AI Builders Week 2 Highlights, Common Prompting Mistakes, AI Grounding, and Foundation Models
Open Data Science Conference (ODSC)
The leading applied data science and AI conference, with 4 global events and nearly 180 meetups worldwide every year.
Next week’s AI Builders Summit theme is AI Builders!
There’s still time to catch today’s AI Agents sessions! You can also sign up for next week’s AI Builders talks and tutorials.
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Week 2 of the AI Builders Summit focused on RAG and included sessions like database patterns, multimodal RAG, and fine-grained authorization. See the full recap here!
AI grounding will ensure that your models will connect their data to your intended real-world context. What are some AI grounding techniques to get you there?
Let’s take a deep dive into our recent podcast with Chip Huyen, discussing foundation models, AI engineering, and building real-world applications.
ODSC Highlights
If you sign up for AI Builders, then you get tons of credits to use to build AI. This includes credits from Confluent, Vespa.ai, Microsoft Azure, Predibase, Union.ai, DataSaur, and Modal!
ODSC East is celebrating its 10th anniversary! Here’s a look back on our history, highlighting sessions and our community.
Industry, Opinion, Career Advice
This blog explores the limitations of current prompting techniques, highlights the irreplaceable value of human input, and envisions a future of collaborative synergy between humans and AI.
The ODSC East 2025 Preliminary Schedule is LIVE!
Explore the must-attend sessions and cutting-edge tracks designed to equip AI practitioners, data scientists, and engineers with the latest advancements in AI and machine learning.
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New Podcast Episode?—?Mitigating AI Risk in Practice with Guardrails AI with Shreya Rajpal
In this conversation, Shreya reflects on her journey from AI research to startups and self-driving cars, emphasizing the growing importance of AI safety. We discuss the open-source Guardrails AI and how you can use it to safeguard your AI apps.
In this insightful talk, Pablo Vega-Behar, Head of AI Implementation at Fitch Group, unveils advanced strategies for handling high-similarity, frequently updated document sets in financial services.
Upcoming Webinars, Meetups, and Ai+ Live Training Sessions
Wednesday, February 12th, 6:00 PM?—?8:00 PM ET
Join ODSC and ArentFox Schiff’s Michael Fainberg, Dan Jasnow, and Matthew Berlin for a deep dive into the intersection of AI and intellectual property law. This in-person meetup offers a unique opportunity to engage directly with leading experts and peers in a dynamic setting.
Wednesday, February 19th, 12:00 PM ET
In this webinar, we will demonstrate how to use the latest and greatest in LLMs directly on data with Bacalhau?—?an open-source distributed workload orchestrator that can push LLMs to where your data lies, rather than moving your data to 3rd-party AI services.