PyData Amsterdam

THANK YOU 🫰 for joining us at PyData Amsterdam 2024! We hope you had lots of fun, great chats, made new connections & friends, and enjoyed the weather ☀️ ;) Enjoy your weekends and see you around 🔜! More photos will be coming in the upcoming days & weeks, will keep you posted 👀 #PDAmsterdam2024 📸: Richard Theemling

The winner of the coding challenge over at PyData Amsterdam wrote a blogpost about how one can win a coding challenge by gaming the system. Good read, lego box was well deserved on this one! https://lnkd.in/eaqTbGGi

Monday morning Blues... ☕ Thanks to PyData Amsterdam and NumFOCUS for colorizing my automn desk. To Klaus Happacher: Do I really have to learn #Kotlin now? I thought I could get by with #Python until I retire... 🫣

If you enjoy learning about game theory, as well as consequences of making an insecure backend ... then you will enjoy this livestream where I show how somebody won the PyData challenge that my employer sponsored this year. Hilarity does ensue!

One of the standout moments for me at PyData Amsterdam 2024 was the inspiring keynote by Marzieh Fadaee, a senior research scientist at Cohere For AI. She introduced us to Project Aya, an ambitious initiative that's set to transform how we interact with AI across the globe. Why is Project Aya a Game-Changer? 🌎 Global Collaboration: Over 3,000 independent researchers from 119 countries have united to bring Aya to life. This massive collaborative effort exemplifies the power of a global community working towards a common goal. 🗣️ Supporting 100 Languages: Aya embraces over 100 languages, including many underrepresented in AI. This inclusivity makes AI technology accessible to a broader spectrum of cultures and communities. 🔓 Fully Open-Sourced: With both the dataset and model openly available, Aya fosters innovation by allowing worldwide collaboration without barriers. Why Does This Matter? By embracing such a wide array of languages, Project Aya is not just a technological achievement—it's a cultural bridge. Here's what this means: 💪 Empowering Underrepresented Communities: Aya provides tools that enable communities to access information and technology in their native tongues. 🌿 Preserving Cultural Heritage: Languages carry the essence of cultures. Aya's support aids in preserving linguistic diversity for future generations. 🤖 Enhancing AI Interactions: A multilingual AI can understand and respond to users more naturally, improving user experience across different linguistic backgrounds. Real-World Impact Across Industries 🌐 Healthcare: Aya enhances patient communication by powering multilingual AI assistants in medical consultations. 💼 Recruiting and HR: Companies can tap into diverse talent pools using Aya's ability to process multiple languages. 📚 Education: Learning platforms can offer materials in various languages, making education more accessible globally. Impressive Performance 📊 Aya has demonstrated competitive results in multilingual benchmarks, outperforming many popular LLMs, especially in underrepresented languages. This showcases its capability to effectively understand and process a diverse range of languages. 🚀 Get Involved and Explore If you're intrigued by Project Aya and its mission, here are some ways to dive deeper: 🔗 Discover Project Aya: cohere.com/research/aya 🔗 Try it out: https://lnkd.in/ePtfFpwx #PyData2024 #ProjectAya #MultilingualAI #DataScience #AIforGood #Inclusivity #Diversity #OpenSource #NLP #Collaboration #AIforAll #LanguageDiversity

Great experience sharing our insights on generative AI at PyData Amsterdam! I had the privilege of presenting alongside my manager, Farzam Fanitabasi, on "ING’s Customer-Facing Generative AI: Navigating Risk, Compliance, and Defense Mechanisms." The audience's engagement was fantastic, and the numerous follow-up questions from professionals across various industries highlighted the significant interest and curiosity surrounding responsible AI development. A truly rewarding experience! #GenerativeAI #AIethics #RiskManagement #Compliance #PyData #Amsterdam #ING

One of the best decisions I've ever made this year was joining the PyData Amsterdam committee. Super proud to be part of this lovely & amazing team🫰Nikki Sophie Kally Matthijs Marysia Alexander Mark Floor Bas Rick Akhila Louis Bouke Atul Anton🫰! A big thank-you to all the onsite conference volunteers this year, who made the event a wonderful one, and most importantly, we had a great time ourselves. Now, I’ve got my fingers crossed that the on-demand videos will be out asap so I can catch up on the talks I missed and rewatch the ones I found insightful during the conf. As a local chapter and a fully volunteer-run team, commitment and dedication are key, with passion being the greatest driving force. Since April this year, we meet once a month, usually in the evenings, to prep for the conference and discuss monthly meet-ups. We genuinely enjoy working together - had lots of fun, shared laughter, and yes, some awkward moments (including our elevator 🛗 series,,,, definitely to be continued 😅). Being the only non-data scientist/engineer/analyst in this group, I felt completely comfortable and enjoyed working with everyone. No matter what happens, it always ends in laughter, and we've got ourselves backed 🙌. I’m also grateful for connecting with likeminded people through the conf. and meetups - had great & fun chats! The reason I got to know PyData at the first place is through the recorded talks via its YouTube channel. I watched a few 23' talks back then, one was about practical use cases of how ML models are implemented in real-world business contexts, and I found it super insightful. Organizing a conference for over 900 attendees is no small feat, but with this team, it felt easy and joyful. We are problem-focused, solution-driven, direct, to the point and get things done, and we back each other up, and most importantly, we love our community! We don't have fancy tools (as you know, it's a volunteer-run team) - just google sheets, docs, slack, and a What'sApp group to manage comms and track tasks & to-dos, and I brought in the Miro board after joining, to add some creativities 🎨, and with these simple tools, we got things done,,, quite efficiently ✌️. Before the conference, there were some uncertainties - mainly about ticket sales and sponsor support, which are critical to sustain and operate the event. Thankfully, everything went smoothly, and in reality, beyond what's expected. And we were lucky enough to have three sunny ☀️ days! Love this group & community, from the heart 🫶

It has been a week since PyData Amsterdam 2024 ended, and I still smile when I think about the volunteer team - connecting with the attendees, speakers, sponsors, and organizing members, - speaking during the lightning talks session, - enjoying the event, - always walking in groups, - always ready to help, - having fun, - and last but not least, laughing at my bad jokes. Working and having fun with them was nice. More than nice, it was fun. More than fun, it was amazing 🌟 . We were 27 people with different backgrounds, experience levels, skills, and hobbies. Most importantly, in a short space of time, we bonded as a team and contributed to the success of the event. This achievement was only possible because each one of us left our egos behind, opened ourselves, and worked as a team. So, what will I remember when I think about the PyData Amsterdam 2024 volunteer team? 2 words: pride and gratitude 🫶 . Thank you 🙏 ! Atul Chhotray, Aleksandra M., Anastasiia Kulakova, Daniël van Oosteroom, Edwin Loedeman, Fatemeh Jokar, Gaurav ., Hylke Rozema, Indira Rizabekova, Lysanne van Beek, Maël DESCHAMPS, R. Max Espinoza, Mayar Ali, Mengke Yi, Muhammad Chenariyan Nakhaee, Olamide O., Patricia Santos, Priya Sarkar, Serena Defina, Sharif Oraby, Sharon Gieske, shekhar koirala, Sk Imtiaz Ahmed, Solomon Olumba, MBCS, Vanessa Zyto, Xiao Xu

Today #PDAmsterdam2024 took place at the Kromhouthal exactly one week ago, and as already mentioned; we're super proud of what we've achieved this year but we couldn't do it without YOU! 🧡 💙 A BIG thank you everyone that joined us this year, from attendees, volunteers, sponsors, partners and everyone that contributed to make this event amazing! 🤩 Go back in time and enjoy once more the #PDAmsterdam2024 vibes ✨ 🙌 We hope to see you next year again at #PDAmsterdam2025 and meanwhile stay connected via our monthly meetups: https://lnkd.in/eBYYUmgw 🎥: Ad Heessels & Filmmaker.biz

Last week, I had the opportunity to host a tutorial together with Sander van Dorsten at PyData Amsterdam on Prompt hacking for Generative AI 🐍. It was so much fun diving into the practical side of AI together with the everyone who attended, and it was especially fun to see everyone’s competitive side come out during the session! The conversations that followed and the rest of the conference were just as fun – it’s always insightful to hear different perspectives and learn from others’ experiences. Some of other my favorites were the talks about algorithmic bias at Breeze and the one about embracing monorepo architecture at Adyen 🤩. A big thanks to the organizers and all the participants for the energy and enthusiasm, see you next year! #PDAmsterdam2024 #pydataamsterdam