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Sam Julien

Director of Developer Relations
Writer

PRESENTATION TITLE:

Escaping AI Proof-of-Concept Purgatory:
Techniques for Enterprise AI Engineers

PRESENTATION SUMMARY:

Atom icon for The AI Conference 2023, a groundbreaking two-day event on AGI, LLMs, Infrastructure, Alignment, AI Startups, and Neural Architectures.Many organizations implementing generative AI find themselves trapped in “proof-of-concept purgatory,” unable to transform promising experiments into production-ready solutions. This talk provides a practical roadmap for overcoming critical challenges in AI engineering for enterprises through a “full-stack” approach to generative AI.

Brain icon for The AI Conference 2023, a groundbreaking two-day event on AGI, LLMs, Infrastructure, Alignment, AI Startups, and Neural Architectures.

We’ll explore strategies for managing project scope, enhancing accuracy through domain-specific models and graph-based RAG, and navigating web development intricacies in AI applications. Using real-world examples, we’ll demonstrate how these elements come together.

Attendees will gain a clear framework for tackling core challenges in AI engineering for enterprises, empowering them to escape proof-of-concept purgatory and deliver AI systems that drive tangible business value.

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About | Sam Julien

Sam Julien is the Director of Developer Relations at Writer. He’s also an instructor for egghead.io and the author of Getting Started in Developer Relations and the Developer Microskills newsletter.

When he's not writing or coding, Sam loves spending time with his family in the PNW. You can find more of his work at samjulien.com.