API World + CloudX + Dev Innovation Summit 2024: Full Schedule

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9:00am PST

[Virtual] PRO WORKSHOP (API): Automating and Scaling the Creative Process with Adobe Firefly Services

Tuesday November 12, 2024 9:00am - 9:50am PST

Raymond Camden, Adobe, Senior Developer Evangelist

Creatives of all sorts are under pressure to generate assets for multiple campaigns, regions, products, styles, and more. Generative AI can be an incredible boost for productivity while allowing designers control over the creative process. In this session, I'll introduce you to Adobe's Firefly Services, a set of easy to use REST APIs for AI image creation, image manipulation, and audio and video enhancements.

Speakers

Raymond Camden

Senior Developer Evangelist, Adobe

Raymond Camden is a Senior Developer Evangelist for Adobe. He helps developers learn and adopt multiple APIs at Adobe. He is the author of multiple books on web development and has been actively blogging and presenting for almost twenty years. Raymond can be reached at his blog... Read More →

Tuesday November 12, 2024 9:00am - 9:50am PST
VIRTUAL API World -- Workshop Stage C

API World: API Innovation, Emerging APIs: AI, IoT, Blockchain, Web3, XR

Talk Type PRO Workshop
Track or Conference Emerging APIs: AI & IoT & Blockchain & Web3 & XR (API World), API World, API World: API Strategy, API World: API Innovation, API Case Studies & Success Stories (API World), Virtual
In-Person/Virtual Virtual

11:00am PST

[Virtual Exclusive] PRO WORKSHOP (API): Learn to Maximize AI performance through Open-Source Computer Vision based Retail Solution

Tuesday November 12, 2024 11:00am - 11:50am PST

VIRTUAL API World -- Workshop Stage B

Neethu Elizabeth Simon, Intel, Senior Software Engineer
Antonio Martinez, Intel, Software Engineer
Brian McGinn, Intel, Software Solution Developer

Computer vision is revolutionizing various industries, and retail is no exception. While AI applications have many benefits, proof-of-concepts do not scale successfully into larger, implemented deployments. Retailers, independent software vendors (ISVs), and system integrators (SIs) require a good understanding of both hardware and software, maintaining AI models in production and having in-depth knowledge of costs involved in setting up and scaling these systems. Vision workloads are significantly larger, complex, undergo multiple stages of processing and therefore require systems to be architected, built, and deployed with several considerations. To make it easier for software developers to understand the optimizations and hardware capabilities, Automated Self-Checkout is developed- an open-source initiative for vision-enabled retail use cases, providing optimized code blocks, documentation, and performance benchmark data to enhance and accelerate developer’s product and project work.

This Open-Source project is a community developed project that provides the tools needed to launch and benchmark a computer vision-based workload on your local device.

In this hands-on workshop we will demonstrate how to utilize the automated-self-checkout solution to run Docker containers with open-source Intel OpenVINO toolkit and benchmark their performance on different hardware platforms. Through this interactive workshop, attendees will be able to setup and run the AI computer vision-based retail pipelines using this solution. Attendees will also gain knowledge on how to benchmark the workloads using this tool for obtaining maximum hardware performance.

Speakers

Antonio Martinez

Software Engineer, Intel

Antonio is a software engineer with a strong focus on AI applications. He has more than 10 years of experience in software development.He currently holds the esteemed position of technical lead at Intel, where he is responsible for guiding projects and leading teams to develop cutting-edge... Read More →

Brian McGinn

Software Solution Developer, Intel

Brian McGinn is a software architect and technical lead at Intel for the Health, Education, and Consumer Technologies group. He has developed software with Intel for the past 13 years and most recently working with open source computer vision and AI solutions in the retail space... Read More →

Neethu Elizabeth Simon

Senior Software Engineer, Intel Corporation

Neethu Elizabeth Simon is an IOT/ML Senior Software Engineer in Network & Edge Group at Intel Corporation, with vast industrial experience in building smart end-to-end computer vision-based AI/ML solutions in retail, biopharma, healthcare etc. Neethu holds Master’s in Computer Science... Read More →

Tuesday November 12, 2024 11:00am - 11:50am PST
VIRTUAL API World -- Workshop Stage B

API World: API Innovation, Industries: Open Banking & Healthcare & Retail

Talk Type PRO Workshop
Track or Conference API World, Virtual, API World: API Innovation, Industries: Open Banking & Healthcare & Retail (API World), Emerging APIs: AI & IoT & Blockchain & Web3 & XR (API World)
In-Person/Virtual Virtual, Virtual Exclusive

11:00am PST

[Virtual] PRO WORKSHOP (API): Next Gen API Ecosystem

Tuesday November 12, 2024 11:00am - 11:50am PST

VIRTUAL API World -- Workshop Stage C

John Power, Ostia Solutions, CEO

Join us for a look into the next generation of API Ecosystem design and deployment, led by industry experts John and Leo. In this workshop, you'll learn how a No-Code approach can transform the API lifecycle: enabling rapid development, and fostering greater collaboration among stakeholders.

We'll tackle common challenges head-on, including ensuring consistency across environments (Sandbox, Test & Production) and refining partner, developer and end-user experiences.

Speakers

John Power

CEO, Ostia Solutions

John Power has over 40 years experience in software development and has focused on the the design and deployment of APIs / API Ecosystems for the past 20 years.

Tuesday November 12, 2024 11:00am - 11:50am PST
VIRTUAL API World -- Workshop Stage C

API World: API Innovation, Hybrid APIs

Talk Type PRO Workshop
Track or Conference API World, API World: API Innovation, Hybrid APIs & Low Code APIs (API World), API World: API Lifecycle, API-First Development (API World), Virtual
In-Person/Virtual Virtual

1:00pm PST

[Virtual] PRO WORKSHOP (API): Using Vector Databases for Multimodal Search and Retrieval Augmented Generation

Tuesday November 12, 2024 1:00pm - 1:50pm PST

VIRTUAL API World -- Workshop Stage C

Zain Hasan, Together AI, Senior ML DevRel Engineer

Many real-world problems are inherently multimodal, from the communicative modalities humans use such as spoken language and gestures to the force, sensory, and visual sensors used in robotics. For machine learning models to address these problems and interact more naturally and wholistically with the world around them and ultimately be more general and powerful reasoning engines, we need them to understand data across all of its corresponding images, video, text, audio, and tactile representations.

In this talk, Zain Hasan will discuss how we can use open-source multimodal embedding models in conjunction with large generative multimodal models that can that can see, hear, read, and feel data(!), to perform cross-modal search(searching audio with images, videos with text etc.) and multimodal retrieval augmented generation (MM-RAG) at the billion-object scale with the help of open source vector databases. I will also demonstrate, with live code demos, how being able to perform this cross-modal retrieval in real-time can enables users to use LLMs that can reason over their enterprise multimodal data. This talk will revolve around how we can scale the usage of multimodal embedding and generative models in production.

Speakers

Zain Hasan

Senior ML DevRel Engineer, Together AI

Zain Hasan is a Senior ML DevRel Engineer at Together AI an open-source vector database. He is an engineer and data scientist by training, who pursued his undergraduate and graduate work at the University of Toronto building artificially intelligent assistive technologies. He then... Read More →

Tuesday November 12, 2024 1:00pm - 1:50pm PST
VIRTUAL API World -- Workshop Stage C

API World: API Innovation, Industries: Open Banking & Healthcare & Retail

Talk Type PRO Workshop
Track or Conference Industries: Open Banking & Healthcare & Retail (API World), API World, API World: API Innovation, Emerging APIs: AI & IoT & Blockchain & Web3 & XR (API World), Virtual
In-Person/Virtual Virtual

1:00pm PST

[Virtual] PRO WORKSHOP (API): Powerful APIs for Building Microservices

Tuesday November 12, 2024 1:00pm - 1:50pm PST

VIRTUAL API World -- Workshop Stage B

Fernando Rocha, Diagrid, Customer Success Engineer

Starting a new project can be daunting. Choosing a technology for messaging, storage, workflows (and others) is a big commitment that takes time for developers. An ever increasing number of libraries, frameworks, cloud services and infrastructure lead to code sprawl, refactoring, lock-in, and security vulnerabilities, forcing developers to become experts of everything and ship code that’s hard to maintain. Switching between technologies is a risky, incredibly complex, and costly process. The flexibility is there, but it has a big price.

Meet Catalyst!

Powered by Dapr (Distributed Application Runtime), the 12th largest Cloud Native Computing Foundation project, Catalyst provides developers with APIs that remain consistent while the underlying infrastructure can be swapped out with little to no code changes. For teams using multiple programming languages or running in multiple clouds, Catalyst provides a single API for interacting with the underlying infrastructure, drastically reducing the amount of code and maintenance you’re on the hook for. Not only that, these APIs already embed best practices on security and reliability. If that's not amazing enough, Catalyst runs as-a-service, so there’s nothing to install or manage!

Join us to learn how Catalyst can add infrastructure flexibility, zero trust security, and fault tolerance to your distributed solutions with no extra development time!

Speakers

Fernando Rocha

Customer Success Engineer, Diagrid

Fernando is a Customer Success Engineer @ Diagrid.io specializing in distributed architectures on Dapr OSS.Fernando is also a founding member of the Cloud Native Vancouver Chapter. For the last 10 of his 15 years of experience in IT, Fernando has been helping teams modernize and innovate... Read More →

Tuesday November 12, 2024 1:00pm - 1:50pm PST
VIRTUAL API World -- Workshop Stage B

API World: Microservices World, Microservices Design & Architecture

Talk Type PRO Workshop
Track or Conference API World, API World: Microservices World, Microservices Design & Architecture (API World), API World: API Innovation, Hybrid APIs & Low Code APIs (API World), Virtual
In-Person/Virtual Virtual

2:00pm PST

[Virtual] PRO WORKSHOP (API): AI Needs APIs: Dynamic Data Access for Next-Gen Experiences

Tuesday November 12, 2024 2:00pm - 2:50pm PST

VIRTUAL API World -- Workshop Stage C

Andrew Carlson, Apollo GraphQL, Principal Field Architect

Gartner predicts that by 2026, more than 30% of the increase in demand for APIs will come from artificial intelligence and tools using large language models. API sprawl is a hazardous form of technical debt. It has hard costs from hosting and scaling a fleet of APIs, real security risks and an increased operational burden from the sheer number of APIs that platform engineering teams need to manage. With GraphQL, any client, even an LLM, can request exactly the data they need without over or under-fetching. And with federated GraphQL, the data can come from any underlying API.

Learn popular use cases for implementing the graph in an AI-driven experience, how organizations can safely adopt AI on a spectrum from low to high trust, and why GraphQL is an ideal API access layer for AI.

Speakers

Andrew Carlson

Principal Field Architect, Apollo GraphQL

Andrew is an experienced Principal Architect and leader who lives to collect experiences and new perspectives, and he’s gathered a lot of hobbies along the way.When he’s not helping companies like Ford, Amex, Sherwin-Williams, and Unilever scale their architecture and technical... Read More →

Tuesday November 12, 2024 2:00pm - 2:50pm PST
VIRTUAL API World -- Workshop Stage C

API World: API Innovation, Emerging APIs: AI & IoT & Blockchain & Web & XR

Talk Type PRO Workshop
Track or Conference API World, API World: API Innovation, Emerging APIs: AI & IoT & Blockchain & Web3 & XR (API World), API World: API Strategy, Integration Management (API World), Virtual
In-Person/Virtual Virtual

2:00pm PST

[Virtual] PRO WORKSHOP (API): Need a Backend for Your Frontend?

Tuesday November 12, 2024 2:00pm - 2:50pm PST

VIRTUAL API World -- Workshop Stage A

Terje Woldseth, Softeria AS, CEO

Can you create your API-enabled backend with a no-code service?

Explore the opportunities provided by no-code/low-code providers to create POCs, MVPs and production-grade solutions.

Reduced cost and time-to-market vs. the flexibility of a homegrown backend.

Speakers

Terje Woldseth

CEO, Softeria

CEO and founder at Softeria AS, CTO and founder at Twoday Avento AS, CTO and founder at Payex AS

Tuesday November 12, 2024 2:00pm - 2:50pm PST
VIRTUAL API World -- Workshop Stage A

API World: API Innovation, Hybrid APIs

Talk Type PRO Workshop
Track or Conference API World, API World: API Innovation, Hybrid APIs & Low Code APIs (API World), API World: API Lifecycle, API-First Development (API World), Virtual
In-Person/Virtual Virtual

2:00pm PST

[Virtual] PRO WORKSHOP (CloudX): Building Guardrails for Generative AI: Security, Compliance, and Responsible Innovation

Tuesday November 12, 2024 2:00pm - 2:50pm PST

VIRTUAL CloudX -- Main Stage

Ken Huang, DistributedApps, CEO and Chief AI Officer

This presentation introduces a comprehensive framework for testing and validating the security of generative AI applications, particularly those built on large language models (LLMs). Developed by Ken Huang (the Speaker) and World Digital Technology Academy's AI Safety, Trust, and Responsibility (STR) working group, the framework addresses the new attack surfaces and risks introduced by generative AI.

The standard covers the entire AI application stack, including base model selection, embedding and vector databases, prompt execution/inference, agentic behaviors, fine-tuning, response handling, and runtime security. For each layer, it outlines specific testing methods and expected outcomes to ensure AI applications behave securely and as designed throughout their lifecycle.

Key areas of focus include model compliance, data usage checks, API security, prompt injection testing, output validation, and privacy protection. The framework also addresses emerging challenges like agentic behaviors, where AI agents autonomously perform tasks based on predefined objectives.

Speakers

Ken Huang

CEO and Chief AI Officer, DistributedApps

Ken Huang is a prolific author and renowned expert in AI and Web3, with numerous published books spanning AI and Web3 business and technical guides and cutting-edge research. As Co-Chair of the AI Safety Working Groups at the Cloud Security Alliance, and Co-Chair of AI STR Working... Read More →

Tuesday November 12, 2024 2:00pm - 2:50pm PST
VIRTUAL CloudX -- Main Stage

API World: API Innovation, Emerging APIs: AI & IoT & Blockchain & Web & XR

Talk Type PRO Session
Track or Conference Virtual, CloudX, API World, API World: API Innovation, Emerging APIs: AI & IoT & Blockchain & Web3 & XR (API World)
In-Person/Virtual Virtual, Virtual Exclusive