Name: PyData Slovakia & Bratislava Meetup #28 [Marek Rosa: LLM-driven game characters]
Start: 2024-05-11T12:00:00.000Z
End: 2024-05-11T13:30:00.000Z
Location: UNISPACE FEI STU

Hello data embracers!

The 19th Prague PyData meetup will take place at **ČSOB**. As usual, the talks will start at 18:30 but we encourage you to come as soon as **18:00** to enjoy the opportunity to socialise and refresh yourselves (which you can continue doing during the break and after the talks).

Our main goal is to build the community around Python and data and make it welcoming to people of various skills and experience levels.

⚡ If you are interested in giving a lightning talk (up to 5 minutes to present an idea, tool or results related at least to some degree to Python and/or data), please contact us before the event or at its beginning.

**📢 Big Bank Data in Migration: From In-House CSV to Parquet in Amazon S3**
**(Jakub Kramata, ČSOB)**

What is it like to migrate data from on-prem systems to the cloud in one of the largest banks in the Czech Republic? How to check that nothing has changed along the way? Join us to discover our Python-based solution! Not only will we go through the code, but we'll also focus on the pitfalls, challenges, and hardships we have encountered along the way. We will thoroughly explain how we verify the migrated data, which is exported as CSV from the source system and stored as Parquet in the AWS Data Lake. Expect a candid and emotional presentation with thoughtfully named commits.

**📢 Pandas Roadmap and Beyond**
**(Hadi Abdi Khojasteh - Pandas Community / Deltatre)**

Discover the essence of Pandas Enhancement Proposals aka PDEPs and their impact on the landscape of data analysis with Pandas. Join us for an overview of proposed changes, aimed at addressing corner cases and inconsistencies that have emerged over years of development, presented by one of Pandas' core contributors. From banning (up)casting in "setitem-like" operations to reevaluating inplace option in methods, delve into the behavioural shifts shaping the Pandas roadmap. Gain insight into the evolving copy and view semantics of operations, offering a glimpse into the anticipated Pandas 3.0 experience by overviewing changes in the new version.

PyData Prague

Jakub Urban

Jan Pipek

Jiri Bajer

PyData Prague #19 - Pandas in Heaven

ČSOB Headquarters

PyData Lausanne in collaboration with Biopôle, are pleased to invite you to the next PyData event!
We will have three speakers working in biotech, sharing how modern techniques and tools accelerate the progress in the field.

After the talks we will be able to chat altogether around an apéro offered by Biopôle.

👇 👇👇 Here's the program 👇 👇👇

**Welcome and presentation of Biopôle**
by [Pierre-Jean Wipff](https://www.linkedin.com/in/pierre-jean-wipff-3416ab1/)

**Protein inpainting with ProtFill**
by [Elizaveta Kozlova](https://www.linkedin.com/in/elizaveta-m-kozlova/)
*ProtFill introduces a novel machine learning approach to predict missing amino acid sequences in proteins, making a step towards designing proteins with arbitrary functions.*

**MLOps in healthcare, a first approach using kedro**
by [David Castellano Falcón](https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidcastellanofalcon/)
*This talk showcases the adoption of MLOps in healthcare through Kedro, addressing challenges in machine learning workflows and emphasizing the need of pipelines and their visualizations*

**Fast Computational Biology: Leveraging Python with Rust and C++ Backends**
by [Thomas Vetterli](https://www.linkedin.com/in/thomas-vetterli/)
*Python is a good tool for interactive data analysis - but sometimes lacks in performance for complex algorithms needed in computational biology. In this talk we will walk through the benefits of combining a Rust / C++ backend to run analyses with a high compute need and how to use it seemlessly form python using pybind11 or PyO3.*

**Apéro!**
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**NOTES**

* **PLEAS RSVP**: If your status changes, change your RSVP accordingly! This enables us to manage reservations.
* If you are on the waiting list: we will do our best to increase the number of seats, so stay tuned

PyData Lausanne

Marco Calizzi 

gianrocco

Florian Roessler

[talk] PyData Lausanne April 2024 - Biotech Edition

Rte de la Corniche 5

🚀 Excited to announce Developer Day by NVIDIA!
📅 Thursday, April 25, 2024 - 9:30 AM to 5:00 PM CEST
🆓 Free Registration
Join us for an immersive technical webinar covering BLACKWELL, CUDA, Generative AI, LLM, NIM, RAG, and more! Dive deep into AI, accelerated computing, and game development.
🎓 Program Highlights:
9:30 - 10:00 AM: Blackwell, NIMs, GR00T: Unlocking Next-Gen Innovations!
10:00 - 11:00 AM: Advanced Techniques for RAG Approach Evaluation and Enhancement.
11:00 - 12:00 PM: High-Performance Inference of Large Language Models.
2:00 - 3:00 PM: Crafting Custom AI with Multi-Modal Foundation Models.
3:00 - 4:00 PM: CUDA Programming Demystified.
4:00 - 5:00 PM: Real-Time Path Tracing in Unreal Engine (session in English).
Choose one or more sessions of your interest and engage with our experts LIVE!
📌 Practical Info:
📆 Date & Time:
Thursday, April 25, 2024
9:30 AM - 5:00 PM CEST
🎙️ Presented by NVIDIA Experts
🔗 Free Registration: [Link to Registration]
Don't miss this opportunity to stay ahead in AI, accelerated computing, and advanced visualization. See you there!
#NVIDIA #DeveloperDay #AI #AcceleratedComputing #GameDev #TechWebinar

PyData Tunisia

kayoum djedidi

Amir Ben hassen

Abdelakarim Benabdallah

Excited to announce Developer Day by NVIDIA!

Online event

It's been a while since the last meeting, more than a year, but new forces have joined the group and are eager to reignite the idea: making Rome a great place for software engineering and data science.

**Location**: Immobiliare Labs, Via di Santa Prassede 24, Rome - Italy
**Date**: May 8th 2024

**Schedule**:

* 18:30 🚪 Door Opening
* 19:00 🎤 Talk 1 - **Computer Vision IRL: from idea to on-premise deployment**, by **Egon Ferri**, computer vision engineer @ Immobiliare.it
* 19.30 🎤 Talk 2 - **Geospatial Data Integration with Jupyter Notebook and OS software**, by **Luigi Selmi**, scientific software developer @ datiaperti.it
* 20.30 🤝 Socializing

The presentations should be of interest to anyone working on satellite images, geospatial data, machine learning, and software engineering. As always the group is open to anyone willing to present her or his work for future meetings.

Here is a short description of the two presentations:

**1\. Computer Vision IRL: from the idea to the on\-premise deployment**
In the field of Computer Vision (CV), attention is often focused on the development of deep learning models, neglecting crucial stages of problem definition such as data preparation, model deployment, and subsequent monitoring.
In this talk, we will illustrate our approach to the development of CV services through a real use case: the classification of a property's environments using exclusively open-source technologies. Specifically, we will discuss:

* How we transition from business needs to technical requirements for the model and service;
* The process of creating the image dataset and developing and optimizing the model's performance;
* The deployment in an on-premise environment of the CV service using a combination of a FastAPI-branded API proxy and TorchServe-based model serving to ensure a scalable service that guarantees high throughput and low latency;
* How we implemented our monitoring system to ensure the efficiency and correctness of the service, overseeing the hardware, data quality, model accuracy, and business KPIs.

Through this approach, we have created a high-performing CV service, demonstrating the effectiveness of open-source solutions in meeting complex business needs.

**2\. Geospatial Data Integration with Jupyter Notebook and OS software**
In many applications of geoscience, for example in emergency management or risk assessment, one wants to know the spatial context of the area in which a certain event occurred and link the spatial information to external data sources through a named entity. For example, it is not enough to know the extent of a flooded area, we want to know in which administrative area it occurred. In other words, we want to know the spatial relation between the area in which an event occurred and the area that belongs to or is run by an authority. In this notebook we will see how such spatial relations are implemented in GeoPandas. We will deal only with topological relations, a subclass of spatial relations that don't need a metric, that is a way to compute the distance. We will see how a Jupyter Notebook can be used to perform a data analysis starting with some simple spatial objects, points and polygons, to see what kind of topological relations can be established between them and finally we will apply those topological relations between layers in a real-world example to merge a dataset of landslides and the administrative boundaries of the Marche region, to extract some useful statistics.

**Sign Up!**
Space is limited, so RSVP today to secure your spot!

**Please note:**
Remember to RSVP using your **full name** for security reasons.
If you can't attend, please let us know by 15/04 so we can plan accordingly. We look forward to seeing you there! 🙌

PyData Rome

Luigi Selmi

Egon Ferri

Nasia

PyData Rome, 4th Meeting, 8th May 2024

Via di Santa Prassede, 24

Talk Title: "**LLM-driven game characters**"

Description: We present AI Game, a novel type of role-playing sandbox game that leverages LLM-powered agents to enhance player experience.

Our game features agents with long-term memory and autonomous goal pursuit, enabled by large language models that emulate their personalities, behaviors, thoughts, actions, and dialogues.

In this talk, we will discuss the technical and design aspects of our game.

Speaker/Bio: Marek Rosa
**Marek Rosa \| CEO & Founder @ GoodAI**, [https://www.linkedin.com/in/marekrosa1](https://www.linkedin.com/in/marekrosa1) & [https://blog.marekrosa.org/](https://blog.marekrosa.org/)

Marek Rosa is the founder and CEO of GoodAI, a general artificial intelligence R&D company, and Keen Software House, an independent game development studio, started in 2010, and best known for its best-seller Space Engineers (nearing 5 million copies sold).

Marek has been interested in game development and artificial intelligence since childhood. He started his career as a programmer and later transitioned to a leadership role. After the success of Keen Software House titles, Marek was able to fund GoodAI in 2014 with a $10 Million personal investment.

GoodAI's mission is to develop AGI - as fast as possible - to help humanity and understand the universe. One of the commercial stepping stones is the "AI game," which features LLM-driven NPCs grounded in the game world with developing personalities and long-term memory. GoodAI also works on autonomous agents that can self-improve and solve any task that a human can.

Moderator and Host of the event:
**Radovan Kavický, President & Principal Data Scientist @ GapData Institute; AI & Data Science Evangelist @ AIslovakIA - National platform for AI development in Slovakia**

**Fun Fact:** Marek (Rosa) & Radovan (Kavicky) were also historically first (+so far still the only) Slovaks who were invited as speakers to PyData Berlin (the biggest Data Science and AI conference under PyData within Europe/outside U.S.) as speakers (few years back, more about it here: [PyData Slovakia & Bratislava \#7: Berlin edition s Katharine Jarmul \| robime\.it](https://robime.it/pydata-bratislava-7-berlin-edition-s-katharine-jarmul/) - [https://robime.it/pydata-bratislava-7-berlin-edition-s-katharine-jarmul/](https://robime.it/pydata-bratislava-7-berlin-edition-s-katharine-jarmul/))

LinkedIn: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/marekrosa1](https://www.linkedin.com/in/marekrosa1)

Registration:

@Meetup.com group's event here ([https://www.meetup.com/pydata-slovakia-bratislava/events/300546803/](https://www.meetup.com/pydata-slovakia-bratislava/events/300546803/?isFirstPublish=true)) & @Eventbrite registration here ([https://www.eventbrite.com/e/pydata-slovakia-meetup-28-marek-rosa-llm-driven-game-characters-tickets-887006449167](https://www.eventbrite.com/e/pydata-slovakia-meetup-28-marek-rosa-llm-driven-game-characters-tickets-887006449167?aff=oddtdtcreator)). +our event you can find also @Facebook here ([https://www.facebook.com/events/3516416348670649](https://www.facebook.com/events/3516416348670649)) and LinkedIn here ([https://www.linkedin.com/events/pydataslovakiameetup-28-marekro7187710143625650176/comments/](https://www.linkedin.com/events/pydataslovakiameetup-28-marekro7187710143625650176/comments/)).

[Disclaimer: If you just mark "going" @Facebook event we can't guarantee your seat]

Language of the event: English

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