Talks: "LLMOps: The good, the bad, the ugly"+"Skyscanner's ML Platform and FS"

Tonight we'll be hearing from:

• Stefan Sabev on "LLMOps: The good, the bad, the ugly"
• Stefan is the CTO of [Klu.ai](https://klu.ai). He spent a decade doing product management, then decided that writing code was more fun than writing one pagers.
• [Klu.ai](https://klu.ai) is an LLM Ops platform for AI teams, aimed at allowing AI Engineers and teams to collaborate and ship generative products quickly.
• They’ve worked hard to cover the entire AI product lifecycle. However, they plan to continue rolling out new features for prompt engineering assistants and workflows, as well as AI-assisted evaluation of changes. They intend to make building on LLMs no different than checking in new features on Github.
• Fedor Bystrov on: "ML Platform and Feature Store in Skyscanner: an Overview and Comparison."
• Fedor is part of the team at Skyscanner which runs Kaleidoscope (their feature store), as well as the larger ML Platform. His team has been reviewing how they fit together, and how they can optimise them.
• He will give an overview of the current state of their ML platform and how it all fits together, as well as comparing it to ready-made solutions from cloud providers. He will also talk briefly about what they can learn from available cloud solutions and what they do better.

We will be hosted once-again by Skyscanner in their Quartermile office in Edinburgh.

Plan for the night:

• 18:30: doors open, get some food/drinks
• 19:00: Quick overall intro then First talk + Q/A
• 19:30: Short toilet / refreshment break
• 19:35: Second talk + Q/A
• 20:05: Any announcements from community or more general stuff
• 20:05->20:30: Tidy-up / Adjourn to nearby pub

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