ChatGPT is the ‘sputnik’ moment for AI in US and Europe – it is now obvious how AI will be fundamental. There is an imperative to future-proof industry by investing in the exploration of the impact of next-generation AI technologies. But, it is also fuelling an urgency for enterprises to capitalize on and deploy core AI technologies today. Models continue to evolve but deployment is becoming more and more important. Smart users are comparing the compute costs and data risks of using massive, proprietary LLMs with smaller, open-source models, fine-tuned to their specific needs. They are searching for much more efficient solutions for deployment today and in the future. In this talk we will discuss:
· Why LLMs like GPT-4 may not be the best solution for many enterprise AI tasks
· Identifying the most exciting, enterprise-ready AI solutions for deployment today
· Why your compute platform matters when using generative AI
Helen Byrne
VP, Solution Architect
Graphcore
Helen leads the Solution Architects team at Graphcore, helping innovators build their AI solutions using Graphcore’s Intelligence Processing Units (IPUs). She has been at Graphcore for more than 5 years, previously leading AI Field Engineering and working in AI Research, working on problems in Distributed Machine Learning. Before landing in the technology industry, she worked in Investment Banking. Her background is in Mathematics and she has a MSc in Artificial Intelligence.
Graphcore
Website: https://www.graphcore.ai/
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Moderator
Arun Nandi
Senior Director and Head of Data & Analytics
Unilever
Arun is a visionary AI and Analytics expert recognized as one of the Top 100 Influential AI & Analytics leaders. He is the Head of Data & Analytics at Unilever today. With over 15 years of experience driving analytics-driven value in organizations, he has built AI practices from the ground up on several occasions. Arun advocates the adoption of AI to overcome enterprise-wide challenges and create growth. Beyond his professional achievements, Arun loves to travel, having explored over 40 countries and is passionate about adventure motorbiking.
Panellists
Nikesh Pahuja
App Engineer
Eximius Systems
Nikesh Kumar Pahuja currently serves as an App Engineer in a contract position at Chevron Corporation, with a primary focus on product development and Data Analytics/ Data Science / AI. With an MBA in Finance, Strategy, and Analytics from the University of California, Davis, and an MS in Analytics from Harrisburg University of Science and Technology, Mr. Pahuja brings a wealth of knowledge and expertise to his work. He is a passionate advocate for data, AI, and the creation of exceptional technological products, driven by a strong commitment to innovation and advancement.
Jay Dawani
CEO
Lemurian Labs
Jay Dawani is co-founder & CEO of Lemurian Labs, a startup at the forefront of general purpose accelerated computing for making AI development affordable and generally available for all companies and people to equally benefit. Author of the influential book "Mathematics for Deep Learning", he has held leadership positions at companies such as BlocPlay and Geometric Energy Corporation, spearheading projects involving quantum computing, metaverse, blockchain, AI, space robotics, and more. Jay has also served as an advisor to NASA Frontier Development Lab, SiaClassic, and many leading AI firms.
Praveen Kolli
Staff Machine Learning Engineer
DoorDash
Dr. Praveen Kolli is currently a Staff Machine Learning Engineer in the Ads Quality Team at DoorDash, where he focuses on developing advanced deep learning models to improve ad recommendations and enhance user experience. Prior to his role at DoorDash, he served as a Technical Lead in the Ads Ranking Team at Pinterest. At Pinterest, Dr. Kolli played a pivotal role in building cutting-edge models for personalized ad recommendations, contributing to the platform's success in delivering relevant ads to its users. He holds a PhD in Mathematics from Carnegie Mellon University, Masters in Mathematics of Finance from Columbia University and Bachelors in Electrical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur.
The evolution of transformers marks a remarkable advancement in comprehending intricate language patterns. These models are progressively growing in size and precision, enabling them to grasp complex linguistic structures more effectively. However, the real challenge lies in efficiently integrating these advanced models into production systems without incurring exorbitant costs. Striking a balance between superior performance and streamlined resource usage during both training and runtime is crucial for making these large language models (LLMs) viable for deployment in practical production environments.
Rahul Sharnagat
Principal Machine Learning Engineer
Walmart Global Tech
Rahul Sharnagat is a Principal Data Scientist in Walmart's Search Technologies. He began his career at IBM research lab then worked in Microsoft Bing Ads before joining Walmart in 2018, with his expertise centering around natural language understanding (NER) and question answering. He currently leads the efforts to develop and deploy query understanding models and its application across the search stack. Rahul holds a master's degree in computer science from Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay and a bachelor's degree in computer science from Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology, Nagpur.
Moderator
Michael Stewart
Partner
M12
Panellists
Rashmi Gopinath
General Partner
B Capital
Rashmi Gopinath is a General Partner at B Capital Group where she leads the fund’s enterprise software practice in cloud infrastructure, cybersecurity, devops, and AI/ML sectors. She brings over two decades of experience investing and operating in cutting-edge enterprise technologies. She led B Capital’s investments in over 24 companies such as DataRobot, FalconX, Clari, Phenom People, Synack, Innovaccer, Labelbox, Fabric, 6Sense, Highspot, Pendo, Starburst, OwnBackup, Figment, Perimeter81, Zesty, among others.
Rashmi was previously a Managing Director at M12, Microsoft’s venture fund, where she led investments globally in enterprise software and sat on several boards including Synack, Innovaccer, Contrast Security, Frame, UnravelData, Incorta, among others.
Prior to M12, Rashmi was an Investment Director with Intel Capital where she was involved in the firm’s investments in startups including MongoDB (Nasdaq: MDB), ForeScout (Nasdaq: FSCT), Maginatics (acq. by EMC), BlueData (acq. by HPE), among others. Rashmi held operating roles at high-growth startups such as BlueData (acq. by HPE) and Couchbase (Nasdaq: BASE) where she led global business development, product and marketing roles. She began her career in engineering and product roles at Oracle and GE Healthcare. She earned an M.B.A. from Northwestern University, and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from University of Mumbai in India.
Gayathri Radhakrishnan
Partner
Hitachi Ventures
Gayathri is currently Partner at Hitachi Ventures. Prior to that, she was with Micron Ventures, actively investing in startups that apply AI to solve critical problems in the areas of Manufacturing, Healthcare and Automotive. She brings over 20 years of multi-disciplinary experience across product management, product marketing, corporate strategy, M&A and venture investments in large Fortune 500 companies such as Dell and Corning and in startups. She has also worked as an early stage investor at Earlybird Venture Capital, a premier European venture capital fund based in Germany. She has a Masters in EE from The Ohio State University and MBA from INSEAD in France. She is also a Kauffman Fellow - Class 16.
Yvonne Lutsch
Investment Principal
Bosch Ventures
Yvonne is an accomplished Investment Principal at Bosch Ventures affiliate office located in Sunnyvale, and sources, evaluates, and executes venture capital deals in North America. Her specialty are investments in deep tech fields such as AI, edge and next gen. computing incl. quantum, robotics, industrial IoT, mobility, climate tech, semiconductors, or sensors. She is an investor and non-executive board member of Bosch Ventures’ portfolio companies Syntiant, Zapata AI, UltraSense Systems, Aclima, and Recogni.
Prior to this position Yvonne was Director of Technology Scouting and Business Development, building up an Innovation Hub in Silicon Valley including startup scouting, business development while advising executives of the Bosch business units on their strategy. She has more than two decades of solid experience in manufacturing operations and engineering in the automotive and consumer electronics space – gained through different executive roles at Bosch in Germany.
Yvonne received a diploma in Experimental Physics from University of Siegen, Germany, and holds a PhD in Applied Physics from University of Tuebingen, Germany.
Vibhor Rastogi
Global Head AIML Data Investing
Citi Ventures
In this panel, we explore the challenges and opportunities that large, medium, and small companies are facing when they try to pre-train and/or fine-tune Large Language Models (LLMs). More specifically, given the fact that not all companies have the time and resources to pre-train LLMs from scratch, we present options for executing pre-training, or at least fine-tuning, activities in easier and, most importantly, cheaper ways than what is done today. We will therefore discuss how you too can start to efficiently and efficaciously leverage the amazing capabilities provided by LLMs, as well as some important factors that we discovered and that make a significant difference in the creation of high-performance, robust, and reliable LLMs.
Moderator
Fausto Artico
Head of Innovation and Data Science
GSK
Fausto has two PhDs (Information & Computer Science respectively), earning his second master’s and PhD at the University of California, Irvine. Fausto also holds multiple certifications from MIT, Columbia University, London School of Economics and Political Science, Kellogg School of Management, University of Cambridge and soon also from the University of California, Berkeley. He has worked in multi-disciplinary teams and has over 20 years of experience in academia and industry.
As a Physicist, Mathematician, Engineer, Computer Scientist, and High-Performance Computing (HPC) and Data Science expert, Fausto has worked on key projects at European and American government institutions and with key individuals, like Nobel Prize winner Michael J. Prather. After his time at NVIDIA corporation in Silicon Valley, Fausto worked at the IBM T J Watson Center in New York on Exascale Supercomputing Systems for the US government (e.g., Livermore and Oak Ridge Labs).
Panellists
Abhijeet Gulati
Head of AI, Senior Director of AI & ML Engineering
Mitchell International
Abhijeet Gulati is the Head of AI & Senior Director of Engineering at Mitchell’s Auto Physical Damage (APD) business unit. Abhijeet is an accomplished technologist with over two decades of experience in the semiconductor, wireless, software & technology industry, focusing on AI, Machine Learning, NLP, Generative AI and SaaS solutions. He is a driven Artificial Intelligence, Advanced Analytics and business intelligence leader.
As the Head of AI at Mitchell International, Abhijeet has spent the past 5 years improving InsureTech inefficiencies, minimize decision biases, developed proprietary, differentiated enterprise scale AI products and an intelligent open platform that democratizes adoption of AI in enterprise business workflows. Abhijeet has extensive experience directing large-scale initiatives involving R&D, business & product strategy, operations, and advanced video, image and data analytics. Abhijeet has authored several patents on the application of AI in InsureTech industry. Abhijeet sits on the board of several AI standards, Ethical & Responsible AI committees.
Greg Makowski
Head of Data Science Services
Johnson Controls
Mayank Anand
Machine Learning Engineering Manager
Adobe
Mayank Anand is a Machine Learning Engineering Manager at Adobe, dedicated to enhancing digital marketing with AI and machine learning. His focus lies in harnessing AI for better content creation from texts and images. Presently, he's innovating in the field of generative AI to produce smart, brand-safe content. Mayank holds a Master's in Computer Science from USC, Los Angeles.
Sree Ganesan, who leads Software Products at Intel’s Habana Labs, will present approaches to bringing efficiency to Generative AI—from the software perspective—and will share things you may not know about what you can do with Gaudi Acceleration. We’ll look at opportunities developers have to optimize performance and build value that can yield positive results.
Sree Ganesan
VP of Product
d-Matrix
Sree Ganesan, VP of Product, d-Matrix: Sree is responsible for product management functions and business development efforts across the company. She manages the product lifecycle, definition and translation of customer needs to the product development function, acting as the voice of the customer. Prior, Sree led the Software Product Management effort at Habana Labs/Intel, delivering state-of-the-art deep learning capabilities of the Habana SynapseAI® software suite to the market. Previously, she was Engineering Director in Intel’s AI Products Group, where she was responsible for AI software strategy and deep learning framework integration for Nervana NNP AI accelerators. Sree earned a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras and a PhD in computer engineering from the University of Cincinnati, Ohio.
Habana
Website: https://habana.ai/
Habana is an AI solutions semiconductor company. Eitan is Habana’s Chief Business Officer and will share with us Habana’s vision of the AI/Deep-learning processing needs and Habana’s solutions.