Anni Lai is the Head of Futurewei Open Source Operations. She drives Futurewei’s open-source strategy, and ecosystem building. Anni has a long history of serving on various open-source foundation boards such as OpenStack Foundation, LF CNCF, LF OCI, LF Edge, and is currently on the LF AI & Data board and LF Europe Advisory board. Anni has been instrumental in growing various open-source projects and ecosystems in the areas of Cloud Native, Edge, and AI/GAI/Deep Learning. Anni firmly believes in creating great technology via open innovation and collaboration with the global community. She has traveled to 30+ countries, 5 continents as a technology evangelist, consultant, strategist, and executive.
Anni holds a MS & a BA degree in Computer Science and is currently working in Silicon Valley, USA.
Over the past two decades, open source software — and its collaborative development model — has disrupted multiple industries and technology sectors, including the Internet/web, telecom, and consumer electronics. Today, large-scale open source projects in new technology sectors such as blockchain and artificial intelligence are driving the next wave of disruption in an even broader span of verticals ranging from finance, energy, and automotive to entertainment and government.
In this talk, Anni Lai will discuss the efforts of the LF AI & Data Foundation in supporting the development, harmonization, and acceleration of open source AI and Data projects. She will provide a preview of some of the industry challenges in these domains and present trends that will manifest in the next few years.
Explore the cutting-edge of text embeddings with Jina Embeddings V2, our open-source breakthrough that challenges OpenAI’s elite models. In this talk, I’ll uncover the journey of engineering a model that adeptly handles 8192 tokens, setting a new standard in the realm of language understanding. Learn about the pioneering techniques that powered our model to rival proprietary giants on the MTEB benchmark.
Dr. Han Xiao is the CEO of Jina AI, a commercial open-source software company founded in 2020 and headquartered in Berlin. With a keen focus on multimodality, Jina AI is at the forefront of embedding and prompting technologies. Dr. Xiao brings expertise and leadership to the AI OSS community, shaping the future of how AI can impact businesses' bottom lines.
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Wojtek Kuberski is an AI professional and entrepreneur with a master's in AI from KU Leuven. He founded Prophecy Labs, a consultancy specializing in machine learning, before assuming his current role as a co-founder and CTO of NannyML. NannyML is an OSS for ML monitoring and silent ML failure detection. At NannyML, he leads the research and product teams, contributing to novel algorithms in model monitoring.
Learn about two new algorithms tackling an unsolved problem: estimating model performance without target data. We're introducing Confidence-Based Performance Estimation (CBPE) and Direct Loss Estimation (DLE), which offer first-of-their-kind solutions. We'll start by discussing why performance estimation is essential and what can affect an ML model after deployment. In the main part of the talk, we'll do a deep dive into CBPE and DLE, showing why they're vital new tools for data scientists.
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You're accustomed to Generative AI and Large Language Models, but what if your queries could be more accurate and relevant, and could take advantage of continuous learning — even from outside sources?
In this talk you'll learn about Retrieval Augmented Generation, which combines information retrieval and generative AI to provide those benefits and more. We'll discuss what RAG is and how it works, and how you can use it in your own AI environments. Where you go from there is up to you!
Nick Chase has been helping people to understand AI/ML topics since 2016, when he wrote “Machine Learning for Mere Mortals.” A long time open source contributor, he is the author of numerous technical books, and currently heads up the AI practice for CloudGeometry, as well as the Data workstream of the LF AI&Data Generative AI Commons. He was also the co-founder of InterSection Unlimited, a metaverse development company that specialized in cross-world applications.
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