Talks


Secure MLOps with MLflow Simplifying Integration Tests at NS

Cloud security teams want us to duplicate our resources across subscriptions and environments for security and privacy reasons. Data science applications struggle to be tested in the absence of real world production data. NS performed integration tests on non-production data, but this often broke down and it was costly to maintain two separate data lakes (staging and production). Here Luuk van der Velden presents the open source MLflow client that allowed NS to reduce the complexity of its test setup and reduce maintenance costs.


Enterprise Search Engine and Information Extraction from Text Documents

There is huge amount of information hidden in the documents in many organisations, but the organisations are unable to use them or spend a long time searching for them. In this talk, I will go over some of the deep learning or simple mathematical methods to automatically extract the data from the documents. Some of the things that Shruti will be talking about are vector embeddings, similarity metrics, semantic search, vector databases and topic modelling. Thus, you will learn how can one design a search engine that smartly searches into the documents.

About Kickstart AI Meetups

Kickstart AI is a non-profit initiative by four corporations (Ahold Delhaize, ING, KLM and NS) that aims to accelerate AI adoption in the Netherlands, and improve society through the use of AI. We're hosting monthly Meetups for data scientists, software engineers, and tech professionals working closely with AI. Meetups are a fun way to network with like-minded people and find out about what’s going on in the Dutch AI community in an informal setting.

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