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MLOps Coffee Sessions #172 with LLMs in Production Conference part 2 Building LLM Products Panel, George Mathew, Asmitha Rathis, Natalia Burina, and Sahar Mor Using hosted by TWIML's Sam Charrington. We are now accepting talk proposals for our next LLM in Production virtual conference on October 3rd. Apply to speak here: https://go.mlops.community/NSAX1O // Abstract There are key areas we must be aware of when working with LLMs. High costs and low latency requirements are just the tip of the iceberg. In this panel, we hear about common pitfalls and challenges we must keep in mind when building on top of LLMs. // Bio Sam Charrington Sam is a noted ML/AI industry analyst, advisor and commentator, and host of the popular TWIML AI Podcast (formerly This Week in Machine Learning and AI). The show is one of the most popular Tech podcasts with nearly 15 million downloads. Sam has interviewed over 600 of the industry’s leading machine learning and AI experts and has conducted extensive research into enterprise AI adoption, MLOps, and other ML/AI-enabling technologies. George Mathew George is a Managing Director at Insight Partners focused on venture-stage investments in AI, ML, Analytics, and Data companies as they are establishing product/market Fit. Asmitha Rathis Asmitha is a Machine Learning Engineer with experience in developing and deploying ML models in production. She is currently working at an early-stage startup, PromptOps, where she is building conversational AI systems to assist developers. Prior to her current role, she was an ML engineer at VMware. Asmitha holds a Master’s degree in Computer Science from the University of California, San Diego, with a specialization in Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence. Natalia Burina Natalia is an AI Product Leader who was most recently at Meta, leading Responsible AI. During her time at Meta, she led teams working on algorithmic transparency and AI Privacy. In 2017 Natalia was recognized by Business Insider as “The Most Powerful Female Engineer in 2017”. Natalia was also an Entrepreneur in Residence at Foundation Capital, advising portfolio companies and working with partners on deal flow. Prior to this, she was the Director of Product for Machine Learning at Salesforce, where she led teams building a set of AI capabilities and platform services. Prior to Facebook and Salesforce, Natalia led product development at Samsung, eBay, and Microsoft. She was also the Founder and CEO of Parable, a creative photo network bought by Samsung in 2015. Natalia started her career as a software engineer after pursuing Bachelor's degree in Applied and Computational Mathematics from the University of Washington. Sahar Mor Sahar is a Product Lead at Stripe with 15y of experience in product and engineering roles. At Stripe, he leads the adoption of LLMs and the Enhanced Issuer Network - a set of data partnerships with top banks to reduce payment fraud. Prior to Stripe he founded a document intelligence API company, was a founding PM in a couple of AI startups, including an accounting automation startup (Zeitgold, acq'd by Deel), and served in the elite intelligence unit 8200 in engineering roles. Sahar authors a weekly AI newsletter (AI Tidbits) and maintains a few open-source AI-related libraries (https://github.com/saharmor). // MLOps Jobs board https://mlops.pallet.xyz/jobs // MLOps Swag/Merch https://mlops-community.myshopify.com/ // Related Links --------------- ✌️Connect With Us ✌️ ------------- Join our slack community: https://go.mlops.community/slack Follow us on Twitter: @mlopscommunity Sign up for the next meetup: https://go.mlops.community/register Catch all episodes, blogs, newsletters, and more: https://mlops.community/