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Jim Dowling

Employers on the program

  1. 2022–2026Hopsworks9 talks
  2. 2023–2024KTH Royal Institute of Technology2 talks
  3. 2019Logical Clocks3 talks

Bluesky: @jimdowling.bsky.social

Events14
Conferences7
Talks141 keynote
Years active2019–2026
Miles between events44,56814 in-person events · 6 countries

Appearances by year

201920202021202220232024202520262027
  • PyData
  • PyCon (national Python conferences)
  • AI By the Bay
  • Beam Summit
  • Berlin Buzzwords
  • MLOps World (Machine Learning in Production)
  • O'Reilly Artificial Intelligence Conference

Talks

DateEventConferenceRoleTitleLinks
Nov 21, 2026PyCon Ireland 2026PyCon (national Python conferences)talkGeneral Purpose or Specialized Coding Agents for Data
as Hopsworks
ClaudeCode/Codex/OpenCode are general purpose coding agents for software engineering. However, there are also special purpose coding agents for data…Show less

ClaudeCode/Codex/OpenCode are general purpose coding agents for software engineering. However, there are also special purpose coding agents for data engineering, known as "Data Agents". Which one should you choose? This talk advocates for general purpose coding agents, as it is a re-run of...

Nov 7, 2025PyData Seattle 2025PyDataspeakerReal-TIme Context Engineering for Agents
as Hopsworks
Agents need timely and relevant context data to work effectively in an interactive environment. If an agent takes more than a few seconds to react to an action…Show less

Agents need timely and relevant context data to work effectively in an interactive environment. If an agent takes more than a few seconds to react to an action in a client applicatoin, users will not perceive it as intelligent - just laggy.

Video
Oct 30, 2025PyCon Sweden 2025PyCon (national Python conferences)keynotePython in the age of Agents
as Hopsworks
Nov 6, 2024PyData NYC 2024PyDataspeakerBuilding Python based AI Systems with LLMs
as Hopsworks
LLMs are now capable of translating user queries into small Python programs. In this talk, we will look at how we create AI systems from text with LLMs and…Show less

LLMs are now capable of translating user queries into small Python programs. In this talk, we will look at how we create AI systems from text with LLMs and Hopsworks.

Video
Jun 14, 2024PyData London 2024PyDatatalkFunction Calling for LLMs
as KTH Royal Institute of Technology
Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) for large language models (LLMs) enables you include real-time information and information created after the cutoff…Show less

Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) for large language models (LLMs) enables you include real-time information and information created after the cutoff training time for the LLM.

Nov 13, 2023Scale By the Bay 2023AI By the BayspeakerBridging Python and Lakehouse worlds with Arrow Flight and DuckDB.
as Hopsworks
Video
Jun 2, 2023PyData London 2023PyDatatutorialFrom zero to a working ML system with only Python, free serverless services and FTI pipelines
as KTH Royal Institute of Technology
We will build an operational ML system to predict air quality in London. Instead of a single monolithic ML pipeline, we will build a more manageable system as 3…Show less

We will build an operational ML system to predict air quality in London. Instead of a single monolithic ML pipeline, we will build a more manageable system as 3 FTI pipelines: a Feature pipeline, a Training pipeline, and an Inference pipeline, connected together by a feature store.

Apr 26, 2023PyData Seattle 2023PyDatatutorialBuild a production ML system with only Python on free serverless services
as Hopsworks
Video
Nov 12, 2022PyCon Ireland 2022PyCon (national Python conferences)talkData Validation for ML using Great Expectations and Hopsworks
as Hopsworks
Have you ever trained an awesome model just to have it break in production because of a null value? At its core a feature store needs to provide reliable…Show less

Have you ever trained an awesome model just to have it break in production because of a null value? At its core a feature store needs to provide reliable features to data scientists to build and productionize models. So how can we avoid garbage in, garbage out situations? Great expectations is...

Jun 17, 2022PyData London 2022PyDatatalkPython-centric Feature Stores
as Hopsworks

Most enterprise data used by Data Scientists to train machine learning models is tabular data that comes from data warehouses and data lakes.

Jun 9, 20223rd Annual MLOps World 2022MLOps World (Machine Learning in Production)workshopPersonalized Recommendations and Search with Retrieval and Ranking at scale on Hopsworks
as Hopsworks
Oct 14, 2019O'Reilly Artificial Intelligence Conference London 2019O'Reilly Artificial Intelligence ConferencespeakerUntitled
as Logical Clocks
Jun 19, 2019Beam Summit Europe 2019Beam SummitspeakerEnd-to-End ML pipelines with Beam, Flink, TensorFlow, and Hopsworks
as Logical Clocks
Video
Jun 16, 2019Berlin Buzzwords 2019Berlin BuzzwordstalkHops in the Cloud
as Logical Clocks AB

Hops is a European open-source, next-generation distribution of Apache Hadoop that is being repurposed for the cloud.

SlidesVideo

Frequent co-speakers

SpeakerShared eventsShared talksLast together
Cheuk Ting Ho4—2024
James Powell4—2024
Franz Kiraly3—2026
Andy Terrel3—2025
John Carney3—2025
Chris Fonnesbeck3—2024
Ian Ozsvald3—2024
Jacob Tomlinson3—2024
Zander Matheson3—2024
Robert Crowe3—2022
Christian Ledermann2—2026
Allison Wang2—2025
Avik Basu2—2025
Carl Kadie2—2025
David Aronchick2—2025

Speakers with the same name are merged into one entry, so this page may combine more than one person. Affiliations are shown as each conference listed them.