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This session features Richard Lewis, Senior Solution Architect at Matillion, in conversation with Daniel Adams, Global Analytics Manager, from Edmund Optics, as they share how data integration, AI, and cloud technologies transformed technical support and accelerated time to value. Edmund Optics’ team of 50 highly skilled engineers faced a flood of repetitive technical inquiries, averaging 25 minutes per response, across a catalog of 34,000+ components. To streamline support, they partnered with Matillion, Snap Analytics, and Snowflake to build an AI-powered chatbot. Deployed in just 10 weeks, the chatbot delivers instant, consistent answers to common queries, freeing engineers to tackle complex issues and dramatically improving support efficiency.

​The first Monday of every month in NYC is CryptoMondays Wall Street. On October 6th, we're excited to have Jaime Leverton, CEO at RESERVEONE

Limited space, you must RSVP to this link for approval https://luma.com/CMWallStOct6 building and host venue require credentials and ID to enter the building.

Your Lu.Ma ticket QR code is required, but doesn't guarantee entry. Once the venue reaches max capacity, it will be one in - one out

Jaime Leverton is an accomplished executive recognized for her leadership across the digital asset and technology industries. Prior to leading ReserveOne as its CEO, she served as CEO of Hut 8, where she led a remarkable transformation of the company from a subscale player into one of North America's largest and most influential Bitcoin mining firms. Under Jaime’s leadership, Hut 8 became one of the first public companies to hold Bitcoin on its balance sheet. She strengthened the company’s financial position, expanded its marketing capitalization to nearly $3 billion, and diversified operations beyond mining into AI and HPC data centers as well as power generation assets. The company also emerged as one of the most liquid crypto equities listed on NASDAQ in North America.

​Jaime currently serves on the boards of several leading companies in the digital asset and energy sectors, including Riot Platforms, North America's largest Bitcoin mining facility; Synteq Digital, a leading infrastructure architect for Bitcoin mining operations; New West Data, a vertically integrated oil and gas producer and Bitcoin miner; and Vertical Data. ​Earlier in her career, Jaime held senior leadership roles at global technology and financial institutions, including IBM, National Bank, and BlackBerry, bringing a deep understanding of enterprise strategy, operations, and innovation.

​​​Joe Cox: Host of CryptoMondays Wall Street & Head of Business Development at Valmar Capital, a digital assets multi-manager multi-strategy platform that brings together a broad array of crypto-strategies and emerging talent. Our approach is backed by institutional-grade infrastructure, cutting-edge technology, and rigorous risk management processes.

Thank you to our community partner and host venue, Troutman Pepper Locke As a full-service law firm, Troutman Pepper Locke helps clients solve complex legal challenges and achieve their business goals in an ever-changing global economy. Their goal in every matter is to ensure that your experience is as exemplary as the results they help you obtain. To do that, they follow the core values and beliefs that have sustained and helped grow the firm for more than a century:

• ​Troutman Pepper Locke puts clients first.
• ​Troutman Pepper Locke are future-focused.
• ​Troutman Pepper Locke are collaborative and caring.

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​Another exclusive, boundary-pushing production powered by NFT VIP Connecting communities, brands, and ideas across every CryptoMondays stage and beyond. For a curated experience to enhance your marketing goals, contact [email protected]

👉👉👉👉👉👉👉 Please RSVP in this page 👈👈👈👈👈👈👈 ------------------------------------ NOTE: Due to the event being held at a bank-related facility, every attendees must provide a real name with identification document in order to enter the building. A separate form will be send to registered attendees on 2025.09.28 evening. ------------------------------------ Join us for an exciting evening at Deutsche Bank! Where we will be talking cloud and some really interesting things you can do with it, and how to squeeze every last drop of it. And of course in 2025, we will also talk about AI and some more cool things you can do with it, from MCP deployment, to LLM.

Don't miss out on this chance to expand your knowledge and connect with like-minded individuals. Bring your queries, ideas, and passion for technology. Register now and be part of the cloud innovation conversation! ---------------------------------------- 1800: Door open 1830: Welcoming 1840: A Deeper Dive into CPU Limits, Requests, and Scheduling in Kubernetes and GDC Software Only on Bare Metal specifically by Pavel Malyarevsky 1910: Break 1920: Agents with MCPs - deployment by Sonam 2000: Break 2010: LLM Guard: Simulating AI-Driven Security Administration by Fam Shihata 2050: Networking ---------------------------------------- A Deeper Dive into CPU Limits, Requests, and Scheduling in Kubernetes and GDC Software Only on Bare Metal specifically by Pavel Malyarevsky

As enterprises adopt bare-metal cloud solutions, mastering resource management is critical to achieving performance and efficiency. Google Distributed Cloud (GDC) on Bare Metal offers powerful capabilities, but its nuances in CPU handling present unique challenges. How can teams ensure their applications get the resources they need without overprovisioning? This talk will provide a deep dive into the mechanics of CPU limits and requests within GDC. We will explore the current scheduling limitations, their real-world impact on application performance, and the key design decisions that can mitigate these challenges. Attendees will walk away with concrete implementation patterns, best practices for resource configuration, and a clear understanding of how to optimize their GDC deployments for maximum efficiency and reliability.

Pavel is an IT Infrastructure Manager and Architect specializing in building private cloud solutions for Deutsche Bank's Investment Bank division. His experience spans application production management, development, and the design of large-scale public and private cloud infrastructure. He is focused on delivering business value through vendor-agnostic, enterprise-ready solutions, bringing cutting-edge technologies to development teams to enhance their productivity and capabilities. ---------------------------------------- Agents with MCPs - deployment by Sonam

Model context protocol is an easy way to provide your agent with tools and data through external servers. But how you can easily deploy it. This talk deals with what is MCP, plus what are the benefits of using it in your agent. Plus how you could deploy it easily.

Sonam is GenerativeAI Evangelist for Articul8, backed by Intel, which provides secure generativeAI infrastructure for enterprise. Moreover, she is the creator of the open-source library called Embed-Anything, which helps to create local and multimodal embeddings and stream them to vector databases, it’s built in rust and thus it’s more greener and efficient. She worked previously at Qdrant Engine, and before that, she worked at Rasa. Previously, she worked as an AI researcher at Saama and has worked extensively on clinical trial analytics with Pfizer. She is passionate about topics like metric learning and biases in language models. She has also published a paper in the most reputed journal of computational linguistics, COLING, in ACL Anthology. ---------------------------------------- LLM Guard: Simulating AI-Driven Security Administration by Fam Shihata

LLM Guard is a security simulator designed to explore the capabilities and limitations of Large Language Models as network defenders. By placing an LLM in the role of a security administrator within a defined topology, the simulator tests how effectively it can detect threats, configure defenses, and respond to incidents. The project provides a sandbox for evaluating AI-driven security operations, benchmarking performance against human administrators, and uncovering both strengths and vulnerabilities of LLM-based defense strategies. ---------------------------------------- 👉👉👉👉👉👉👉 Please RSVP in this page 👈👈👈👈👈👈👈

​Micheal Lanham has been building intelligent systems since the early 2000s, starting with neural networks and evolutionary algorithms in games and moving through enterprise software, geoscience, AR/VR, and now AI agents. Over the years, he has written more than ten technical books and worked across industries as an architect, manager, and hands-on AI engineer.

​In this conversation, Micheal shares hard-earned lessons from two decades at the intersection of data, software, and AI. We’ll explore what games can teach us about intelligence, why evolutionary methods are resurfacing, and how to think about AI agents beyond the hype. ​ ​We plan to cover:

• ​What games can teach us about AI and data products
• ​The promise (and limits) of evolutionary deep learning
• ​AI agents in practice: beyond LLMs and prompts
• ​How XR and intelligent systems are converging
• ​What it takes to productionize AI across industries
• ​What has really changed in AI over the last 20 years

​ ​About the speaker

​Micheal Lanham is a best-selling author, innovator, and AI engineer based in Calgary, Canada. His work spans games, graphics, GIS, enterprise software, and machine learning. He has published over ten technical books, including Evolutionary Deep Learning, Hands-On Reinforcement Learning for Games, and AI Agents in Action. Micheal has worked as a lead AI developer, architect, and manager across industries from oil and gas to fintech, and today focuses on building intelligent systems with deep reinforcement learning, evolutionary methods, and generative AI.

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Join Amanda Cavallaro for a workshop to learn more about fraudulent attacks and ways to mitigate them. We will begin by discussing the types of fraud and how the 5G Network APIs can help us combat them.

The entire workshop has tools for you to learn it in different ways: step-by-step tutorials, videos, learning from participating, and asking questions. We will also have some networking and refreshments.

You can learn how to improve your multifactor authentication using our Vonage SIM Swap and Verify APIs. We also use Firebase Services to store our functions with Cloud Functions, data in the Cloud Firestore database, and our web app using Firebase hosting.

Agenda

Speaker

Amanda Cavallaro - Vonage (Developer Advocate)

Developer advocate @VonageDev | Community Manager @ Bots Brasil, @GDGCloud | @GoogleDevExpert | LinkedIn Learning Instructor (she/ her).

Hosted By

Amanda Cavallaro, GDG Organizer

I'm an Aikidoka, Developer Advocate, Software Developer, Google Developers Expert, Linkedin Learning Author and a Full Stack Web Development Specialist.

Saverio Terracciano, GDG Organizer

Stefano Le Pera, GDG Organizer

Lorenzo Turrino, GDG Organizer

Natalie Godec, GDG Organizer

Systems/DevOps/Cloud engineer and a resident GCP expert. Women TechMakers Ambassador, Google Developer Expert in Cloud and Champion Innovator. I photograph, drink tequila and collect designer handbags ✨

Bruno Ripa, GDG Organizer

I am an italian software architect, in the industry since 2006. I have been in entrepreneurship in Italy, for 6 years, and then continued my career in United Kingdom, in London (2012), a city (or, better, the City) which I consider as my second home. I have worked in several industries (gaming, fintech, digital asset management) and in many companies, with a 3 years parenthesis in Spain (2017-2020), precisely in Barcelona, where I have worked as a contractor for a few USA startups and an european company working in IoT. In March 2020 I made my way back in London, working for Erlang Solutions. I am actually an independent consultant, working in the IoT market,

Carol Pestitschek,

Working with design for more than 11 years, I’m a multidisciplinary designer specialized in UX and Product Design. Passionate about identifying and solving problems, I help companies develop projects that positively impact people's lives. When there are no problems, we know we can always improve.

Kubra Harmankaya, Android Developer

Partner

Vonage (https://developer.vonage.com/) Integrate SMS, voice, video, and two-factor authentication to your apps with Vonage communication APIs.

Complete your event RSVP here: https://gdg.community.dev/events/details/google-gdg-cloud-london-presents-network-apis-workshop/.

** Important **: Due to room capacity and building security, you must register on the event website for admission.

Meet the Builders, Wizards, and Prophets of GenAI! APIs and AI are converging, transforming how businesses operate. Apidays New York 2025 explores this powerful synergy, examining how APIs are evolving into intelligent interfaces that connect developers, AI, and digital services. As machine-to-machine communication grows, understanding this convergence is crucial.

Apidays New York 2025 delves into building AI-ready infrastructure, applying AI in API design and management, and maintaining security and governance. Join global experts to discover how to architect your digital foundation for an AI-powered future and unlock new opportunities for innovation.

Conference details and Get your ticket

Speakers:

• Alaa Moussawi, Chief Data Scientist, from New York City Council
• Vincent Gonguet, Head of Product, GenAI Llama Safety from Meta
• Yasodhara Rangineeni, Vice President from JPMorgan Chase & Co
• Ezequiel Lanza, Open Source AI Evangelist from Intel
• Shereen Moussa, Digital Product Owner from PepsiCo
• Dora Foto, Senior Manager from Amazon
• Manai Mohamed Mortadha, Senior AI Engineer from Netflix
• Sai prasad Veluru, Software Engineer from Apple Inc
• Nisarg Patel, Product Manager from IBM
• Arpita Vats, Senior AI engineer from Linkedin
• Shivali Naik, Solutions Consultant, from Snowflake
• and 20 more speakers

** Important **: Due to room capacity and building security, you must register on the event website for admission.

Meet the Builders, Wizards, and Prophets of GenAI! APIs and AI are converging, transforming how businesses operate. Apidays New York 2025 explores this powerful synergy, examining how APIs are evolving into intelligent interfaces that connect developers, AI, and digital services. As machine-to-machine communication grows, understanding this convergence is crucial.

Apidays New York 2025 delves into building AI-ready infrastructure, applying AI in API design and management, and maintaining security and governance. Join global experts to discover how to architect your digital foundation for an AI-powered future and unlock new opportunities for innovation.

Conference details and Get your ticket

Speakers:

• Alaa Moussawi, Chief Data Scientist, from New York City Council
• Vincent Gonguet, Head of Product, GenAI Llama Safety from Meta
• Yasodhara Rangineeni, Vice President from JPMorgan Chase & Co
• Ezequiel Lanza, Open Source AI Evangelist from Intel
• Shereen Moussa, Digital Product Owner from PepsiCo
• Dora Foto, Senior Manager from Amazon
• Manai Mohamed Mortadha, Senior AI Engineer from Netflix
• Sai prasad Veluru, Software Engineer from Apple Inc
• Nisarg Patel, Product Manager from IBM
• Arpita Vats, Senior AI engineer from Linkedin
• Shivali Naik, Solutions Consultant, from Snowflake
• and 20 more speakers

Update: this is an online Meetup! 🌐

Through three to-the-point, insightful talks, we’ll explore practical applications of decentralized identity, zero-knowledge proofs, and privacy on the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM). The program features speakers from open-source projects, academia, and applied research.

19:00 - 19:10 Welcome & introduction by Howest Cyber3Lab

19:10 - 19:40 Decentralized Identity: A Simple Way to Keep Your Privacy Renata Toktar - Lead Software Engineer and Product manager\, DSR Corporation

This talk explores how distributed identity systems enable individuals to own and control their personal data, creating a safer and more transparent online experience.

By leveraging blockchain and LF Decentralized Trust technology, these systems eliminate the need for a single, centralized - and often vulnerable - data repository. The presentation will include technical insights such as:

• Practical implementation of decentralized identity systems
• Regulatory context, including eIDAS 2.0 (EUDI) and GDPR
• A technical overview of credential types and supporting protocols

Note: This talk will be delivered remotely 🌐

Renata is a specialist in Self-Sovereign Identity (SSI) and decentralized systems. She has been an active maintainer of Hyperledger Indy for over seven years and now leads the Indy on Besu project. Currently, one of her key focus areas is the DSR Developer Toolkit, which streamlines the use of popular protocols and credential types in decentralized systems.

Renata is also a frequent speaker at international events such as Blockchain Week, has presented at the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Porto (FEUP), and regularly facilitates webinars on SSI and Web3 for the open-source community.

19:40 - 20:10 Real-world Applications of Zero-knowledge Proofs (ZKPs) Ruben De Smet - Postdoctoral researcher\, Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Zero-knowledge proofs (ZKPs) are transforming privacy in decentralized systems. This talk explores real-world applications of ZKPs, from private transactions and digital identity to blockchain scalability (zk-rollups) and privacy-preserving road pricing. We'll discuss how these techniques enable trust without revealing sensitive information, making them a key tool for privacy in decentralized ecosystems.

Ruben De Smet obtained his PhD in 2024 and holds an MSc degree in Engineering from the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (2018). His current research focuses on privacy-enhancing technologies, with an emphasis on online social networks leveraging zero-knowledge proofs, elliptic curves, and cryptography.

20:10 - 20:40 Advancing EVM Privacy: An Introduction to LFDT Lab Paladin Peter Broadhurst - Co-Founder & Head of Engineering\, Kaleido

Paladin is a young LFDT Lab project aimed at enhancing privacy within Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) environments. Paladin offers an open-source, modular, and pluggable platform for developing programmable, privacy-preserving tokens on EVM. It supports a variety of privacy frameworks, including Zero-Knowledge Proof (ZKP) tokens, issuer-backed tokens, and private smart contracts.

This talk shares hands-on insights into how Paladin works, its potential for enterprise and public sector use cases, and how others can get started experimenting with it. Whether you're a developer, architect, or simply privacy-curious, you'll come away with a practical understanding of what Paladin brings to the Web3 privacy landscape.

Peter Broadhurst is Co-founder and Head of Engineering at Kaleido, an award-winning blockchain, digital assets and tokenization platform. Its clients include the world’s largest banks, top asset managers, over a dozen central banks, global payments processors, next-gen FMIs, Swift, World Bank, IMF, along with 100s of enterprise networks.

Recognizing both the extraordinary promise of blockchain and the barriers to enterprise adoption, Peter helped launch Kaleido in 2017 with the mission of radically simplifying the technology to make blockchain, digital assets, and tokenization accessible to businesses and governments worldwide.

Peter brings 15 years of experience as a chief technical lead at IBM responsible for key middleware and cloud products across multiple generations of enterprise platforms. He is an active maintainer leading key open source communities such as FireFly and Paladin under the Hyperledger Foundation and Linux Foundation Decentralized Trust for the last 5 years, helping drive innovation at the intersection of blockchain and scalable enterprise systems. Peter has a computer engineering degree from the University of Southampton, UK.

Update: this is an online Meetup! 🌐

Through three to-the-point, insightful talks, we’ll explore practical applications of decentralized identity, zero-knowledge proofs, and privacy on the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM). The program features speakers from open-source projects, academia, and applied research.

19:00 - 19:10 Welcome & introduction by Howest Cyber3Lab

19:10 - 19:40 Decentralized Identity: A Simple Way to Keep Your Privacy Renata Toktar - Lead Software Engineer and Product manager\, DSR Corporation

This talk explores how distributed identity systems enable individuals to own and control their personal data, creating a safer and more transparent online experience.

By leveraging blockchain and LF Decentralized Trust technology, these systems eliminate the need for a single, centralized - and often vulnerable - data repository. The presentation will include technical insights such as:

• Practical implementation of decentralized identity systems
• Regulatory context, including eIDAS 2.0 (EUDI) and GDPR
• A technical overview of credential types and supporting protocols

Note: This talk will be delivered remotely 🌐

Renata is a specialist in Self-Sovereign Identity (SSI) and decentralized systems. She has been an active maintainer of Hyperledger Indy for over seven years and now leads the Indy on Besu project. Currently, one of her key focus areas is the DSR Developer Toolkit, which streamlines the use of popular protocols and credential types in decentralized systems.

Renata is also a frequent speaker at international events such as Blockchain Week, has presented at the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Porto (FEUP), and regularly facilitates webinars on SSI and Web3 for the open-source community.

19:40 - 20:10 Real-world Applications of Zero-knowledge Proofs (ZKPs) Ruben De Smet - Postdoctoral researcher\, Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Zero-knowledge proofs (ZKPs) are transforming privacy in decentralized systems. This talk explores real-world applications of ZKPs, from private transactions and digital identity to blockchain scalability (zk-rollups) and privacy-preserving road pricing. We'll discuss how these techniques enable trust without revealing sensitive information, making them a key tool for privacy in decentralized ecosystems.

Ruben De Smet obtained his PhD in 2024 and holds an MSc degree in Engineering from the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (2018). His current research focuses on privacy-enhancing technologies, with an emphasis on online social networks leveraging zero-knowledge proofs, elliptic curves, and cryptography.

20:10 - 20:40 Advancing EVM Privacy: An Introduction to LFDT Lab Paladin Peter Broadhurst - Co-Founder & Head of Engineering\, Kaleido

Paladin is a young LFDT Lab project aimed at enhancing privacy within Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) environments. Paladin offers an open-source, modular, and pluggable platform for developing programmable, privacy-preserving tokens on EVM. It supports a variety of privacy frameworks, including Zero-Knowledge Proof (ZKP) tokens, issuer-backed tokens, and private smart contracts.

This talk shares hands-on insights into how Paladin works, its potential for enterprise and public sector use cases, and how others can get started experimenting with it. Whether you're a developer, architect, or simply privacy-curious, you'll come away with a practical understanding of what Paladin brings to the Web3 privacy landscape.

Peter Broadhurst is Co-founder and Head of Engineering at Kaleido, an award-winning blockchain, digital assets and tokenization platform. Its clients include the world’s largest banks, top asset managers, over a dozen central banks, global payments processors, next-gen FMIs, Swift, World Bank, IMF, along with 100s of enterprise networks.

Recognizing both the extraordinary promise of blockchain and the barriers to enterprise adoption, Peter helped launch Kaleido in 2017 with the mission of radically simplifying the technology to make blockchain, digital assets, and tokenization accessible to businesses and governments worldwide.

Peter brings 15 years of experience as a chief technical lead at IBM responsible for key middleware and cloud products across multiple generations of enterprise platforms. He is an active maintainer leading key open source communities such as FireFly and Paladin under the Hyperledger Foundation and Linux Foundation Decentralized Trust for the last 5 years, helping drive innovation at the intersection of blockchain and scalable enterprise systems. Peter has a computer engineering degree from the University of Southampton, UK.

Update: this is an online Meetup! 🌐

Through three to-the-point, insightful talks, we’ll explore practical applications of decentralized identity, zero-knowledge proofs, and privacy on the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM). The program features speakers from open-source projects, academia, and applied research.

19:00 - 19:10 Welcome & introduction by Howest Cyber3Lab

19:10 - 19:40 Decentralized Identity: A Simple Way to Keep Your Privacy Renata Toktar - Lead Software Engineer and Product manager\, DSR Corporation

This talk explores how distributed identity systems enable individuals to own and control their personal data, creating a safer and more transparent online experience.

By leveraging blockchain and LF Decentralized Trust technology, these systems eliminate the need for a single, centralized - and often vulnerable - data repository. The presentation will include technical insights such as:

• Practical implementation of decentralized identity systems
• Regulatory context, including eIDAS 2.0 (EUDI) and GDPR
• A technical overview of credential types and supporting protocols

Note: This talk will be delivered remotely 🌐

Renata is a specialist in Self-Sovereign Identity (SSI) and decentralized systems. She has been an active maintainer of Hyperledger Indy for over seven years and now leads the Indy on Besu project. Currently, one of her key focus areas is the DSR Developer Toolkit, which streamlines the use of popular protocols and credential types in decentralized systems.

Renata is also a frequent speaker at international events such as Blockchain Week, has presented at the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Porto (FEUP), and regularly facilitates webinars on SSI and Web3 for the open-source community.

19:40 - 20:10 Real-world Applications of Zero-knowledge Proofs (ZKPs) Ruben De Smet - Postdoctoral researcher\, Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Zero-knowledge proofs (ZKPs) are transforming privacy in decentralized systems. This talk explores real-world applications of ZKPs, from private transactions and digital identity to blockchain scalability (zk-rollups) and privacy-preserving road pricing. We'll discuss how these techniques enable trust without revealing sensitive information, making them a key tool for privacy in decentralized ecosystems.

Ruben De Smet obtained his PhD in 2024 and holds an MSc degree in Engineering from the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (2018). His current research focuses on privacy-enhancing technologies, with an emphasis on online social networks leveraging zero-knowledge proofs, elliptic curves, and cryptography.

20:10 - 20:40 Advancing EVM Privacy: An Introduction to LFDT Lab Paladin Peter Broadhurst - Co-Founder & Head of Engineering\, Kaleido

Paladin is a young LFDT Lab project aimed at enhancing privacy within Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) environments. Paladin offers an open-source, modular, and pluggable platform for developing programmable, privacy-preserving tokens on EVM. It supports a variety of privacy frameworks, including Zero-Knowledge Proof (ZKP) tokens, issuer-backed tokens, and private smart contracts.

This talk shares hands-on insights into how Paladin works, its potential for enterprise and public sector use cases, and how others can get started experimenting with it. Whether you're a developer, architect, or simply privacy-curious, you'll come away with a practical understanding of what Paladin brings to the Web3 privacy landscape.

Peter Broadhurst is Co-founder and Head of Engineering at Kaleido, an award-winning blockchain, digital assets and tokenization platform. Its clients include the world’s largest banks, top asset managers, over a dozen central banks, global payments processors, next-gen FMIs, Swift, World Bank, IMF, along with 100s of enterprise networks.

Recognizing both the extraordinary promise of blockchain and the barriers to enterprise adoption, Peter helped launch Kaleido in 2017 with the mission of radically simplifying the technology to make blockchain, digital assets, and tokenization accessible to businesses and governments worldwide.

Peter brings 15 years of experience as a chief technical lead at IBM responsible for key middleware and cloud products across multiple generations of enterprise platforms. He is an active maintainer leading key open source communities such as FireFly and Paladin under the Hyperledger Foundation and Linux Foundation Decentralized Trust for the last 5 years, helping drive innovation at the intersection of blockchain and scalable enterprise systems. Peter has a computer engineering degree from the University of Southampton, UK.

Welcome to SQL Friday Easter special. I'm working on getting the YouTube stream to work (sorry for the past two weeks missing a YouTube-stream). But to be really sure to catch SQL Friday, RSVP to get the Teams link. ---- Join us for an in-depth session on the best practices and strategies for integrating data from SQL Server to Microsoft Fabric. We'll discuss it step-by-step process, review the common challenges and how to overcome them. Key topics will include data pipelines, data flow, and the use of notebooks to streamline your workflows. We'll also cover mirroring techniques and what benefits can emerge when using an Azure SQL Database. Discover the benefits of using Fabric for your data needs, including improved efficiency, scalability, and advanced analytics capabilities. This session is designed for data professionals looking to optimize their data workflows and ensure a smooth transition to a modern data platform.

Speakers

Filipa Lobão

Data and AI Cloud Solution Architect @Microsoft

Filipa is a Data and AI Cloud Solution Architect at Microsoft, and has experience in designing, developing and implementing solutions in Data & AI in Microsoft Fabric and Azure Data products. She has been involved in several international customer engagements with worldwide expansion and daily impact, and worked in Analytics/Data for the past 7 years. Her goal is to empower every person to become autonomous and proficient in Data and AI. She has a learn-it-all mindset, which is supported by her diverse background.

Filipa currently lives in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates. Her dedication to the field and her ability to empower others with her knowledge are evident in her role as a University Teacher. Currently, she is also an EMBA student at the Quantic School of Business and Technology.

Her professional trajectory is a testament to her hard work and ability to adapt, having made the transition from a career in Science to a prominent role in Technology. Her achievements have been recognized with several awards on Technical Excellence and she continues sharing her experiences and knowledge through public speaking and contributions to the technology community.

Artur Vieira Principal Program Manager - Microsoft Fabric DW https://www.linkedin.com/in/amvieira/

Global AI Bootcamp taking place in London. If you are an AI enthusiast and love learning more about Azure AI, then this event is perfect for you.

09:30 - 09:45 Welcoming (15 mins)

09:45 - 10:20 Speaker 1 - Opening Keynote - Amy Boyd - Senior Cloud Developer Advocate in AI/ML at Microsoft

Session: To be Confirmed

10:20 - 10:45 Speaker 2 - Nathaniel Okenwa (He/Him) Developer Evangelist @twilio / Wannabe Dev-Rel Superstar / Loves: Coding

Session: Preventing Skynet: Managing Trust with AI Agents

In this talk, we’ll explore the practical dangers of AI agent infrastructure, discuss strategies to safeguard your systems, and provide a comprehensive safety checklist to help you build responsibly. Together, we can prevent the singularity. Remember: The future is not set. There is no fate but what we make for ourselves.

10:45 - 11:10 Speaker 3 - Rahul Basu - Senior Software Engineer at Warner Bros. Discovery

Session: AI, Hollywood, and the Metaverse – A Synergistic Future

Artificial intelligence is set to become the backbone of the metaverse, merging physical and digital realities into immersive experiences. This session explores how AI is transforming storytelling, character creation, and interactive content, revolutionizing the entertainment industry. From generative AI-powered narratives to real-time digital actors, we’ll examine how Hollywood and gaming companies are leveraging AI to redefine engagement. Drawing from his experience architecting Max, Warner Bros. Discovery’s global streaming platform, Rahul Basu will share insights into how AI is being used by top media companies to power next-gen content creation. Attendees will learn about AI-driven MLOps frameworks, synthetic media production, and the tools shaping the future of the entertainment industry. Whether you’re a developer, AI enthusiast, creative, or media executive, this session will provide practical knowledge and real-world use cases on how AI is reshaping the future of entertainment.

11:10 - 11:30 Break (15 mins)

11:30 - 12:15 Speaker 4 - Guy Gregory - Partner Solution Architect@Microsoft specialising in Azure AI.

Session: Introducing Azure AI Agent Service

In this session, we’ll introduce the Azure AI Agent Service, a set of feature-rich, managed capabilities that brings together all the models, data, tools, and services that partners and customers need to automate business processes of any complexity. Here’s what we’ll cover:

• Introducing the Azure AI Agent Service
• How to use the Azure AI Agent Service via SDK and Azure AI Foundry
• How does the Azure AI Agent Service compare to Chat Completions and Assistants API?
• ‘What’s in the box?’ Models, Tools, Actions, and Security
• Creating your Agent Project, and deploying your model
• Creating a basic agent
• Creating an agent with tools
• Advanced agents / Multi-agent examples
• Further reading and training

12:15 - 13:00 Speaker 5 - Manuel Sanchez Rodriguez Director - Azure App Modernisation at NTT DATA \| Microsoft MVP Azure & AI Platform and Sergio Sisternes Senior Director - Head of Cloud Native Solutions at NTT DATA

Session: The Age of Agents: Modernising Your Applications

Join us for an exciting session, "The Age of Agents: Modernising Your Applications" with Azure and Azure OpenAI, where you'll discover how to transform and modernise your applications using the powerful capabilities of Azure and Azure OpenAI. Learn how intelligent agents can enhance performance and user experience, explore practical demonstrations of seamless integration, and get a comprehensive guide on overcoming common challenges. Whether you're a developer, IT professional, or tech enthusiast, this session will equip you with the knowledge and tools to stay ahead in the rapidly evolving tech landscape. Don't miss this opportunity to unlock your applications' full potential with Azure and Azure OpenAI.

13:00 - 14:00 Lunch Break (

14:00 - 14:45 Speaker 6 - Clifford Agius - Freelance Developer that just so happens to fly an Airbus A320 around the Europe.

Session: Could a Co-Pilot be an Aircraft Co-Pilot

Welcome aboard, fellow travelers! In this talk, we’re strapping on our metaphorical aviator goggles and diving into the cockpit to explore the fascinating world of AI Co-Pilots and could they and more importantly should they be used in a real world flight deck? Buckle up, because this flight is about to get bumpy—in a purely intellectual turbulence kind of way. Using aircraft incidents and accidents we will see if an AI Co-Pilot would have saved the day... If you have a fear of flying maybe skip this one but I will say before you run out that none of the accidents are fatal so nothing to be scared of.... You don't need to be an AI specialist or even know anything about it, as we are just exploring the decisions pilots have to make in very limited timescales with limited information and throwing in some human factors to spice it up a bit. These are all good skills you can use in any decision making at work. The aim of this session is to hopefully show you that AI can help but should we use it? You will walk away knowing a bit about AI and have some fun geeking out on aviation.

14:45 - 15:10 Speaker 7 - Ayca Bas - Senior Cloud Developer Advocate@Microsoft

Session: RAG and Knowledge Retrieval Fundamentals

In this session, we are going to talk about what is Retrieval Augmented Generation and why It’s a Game Changer. We'll also learn the fundamentals of search indexing and talk about Vector Search 101: Revolutionizing Retrieval with AI.

15:10 - 15:55 Speaker 8 Dieter Gobeyn - Enterprise Integration Architect & Azure Cloud Solutions Architect

Session: Azure OpenAI Unplugged: Real-World Lessons from My Latest GenAI Project

Thinking of using Azure OpenAI in production? In this session, I’ll share detailed hard-earned lessons from my latest GenAI project, where I combined Azure OpenAI GPT-4 with data integration workflows. As both a solution architect and hands-on developer, I’ll walk you through what worked, what flopped, and what I wish I knew earlier. We’ll dive into managing costs, securing data, reducing hallucinations, fine-tuning prompts, and keeping token usage in check. Whether you’re exploring AI or scaling it, this session is packed with tips to help you avoid pitfalls and build smarter, more efficient AI solutions.

16:00pm - Closing Keynote Lee Stott - Principal Cloud Advocate Manager@Microsoft

Session: Device Intelligence with SLM: A Path to Edge Deployment and Cloud Integration

In today’s fast-paced tech landscape, many organisations aim to enhance device intelligence and responsiveness. This presentation highlights the crucial role of Small Language Models (SLM) in solving business problems and improving device capabilities. By fine-tuning SLM, you can achieve optimal performance and adaptability. We will compare SLM with Large Language Models (LLM), showing why SLM is better suited for organisation’s needs. The importance of customization in fine-tuning these models will be emphasized. A key focus will be on deploying these models on edge devices for real-time processing and decision-making, boosting device intelligence and positioning your organisation as an innovation leader. The presentation will provide a roadmap for implementation, from cloud development to deployment across platforms. Using Azure, organisations can ensure seamless integration and IP ownership, gaining a competitive edge.

Discover how your organisation can leverage SLM to revolutionize its devices and lead in intelligent technology.

By registering for this in person event you are agreeing to have your e-mail shared with building security for building access. Your privacy is important to us. This privacy statement explains the personal data Microsoft processes, how Microsoft processes it, and for what purposes. You can view our full privacy statement here: https://privacy.microsoft.com/privacystatement

Hello all! We have an action-packed meeting waiting for you. We'll start with nibbles, drinks and networking and then hear presentations from our two guest speakers:

Guy Biecher, Co-Founder & CTO at Seemore DataHow to Use Data Lineage to Drive Efficiency and Cut 40% Off Your Data Spend.

Want to know how to drive proactive cost optimization through observability, waste reduction, usage-based optimization, all leveraging Snowflake’s features to maximize efficiency. Guy Biecher will be your guide on how to keep costs down and ROI up!

Shan Patel, Deputy Director & Head of Data EngineeringAccelerating Data Delivery with Snowflake & DevOpsHow we used Snowflake & DevOps to develop our Novus-ai product and quickly deploy to customers. 

Agenda

Speaker

Guy Biecher - Seemore Data (CTO & Co-Founder)

Hosted By

Christopher Marland, Data Superhero

Snowflake Solutions Architect @ Aimpoint Digital | Data Engineer | Snowflake Data Superhero | Co-Lead Frosty Friday

Piers Batchelor, Data Superhero

• Snowflake Data Superhero
• Snowflake For Startups, Chapter Lead
• London Snowflake User Group, Chapter Lead
• Astrato Analytics (Self-Service BI, Revolutionized for the cloud), Senior Product Manager

Snowflake User Groups

Complete your event RSVP here: https://usergroups.snowflake.com/events/details/snowflake-london-presents-lsug-formal-user-group-february/.

In this workshop you'll learn how to:

Use Streamlit to build a conversational analytics application using Cortex Analyst How to improve your application's accuracy by providing context using Cortex Search and Semantic Models How to call Cortex Analyst using Streamlit and REST APIs

Who Should Attend?

The workshop is open to anyone with a technical background, whether you’re a data analyst, engineer, or simply a tech enthusiast curious about the latest data trends. It's especially beneficial for those aiming to enhance their professional skill set by learning about Snowflake.

Why Attend?

Upskill: In an era where data is becoming increasingly valuable, knowing how to leverage powerful technologies like Snowflake is crucial. This workshop could be a stepping stone to help propel your career forward. Networking Opportunities: Connect with like-minded professionals and industry experts. Exchange ideas, share experiences, and build relationships that could lead to future collaborations or career opportunities. Hands-On Experience: It's one thing to read about technology, but it's another to use it. The hands-on lab ensures you don't just learn; you apply, making the knowledge stick.

Logistics

This will be a hands on session so feel free to bring your laptops so you can have a go at building something yourselves. Make sure you have a full charge on your laptops and have your personal hotspots ready as a backup!

Spaces will be limited to 60 people, and we will rely on registrations on the Snowflake Community page to gauge numbers. Please only register if you know you will be able to attend, it will help us to order the correct amount of food/drink.

First come, first served on the day, we will try our best of course but if you arrive late we may not be able to fit you in.

Please try to check-in to the building BEFORE the event. You will receive an invite from “Envoy” which you can use to check-in. If you don’t, you’ll have to type all your details into the Envoy app at reception on the ground floor, which can slow things down. If you check-in using the invite then you’ll have your pass on your phone and you can scan it when you arrive.

If you haven’t already done so, join the WhatsApp group (https://chat.whatsapp.com/KKYqR22jwo4DxQRcTGa0GP) and we’ll keep you updated on any updates or last minute changes.

Agenda

Speaker

Peter Aubrey - Snowflake (Senior Sales Engineer)

Experienced Director Solutions Consulting with a demonstrated history of working in the computer software industry. Strong consulting professional skilled in Business Process, Enterprise Software, PaaS, Partner Management, and Agile Methodologies.

Hosted By

Christopher Marland, Data Superhero

Snowflake Solutions Architect @ Aimpoint Digital | Data Engineer | Snowflake Data Superhero | Co-Lead Frosty Friday

Piers Batchelor, Data Superhero

• Snowflake Data Superhero
• Snowflake For Startups, Chapter Lead
• London Snowflake User Group, Chapter Lead
• Astrato Analytics (Self-Service BI, Revolutionized for the cloud), Senior Product Manager

Snowflake User Groups

Complete your event RSVP here: https://usergroups.snowflake.com/events/details/snowflake-london-presents-london-build-meetup-build-an-ai-powered-conversational-analytics-application/.

Join our Microsoft Fabric - UK User Group for our latest webinar.

This session we are excited to announce our host Microsoft MVP Leon Gordon and co-host Microsoft MVP Pragati Jain will be introducing Microsoft MVP Kevin Chant.

Join the Microsoft Fabric UK - User Group on -

Microsoft Community - https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Power-BI-UK-User-Group/gh-p/pbi_UK_usergroup LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/groups/8909321/ MeetUp - https://www.meetup.com/microsoft-power-bi-uk/

Session Abstract -

Microsoft Fabric was first announced during Microsoft Build 2023. Which has caused a lot of excitement in the Microsoft Data Platform community. Over the last eighteen months there has been plenty of changes.

As we head towards the end of 2024 I give a brief overview of Microsoft Fabric is before going into details about how you can use Azure DevOps with it at this moment in time. Including Git integration and other ways that you can perform CI/CD for Data Warehouses and SQL database in Fabric.

During the session I will provide plenty of recommendations.

Biography

Data Engineering Manager in the Netherlands. Originally from the UK and now living in the Netherlands. Microsoft Certified Trainer and Microsoft Data Platform MVP specializing in Microsoft Fabric.

Many years experience in the IT sector, including supporting companies in the top 10 of the fortune 500 list.

In addition to a lot of experience with the Microsoft Data Platform.

Real life experience with various Microsoft Data Platform offerings and Azure Devops. Held various roles; including Team Leader, SQL Server Product Owner, certification coach, Solution Architect, Fabric SME, etc.

In addition, involved with Data Platform Community in various ways. Including blogs, MVP videos, event and user-group organizer and sharing various repositories in GitHub.

Social Media / Website Links Twitter/Blue Sky: @kevchant LI: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kevin-chant/ Blog: https://www.KevinRChant.com GitHub: https://github.com/kevchant

Join our Microsoft Fabric - UK User Group for our latest webinar.

This session we are excited to announce our host Microsoft MVP Leon Gordon and co-host Microsoft MVP Pragati Jain will be introducing Gil Raviv.

Join the Microsoft Fabric UK - User Group on -

Microsoft Community - https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Power-BI-UK-User-Group/gh-p/pbi_UK_usergroup LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/groups/8909321/ MeetUp - https://www.meetup.com/microsoft-power-bi-uk/

Session Abstract -

Do you assess the performance of digital products in your organisation? Looking solely at financial metrics simply doesn't give the full picture. Measuring usage, engagement, and user satisfaction provides the insights needed to predict adoption, reduce attrition, and identify where improvements can make a real impact. With effective engagement analysis, you'll discover which features resonate with users and which areas would benefit from optimisation.

Join Gil Raviv in this session to learn great techniques to help you analyse digital products with Power BI and Fabric. We will use Power Query and DAX to solve common data challenges and learn a wide range of techniques: How to measure key performance indicators for user adoption, attrition, and satisfaction; How to group separate events into sessions and calculation session duration; How to assess the complexity, usability, and passivity of digital products to identify poorly performing products;

To demonstrate the techniques to measure the health of digital products, Gil picked a digital product that you all own—your Power BI reports. After all, if you think about it seriously, every Power BI report that you deliver in your organisation is your digital product. We will use Power BI reports as an example of a digital product since they are familiar to you. Throughout the demonstrations, Gil will share the techniques he used to build BI Pixie, a new Azure Marketplace product that measures the engagement, adoption, and user satisfaction in Power BI reports. But if you are not interested in measuring the engagement in your Power BI reports, do not worry—the techniques will be relevant for any digital product.

Biography

Gil Raviv is the author of the Microsoft Press book, “Collect, Combine and Transform Data using Power Query”, and the founder of DataChant Consulting. For his contributions to the BI community and impact working with global enterprises, Gil was recognised as a Microsoft MVP for five consecutive years (2017–2021) and received the Microsoft Fast Track Solution Architect recognition (2020, 2021). Gil has led numerous consulting engagements, pre-sales activities, and go-to-market initiatives as a global BI practice lead at Avanade/Accenture (2017–2021) and AWS (2022–2023), and led delivery excellence and sales enablement for hundreds of global Microsoft Power BI and Amazon QuickSight professionals.

As a product manager, Gil spent a significant part of his career designing digital products and measuring their performance (e.g., Microsoft Excel and Amazon QuickSight, amongst others). BI Pixie, DataChant's latest product, combines Gil's product management and business intelligence experiences to empower the Power BI community to gain better insights into their delivery.

Social Media / Website Links https://www.linkedin.com/in/gilraviv https://bipixie.com

Teams of up to 6 will play together to win the inaugural title of "London Snowflake User Group Festive Quiz Champions of 2024", or LSUGFQC's for short try saying that to your family around a mouth full of turkey. There may even be a trophy, no promises!

Not got a team, no problem, as Denis Norden said "it'll be alright on the night" so come along some food, drink and a bit of networking.

Logistics

Spaces will be limited to 60 people, and we will rely on registrations on the Snowflake Community page to gauge numbers. Please only register if you know you will be able to attend, it will help us to order the correct amount of food/drink.

First come, first served on the day, we will try our best of course but if you arrive late we may not be able to fit you in.

Please try to check-in to the building BEFORE the event. You will receive an invite from “Envoy” which you can use to check-in. If you don’t, you’ll have to type all your details into the Envoy app at reception on the ground floor, which can slow things down. If you check-in using the invite then you’ll have your pass on your phone and you can scan it when you arrive.

If you haven’t already done so, join the WhatsApp group (https://chat.whatsapp.com/KKYqR22jwo4DxQRcTGa0GP) and we’ll keep you updated on any updates or last minute changes.

Agenda

Hosted By

Christopher Marland, Data Superhero

Snowflake Solutions Architect @ Aimpoint Digital | Data Engineer | Snowflake Data Superhero | Co-Lead Frosty Friday

Piers Batchelor, Data Superhero

• Snowflake Data Superhero
• Snowflake For Startups, Chapter Lead
• London Snowflake User Group, Chapter Lead
• Astrato Analytics (Self-Service BI, Revolutionized for the cloud), Senior Product Manager

Snowflake User Groups

Complete your event RSVP here: https://usergroups.snowflake.com/events/details/snowflake-london-presents-the-big-snowflake-quiz-of-the-year-happy-holidays/.

Join us for our next developer meetup, where we'll be exploring Vector search and Graph use cases in SurrealDB, and how you can leverage this functionality in your own projects.

Whether you're a software engineer, developer, architect, data scientist, or data engineer, this event is for you. Expect an evening filled with insightful discussions, networking opportunities, and the chance to learn more about the latest in database technology!

🗣️ Speaker opportunity - submit your talk! Working on an interesting project that you would like to share with the community? Submit your talk here.

⏰ Date/time: November 12, 6:30 - 9:00PM

📍 Location: The Yard: Columbus Circle Coworking Office Space NYC

Agenda

18:30 - 19:00 Welcome drinks, pizza & networking Attendees arrive – grab a drink, explore the space and meet the SurrealDB team.

19:00 - 19:30 Intro to SurrealDB: Leveraging Graphs and Vectors in your projects Alessandro Pireno, Director Solutions Engineering at SurrealDB

This talk will explore the world of Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems. Using Jupyter notebooks, we will demonstrate a graph-based approach to RAG, leveraging the unique capabilities of SurrealDB. The presentation will show how to construct a knowledge graph from unstructured text data, covering key aspects like entity and relation extraction. Then, using the created knowledge graph, the talk will demonstrate how to implement and utilize a graph-based RAG system for question answering. The talk will highlight SurrealDB's graph capabilities for representing relationships between entities and its vector capabilities for semantic search within the knowledge graph. Attendees will learn how to construct a knowledge graph, use the graph structure for contextually rich question answering, and use SurrealDB's graph and vector features to power a RAG system

19:30 - 20:00 Refreshments & networking Connect with others in the tech community. Grab a slice of pizza & a drink and chat with other attendees and members of the SurrealDB team.

20:00 - 20:30 Understanding the AI & ML landscape Ashok Chandra, Alessandro Pireno Ashok will draw on his legal expertise and understanding of data privacy to discuss the legal and ethical considerations for developers and data scientists using generative AI (GenAI) to generate or extract data.

20:30 - 21:00 Refreshments and networking

21:00 End of event

-- Speaker: Alessandro Pireno \| LinkedIn Alessandro is a seasoned product development and solutions leader with a proven track record of building and scaling data-driven solutions across diverse industries. He has led product strategy and development at companies like HUMAN and Omnicom Media Group, optimized data collection and distribution at GroupM, and was an early leader of success at Snowflake. With a deep understanding of the challenges and opportunities facing today’s tech landscape, Alessandro is passionate about empowering organizations to unlock the full potential of their data through innovative database solutions.

Speaker: Ashok Chandra \| LinkedIn Ashok Chandra is an attorney and finance professional with expertise in data privacy and intellectual property law. He holds certifications as a Certified Information Privacy Professional (CIPP/US) and a Certified Information Privacy Manager (CIPM) from the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP). He is also a member of the New York State Bar Association, the Washington State Bar Association, and the United States Patent and Trademark Office Bar.

Ashok's educational background includes a degree from New York University's Leonard N. Stern School of Business, where he was active in the Entertainment and Media Association. He also served as the Managing Editor of the Fordham Intellectual Property, Media, and Entertainment Law Journal. His published work includes a note on how companies attempt to extend copyright protection through derivative works and trademarks.

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FAQs

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Am I guaranteed a ticket at this event? Our events are tech-focused and in the interest of keeping our events relevant and meaningful for those attending, tickets are issued at our discretion. We therefore reserve the right to refund ticket orders before the event and to request proof of identity and/or professional background upon entry.

Is this event for me? SurrealDB events are for software engineers, developers, architects, data scientists, data engineers, or any tech professionals keen to discover more about SurrealDB: a scalable multi-model database that allows users and developers to focus on building their applications with ease and speed.

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We’re excited to announce our upcoming meetup in collaboration with Datenna, a pioneering scale-up based in Eindhoven. This event promises to be a deep dive into the innovative use of data and technology, showcasing cutting-edge applications that are shaping the future of open-source intelligence. And all this brought to you by the CTO and Founder of Datenna; Edward Brinkmann. In addition, Shu and Remi are sharing what they learned from building a tool to annotate LLM outputs. Sounds cool and interesting right? Datenna is our host this time and will open the doors of their office on October 29th, see you then!

How Datenna built a digital twin of China using graphs and GenAI How do you create a detailed and reliable digital twin of one of the largest economies in the world? How do you ensure that the data being collected from open sources is trustworthy? How do you handle conflicting pieces of information, merge entities across data sources, and ensure every conclusion is explainable and traceable back to the source? These are some of the challenges Datenna tackles daily in its mission to provide the best open-source intelligence to governments worldwide for economic and national security purposes. Discover how Datenna leverages graph databases and GenAI technology to build an open-source intelligence engine that continuously collects information on over 100 million entities in China, mapping all these entities and their relationships. Learn how Datenna, a scale-up founded in Eindhoven, has used these novel technologies to gain a competitive edge globally and became a world leader in techno-economic intelligence on China.

What we've learnt from building a tool to annotate LLM outputs LLMs can take files, audio, and video as input and generate summaries, answer questions, and extract information. With the Gemini family of models capable of supporting up to 1 million tokens in their context window, users can feed a PDF of hundreds of pages into these models and output only the results they care about. However, the outputs may contain errors. In this talk, the presenters will share their learnings from building a tool that enables the manual annotation and evaluation of these models' outputs based on a collection of models chosen by the users. They find the comparison results interesting and would like to share them with the audience.

Program

• 17:00 – 18:00 🍕 Food
• 18:00 – 18:10 🎤 Welcome
• 18:10 – 19:00 🎤 Edward Brinkman: How Datenna built a digital twin of China using graphs and GenAI
• 19:00 – 19:15 ⏸️ Break
• 19:15 – 20:00 🎤 Shu Zhao & Remi Baar: What we've learnt from building a tool to annotate LLM outputs
• 20:00-21:00 🥤 Drinks

About: Edward Brinkmann As the CTO and co-founder of Datenna, Edward has guided the company through various stages of growth, transforming it from a technology start-up to a thriving scale-up. His first role as CTO was as founding engineer, implementing the first versions of the intelligence platform, and later as engineering manager and lead architect whilst expanding the development team. With a background in software engineering, data engineering, and systems architecture, Edward has a broad interest in technology, especially in translating business needs into the most suitable technical solutions. Before co-founding Datenna, Edward enjoyed working on end-to-end projects in the capacity of lead developer and full-stack engineer, gaining experience across various business domains, use cases, and technologies.

About: Shu Zhao Shu has an MSc. in Artificial Intelligence, and part of her thesis was published in ECCV 2022 about artistic pose analysis based on computer vision. She also participated in AI Song Contest 2021 by producing one song by training an RNN-based language model.

Before she worked for Xebia data, Shu worked in various roles from large banks to smaller fintechs to e-commerce where she accumulated a wide span of technical skills to come to a sustainable solution.

About Remi Baar Fifteen years ago, at just 17, Remi launched his own software development company, quickly focusing on the exciting fields of artificial intelligence and data science. Since then, he has held various data science roles across a diverse range of organizations—from startups to multinational corporations, and from government agencies to airlines. His unique blend of software engineering expertise and data science has garnered him recognition and appreciation in each of these positions.

Currently, Remi is a valued member of the Xebia team, collaborating with fellow experts to enhance their collective skills and push the limits of AI. With a passion for knowledge sharing, Remi eagerly shares his latest insights.

Pre-Registration is REQUIRED. Register here - https://lu.ma/83v03fl8

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