Big PyData BBQ #5: Large Language Models
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If you like cool talks about 🧑🔬 Data Science, 🤖Artificial Intelligence, 🐍 coding or 🤗 community, the Big PyData BBQ is the place to be! 🔥
KÖNIGSWEG and hei_INNOVATION invite you to join the 5️⃣th edition of the annual big gathering of the PyData Südwest community. Besides talks there will be a lot of time for networking over a delicious 🥦+🍖 BBQ .
This year's topic: Large Language Models 🔥🤩
Confirmed Speakers
- Ines Montani (ExplosionAI / spaCy)
- Alejandro Saucedo (Director of Eng, Science, Product & Analytics Zalando / Institute for Ethical AI & Machine Learning)
- Michael Gertz (Institute of Computer Science, Heidelberg University)
- Alina Lenhardt (Cerence)
The event will be live streamed and published on PyDataTV.
18:00 Welcome 👋 📺
18:20 Talk Ines Montani 📺
19:00 BBQ 🍖🥦
UPDATE: 20:30 🛋️ Panel: Alejandro, Alexander, Alina, Ines, Michael 📺
UPDATE: 21:30 ⚡ Lightning Talks. 📺
UPDATE: 21:30 Networking. 🍻
UPDATE: 22:00 End.
📺 = live stream 🍖🥦, 🍻 = locally, only
About our speakers:
Ines Montani, a renowned software developer, is a co-founder of Explosion AI, a digital laboratory specializing in artificial intelligence and machine learning. She is a lead developer of spaCy, a widely used open-source library for advanced natural language processing (NLP) in Python. Together with Matthew Honnibal, she also developed Prodigy, a machine learning annotation tool that aids in the efficient creation of training data. Montani is an advocate for OSS, working tirelessly to make the fields of AI and ML more accessible.
Alejandro Saucedo is a technology entrepreneur and software engineer known for his work in machine learning and artificial intelligence. He is Director of Eng, Science, Product & Analytics at Zalando and the Chief Scientist at The Institute for Ethical AI & Machine Learning, a London-based research organization focused on developing best practices for machine learning and artificial intelligence, among others.
Saucedo has a strong technical background and has worked in software development, ML and data science. He has spoken at numerous events and is promoting ethical practices in AI development
Michael Gertz is a full professor at Heidelberg University where he heads the Database Systems Research Group at the faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science. He received his diploma in Computer Science from the TU Dortmund University, and his Dr. rer. nat. from the Leibniz University of Hannover in 1996. From 1997 until 2008 he was a faculty at Department of Computer Science at the University of California at Davis. His interdisciplinary research interests include text analytics, data mining, complex networks, and scientific data management, with applications in the medical sciences, law, physics, political sciences, and economics.
Alina Lenhardt is a computational linguistat at Cerence and Program Committee Chair at PyConDE & PyData Berlin 2023.
Alexander Hendorf is one of the organizers of PyData Südwest and is heavily involved in the Python & PyData community. For him, contributing to open source and the community means giving something back, as his company Königsweg uses open source to implement Data Science & AI for its customers.
⚡️ Lightning Talks (5 min. each)
1. Alessandro Angioi - Supercharge your language learning journey with Python
2. Bela Stoyan - Automatically transform complex python methods to polars expressions
3. Irina Smirnova-Pinchukova - Croshapes - using graph to design a toy
😍 A big thank you to our sponsors:
- hei_INNOVATION, for hosting the meetup.
- KÖNIGSWEG, for supporting the organization.
- NUMFOCUS, for promoting open source software.
- Python Softwareverband e.V., for support.
Contact
If you have any questions or suggestions, please feel free to contact us via:
- Meetup
- Want to speak? Submit a talk here.
- Interested in hosting an event? Here's our Info-Deck & contact to the organisers!
Big PyData BBQ #5: Large Language Models