MLOps Belgium meetup (GenAI Edition), October 2023 (Gent)

October 2023 edition of MLOps Belgium meetup!

Event will be at the Showpad offices and focused on MLOps in the GenAI context, a link will be shared so that you can follow remotely.

Link: [https://showpad.zoom.us/j/91779483858](https://www.google.com/url?q=https://showpad.zoom.us/j/91779483858&sa=D&source=calendar&ust=1696781299836000&usg=AOvVaw1qe_q04duDXj5udK25aK2v)

Food and drinks will be available between 18h and 19h.

Also, don't register if you are not able to attend physically. A link will be provided to follow remotely but we want to use the attendance list to estimate the number of people being present for food and drinks. Please mind the organisational effort from the people involved. Thanks!

Overview of the talks:

Seamlessly Deploy LLMs Across Multiple Environments with Custom SageMaker Projects

Speaker: Pieterjan Criel, Showpad

Navigating multiple environments – be it staging, pre-prod, or production – requires an efficient deployment system for your models. Understandably, data scientists may find infrastructure deployment somewhat challenging.

At Showpad, we've crafted a custom SageMaker template to bridge this gap. Our solution automates LLM deployments across various environments using a GitLab project integrated with boilerplate CDK code.

Fondant: Data-Centric Foundation Model Fine-Tuning

Speaker: Robbe Sneyders, ML6

Foundation Models are extremely powerful, but require enormous amounts of data and data preparation, leaving few parties able to train their own models.

Fondant is an open-source framework that democratizes this data preparation, making foundation models more widely accessible. In this talk, Robbe, one of the main developers, will introduce Fondant. Talking about the challenges it tries to solve, the approaches it takes, and the use cases it enables.