In-Person Meetup and Networking with Microsoft, Marqo and Carsales

• Are you interested in how business and industry are adopting Azure Open AI in the real world for Generative AI?
• Do you want to hear about how industry is implementing recommendation systems?
• Do you want to learn about how you can use vector search for multi-modal data in real-time applications?

Join the industry and startup speakers from Microsoft, Carsales and Marqo and the Melbourne Search and Recommendations (MSR) Group for the first in-person event of 2023 at Carsales HQ in Cremorne on Thursday the 3rd of August at 5pm-7pm AEST.

Drinks and food will be provided with ample opportunity for networking with industry leaders.

The MSR runs regular talks with speakers from academia and industry to discuss topics in recommendations, information retrieval, large language models, Generative AI and NLP.

Registration essential.

Agenda:
5pm – 5:30 pm: Networking, Food and Drinks
5:30pm – 5:40pm: Welcome – Dr Rebecca Cavallo (Carsales)
5:40pm – 6:00pm: “Azure Open AI in the Real World” - Shane Baldacchino (Microsoft)
6:00pm – 6:20pm: “Recommendation Systems at Carsales” – Dr Markus Dollmann (Carsales)
6:20pm – 6:40pm: “Multi-Modal Vector Search: From Research to Production” – Dr Jesse Clark (Marqo)
6:40pm – 6:45pm: Close – Dr Rebecca Cavallo (Carsales)
6:45pm – 7:30pm: Networking

• Shane Baldacchino is an accomplished senior technologist in the online, systems and automation space. He is a builder, leader, author, keynote speaker and big nerd. He has held various roles with ASX/Fortune 50 companies, Amazon and today is the Chief Architect of Microsoft Australia. Every day as a trusted advisor he challenges businesses and peers to think differently, learn more, and make the complex, simple.
• Dr Markus Dollmann is a Senior Data Scientist at Carsales.
• Dr Jesse Clark received his PhD in Physics from La Trobe University where he was solving inverse problems in x-ray imaging. After his PhD, he spent nearly 6 years between the London Center for Nanotechnology at UCL and the PULSE Institute at Stanford University. After this Jesse worked at StitchFix and Amazon. At StitchFix he developed their first intelligent batching and routing algorithms. While at Amazon, Jesse led the development of the models and continual learning system behind Amazons most intelligent item-manipulation robot - Robin - which recently surpassed 1B packages handled globally. After spending some time working in visual search Jesse left Amazon and founded Marqo where he is developing multimodal vector search.