In this episode of ODSC’s Ai X Podcast, we continue our exploration of ODSC West 2024 sessions with another compilation of short interviews from the conference. The conference brought together over 170 brilliant speakers across a diverse array of tracks including ML, GenAI, AI Agents, LLMs and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), AI Engineering, Deep Learning & Multi-Modal Models, Responsible AI, AI for Robotics, and explorations into What's Next in AI.

Hear about each of these speakers and instructors and a bit about their work and the key themes they covered in their sessions, including

• Stefanie Molin - Data Scientist, Software Engineer at Bloomberg, Author of Hands-On Data Analysis with Pandas
• Kevin Van Gundy - CEO at Hypermode
• Paras Jain - CEO and Co-founder at Genmo
• Ivan Lee - CEO at Datasaur, Inc
• Jay Alammar - Director, Engineering Fellow (NLP) at Cohere , co-author of Hands-On Large Language Models
• Matt Harrison - Python & Data Science Corporate Trainer | Consultant at MetaSnake
• Amy Hodler - Founder | Consultant | Graph Evangelist at GraphGeeks.org
• Michelle Yi - Board Member at Women In Data
• Serg Masis - Lead Data Scientist at Syngenta, Best Selling Author of AI/ML books
• Narendra Lakshamana Gowda - Director of Software Engineering at ​​Walmart Global Tech
•  Balvinder Banjardar-Senior Engineering Manager & Architect at ​​Walmart Global Tech

Get ready for some great discussions and insights straight from the heart of ODSC West!

Show Notes:

ODSC West 2024: https://odsc.com/california

SHOW NOTES

Stefanie Molin:

https://stefaniemolin.com

https://github.com/stefmolin/data-morph

https://stefaniemolin.com/data-morph/stable/index.html

Hands-On Data Analysis with Pandas – Second Edition https://github.com/stefmolin/Hands-On-Data-Analysis-with-Pandas-2nd-edition

Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA) Fine-Tuning https://arxiv.org/pdf/2106.09685

Datasaur https://datasaur.ai/

Llama 3.2 https://www.llama.com/

Mistral LLMs - https://docs.mistral.ai/getting-started/models/models_overview/

Cohere https://cohere.com/

Jay Alammar https://jalammar.github.io/

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmOwsoHty5PrmE-3QhUBfPQ/community

https://www.llm-book.com/

Agentic RAG https://weaviate.io/blog/what-is-agentic-rag

PyWhy https://www.pywhy.org/

Women in Data https://www.womenindata.org/

Graphs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=viDbhwmZSew

Matt Harrison Books https://store.metasnake.com

Effective Python Interviews https://store.metasnake.com/effective-python-interviews-digital-book

CatBoost https://catboost.ai/

HyperMode https://hypermode.com/home

https://github.com/hypermodeinc/modus

Genmo AI Open Source  https://github.com/genmoai/mochi

Genmo AI https://www.genmo.ai/

Serg Masis’ books

https://www.waterstones.com/author/serg-masis/4912801

Stefanie Molin https://www.linkedin.com/in/stefanie-molin/

Kevin Van Gundy  https://www.linkedin.com/in/kevinvangundy/

Paras Jain https://www.linkedin.com/in/jain-paras/

Ivan Lee  https://www.linkedin.com/in/iylee/

Jay Alammar  https://www.linkedin.com/in/jalammar/

Matt Harrison  https://www.linkedin.com/in/panela/

Amy Hodler  https://www.linkedin.com/in/amyhodler/

Michelle Yi  https://www.linkedin.com/in/michelleyulleyi/

Serg Masis https://www.linkedin.com/in/smasis/

Narendra Lakshamana Gowda https://www.linkedin.com/in/narendra-l/

Balvinder Banjardar www.linkedin.com/in/banjardar

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