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Join us at the Daemon Clubhouse on August 13th for 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 - A short talk from our hosts Daemon

07:10pm - James Jackson, Associate Director at S-RM, "Using LLMs to make complex assessments without knowledge loss"

07:50pm - Break

08:00 - Tom Scott, Founder and CEO at Streambased, "Enhancing AI with real time data: unlocking contextual insights"

08:40 - Pearl Prakash, Comcast, "Building trip itinerary planner with RAG"

09:00pm - Wrap up, drinks at The Bear

Our hosts 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.

Join us at the Daemon Clubhouse on June 13th for 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 will 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 - An opening statement from Daemon

07:10pm - Konrad Bachusz, Lead Data Engineer at Credera, "State of AI in 2024"

Konrad Bachusz has a broad range of experience in finance and data, working in various industries including accounting, government, trading, healthcare, transportation, finance, and consulting. Currently, he is a Lead Data Engineer at a global boutique consultancy called Credera. His current role involves helping enterprise clients deliver data engineering, data platforms, and AI solutions. Konrad's interest in AI stems from his background in data analytics, data science, machine learning and data engineering. Outside of work he enjoys travelling, playing his guitars and programming.

07:50pm - Break

08:00 - Lucy Thomas ML Engineer at the Natwest Group and Dr. Ariadna Blanca Romero Senior Data Scientist / AI-Machine Learning Engineer at the Natwest Group, "Enterprise Scale MLOps at NatWest"

Lucy and Ariadna will take us on NatWest Group's journey of building an MLOps platform that streamlines the entire machine learning lifecycle, and examples of using additional tools to support MLOps. This platform has boosted team productivity, reduced manual workflows for building, training, and deploying models, and enhanced security and compliance.

Lucy Thomas is a Senior AI/ML Engineer at NatWest Group, working in the Data Innovation team. Her focus at the moment is building ML solutions for conversational intelligence that are reliable and robust. Outside of work she enjoys going to the gym, swimming in the sea and reading.

Dr. Ariadna Blanca Romero is a Senior Data Scientist/AI-ML Engineer at NatWest with a background in computational material science. She is passionate about creating tools for automation that take advantage of the reproducibility of results from models and optimize the process to ensure prompt decision-making to deliver the best customer experience. Ariadna volunteers as a STEM virtual mentor for a non-profit organization helping the professional development of Latin-American students and young professionals, particularly for empowering women. She is passionate about practising yoga, cooking, and playing her electric guitar.

09:00pm - Wrap up, drinks at The Bear

Our hosts 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.

Live stream link - https://meet.google.com/ock-yrcg-ebk

Join us at the Daemon Paddington Clubhouse Wednesday December 6th for an evening of talks, food, and conversation with ML and AI industry pros.

Agenda

06:30pm - Doors open, food and drink served

07:00pm - Welcome

07:15pm - Damien Jade Duff, Daemon & Jenny Vega, AWS "Integrating Huggingface TGI and the latest Sagemaker features for fast, cheap, and generic inference and chat"

07:55pm - Break

08:10pm - Ben Linden & Jordan Plamer, Datasparq "Dynamic Allocated Seat Pricing Using Reinforcement Learning"

8:40pm - Lawrence Knight, Head of Health Data Science Vitality "What you need to know if you want to think about AGI"

8:50pm - Daniel DeBurgo, Daemon "Blog automation with ChatGPT"

09:00pm - Wrap up, drinks at The Bear

Our hosts require that we provide a list of all attendees, please ensure that you use your real name on your Meetup account otherwise you may be unable sign in at the venue.

**Due to unforeseen circumstances, we are unable to provide a live stream or recording of this Meetup**

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.

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