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 CanadaLet’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
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