PyBerlin 51 - AI Night with a Panel Session

We kick off 2025 with a great panel about AI and running AI in production!
Join us for an expert panel, we will talk about AI, LLMs, MLOps and continuous experimentation.

Agenda:
• 18:00 - Opening doors of the venue
• 18:30 - Welcome to PyBerlin! // Organisers
• 18:40 - Welcome from the host - Aleph Alpha

Moderator:
Christian Barra

Panelists:
Ceyhun Derinbogaz, Jacek Golebiowski, Matheus Veleci

Christian is a software engineer and co-founder of zerobang.dev.

Ceyhun is an engineer and a serial entrepreneur with background in data engineering.
He started textcortex after reading GPT-2 paper and creating an open source fine tuning script for specific applications while working at trivago as data engineering lead. His previous startup developed machine vision applications for companies like Renault and Nokia.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ceyhunderinbogaz/

Jacek a physics PhD focusing on machine learning for most of his career. He has been a science lead in the AWS Long Term Science team, driving NLP and Automated Machine Learning (AutoML) products and research. Most recently, he is the the CTO and co-founder of distil-labs, making fine-tuning task-specific small language models (SLM) as simple as writing an LLM prompt.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jacek-golebiowski/

Matheus Veleci is an engineer with experience in generative AI, NLP, and data solutions. At Lengoo, he led the development of a product centered on Machine Translation Models and LLMs, building an in-house data platform and MLOps infrastructure focused on fine-tuning models. Earlier in his career, he co-founded a startup, blending technical expertise with business insights to deliver innovative solutions. He now leads data initiatives as Head of Data at Aleph Alpha.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/matheus-veleci-dos-santos/

• 21:20 - Closing session // Organisers

This event will be only in-person. Please check our Code of Conduct and official health regulation in Berlin before coming. If you feel some signs of sickness, please consider skipping this event and attending another time. We will have plenty of events in different formats in the future.
Looking forward seeing you all soon!