ODSC AI Madrid

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Most professionals already use AI tools—but how are AI agents, automated workflows, and real-world AI applications actually built?
Join us for a practical, expert-led session exploring the essential skills behind today’s AI systems.

We’ll break down important concepts including:
• Large language models and prompting
• Context and memory
• Retrieval and tool use
• AI evaluation
• Coding assistants
• Workflow automation
• Agentic AI systems

You’ll also discover how developers are using tools such as Codex, Claude Code, Cursor, and GitHub Copilot to build more efficiently.
Not a developer? This session is for you, too. We’ll explore how product managers, analysts, marketers, sales professionals, business leaders, and operations teams can use AI agents and workflow tools to automate meaningful, real-world work.

What you’ll take away:
• A practical roadmap for moving from AI user to AI builder
• A clearer understanding of the AI concepts that matter most
• Guidance on which skills and tools to learn first
• Examples of how AI agents and automated workflows can support different roles
• An introduction to the structured, hands-on learning available through the ODSC AI Skills Accelerator

Who should attend?
This session is ideal for AI practitioners, data scientists, analysts, software developers, ML engineers, data engineers, product managers, business leaders, operations teams, sales and marketing professionals, and anyone interested in building practical skills with AI agents and workflows.

About the ODSC AI Skills Accelerator
This webinar is part of the ODSC AI Skills Accelerator, a series of practical, expert-led sessions designed to help AI and data professionals develop the skills needed to build real-world AI systems.
Whether you’re ready to start building with AI or simply want to understand what happens behind the tools you already use, this session will give you a clear and practical place to begin.
RSVP today and join us live!

Add to your calendar: https://streamyard.com/watch/YsJkDEA9NqRb

Speakers:
- Karan Sachdeva, Global Lead, IBM Google, Strategic Partnership, IBM
- Sean Falconer, Head of AI, Confluent
- Sohrab Rahimi, Director and AI/ML Lead, Google Cloud

This event is part of the ODSC AI Skills Accelerator, bringing together AI and data professionals for practical, expert-led sessions on building real-world AI systems.
Just like we don't put crude oil in a car—we refine it into gasoline—AI can't run on raw data. It needs continuous, refined context.

Serving fresh context is the missing architectural layer for reliable AI.
In this session, learn how IBM, Confluent Intelligence, and Google Cloud turn operational data into fresh context for AI agents to take the right action at the right time. See how Confluent’s data streaming platform turns operational data into automated decisions, and how Google Cloud adds a layer of real-time investigation and explanation on top—all grounded in context that reflects the current state of the business.

We'll demo a real-time architecture for anomaly detection and investigation—streaming racing telemetry through Confluent's Real-Time Context Engine, where a Confluent Streaming Agent detects anomalies and recommends pit timing in real time.

See a Gemini agent in Google Antigravity, connected via MCP, investigate those decisions and explain the reasoning behind them, with governed data synced to BigQuery for historical record and analysis.

You'll leave with practical, streaming-native patterns to move from brittle pipelines and demos to production-grade AI on Google Cloud while reducing TCO.

Join us on September 9 for a new ODSC AI Skills Accelerator session, bringing together experts from IBM, Confluent, and Google Cloud to explore how real-time data and fresh context can power more reliable AI agents.

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