Talks, demos, and interviews with the people building modern AI and data systems.https://dataphoenix.info/en-ushttps://dataphoenix.info/videos/sf-demo-night-2026-09-03-w-the-ai-collective/https://dataphoenix.info/videos/sf-demo-night-2026-09-03-w-the-ai-collective/Six startup teams present live AI demos spanning interactive avatars, executive communication, home services, autonomous-agent security, enterprise operations, and personal intelligence, followed by audience Q&A and community voting.Sat, 19 Sep 2026 05:19:00 GMThttps://dataphoenix.info/videos/operationalizing-llms-from-prototype-to-production/https://dataphoenix.info/videos/operationalizing-llms-from-prototype-to-production/Yogiraj Awati shares how Instacart moves LLM applications beyond prototypes through retrieval, offline and online evaluation, guardrails, observability, and provider fallbacks. Two case studies cover recipe ingestion and Carebot support workflows with API-backed actions and human handoff.Thu, 17 Sep 2026 07:42:50 GMThttps://dataphoenix.info/videos/beyond-the-dag-building-agentic-workflows-that-loop-branch-and-scale/https://dataphoenix.info/videos/beyond-the-dag-building-agentic-workflows-that-loop-branch-and-scale/Agentic workflows loop, branch, retry, and trigger new work instead of following a fixed DAG. Santosh Kumar Radha explains how AgentField uses typed functions, structured outputs, stopping and escalation patterns, event triggers, and controls for scaling, identity, and authorization.Thu, 17 Sep 2026 07:42:44 GMThttps://dataphoenix.info/videos/building-trustworthy-financial-ai-governance-bias-and-mechanistic-insights/https://dataphoenix.info/videos/building-trustworthy-financial-ai-governance-bias-and-mechanistic-insights/Fabrizio Dimino examines why financial LLM recommendations can change when option order changes. He connects positional-bias tests and mechanistic interpretability with finance-specific red teaming, risk-sensitive scoring, model validation, and AI governance.Thu, 17 Sep 2026 07:42:32 GMThttps://dataphoenix.info/videos/securing-code-you-didn-t-write-the-ai-era-s-new-threat-model/https://dataphoenix.info/videos/securing-code-you-didn-t-write-the-ai-era-s-new-threat-model/Coding agents expand the software supply chain to include repositories, configuration, comments, connectors, and tool output. Rome Thorstenson examines reported attacks and outlines practical controls for permissions, secrets, prompt injection, and defense in depth.Thu, 17 Sep 2026 07:42:00 GMThttps://dataphoenix.info/videos/from-prototype-to-production-the-hidden-engineering-of-ai-inference/https://dataphoenix.info/videos/from-prototype-to-production-the-hidden-engineering-of-ai-inference/Production LLM inference is shaped by memory as much as compute. Roan Weigert explains token processing, KV caching, continuous batching, quantization, model FLOPs utilization, and the trade-offs among local inference, shared APIs, and dedicated GPUs for real workloads.Thu, 17 Sep 2026 07:41:25 GMThttps://dataphoenix.info/videos/your-ai-agent-isn-t-crashing-it-s-bleeding-tokens/https://dataphoenix.info/videos/your-ai-agent-isn-t-crashing-it-s-bleeding-tokens/Elizabeth Fuentes explains how an AI agent can waste tokens without ever throwing an error. She examines context overload, slow MCP or API calls, and repetitive tool loops, then shows how pointers, async handles, hooks, and explicit tool states can contain each failure.Thu, 17 Sep 2026 07:40:16 GMThttps://dataphoenix.info/videos/from-black-box-to-trusted-systems-explainable-ai-for-enterprise-and-government-with-3a-agents/https://dataphoenix.info/videos/from-black-box-to-trusted-systems-explainable-ai-for-enterprise-and-government-with-3a-agents/D. R. Sara argues that explainability for consequential AI has to cover more than a model output. He presents the 3A Agent framework for preserving context, reasoning, policy checks, actions, and outcomes across enterprise and government decision workflows with human review.Thu, 17 Sep 2026 06:10:29 GMThttps://dataphoenix.info/videos/interview-with-keerti-melkote-anyscale-azure-integration-and-the-future-of-ray/https://dataphoenix.info/videos/interview-with-keerti-melkote-anyscale-azure-integration-and-the-future-of-ray/At Ray Summit 2025, Dmytro Spodarets speaks with Keerti Melkote about Anyscale, Ray, and the new Azure integration. The interview covers enterprise AI workloads, GPU challenges, agentic systems, and the future of scalable AI infrastructure.Tue, 25 Nov 2025 03:13:07 GMThttps://dataphoenix.info/videos/jellypod-ai-podcast-studio-that-creates-publishes-instantly/https://dataphoenix.info/videos/jellypod-ai-podcast-studio-that-creates-publishes-instantly/Pierson Marks, co-founder and CEO of Jellypod, introduces a human-first AI podcast studio that lets businesses and creators produce podcasts effortlessly. Using Jellypod, you can design virtual hosts, generate scripts from any content, and publish directly to Spotify, Apple Podcasts, YouTube, and more, all in one click. This demo shows how easy it is to maintain brand voice while producing professional podcasts.Thu, 28 Aug 2025 02:37:00 GMThttps://dataphoenix.info/videos/building-creative-communities-in-the-ai-era-freepiks-san-francisco-case-study/https://dataphoenix.info/videos/building-creative-communities-in-the-ai-era-freepiks-san-francisco-case-study/In this video, Enrique Lopez Lopez, Creative Community Specialist at Freepik, shares how Freepik builds and nurtures vibrant creative communities, both online and in-person, in the heart of San Francisco. He discusses strategies for engaging users, addressing AI fears, and creating events that genuinely connect people. Transcript ❗Please note that the transcript is AI-generated and may have errors. Thank you so much, Katie and Yurii for an incredible and insightful conversation about communiTue, 19 Aug 2025 21:28:09 GMThttps://dataphoenix.info/videos/from-google-slack-to-devrel-leadership-katie-wasilenko-miller/https://dataphoenix.info/videos/from-google-slack-to-devrel-leadership-katie-wasilenko-miller/In this episode, Yurii Filipchuk (Founder of OpenBabylon) speaks with Katie Wasilenko Miller, a Developer Marketing Leader with 15+ years at Google, Slack, and now a steering committee member at the Developer Relations Foundation. Katie shares her career journey, insights on building communities at scale, and lessons from both successes and failures in tech. This conversation is packed with practical advice for anyone leading developer relations, marketing, or startup communities. Transcript Tue, 19 Aug 2025 21:26:47 GMThttps://dataphoenix.info/videos/manus-vs-openai-how-a-startup-is-beating-the-giants-in-the-ai-agent-race/https://dataphoenix.info/videos/manus-vs-openai-how-a-startup-is-beating-the-giants-in-the-ai-agent-race/Tao Zhang of Manus AI shares how the startup is taking on OpenAI in the agent race, revealing product insights, strategy, and the future of intelligent tools.Tue, 22 Jul 2025 06:16:12 GMThttps://dataphoenix.info/videos/manus-ai-converts-course-materials-into-final-exam-prep/https://dataphoenix.info/videos/manus-ai-converts-course-materials-into-final-exam-prep/In this practical demo, a real pre-med student shares how they used Manus AI to study smarter during finals.Tue, 22 Jul 2025 05:58:43 GMThttps://dataphoenix.info/videos/build-a-pro-slide-deck-with-ai-in-under-an-hour/https://dataphoenix.info/videos/build-a-pro-slide-deck-with-ai-in-under-an-hour/In this quick but insightful demo, Ellen - a Manus Fellow and management consultant in the finance industry - shares how she uses Manus to rapidly research unfamiliar markets and turn findings into polished, client-ready slide decks.Tue, 22 Jul 2025 05:35:31 GMThttps://dataphoenix.info/videos/go-far-and-fast-go-with-manus/https://dataphoenix.info/videos/go-far-and-fast-go-with-manus/Tao Zhang (Co-founder of Manus AI) and Parker Lyman (Chief of Staff at Manus) share the origin story, philosophy, and real-world applications of Manus — an AI agent designed to be the “hands” for today’s smartest AI brains.Tue, 22 Jul 2025 05:20:19 GMThttps://dataphoenix.info/videos/dmytro-spodarets-podcast-1-ai-agents-scalr-opentofu-devops-tools-mlops-llmops/https://dataphoenix.info/videos/dmytro-spodarets-podcast-1-ai-agents-scalr-opentofu-devops-tools-mlops-llmops/Infrastructure trends, DevOps challenges, and bold predictions — including whether AI Agents could replace DevOps engineers.Tue, 15 Apr 2025 23:12:19 GMThttps://dataphoenix.info/videos/ai-demo-jam-copysight-ai/https://dataphoenix.info/videos/ai-demo-jam-copysight-ai/Watch the live demo of CopySight AI from AI Demo Jam. CopySight AI is the first tool enabling safe GenAI usage for enterprise-level content.Tue, 15 Apr 2025 23:04:15 GMThttps://dataphoenix.info/videos/ai-demo-jam-openlicense/https://dataphoenix.info/videos/ai-demo-jam-openlicense/Watch the live demo of Openlicense from AI Demo Jam. Openlicense is an agentic content monetization platform helping creators unlock new revenue streams.Tue, 15 Apr 2025 23:03:10 GMThttps://dataphoenix.info/videos/ai-demo-jam-future-agi/https://dataphoenix.info/videos/ai-demo-jam-future-agi/Watch the live demo of Future AGI from AI Demo Jam. Future AGI lets you build, evaluate, and optimize agentic workflows and ship to production 10x faster.Tue, 15 Apr 2025 23:01:37 GMThttps://dataphoenix.info/videos/ai-demo-jam-divinia/https://dataphoenix.info/videos/ai-demo-jam-divinia/Watch the live demo of Divinia from AI Demo Jam. Divinia’s NLP technology boosts revenue by delivering personalized search and authentic content at scale.Tue, 15 Apr 2025 22:58:50 GMThttps://dataphoenix.info/videos/ai-demo-jam-carboncopies-ai/https://dataphoenix.info/videos/ai-demo-jam-carboncopies-ai/Watch the live demo of CarbonCopies from AI Demo Jam. Their AI-powered user replicas help optimize product flows and improve website validation.Tue, 15 Apr 2025 22:57:11 GMThttps://dataphoenix.info/videos/ai-demo-jam-xnode/https://dataphoenix.info/videos/ai-demo-jam-xnode/Watch the live demo of XNODE from AI Demo Jam — an AI-powered B2B SaaS platform simplifying enterprise AI adoption with secure, scalable automation for businesses.Tue, 15 Apr 2025 22:54:19 GMThttps://dataphoenix.info/videos/building-the-future-with-ai-insights-from-fireworks-ai-and-industry-leaders-at-ai-demo-jam/https://dataphoenix.info/videos/building-the-future-with-ai-insights-from-fireworks-ai-and-industry-leaders-at-ai-demo-jam/What do AI experts really think about the future of AI, open-source models, and startup success? Hear real-world insights at AI DEMO JAM — full video inside!Sun, 13 Apr 2025 05:21:49 GMThttps://dataphoenix.info/videos/jitlifes-rideable-smart-suitcases-fun-meets-function/https://dataphoenix.info/videos/jitlifes-rideable-smart-suitcases-fun-meets-function/Say goodbye to boring bags — this electric rideable suitcase scooter lets you glide through airports with ease. Discover why Jitlife’s smart luggage is every traveler’s dream!Thu, 27 Mar 2025 05:42:24 GMThttps://dataphoenix.info/videos/accelerating-generative-ai-with-hpe-from-development-to-deployment/https://dataphoenix.info/videos/accelerating-generative-ai-with-hpe-from-development-to-deployment/Explore how HPE GenAI solutions can transform AI development and deployment through a comprehensive approach to infrastructure and use case implementation. This webinar will showcase HPE PCAI platform, along with advanced AI hardware and software, demonstrating real-world applications.Tue, 29 Oct 2024 05:38:08 GMThttps://dataphoenix.info/videos/exploring-infrastructure-management-for-genai-beyond-kubernetes/https://dataphoenix.info/videos/exploring-infrastructure-management-for-genai-beyond-kubernetes/During this talk, we will discuss the Kubernetes stack's drawbacks in the context of AI and show how dstack addresses them in the training and deployment of GenAI models.Fri, 15 Mar 2024 08:01:43 GMThttps://dataphoenix.info/videos/evaluating-llm-models-for-production-systems-methods-and-practices/https://dataphoenix.info/videos/evaluating-llm-models-for-production-systems-methods-and-practices/During this talk, we will discuss a comprehensive understanding of the evaluation processes for LLMs, particularly in the context of preparing these models for deployment in production environments. Wed, 28 Feb 2024 21:23:00 GMThttps://dataphoenix.info/videos/a-whirlwind-tour-of-ml-model-serving-strategies-including-llms/https://dataphoenix.info/videos/a-whirlwind-tour-of-ml-model-serving-strategies-including-llms/ There are many recipes to serve machine learning models to end users today, and even though new ways keep popping up as time passes, some questions remain: How do we pick the appropriate serving recipe from the menu we have available, and how can we execute it as fast and efficiently as possible? In this talk, we’re going to go through a whirlwind tour of the different machine learning deployment strategies available today for both traditional ML systems and Large Language Models, and weMon, 29 Jan 2024 22:26:00 GMThttps://dataphoenix.info/videos/democratizing-ai-deployment/https://dataphoenix.info/videos/democratizing-ai-deployment/ Deploying AI models remains a very complex problem, due to a deeply fragmented stack of incompatible tooling. The stack can be broken down into four areas: the orchestration layer, compression techniques, compiler infrastructure, and the hardware. We will cover each of these areas, and their unique challenges. When formulating optimal deployment recipes, each of these layers in the stack needs to be considered in a holistic manner, and decisions at one level affect the decision at every Mon, 18 Dec 2023 23:28:00 GMThttps://dataphoenix.info/videos/gpt-on-a-leash-evaluating-llm-based-apps-mitigating-their-risks/https://dataphoenix.info/videos/gpt-on-a-leash-evaluating-llm-based-apps-mitigating-their-risks/ The task of testing and evaluating AI systems is extremely challenging, especially when it involves text and unstructured data. In the case of LLM-based applications, these challenges are magnified by the fact that there isn't "one correct answer" and by a combination of various external constraints such as topics that shouldn't be discussed. Speaker: Philip is the co-founder and CEO of Deepchecks. Philip is an experienced Data Scientist and in the past, he led a top-tier ML research grFri, 15 Dec 2023 23:46:00 GMThttps://dataphoenix.info/videos/how-to-instruction-tune-a-base-language-model/https://dataphoenix.info/videos/how-to-instruction-tune-a-base-language-model/ While LLMs have showcased exceptional language understanding, tailoring them for specific tasks can pose a challenge. This webinar delves into the nuances of supervised fine-tuning, instruction tuning, and the powerful techniques that bridge the gap between model objectives and user-specific requirements. Here's what we'll cover: * Specialized Fine-Tuning: Adapt LLMs for niche tasks using labeled data. * Introduction to Instruction Tuning: Enhance LLM capabilities and controllabilityTue, 12 Dec 2023 00:07:00 GMThttps://dataphoenix.info/videos/leveraging-open-source-llms-for-production/https://dataphoenix.info/videos/leveraging-open-source-llms-for-production/ This talk examines using open-source LLMs for real-world purposes. It compares the benefits and drawbacks of open-source LLMs to proprietary options like OpenAI. The discussion covers the economics of hosting open-source LLMs, highlights serving frameworks, explores cloud GPU availability, gives an overview of key open-source LLMs, and shows how to run and refine these models using the dstack open-source tool. Speaker: Andrey is the founder of dstack, an open-source toolkit for orchestrTue, 05 Dec 2023 00:11:00 GMThttps://dataphoenix.info/videos/machine-learning-techniques-in-healthcare-industry/https://dataphoenix.info/videos/machine-learning-techniques-in-healthcare-industry/ Machine Learning techniques are being explored successfully in almost every field like computing science, social science, and intelligence science. These tools and techniques also provide promising applications in the healthcare industry like disease prediction/detection, medical image computing, analysis of Electronic Health Records (EHR), processing of medical documents, extracting genetic information from patients, etc. In this technical talk, I will be discussing the role of machine Tue, 21 Nov 2023 00:16:00 GMThttps://dataphoenix.info/videos/gen-ai-data-chain-at-scale/https://dataphoenix.info/videos/gen-ai-data-chain-at-scale/ Generative AI workflows heavily rely on data-centric tasks—such as filtering samples by annotation fields, vector distances, or scores produced by custom classifiers. At the same time, computer vision datasets are quickly approaching petabyte volumes, rendering data wrangling difficult. In addition, the iterative nature of data preparation necessitates robust dataset sharing and versioning mechanisms, both of which are hard to implement ad-hoc. In this workshop we will introduce DVCx - aSat, 18 Nov 2023 00:20:00 GMThttps://dataphoenix.info/videos/building-customized-cv-applications-with-fiftyone-plugins/https://dataphoenix.info/videos/building-customized-cv-applications-with-fiftyone-plugins/ FiftyOne is the leading open source solution for curating and visualizing computer vision data. With FiftyOne Plugins, you can now build custom computer vision applications in no time. From concept interpolation to building your AI art gallery, and even LLM-powered , FiftyOne Plugins give you the power to create gradio-style applications with data at their core. Join us to discover how you can unleash your creativity and interact with data like never before. Speaker: Jacob Marks is a MaTue, 07 Nov 2023 00:24:00 GMThttps://dataphoenix.info/videos/mlops-for-ads-ranking-at-pinteres/https://dataphoenix.info/videos/mlops-for-ads-ranking-at-pinteres/This talk will discuss scaling ads ranking at Pinterest through machine learning algorithms and ML ecosystem innovations.Sat, 04 Nov 2023 06:50:00 GMThttps://dataphoenix.info/videos/using-memory-with-llm-applications-in-production/https://dataphoenix.info/videos/using-memory-with-llm-applications-in-production/This talk will review how you can use Metal to give your LLM chatbots both short and long-term memory.Mon, 30 Oct 2023 23:31:00 GMThttps://dataphoenix.info/videos/lessons-learned-from-building-a-managed-rag-solution/https://dataphoenix.info/videos/lessons-learned-from-building-a-managed-rag-solution/This talk will discuss technical and business lessons learned from building a managed Retrieval Augmented Generation solution into Voiceflow.Mon, 23 Oct 2023 23:34:00 GMThttps://dataphoenix.info/videos/large-language-models-for-program-synthesis/https://dataphoenix.info/videos/large-language-models-for-program-synthesis/This talk will be about large language models for code generation.Wed, 18 Oct 2023 23:58:00 GMThttps://dataphoenix.info/videos/gorilla-large-language-model-connected-with-massive-apis/https://dataphoenix.info/videos/gorilla-large-language-model-connected-with-massive-apis/This talk will introduce the Gorilla project, designed to connect LLMs with various services and applications exposed through APIs.Sun, 15 Oct 2023 00:02:00 GMThttps://dataphoenix.info/videos/trends-and-applications-of-ai-ml-and-analytics-in-sports/https://dataphoenix.info/videos/trends-and-applications-of-ai-ml-and-analytics-in-sports/This overview talk will be about sports analytics and using AI/ML for player performance, business operations, and recruitment statistics.Tue, 10 Oct 2023 00:10:00 GMThttps://dataphoenix.info/videos/best-security-practices-for-the-llms/https://dataphoenix.info/videos/best-security-practices-for-the-llms/This talk will explore potential risks, break down advanced defense methods, and share the latest on keeping Large Language Models safe.Tue, 19 Sep 2023 00:43:00 GMThttps://dataphoenix.info/videos/go-beyond-chatbot-emerging-patterns-in-generative-ai-apps/https://dataphoenix.info/videos/go-beyond-chatbot-emerging-patterns-in-generative-ai-apps/This talk will share some reference architectures and demos for emerging Generative AI applications and use cases.Tue, 29 Aug 2023 00:57:00 GMThttps://dataphoenix.info/videos/leveraging-large-language-models-for-enterprise-usage/https://dataphoenix.info/videos/leveraging-large-language-models-for-enterprise-usage/This talk will discuss foundation and ChatGPT-style models, GenAI and LLM technology at NVIDIA, shortcomings, and proposed guardrails.Tue, 22 Aug 2023 01:01:00 GMThttps://dataphoenix.info/videos/best-practices-for-building-llm-based-applications/https://dataphoenix.info/videos/best-practices-for-building-llm-based-applications/During the talk, we will review the existing tools and see how to move from development to production without a headache.Tue, 15 Aug 2023 01:34:00 GMThttps://dataphoenix.info/videos/llamaindex-how-to-use-llms-to-interface-with-multiple-data-sources/https://dataphoenix.info/videos/llamaindex-how-to-use-llms-to-interface-with-multiple-data-sources/This talk will dive into “data frameworks” like LlamaIndex, and demonstrate how to create hierarchical indexes from different data sources.Tue, 08 Aug 2023 02:04:00 GMThttps://dataphoenix.info/videos/rise-in-the-use-of-synthetic-data-for-regulated-industries/https://dataphoenix.info/videos/rise-in-the-use-of-synthetic-data-for-regulated-industries/This talk will discuss synthetic data, some impactful use cases associated with it, and the challenges companies face while harnessing it.Tue, 01 Aug 2023 04:19:00 GMThttps://dataphoenix.info/videos/multilingual-semantic-search/https://dataphoenix.info/videos/multilingual-semantic-search/This talk will discuss why multilingual semantic search is amazing, how respective models are trained, and the new use cases this unlocks.Sun, 30 Jul 2023 04:26:00 GMThttps://dataphoenix.info/videos/large-language-model-evaluations-what-and-why/https://dataphoenix.info/videos/large-language-model-evaluations-what-and-why/This talk will go into the intricacies of assessing the quality of LLMs and best practices to ensure their reliability and accuracy.Tue, 25 Jul 2023 04:22:00 GMT