Author: Optimized AI Conference

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A technical workshop exploring context engineering for AI agents, contrasting it with standard RAG systems. Presenters Robert and Ricardo demonstrate dynamic, user-aware LLM applications using Redis for vector search and memory management, covering agent architecture, scalability patterns, and a live Alexa-integrated long-term memory demo.

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AWS Senior Generative AI Specialist Anton Alexander demonstrates an agentic coding platform he built to rewrite CUDA kernels on AWS EFA networking, achieving a 20% performance improvement. The workshop covers automated Kubernetes deployment, Docker container management, and GPU-accelerated code optimization using AI agents.

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Hamza Farooq, founder of Traversaal AI, leads a hands-on workshop on building multi-agent architectures using Google’s Agent Development Kit (ADK). Attendees explore a clonable codebase to construct multi-agent ecosystems.

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Faradawn Yang delivers a three-part hands-on workshop covering GPU architecture fundamentals including tensor cores and streaming processors, cost-efficient model training strategies, and inference optimization techniques. Participants gain practical experience with H100 GPUs through live exercises.

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Trey Grainger, author of AI-Powered Search, explores retrieval optimization beyond standard lexical, semantic, and hybrid search approaches. The workshop covers the evolution from RAG to agentic search, the search relevance problem, and advanced modern retrieval techniques that improve information retrieval for both traditional search systems and AI-powered agentic applications.

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AI engineer Lennon Shikhman presents neural PDE solvers that replace traditional numerical methods for physics simulations, enabling deployment on edge devices like the Dell Pro Max. The talk covers model quantization techniques that bring supercomputer-class weather forecasting and fluid dynamics simulations to portable three-pound computers without sacrificing accuracy.

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Joshua Cazoe of First Movers shares how AI-powered marketing automation can transform small and medium businesses when implemented correctly. He addresses why most businesses fail at AI adoption and offers practical solutions.

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Brothers Jared and Lamar Rhodes explore building AI agents versus building with AI agents, using a custom World of Warcraft server as their experimental platform. They demonstrate creating AI-driven character personalities that emulate player behavior, leveraging a dockerized background client architecture designed to scale thousands of autonomous agent instances.

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Dawn Choo, co-founder of So What Data and former data scientist at Meta and Patreon, provides a realistic assessment of Claude Code’s capabilities for data professionals. Drawing from extensive interviews with practitioners, she shares practical strategies for maximizing productivity with AI coding tools while setting appropriate expectations for their current limitations.

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The Furniture.com team presents their AI-powered product discovery platform serving over two million products across 77 retailers. They detail their custom fine-tuned semantic search model hosted on Databricks, real-time personalization that adapts to user behavior during browsing sessions, and graph-based search with VLM-enhanced embeddings for superior furniture recommendations.

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