Agenda

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