TechFest 2024

Curious about the real impact of Artificial Intelligence (AI) beyond the hype? Join me for a revealing and informative session about the impact & value of AI. Discover practical AI applications across industries such as Retail, Manufacturing, and Financial Services, and gain insights into how AI is transforming business operations, technology roadmaps and career trajectories.
Uncover practical strategies to navigate AI's ethical considerations and harness its potential for innovation and growth. Whether you're a business leader, technologist, or industry professional, this session offers essential perspectives to navigate the AI landscape with confidence, while addressing critical considerations and risks.
Prepare to go beyond the buzz and uncover the tangible benefits of AI for your industry and professional journey.
Session Objectives:

• Ensure that all participants have a clear and comprehensive understanding of what AI is, including its various types and real-world use cases
• Detail the essential factors and critical considerations that organizations need to assess to determine their readiness for AI implementation
• Provide a thorough overview of effective mitigation strategies to address potential risks and challenges, ensuring the safe and effective use of AI for achieving business success
• Showcase how AI can augment job roles, enhance productivity, and drive innovation, emphasizing the collaborative potential of AI and human workers

Traditional cybersecurity focuses primarily on protecting data during storage and use, but with the rapid expansion of large language models (LLMs), a new threat landscape has emerged. When LLMs are trained on private and confidential data, there is a significant risk of data breaches that many are unaware of. This presentation aims to highlight the often-overlooked dangers associated with training LLMs on sensitive information. Attendees will gain a comprehensive understanding of how these breaches can occur and the potential impact they can have. More importantly, the session will provide practical training on how to detect and defend against these specific threats. By promoting awareness and equipping cybersecurity professionals with the necessary tools and strategies, we can better safeguard our data in this evolving digital age. Join us to stay ahead of the curve and ensure robust protection against the unique challenges posed by LLMs.

Generative AI has been one of the biggest positive disruptors within the past 2 years. There are claims that it is the “new electricity”, electricity having radically transformed society 100 years ago, moving us to an increasingly automatable world no longer significantly dependent on human labor.

In many ways, this is true. Instead of laboriously designing slides for our technical work that may fall short of visualization and storytelling best practices, generative AI will empower us to design everything at a high standard within minutes. Instead of wondering whether the presentations we’ve created are “good”, AI can help us immediately gather feedback and make iterative improvements.

Generative AI is therefore more than the new electricity. It is the new “fire” of our age, empowering us to realize our most archaic and deep-seated human impulse of all: to share knowledge and tell great stories. In this session you will learn how to:
- Reliably prompt AI to efficiently create your slides and enable better data-driven decision making
- Avoid the most common mistakes made when presenting technical information
 - Personalize your presentation to your audience’s needs for maximum organizational impact