⚡️ MLOps London: Community Lightning Talks Night! ⚡️

We’re flipping the script for this one! Instead of the usual featured speakers, this time, the mic is yours 🎤

Join us for an evening of fast-paced, high-energy Lightning Talks ⚡️, where community members (yes, you 🤠) share insights, lessons, and ideas in 15-minute technical deep dives. No fluff 🙈, no sales pitches 😉 —just pure knowledge 🧐 -sharing and a chance to showcase your work.

📅 Date: Friday 20 February

📍 Location: The Old Street Gallery (EC2A 4NA)

⏰ Time: 6 pm - 9 pm

Agenda:

🕒 6:00 pm - Welcome chats with pizza and drinks 🍕🍺

🕒 6:30 pm - Building in the Open 🎤 Pier Paolo Ippolito
Pier is the creator of ppiconsulting.dev, various open source projects and a prolific writer working in the GenAI space.

🕒 6:50 pm - Towards a generalised qualitative metric for quantitative tabular data 🎤 Li Shen
Li is a Data Scientist at Electric Twin and, in his previous life, a researcher on bubbles (yes, you read that right!). In his spare time, Li enjoys photography and travel.

🕒 7:10 pm - True or False? How to Build an AI-Powered Fact Checker 🎤 Matt Collins
Matt is a founder at Hillclear Ventures, where he develops AI-powered software systems. In his talk, Matt will share his story of building an AI-powered fact checker and what he learnt along the way.

🕒 7:30 pm - break

🕒 7:45 pm - Mechanistic Interpretability in the age of Large Language Models 🎤 Vinay Kumar
Vinay is the CEO & Founder of Arya.ai

🕒 8:10 - Optimising Open Source LLM Deployment on Cloud Run 🎤 Richard He
Richard is the Founder & Technical Advisor at Fundamenta. He is also a Google Cloud GDE and an educator via his Practical GCP YouTube channel.

🕒 8:35 - Using SetFit for efficient few-shot classification 🎤 Wendy Mak
Wendy is a Senior Data Scientist at the Stepstone Group. In her talk, Wendy will introduce us to SetFit, which is based on smaller encoder models, making it cheaper to train and use for inference.

🕒 8:35 - 8:55 - Q&A panel with the speakers

🕒 9:00 social 🍻 🍷 at The Fox (28 Paul St, London EC2A 4LB)

AI/ML makers unplugged London