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Agenda

18:00: Welcome and Intros

Tori Tompkins - Beginner's Guide to Large Language Models (LLMs) pizza/networking

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Tori Tompkins - Beginner's Guide to Large Language Models (LLMs) You've probably noticed a big change in the data world lately — everybody's buzzing about Generative AI and Large Language Models (LLMs). This session will explore everything you need to know about LLMs and Generative AI. Starting with the basics, we will cover how they actually work and how far they have come. Delving deeper, we'll discuss the capabilities and limitations of LLMs, providing insight into what they can and cannot achieve as well as address the ethical considerations and potential risks associated with their usage. We will end with use cases, a demo and what it takes to actually productise a LLM workflow.

Tori Tompkins Senior Data Science Consultant at Advancing Analytics Tori is a Senior Data Science Consultant at Advancing Analytics who has worked on a variety of machine learning and data science projects but mostly with Azure technologies, Databricks, MLFlow, Scikit-learn, PyTorch and NetworkX. She is a regular presenter of YouTube series Data Science Moments and founder of Girls Code Too UK.

*** A massive thanks to our sponsor Spectrum IT. Without them, we could not host this event for free. Spectrum IT kindly provided funding for the room, pizza and a £20 Amazon Voucher for in-person attendees. ***