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April Meetup @ Skyscanner

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April Meetup @ Skyscanner

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Host - Skyscanner
Sponsor - Pizza sponsored by [Jam.dev](http://jam.dev/) - one-click bug reports devs love.

Speakers:

Chandri Krishnan
Chandri is a London-based engineering leader with over twenty years of experience across three countries. He has built software systems for large e-commerce marketplaces like Expedia, Hotels.com and Just Eat, spanning across Marketing Tech, Customer Services, Loyalty and Identity. He is passionate about architecting large-scale systems, building self-organized teams and nurturing innovation.

Talk: Lessons from scaling a chat assistant
Foundational Large Language Models like ChatGPT have revolutionized the field of Generative AI and made it a lot faster to develop applications. In this talk, Chandri will present a real-life case study of building a consumer-facing chat assistant and the lessons learnt from the experience.

Robert Kim
Robert is a founder of Laminar. He previously worked at Palantir and Bloomberg. At Palantir, he built an internal sentence-transformers based pyspark package and was working on improving resource allocation infrastructure. At Bloomberg, he scaled market tick processing infra to 10M ticks per second.

Talk: Going from a prototype to a production-ready LLM application
Majority of LLM-based applications right now struggle to progress beyond the demo stage. The major challenges include unpredictable outputs from language models, reliance on hardcoded prompts, limited observability and quality control, and the additional complexity of managing infrastructure. These factors collectively contribute to a slow iteration cycle in developing LLM applications. Embracing a new paradigm in software design, where the focus is on rapid iteration, is essential for the success of LLM applications.

We will present our solution to all these problems - Laminar (https://www.lmnr.ai/) - the platform to build and ship reliable LLM applications on top of extremely fast Rust infrastructure.

Polina Vertex
Polina Vertex is an expert in AI, data and blockchain, serving as a research fellow at the Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance and as a co-founder of Syntagma Labs.

Talk: AI Use Cases for Enterprises and Startups: Transforming Business Models for Competitive Edge
Join us for a presentation exploring AI's integration into business models, offering insights into its potential competitive advantages. Discover how AI can revolutionize customer service, marketing, supply chain management, and decision-making processes while navigating ethical, privacy, and security considerations. Don't miss this opportunity to harness AI's transformative potential and propel your business forward.

Ready for another round of enlightening discussions and networking? Join us on April 24th at Skyscanner's offices for the LLM London Monthly Meetup, themed "Empowering Innovations with Generative AI & LLMs." This gathering is set to be a cornerstone for those intrigued by the power and potential of Generative AI and Language Models to transform industries, solve complex problems, and inspire new ways of thinking.
Whether you're a veteran in the field, a curious newcomer, or somewhere in between, this event promises to offer valuable insights into securing generative AI systems, enhancing models with knowledge graphs, and fine-tuning LLMs for both personal and professional gains. Our speakers are trailblazers and problem solvers, eager to share not just their successes, but the challenges and surprises they've encountered along the way.

This meetup is about building and learning together. We encourage you to share your experiences, ask questions, and even pitch your own talk if you're working on something exciting. Remember, we're not here to pitch companies but to discuss projects, technologies, and ideas that push us all forward.

Have thoughts on how we can make these meetups even more beneficial for you? Let us know! Your feedback is crucial in crafting events that meet our community's needs and interests.

Don't miss this chance to connect with like-minded individuals passionate about shaping the future of AI. See you at Skyscanner's office for an evening of discovery, discussion, and networking. Together, let's build a future powered by generative AI and LLMs.

Looking forward to an evening of innovation and inspiration. See you there!

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