GenAI DevCon London

​For hackers, builders, engineers, researchers and anyone who can ship.

​​📅 When: July 18th
⏰ Time: 6 PM - 9 PM
📍 Where: Mary Ward House
5-7 Tavistock Place
London, Central London (WC1H 9SN)

🎤 Agenda:

Talk 1: Lessons from years of prompt engineering
Speaker: Mike Taylor, Author at O'Reilly & Top Instructor Udemy


Talk 2: Crafting the Perfect Model: Fine-Tuning and Merging LLMs
Speaker: Maxime Labonne, Staff ML Scientist at Liquid AI
About the talk:
This presentation introduces scenarios where fine-tuning is most beneficial, popular frameworks for efficient implementation, and explores key methodologies. We'll cover both supervised fine-tuning techniques, such as LoRA and QLoRA, as well as preference alignment methods including DPO. Additionally, we'll discuss model merging techniques like SLERP, DARE, passthrough, and frankenMoEs. We'll share tips and tricks from the most popular models on the Hugging Face Hub to maximize the performance of your LLMs.

Talk 3: State of LLM agents: Our Learnings from building agentic framework
Speakers: Bhargav & Priya, Software Engg & DevOps at Tune AI

​​💫 What's the Deal?

​​We promise three hours of intellectually-stimulating, humor-infused talks from the Best of AI (and of course, a healthy supply of food & beverages).

*** Please note, there is no parking at Mary Ward House for the event. We apologize for any inconvenience. Use public transport or carpool. For help, call 07445642507.