12 AI Insight Talks to Help Improve Your Company’s AI Game at ODSC West

ODSC - Open Data Science
5 min readOct 25, 2024

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At the AI Expo and Demo Hall as part of ODSC West next week, you’ll have the opportunity to meet one-on-one with representatives from industry-leading organizations like Plot.ly, Google, Snowflake, Microsoft, and plenty more. These organizations and others will be showcasing their latest products and services that can help you implement AI in your organization or improve your processes that are already in progress. Learn more about the AI Insight Talks below.

Tuesday, October 29th

Efficient AI Scaling: How VESSL AI Enables 100+ LLM Deployments for $10 and Saves $1M Annually

Jaeman An | Electrical and Electronics Engineering | Vessl.ai

This AI Insight talk will showcase how VESSL AI enables enterprises to scale the deployment of over 100+ Large Language Models (LLMs) starting at just $10, helping businesses save substantial cloud costs — up to $100K annually. Attendees will gain insights into how Vessl AI’s platform streamlines LLM deployment, optimizes GPU resource allocation, and employs hybrid-cloud strategies to reduce infrastructure spending while maintaining top-tier AI performance.

SEETrials: Innovating Clinical Trials with LLMs to Bridge the Gap Between Health Systems and Life Sciences

Xiaoyan Wang | Chief Scientist and Senior Vice | President of Life Sciences Solutions | IMO Health

This presentation introduces SEETrials, an innovative pipeline that leverages Generative Pre-trained Transformer (GPT) models to automate the extraction and analysis of safety and efficacy data from clinical trials. Focusing on multiple myeloma (MM) clinical trials, SEETrials showcases the potential of Generative AI to streamline data extraction, enabling timely, precise analysis essential for effective clinical decision-making.

Cleanlab: The New Standard for Trust and Automation for Data Used in the Modern AI and Data Software Stack

Curtis Northcutt | Cleanlab, CEO and Co-Founder | Cleanlab

In this talk, Curtis delves into the theory, algorithms, and mathematics behind Cleanlab, the leading data-centric AI package used by thousands of data scientists to enhance data quality in diverse ML datasets. Curtis will explore how Cleanlab automatically detects and corrects errors across various datasets, ultimately improving the overall performance of machine learning models.

Delphina Demo: AI-powered Data Scientist

Jeremy Hermann | Co-founder at Delphina | Delphina.Ai

In this demo, you’ll see how Delphina’s AI-powered “junior” data scientist can transform the data science workflow, automating labor-intensive tasks like data discovery, transformation, and model building. By leveraging Delphina, teams can significantly reduce the manual work required to set prices, optimize supply chains, prevent fraud, or personalize products, all while keeping data scientists in the driver’s seat, ensuring efficiency without sacrificing control.

Building an Open, Governed Lakehouse with Apache Iceberg and Apache Polaris (Incubating)

Yufei Gu | Senior Software Engineer | Snowflake

In this session, you’ll explore how open-source table formats are revolutionizing data architectures by enabling the power and efficiency of data warehouses within data lakes. We’ll dive into the concept of the open data lakehouse architecture, which combines the flexibility of data lakes with the performance and atomic transaction capabilities traditionally associated with data warehouses.

Streamlining AI Operations: Leveraging Azure AI Studio for GenAIOps

Ananya Ghosh Chowdhury | Senior Cloud Solution Architect, Data and AI | Microsoft

This session provides a comprehensive overview of the capabilities and features of Azure AI Studio, a platform that empowers organizations to build and deploy AI solutions with ease, leveraging cutting-edge AI tools and models of choice. It also highlights the full development lifecycle, from model catalog and prompt flow to GenAIOps along with safe & responsible AI practices.

Wednesday, October 30th

Mastering Complexity: Optimize your decision-making for 500% ROI

Jennifer Locke | Manager, Technical Account Management, Americas | Gurobi

Businesses focus a lot on forecasts and predictions — trying to get a clearer picture of the future. But even if you had perfect information, the most sprawling and impactful business decisions are much too complex to guarantee optimal outcomes, with millions, billions, or even trillions of trade-offs to consider. See why leading companies use mathematical optimization to solve their most complex real-world business problems.

Visualizing AI-Driven Clinical Trial Planning

Jeremy Zhang, PhD | Head of Advanced Analytics, Clinical Data Science | Plot.ly

This talk focuses on how AI-driven techniques and data analytics are transforming the clinical trial process, particularly in overcoming recruitment challenges and optimizing trial success. With up to 80% of clinical trials failing due to difficulties in patient recruitment, pharmaceutical companies like Gilead are turning to AI models to streamline trial design and execution.

Accelerate AI Agents with FriendliAI’s GPU-optimized Service

Soomin Chun | Software Engineer | FriendliAI

This talk highlights how FriendliAI is revolutionizing AI agent development by addressing a critical challenge — low latency in real-time applications. As AI agents are increasingly adopted in industries like automation, robotics, and customer service, delivering fast, high-quality responses becomes essential.

Building an AI-Ready Workforce at Scale with DataCamp

Yashas Roy | Learning Solutions Architect | Datacamp

In this session, we’ll showcase DataCamp’s approach to AI education. We will walk through DataCamp’s AI curriculum, as well as how we have incorporated AI to enhance the learning experience, and how collectively, this enables professionals at every level with the skills needed to confidently apply AI-driven solutions within their organizations.

Revolutionizing Data Management

Neelesh Shastry | CTO | Syncari

This session introduces Syncari’s Autonomous Data Management (ADM) platform, which automates the unification, cleansing, and synchronization of fragmented, inconsistent master data across domains like marketing, sales, and finance. The demo will showcase how Syncari streamlines process automation and delivers accurate, fresh data for business operations, customer experiences, and BI insights.

Scaling AI/ML with Outerbounds: How Metaflow Powers Our Open-Source Foundation

Ville Tuulos | CEO and Co-Founder | Outerbounds

In this session, Ville will discuss how Metaflow, the open-source framework originally developed by the Outerbounds team at Netflix, serves as the foundation for Outerbounds’ robust MLOps platform. Metaflow simplifies the process of building and scaling machine learning applications, and Ville will highlight the latest updates to the framework. He will demonstrate how Outerbounds extends Metaflow’s flexibility and scalability with enterprise-grade features

See all of these talks for FREE at ODSC West

Get our free Open Pass to join these, and all of our AI Insight Talks, at ODSC West in the AI Expo & Demo Hall. Want to take a deeper dive into topics like LLMs, Generative AI, Machine Learning, NLP, and more? Get one of our paid passes for access to hands-on training sessions, workshops, and more.

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