2Gather London: Data and AI at Scale with GCP

Name: 2Gather London: Data and AI at Scale with GCP
Start: 2024-11-21T14:45:00+00:00
End: 2024-11-21T18:30:00+00:00
Location: Google UK | Room: Major Tom

London

Nov 21, 2:45 – 6:30 PM (UTC)

In-person event

AI and Machine LearningData Analytics

About this event

Tired of the same old data and AI talks? Get inspired and learn something new from your fellow community members. Our lineup of customer speakers takes the stage to share their practical experiences  on data, analytics, and AI adoption. Hear how they’ve tested and succeeded in building scalable data and AI platforms and what they hope comes next. 
Our goal is to help you foster a strong regional community and to facilitate networking and knowledge exchange. Here's what we have in store:
Success Stories: Hear how Google Cloud customers transform their businesses with data engineering and AI at scale
Actionable Insights: Gain practical knowledge  to improve your data engineering and AI practices
Thriving Community: Network with fellow data and AI enthusiasts in the region and build lasting connections
Customer Empowerment: Share your experiences and the challenges you've faced when implementing data engineering and AI solutions using Google's technology
Expert Guidance: Bring your questions directly to Google Cloud representatives
The sessions at 2Gather London: Data and AI at Scale will focus on how to:
Enable your journey to becoming a data-driven business and understand how to use AI for business advantages
Refine your strategy for multi-cloud data warehousing
Optimize your cloud solutions, data pipelines, and dashboards
Share lessons learned and tips for success in a data and AI-led world 
Doors open and registration starts at 2:00 pm. 
If you're interested in attending, we encourage you to register now to join us in the Google UK office. Registration for this event will close on Friday, 15 November 2024.
Travel information
The Google office is a 2 minute walk from King’s Cross/St. Pancras train and tube stations.
Please head to one of the registration desks in the foyer. Google staff will then direct you further. 

Speakers

Chris Lindsay

Google Cloud

Vice President, EMEA Customer Engineering

Vamsi Bodepudi

Google

Head of Data Analytics Practice, EMEA

Rich Radley

Google

Director of Customer Engineering, UK/I

Andrea Vasco

Google

EMEA Analytics Solutions Lead

Sobhan Afroosheh

Google

Customer Engineer

Svitlana Gavrylova

Google Cloud

Data Management Practice Lead, UK/I

Alan Olivares

Google

Customer Engineer, Data Analytics and AI

Ravi Bhatt

Google

Data Analytics Specialist

Joe Malone

Google

Product Manager

Ashish Vijayvargia

Vodafone Group

Analytics & AI Transformation Manager

Gilles Comeau

Virgin Media O2

Director, Data Science and AI Product Engineering

Artem Mishchenko

Revolut Ltd

Lead Data Engineer

Bei Li

Google

Senior Staff Software Engineer

When

Thursday, November 21, 2024
2:45 PM – 6:30 PM (UTC)

Where

Google UK | Room: Major Tom
6 Pancras Sq
London, N1C 4AG

Agenda

2:45 PM	Welcome and Introduction	Josh Berman, President at C2C Global, will kick off the event with a warm welcome from Chris Lindsay, VP Customer Engineering at Google.
2:55 PM	Data & AI Product Strategy Updates	Vamsi Bodepudi, Head of Data Practice at Google will share updates on Google Cloud’s Product Strategy.
3:15 PM	VirginMedia O2 - Triangle of success in a Telco	Sobhan Afroosheh, Customer Engineer for Google Cloud & Gilles Comeau, Director of Data Science and AI for VirginMedia O2, will discuss how Personalization, Customer Experience and Smart investments in Networks are foundational to success in a Telco.
3:45 PM	Datamesh at Scale: Federated Governance & Decentralised Data Quality Index	Ravi Bhatt, Data Analytics Specialist for Google Cloud and Artem Mishchenko, Lead Data Software Engineer for Revolut will talk about Revolut’s Datamesh built at scale.
4:15 PM	Coffee Break
4:45 PM	AI Booster: Vodafone’s MLOps & GenOps Platform at Scale	In this session, Alan Olivares, Customer Engineer for Google Cloud, will be joined by Ashish Vijayvargia, Vodafone’s AI transformation Manager, to discuss how Vodafon uplifted their existing MLOps Platform, AI Booster to support Generative AI at scale.
5:15 PM	Building Solid Data Foundations	In this session, Zuzana Loup, Data Analytics Lead for Google Cloud, will be joined by Natalie Jakomis, Righmove’s Director of Data & AI to discuss how their solid Data Foundations is enabling them to scale up their AI use cases.
5:45 PM	Panel Discussion - GenAI in practice vs the Hype	Rich Radley, Director of Customer Engineering, UK/I for Google, will be in discussion with a group of Customer practitioners on their journey of building valuable Generative AI applications.
6:30 PM	Closing and Wrap-Up	Wrap the day up with closing remarks from Sobhan Afroosheh, Google Cloud.
6:40 PM	Happy Hour & Networking & Demos
6:50 PM	Spanner Graph latest & Demo	Bei Li, Co-Founder of Spanner Graph, will provide an overview Spanner Graph & some of the use cases emerging.
6:50 PM	Demo: Multimodal Embeddings	The demo will showcase Spanner Graph’s Multimodal embedding capabilities.
7:15 PM	Demo: Embedding for Football Clubs	Joe Malone, Product Manager for BigQuery will provide an overview of BQ Vector Store. The demo will showcase how to visualize team dynamics and optimize strategies like substitutions to maintain balance on the field, but also driving trading decisions.
7:30 PM	Demo: Innovating Through Multimodality	Learn how to rapidly adapt new research (like improved fatigue models) into real-world applications. By embedding new findings into an MLM and creating new endpoints to significantly shorten the time from discovery to experimentation and deployment.
7:45 PM	Demo: Dynamic Semantic Layer & API Layer	How to dynamically generate semantic layers by leveraging BigQuery’s information_schema and Google Trends data. Using DLLMs to create and deploy SQL views in real-time through Cloud Functions or Cloud Run, allowing proactive SQL query optimisation.

Host

Josh Berman

C2C Global

President

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