Join us at Civo Tech Junction on March 11th for an evening of talks about applied AI. As ever we'll be hosting an evening of talks, food, and conversation with ML and AI industry pros.

Please note you will be unable to enter the venue before 6.30pm.

RSVPs will close 24 hours before the event, you may be unable to register after this time but you can still watch online.

If you can't join us in person you can watch remotely via our YouTube channel.

Agenda

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

Our hosts may require that we provide a list of all attendees, please ensure that you register with a name that matches your government issued ID or bank card: if you do not we cannot guarantee you entry to the building.

Please RSVP for the event well in advance if you plan to attend in person and unRSVP if you can no longer attend as limited spaces are available.