Track host
About the track
We interact with large-scale machine learning systems on a daily basis. By powering our content feeds, securing our credit cards, detecting faces on our home cameras, and guiding our cars around traffic jams, we have come to rely on machine learning for our everyday needs. And while ML models are feted by academics, it is the ML infrastructure and tech stacks that productionalize those models at scale that make machine learning a practical reality.
In this track, we’ll look at the practical application of machine learning in experiences that you have come to rely on.
Sessions in this track
Thursday 15 June. 5 sessions per track, chosen and introduced by the Track Host.
10:35 Dumbo / Navy Yard Session AI/ML PostgresML: Leveraging Postgres as a Vector Database for AI Montana Low Machine Learning w/ PostgresML With the growing importance of AI and machine learning in modern applications, data scientists and developers are constantly exploring new and efficient ways to store and analyze large amounts of data. 11:50 Dumbo / Navy Yard Session Search Needle in a 930M Member Haystack: People Search AI @LinkedIn Mathew Teoh Machine Learning @ LinkedIn LinkedIn's search functionality is one of its oldest capabilities, allowing members to search for people they know, or to discover new connections. 13:40 Dumbo / Navy Yard Session AI/ML Going Beyond the Case of Black Box AutoML Kiran Kate Senior Technical Staff Member @IBM Research Most AutoML tools are black-box tools. They offer no code/low code tools (UI/simple APIs) for practitioners to get started quickly. While this helps beginners, most experienced data scientists/ML practitioners often need more control. 14:55 Dumbo / Navy Yard Session ML in Practice Back to Basics: Scalable, Portable ML in Pure SQL Evan Miller Principal Statistics Engineer @Eppo (Creator of Evan's Awesome A/B Tools) Redshift has SageMaker. BigQuery begat BigML. Spark birthed Databricks. Every data warehouse is tightly coupled to a particular ML stack. 16:10 Dumbo / Navy Yard Session LLMs in the Real World: Structuring Text with Declarative NLP Adam Azzam AI Product Lead @Prefect Building machine learning pipelines to extract structured data from unstructured text is a popular problem within an unpopular development lifecycle.QCon New York 2023 is a three day conference for senior software engineers, architects and team leads. An international program committee of working engineers selects every session. Patterns and practices, not products and pitches.