Open Data Science Conference (ODSC)

Building AI encompasses a lot of skills, and mastering them can be done with help from the right instructors. The speakers for our month-long AI Builders Summit starting in January are experts who push the AI industry forward. Here’s more info on them! Ivan Lee, Founder of Datasaur: Founded his first mobile gaming company which was acquired by Yahoo. After building AI products at Yahoo and Apple, he launched Datasaur to democratize NLP. Devvret Rishi, CEO of Predibase: Previously an ML product leader at Google working across products like Firebase, Google Research, and the Google Assistant. Chloe Leung, ML Solutions Architect at Predibase: Has deep expertise in developing business-focused LLM solutions. Suman Debnath is a Principal Machine Learning Advocate at Amazon Web Services (AWS). Currently, his focus is on Supervised Learning, Natural Language Processing (NLP), Large Language Models (LLMs), and Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG). JP Hwang, Technical Curriculum Developer at Weaviate: Loves to enhance others' learning through everything from hands-on coding projects to engaging and informative talks. Cameron Pfiffer, Developer Relations Engineer at .txt: Works to educate and understand developers. Sinan Ozdemir, Founder of LoopGenius: Advises Tola Capital on AI, authored AI resources for Pearson, & ex-Director at Directly. Ed Donner, Co-founder and CTO of Nebula.io: Technology leader and repeat founder of AI startups. Laurie Voss, VP of Developer Relations at LlamaIndex: Developer for 27 years & believes passionately in making the web more accessible for everyone. Andre Franca, PhD, CTO of Ergodic: Co-founder and CTO of Ergodic, building AI powered world models for better decision-making. Valentina Alto, Azure Specialist at Microsoft: Focuses on AI/ML, IoT, and cloud architecture for Mfg/Pharma. Tech author, recently published on GenAI & LLMs. Niels Bantilan, Chief ML Engineer at Union.ai: A core maintainer of Flyte and creator of Pandera. 👨🏫🤖 "Dr. Greg" Loughnane, Co-Founder & CEO of AI Makerspace: Leads ML education programs. Former AI product manager, professor, and startup advisor. Chris "The Wiz 🪄" Alexiuk, Head of LLMs at AI Makerspace: Developer Advocate at NVIDIA. ML engineer, YouTuber, and D&D enthusiast. Julien SIMON, Chief Evangelist at Arcee AI: Dedicated to helping enterprise clients develop top-notch and cost-efficient AI solutions using open-source small language models. We’re stoked for this lineup and we hope you are too! This month-long deep dive into AI Agents, LLMs, RAG, and Reasoning starts on January 15th, so register now and start your year off with a bang! 🚀🚀🚀 🔗 Learn more and register today! https://www.summit.ai/ #AI #LLMs #AITraining #ODSC

🚀 On this week’s episode of ODSC’s AI X Podcast, we had the pleasure of hosting Daniel Rock, Assistant Professor at the Wharton School and co-founder of WorkHelix. Join us as we explore the profound economic impacts of AI and its transformative role in productivity, labor markets, and innovation. Dive into topics like: ✅ Breaking Work into Tasks: How AI impacts specific job tasks rather than entire roles. ✅ The "Productivity J-Curve": Why transformative technologies like AI take time to deliver measurable gains. ✅ General-Purpose Technologies: Insights from history to understand AI’s potential. ✅ AI Adoption Challenges: Why large firms lead the way and how smaller companies can catch up. Don’t miss this insightful episode packed with actionable advice on leveraging AI to rethink productivity and economic structures. 🎧 Listen Now: https://linktr.ee/odsc #AI #Podcast #ODSC #GenerativeAI #Productivity #Economics

Biden's Chief of Staff Jeff Zients is urging White House officials to prioritize major policy actions, including advancements in AI. #datascience #AI #artificialintelligence https://hubs.li/Q03011F70

We want to hear from you! Take part in our End-of-Year "AI Trends and Adoption Survey" and help us understand the state of AI adoption in our community. Your input will shape how we approach the next wave of AI content, events, and training at ODSC. 🎁 As a thank-you, you’ll be entered to win some great prizes, including: Passes to ODSC East 2025 Exclusive ODSC swag Free access to AI+ Training courses Other AI-focused rewards 📋 Fill out the survey here: 🔗https://hubs.li/Q030pftF0 #ODSC #AI #DataScience #LLMs #AITrends #ODSCEast

🚀 We have a new selection of free Microsoft Azure courses! Sign up for Ai+ Training to get access to the following sessions: 🔸Azure AI Foundry: Unlocking the AI Revolution Dive into the latest advancements in Azure AI and learn how to leverage these tools to enhance your applications. 🗣️ Speakers:  Asha Sharma, CVP, Head of Product, Microsoft AI Platform at Microsoft 🔸Effortless Model Selection - Explore, Swap, & Scale Faster Discover how to build intelligent applications using Azure AI’s suite of services. This session will showcase the ease of use and flexibility of Azure AI in developing and deploying AI solutions. 🗣️ Speakers:  Kenji Motohashi, Head of Global Generative AI Office at NTT DATA Facundo Santiago, Principal Product Manager at Microsoft Saumil Shrivastava, Principal PM Manager at Microsoft 🔸Build Secure GenAI Apps with Azure AI Foundry Why Attend: Learn about the latest tools and frameworks in Azure AI that can help you accelerate your AI development. 🗣️ Speakers:  Dennis Eikenboom, Principal Product Manager at Microsoft Meera Kurup, Product Manager at Microsoft 🔸Azure AI Foundry and the Dev Toolchain to Infuse AI in All Your Apps Unlock the power of GenAIOps and accelerate your AI apps from development to production with familiar tools. 🗣️Speakers:  Callum Anderson, Global Director, DevOps & SRE at Dentsu Marlene Mhangami, Senior Developer Advocate at Microsoft Trupti Parkar, Product Manager at Microsoft Dan Taylor, Principal Product Architect at Microsoft 🔥 All of these sessions are available now for free! Get started here:  https://lnkd.in/gebATqzU

OpenAI announced the release of its highly anticipated AI video-generation tool, Sora, on Monday, marking a significant leap in the generative AI space. #datascience #AI #artificialintelligence https://hubs.li/Q03011ZJ0

🎥 Video of the Week from #ODSCEurope! Dive into the cutting edge of AI and synthetic biology with Etienne Goffinet, PhD, Senior Researcher at the Technology Innovation Institute, in his session: Introduction to Protein Language Models for Synthetic Biology. Key highlights: 🔸Understand how Protein Language Models mimic natural language models to learn the 'grammar' of proteins. 🔸Explore open-source tools and datasets for building protein models. 🔸Learn how to classify protein functions with practical hands-on examples. 🔸Benchmark various approaches, from retrieval-augmented techniques to fine-tuning pre-trained models. Whether you're a bioinformatics enthusiast, machine learning practitioner, or simply curious about the intersection of AI and biology, this talk offers invaluable insights into leveraging Transformer-like models for groundbreaking research. 🔗 https://lnkd.in/dYwzQHV4 #AI #SyntheticBiology #ProteinLanguageModels #ODSC

As AI continues to transform industries and redefine roles, mastering the right skills has never been more critical for staying competitive. This upcoming #ODSC talk “AI Mastery 2025: Skills to Stay Ahead in the Next Wave” will dive deep into these skills. 🚀 Topics covered include: 🔸 Insights from research, industry trends, and job market analyses 🔸 The importance of foundational skills in programming, #machinelearning, and #datawrangling 🔸 The emergence of newer skills like #AIagents, prompt engineering, and #generativeAI Join us on January 3rd to take a journey over this roadmap to the skills that will define the next wave of #AIinnovation. 🔗 Sign up here - https://hubs.li/Q02_fpK70 Sheamus McGovern

As AI continues to transform industries and redefine roles, mastering the right skills has never been more critical for staying competitive. This upcoming talk “AI Mastery 2025: Skills to Stay Ahead in the Next Wave” will dive deep into these skills. 🚀 Topics covered include: 🔸 Insights from research, industry trends, and job market analyses 🔸 The importance of foundational skills in programming, ML, and data wrangling 🔸 The emergence of newer skills like AI agents, prompt engineering, and generative AI Join us on January 3rd to take a journey over this roadmap to the skills that will define the next wave of AI innovation. 🔗 Sign up here - https://hubs.li/Q030bb8g0

Amazon announced its most ambitious push into AI yet during the annual re:Invent conference, unveiling the Nova family of foundation models. #datascience #AI #artificialintelligence https://hubs.li/Q03012wf0