Welcome to 9th TMLS
Virtual Workshops & Talks - June 13th

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9:30 AM - 9:40 AM

Opening Remarks

9:45 AM - 10:15 AM
Dynamic Models: Testing, Governance and Implementation

Frederic Marier, Senior Director Quantitative Risk Modeling and RESL Advanced Analytics

CIBC

10:20 AM - 10:50 AM
SmolLM: The Rise of Smol Models

Loubna Ben Allal, Research Engineer and SmolLM Lead

Hugging Face

Leveraging Cost-effective GenAI to Enable Compliance while Boosting Efficiency
Pierre-Luc Vaudry, Senior AI Scientist National Bank of Canada
Let’s Talk in Assembly: Make LLMs Understand and Generate Good Quality Assembly Code

Manas Madine, Senior MLE/Applied Scientist

AMD

10:55 AM - 11:25 AM
Getting your Custom AI Inferencing Pipeline Started with Vector’s AI Deployment Bootcamp Reference Implementation

Marcelo Lotif, Senior Software Developer

Vector Institute

Guide to Responsible Governance of GenAI in Organizations

Dhari Gandhi, Associate AI Project Manager
Lucas Hartman, Applied AI Design & Delivery Intern
Shabnam Hassani, GenAI and NLP Technical Specialist

Vector Institute

Building Synthetic Tax Data Pipelines for AI with Privacy by Design

Kirit Thadaka, Senior PMM

Gretel (Acquired by NVIDIA)

11:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Quantizing Neural Networks

Ian Colbert, AI Research Staff

AMD

Building and Deploying LLM Platforms in the Enterprise: From Innovation to Implementation

Qaish Kanchwala, Senior Manager, ML Engineering

The Weather Company

Revolutionizing Pharma Commercial with Scalable AI

Nitesh Soni, Global Head of Data Science (Commercial)

Sanofi

12:05 PM - 12:35 PM
Popularity Bias In Recommender Systems

Amit Jaspal, Engineering Manager AI

Meta Platforms

Building Agents from Scratch

Hamza Farooq, CEO & Founder

Traversaal.ai | Adjunct Stanford

The Building Blocks of Full Stack Agentic Applications

Niels Bantilan, Chief ML Engineer

Union.ai

12:40 PM - 1:10 PM
From Text to Video: A Unified Multimodal Data Lake for Next-Generation AI

Chang She, Co-Founder/CEO
Ryan Vilim, Member of the Technical Staff

LanceDB
character.ai

The Case for Fine-Tuning: Making LLMs Reliable in Specialized Domains

Dr. Walid Amamou, CEO

UbiAI Inc

Reasoning at Scale: Transforming Industry Recommendations with Multi Modal LLMs

Aashu Singh, Senior Staff Software Engineer

Meta

1:05 PM - 2:35 PM
Empower AI Development with Containers

Eliezer Bernart, Staff Data Scientist

Telus

2:05 PM - 3:35 PM
Transform GenAI Applications Using Knowledge Graphs and Neo4j

Phani Dathar, Ph.D, Director, Graph Data Science

Neo4j

3:35 PM - 4:05 PM
You Don’t Need A Custom LLM, You Need An LLM Factory

Eddie Mattia, AI Engineer

Outerbounds

4:05 PM - 5:35 PM
Unlocking Enterprise Data to Agents with MCP

Simba Khadder, Founder & CEO

Featureform

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Business Leaders: C-Level Executives, Project Managers, and Product Owners will get to explore best practices, methodologies, principles, and practices for achieving ROI.

Engineers, Researchers, Data Practitioners: Will get a better understanding of the challenges, solutions, and ideas being offered via breakouts & workshops on Natural Language Processing, Neural Nets, Reinforcement Learning, Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs), Evolution Strategies, AutoML, and more.

Job Seekers: Will have the opportunity to network virtually and meet over 30+ Top Al Companies.

Ignite what is an Ignite Talk?

Ignite is an innovative and fast-paced style used to deliver a concise presentation.

During an Ignite Talk, presenters discuss their research using 20 image-centric slides which automatically advance every 15 seconds.

The result is a fun and engaging five-minute presentation.

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