Meet us in Sydney and let’s talk about how you can navigate your AI journey

Date: August 27, 2024

Venue: The Fullerton Hotel Sydney

Time: 13:00 PM – 18:00 PM

AI has officially taken off. Today, thousands of exciting projects are being taken to production in all industries, while a report by Deloitte found that use of gen AI by employees at Australian workplaces rose to 38% in 2023. Despite the wide and fast adoption of AI, businesses across the region are struggling to keep up, trying to educate employees about the risks of AI and introducing secure applications provided by experienced technology vendors. If you’re struggling with implementing AI in production, upskilling your workforce, or choosing trusted, secure solutions that respect compliance requirements, we’re here to help. Our upcoming AI workshop in Sydney will help organisations navigate this challenging AI journey and accelerate their time to market.

Canonical’s promise to offer secure open software goes beyond Ubuntu and covers your entire stack, including AI tooling. We provide solutions to enable organisations to run their ML workloads at all scales, from workstations to cloud and edge devices. The company’s experience of 20 years in the open source space is reflected in the AI industry, and is the reason we help organisations assess their AI readiness and build their ML infrastructure.

AI readiness assessment

AI has a huge potential to optimise costs, reduce manual tasks and enable innovation within any department. Organisations are put in front of a technological transformation that challenges them to restructure their entire infrastructure and reshape many of their processes. From optimising the compute power to introducing new tooling that enables machine learning operations (MLOps), they need to go through an entire journey before seeing any return on investment. 

Any AI initiative starts with initial experimentation on a workstation, which does not present a lot of problems. As projects progress, there is a need for more sophisticated tooling that can be used to automate ML workloads, optimise ML models and deploy them to edge devices. During the workshop, we will guide organisations in assessing their AI readiness and discuss how to build their architecture, depending on the use case or existing infrastructure.

GenAI with open source tooling

Linux Foundation reported in 2023 that almost half of the organisations prefer open source tooling for their GenAI projects. Open source lowers the barrier to entry, fosters collaboration and enables practitioners to experiment quickly. Despite this, enterprises still struggle because of security concerns, scalability of the ML tooling and costs associated with any GenAI initiatives.

During the executive AI workshop in Sydney, I will talk about how open source enables GenAI projects. During the talk, I will focus on the key considerations and challenges that organisations face when moving GenAI projects from experimentation to production, as well as the common pitfalls that the industry faces. The talk will highlight open source tools such as OpenSearch and Kubeflow, that are used to productise GenAI initiatives and what are the security risks that they address. At the end of it, you will be better equipped to run your GenAI projects in production, using secure open source tooling. 

Future of AI in Asia-Pacific

Halfway through the year, we will take the proposed points and do a deep dive into the topic, focusing on the Asia-Pacific region. Together with industry leaders from Dell Technologies and Firmusgrid Supercloud Pty Ltd, we will discuss about the challenges that companies face when it comes to AI, industries that are ahead of time and the next big things that Australia will embrace

This event is by invitation only and tailored specifically for executive and senior management levels. Invitations will be sent out one month prior to the event to ensure a curated and impactful experience. Please register your interest to attend this exclusive workshop and join us in shaping the future of AI.