2024

Day 1 | Open Source

Responsible AI Testing of Large Language Models

David Talby

David Talby

CTO at John Snow Labs

The age of synthetic data and small LLMs

Loubha Ben-Allal

Loubha Ben-Allal

Machine Learning Engineer at HuggingFace

Spark NLP 5.5: Breaking Barriers in LLM Inference Scalabilit

Maziyar Panahi

Maziyar Panahi

Principal AI Engineer & Team Lead at John Snow Labs

Deconstructing Graph RAG: An Overview of Concepts and Methodologies

Prashanth Rao

Prashanth Rao

AI Engineer at Kùzu, Inc.

Ray: Navigating the New AI Infra Challenges

Robert Nishihara

Robert Nishihara

CEO & Co-Founder
at Anyscale

Identifying and Mitigating Bias in AI Models for Recruiting

Katie Bakewell

Katie Bakewell

Data Science Solutions Architect
at NLP Logix
Jason Safley

Jason Safley

Data Science Solutions Architect at NLP Logix

Smart Documents: AI-Driven Query, Conversation, and Argumentation

Arthi Rajendran

Arthi Rajendran

Data Scientist at Arthi & AI

Using Generative AI to empower procurement teams with real-time competitor analysis

Scott Newman

Scott Newman

Senior VP, Life Sciences at MiBA

Automated Testing of Bias, Fairness, and Robustness of Generative AI Solutions

Jessica Doucet

Jessica Doucet

Product Manager at Pacific AI

Vector search without breaking the bank: Quantization and Adaptive Retrieval

Zain Hasan

Zain Hasan

Senior Developer Advocate at Weaviate

Lessons in Benchmarking: Earnings Call Summarization

Jacqueline Garrahan

Jacqueline Garrahan

Senior Machine Learning Engineer at
Aiera

Haystack 2.0: Composable, Transparent, and Robust AI Applications

Malte Pietsch

Malte Pietsch

Co-Founder at Deepset

Graph RAG for Explainable and Reliable LLMs

Leann Chen

Leann Chen

Generative AI Developer Advocate at Diffbot

Text summarization for the clinical data

Arasu Narayan

Arasu Narayan

Sr.Principal Data Scientist at Oracle Inc.

Unifying language models with knowledge graphs

Adi Tya

Adi Tya

Co-Owner at
Naavi Network

Scalable Entity Resolution With Python and ML

Sonal Goyal

Sonal Goyal

Founder at Zingg.ai

Technical E-book Creation with LLMs and Agentic Frameworks

Altaf Rehmani

Altaf Rehmani

Senior Manager at HSBC

Day 2 | Healthcare

Measuring the Benefits of Healthcare Specific Large Language Models

Veysel Kocaman

Veysel Kocaman

Head of Data Science at John Snow Labs

Maximizing Patient Care through AI-Enhanced HCC Code Discovery

Abha Godse

Abha Godse

Supervisor, AI & RPA at West Virginia University

Applying Healthcare-Specific LLMs to Build Oncology Patient Timelines and Recommend Clinical Guidelines

Vishakha Sharma

Vishakha Sharma

Senior Principal Data Scientist at Roche

Multi-Agent Based Agentic Workflow in Healthcare

Sanjay Basu

Sanjay Basu

Senior Director at Oracle

Turning Straw into Gold: Building Patient Journeys from Raw Medical Data

David Talby

David Talby

CTO at John Snow Labs

Deidentifying free-text patient notes: no need for tradeoffs

Ross Bierbryer

Ross Bierbryer

Head of Engineering at Dandelion Health

Automated Radiology Report Generation from Radiologist Impressions using Fine-Tuned LLAMA-3 Model: A Novel Approach

Abhinay Krishna Vellala

Abhinay Krishna Vellala

AI Researcher at Heidelberg University

Clinical Data in Sepsis Management – Comparative Analysis of Clinical Decision Support Systems at the Neonatal Intensive Care Units (NICU) in Hospitals

Karolina Tadel

Karolina Tadel

PhD student, Digital Health Innovation Manager at Wroclaw Medical University

Turning Straw into Gold: Building Patient Journeys from Raw Medical Data

David Talby

David Talby

CTO at John Snow Labs

Deidentifying free-text patient notes: no need for tradeoffs

Ross Bierbryer

Ross Bierbryer

Head of Engineering at Dandelion Health

Automated Radiology Report Generation from Radiologist Impressions using Fine-Tuned LLAMA-3 Model: A Novel Approach

Abhinay Krishna Vellala

Abhinay Krishna Vellala

AI Researcher at Heidelberg University

Clinical Data in Sepsis Management – Comparative Analysis of Clinical Decision Support Systems at the Neonatal Intensive Care Units (NICU) in Hospitals

Karolina Tadel

Karolina Tadel

PhD student, Digital Health Innovation Manager at Wroclaw Medical University

Capabilities of LLMs and Few-Shot Learning: A study on Cardiac MRI Data

Pavithra Rajendran

Pavithra Rajendran

NLP Technical Lead and Senior Data Scientist at Great Ormond Street Hospital NHS Trust
Sebin Sabu

Sebin Sabu

NLP Data Engineer at Great Ormond Street Hospital NHS Trust

Delivering insights to clinicians with NLQ for patients data

Denis Chernenko

Denis Chernenko

CEO at NLSQL

Reasoning in Natural Language: Assessing Large Language Model capabilities in Sentiment Analysis

Nicolay Rusnachenko

Nicolay Rusnachenko

Research Fellow at Bournemouth University

Introducing the MultiCaRe Dataset: A Multimodal Case Report Dataset of Clinical Cases, Images, Labels and Captions

Mauro Nievas Offidani

Mauro Nievas Offidani

MD, Data Scientist at National University of the South

The use of large language model in patient education

Yee Ang

Yee Ang

Consultant at National Healthcare Group

AyurGPT: Fine-Tuning a Medical LLM for Multilingual Ayurveda Consultations

Anand Padia

Anand Padia

Global Head & AVP, GenAI and Program Management at Trigent Software, Inc.

How Hospitals Can Effectively Use Machine Learning and AI in Neurosurgery

Tej Patel

Tej Patel

Neurosurgery Researcher at Cedars Sinai

Development and evaluation of an artificial intelligence chatbot for menopause information

Alex Handy

Alex Handy

Head of Data Science at Vira Health

LLMs Will Always Hallucinate, and We Need to Live With This

Ayushi Agarwal

Ayushi Agarwal

Head of Data Science & Analytics at United We Care

Day 3 | Finance

Automating Systematic Reviews of Academic Research

Dia Trambias

Dia Trambias

Head of Product at John Snow Labs

Quantizing Large Language Models

Supriya Raman

Supriya Raman

AI Engineering Manager at IBM WatsonX Labs

A New Open Source Foundation for AI Data

Chang She

Chang She

CEO & Co-Founder at Lance DB

Accelerating LLM App Development with the Open-Source Data Prep Kit

Petros Zerfos

Petros Zerfos

Principal Research Scientist & Manager at IBM Research

The Importance of Context in Language Models

Alain Biem

Alain Biem

Chief Data Science Officer at New York Life

Pedagogical and Strategic Utility of Large Language Models

Michelle Banawan

Michelle Banawan

Academic Program Director at Asian Institute of Management

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) and Bayesian analysis for incorporating expert opinions into advanced credit risk models

Varun Nakra

Varun Nakra

VP, Credit Risk at Deutsche Bank

The Future of Financial Customer Engagement: Leveraging LLMs for Superior Financial Service

Kylie Li

Kylie Li

Senior Data Scientist at Salesforce

Enhancing Marketing Campaigns with NLP: A Case Study on Data-Driven Decision Making in Consumer Analytics

Saurabh Kumar

Saurabh Kumar

Senior Manager, Data Science at Kraft Heinz Company

Optimizing Machine Learning Compute in Production with AWS SageMaker

Tony Song

Tony Song

Senior Machine Learning Engineer, ML at Capital One

Lessons learned deploying a LLM document processing system at scale

Mark Andersen

Mark Andersen

VP, Data Science & Analytics at Vendr
Stefan Jol

Stefan Jol

Director of Machine Learning at Vendr
Kushal Byatnaik

Kushal Byatnaik

CEO at Extend

Techniques and tools for the evolving NLP landscape in Fintech

Sumedha Rai

Sumedha Rai

AI Researcher at NYU Langone Health

Knowledge Management with Gen AI and RAG Challenges

Antonio Ponte

Antonio Ponte

Global Deposits & Investment Product Manager at Citi

Sentiment Analysis on Company Self Disclosures

Suyash Sangwan

Suyash Sangwan

Senior Data Scientist at S&P Global