Sunday, February 25, 2024

Building a Keynote Presentation

If you have to build a keynote presentation, or any presentation for a large audience, what are the key areas to focus on? Here’s some tips on story-telling and audience engagement.

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BUILDING THE OVERALL STORY

  • Think of your presentation as a story. It can be hero/villian, preacher approach (tell, tell, tell), an analogy, partially educational. Lots of different approaches work. 
  • Put yourself in the audience’s shoes. Who are they? Would they want to hear your story?
  • What does the audience get out of your talk? 

THE KEY AREAS TO FOCUS ON

  • Are you bringing the right level of energy for the room? Are you educating, or motivating, or introducing new ideas?
  • Are you bringing empathy for your audience, or are you trying to portray confidence/leadership?
  • Are you at the right level for the audience? Technical vs. Business. Prior knowledge required? What about a mixed audience?
  • How are you interacting with the audience? Do they provide any feedback (raising hands, laughing at jokes, applause, etc.)?
  • Plan for 2-3 minutes per slide. Try not to waste any slides. 
  • If you’re introducing new ideas, don’t make people listen AND read at the same time. Keep the visual simple and easy to view. 
  • “Sell” the important parts. Emphasize them. Alter the pace to ensure people get it. 
  • Use data (stats, graphs, charts) that make concepts easier to understand, or better emphasized.
  • Use comparisons - especially with new ideas. 
  • Demonstrations can be valuable, but make sure it’s at the right level for the audience - and that it works (pre-recorded is an option)


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Wednesday, February 21, 2024

Validation and Guardrails for LLMs

Shreya Rajpal (@ShreyaR, CEO @guardrails_ai ) talks about the need to provide guardrails and validation of LLM’s, along with common use cases and Guardrail AI’s new Hub.

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Before we dive into today’s discussion, tell us a little bit about your background.

Topic 2 - Our topic today is the validation and accuracy of AI with guardrails. Let’s start with the why… Why do we need guardrails for LLMs today?

Topic 3 - Where and how do you control (maybe validate is a better word) outputs from LLM’s today? What are your thoughts on the best way to validate outputs?

Topic 4 - Will this workflow work with both closed-source (ChatGPT) and opensource (Llama2) models? Would this process apply to training/fine-tuning or more for inference? Would this potentially replace humans in the loop that we see today or is this completely different?

Topic 5 - What are some of the most common early use cases and practical examples? PII detection comes to mind, violation of ethics or laws, off-topic/out of scope, or simply just something the model isn’t designed to provide?

Topic 6 - What happens if it fails? Does this create a loop scenario to try again?

Topic 7 - Let’s talk about Guardrails AI specifically. Today you offer an open-source marketplace of Validators in the Guardrails Hub, correct? As we mentioned earlier, almost everyone’s implementation and guardrails they want to implement will be different. Is the best way to think about this as building blocks using validators that are pieced together?  Tell everyone a little bit about the offering

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Sunday, February 18, 2024

Experiencing The Sphere in Las Vegas

Stu Miniman (@stu, Senior Director of Market Insights @RedHat) talks about the experience of The Sphere (@SphereVegas) in Las Vegas

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Topic 1 - Welcome back to the show. I think it’s fair to say that you’re a veteran of Las Vegas. How many times do you think you’ve been out there for tech-event related things? 

Topic 2 - With tech events coming back, and even non-tech events going live again, Las Vegas is going to be a destination for a lot of people around our community. What did you know about The Sphere prior to visiting this past week? 

Topic 3 - Tell us about the basics of The Sphere. How do you get there? Where is it in Las Vegas? What’s the entrance like?

Topic 4 - Beyond the movies or concerts in the stadium, what else is going on in the building? 

Topic 5 - Let’s talk about the actual stadium experience. What’s the seating like, what are you seeing, how’s the sound? 

Topic 6 - Any tips or tricks for anyone considering a visit to The Sphere? 


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Wednesday, February 14, 2024

APIs and AI Gateways

Marco Palladino (@subnetmarco, CTO/Co-Founder @thekonginc) talks about the evolution of APIs, the need for consolidation and integration of AI APIs, and introduces the AI Gateway.

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Before we dive into today’s discussion, tell us a little bit about your background at Kong and prior to Kong.

Topic 2 - Now that the world is obsessed with AI and AI Models, what roles do APIs continue to play for applications?

Topic 3 - You’ve lived through the API marketplace days. Do you see a lot of differences between API marketplaces and model marketplaces (e.g. like HuggingFace)?

Topic 4 - You’ve talked recently about the concept of an AI Gateway, somewhat as an evolution of an API Gateway. Walk us through this new concept.

Topic 5 - API Gateways can provide a lot of protection for known things by looking into various headers, security keys, and packet data. Can you imagine AI Gateways being able to have insights into model data to do things like Prompt Control, Hallucination Control, etc.?

Topic 6 - We’ve seen the merging of API Gateways (North/South) and Service Mesh (East/West) traffic as new application patterns emerged. Do you think we’ll see new traffic patterns again with AI traffic and AI model interactions? 

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Sunday, February 11, 2024

The Curious Case of AI, Funding and Cloud Credits

Big 3 cloud providers investing in AI with cloud credits. $7 trillion dollar big plans. VCs concerned about AI valuations. It feels like a new set of rules are being created. 

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ARE CLOUD CREDITS THE NEW VENTURE CAPITAL?

  • “Microsoft's Q2 2024 earnings report states that AI services contributed 6 percentage points of growth to Azure revenue. This is an increase from 3 percentage points in the previous quarter.” 

KEEP AN EYE ON AI USAGE “TRENDS” FROM THE BIG CLOUD PROVIDERS

  • Is this a problem for VCs? 
  • Is this “good” revenue for the cloud providers?
  • Are they just smart for utilizing an asset that they can monopolize?
  • How to track user-growth (e.g. OpenAI) and cloud-usage-growth (e.g. Big 3)
  • How much will people invest to build an alternative to NVIDIA?

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Wednesday, February 7, 2024

Cloud News of the Month - January 2024

Welcome to the inaugural Cloud News of the Month. Aaron and Brian talk about the biggest tech stories from January 2024.

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Topic 1 - Let’s begin with the state of work - employees vs. management.

Topic 2 - Lots of changes finally announced by Broadcom about the new VMware (here, here)

Topic 3 - We’re starting to see the end of the Unicorns of 2021. This feels like it’s going to be a quiet crash.

Topic 4 - The CNCF and Linux foundation released some project velocity numbers. Looks like Kubernetes, GitOps, Telemetry, Backstage are at the top, with some noise around Envoy/Istio/Cilium

Topic 5 - There was a lot of buzz around Basecamp’s numbers for repatriating back to their private cloud.

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Sunday, February 4, 2024

Bundling, Unbundling and Ensh*tification

Some say the Internet has gone to sh*t. Between bundling and unbundling, how does “ensh*tification” happen, and are there ways to prevent or reduce it?

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IN THE DIGITAL WORLD, IT’S EASY TO BUNDLE THINGS TOGETHER

  • The only way to unlock valid is through bundling and unbundling
  • There is a fine line between innovation, growth and platform creep. 
  • Nobody likes when free stuff goes away or gets complicated

CAPITALISM, FREE-ISM, AND ALIGNMENT OF INCENTIVES

  • Expected growth rates are set by the companies. 
  • People in tech are always asking “what’s next?”
  • There’s a difference between early adopters and mainstream


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