There is a skills shortage in AI use, and to meet demand and ensure continued growth, there’s a need for technology and industry professionals to upskill within the area of generative AI.
Adopting generative AI means not only using the tools powered by it, but also to do so efficiently by learning "prompt engineering" and applying a methodology - a structured approach. This also includes a product management methodology for generative AI. This approach can then be applied by developers using GitHub Copilot, Open AI code interpreter, LlamaIndex or even plain ChatGPT itself.
Generative AI, via LLMs (Large Language Models), have presented a seismic shift in how fast we can get work done while lowering the technical barriers for application and system creation.
The hackathon will be based on a variety of LLM use cases with an emphasis on generative AI for code. The solution will also include a product management function, making it possible for non-developers to also be part of the solution. To innovate on top of LLMs and applications, such as task-focused agents or other AI-powered software, it's important to leverage efficient tool "workbenches" that tie everything together. These tools include LangChain, Pinecone, Polyglot Notebooks, Semantic Kernel and others.
The Generative AI hackathon
This summit is primarily concerned with building services for the new world of AGI and reskilling yourselves for a world dominated by AGI.
In practice today, that means understanding the role of Large Language Models (LLMs) as an end-to-end application development platform.
The summit / hackathon will focus on the following set of skills:
1) Copilot - developing with AI as an assistant
2) Autonomous AI Agents
3) End to end development using Gen AI (combining product discovery, Gen AI and Test driven development)
4) Image and creative (multimodal workflows) - using AI with creative industries
5) Open AI and LlamaIndex stacks
6) Generative AI and knowledge graphs
7) Designing conversation agents
8) Designing Enterprise Generative AI systems
9) Prompt engineering
Logistics and notes for the hackathon
- To make the summit inclusive, in general, we will be adopting prompt engineering as a framework. However, the summit involves creation of code using prompt engineering.
- The summit spans two days. Overall, the first day is designed to learn the technologies. The second day is designed to brainstorm individual solutions and problems.
- We will suggest problem statements.
- You will work in groups.
- Working online, you will have one week to complete your solutions. It is expected that you would spend about 8 hours over the week, working in a group. Each group would manage their own online working schedule.
- We expect that most of the speakers would be personally present but some will be online (see Tutors section for details).
- You will work with one main project but you could be part of up to three projects.
Note: Due to the fast-changing nature of AI, it is possible some updates will be made to the content and format of this event.
Attending this event
Further details will be emailed to you two weeks ahead of the summit and will include registration information and an overview of the timetable.
Please get in touch if you have not received this information within five working days of the start date.
In the meantime, you may wish to plan your travel: Travel information
