👏 Kudos to Ioana Blaut for compiling this nice overview post!

💡 Indeed it has been an awesome event. Good to re-connect with customers, partners and colleagues and getting to know some new - very interesting - people. Still reflecting on the numerous insightful and deep discussions.

🧳 Super excited to hear from customers who started their initially impossible appearing transformation journey and making great progress. Obviously #GenAI was also a topic. Great customer products and partner solutions showed clearly visible that we are moving uphill on the slope of enlightenment. Another journey I’m thrilled to continue with our customers and partners.

Sharing some positive energy from my morning run and the nice progress in preparation for next week’s MEDIENTAGE MÜNCHEN.

I’m planning to be at the event for all 3 days - happy to meet you there. I’ll be running two session there:

Oliver and I will kick-off on Wednesday with the masterclass “Von der Idee zur Realität” where we dive deep into various use cases for GenAI in the Media&Entertaining industry and how you can build those on AWS. [German Session]

Now that we have Generative AI and the power of LLMs, we can forget about classic recommender systems, right?!

Maybe not, we will see. Nensi Hakobjanyan and I take you through a journey of understanding what role LLMs can play in personalisation today. Spoiler - seldom in life we need to e.g. decide between taking a red or a blue pill, but often a good solution is composed by multiple approaches 🙂.

⁉ Are you into building Generative AI applications an looking for a good way to start?

🦄 Oliver Möller and I run a webinar on how to build Generative AI Applications. From “just” using a LLM to more complex workflows - we guide you through building your first GenAI Application on top of Amazon Bedrock, which brings a lot of flexibility and takes away a lot of undifferentiated heavy lifting from you as an application developer.

🚅 On my way to IBC - International Broadcasting Convention 2024. Reflecting on what happened since last year’s IBC. Leaving inflated expectations on AGI aside, it’s amazing to see how much progress we see in the adoption of (Gen)AI in M&E industry to improve end-user experience and drive successful monetisation of content, which eventually can translate in more and more-interesting content for end-users.

💡 Having that said, one of the key impact of the strong GenAI focus in the society was that - finally - “traditional AI got more and more adopted. Not every use case requires a frontier foundation model ;)

🏔 Just back from vacation - my heart is full of amazing impressions of the alps - I’m already up to new exciting adventures. I arrived at the DataFestival in Yerevan(Armenia, DataFest Yerevan). A beautiful crafted conference. We met some of the speakers already last night - I can tell you it is a super exciting agenda waiting for you.

💡 Nensi Hakobjanyan and I finished the final prep for out talk “Unlocking the Power of LLMs: Next generation recommender systems“ which will be on this afternoon (4:30). If you are around make sure that you drop by - it will be AWSome 😀

Last week I had the pleasure to join and present at the AWS GenAI Roundtable: Transforming the Marketing, Advertising, and Publishing Industry (https://lnkd.in/epV8Wa26) event.

Great opportunity to share my holiday pics to a wider audience. Kidding and not kidding. Used those to visualise the inflated expectations of LLM capabilities we experience and at the same time talked about the fantastic opportunities LLMs bring to the various industries. Check out Mark Watkins’s post on the event(https://lnkd.in/ey8Q8WiF), where he is referencing some of the demos the team showcased in the event and available online for your own consumption. Highly recommended to have a look. Source code available on GitHub!