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Data, Cloud and AI in Oslo

Oslo, NO

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What we’re about

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This is an IBM sponsored Meetup group geared towards developers, data scientists, data engineers, and ALL Big Data, Cloud and AI enthusiasts. Our meetups provide an opportunity to work hands on with the solutions and tools in our Big Data portfolio and to interact and share knowledge with experts at IBM and in our extended community.

Our Meetups typically include a 45-60 min (max) presentation that serves as an introduction and overview for a specific Big Data technology. It is followed by ~3 hours to collaborate with fellow developers and apply your Big Data skills. Depending upon the location, we can provide a cloud environment that you can run through the browser of your laptop at NO cost to you. Our meetups are FREE.
Meetup topics include:
- Hadoop-based analytics
- Open Source
- Apache Spark
- Open Source Hadoop, SQL on Hadoop, R on Hadoop, Integration, Governance, ...
- Real Time Analytics & Stream Computing
- Text Analytics
- Visualization and Discovery tools for Big Data
- Big Data App Development
- Big Data & Cloud
- NoSQL
- Internet of Things (IoT)
- Watson Analytics
- All Analytics
- Deep dives into the technologies that makes big data processing possible
- Anything and everything about Big Data
Join us today for a hands on software development experience.

Upcoming events (3)

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Network event
69 attendees from 109 groups hosting
Thu, May 15, 2025, 2:00 PM UTC[AI Alliance Materials] Discrete State-Space Diffusion and Flow Models
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https://44725920.hs-sites.com/ai-alliance-material-chemistry-webinar-5-15

Unlocking Guidance for Discrete State-Space Diffusion and Flow Models
Many scientific tasks, such as protein engineering and small-molecule drug discovery, can be formulated as conditional generation problems over discrete spaces. This talk introduces a new approach that enables tractable classifier and classifier-free guidance on discrete state-space diffusion and flow models. I will demonstrate how this method can be applied for conditional generation tasks in protein sequence, small-molecule graph, and DNA sequence design.

Speaker
Hunter Nisanoff recently graduated from his PhD in Computational Biology from UC Berkeley where he was advised by Professor Jennifer Listgarten. His research focuses on machine learning methods for protein engineering. Prior to his PhD, Hunter worked at D. E. Shaw Research developing machine learning and simulation-based methods for small-molecule drug discovery.

Research publication
https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.01572

About the AI Alliance

The AI Alliance is an international community of researchers, developers and organizational leaders committed to support and enhance open innovation across the AI technology landscape to accelerate progress, improve safety, security and trust in AI, and maximize benefits to people and society everywhere. Members of the AI Alliance believe that open innovation is essential to develop and achieve safe and responsible AI that benefit society rather than benefit a select few big players.
Network event
110 attendees from 111 groups hosting
Thu, May 15, 2025, 4:00 PM UTC[AI Alliance] Model and Agent Evaluation with Unitxt
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Description
Evaluating the performance of language models and AI agents can be challenging, especially across diverse tasks and domains. In this session, we'll introduce Unitxt, an open-source framework for unified text evaluation, and explore how it simplifies the process of benchmarking LLMs and agents using a standardized format.

We'll walk through the core ideas behind LLM evaluation—what to measure, how to measure it, and why it matters—and then dive into hands-on examples of evaluating LLMs for quality, reliability, safety and more, as well as evaluating multi-modalities and agentic tool invocation.
Whether you're just getting started with evaluation or looking for a powerful and flexible tool to streamline your workflows, this session will offer practical insights and code-based demos to help you get up and running.

Bring your questions, ideas, or examples—we’ll have time for discussion and Q&A at the end!

Speaker Bio
Elron Bandel (LinkedIn) works to redefine how language models are tested and used at scale. At IBM Research, he leads projects that enhance researchers' abilities to test and utilize language models at transformative scales. Elron co-authored IBM's standard evaluation platform for large language models and spearheads the development of Unitxt, an open-source Python library for AI performance assessment. His academic record supervised by Prof. Yoav Goldberg included work on developing AlephBERT and its innovative evaluation suite, and research into robust language model testing.

About the AI Alliance

The AI Alliance is an international community of researchers, developers and organizational leaders committed to support and enhance open innovation across the AI technology landscape to accelerate progress, improve safety, security and trust in AI, and maximize benefits to people and society everywhere. Members of the AI Alliance believe that open innovation is essential to develop and achieve safe and responsible AI that benefit society rather than benefit a select few big players.
Network event
225 attendees from 111 groups hosting
Thu, May 22, 2025, 4:00 PM UTC[AI Alliance] Knowledge Graphs for Enterprise AI
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Proscenium is an emerging library of composable glue focused on enterprise AI applications. It prioritizes support for domains where the creation and use of structured data is critical. This talk will walk through the construction an application for the legal domain built with Proscenium that involves:

Document enrichment

Entity resolution

Knowledge Graph construction

Query handling

Chat integration

Finally, we'll cover the future roadmap and ways that you could contribute!

Speaker Bio
Adam Pingel (LinkedIn, GitHub) is IBM's Head of Open Tools and Applications for the AI Alliance. Adam has been fascinated by AI and chatbots since playing with Racter in the 80’s. But the “winters” were long and frequent. The stars aligned in 2015 when he became VPE at Ravel Law. Ravel was building AI-powered tools for the legal industry and was working with Harvard Law School on what is now known as the Caselaw Access Project. After an acquisition by LexisNexis in 2017, he moved his family to Raleigh (in 2019) to take the role of CTO of Global Platforms. In 2022 he joined IBM to work on domain-specific applications of generative AI. Adam holds an MS and BS in CS from UCLA and Stanford, respectively. When not at a keyboard, he enjoys spending time with his family.

About the AI Alliance

The AI Alliance is an international community of researchers, developers and organizational leaders committed to support and enhance open innovation across the AI technology landscape to accelerate progress, improve safety, security and trust in AI, and maximize benefits to people and society everywhere. Members of the AI Alliance believe that open innovation is essential to develop and achieve safe and responsible AI that benefit society rather than benefit a select few big players.