07:55pm - Break

8:10pm - Jackson Gabbard, Cord "Why are embedding vectors so absurdly useful?"

8:50pm - Ruby Stoddart, Datasparq "Scalable Optimisation of a Dynamic Pricing Model"

09:00pm - Wrap up, drinks at The Sir Christopher Hatton

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06:30pm - Doors open, food and drink served

07:00pm - Welcome

07:15pm - Damien Jade Duff, Daemon & Jenny Vega, AWS "Integrating Huggingface TGI and the latest Sagemaker features for fast, cheap, and generic inference and chat"

07:55pm - Break

08:10pm - Ben Linden & Jordan Plamer, Datasparq "Dynamic Allocated Seat Pricing Using Reinforcement Learning"

8:40pm - Lawrence Knight, Head of Health Data Science Vitality "What you need to know if you want to think about AGI"

8:50pm - Daniel DeBurgo, Daemon "Blog automation with ChatGPT"

09:00pm - Wrap up, drinks at The Bear

Agenda

06:30pm - Doors open, food and drink served

07:00pm - Welcome

07:15pm - Ben Preston, Capgemini "The Bee's Code: How to use bee data to drive human behaviours"

07:55pm - Break

8:10pm - Carolina Camacho, Cisco "ChatGPT and YAML: a Router configuration use case"

09:00pm - Wrap up

Agenda

06:30pm - Doors open, food and drink served

07:00pm - Welcome

07:15pm - Jess McQuade (Data Scientist) and Adil Rahman (Senior Data Scientist), Datasparq "Predicting part consumption for aircraft maintenance"

07:55pm - Break

08:10pm - Meryem Arik, TitanML "Deploying LLMs: Bigger Isn't Always Better When It Comes to GPUs"

09:00pm - Wrap up

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06:30pm - Doors open, food and drink served

07:00pm - Welcome

07:05pm - Caspar Chater, Kew "Forest-Risk Commodity Traceability using AI"

07:45pm - Break

08:00pm - Daniel Hulme, Chief AI Officer at WPP "Rethinking AI and it's impact on Business and Society."

08:40pm - Daisy Riley, AWS "The Impact of Generative AI on Retail"

09:00pm - Wrap up

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06:30pm - Doors open, food and drink served
07:00pm - Welcome
07:05pm - Ben Gamble, Aiven "ML powered data matching to make real time decisions"
07:45pm - Break
08:00pm - Sha Ali,Elf Kare "Beyond the Hype - Tech for Good using practical AI"
08:40pm - Fran Knight, Daemon, "AI meets Neuroscience: would you let chatGPT read your mind?"
09:00pm - Wrap up

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06:30pm - Doors open, food and drink served
07:00pm - Welcome
07:05pm - Vinay Kumar Sankarpu, [Arya.ai](http://arya.ai/) “How to design ML Observability for high-risk AI use cases”
07:45pm - Break
08:00pm - John Wyllie and Matt Simmons, Datasparq “Solving large-scale vehicle routing by Datasparq“
08:40pm - Namit Chada, Shape, “Shape: AI meets Databases”
09:00pm - Wrap up

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06:30pm - Doors open, food and drink served
07:00pm - Welcome
07:05pm - Ricardo Sueiras, AWS, "An introduction into workflow orchestration using Apache Airflow"
07:30pm - Break
07:40pm - Ed Shee, Seldon "Mastering the Game of TL;DW - Auto-Summarization for Conference Goers"
08:10pm - Break
08:20pm - Davies Oludare, Confluent "How I help my customers solve problems with OSS"
08:50pm - Wrap up

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06:30pm - Doors open, food and drink served
07:00pm - Welcome
07:05pm - Pavel Katunin, "How to build a scalable robots ensemble to collect big microscope imaging data"
07:45pm - Break
08:00pm - Ash Patel, Escher Cloud “Sustainability or AI for good? Do we need to choose?”
08:40pm - Daniel De Burgo, Daemon “Blog Automation with ChatGPT”
09:00pm - Wrap up

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06:30pm - Doors open, food and drink served
07:00pm - Welcome and introductions from Imran Choudhry from the Linkxar Founders Network
07:05pm - Lucy Thomas & Yordanka Ivanova, Natwest "Enterprise Scale MLOps at NatWest"
07:45pm - Break
08:00pm - Pierre Pakey, LAIYE “Revolutionise Intelligent Automation with Large Language Models“
08:40pm - Naomi Pearse, Daemon “EU Legislation on AI“
09:00pm - Wrap up

Agenda
06:30pm - Doors open, food and drink served
07:00pm - Welcome and introductions from Imran Choudhry from the Linkxar Founders Network
07:05pm - Lucy Thomas & Yordanka Ivanova, Natwest "Enterprise Scale MLOps at NatWest"
07:45pm - Break
08:00pm - Pierre Pakey, LAIYE “Revolutionise Intelligent Automation with Large Language Models“
08:40pm - Naomi Pearse, Daemon “EU Legislation on AI“
09:00pm - Wrap up

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07:00pm - Doors open, food and drink served
07:25pm - Welcome and introductions
07:30pm - Adrian Boguszewski, Intel “The 7 lines of code you need to run faster real-time inference“
08:00pm - Break
08:15pm - Meryem Arik, TyTN AI
”If Michaelangelo were a data scientist: What we get wrong about deep learning”
08:45pm - Jack Odell, Daemon "The Cost of Convenience: AutoML's Pros and Cons"
09:00pm - Wrap up

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07:00pm - Doors open, food and drink served
07:25pm - Welcome and introductions
07:30pm - Ed Shee, Seldon "The Challenges of Production Machine Learning"
08:00pm - Break
08:15pm - Anton Kukushkin, AWS "Scale AWS SDK for pandas with AWS Glue for Ray"
08:45pm - Damien Jade Duff, Daemon "Two practical problems in personalisation"
09:00pm - Wrap up