In today's data-driven world, harnessing the power of data is no longer an option but a necessity for businesses to thrive. For product engineering teams in particular, timely access to accurate and contextual data is crucial for making informed decisions and monitoring success. In this conversation, Aakriti Kaul and Scott Henry, Data Scientists at Cisco, dive into Duo Security’s data modernization journey, bolstered by dbt Cloud and embedded context in data, aimed at empowering product teams with data access and insights to drive innovation.

At the end of this session we hope to leave attendees with the following takeaways: • Understand how an Embedded Data science model creates value across Product, Engineering and Data teams • Learn practical strategies for implementing dbt within product development workflows to accelerate decision making and drive innovation, in partnership with Analytics Engineering teams • Gain insights from real-world case studies of Duo’s Product Data teams that have successfully leveraged dbt to provide access to data and insights for product teams • Gain insights from our organizational experience using dbt to provide product teams with self-service access to contextual datasets

The presentation is designed for data scientists, analytics engineers and other professionals involved in product development who are interested in leveraging data to drive decision making and embedding context within their data workflows. Whether you're new to dbt or looking to optimize your existing data analytics workflows, this session will provide valuable insights and practical strategies for harnessing the power of dbt in partnership with product engineering teams.

Speakers: Aakriti Kaul Data Scientist Duo Security @ Cisco

Scott Henry Data Scientist Duo Security @ Cisco

Read the blog to learn about the latest dbt Cloud features announced at Coalesce, designed to help organizations embrace analytics best practices at scale https://www.getdbt.com/blog/coalesce-2024-product-announcements

📣 This event has now SOLD OUT! As our venue has limited capacity, we will be closing the event to attendees once capacity has been reached, so please arrive as close to to 18:30 as possible to guarantee your place.

🎙️ Featured Talks:

Building better LLM products with Evaluations and Analytics Henry Scott-Green

LLMs vs. Real-World Questions: Can RAG Bridge the Gap? Mohammed Talib

Futures Forum is a monthly meetup powered by SurrealDB that explores the AI revolution, with a particular focus on LLMs (Large Language Models). With actionable insights, the series will include introductory and advanced topic discussions by a dynamic and diverse range of expert speakers, live demos, news updates and panel discussions. Plus plenty of time for networking and refreshments.

💻 The event will be available to watch afterwards via the SurrealDB Futures Forum playlist here: http://bit.ly/3vHHyVR.

📣 Talks and demos by experts in their fields 🗣️ Friendly networking 🍕 Delicious bites and 🍦ice cream 🍹 Tasty drinks – including boozy and alcohol-free options, sponsored by Something & Nothing 😆 Informative, inclusive and fun!

Agenda

18:30 - 19:00 Welcome Drinks Attendees arrive – grab a drink, explore the space and mingle.

19:00 - 19:30 Building better LLM products with Evaluations and Analytics Henry Scott-Green So you’ve built your first LLM product. Now what? You need to understand how people are using it, how its performing, and how you can make it better. That’s where LLM evals and analytics come in. But these are totally different from deterministic applications - you need to understand mountains of text. This talk will cover the key considerations for building great end user experiences with LLMs.

19:30 - 20:00 Social & Tasty Bites A fun and informal way to connect with others in the tech community. Grab a slice of pizza or summer roll, hop on the Oculus or chat with other attendees and the SurrealDB team.

20:00 - 20:30 LLMs vs. Real-World Questions: Can RAG Bridge the Gap? Mohammed Talib Large Language Models (LLMs) have revolutionised natural language processing, demonstrating remarkable capabilities in text generation, translation, and more. However, when faced with questions requiring specific knowledge or complex reasoning, LLMs can fall short. Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) offers a solution, integrating LLMs with external knowledge sources to deliver more factually grounded and informative responses.

20:30 - 21:00 Social & Sweet Treats

FAQs

Who’s this event for? For anyone wanting to learn more about the way that AI and LLMs are shaping the world. What’s an LLM? A large language model (LLM) is a type of artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm that uses deep learning techniques and massive data sets to understand, summarise, generate and predict new content. LLMs power chat apps like ChatGPT, but also they are increasingly underlying almost every aspect of AI. Is the venue accessible? Absolutely! There is a lift that takes you up to Level 4 where SurrealDB Social is held. What's a SurrealDB event like? Check out photos from our previous events at https://surrealdb.gallery. Who are SurrealDB? SurrealDB is a modern cloud-native multi-model database that allows users and developers to focus on building their applications rather than architecting and managing their infrastructure with features like SurrealQL, Live Queries, Search, Change Data Capture, and ML. 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. Are there any House Rules? At SurrealDB, we are committed to providing live and online events that are safe and enjoyable for all attending. Please review our Code of Conduct and Privacy Policy for more information.

This podcast spends time discussing Tim O'Reilly's futuristic perspective on data, analytics, AI, jobs, and organization. He sheds light on what are somethings businesses could do to stay relevant and future proof. He discussed his book and shared some of the key insights relevant to anyone thinking of staying relevant in the World led by technology and impacting the future. A must video for anyone working!

Timeline: 00:28 Tim's journey. 06:03 Tim's current occupation. 10:50 Interesting work for interesting people. 15:08 Thinking behind the title "What's the future". 23:41 Culture and technology evolution. 26:29 Creating value for the shareholder. 35:06 Learning a new skill. 38:12 Labor and technology. 47:07 Investing in humans or technology? 56:02 The role of AI in Media. 59:45 How can an employee stay relevant? 1:04:28 Tim's favorite books. 1:09:38 Key takeaways.

Tim's Book: WTF?: What's the Future and Why It's Up to Us by Tim O'Reilly https://amzn.to/2N5WhOn

Tim's Recommended Read: AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order by Kai-Fu Lee https://amzn.to/2N8VGLL Prediction Machines: The Simple Economics of Artificial Intelligence by Ajay Agrawal and Joshua Gans https://amzn.to/2ugQBKr The Long Twentieth Century: Money, Power and the Origins of Our Times by Giovanni Arrighi https://amzn.to/2ufhb6R Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist by Kate Raworth https://amzn.to/2LcbLQc Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World by Anand Giridharadas https://amzn.to/2utgeXF New Power: How Power Works in Our Hyperconnected World--and How to Make It Work for You by Jeremy Heimans and Henry Timms https://amzn.to/2NbBJ77 Seeing like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed by James C. Scott https://amzn.to/2ztnoRz The Struggle for Survival: An Historical, political, and Socioeconomic Perspective of St. Lucia by Anderson Reynolds https://amzn.to/2uqF22w

Podcast Link: https://futureofdata.org/discussing-jobs-data-and-whatsthefuture-with-timoreilly-futureofdata-podcast/

Tim's BIO: Tim O’Reilly is the founder and CEO of O’Reilly Media, Inc. His original business plan was “interesting work for interesting people,” which worked out pretty well. O’Reilly Media delivers online learning, publishes books, runs conferences, urges companies to create more value than they capture, and tries to change the world by spreading and amplifying the knowledge of innovators.

Tim has a history of convening conversations that reshape the computer industry. In 1993, he launched the first commercial, ad-supported site on the internet. In 1998, he organized the meeting where the term “open source software” was agreed on and helped the business world understand its importance. In 2004, with the Web 2.0 Summit, he defined how “Web 2.0” represented not only the resurgence of the web after the dot com bust, but a new model for the computer industry, based on big data, collective intelligence, and the internet as a platform. In 2009, with his “Gov 2.0 Summit,” he framed a conversation about the modernization of government technology that has shaped policy and spawned initiatives at the Federal, State, and local level and around the world. He has now turned his attention to the implications of AI, the on-demand economy, and other technologies that are transforming the nature of work and the future shape of the business world. This is the subject of his forthcoming book from Harper Business, WTF: What’s the Future and Why It’s Up to Us.

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