AI/ML

Session AI/ML

Ecologies and Economics of Language AI in Practice

Monday Apr 7 / 11:45AM BST

Lessons learned from building language models in Africa: under strict data constraints in non-western environments.

Speaker image - Jade Abbott

Jade Abbott

CTO & Co-Founder @Lelapa AI, Co-Founder @Masakhane, With Over a Decade of Experience in Deploying AI Into Production

Session AI/ML

Lessons Learned From Building LinkedIn’s First Agent: Hiring Assistant

Tuesday Apr 8 / 05:05PM BST

In October 2024, we announced LinkedIn’s first agent, Hiring Assistant to a select group of LinkedIn customers.

Speaker image - Karthik Ramgopal

Karthik Ramgopal

Distinguished Engineer & Tech Lead of the Product Engineering Team @LinkedIn, 15+ Years of Experience in Full-Stack Software Development

Speaker image - Daniel Hewlett

Daniel Hewlett

Principal AI Engineer & Technical Lead for AI @LinkedIn, 12+ Years of Expierence in ML and AI Engineering, Previously @Google

Session AI/ML

Lessons Learned From Shipping AI-Powered Healthcare Products

Monday Apr 7 / 10:35AM BST

This talk provides valuable insights into Sword Health's real-world experience implementing AI in healthcare, focusing on practical strategies for developing consistent, safe and reliable AI-powered healthcare solutions.

Speaker image - Clara Matos

Clara Matos

Head of AI Engineering @Sword Health, Focused on Building and Scaling Machine Learning Systems

Session security

Securing AI Copilots: Strategies and Practices for Protecting Data

Tuesday Apr 8 / 03:55PM BST

The data behind AI copilots is not only their most critical asset but also a key strategic consideration for enterprises and SMBs alike.

Speaker image - Andra Lezza

Andra Lezza

Principal Application Security Specialist @Sage, 10+ Years of Experience Building AppSec Programs, OWASP London Chapter Leader

Session AI/ML

Building Embedding Models for Large-Scale Real-World Applications

Tuesday Apr 8 / 03:55PM BST

Embedding models are at the core of search, recommendation, and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems, transforming data into meaningful representations.

Speaker image - Sahil Dua

Sahil Dua

Senior Software Engineer, Machine Learning @Google, Stanford AI, Co-Author of “The Kubernetes Workshop”, Open-Source Enthusiast

Session AI/ML

Foundation Models for Recommenders: Challenges, Successes, and Lessons Learned

Tuesday Apr 8 / 02:45PM BST

Recommender systems are an integral part of most products nowadays and are often a key driver of discovery for users of the product.

Speaker image - Moumita Bhattacharya

Moumita Bhattacharya

Senior Research Scientist @Netflix, Previously @Etsy

Session AI/ML

AI for Food Image Generation in Production: How & Why

Tuesday Apr 8 / 01:35PM BST

In this talk, we will conduct a technical overview of a client-facing Food Image Generation solution developed at Delivery Hero.

Speaker image - Iaroslav  Amerkhanov

Iaroslav Amerkhanov

Senior Data Scientist @Delivery Hero, Founder of T4lky, Creator & Host of EPAM Podcast, Speaker

Session AI/ML

How to Unlock Insights and Enable Discovery Within Petabytes of Autonomous Driving Data

Tuesday Apr 8 / 11:45AM BST

For autonomous vehicle companies, finding valuable insights within millions of hours of video data is essential yet challenging.

Speaker image - Kyra Mozley

Kyra Mozley

ML Engineer @Wayve, Previously Security & AI PhD Candidate @Royal Holloway University

Session AI/ML

Deploy MultiModal RAG Systems with vLLM

Tuesday Apr 8 / 10:35AM BST

While text-based RAG systems have been everywhere in the last year and a half, there is so much more than text data. Images, audio, and documents often need to be processed together to provide meaningful insights, yet most RAG implementations focus solely on text.

Speaker image - Stephen Batifol

Stephen Batifol

Developer Advocate @Zilliz, Founding Member of the MLOps Community Berlin, Previously Machine Learning Engineer @Wolt, and Data Scientist @Brevo