PyData London - 88th Meetup

## Details

Venue: Riverbank House, 2 Swan Ln, London EC4R 3AD -
IMPORTANT: LOCATION UPDATED!
Please note:

1. 🚨🚨🚨A valid photo ID is required by building security. 🚨🚨🚨
2. This event follows the NumFOCUS Code of Conduct, please familiarise yourself with it before the event.

If your RSVP status says "You're going" you will be able to get in. No need to show your RSVP confirmation when signing in.
If you can no longer make it, please unRSVP as soon as you know.
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Code of Conduct:
This event follows the NumFOCUS Code of Conduct. Please get in touch with the organisers with any questions or concerns regarding the Code of Conduct.
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As always, there'll be free food & drinks, generously provided by our host, Man Group.
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Main Talks

The Power of Connection Dan Keeley

In a world of fractured data, heroes rise to build bridges of standardization, unlocking collaboration, innovation, and a future where information flows freely, and connections empower change. Beyond the technical, it's a tale of the human spirit and the power of unity.

Deep Dive into Merging Large Language Models Tanay Mehta

As the popularity of Large Language Models (LLMs) surges, so does their size and the resources required to train them, making it more challenging to develop customized models. Model merging offers a straightforward solution to this issue. By enabling the combination of two or more LLMs into a single model, it presents a cost-effective alternative to pre-training an LLM from scratch while still achieving state-of-the-art performance. In this talk, we will dive deeper into the various techniques of model merging and provide a practical, step-by-step guide.

⚡ Lightning Talks
1️⃣ TBC
2️⃣ TBC

Logistics
Doors open at 6.30 pm (get there early as you have to sign-in via building security), talks start at 7 pm, drinks from 9 pm in the bar. We will have reduced capacity for this event but there will be plenty of people to discuss data science questions with!
Please unRSVP in good time if you realise you can't make it. We're limited by building security on the number of attendees, so please free up your place for your fellow community members!
Follow @pydatalondon (https://twitter.com/pydatalondon) for updates and early announcements.