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The power of data and AI in practice

AI goes beyond experiments and isolated analyses. During this meetup, speakers from Pipple and PyData Eindhoven will share concrete cases and technical learnings from practice, from data model to deployment. Discover how organisations are making the transition from smart analyses to solutions that are actually used: reliable, scalable and with practical impact.

Meet the community, share your knowledge

Together with PyData Eindhoven, we are bringing data scientists, engineers and AI professionals together for an evening full of content and inspiration. Expect three technical talks, practical examples and valuable conversations with colleagues who work daily on the theme of from data to production.

| 17:30-18:00 | Walk-in & welcome | | ----------- | ----------------- | | 18:00-18:15 | Intro PyData Eindhoven & Pipple | | 18:15-18:45 | From code to production: how to keep pipelines running smoothly at scale

In this talk, Yannick and Joshua will share how they designed and evolved the CI/CD pipelines that power a global retailer’s data platform across 30+ countries. From the first setup to today’s architecture, they’ll dive into what worked, what didn’t, and why. Expect real-world lessons around dbt, Terraform, and security – from failed builds to the automation wins that finally made life easier.

This session offers practical insights for anyone working with data:from engineers maintaining pipelines to analysts and ML developers relying on them. | | 18:45-19:00 | Break & pizza 🍕 | | 19:00-19:30 | Learnings from integrating AI within CyberBench: the good, the bad and the ugly

In this talk, Lucas shares his journey of building CyberBench: a framework that automatically benchmarks Large Language Models (LLMs) for direct security risks such as prompt injections and data leaks.

After a brief introduction to the cybersecurity risks of GenAI systems and the motivation behind CyberBench, Lucas dives into the technical lessons learned from integrating LLM-based components into a software system. Expect practical insights into building reliable and efficient LLM pipelines and lessons on what worked (and what didn’t).

In short: learn to maximize the good, minimize the bad, and make the ugly a little prettier when building LLM systems in production. | | 19:30-20:00 | Speaker 3 – to be announced! |

Karlsruher Data Community Treffen Juli 25

Im Juli steht das nächste Treffen der Datamonsters Karlsruhe an! Die geplanten Termine und Themen gibts gesammelt hier auf der DataMonster Site.

Auch dieses Mal haben wir wieder 2 spannende Monster Sessions: Richard Naab teilt praktische Erfahrungen mit KI-gestützter Softwareentwicklung im Allgemeinen und Alex Klein zeigt wie Gen AI das Leben speziell für den Data Engineer vereinfacht. Dazwischen gibt es wie immer die Gelegenheit sich mit anderen Data Monstern bei Pizza & Bier auszutauschen. Wir treffen uns wie gehabt im Karlsruher Büro des Raumsponsors scieneers.

Session 1: Assistants bis Agents – KI-unterstützte Softwareentwicklung in der Praxis

Große Sprachmodelle (LLMs) verändern, wie wir Software entwickeln – von smarten Assistenten im Editor bis hin zu autonomen Coding-Agents. In diesem Talk teile ich praktische Erfahrungen mit KI-gestützter Softwareentwicklung. Welche Tools funktionieren im Alltag? Wo liegen die echten Produktivitätsgewinne? Welche Use Cases lohnen sich – und welche (noch) nicht?

Speaker: Richard Naab arbeitet als Data Scientist und Entwickler für KI-Anwendungen bei scieneers GmbH. In seinen Projekten verbindet er moderne NLP-Ansätze mit skalierbarer Azure-Infrastruktur und entwickelt Full-Stack-Lösungen rund um Large Language Models. Besonders begeistert ihn, wie sich neue GenAI-Technologien in produktive Unternehmensanwendungen überführen lassen.

Pause mit Pizza & Getränken

An dem Abend ist wie gewohnt auch für das leibliche Wohl gesorgt, nerd typisch gibt es vom Raumsponsor Pizza and Bier (& andere kalte Getränke).

Session 2: Wie generative KI das Leben als Data Engineer vereinfacht

Generative KI-Modelle wie ChatGPT oder Microsoft Copilot sind zu wertvollen Werkzeugen für Data Engineers geworden. Die Möglichkeit, automatisch Text zu generieren, Code zu vervollständigen und kreative Lösungen zu finden, kann die tägliche Arbeit erheblich erleichtern. In dieser Session werde ich 5 Beispiele dafür geben, wie diese Tools meine tägliche Arbeit als Dateningenieur einfacher und effizienter machen.

Speaker: Alexander Klein ist Senior Business Intelligence Consultant mit mehr als 20 Jahren Erfahrung. Sein Schwerpunkt liegt auf Business Intelligence und Data Warehouse Projekten mit Microsoft Technologien wie SQL Server, Power BI, Azure ML oder Cognitive Services. Seit 2008 ist er als selbständiger Berater in großen und mittleren Projekten in allen Branchen europaweit tätig. Seit 2013 besucht er SQL-Saturdays in ganz Europa, seit 2017 spricht Alexander auf nationalen und internationalen Konferenzen / User Groups zu den Themen Data Warehouse, BI, Azure und AI.

Organisatorisches Bitte meldet euch vorab über Meetup an, da die Teilnehmerzahl begrenzt ist.

Wir starten um 18 Uhr mit dem Event, die Vorträge dauern beide ungefähr eine Stunde +/-.

Wir freuen uns auf einen interessanten Abend und natürlich darauf, viele von euch wiederzusehen!

Stefan Kirner / Michael Riedmüller

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Welcome to the monthly AI meetup in Berlin, in collaboration with ML6. Join us for deep dive tech talks on AI, GenAI, LLMs and machine learning, networking with speakers and fellow developers.

Agenda: * 6:00pm\~7:00pm: Checkin and networking * 7:00pm\~9:00pm: Tech talks and Q&A * 9:00pm: Open discussion and Mixer

Tech Talk: AI Strategy - Disrupting like an AI-native Speaker: Wouter Desard (ML6) Abstract: In this talk, we’ll explore what makes AI-native companies so powerful and how you can apply their strategies to your own business. We’ll break down pragmatic approaches to AI strategy, governance, and change management—helping you move beyond experimentation to real competitive advantage.

Speakers/Topics: Stay tuned as we are updating speakers and schedules. If you have a keen interest in speaking to our community, we invite you to submit topics for consideration: Submit Topics

Sponsors: We are actively seeking sponsors to support AI developers community. Whether it is by offering venue spaces, providing food, or cash sponsorship. Sponsors will not only speak at the meetups, receive prominent recognition, but also gain exposure to our extensive membership base of 10,000+ AI developers in Berlin and 500K+ worldwide.

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Description: Welcome to GenAI meetup in New York City. Join us for deep dive tech talks on AI, GenAI, LLMs and ML, hands-on workshops, food/drink, networking with speakers and fellow developers.

Tech Talk: How to build an agentic workflow Speaker: Haven King (Cloud Architect, Orkes) Abstract: Managing complex workflows in autonomous systems poses significant challenges as they scale. This talk explores strategies for optimizing agent-based architectures, where multiple agents interact and adapt in dynamic environments. Key topics include: 1) Distributed decision-making and coordination; 2) Bottlenecks; 3) Adaptive workflow reconfiguration and resilience; and 4) Real-world applications.

Tech Talk: AI Monetization: A Practical Guide to Unlock Value and Profitability Speaker: Eva Dong (Google) Abstract: AI is revolutionizing industries, but many organizations struggle to translate their AI investments into measurable business value. In this session, Eva Dong, Lead of AI Monetization at Google Cloud, will demystify AI monetization and provide a practical framework for unlocking value while optimizing costs.

Speakers/Topics: Stay tuned as we are updating speakers and schedules. If you have a keen interest in speaking to our community, we invite you to submit topics for consideration: Submit Topics

Sponsors: We are actively seeking sponsors to support our community. Whether it is by offering venue spaces, providing food/drink, or cash sponsor. Sponsors will not only speak at the meetups, receive prominent recognition, but also gain exposure to our extensive membership base of 20,000+ AI developers in New York and 500K+ worldwide.

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Welcome to the AI meetup in London. Join us for deep dive tech talks on AI, GenAI, LLMs and machine learning, food/drink, networking with speakers and fellow developers.

Tech Talk: What you need to know about AI factories Speaker: Matt Shore (High Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence) Abstract: As organisations start to move from proof of concept to production, they need to consider how to build their infrastructure from the ground up to be completely optimised for the next wave of AI’s requirements. From data to power and space, HPE will provide a whistlestop tour of the latest thinking across the AI stack, as well as what it means for each type of role in the organisation.

Tech Talk: Accessing and building with open-source models Speaker: Darin Verheijke (Recursal ai) Abstract: In this session, I will discuss the recent improvements of open-source LLM models, the difficulties in running these open-source models for yourself/your company, how you can easily access and make use of all these open-source models through Hugging Face and Featherless.ai and demo some self-made open-source applications for every developer to use.

Speakers/Topics: Stay tuned as we are updating speakers and schedules. If you have a keen interest in speaking to our community, we invite you to submit topics for consideration: Submit Topics

Sponsors: We are actively seeking sponsors to support AI developers community. Whether it is by offering venue spaces, providing food, or cash sponsorship. Sponsors will not only speak at the meetups, receive prominent recognition, but also gain exposure to our extensive membership base of 20,000+ AI developers in London and 500K+ worldwide.

Join us in the heart of New York City for a free ML/AI mega-meetup featuring an incredible lineup of ML experts, data scientists, and DevOps professionals. Dive into scaling AI in production, optimizing ML workflows, and more in data science. This is a great opportunity to mingle with the best tech minds NYC has to offer over some good food. Register now on LUMA and save your spot!

Featuring:

• AIOps at Reasonable Scale by Ciro Greco, Founder and CEO @ Bauplan
• This session explores the unique security challenges of ML systems in the GenAI era and provides actionable strategies to safeguard them. Learn why traditional approaches fall short and how to fortify your ML lifecycle to stay ahead in an evolving threat landscape.

• We have pioneered the concept of “ML for the 99%” with the ML at reasonable scale series, and recently discussed what changed with the new AI wave (spoiler: not much, the fundamentals stay!). In the talk, we review the basics of ML in production and stress what changed and what didn’t in the era of LLMs.

• Protecting ML Systems in the GenAI Era by Yuval Fernbach, VP, CTO MLOps @ JFrog

• Generative AI and machine learning systems are reshaping industries but also introducing new security risks. The reliance on vast data, rapid deployment cycles, and automated pipelines in MLOps has expanded the attack surface, exposing vulnerabilities to data poisoning, adversarial inputs, and pipeline exploitation.

• This session explores the unique security challenges of ML systems in the GenAI era and provides actionable strategies to safeguard them. Learn why traditional approaches fall short and how to fortify your ML lifecycle to stay ahead in an evolving threat landscape.

• Integrating Tech to Unlock Generative AI by Liron Freind Saadon, Head of Dev Rel @ NVIDIA

• An Ideal MLOps platform in the Generative Al era is a comprehensive solution that supports the entire machine learning lifecycle, from data preparation and model development to model deployment and monitoring. It should provide seamless integration of tools and technologies that enable organizations to build, deploy, and manage machine learning models with ease. In this talk, we'll review some of the tools and solutions that exist to build, deploy, and scale GenAl workloads across different environments successfully.

• Human-in-the-loop feedback, agentic systems by Ari Kaplan, Head of Evangelism, Databricks Discover how incorporating continuous human guidance ensures ethical, accurate, and context-aware outputs, while autonomous agentic systems push the boundaries of Al, enabling proactive decision-making and complex problem-solving.

• Networking/Happy Hour

Register now on LUMA and save your spot!

• 4:00 PM - 4:15 PM Arrival and Sign in
• 4:15 PM - 4:30 PM AIOps at Reasonable Scale
• 4:50 PM - 5:30 PM Protecting ML Systems in the GenAI Era
• 5:30 PM - 6:00 PM Fireside Chat with Industry leaders
• 6:00 PM - 6:45 PM Integrating Tech to Unlock

Brought to you by JFrog!

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Welcome to the GenAI meetup in London. Join us for deep dive tech talks on AI, GenAI, LLMs and machine learning, food/drink, networking with speakers and fellow developers.

Speakers/Topics: Stay tuned as we are updating speakers and schedules. If you have a keen interest in speaking to our community, we invite you to submit topics for consideration: Submit Topics

Venue: Veracode, 36 Queen St, London EC4R 1BN

Sponsors: We are actively seeking sponsors to support AI developers community. Whether it is by offering venue spaces, providing food, or cash sponsorship. Sponsors will not only speak at the meetups, receive prominent recognition, but also gain exposure to our extensive membership base of 15,000+ AI developers in London or 450K+ worldwide.

Local and Global AI Community on Discord Join us on discord for local and global AI tech community: - Events chat: chat and connect with speakers and global and local attendees; - Learning AI: events\, learning materials\, study groups; - Startups: innovation\, projects collaborations\, founders/co-founders; - Jobs and Careers: job openings\, post resumes\, hiring managers;

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Description: Welcome to the GenAI meetup in New York City. Join us for deep dive tech talks on AI, GenAI, LLMs and machine learning, food/drink, networking with speakers and fellow developers.

Agenda: * 5:30pm\~6:00pm: Checkin, Food and networking * 6:00pm\~6:10pm: Welcome/community update * 6:10pm\~8:00pm: Tech talks * 8:00pm: Q&A, Open discussion

Speakers and Topics: Stay tuned as we are updating speakers and schedules. If you have a keen interest in speaking to our community, we invite you to submit topics for consideration: Submit Topics

Sponsors: We are actively seeking sponsors to support our community. Whether it is by offering venue spaces, providing food/drink, or cash sponsor. Sponsors will not only speak at the meetups, receive prominent recognition, but also gain exposure to our extensive membership base of 20,000+ AI developers in New York or 450K+ worldwide.

Local and Global AI Community on Discord Join us on discord for local and global AI tech community:

• Events chat: chat and connect with speakers and global and local attendees;
• Learning AI: events, learning materials, study groups;
• Startups: innovation, projects collaborations, founders/co-founders;
• Jobs and Careers: job openings, post resumes, hiring managers. *

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Description: Welcome to the AI meetup in New York City. Join us for deep dive tech talks on AI, GenAI, LLMs and machine learning, food/drink, networking with speakers and fellow developers.

Agenda: * 5:30pm\~6:00pm: Checkin, Food and networking * 6:00pm\~6:10pm: Welcome/community update * 6:10pm\~8:00pm: Tech talks * 8:00pm: Q&A, Open discussion

Speakers and Topics: Stay tuned as we are updating speakers and schedules. If you have a keen interest in speaking to our community, we invite you to submit topics for consideration: Submit Topics

Sponsors: We are actively seeking sponsors to support our community. Whether it is by offering venue spaces, providing food/drink, or cash sponsor. Sponsors will not only speak at the meetups, receive prominent recognition, but also gain exposure to our extensive membership base of 20,000+ AI developers in New York or 450K+ worldwide.

Community on Slack/Discord

• Event chat: chat and connect with speakers and attendees
• Sharing blogs, events, job openings, projects collaborations *

** Important RSVP here (Due to room capacity and building security, you must pre-register at the link for admission.)

Description: Welcome to the AI meetup in New York City. Join us for deep dive tech talks on AI, GenAI, LLMs and machine learning, food/drink, networking with speakers and fellow developers.

Agenda: * 5:30pm\~6:00pm: Checkin, Food and networking * 6:00pm\~6:10pm: Welcome/community update * 6:10pm\~8:00pm: Tech talks * 8:00pm: Q&A, Open discussion

Speakers and Topics: Stay tuned as we are updating speakers and schedules. If you have a keen interest in speaking to our community, we invite you to submit topics for consideration: Submit Topics

Sponsors: We are actively seeking sponsors to support our community. Whether it is by offering venue spaces, providing food/drink, or cash sponsor. Sponsors will not only speak at the meetups, receive prominent recognition, but also gain exposure to our extensive membership base of 20,000+ AI developers in New York or 450K+ worldwide.

Community on Slack/Discord

• Event chat: chat and connect with speakers and attendees
• Sharing blogs, events, job openings, projects collaborations *

** Important RSVP here (Due to room capacity and building security, you must pre-register at the link for admission.)

Description: Welcome to GenAI meetup in New York City. Join us for deep dive tech talks on AI, GenAI, LLMs and ML, hands-on workshops, food/drink, networking with speakers and fellow developers.

Tech Talk: Hidden Gems in Google Gemini: Automating Your Daily Grind Speaker: Frank Guan (Google) Abstract: Drowning in repetitive tasks and tedious coding? Google Gemini is your AI-powered life raft! This session explores how Gemini's cutting-edge capabilities can automate your workflow, boost your productivity, and unleash your creativity – all at a surprisingly affordable cost. Discover how its massive context window and multimodal understanding can transform the way you code, collaborate, and create.

Tech Talk: AI or not AI? Speaker: Aline Bessa (KNIME) Abstract: One of the latest innovations in Generative AI (GenAI) technology are Large Language Models (LLMs). You can exploit LLMs to solve many tasks that were incredibly challenging not that long ago, and some say you can solve anything with GenAI. But can you? Recently, we decided to reshape an old application for fraud detection by introducing AI in it. This talk is a summary of both our successful and failed attempts to solve everything with AI.

Tech Talk: Intelligent Autonomous Multi Agent AI Systems Speaker: Natan Vidra (Anote) Abstract: In this presentation, we will explore how intelligent autonomous multi-agent systems can revolutionize software development workflows. By leveraging collaborative multi-agent AI systems, developers and engineers can automate routine tasks and streamline complex processes. We will delve into the architecture of building multi-agent systems, talk about how to coordinate teams of AI agents that work together, discuss how to monitor and optimize these systems to be intelligent, and showcase real-world applications that highlight their potential to enhance productivity and efficiency.

Speakers/Topics: Stay tuned as we are updating speakers and schedules. If you have a keen interest in speaking to our community, we invite you to submit topics for consideration: Submit Topics

Sponsors: We are actively seeking sponsors to support our community. Whether it is by offering venue spaces, providing food/drink, or cash sponsor. Sponsors will not only speak at the meetups, receive prominent recognition, but also gain exposure to our extensive membership base of 20,000+ AI developers in New York or 400K+ worldwide.

Community on Slack/Discord

• Event chat: chat and connect with speakers and attendees
• Sharing blogs, events, job openings, projects collaborations

** Important RSVP HERE (Due to room capacity and venue security, it is required to pre-register at the link for admission)

Description: Welcome to the monthly AI meetup in Paris. Join us for deep dive tech talks on AI, GenAI, LLMs and machine learning, food/drink, networking with speakers and fellow developers.

Agenda: - 6:30pm\~7:00pm: Checkin\, food and networking - 7:00pm\~9:00pm: Tech talks and Q&A - 9:00pm: Open discussion\, Mixer and Closing.

Tech Talk: Retrieval and Adaptive In-Context Learning Speaker: Kristian Aune (Vespa AI) Abstract: Organizations develop feedback loops to continuously enhance quality. One such loop is the learning from user interactions with your data, retraining models, deploying new models and learning again. The learning curve to create a loop like this is steep, it requires ML experience and tools. However, most teams can easily provide labeled examples. In-Context Learning (ICL) is a method to add classification examples as input to foundation models (like LLMs). This talk defines an Adaptive ICL strategy using Retrieval for Examples, where the output is used for content retrieval, example set expansion for future model training and real-time user behaviour tracking. Adaptive ICL is hence an easy way for teams to get immediate results with AI, while laying the foundation for more advanced ML loops in the future.

Topics/Speakers: Stay tuned as we are updating speakers and schedules. If you have a keen interest in speaking to our community, we invite you to submit topics for consideration: Submit Topics

Sponsors: We are actively seeking sponsors to support AI developers community. Whether it is by offering venue spaces, providing food, or cash sponsorship. Sponsors will have the chance to speak at the meetups, receive prominent recognition, and gain exposure to our extensive membership base of 10,000+ AI developers in Paris or 400K+ worldwide.

Community on Slack/Discord

• Event chat: chat and connect with speakers and attendees
• Sharing blogs, events, job openings, projects collaborations *

** Important RSVP HERE (Due to limited room capacity, you must pre-register at the link for admission).

Welcome to the AI meetup in London, in collaboration with HPE. Join us for deep dive tech talks on AI, GenAI, LLMs and machine learning, food/drink, networking with speakers and fellow developers.

Tech Talk 1: Lessons learned from building a generalist agent Speaker: Sergei Petrov (Meta) Abstract: In this session, I'd like to share the experience of building a generalist agent to secure a spot on the GAIA leaderboard. I'll talk about what worked for us and what didn’t and what architecture we arrived at.

Tech Talk 2: What they don't tell you about using Vector Databases Speaker: Daniel Phiri (Weaviate) Abstract: Cool, I have a Vector database, now what? This talk answers this question, as get into implementation details that can help you scale your project and make the best out of the technology without burning a hole in your pocket.

Tech Talk 3: Coming soon Speaker: Alex Podmore (HPE)

Tech Talk 3: Coming soon

Speakers/Topics: Stay tuned as we are updating speakers and schedules. If you have a keen interest in speaking to our community, we invite you to submit topics for consideration: Submit Topics

Venue: HPE, 1 Aldermanbury Square EC2V 7HR

Sponsors: We are actively seeking sponsors to support AI developers community. Whether it is by offering venue spaces, providing food, or cash sponsorship. Sponsors will not only speak at the meetups, receive prominent recognition, but also gain exposure to our extensive membership base of 15,000+ AI developers in London or 400K+ worldwide.

Community on Slack/Discord

• Event chat: chat and connect with speakers and attendees
• Sharing blogs, events, job openings, projects collaborations *

** Important RSVP here (Due to room capacity and building security, you must pre-register at the link for admission.)

Description: Welcome to our in-person AI meetup in New York. Join us for deep dive tech talks on AI, GenAI, LLMs and ML, hands-on workshops, food/drink, networking with speakers and fellow developers.

Speakers/Topics: Stay tuned as we are updating speakers and schedules. If you have a keen interest in speaking to our community, we invite you to submit topics for consideration: Submit Topics

Tech Talk: Unleashing Data Magic: Vector Databases and RAG Demystified Speaker: Art Anderson (Aerospike) Abstract: Dive into the world of vector databases and Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) as we explore how we built a practical application and the challenges we faced. Discover how semantic search can enrich data, enabling recommendation engines, fraud detection, and more. Learn how these technologies can fit into your current applications and data, sparking new ideas for innovation.

Tech Talk: Step-by-Step RAG 101 Speaker: Tim Spann (Zilliz) Abstract: In this tutorial, we describe and show every step in building your own local RAG application using Milvus, LangChain, Ollama and Llama 3.x. At the end of the talk, you will have a working RAG application. We will also cover tips and techniques to upgrade to more advanced RAG apps.

Tech Talk: Generative AI Orchestration: Unlocking Creative Potential Speaker: Ram Durbha (Orkes) Abstract: Managing complex workflows in autonomous systems poses significant challenges as they scale. This talk explores strategies for optimizing agent-based architectures, where multiple agents interact and adapt in dynamic environments. Key topics include: 1) Distributed decision-making and coordination; 2) Bottlenecks; 3) Adaptive workflow reconfiguration and resilience; and 4) Real-world applications.

Sponsors: We are actively seeking sponsors to support our community. Whether it is by offering venue spaces, providing food/drink, or cash sponsor. Sponsors will not only speak at the meetups, receive prominent recognition, but also gain exposure to our extensive membership base of 20,000+ AI developers in New York or 400K+ worldwide.

Community on Slack/Discord

• Event chat: chat and connect with speakers and attendees
• Sharing blogs, events, job openings, projects collaborations

** Important RSVP HERE (Due to limited room capacity, you must pre-register at the link for admission).

Welcome to the AI meetup in London. Join us for deep dive tech talks on AI, GenAI, LLMs and machine learning, food/drink, networking with speakers and fellow developers.

Tech Talk: Data science models for Infectious Diseases Speaker: Alex Glaser (AIG Tech) Abstract: The COVID-19 pandemic was an unprecedented global crisis, a seismic event that shook our world in ways we’re still grappling with today. As a member of the UK Health Security Agency's Infectious Disease Modelling team, I had the unique opportunity to dive deep into the data and dynamics of the virus, and help to predict its spread and impact. In this talk, I’ll take you behind the scenes, to give you a whistle-stop tour of the models we used, the logic driving our decisions and the insights we uncovered about the virus. For those eager to dive deeper, I’ll also point you toward the key papers that document this work in greater detail.

Tech Talk: AI in the workplace: legal and ethical issues Speaker: Alex Mizzi (Howard Kennedy LLP) Abstract: In this session I will discuss: a) the employment and privacy law issues surrounding AI in recruitment and the employee lifecycle; b) opportunities created by anticipated changes to UK employment law; c) practical aspects of workplace AI e.g. employee engagement.

Speakers/Topics: Stay tuned as we are updating speakers and schedules. If you have a keen interest in speaking to our community, we invite you to submit topics for consideration: Submit Topics

Venue: Veracode, 36 Queen St, London EC4R 1BN

Sponsors: We are actively seeking sponsors to support AI developers community. Whether it is by offering venue spaces, providing food, or cash sponsorship. Sponsors will not only speak at the meetups, receive prominent recognition, but also gain exposure to our extensive membership base of 15,000+ AI developers in London or 400K+ worldwide.

Community on Slack/Discord

• Event chat: chat and connect with speakers and attendees
• Sharing blogs, events, job openings, projects collaborations *

** RSVP here (Due to room capacity and venue security, it is required to pre-register at the link for admission)

Welcome to the monthly AI meetup in Berlin. Join us for deep dive tech talks on AI, GenAI, LLMs and machine learning, networking with speakers and fellow developers.

Agenda: * 6:00pm\~7:00pm: Checkin and networking * 7:00pm\~9:00pm: Tech talks and Q&A * 9:00pm: Open discussion and Mixer

Tech Talk: One Year of Hey_: From Chatbot to Real-Time Answering Machine Speaker: Till Kolter (AS Digital) Abstract: In this talk, we’ll explore the journey of "Hey_", Germany's largest chatbot, as it celebrates its first go-live anniversary. While Hey_ has mostly gained positive feedback, we’ve had our share of surprises—like the time a bug caused it to tell users to die. Although it wasn't funny at the time, it eventually became a source of great laughter once we understood what went wrong. We’ll dive into how our innovative content management system has empowered editors to create unique, LLM-powered experiences beyond basic chatbot interactions—covering everything from interactive guidebooks to real-time information powered by Retrieval-Augmentation Generation (RAG). Along the way, we’ve transformed Hey_ into a reliable answering machine backed by journalistic content and web sources, while still facing the challenge of driving organic user engagement.

Tech Talk: Evaluating a real world LLM application Speaker: Tanuj Jain (Axel Springer NMT) Abstract: Evaluating LLM-based applications in real-world scenarios is challenging, not only due to the lack of a definitive ground truth but also because it's often hard to choose from among a myriad evaluation methodologies and metrics. These complexities are often compounded by a lack of awareness regarding the critical importance of rigorous evaluation, particularly among those unfamiliar with AI development process. This talk will showcase a collaborative evaluation approach, where journalists, AI researchers, and developers collaborate to create a reliable evaluation strategy for a real world LLM-based chatbot used by millions of users daily. The application under evaluation uses state-of-the-art LLMs and employs a design that resembles a modern day LLM app stack involving RAG, caching, etc. making the evaluation methodology applicable for a wide variety of LLM based applications in the wild.engagement.

Speakers/Topics: Stay tuned as we are updating speakers and schedules. If you have a keen interest in speaking to our community, we invite you to submit topics for consideration: Submit Topics

Sponsors: We are actively seeking sponsors to support AI developers community. Whether it is by offering venue spaces, providing food, or cash sponsorship. Sponsors will not only speak at the meetups, receive prominent recognition, but also gain exposure to our extensive membership base of 10,000+ AI developers in Berlin or 400K+ worldwide.

Community on Slack/Discord

• Event chat: chat and connect with speakers and attendees
• Sharing blogs, events, job openings, projects collaborations *

** Important RSVP here (Due to room capacity and building security, you must pre-register at the link for admission.)

Description: Welcome to our in-person AI meetup in New York. Join us for deep dive tech talks on AI, GenAI, LLMs and ML, hands-on workshops, food/drink, networking with speakers and fellow developers.

Tech Talk: Unstructured Data and Vector Databases Speaker: Tim Spann (Zilliz) Abstract: In this session, I will discuss the unstructured data and the world of vector databases, we will see how they different from traditional databases. In which cases you need one and in which you probably don’t. I will also go over Similarity Search, where do you get vectors from and an example of a Vector Database Architecture. Wrapping up with an overview of Milvus.

Tech Talk: Tailoring Foundation Models for Generative AI Applications Speaker: Suman Debnath (AWS) Abstract: In this session, we will focus on fine-tuning, continuous pretraining, and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) to customize foundation models using Amazon Bedrock. Attendees will explore and compare strategies such as prompt engineering, which reformulates tasks into natural language prompts, and fine-tuning, which involves updating the model's parameters based on new tasks and use cases. The session will also highlight the trade-offs between usability and resource requirements for each approach. Participants will gain insights into leveraging the full potential of large models and learn about future advancements aimed at enhancing their adaptability.

Speakers/Topics: Stay tuned as we are updating speakers and schedules. If you have a keen interest in speaking to our community, we invite you to submit topics for consideration: Submit Topics

Sponsors: We are actively seeking sponsors to support our community. Whether it is by offering venue spaces, providing food/drink, or cash sponsor. Sponsors will not only speak at the meetups, receive prominent recognition, but also gain exposure to our extensive membership base of 20,000+ AI developers in New York or 400K+ worldwide.

Community on Slack/Discord

• Event chat: chat and connect with speakers and attendees
• Sharing blogs, events, job openings, projects collaborations

** Important register on the event website (Due to limited room capacity, you must pre-register at the link for admission).

Welcome to the AI meetup in London, in collaboration with Nexgen Cloud. Join us for deep dive tech talks on AI, GenAI, LLMs and machine learning, food/drink, networking with speakers and fellow developers.

Tech Talk: From Nodes to Knowledge: GraphRAG for Everyone Speaker: Sethu Pavan (Microsoft) Abstract: In this talk, we’ll explore how GraphRAG works, why it’s better than regular RAG, limitations, considerations for GraphRAG and a demo.

Tech Talk: Prophetic Proteins - Unravelling Disease Fate Through ML Speaker: Dr Harry Whitwell (Imperial College) Abstract: Predicting individual cancer risk is challenging due to complex biology and varied patient responses. Traditional biomarker tests often fall short. We used machine learning, developing "synolitic networks" to improve early cancer detection and predict outcomes during COVID. Our current research focuses on enhancing personalized medicine and biological understanding through these networks.

Tech Talk: GPUs at Scale - Trials of a GPUaaS Provider Speaker: Mischa van Kesteren (Nexgen Cloud) Abstract: In the rapidly evolving landscape of machine learning, managing large-scale GPU infrastructure has become a critical challenge for AI practitioners. This presentation delves into the trenches of GPU operations. Through these real-world lessons, we explore how GPU-as-a-Service (GPUaaS) solutions address these pain points, offering scalability, flexibility, and cutting-edge hardware access. Join us for a deep dive into the challenges of computation at scale, the lessons learned from hands-on experience, and a discussion of emerging strategies in GPU infrastructure management.

Speakers/Topics: Stay tuned as we are updating speakers and schedules. If you have a keen interest in speaking to our community, we invite you to submit topics for consideration: Submit Topics

Sponsors: We are actively seeking sponsors to support AI developers community. Whether it is by offering venue spaces, providing food, or cash sponsorship. Sponsors will not only speak at the meetups, receive prominent recognition, but also gain exposure to our extensive membership base of 10,000+ AI developers in London or 400K+ worldwide.

Community on Slack/Discord

• Event chat: chat and connect with speakers and attendees
• Sharing blogs, events, job openings, projects collaborations *

Presenter: Nicolas Remerscheid (LinkedIn)\, ML Engineer \| Weights & Biases

Talk title: "Aligning Signals: Key Learnings in LLMOps for Faster, Confident Development” Abstract: Discover how Weights & Biases Models and Weave accelerate GenAI development through insights gained from an in-depth analysis of how various companies — from model creators to API users — build GenAI applications faster, more efficiently and with more confidence. This talk will highlight both strategic insights and show tangible real-world coding examples that you can apply directly to your own GenAI projects.

Presenters: Saif Addin Ellafi (BSH), Saumya Goyal (Datamics) Talk title: "Reusable AI: Customizing LLMs for Diverse Business Needs” Abstract: In this presentation we will tackle the customization and personalization of RAGs with LLMs for business stakeholders, where data and needs vary, without having to deal with each demand independently. We will share bits and pieces of how BSH is getting ready for the AI era and how multiple products can benefit from a solution that is designed once and used many times.

** Important RSVP HERE (Due to room capacity and venue security, it is required to pre-register at the link for admission)

Welcome to the AI meetup in London. Join us for deep dive tech talks on AI, GenAI, LLMs and machine learning, food/drink, networking with speakers and fellow developers.

Tech Talk: Iterative RAG with LLM Tool Use: Enhancing AI's Capabilities Speaker: Joon-Pil Hwang (Weaviate) Abstract: Generative AI models now incorporate 'tool use' capabilities to interact with external functions, enhancing their power while maintaining important safeguards. In this talk, JP will explore the intersection of tool use with Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) using Weaviate, a vector database. He'll share his experiences implementing this approach, discuss his key findings, and compare it to traditional RAG methods. Attendees will get first-hand impressions of his experience with this approach.

Tech Talk: Building Agentic Workflows for Engineers Speaker: Shekhar Patnaik (GitLab) Abstract: In this talk, I will cover a product that we've been working on called Duo Workflows. It helps to automate a number of code and development tasks helping make developers more productive. It uses AI Agents and workflows written in LangGraph and is open source.

Speakers/Topics: Stay tuned as we are updating speakers and schedules. If you have a keen interest in speaking to our community, we invite you to submit topics for consideration: Submit Topics

Sponsors: We are actively seeking sponsors to support AI developers community. Whether it is by offering venue spaces, providing food, or cash sponsorship. Sponsors will not only speak at the meetups, receive prominent recognition, but also gain exposure to our extensive membership base of 10,000+ AI developers in London or 400K+ worldwide.

Community on Slack/Discord

• Event chat: chat and connect with speakers and attendees
• Sharing blogs, events, job openings, projects collaborations *