How Machine Learning Is Improving The Search Experience / Distributed AI

For the March LA DevOps Meetup, less than two weeks after DevOpsDayLA at SCALE we will have two interesting talks from organizations reperesnted at SCALE22x.

In the first presentation Craig Angulo AI Search Specialist at Elastic will discuss how machine learning is improving the search experience, including how technologies have leveraged machine learning to improve the end user's results.

In the second presentation, Brian Ragazzi will be discussing material from his presentation "Technical Learnings of Building Distributed and Decentralized AI" at SCALE22x.

Sponsored by Elastic!
Thanks to Elastic for sponsoring LA DevOps (and SCaLE).

Event Details:
6:00 - 6:30 Attendees arrive. Networking/Mingle
6:30 - 6:45 LA DevOps Welcome,Attendee Introductions
6:45 - 7:30 Craig Angulo - How Machine Learning Is Improving The Search Experience
7:30 - 8:00 Brian Ragazzi - Distributed and Decentralized AI
8:00 - 9:00 Networking/Mingle

Presentation Details:

Title: How Machine Learning Is Improving The Search Experience
Presented by: Craig Angulo
Description:
In his presentation Craig takes walk through the search experience and how technologies have leveraged machine learning to improve the end user's results. Covering keyword search, vector search, personalization, and relevance tuning, we will see how a search has changed and the next steps it will be taking.

About Craig:
Craig Angulo is an AI Search Specialist at Elastic focused on improving search precision and relevance with ML. Leveraging his background in mathematics he has built machine learning solutions for AWS, Databricks, Amazon Alexa, and more.

Title: Technical Learnings of Building Distributed and Decentralized AI
Presented by: Brian Ragazzi
Description:
Details TBD. It may be similar to his talk at SCALE22x.
https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/22x/presentations/technical-learnings-building-distributed-and-decentralized-ai
About Brian:
Brian focuses on building decentralized AI training and inference systems with an emphasis on privacy, security, and performance. Previously, he has held key roles at companies and systems integrators architecting cloud-native solutions, automation frameworks, and AI-driven platforms, including a provably accurate medical technology infrastructure. A passionate advocate for open-source technology, Brian co-founded the San Fernando Valley Linux User Group (SFVLUG), fostering a community of engineers, developers, and technology leaders.

About O'Brien's Pub on Wilshire:
The covered patio at Obrien's Pub has been a great place to host LA DevOps meetups during our post covid revival.
Regarding parking, there are meters on Wilshire and the side streets that expire at 6.

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