AI [in Prod] by Weaviate

Agenda

8:30am - 9:30am	Check-in and Breakfast
9:30am - 9:45am	Opening Remarks	Alea Abed, Head of Marketing, Weaviate
9:45am - 10:15am	Considerations for Running a Vector Database in Production	Etienne Dilocker, CTO, Weaviate
10:15am - 10:45am	Enhancing GenerativeAI with IBM and Weaviate	Anthony Loss, Lead Solutions Architect, Innovative Solutions
10:45am - 11:00am	Break
11:00am - 11:30am	Building an Intelligence Engine Platform at Morningstar	Benjamin Barrett, Head of Technology, Research Products, Morningstar Aisis Julian, Senior Software Engineer, Morningstar
11:30am - 12:00pm	Powering Multimodal Search and RAG with Weaviate	Zain Hasan, Senior Developer Advocate, Weaviate
12:00pm - 1:00pm	Lunch
1:00pm - 5:00pm	Hands-On Workshop: Intro to Building Enterprise-ready Gen AI Applications Ideal for developers looking to enhance their expertise in AI-Native applications, offering a blend of theory and practical exercises. Whether you're starting from scratch or aiming to polish your skills, this workshop will equip you with the knowledge and hands-on experience to innovate and excel in the field. This session will cover the following topics: Introduction to AI-Native Applications From 0 to your first ML-based search Enhancing search with Generative AI (RAG) Implementing multitenancy Balancing performance and cost Using backups & managing memory usage	Sebastian Witalec, Head of Developer Relations, Weaviate Zain Hasan, Senior Developer Advocate, Weaviate

8:30am - 9:30am	Check-in and Breakfast
9:30am - 9:45am	Welcome + Opening Remarks	Alea Abed, Head of Marketing, Weaviate Amit Singh, Global Head of GTM, Generative AI & ML Partnerships, AWS
9:45am - 10:15am	Building Enterprise Generative AI Applications with AWS	Maurits de Groot, Solutions Architect, AWS
10:15am- 10:45am	Powering Multimodal Search and RAG with Weaviate	Zain Hasan, Senior Developer Advocate, Weaviate
10:45am - 11:00am	Break
11:00am - 11:30am	Considerations for Running a Vector Database in Production	Byron Voorbach, Field CTO, Weaviate
11:30am - 12:00pm	Designing the New Era of e-Commerce, from Prototype to Production	Matt Fisher, Co-Founder and CTO, Daydream Byron Voorbach, Field CTO, Weaviate
12:00pm - 1:00pm	Lunch
1:00pm - 5:00pm	Hands-On Workshop: Intro to Building Enterprise-ready Gen AI Applications Ideal for developers looking to enhance their expertise in AI-Native applications, offering a blend of theory and practical exercises. Whether you're starting from scratch or aiming to polish your skills, this workshop will equip you with the knowledge and hands-on experience to innovate and excel in the field. This session will cover the following topics: Introduction to AI-Native Applications From 0 to your first ML-based search Enhancing search with Generative AI (RAG) Implementing multitenancy Balancing performance and cost Using backups & managing memory usage	Maurits de Groot, Solutions Architect, AWS Zain Hasan, Senior Developer Advocate, Weaviate