🛡️🤖 AI Assistants & ⚙️ Data Ops: 📈🐛➡🦋🚀 PyData Heilbronn #1 @ IPAI 🚀

🚨 👉 NEW DATE 6 FEB 👈🚨
🎉 We are thrilled to announce that PyData Südwest is hosting its first-ever meetup at Innovation Park Artificial Intelligence (IPAI) in Heilbronn! 🎉

Agenda
18:00 Doors open
18:30 Welcome - Alexander CS Hendorf
18:45 Transform Your Business: A Roadmap to Being Data-Driven with Data Ops - Simon Pressler
19:15 Data Versioning with LakeFS and LakeFS-Spec - Max Mynter & Jan Willem Kleinrouweler
19:45 🍻 🍕 🕸️ Break: Networking with snacks and beverages
20:30 My Data Stays Here! Implementing AI Assistants in a Data-Saving Way - Hans-Peter Zorn
21:00 Networking with snacks and beverages
21:30 End

Lightning Talks ⚡️😬 No LTs this time!

How to sign up for on site
It's important for us to make this meet up happen in a responsible way. We have limited seats available only.
No limits to sign up remotely!

How to join remotely
Join the live stream on YouTube.

The event is in English. This event was moved from 24 Jan due to the train strike.
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Talk #1 📈🐛➡🦋🚀
Transform Your Business: A Roadmap to Being Data-Driven with Data Ops"
Simon Pressler (Königsweg AI)
Many organizations ask themselves: do we have a data treasure? - how can we find out and how do we start? In the current data-centric business environment, this question becomes increasingly relevant. Drawing from extensive experience in the field, this talk addresses those who are enthusiastic about data yet may find themselves at the outset of their journey, or uncertain about navigating their path to success. DataOps, an interdisciplinary field seamlessly integrates data analysis, software development, and system operations. This session aims to provide clarity and direction for unlocking the potential of your data assets, marking the beginning of a transformative expedition into effective data utilization.

Simon is a Data Scientist holds a Master's Degree in Comparative and International Studies from ETH-Zürich and a Master's in Data Science from the University of Mannheim. Outside of his professional life, Simon is passionate about long-distance hiking, a pursuit that showcases his dedication and resilience

Talk #2 ⚙️📈
Data Versioning with LakeFS and LakeFS-Spec
Max Mynter & Jan Willem Kleinrouweler (appliedAI Institute for Europe)
Data versioning, essential for reproducible Machine Learning, involves maintaining and accessing various versions of data sets over time. This talk highlights LakeFS, a tool enabling Git-like versioning in data lakes, and LakeFS-Spec, a Python library developed by appliedAI Institute for Europe. LakeFS-Spec, compatible with FSSpec-supported packages like Pandas, allows intuitive LakeFS interactions and offers advanced features like client-side caching and direct file system operations.

Max is an MLOps engineer at appliedAI Institute for Europe. He has a background in Physics and Social Sciences, spent some time as a visiting scholar at UC Berkeley’s School of Information, and had previous stints as a Data Scientist at an energy-tech start-up and at Allianz Global Investors as a Quantitative Risk Analyst.
Jan Willem is the Head of ML Engineering at appliedAI Institute for Europe. He received his PhD in Computer Science from the VU University Amsterdam. Before joining appliedAI, he worked as applied researcher and portfolio manager in the fields of media delivery, mobile networks, edge computing, and IoT.

Talk#3 🛡️🤖
My Data Stays Here! Implementing AI Assistants in a Data-Saving way
Hans-Peter Zorn (inovex)
ChatGPT has become an integral part of many people's professional lives. Nevertheless, many companies are reluctant to provide their employees with enterprise chat solutions. In this talk, I will demonstrate various ways in which such a service can be implemented in a data-saving and data protection-compliant manner. Be it through a private endpoint in the Azure Cloud or open source models under your own control.

Hans-Peter works as Head of AI and CTO at inovex to help customers overcome their challenges - sometimes with the help of AI. He studied computational linguistics in Heidelberg and computer science at KIT. He then spent a long time working on speech dialog systems, natural language processing and big data architectures.

A big thank you to our sponsors:

• appliedAI Institute for Europe, for hosting the meetup.
• KÖNIGSWEG, for supporting the organization.

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