apply() is a machine learning engineering community conference series for data and ML teams to learn and discuss the challenges they face in their efforts to build ML applications for the real world.
Our next event, apply(ops), will focus on platforms and architectures for production machine learning projects. Practitioners will share best practices and lessons learned when designing machine learning systems.
Join us to learn from and connect with your peers!
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Tuesday, November 14, 2023
9:00 AM
Opening
Welcome
Demetrios Brinkmann, Founder, MLOps Community
9:05 AM
Keynote
Journey of the AI Platform at Uber
Min Cai, Distinguished Engineer, Uber
Since Uber embarked on its AI journey back in 2015, AI has become an integral part of every facet of Uber’s business. Michelangelo is an end-to-end AI/ML platform that democratizes machine learning and enables ML practitioners to seamlessly build, deploy, and operate AI/ML solutions at Uber’s scale. In this talk, we will share the past, present and future of our Michelangelo platform and how it is evolving to support both predictive and generative models.
Tuesday, November 14, 2023 at 9:05 AM PST
9:35 AM
Keynote
Building Hyper Personalized AI applications with LLMs and a Feature Store
Mike Del Balso, CEO and Co-founder, Tecton
10:15 AM
Lightning Talk
Navigating Multi-cloud Organizations at Scale
Rebecca Taylor, Data Scientist and ML Engineer, Lidl Digital
In the world of organizations striving to be more data-driven, the standard software stack isn’t enough. We need to be able to access relevant data, process it “in time” and keep track of what we have done at the speed of a page load. When this information is coming from multiple clouds, and your organization is migrating and ever-improving its data-infrastructure, architecting, building and delivering solutions that scale is not always straight forward. In this talk, I discuss some of the considerations when working in a multi-cloud environment with near-real time latencies.
Tuesday, November 14, 2023 at 10:15 AM PST
10:35 AM
Lightning Talk
Powering Real-Time Pricing Applications with an Enterprise Feature Platform
Federico Bassetto, Senior ML Engineer, Prima
Prima, a data-driven insurance leader, encountered significant challenges in sustaining growth and maintaining consistent feature engineering practices across its expanding customer base. With over 2.5 million customers and a footprint in multiple European regions, the pressure to innovate and streamline operations became paramount. This talk delves into Prima’s journey from using an in-house centralized feature solution, which posed considerable operational challenges, to adopting Tecton’s Enterprise Feature Platform. Attendees will gain insights into the selection process, the advantages of a git-centric feature platform, and the tangible results of this transformation – including improved efficiency, reduced latency, and enhanced collaboration between data scientists and engineers. Through this case study, learn how embracing the right tools in MLOps can significantly alter the trajectory of business outcomes.
Tuesday, November 14, 2023 at 10:35 AM PST
10:55 AM
Lightning Talk
Integrating Tecton into Remitly’s Ecosystem
Trevor Allen, Software Developer, Remitly
This talk explains how we integrated Tecton into our company’s CI/CD tools. We built a system that allows developers to use familiar tools within our company to quickly setup features for their products and maintain the high security standards our customers depend on.
Tuesday, November 14, 2023 at 10:55 AM PST
11:20 AM
Talk
Building an MLOps Strategy at the World’s Largest Food Solutions Company
Michael Johnson, Director of AI & ML, HelloFresh
Benjamin Bertincourt, Senior Manager, ML Engineering, HelloFresh
At this talk we will describe our journey taking HelloFresh from proven data science projects to mature machine learning products. We will discuss how we developed our MLOps strategy, how we selected our tool stack, from feature store to model monitoring, and how we use our system to train 1500+ machine learning models per week. We will conclude with our takeaways on what we would do differently if we had to start again.
Tuesday, November 14, 2023 at 11:20 AM PST
11:55 AM
Fireside Chat
Fireside Chat: LLMs, Real-Time, and Other Trends in the Production ML Space
Ali Ghodsi, CEO and Co-founder, Databricks
Mike Del Balso, CEO and Co-founder, Tecton
This fireside chat with Databricks CEO and Co-Founder Ali Ghodsi will focus on LLMs, real-time, and Other trends in the production ML space.
Tuesday, November 14, 2023 at 11:55 AM PST
12:30 PM
Talk
Evolution of the Ads Ranking System at Pinterest
Aayush Mudgal, Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Pinterest
Join us for a talk on the journey of scaling ads ranking at Pinterest using innovative machine learning algorithms and innovations in the ML platform. This presentation will showcase the transition from traditional logistic regressions to deep learning-based transformer models, incorporating sequential signals, multi-task learning, transfer learning. Throughout the process, we encountered various challenges and gained valuable lessons. Discover the hurdles we overcame and the insights we gained in this talk, as we share the transformation of ads ranking at Pinterest and the lessons learned along the way.
Tuesday, November 14, 2023 at 12:30 PM PST
1:05 PM
Panel
Production Machine Learning for Recsys: Challenges and Best Practices
Chris Addy, Head of Machine Learning, eCommerce, PepsiCo
Ian Schweer, Staff Software Engineer – ML, Riot Games
Mihir Mathur, Product Manager, Tecton
Morena Bastiaansen – Data Scientist, GetYourGuide
In this panel, ML practitioners gather together to share their approaches toward building recommender systems. They will also discuss the biggest technical challenges their organizations faced when deploying recsys at scale, common pitfalls, and mistakes to avoid when implementing production-ready recsys.
Tuesday, November 14, 2023 at 1:05 PM PST
1:40 PM
Demo
A New Way to Go From Idea to ML Inference: A Live Tecton Demo
Matt Bleifer, Group Product Manager, Tecton
In this live Tecton demo, Matt will show how you can build a real-time AI application to detect fraud with nothing more than Python, Using Tecton’s new compute engine, we will define and test features entirely locally before productionizing them for real time inference using GitOps best practices
Tuesday, November 14, 2023 at 1:40 PM PST
2:10 PM
Closing
Wrap Up
Demetrios Brinkmann, Founder, MLOps Community
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The community loves hearing from machine learning and data practitioners about their journey to operationalizing ML.
Unfortunately, Tecton does not currently support these clouds. We’ll make sure to let you know when this changes!
However, we are currently looking to interview members of the machine learning community to learn more about current trends.
If you’d like to participate, please book a 30-min slot with us here and we’ll send you a $50 amazon gift card in appreciation for your time after the interview.
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Interested in trying Tecton? Leave us your information below and we’ll be in touch.
Unfortunately, Tecton does not currently support these clouds. We’ll make sure to let you know when this changes!
However, we are currently looking to interview members of the machine learning community to learn more about current trends.
If you’d like to participate, please book a 30-min slot with us here and we’ll send you a $50 amazon gift card in appreciation for your time after the interview.
or
Interested in trying Tecton? Leave us your information below and we’ll be in touch.
Unfortunately, Tecton does not currently support these clouds. We’ll make sure to let you know when this changes!
However, we are currently looking to interview members of the machine learning community to learn more about current trends.
If you’d like to participate, please book a 30-min slot with us here and we’ll send you a $50 amazon gift card in appreciation for your time after the interview.
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