Skylines and Demos: Meetup with Lightning AI

​Calling all ML engineers, researchers, developers, and PyTorch Lightning pioneers!

​​​​Whether you have burning questions about LLMs, want to chat with fellow research engineers, or proudly used PyTorch Lightning before it was cool, this event is tailor-made for you.

​​​​This isn't just any ordinary meetup - it's an opportunity to be part of a passionate community that is shaping the future with AI.

​Join us on our rooftop to connect with other community members, show off your demos, and hang out over food and drinks.

​⏰ Schedule

• ​6:00 pm - 7:30 pm: Registration, networking, food and drinks

• ​7:30 pm - 7:40 pm: Welcome remarks

• ​7:40 pm - 9:00 pm: Talks, QA and networking

​🎙️ Speaker One:

• ​Speaker: Rob Levy | Staff Software Engineer

• ​Talk Title: Evaluating the Truthiness of AI Agents in Production

• ​Talk Abstract: Learn about deploying AI Agents and monitoring their faithfulness using Lightning Studio, Ragas, and LLM as a Judge.

​🎙️ Speaker Two:

• ​Speaker: Jaan Lı | Visiting Professor, University of Tartu

• ​Talk Title: Loving the baseline: trying to beat large language models with small nearest neighbors

• ​Talk Abstract: Baselines, though often overlooked, are crucial in modern machine learning for tasks like retrieval-augmented generation and constrained generation; this Lightning Studio Session will build a healthcare use case baseline using large language models and discuss selecting critical infrastructure and open-source libraries.

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