Weekly Brunches with Workshops: The Future of Large Language Models (and AI) is Federated and Product & Venture Design
This event is part of the Weekly Brunches with Workshops series. Read more about the programme here.
Entrepreneurial talk: A sustainable founder-centric approach to venture building with Andrea Castiglione (SilentUnicorn)
Andrea Castiglione is an accomplished entrepreneur and a Forbes 30 Under 30 honoree, having previously been amongst the founding partners of a company with tech legend Steve Wozniak as Co-Founder. Currently he runs Silent Unicorn, a venture studio known for its focus on quietly building and investing in disruptive tech solutions, particularly in sectors like blockchain, fintech, AI and gaming. Andrea is set to give a talk on the topic of effective venture design, where he will share insights on how a data informed, founder-centric venture builder can drive product strategy and company growth.
Andrea’s workshop provides the attendees with a repeatable framework for successful product and venture building.
SilentUnicorn is a fully bootstrapped, globally distributed venture builder with the mission to bridge the gap between global talent and opportunities. We invest strategic, financial and human capital on extraordinary individuals who want to use technology and web3 to break societal paradigms.
Technical talk: The Future of LLMs (and AI) is Federated with Nic Lane (Flower Labs)
Nic Lane is a full Professor in the department of Computer Science and Technology at the University of Cambridge and holds a Royal Academy of Engineering Chair in De-centralized AI. He is also a Fellow of St. John’s College.
At Cambridge, Nic leads the Cambridge Machine Learning Systems lab (CaMLSys). The mission of CaMLSys is to invent the next-generation of breakthrough ML-centric systems.
Alongside his academic roles, Nic is the co-founder and Chief Scientific Officer of Flower Labs, a venture-backed AI company (YCW23) behind the Flower open-source federated learning framework. Flower Labs seeks to enable an AI future that is collaborative, open and decentralized.
Nic has received multiple awards for his research, including best paper awards from ACM/IEEE IPSN and ACM UbiComp. He also received Test-of-Time awards from ACM SenSys and ACM SIGMOBILE for his PhD research on machine learning algorithms for mobile devices. In 2020, Nic won the ACM SIGMOBILE Rockstar award for his work on enhancing resource-constrained mobile devices' ability to understand and respond to complex user behaviors and environments.
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WHEN: Friday, 8 November 2024
1-2 PM: Brunch in King’s Hall
2-3 PM: Workshops
* Entrepreneurial workshop in the Beves Room
* Technical workshop in Seminar Room
3 PM onwards: Optional informal discussion in the Turing Room, the E-Lab co-working space
WHERE: King’s College, Cambridge
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