2023

Day 1 | Open Source

Open-Source Update: Spark NLP, NLP Lab, and LangTest

David Talby

David Talby

CTO at John Snow Labs

Ray Aviary: Open-Source Multi-LLM Serving

Waleed Kadous

Waleed Kadous

Chief Scientist at Anyscale

Generative AI & LLM Models in the Banking Industry

Supriya Raman

Supriya Raman

VP Data Science at JPMorgan

The Weaviate Vector Search Engine

Bob Van Luijt

Bob Van Luijt

CEO & Co-Founder at Weaviate

Chroma: An Open-Source Embedding Database

Anton Trynikof

Anton Trynikof

Founder at Chroma

Building a Smart Safety Data Sheet Parser Using NLP Lab

Alin Blidisel

Alin Blidisel

Technical Team lead at Wisecube
Patrick Salomé

Patrick Salomé

Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer at BluePallet

Taming a T-Rex: A Survival Guide for Dealing with Large Language Models

Yuval Belfer

Yuval Belfer

Developer Advocate at AI21 Labs

What’s New in Stanford NLP and Stanza

John Bauer

John Bauer

Research Engineer at Stanford

Identifying Patterns of Racial Discrimination through Natural Language Processing

Chreston Miller

Chreston Miller

PhD, Assistant Professor at Virginia Tech

Customizing GPT Models for Domain-Specific NLP Tasks: Techniques for Fine-tuning and Adaptation

Swagata Ashwani

Swagata Ashwani

Data Science Lead at Boomi

From Text to Insights: Empowering NLP Models for Document QA with Generative AI

Carlos Rodríguez Abellán

Carlos Rodríguez Abellán

Lead NLP Engineer at Fujitsu

Adapting LLM & NLP Models to Domain-Specific Data 10x Faster with Better Data

Yash Sheth

Yash Sheth

Co-Founder at Galileo
Franz Keller

Franz Keller

Platform Lead at Galileo
Christian Kasim Loan

Christian Kasim Loan

Lead Data Scientist at John Snow Labs

Taming the Large language models – Efficient inference of Multi-billion parameter models

Logesh Kumar Umapathi

Logesh Kumar Umapathi

Lead Machine Learning Research Engineer at Saama Technologies

Similarity Analysis of global chemical product labels

Thomas Kranzkowski

Thomas Kranzkowski

Senior Data Science at Consultant Woodmark Consulting AG

Explainable Data Drift for NLP

Shir Chorev

Shir Chorev

Co-founder & CTO at Deepchecks

Cooking with the Semantic Kernel: Recipes for Building Chatbots, Agents, and more with Large Language Models

Alex Chao

Alex Chao

Senior Product Manager at Microsoft

NLP Applications for Scientific Review Assistance

Kwan-Yuet (Stephen) Ho

Kwan-Yuet (Stephen) Ho

Data Scientist Leidos

Day 2 | Healthcare

Beyond QA: A Multifaceted Evaluation of John Snow Labs’ Medical Chatbot

Veysel Kocaman

Veysel Kocaman

Head of Data Science at John Snow Labs

Text-Prompted Cohort Retrieval: Leveraging Generative Healthcare Models for Precision Population Health Management

Shay Sayed

Shay Sayed

Principle Solutions Engineer at ClosedLoop

Harnessing Causality, Encoded Clinical Knowledge, and Transparency: How Ronin Enables Personalized Decisions for Cancer Patients

Christine Swisher

Christine Swisher

Chief Scientific Officer at Project Ronin

Using Healthcare-Specific LLM’s for Data Discovery from Patient Notes & Stories

R. Spencer Schaefer

R. Spencer Schaefer

Chief Health Informatics Officer at Kansas City VAMC – Department of Veteran Affairs

Lessons Learned Applying Large Language Models in Healthcare

David Talby

David Talby

CTO at John Snow Labs

CONAN: A Semantic Search System for Contract Analytics

Harsha Gurulingappa

Harsha Gurulingappa

Head of Text Analytics at Merck Group
Alberto Oteo Garcia

Alberto Oteo Garcia

Data Scientist at Merck Group
Luis Gehrmann

Luis Gehrmann

Data and Analytics Architect at Merck Group

In the GPT Jungle: Lessons Learned from using LLMs in the wild in healthcare

Itay Zitvar

Itay Zitvar

Software engineering team lead (NLP) at Hyro

Beyond Black-and-White Data – How Large Language Models are Unlocking the Full Spectrum of Nuances in Patient Care

Durga Borkar

Durga Borkar

MD, MMCi, Medical Advisor at Verana Health

Using NLP to Identity the Emotional State of Patients at Different Stages of a Disease Journey

Romain Bogaerts

Romain Bogaerts

Director of AI Product Management at Real Chemistry

Automatic Extraction of Structured Information from Genomic Reports

Pavithra Rajendran

Pavithra Rajendran

Senior Data Scientist at Great Ormond Street Hospital NHS Trust

Natural language processing to describe eConsult requests: clinical question and specialist response

Stephanie Grim

Stephanie Grim

Health Care Researcher at University of Colorado

Using Real-World Data to Better Understand Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD)

Dr. Gary Curhan

Dr. Gary Curhan

CMO at OM1
Ryan Boch

Ryan Boch

Senior Software Engineer at OM1

The potential of Large Language Models for Revolutions in Healthcare

Nafiseh Mollaei

Nafiseh Mollaei

Postdoc at Loyola University Chicago

Simple and Practical NLP Applications in Healthcare

Sonali Tamhankar

Sonali Tamhankar

Senior Clinical Data Scientist in Enterprise Analytics department at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center in Seattle

Identifying mental health concerns, subtypes, temporal patterns, and differential risks among children with Cerebral Palsy using NLP on EHR data

Surbhi Bhatnagar

Surbhi Bhatnagar

Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Cincinnati Childrens Hospital

AI and healthcare, deeper look at Med Palm II, Mid journey and Chatgpt in healthcare

Harvey Castro

Harvey Castro

Author of ChatGPTHealthcare

Improving Precancerous Case Characterization via Transformer-based Ensemble Learning

Yizhen Zhong

Yizhen Zhong

ML Scientist at Freenome

Day 3 | Applications

Generative AI Features in the Free No-Code NLP Lab

Dia Trambias

Dia Trambias

Head of Product at John Snow Labs

What’s so hard about training and deploying LLMs?

Davis Blalock

Davis Blalock

Research Scientist at MosaicML by Databricks

Unlocking the Potential: Assessing Large Language Models for the Insurance Industry

Ke Ji

Ke Ji

Senior Lead Data Scientist at American Family Insurance

Unstructured” Open-Source ETL for LLMs

Matthew Robinson

Matthew Robinson

Engineering Lead at Unstructured Technologies

Law and Language models

Andrew Burt

Andrew Burt

Co-founder & Managing Partner at Luminos.Law

LLM and Foundational Models in Ads Ranking

Aayush Mudgal

Aayush Mudgal

Senior Machine Learning Lead at Pinterest

Leveraging Large Language Models for Customer Service and Support Transformation

Lovedeep Saini

Lovedeep Saini

Data Science Manager at Arthur J Gallagher

Emotion Detection in Speech

Dishant  Banga

Dishant Banga

Sr Data Analyst at Bridgetree

Unlocking Visual Creativity: Harnessing Large Natural Language Models to Convert Human Language into Graphical Representations

Fatema Nafa

Fatema Nafa

Professor at Salem State University

Building Robust and Scalable Intelligent Writing Assistants: Challenges and Opportunities

Vipul Raheja

Vipul Raheja

Applied Research Scientist at Grammarly

Investigation of LLMs for Financial Use Cases

Neelesh Shukla

Neelesh Shukla

Senior Manager – Principal AI Scientist at State Street Corporation

Computational Linguistic Analysis of Engineered Chatbot Prompts

Michelle Banawan

Michelle Banawan

Asst. Professor and Academic Program Director at Asian Institute of Management

The Use of NLP Agents: Acciona Use Cases, Challenges, and Achievements

Miguel Ángel Rodríguez López

Miguel Ángel Rodríguez López

Data & AI Manager at Digital Hub Acciona

Natural Language Processing for Materials Science

Zongrui Pei

Zongrui Pei

Senior Staff at New York University

Using Vector Databases to Scale Multimodal Embeddings and Search

Zain Hasan

Zain Hasan

Senior ML Developer Advocate at Weaviate

Vision-Based Automatic Groceries Tracking System – Smart Homes

Divya Mereddy

Divya Mereddy

Data Scientist at Ascena Retail