ODSC AI New York

Workshop "AI for Work"

Thu, Oct 22 · 1:00 PM EDT

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Online

Online

109 attendees from 33 groups

Pre-registration is required.
Joining link: https://streamyard.com/watch/UfgxUjvUG5Ef

# AI for Work: Turning AI Into Your Everyday Work Assistant

October 22 at 1:00 PM ET
Free, 45-minute live webinar
You’ve used AI to draft an email, summarize a document, or brainstorm ideas. But gathering the information, moving it between tools, and following up can still take plenty of your time.
How do you get AI to help with more of that process?
Join Ashleigh Bilodeaux, GTM AI Engineer at Zoom, for a practical session on turning everyday tasks into repeatable AI workflows.
Ashleigh started in demand generation, marketing, and GTM operations. Today, she designs AI workflows that support more than 1,000 sellers at Zoom. She’ll draw on that experience to show how she approaches meeting preparation, lead routing, and other recurring work—and how you can apply the same thinking with the tools you already use.
You’ll walk through a real lead-routing workflow, see where human review fits, and have a chance to map a task from your own work.

## WHAT YOU’LL LEARN

• How to think in workflows. Identify the steps behind a recurring task and decide where AI could help.
• The five building blocks of an AI workflow: trigger, context, instructions, action, and review.
• What this looks like at work. Explore examples including meeting briefs, lead qualification and routing, weekly reports, and onboarding checklists.
• How to start with familiar tools. Apply the approach using AI assistants such as ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot, or Gemini.
• What to check before automating. Understand how data quality, access permissions, broken connections, and human approval affect the result.
• How to test and improve your first workflow. Start with one manageable task and assess whether it saves time and produces useful results.

## WHO SHOULD JOIN?

Anyone interested in applying AI to their everyday work is welcome, whether you’re just getting started or already use it regularly.
This session will be especially useful for:

• Marketing, sales, and GTM professionals
• Operations teams and process leads
• Product and project managers
• Founders, small business owners, and team leaders
• Anyone looking to spend less time on repetitive tasks

No technical background or coding experience is required.
You’ll leave with a workflow worksheet, a four-week action plan, and a clearer idea of what to try first.
Bring one task you repeat every week—we’ll help you think through how AI could make it easier.

ODSC AI West 2026 | San Francisco/Virtual

Tue, Oct 27 · 9:00 AM EDT

Hyatt Regency San Francisco Airport, 1333 Old Bayshore Hwy, Burlingame, CA 94010, Burlingame, CA, US

This is PAID Event. Pre-Registration is REQUIRED. RSVP here - https://luma.com/odsc-ul4x

# ODSC AI West Conference 2026: 11 Years of Leadership in AI Training

Join us at the #1 AI Builders Conference! Since 2015, ODSC AI has been the essential gathering for AI and data science practitioners, software engineers, business leaders, and anyone reskilling into the AI era.
Whether you are deepening your technical skills, transforming your business with generative AI, or pivoting into an AI-driven career, ODSC AI West 2026 provides unparalleled opportunities for learning, networking, and professional growth.

• Dates: October 27–29, 2026
• Location: Hyatt Regency SFO | 1333 Old Bayshore Hwy, Burlingame, CA 94010
• Format: Hybrid (In-Person & Virtual options available)

## TECHNICAL TRACKS

Designed for AI Engineers/Developers, ML Engineers, Data Scientists, Teach Lead Architects, Anyone who is a Technical Professional Building AI-powered systems

Focus: Cut through the hype. Dive into 80+ hands-on tutorials and workshops to build and deploy real AI workflows. Learn directly from practitioners actively shipping AI systems in production. Covers LLMs, Deep Learning, NLP, and more.

## Business & Non-Technical Tracks (AI X Leadership Summit)

Designed for Startup Founders, Product Leaders, Business Process Analysts, Executive Non-technical Founders, AI enthusiasts, or Anyone who is a leader focused on driving business impact with intelligent automation Included in All Business Passes, Silver & above

Focus: Discover how generative AI is revolutionizing business processes, enhancing decision-making, and driving enterprise innovation. Learn the economics of "Build vs. Buy" decisions.

## Previous Featured Speakers & Pioneers

Learn from elite engineers and researchers from top-tier AI organizations, including:

• Anthropic (Soheil Koushan, MTS)
• OpenAI (Shikhar Kwatra, AI Architect)
• Google DeepMind (Lora Aroyo, PhD & Vedant Misra)
• LangChain (Harrison Chase, CEO)
• CrewAI (João Moura, CEO)
• Hugging Face (Martino Russi & Sergio Paniego Blanco)
• Meta (Sanyam Bhutani)
• xAI (Julian Bright)
• ...and 200+ more!

First Speakers Announcement will be done in 1-2 Weeks. Stay tune - https://odsc.ai/west/schedule/

Looking for a free option? Register for a FREE AI Expo Showcase Pass to gain access to 30 hands-on sessions, 40 exhibitors, and 12+ live AI experiences.

Some useful links:
• Get free access to more talks/trainings like this at Ai+ Training platform: https://aiplus.training/
• ODSC AI blog: https://opendatascience.com/
• Slack Channel: https://hubs.li/Q038cQBy0
• Code of conduct: https://odsc.ai/code-of-conduct/

The AI X Leadership Summit 2026

Tue, Oct 27 · 9:00 AM EDT

Hyatt Regency San Francisco Airport, 1333 Old Bayshore Hwy, Burlingame, CA 94010, Burlingame, CA, US

This is PAID event. Pre-registration is REQUIRED. RSVP here - https://luma.com/odsc-zylp
Use code - COMMUNITYWEST2026 - for extra discount.

Co-located with ODSC AI West Conferenc

A dedicated space for 250 exclusive enterprise leaders to validate governance, operationalize agentic automation, and scale AI strategy under intense ROI pressure

The AI X Leadership Summit is a co-located event with the ODSC AI West Conference, taking place in the heart of Silicon Valley.

Why Attend?

• Close the Gap: Bridge the divide between high-level C-suite objectives and granular technical realities to accelerate execution.
• Stay Ahead of Disruption: Gain the latest insights on emerging AI trends, LLMs, and disruptive tech to position your organization at the forefront of innovation.
• Accelerate Team Alignment: Achieve unparalleled internal alignment and rapid decision-making by attending with your core strategy team.
• Peer Validation: Validate your roadmap with 250+ VP-level leaders and practitioners in a private, non-competitive setting.

2026 Featured Speakers
Learn from the architects of the modern AI landscape. Our speakers represent the intersection of elite academia, venture-backed builders, and cutting-edge AI research:

• Thomas Dohmke, PhD – Co-founder & CEO, Entire
• Babak Hodjat, PhD – SVP, Chief AI Officer, Cognizant
• Dr. Jon Krohn – Host & Co-Founder, SuperDataScience Podcast | Y Carrot
• Chip Huyen – Author, AI Engineering
• Peter Norvig – Researcher, Recursive
• Michael I. Jordan, PhD – Researcher & Professor Emeritus, Inria | UC Berkeley
• Deepak Pathak, PhD – Co-Founder & CEO, Skild AI
• Charu Maheshwari – Product Finance & Strategy, Anthropic
• Alex Graveley – Director, Comet, Perplexity AI
• Nouha Dziri, PhD – Senior Research Scientist, Cohere Labs
• Sinan Ozdemir – Head of AI Developer Education | AI & LLM Advisor | Author, Fireworks AI | Tola Capital
• Diogo Almeida – CEO & Co-Founder, TypeSafe AI
• Marius Hobbhahn – CEO & Founder, Apollo Research
• Cal Al-Dhubaib – Principal Technologist, Rubrik
• Rocky Yu – Founder & CEO, AGI House

Speakers are announced every week - https://odsc.ai/west/speakers/

The Agenda: Key AI Topics

• Work in the Age of AI: Navigate the impact on workforce roles and skills while cultivating growth.
• Generative AI: Harness the potential to automate content, design, and executive decision-making.
• AI Adoption: Master the strategies for effective integration, efficiency, and competitive edge.
• AI Strategy: Develop data-driven plans for enhanced customer experiences and operational ROI.
• Ethics & Governance: Chart a course for responsible AI, mitigating bias, and building enterprise trust.
• Agents & Automation: Discover transformative LLM-driven agent systems for intelligent automation.

Your Role. Your Action Plan.

• Enterprise AI Strategist: CDOs, Chief AI Officers, VPs of Data & Analytics
• Product Innovators: CPOs, Directors of Innovation, AI Product Leads, VC Leads
• Operations & Infrastructure: COOs, CTOs, VPs of AI Infrastructure, Regulation & Ethics Leads
• Technical-Leadership Bridge: AI Architects, MLOps Leads

Logistics & Details

• Date: October 27–29, 2026
• Location: Hyatt Regency | Burlingame, CA (San Francisco Bay Area)

## ​Useful Links

• Free Training: Ai+ Training Platform
• Insights: ODSC AI Blog
• Standards: Code of Conduct

Building AI Memory: From a Local Robot to a 1,000-Fly Hive Mind

Tue, Nov 17 · 1:00 PM EST

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Online

Online

24 attendees from 33 groups

​Pre-Registration is REQUIRED. Joining link -
https://streamyard.com/watch/d5uJc3J3eSbe

How do you give a fully local robot the ability to remember what it sees? How do you let 1,000 flies share what they learn?
​Join John Kupchanko and Dylan Couzon from Qdrant for a free, live webinar hosted by ODSC AI, supported by Qdrant.
​WHEN
​Tuesday, November 17, 2026 | 1:00 PM ET / 10:00 AM PT
Online · Free with registration
​ABOUT THE SESSION
​We walk through building both memory systems, from storing the first observation to retrieving useful experiences and sharing them across agents. Along the way, we tackle the decisions that make memory useful: what to keep, when to retrieve it, what to share, and when to forget.
​See the systems run live, inspect the code behind them, and learn patterns you can apply to your own AI agents.
​WHAT YOU’LL LEARN

• ​Why more memory can make agents worse
• ​How to design what gets written, retrieved, and shared
• ​How to scope shared memory across many agents
• ​What changes when memory runs fully on-device

​WHO SHOULD JOIN?

• ​AI engineers, software developers, and data scientists
• ​People building or experimenting with AI agents, retrieval systems, or robotics
• ​Product managers and technical leaders exploring how agent memory works
• ​Anyone interested in applying AI at work, whether you’re just getting started or already using it day to day

​MEET THE SPEAKERS
​Dylan Couzon - Lead Developer Relations, Qdrant
​Dylan leads Developer Relations at Qdrant. He learned to code 18 years ago to work on video game emulators and has been taking side projects too far ever since. He has spent his career building developer tools and contributing to open source. These days, he builds retrieval systems, trains models, and experiments with physical AI and robotics.
​John Kupchanko - Developer Relations Engineer, Qdrant
​Bring your questions and join the conversation. You’ll leave with practical patterns to try in your own AI projects.

## ​Useful Links

• ​**odsc.ai**
• ​Free access to more talks/trainings: Ai+ Training platform
• ​ODSC Blog: opendatascience.com
• ​Slack Channel: Join the Community



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