Harry Potter and the Elastic Python Clients

Ever wanted to revisit your favourite moments in a book or movie? To find that specific scene you don’t remember the exact dialogue from, but you know it was funny or emotional? Look no further! Call it overkill, but I’ve indexed the Harry Potter books and movie scripts to enable just that - complex, semantic search. By combining different third party LLMs (like sentiment analysis) and native vector search capabilities; with some extra special Elastic optimising magic sprinkled on top - we can go on a magical search journey. All of it powered by the (multiple!) Elastic Python clients.

Building my own (accurate!) Spotify Wrapped

Wrapped has become one of the most widely anticipated data analytics dashboards of the year. But what happens when the results aren't as complex (or accurate) as people were expecting? Data scientists come in to save the day!
Using elasticsearch and kibana I will be creating my own musical trends and insights using the user generated data - that you can also download and follow along with!
From queries, filters, and aggregations to visualizations, time series analysis, and brat summer - we will explore how search analytics can be used for every day cases.

How I built my own intelligent Robot Arm from Scratch

Are you tired of the same old AI, LLM, buzzword sessions and wondering if there is still anything new and cool out there we can do with AI? Do you crave an exciting, slightly ridiculous project that's just a lot of fun - while also learning about a whole new field with lots of promise? Don't miss this session!
Physical AI is about bringing together all the amazing breakthroughs (yes, like large language models) into the fields of robotics and embedded systems. We can make autonomous robots and systems that can generate their own movement instructions and evolve, without having to painstakingly define all the complex code or even tiny physics-engine implementations to get going.
But first - we need to build actual robots! As someone coming from the data science field - this may sound like a bit of a leap.
However, with a "I'm sure it can't be that hard" attitude, a bunch of electronics components, and an uncontainable enthusiasm - I set out to do just that.
I will share the story of building my own Robot Arm from 0 to an incrementally more complex prototype, and how I started giving it some "AI superpowers", and what's next in this exciting field!

I will bring my robot arm prototypes to show and control live - an exciting and very different showcase to the "regular" talks!
I'm showing the entire engineering journey - testing out different hardwares, some C++ and Python code examples, using common household items as robot joints, etc - all the way to 3D printed components.
It will be a super fun talk + a lot of takeaways about robotics 101

Videos:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLA91EvK7Dr_t3BMHld1zLkzEQFPPG1A56