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Speakers

Sharon Zhou

Employers on the program

  1. 2025AMD2 talks
  2. 2023–2025Lamini4 talks

The year around now

Talks in the past 12 months and announced talks ahead, one row per conference, January to December. Hover a mark for the talk.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecAWS re:InventAWS re:Invent
Held in the past 12 months Next 12 months Today, Nov 9, 2026

Appearances by year

201920202021202220232024202520262027
  • AWS re:Invent
  • Cassandra Summit
  • Data + AI Summit
  • Data Council
  • ODSC (Open Data Science Conference)
  • PyTorch Conference

Talks

DateEventConferenceRoleTitleLinks
Dec 1, 2025AWS re:Invent 2025AWS re:InventbreakoutCustomer Insights: Scaling Real-World AI with AMD (sponsored by AMD)
as AMD
Join a dynamic customer panel to hear how leading organizations are accelerating real-world AI workloads using AMD powered solutions on AWS. From generative AI…Show less

Join a dynamic customer panel to hear how leading organizations are accelerating real-world AI workloads using AMD powered solutions on AWS. From generative AI and large language models to recommendation systems, panelists will share firsthand experiences deploying AMD’s latest technology in production.

Video
Oct 22, 2025PyTorch Conference 2025PyTorch ConferencekeynoteKeynote Panel Discussion: Hardwares & Accelerators
as AMD
Jun 9, 2025Data + AI Summit 2025Data + AI SummitspeakerComposing High-Accuracy AI Systems With SLMs and Mini-Agents
as Lamini
This session is repeated. For most companies, building compound AI systems remains aspirational. LLMs are powerful, but imperfect, and their non-deterministic…Show less

This session is repeated. For most companies, building compound AI systems remains aspirational. LLMs are powerful, but imperfect, and their non-deterministic nature makes steering them to high accuracy a challenge. In this session, we’ll demonstrate how to build compound AI systems using SLMs and highly accurate mini-agents that can be integrated into agentic workflows. You'll learn about breakthrough techniques, including: memory RAG, an embedding algorithm that reduces hallucinations using embed-time compute to generate contextual embeddings, improving indexing and retrieval, and memory tuning, a finetuning algorithm that reduces hallucinations using a Mixture of Memory Experts (MoME) to specialize models with proprietary data. We’ll also share real-world examples (text-to-SQL, factual reasoning, function calling, code analysis and more) across various industries. With these building blocks, we’ll demonstrate how to create high accuracy mini-agents that can be composed into larger AI systems.

Apr 22, 2025Data Council 2025Data CounciltalkRAGs to Riches: Engineering the Future of LLM Systems GenAI & agents
as Lamini
Oct 29, 2024ODSC West 2024ODSC (Open Data Science Conference)keynoteUntitled
as Lamini
Dec 12, 2023Cassandra Summit 2023Cassandra SummitkeynoteTeaching LLMs New Knowledge
as Lamini

Imbuing an LLM with new knowledge goes beyond just querying it (prompt-engineering and RAG).

Frequent co-speakers

SpeakerShared eventsShared talksLast together
Chip Huyen3—2025
Jerry Liu3—2025
AMIT RUSTAGI2—2025
Anush Elangovan2—2025
Aparna Dhinakaran2—2025
Chao Wang2—2025
Chintan Patel2—2025
Christopher Hallenbeck2—2025
Cole Bowden2—2025
Craig Wiley2—2025
Elias DeFaria2—2025
Franck Pachot2—2025
Gleb Mezhanskiy2—2025
Jason Wu2—2025
Jeff Boudier2—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.