ChatGPT & Large Language Models
About the Speakers
HPC & ESG Architect at World Wide Technology
Earl Dodd is World Wide Technology's Global HPC Business Practice Leader. He provides HPC/HPDA/Supercomputing strategy, technology enablement, business development, and ESG/Sustainability support to WWT's global enterprise and government customers. Earl helps an enterprise achieve its desired ROI/ROC by leveraging HPC+AI+Data technology, extreme data in motion, data center sustainability, and the cloud for secure ultra-scale architectures and collaboration environments. This effort drives the next generation of computationally steered workflows in decision support environments for real-time situational awareness, institutional learning, and ESG compliance.
Technical Solutions Architect at World Wide Technology
Greg is a Technical Solutions Architect at World Wide Technology. He has over 20 years experience in the technology field and 15 years experience with cloud technology. His background includes both infrastructure and data applications and he has helped enterprises deploy a wide array of solutions to the cloud. He has also been involved with artificial intelligence projects that include cloud APIs for computer vision, text classification, and large language models. In his free time, Greg is a hobbyist game programmer on Unreal Engine and also enjoys playing keyboard and guitar.
AI/ML Business Development Manager at World Wide Technology
Based in Parker, CO (South Denver), Bobby Baker joined WWT March 2023. Prior to that, he was at VMware (2+ yrs) and 23 yrs at Compaq/HP/HPE. During his career, he's held Presales, Product Management, and Solutions Develop roles in a number of industries and organizations, including Sprint, AT&T, IBM, as well as NASA Space Shuttle Flight Controller for Hubble Telescope Deployment and select DoD missions. In his free time, he enjoys Guitar (Classic Rock), Golf (Classic Hack), and Home Projects (Classic DIY). He's also physically active, spending time at the gym, walking, and biking. He was formerly Captain of University of Texas Water Polo Team.
Presentation Resources
Panel discussion covering: What (cool and unique) business use-cases are we seeing customers deploy LLM's or Deep Learning for? Things specific you should consider if your company is looking at an LLM project? Are there any vendors who are "doing it right" (Microsoft, Google, etc)? What does it take to build out an LLM or Deep Learning environment? The Microsoft roadmap for ChatGPT. Who are the competitors and who seems to be winning in that game? LLM's and company policies.