NJ Generative AI

Location: Directions to Princeton Univerisity, Lewis Library, Room 120

Speaker: Avery Lewis
Pinecone, Enterprise Account Executive

Avery is a seasoned technology sales executive who has helped clients deploy Generative AI, SaaS applications, cybersecurity, predictive analytics, computer vision, and adaptive robotics.

Pinecone cloud-based and serverless vector DB combines state-of-the-art vector search libraries, advanced features such as filtering, and distributed infrastructure to provide high performance and reliability at any scale. Pinecone team built large machine learning platforms, databases, and search engines at AWS, Yahoo, Splunk, Databricks, and collectively published more than 100 academic papers and patents on machine learning, systems, and algorithms.

Agenda

1. Vector DB
   - What is a VectorDB?
   - What’s special about Gen AI apps that need Vector DB?
   - Why do you need a purpose-built vector solution?
2. Pinecone
   - Traditional Vector DB Concepts
   - Technology and Architecture Overview
3. Why Pinecone? Pinecone unique architecture and algorithms
4. How is the Industry adopting Vector DB? PoC to Production
   - By Industry
   - Some customer examples of Pinecone
5. How can you learn more/where can you start to build GenAI apps?