Name: Uphill Conf Special 2025 - Ask the experts
Start: 2025-04-24T17:45:00+02:00
End: 2025-04-24T19:15:00+02:00
Location: Puzzle ITC GmbH

**Schedule**

* **17:45** Open door
* **18:00 - 19:00** Fireside chat with speakers of the [Uphill Conference](https://www.uphillconf.com/): Open discussion with experts - bring your questions and problems
* **19:00 - 20:00** Apero with pizza & beer

**Meet Our Speakers**

**[Andrés Marafioti](https://www.linkedin.com/in/andimarafioti/) – AI Researcher at Hugging Face**
Andrés is a leading AI researcher with a PhD in applied machine learning, specializing in generative methods for speech and music. Previously a senior ML engineer at Unity, he played a pivotal role in bringing ML-based innovations from concept to real-world applications. Now at Hugging Face, he focuses on **multimodal and memory-efficient models**, spearheading the development of **SmolVLM**, a state-of-the-art vision-language model.

**[Luis Serrano](https://www.linkedin.com/in/luisgserrano/) – Founder of Serrano.Academy, YouTuber, Author, Mathematician**
Luis is a renowned AI educator and the creator of the popular YouTube channel **Serrano.Academy**, with over **150K followers**. He is the author of *Grokking Machine Learning* and has worked on AI and language models at Cohere, Google, and Apple. With a PhD in mathematics and experience as a quantum AI researcher at Zapata Computing, Luis has also taught **widely popular ML courses** on Udacity and Coursera, making machine learning accessible to everbody.

**About Uphill Conf**

Uphill Conf is back!
After last year’s sold-out success, Uphill Conf will take place once more on the Gurten in Bern. It is a great event to meet and make (new) friends in the Swiss IT world. Take the day off from the boring office and get new inputs from the latest developments in the AI and tech world!

Talks \| April 25\, 2025
Join industry leaders as they unpack the latest AI advancements with experts from Hugginface, Cohere, AWS, Zalando and Red Hat.

Workshops \| April 24\, 2025
Want to go hands-on? Full-day workshops provide immersive, practical learning experiences.

Discover the full agenda at [https://uphillconf.com](http://clicks.meetup.com/ls/click?upn=u001.NY3oBFzZ5LJDG7YcnfSAKs5pVmndazaQd9RkqMTGlNJZhxfUzLUoGCrrHp7424UKrw-5_cFkSh-2BH1KSN2dAwDKhMtOdSphF8-2BdYUAZ5Bd1Ni-2FOkcCVK1C8dCRYVcYEGJvp4uycd5rrOrXvtb2dvVMagSS-2BjqL1U5a5RaXlH7LzqJFXlGvXGp5dAMEYEXiLwh1hBdLv7gliW4IFKjNJv-2FZTHN54KhpzFpmYCCbDAdJopYyvaw8rZBYLAoYwIqhJ3a7qOwfrLitq5RaS7DZnUPxC9BBXZsaeTcrd-2FbKgNKiMHoNzeX9yiUbqd9Ohxtj2vg5vODh717JCJXDKsU45mmosfnVaM31eg-2BMUlLt-2FH5Q36aCiwBc57rQD4YkbsBuBJerONfRrdKivq79j47wnd-2BvGMQamkIVq1yeK92ITiodQ1ROiuIzZFhokRCGdrnDLHqynZ2gmviYK2Xdkno5TqnFsAD05B-2FjBHDUa5Pp3G15DzdKcc4dkC3MP0sA3B3LQpAFDDioKAebPd9mk9fssaTQgt6geu7Yi42qTg-2FXxVdGsUfutMZFTZoq-2BOnxiOkR-2FgvkCwo3deL8Efk7XhxjLHQNoRF8WfjDMDDutPcWjvMI2V6R8oc9gSE2Zc9ILuC2eaZiesnlTgi6FbAR3pcUjkLLjJEl6-2BUkUt5i7P3jFmXsRkO4hssm0VUu8MKbni2V0wZsLmHdiRfVESOSNlQSNGugTCpuRKLIQd-2BnsmgAMcuMLe4cS5M-3D) and secure your ticket now!

There is only limited capacity - so first come, first serve.
Please be fair - if you cannot make, cancel your reservation.

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Thanks a lot to our sponsors Puzzle ITC for location and Pizza, and dsi engineering AG for sponsoring the drinks!

Tobias Kluge

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