Sphere.it Connect: ML Engineering + Halloween Party

Part I

• 2:00 PM | VirtusLab's Szlak Office
• 2:00 PM - Workshop: My PoC project is a success, what now?

This workshop will allow you to learn the tools for successfully transitioning from a PoC project to a fully-functional productionized environment.

Dedicated to: Data Scientists who want to learn best engineering practices for the productionization of ML model deployment

Places are limited - first come, first served.

[Only 14 spots available for this workshop]

Workshop facilitators: Adam Kaczmarek, Adam Wawrzyński, Kamil Rzechowski (SoftwareMill)

Part II

6:00 PM | Forty Kleparz, Kraków

• 6:00 - 6:05 PM - Intro & Welcome
• 6:05 - 6:35 PM - Orchestration of ML workloads via Cloud Composer & GKE Kueue by Michał Wysokiński & Piotr Leśniak (Google)
• 6:40 - 7:10 PM - Beyond .encode(text). Embeddings at scale by Aspen Hazel Olszewska (VirtusLab)
• 7:15 - 7:45 PM - Optimizing LLM Inference: Challenges and Best Practices by Christian Merkwirth (NVIDIA)
• 7:50 - 8:20 PM - Generative AI with Guardrails: Ensuring Safety, Security, and Compliance through Hybrid Cloud Architectures by Michał Bryś (IBM) 
• 8:30 - 9:00 PM - Discussion Panel: ML productionization in organizations: balancing data maturity, business ROI, technology and processes

Led by Zbigniew Skolicki (VirtusLab), Panelists: Adam Kaczmarek, Chris Merkwirth, Michał Bryś

• 9:00 - 11:00 PM - Halloween Afterparty