Blog Archives

05 Sep 2024

Data Management and Warehousing on Google Cloud Platform

This is a technical session focussed on the Data Management suite of products on Google Cloud Platform including the flagship AlloyDB and Cloud Spanner, and will enable developers to understand the key features of the products and some of the exciting features of vector embeddings, vector search, LLMs, the world of AI and graphs. We […]

04 Sep 2024

High-Octane Streaming: Managing Connected Car Data Flows at Toyota Connected Europe

In the era of connected vehicles, the ability to handle vast amounts of near real-time data is critical for delivering seamless user experiences and innovative automotive services. This session will delve into the high-octane world of data streaming at Toyota Connected Europe, where cutting-edge technologies like Kafka, Flink, and MQTT are at the heart of […]

04 Sep 2024

Structuring Unstructured Text using generative AI: The key to information extraction

In the world of Natural Language Processing (NLP), we often need to extract some of the information from natural language into a structured format: for example, converting a natural query to SQL. Generative AI is a great tool for this task, however, transformer-based translation models, such as GPT, sometimes struggle to adhere to the desired […]

02 Sep 2024

Moving data platforms to knowledge platforms

Despite the significant shift in data handling in the last two decades, the emergence of AI opportunity brings another round of change. And while the modern data platform remains a powerful capability in organisations, the expectation of consumers of data has sky rocketed and the constant change required upon them arguably deems them no longer […]

27 Aug 2024

How to Set up An Experimentation Process

In 45 minutes you will learn the key skills needed to run effective experiments that drive business value. I’ll cover Why we experiment Planning your first experiment Defining your hypothesis Selecting your metric Deciding how to split your user groups when you have network effects How to set up your first experiment Calculating how long […]

23 Aug 2024

Adventures in RAG: Are Chocolate-Covered Pickles Delicious?

In this presentation, we will cover the real-world lessons learned from deploying a Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) system to help us navigate the complex field of social care. We’ll explore what a RAG is, delve into the code, and take a whistle-stop tour of the problems that arose and the solutions we are exploring. Here is […]

23 Aug 2024

Using Generative AI, and Python to Remove Personally Identifiable Information from your Data

This is a technical session will enable to you quickly get started using AWS technologies like Amazon Bedrock and Converse to build an application that removes Personally Identifiable Information (PII) from text data. Bedrock is a service that enables you to interact with the latest Generative AI models, using a simple API. We’ll begin with […]

06 Aug 2024

GraphRAG: Powering Up LLMs with Knowledge Graphs

In the era of big data, large language models (LLMs) are becoming increasingly important for tasks like question answering, document analysis, and chatbot development. However, traditional LLMs can often struggle with factual accuracy, reasoning, and handling complex information. This talk introduces GraphRAG, a novel technique that leverages the power of knowledge graphs to empower LLMs. […]

06 Aug 2024

From development to deployment: actionable AI models which accurately predict patient risk in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a common respiratory disorder and is the third leading cause of death worldwide. Deploying validated, accurate, fair and explainable machine learning models can transform COPD care. We deployed the first live AI risk prediction model in the UK for COPD patients in 2023 and have since worked on deploying […]