Large AI models have become powerful but increasingly impractical; with escalating training costs, bloated memory requirements, and latency bottlenecks that limit real-world deployments. This talk introduces CompactifAI: a quantum-inspired compression framework that uses tensor networks to surgically shrink large models while preserving their accuracy and capabilities.

Modern defense systems operate in environments that change by the second. To keep up, they need more than static maps and siloed data, they need true situational awareness. This talk explores how we are building a Responsible Human-Agent Ecosystem that combines high-resolution 3D geospatial data, real-time sensor fusion, and AI-driven agents to help mission-critical platforms understand the world the way humans do- but faster and at scale.

AI teams iterate at the speed of innovation, while organizations require platforms that are reliable, governed, and cost‑efficient. This session presents pragmatic patterns and reference architectures that align rapid development with production requirements—so data scientists and developers can move fast without breaking stability.

Designing an ML model is one thing; designing an ML system that actually solves a business problem is another.

This talk explores how ML system design bridges the gap between a model and a real solution. Through practical examples, we’ll look at how communication with stakeholders, understanding functional and non-functional requirements, and aligning optimization and evaluation with business needs determine whether an ML initiative succeeds or stalls.

We’ll highlight key decision points — from translating vague goals into measurable objectives to balancing model performance with constraints like latency, interpretability, and maintainability.

Attendees will walk away with a sharper view of what makes an ML system truly fit for its environment — and why good design matters as much as good modeling.

This session delivers a blueprint for building, deploying, and managing agents in a secure, scalable, and cost-effective manner on Google Cloud, bridging the critical gap between development and operations.

Python is the language of choice for anything to do with AI and ML. While that has made it easy to write code for one machine, it's much more difficult to run workloads across clusters of thousands of nodes. Ray allows you to do just that. I'll demonstrate how to implement this open source tool with a few lines of code. As a demo project, I'll show how I built a RAG for the Wheel of Time series.

Companies today are hungry for external data to stay competitive, but actually getting and making sense of that data isn’t easy. Standard web scraping often produces messy or incomplete results, and modern anti-bot systems make reliable collection even tougher.

In this talk, I’ll share how pairing Python’s scraping frameworks (like Scrapy, Playwright, and Selenium) with AI/ML can turn raw, unstructured data into clear, actionable insights.

We’ll look at:

1) How to build scrapers that still work in 2025.

2) Ways to use AI to automatically clean, enrich, and classify data.

3) Real-world applications of sentiment analysis for reviews and social media.

4) Case studies showing how SMEs have used these pipelines to sharpen marketing and product strategies.

By the end, you’ll see how to design pipelines that don’t just gather data, but deliver real strategic value. The session will focus on practical Python tools, scalable deployment (Airflow, Kubernetes, cloud platforms), and key lessons learned from hands-on projects at the intersection of scraping and AI.

Training one model is fun. Running thousands without everything catching fire? That’s the real challenge. In this talk, we’ll show how we — two data scientists turned accidental ML engineers — scaled anomaly detection at Vanderlande. Expect a peek into our orchestration setup, a quick code snippet, a look at our monitoring dashboard and how we scale to a thousand models.

At IKEA, retail planning is a complex chain of processes, from sales forecasting to fulfillment and capacity assessment, that involve multiple teams. Each team builds their own predictive models independently, yet their outputs depend on one another to ensure a concise planning chain.

In this talk, we will show how IKEA uses Metaflow, an open-source framework for building and managing real-life ML, to orchestrate and connect the forecasting pipelines for more than thirty countries. We’ll discuss how Metaflow helps align independent teams, improve readability, and enable reproducible workflows and scale.

You will leave with practical approaches for an aligned team workflow and concrete patterns for orchestrating ML/AI pipelines.