AI Dev Day - New York

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Description:
Join us for a power-packed night of learning, sharing, and networking at AI Dev Day - New York. We are excited to bring the AI developer community together to learn and discuss the latest trends, practical experiences, and best practices in the field of AI, LLMs, generative AI, and machine learning.

In addition to the tech talks, there will be plenty of opportunities to network with AI developers, live demos, AI community showcases, panel discussion, and career opportunities.

Agenda :
- 5:30pm~6:30pm: Checkin, food/drink and networking
- 6:30pm~8:00pm: keynotes, tech talks, and panel
- 8:00pm: Q&A, Open discussion and mixer

Tech Talk 1: Real Time Recommendations with Vector Search
Speaker: Aaron Ploetz @Datastax
Abstract: Are you building or do you support an e-commerce website? If so, then this session is for you! Worldwide digital sales in 2021 eclipsed five trillion dollars (USD). Most consumers will leave a web page or a mobile app if it takes longer than a few seconds to load. Businesses that want to compete, need a high performing e-commerce website. In this session, we will cover how to architect a simple and high-performing product recommendation service using Vector Search and generative AI. Join us and learn how to leverage the following tech to your advantage: Java Spring Boot - OAuth - Distributed databases (Cassandra/AstraDB) - Vector Search - Cloud Native Streaming (Pulsar)

Tech Talk 2: Best practices and learnings in GenAI applications
Speaker: Ram Seshadri @Google
Abstract: As data scientists and ML engineers, we often dedicate countless hours to fine-tuning hyperparameters of complex algorithms, particularly neural networks, in pursuit of optimal model performance. This talk will introduce a set of powerful open-source libraries, developed by the speaker, that enable a similar level of optimization for your data itself. Discover the capabilities of pandas-dq, featurewiz, Sulo model class, and lazytransform libraries as they empower you to enhance data quality, augment your data through feature engineering, and streamline feature selection for tabular datasets, including time series data.

Tech Talk 3: Beyond Q&A: Using LLM’s for real-time, personalized notifications
Speaker: Ryan Michael, VP of Engineering @Kaskada
Abstract: What we learned building BeepGPT: An AI bot that reads your Slack so you don’t have to. Are you tired of seeing Gen AI demos of yet another chat bot? Are you looking for the interesting applications of this technology that’s supposed to change everything? Generative AI can do more than answer questions - it can understand what’s happening in the world in real-time, and use that understanding to creatively make our lives better. But to do so, Generative AI apps need access to real-time information, which has traditionally been difficult to deal with. Connecting AI to real-time data is the problem that the OSS Kakada project (which, in full disclosure, I co-created) aims to solve. To demonstrate how the right tools make this type of application easy, we built BeepGPT - an AI bot that reads your Slack so you don’t have to. In this presentation we’ll walk you through our process and share some of the lessons we learned along the way.

Speakers/Topics:
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Sponsors:
We are actively seeking sponsors to support our community. There are various ways to contribute, whether it's by offering venue spaces, providing refreshments, or becoming a cash sponsor. In return, sponsors will have the chance to speak at our meetups, receive prominent recognition as sponsors, and gain exposure through post-event emails sent to our extensive membership base of 20,000+ local or 300K+ developers worldwide.

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