Jim Dowling
Employers on the program
- 2022–2026Hopsworks9 talks
- 2023–2024KTH Royal Institute of Technology2 talks
- 2019Logical Clocks3 talks
Appearances by year
- 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
| Date | Event | Conference | Role | Title | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 21, 2026 | PyCon Ireland 2026 | PyCon (national Python conferences) | talk | General 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 lessClaudeCode/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, 2025 | PyData Seattle 2025 | PyData | speaker | Real-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 lessAgents 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, 2025 | PyCon Sweden 2025 | PyCon (national Python conferences) | keynote | Python in the age of Agents as Hopsworks | |
| Nov 6, 2024 | PyData NYC 2024 | PyData | speaker | Building 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 lessLLMs 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, 2024 | PyData London 2024 | PyData | talk | Function 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 lessRetrieval 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, 2023 | Scale By the Bay 2023 | AI By the Bay | speaker | Bridging Python and Lakehouse worlds with Arrow Flight and DuckDB. as Hopsworks | Video |
| Jun 2, 2023 | PyData London 2023 | PyData | tutorial | From 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 lessWe 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, 2023 | PyData Seattle 2023 | PyData | tutorial | Build a production ML system with only Python on free serverless services as Hopsworks | Video |
| Nov 12, 2022 | PyCon Ireland 2022 | PyCon (national Python conferences) | talk | Data 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 lessHave 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, 2022 | PyData London 2022 | PyData | talk | Python-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, 2022 | 3rd Annual MLOps World 2022 | MLOps World (Machine Learning in Production) | workshop | Personalized Recommendations and Search with Retrieval and Ranking at scale on Hopsworks as Hopsworks | |
| Oct 14, 2019 | O'Reilly Artificial Intelligence Conference London 2019 | O'Reilly Artificial Intelligence Conference | speaker | Untitled as Logical Clocks | |
| Jun 19, 2019 | Beam Summit Europe 2019 | Beam Summit | speaker | End-to-End ML pipelines with Beam, Flink, TensorFlow, and Hopsworks as Logical Clocks | Video |
| Jun 16, 2019 | Berlin Buzzwords 2019 | Berlin Buzzwords | talk | Hops 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
| Speaker | Shared events | Shared talks | Last together |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cheuk Ting Ho | 4 | — | 2024 |
| James Powell | 4 | — | 2024 |
| Franz Kiraly | 3 | — | 2026 |
| Andy Terrel | 3 | — | 2025 |
| John Carney | 3 | — | 2025 |
| Chris Fonnesbeck | 3 | — | 2024 |
| Ian Ozsvald | 3 | — | 2024 |
| Jacob Tomlinson | 3 | — | 2024 |
| Zander Matheson | 3 | — | 2024 |
| Robert Crowe | 3 | — | 2022 |
| Christian Ledermann | 2 | — | 2026 |
| Allison Wang | 2 | — | 2025 |
| Avik Basu | 2 | — | 2025 |
| Carl Kadie | 2 | — | 2025 |
| David Aronchick | 2 | — | 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.