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Day 1 Agenda - September 5

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Registration

7:30 AM - 9:00 AM 

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Opening Remarks

Mark Moyou - Conference Director/Sr. Data Scientist NVIDIA

8:45 AM - 9:00 AM 

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LLMs for Everything and Everyone!

Sebastian Raschka - Lightning AI - Lead AI Educator

9:00 AM - 09:45 AM 

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Generating Interest in Generative AI-Debunking the myth with Real World Business Tested Examples

Laura Edell - Microsoft - Chief Data Scientist, AI Markets & Innovation

9:45 AM - 10:15 AM 

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VectorDBs and Inference Graphs for the short-and-long-term Semantic Memory in the Generative AI era

Jake Mannix - LinkedIn - Principal Staff Engineer - Machine Learning Infrastructure

10:15 AM - 10:45 AM 

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Break

10:45 AM - 11:00 AM 

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Lessons Learned Applying Large Language Models in Healthcare

David Talby - John Snow Labs - CTO

11:00 AM - 11:30 AM 

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Why Venture Capitalists say NO and How to Get a YES

Garnet Heraman - Aperture VC - General Partner

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11:30 AM - 12:00 PM 

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Lunch

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM 

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Conversational AI in the World of Music

Sujatha Sundararaman - YouTube Music at Google - Head of Search, Understanding and Voice

1:00 PM - 1:45 PM 

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Memory Matters: Improving Chatbots with Long-Term Memory at Pinecone

Roie Schwaber-Cohen - Pinecone - Staff Developer Advocate

1:45 PM - 2:15 PM 

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Distributed Training in PyTorch: Navigating Paradigms for Large-Scale Model Training and Inference

Suraj Subramanian - Meta AI - Machine Learning Advocate

2:15 PM - 2:45 PM 

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Refreshments + Networking

2:45 PM - 3:15 PM 

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"Beyond Labels: Leveraging Deep Learning and LLMs for Content Metadata"

Jaya Kawale - Tubi - VP Engineering - Machine Learning

3:15 PM - 3:45 PM 

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LLM and Vector Databases - Concepts, Architectures, and Examples

Sam Partee - Redis - Principal Applied AI Engineer

3:45 PM - 4:10 PM 

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The Language Revolution: Paradigm Shifts and Enterprise Concerns Around Large Language Models

Reshma Lal Jagadheesh - The Home Depot - Data Science Manager | LLM | GenAI | Conversational AI

4:10 PM - 4:35 PM 

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Build vs. Buy: What's Best for your Business

Alex Vayner - Martingale Insights - Managing Partner

4:35 PM - 5:00 PM 

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ATLytics Awards Ceremony + Closing

5:00 PM - 5:15 PM 

Day 2 Agenda - September 6

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Registration

7:30 AM - 9:00 AM 

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Opening Remarks + Day 1 Recap

Mark Moyou - Conference Director/Sr. Data Scientist NVIDIA

8:40 AM - 8:45 AM 

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Machine Learning Applied to Software Development

Paige Bailey - Google - Lead Product Manager (Generative Models)

8:45 AM - 9:30 AM 

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Strategic Decisions for LLM Domain Customization​

Shopify/Berkeley - Distinguished Scientist/Engineer ML | Data Science Faculty

9:30 AM - 10:00 AM 

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Building Semantic Search from Scratch and Deploying as an API

Hamza Farooq - ex-Google - Sr. Research Science Manager | Stanford - Lecturer

10:00 AM - 10:30 AM 

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Break

10:30 AM - 10:45 AM 

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LLM Simplicity

Joel Grus - Flatfile/Data Science from Scratch - Principal Engineer/Author

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10:45 AM - 11:30 AM 

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Applied ML with KerasCV & KerasNLP

Shilpa Kancharla - Google - ML Engineer

11:30 AM - 12:00 PM 

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Lunch

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM 

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Building AI Co-Pilot for Effective Marketing using Multimodal Knowledge-infused Learning

Ugur Kursuncu - Georgia State University - Assistant Professor

1:00 PM - 1:20 PM 

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An Approach to ML Project Architecture in the age of Super-powered Generative LLMs and its challenges

Marcelle Bonterre - Turnitin - Sr. ML Engineer

1:20 PM - 1:40 PM 

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Emerging Architectures for LLM Applications

Raja Iqbal - CEO/Chief Data Scientist - Data Science Dojo

1:40 PM - 2:00 PM 

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Relevance in the Age of Generative Search

Trey Grainger - Presearch - CTO

2:00 PM - 2:20 PM 

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Evolution of Ads Ranking at Pinterest

Aayush Mudgal - Pinterest - Senior ML Engineer

2:20 PM - 2:40 PM 

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Reinforcement Learning for Music Recommendations 

Surya Kanoria - Spotify - Sr. Machine Learning Engineer

2:40 PM - 3:00 PM 

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Closing Remarks

3:00 PM - 3:05 PM 

Day 3 Agenda - Workshop Only
September 7

One Workshop Per Person

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Registration

7:30 AM - 9:00 AM 

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Building LLM Applications from Scratch Into Production

Hamza Farooq - ex-Google - Sr. Research Science Manager - Stanford - Lecturer

9:00 AM - 3:00 PM 

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Mastering Langchain for LLM Applications

Raja Iqbal - Data Science Dojo - CEO

Sanjay Pant - Data Science Dojo - Sr. Data Engineer

9:00 AM - 3:00 PM 

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Introduction to Natural Language Processing

Mo Medwani, PhD - Innovatics, Mercer University - Co-Founder, Adjunct Faculty

9:00 AM - 3:00 PM 

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Introduction to Deep Learning

Mark Moyou, PhD - NVIDIA - Sr. Data Scientist

9:00 AM - 3:00 PM 

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Introduction to Data Science with Python

Edward Bujak - InnovatiCS - Co-Founder | Adjunct Faculty

9:00 AM - 3:00 PM 

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Creating and Delivering Effective Data Presentations

Bill Franks - Kennesaw State University Center for Statistics and Analytical Research - Director | Winning the Room - Author

9:00 AM - 3:00 PM 

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