Join us!

Now is the time everyone is gathering around to understand how to make use of AI in all industries.
Prepare yourself for a Drupal AI Camp day, at the heart of London, accessible and within reach for all AI enthusiasts.

Program

10:40 to 10:55

10:30 to 10:40

10:55 to 11:20

Title - Ministry
Speaker: Title *(25 min)

11:20 to 11:35

11:35 to 12:05

Lunch Break (1.30 hours) Outside the venue

12:05 to 14:00

14:00 to 14:25

14:25 to 14:50

14:50 to 15:05

Welcome, vision of the event and Health & Safety.
Speaker: Jamie Abrahams, Co-founder of FreelyGive

15:05 to 15:30

15:55 to 16:20

16:20 to 16:35

16:35 to 16:45

Title
Speaker: Martin Jeffries *(25min)

  • Session:
    In this session we will discuss the difference in AI in International markets.
    We will explore the challenges in AI. Providing some recommendations for AI Entrepreneurs.
    AI use cases

    Talk Topics:
    Business; Innovation; Ideas;
    Educational; Tools; Concepts; AI Acts; Case Study; Showcases.

  • Speaker: Dongwei Li
    CEO & Founder, TealSphere Consulting

    Dongwei is an Advisor of an UK AI Tech Company. Industry guest speaker for the British Educational Travel Association; University of Oxford; CogX Festival; etc.

    UK Marketing Lead, Women In AI.

  • Session:
    TBC


    Talk Topics:
    Innovation; Ideas

  • Speaker: John Schwartz
    CEO at Soapbox

    John Schwartz built up Soapbox from a freelance design practice to a leading communications agency for think tanks.

    His clients include Chatham House, ODI, the Atlantic Council, the United Nations University, the German Council on Foreign Relations, OECD, the Stockholm Environment Institute and the International Panel on Climate Change.

    He divides his time between building Soapbox as a business, managing major accounts and working as creative director on key projects.

    John began his career in book publishing before joining the IPPR in 2003.

    He is an advisory board member for On Think Tanks where you can read some of his writing on the future of policy and research communications.

  • Session:
    As artificial intelligence reshapes our world, the mastery of emotional intelligence (EQ) emerges as a critical bridge between human potential and technological progress. My presentation delves into the profound role EQ plays in elevating our interaction with AI technologies by fostering critical thinking and design thinking—skills crucial for innovation and effective collaboration with AI.

    Participants will explore how EQ can navigate through the emotional challenges associated with deep, critical analysis, transforming problem-solving approaches to embrace challenges as opportunities for growth and creativity. The presentation will offer practical strategies for upskilling in critical and design thinking, thus maximizing human potential alongside AI capabilities as a co-pilot.

    Additionally, will tackle the increased cyber risks associated with AI, such as the generation of advanced malware, by introducing 'emotional firewalls.' This proactive concept is aimed at building robust cyber resilience, ensuring ethical leadership and strategic decision-making in the face of technological advances. Attend this session to discover how integrating emotional intelligence with AI can safeguard human values while enhancing global resilience and innovation.

    Objective of the Presentation:

    1. To highlight the significance of emotional intelligence in enhancing human-AI interaction.

    2. To provide actionable strategies for developing critical thinking and design thinking skills.

    3. To introduce the concept of 'emotional firewalls' for improving cyber resilience.

    4. To inspire ethical leadership and innovative thinking in the application of AI technologies.

    Talk Topics:
    Business; Security; Ethics and Philosophy; Educational; Leadership.

  • Speaker: Nadja El Fertasi
    Founder of Thrive with EQ

    Nadja El Fertasi, founder of Thrive with EQ, is a Human Resilience Expert and former NATO senior executive renowned for her leadership in emotional intelligence and resilience. With over 20 years of experience across the civil-military sector and working with professionals from over 40 nationalities, Nadja has developed a deep expertise in crisis management and strategic stakeholder engagement.

    She is celebrated for her contribution to the field as one of Europe’s influential women in cybersecurity, featured in the book “Hacking Gender Barriers: Europe’s Top Cyber Women” by Women4Cyber. At Thrive with EQ, Nadja focuses on empowering leaders in critical services infrastructure to navigate digital disruptions and manage change effectively through emotional intelligence.

    Her work in enhancing leadership and resilience is recognized globally, making her a sought-after expert and speaker in these crucial areas.

  • Session:
    Since the dawn of the Web, a lot of effort has been dedicated to designing effective information architectures, navigational elements, search functions with filters, etc.

    Today, by applying AI techniques, we can think about new paradigms to help customers get the most value from the vast amounts of the information available in our digital channels.


    Talk Topics:
    Concepts; Ideas.

  • Speaker:
    Hi, I’m Jan!
    At AmeXio, I support clients with architecting and designing their CX platforms and help to align their people, processes and tools in that context.
    Given my technical background, I like to take a pragmatic approach in my work.

    In that regard, I love to work in Agile environments with a strong problem-solving culture.

  • Session:
    Large Language Models (LLMs) are becoming ubiquitous: everyone is talking about them, everyone wants to use them and everyone claims is getting benefits out of them...

    But... is it that simple?

    This talk aims to demystify the Open Source landscape of large language models, exploring what it means to use them to improve your search engine ecosystem and what are the most common pitfalls.

    The talk starts by introducing the reasons to add LLMs to your search application and the complexities it adds (choosing the right model, measuring success, and rabbit holes).

    Building upon the introduction we'll present how search changes with the advent of this innovative technology, what is 'fine-tuning' and what are the Open Source solutions available in terms of models, components to interact with the models, and search engines that integrate with such technologies.

    Join us as we explore this new exciting Open Source landscape and learn how you can leverage it to improve your search experience!

    Talk Topics:
    Innovation; Ideas; Case Study.

  • Speaker: Alessandro Benedetti
    Director and R&D Software Engineer at Sease Ltd.

    Alessandro Benedetti is an Apache Lucene/Solr committer and PMC member.


    His focus is on R&D in Information Retrieval, Information Extraction, Natural Language Processing, and Machine Learning.
He firmly believes in Open Source as a way to build a bridge between Academia and Industry and facilitate the progress of applied research.
Experience with a great variety of clients has taught him to be a proficient and professional consultant.

    Alessandro is a passionate R&D software engineer at heart, continuously applying the latest trends in Information Retrieval and AI/Machine Learning to solve interesting search problems.
He’s being studying Machine Learning applications such as Learning To Rank and Natural Language Techniques for years and more recently he’s been exploring Generative AI technologies and approaches such as Large Language Models and Retrieval Augmented Generation to improve the search user experience.
He’s curious and actively coding and experimenting on a weekly basis.

    When he isn't on clients' projects, he is actively contributing to the open-source community and presenting the applications of leading-edge techniques in real-world scenarios at meet-ups and conferences such as ECIR, the Lucene/Solr Revolution, ApacheCon, Haystack, FOSDEM, Berlin Buzzword, and Open Source Summit

  • Session:
    In this session he will present a high level overview on the types/examples of AI implementations; and the impact of those implementations on (the roles in) your organisation.

    Based on real life requests and implementations.


    Talk Topics:
    Business; Innovation; Ideas.

  • Speaker: Frederik Wouters
    Head of AI at Calibrate

    Frederik Wouters is a creator of momentum that is passionate about the Digital Enterprise, technology and sports.
    He breathes iterative development and incremental improvement. He is experienced in managing large software setups spanning multiple teams. He is a certified scrum-master, Product owner, Prince 2 and TOGAF 9.2 practitioner.
    At Calibrate Frederik is focussing on making impact with AI.

Evaluations
Speaker: Jamie Abrahams, Co-founder of FreelyGive

16:50 to 17:00

Leaving the venue

  • Session:
    In this session we will be running through a demo of one way to set up and code a RAG interface to let user's ask questions to your contents. We can discuss some metrics about how well this works, some issues to consider and prompt-engineer for, and some real-world ideas for how this can help in the wild.


    Talk Topics:
    Coding; Concepts.

  • Speaker: Scott Euser

    Scott is the director of web development at Soapbox building large content heavy websites with complex integrations for large think tanks, research organisations, and multi-laterals. He focuses his development time on Drupal maintaining a number of modules and contributing to Drupal Core and a range of contrib modules. He co-maintains the OpenAI module, focusing on the OpenAI Embeddings sub-module.

  • Session:
    AI will be everywhere, and we are all in a race to be the first ones to get there. But when in a hurry, we may forget essential concerns.

    In this talk, Vicente Herrera will show us with quick practical examples why we must be careful from the security and bias perspective about adding AI into our projects, and some easy steps to control and mitigate potential risks, that you can implement today in your Drupal project.


    Talk Topics:
    Ethics and Philosophy; Security; Tools.

  • Speaker: Vicente Herrera
    Principal Consultant at Control Plane,

    Working on Kubernetes cybersecurity for Fintech organizations, and researching AI security and bias. Maintainer of FINOS Common Cloud Controls project, about defining a vendor independent security framework, from Fintech Open Source Foundation (part of Linux Foundation).

    Lecturer at Loyola University in Seville for Master on Data Analytics and Master for Artificial Intelligence, teaching Blockchain Technologies.

    Author of "Building Intelligent Cloud Applications" book published by O'Reilly, about leveraging Azure server-less and machine learning services.

15:30 to 15:55

  • Session:
    The AI Interpolator is a framework module for Drupal automation that can chain and run multiple AI services together.

    In this session we will go into detail to show the module and it’s capabilities, and showcase it in action.


    Talk Topics:
    Coding; Showcases.

  • Speaker: Marcus Johansson
    Senior Drupal Developer at FreelyGive

    Marcus is a System Engineer with a history of working for Nokia; Axel Springer; Mercedes.
    He is currently working with Drupal and AI., he is the creator of the module AI Interpolator.