Welcome to our in-person AI and ML meetup in Berlin, in collaboration with Deepset. Join us for deep dive tech talks on AI/ML/Data, food/drink, networking with speakers & peers developers.

Agenda:
* 6:30pm~7:00pm: Checkin, food/drink and networking
* 7:00pm~8:30pm: Tech talks
* 8:30pm: Open discussion & Mixer

Tech Talk 1: Notion Meets RAG: A Search Pipeline
Speaker: Bogdan Kostić @Deepset
Abstract: In this talk, Bogdan will demonstrate how to integrate Notion into Haystack. You will learn how to prextract pages from Notion and index them into your Document Store. This will allow you to use your Notion content as a source of information for generative retrieval-augmented search pipelines. Additionally, Bogdan will guide you on deploying your Notion search pipeline in a Streamlit application using Haystack’s built-in REST API.

Tech Talk 2:RLHF via Direct Policy Optimization
Speaker: Kashif Rasul, Open source ML research scientist
Abstract: In this talk I will go over the Direct Policy Optimization approach of RLHF which is a new method from Stanford researchers to learn to steer LLMs from human preference data without the need to learn an explicit reward model. I hope to go over the approach and show how to use it on your own data via the implementation in Hugging Face’s TRL library.

Tech Talk 3: Enter the Brave New World of GenAI with Vector Search
Speaker: Mary Grygleski @DataStax
Abstract: We will go over the history and evolution of AI and ML, then look at how it has evolved to where it is today. We will touch upon as many new concepts that have popped up in the last 6-9 months, which include: Generative AI (GenAI), ChatGPT, Large Language Models (LLMs), Natural Language Processing (NLP), Vector DB, and the growing importance of Vector Search. We will also point out the new operational concerns when it comes to managing the life-cycle of a machine learning environment. We will then look at a demo on how Vector Search is being done behind the scenes. We will discuss the benefits of this new wave of technology as well as the challenges that it brings to the industry and the marketplace.

Venue:
Mindspace Krausenstr; Krausenstraße 9-10; 10117 Berlin, Germany

Partners:
Haystack Community

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