Databricks MosaicX Spotlight Meetup

**Please register at the official page here: https://events.databricks.com/FY250522-EV-MosaicSpotlightMeetup-NYC**

MosaicX Spotlight is a technical meetup series that focuses on applying the latest GenAI research to business use cases. MosaicX Spotlight NYC will be held at The Times Center, and feature researchers and engineers from Databricks, Databricks Mosaic Research, AI Squared, Patronus AI, Osmo AI, and more!
For those who would like to discuss the business around GenAI, we will also be joined by Inspired Capital.
Join us as we discuss the research, technologies, and techniques behind how we built DBRX, a leading open-source LLM built completely on Databricks. In addition to discussing how we built it, we've invited key GenAI leaders from the NYC area so we can discuss various aspects of GenAI from performance to reliability.
Note that the formalized agenda will be available on May 6th.

### Lightning Talks

• Cody Blakeney, Mansheej Paul, Brett Larsen: The importance of high-quality data to build your LLMs
• Mihir Patel: Performance optimization and parallelism for MoE training
• Andrew Drozdov: How to evaluate RAG systems

### Panel Discussions

We will have panel discussions around the research and business of Generative AI featuring:

• Jonathan Frankle - Chief Scientist, Neural Networks, Databricks
• Benjamin Harvey - Founder & CEO, AI Squared
• Rebecca Qian - Co-founder & CTO, Patronus AI
• Alex Wiltschko - Founder & CEO, Osmo AI
• Claire Pan - Investor, Inspired Capital
• Ofir Press - Post-doc Princeton

This is a first come, first serve catered event with a capacity for 300 people so please sign up before tickets run out.