An Elixir Evening with Lars Wikman & Alvise Susmel

We're excited to welcome Lars Wikman and Alvise Susmel to Växjö! Join us for an evening of Elixir talks, discussion, and networking. Both speakers are in town for the university's IoT & HPC event and have graciously agreed to share their expertise with our local functional programming group.

A big thanks to Gears of Leo for hosting us and providing pizza and beer for the evening!

Schedule
17:30 – 18:15 — Mingle
18:15 – 19:00 — Lars Wikman: Getting Started with Nerves
19:00 – 19:45 — Alvise Susmel: Find Anything on the Road: Embedding-Powered Search at 1B Dashcam Images/Month
19:45 – 20:30 — After-talk mingle

About the speakers
Lars Wikman is an independent consultant running Underjord and a member of the core team maintaining and developing Nerves, the robust open-source framework for building IoT devices with Elixir. With 7–8 years actively working in the Elixir open-source community, he brings broad experience and deep expertise across several areas. By his own account, he's Sweden's loudest Elixir developer.

Alvise Susmel is Head of Computer Vision & ML Engineering at Driver Technologies. Based in Italy and working for a US-based company, Alvise wrangles petabytes of vehicle data from across America, extracting insights from countless pixels. Computer vision has been a focus of his for a long time — from his open-source work with YOLO models in Elixir and running inference on the Raspberry Pi AI Kit via Elixir and Nerves, to fine-tuning and adapting models. He has worked with Elixir for many years, and his recent focus has been on the ML tooling around Nx (Numerical Elixir).