AI/ML
Behind Booking.com's AI Evolution: The Unpolished Story
Monday Mar 16 / 11:45AM GMT
It’s easy to look at a mature AI platform and imagine a grand blueprint. Ours began with none. What started as a few data scientists hacking on R scripts has grown into an AI platform serving millions of predictions and decisions every day.
Jabez Eliezer Manuel
Senior Principal Engineer @Booking.com - Building Next-Gen AI Platform, 20 Years in Software Engineering
Navigating the Edge of Scale and Speed for Physics Discovery
Wednesday Mar 18 / 10:35AM GMT
Details coming soon.
Thea Klaeboe Aarrestad
Particle Physics and Real-Time ML @CERN @ETH Zürich
The Rise of the Streamhouse: Idea, Trade-Offs, and Evolution
Tuesday Mar 17 / 03:55PM GMT
Over the last decade, streaming architectures have largely been built around topic-centric primitives—logs, streams, and event pipelines—then stitched together with databases, caches, OLAP engines, and (increasingly) new serving systems.
Giannis Polyzos
Principal Streaming Architect @Ververica
Anton Borisov
Principal Data Architect @Fresha
The Ladder Is Missing Rungs: Engineering Progression When AI Ate the Middle
Tuesday Mar 17 / 01:35PM GMT
Career progression in engineering has traditionally followed a predictable path: junior tasks teach fundamentals, mid-level work builds judgment, senior roles require synthesis across systems.
Alasdair Allan
Scientist, Author, Hacker, Maker, Journalist, and Head of Documentation, CTO @Negroni Venture Studios, Interim CTO @Evaro
Refreshing Stale Code Intelligence
Tuesday Mar 17 / 01:35PM GMT
Coding models are helping software developers move faster than ever, but weirdly, the models themselves are not keeping up. They are trained on months-old snapshots of open source code. They have never seen your internal codebase, let alone the code you wrote yesterday.
Jeff Smith
CEO & Co-Founder @ Neoteny AI, AI Engineer, Researcher, Author, Ex-Meta/FAIR