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AI is changing software engineering, and it will change analytics too. Come for a glimpse of the day-to-day job of an analyst in the future, and some strategies for how to maximally benefit from AI.

Speaker: Bryan Bischof Head of AI Hex

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Special double-feature closing keynote from the 6 authors of the hit O'Reilly article on Applied LLMs.

Recorded live in San Francisco at the AI Engineer World's Fair. See the full schedule of talks at https://www.ai.engineer/worldsfair/2024/schedule & join us at the AI Engineer World's Fair in 2025! Get your tickets today at https://ai.engineer/2025

About Eugene Yan I build ML systems to serve customers at scale, and write to learn and teach.

About Shreya Shankar I'm Shreya Shankar. I am a machine learning (ML) engineer and computer scientist in the Bay Area. I am completing my PhD in data management systems for ML, with a human-centered focus. I am fortunate to be advised by Dr. Aditya Parameswaran at UC Berkeley. Go Bears! 🐻 I also consult on ML engineering and production AI strategy for enterprises. Prior to my PhD, I was the first ML engineer at a startup, did research engineering at Google Brain, and engineering at Facebook. Before all of that, I did my BS and MS in computer science at Stanford. Go Trees! 🌲

About Hamel Husain Hamel Husain started working with language models five years ago when he led the team that created CodeSearchNet, a precursor to GitHub CoPilot. Since then, he has seen many successful and unsuccessful approaches to building LLM products. Hamel is also an active open source maintainer and contributor of a wide range of ML/AI projects. Hamel is currently an independent consultant.

About Jason Liu Jason is an independent AI consultant, advisor, writer, and educator. His main interests are structured outputs, search and retrieval for RAG as well as understanding how to leverage AI to build scalable and valuable businesses.

About Bryan Bischof Bryan Bischof is the Head of AI at Hex, where he leads the team of engineers building Magic—the data science and analytics copilot. Bryan has worked all over the data stack leading teams in analytics, machine learning engineering, data platform engineering, and AI engineering. He started the data team at Blue Bottle Coffee, led several projects at Stitch Fix, and built the data teams at Weights and Biases. Bryan previously co-authored the book Building Production Recommendation Systems with O’Reilly, and teaches Data Science and Analytics in the graduate school at Rutgers. His Ph.D. is in pure mathematics.

About Charles Frye AI Engineer at Modal Labs. Building useful technology with large neural networks.

00:00 Introduction 03:22 Strategic: Bryan Bischof & Charles Frye 14:47 Operational: Hamel Husain & Jason Liu 23:51 Tactical: Eugene Yan & Shreya Shankar

This keynote panel, featuring Bryan Bischof, Head of AI at Hex, and Chris White, CTO at Prefect, will explore what it takes to launch AI-based products in the context of running a successful, non-AI startup. Hear in-the-trenches insights and hot takes from these two product leaders as they discuss how to create an AI strategy, how to (actually) move into production, and how to measure success. Conversation will be moderated by Brittany Walker, Principal at CRV.

Recorded live in San Francisco at the AI Engineer Summit 2023. See the full schedule of talks at https://ai.engineer/summit/schedule & join us at the AI Engineer World's Fair in 2024! Get your tickets today at https://ai.engineer/worlds-fair

Brittany Walker Brittany Walker is a principal at CRV, an early-stage venture capital firm known for leading investments in companies such as Airtable, Vercel, Cribl, and Postman, among others. She specializes in data infrastructure and AI/ML infrastructure, and works with the founders of promising early-stage startups including Doppler, Meilisearch, Impart Security, and Lokalise.

Chris White Chris White is a cofounder of Prefect, a data workflow orchestration and observability platform, for which he currently serves as the Chief Technology Officer. Chris began his journey into software while getting his PhD in Mathematics at the University of Texas at Austin, where he researched optimization guarantees for non-convex data-driven problems. In addition to his work at Prefect, Chris is an active angel investor in AI and developer tooling. Outside of tech Chris is also passionate about the ocean, literature, and is an avid runner.

Bryan Bischof Dr. Bryan Bischof leads AI at Hex, and is an adjunct professor in the Rutgers Masters of Business and Analytics program where he teaches Data Science. Previously, he was the Head of Data Science at Weights and Biases, and built the DS, ML, and Data Engineering teams. Before that he built ML products at Stitch Fix, Blue Bottle Coffee, and IBM. He recently co-authored the O’Reilly book Building Production Recommendation Systems. His data visualization work appeared in the popular book The Day it Finally Happens by Mike Pearl. His Ph.D. is in pure mathematics.