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In today’s world of data breaches and privacy concerns, establishing trust is essential. Architecting Trust explores how organizations can integrate Privacy by Design principles throughout the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), from planning to maintenance. This approach ensures that privacy is a core aspect of system architecture and not an afterthought. By proactively safeguarding user data, organizations can enhance customer trust, drive innovation, and comply with regulatory demands.

This session provides developers, architects, and project managers with the tools to make privacy a competitive advantage and to create trustworthy solutions by design.

This talk will provide a comprehensive overview of Google’s Tensor Processing Units (TPUs) and how they can revolutionize your Artificial Intelligence research. We will delve into the specialized architecture of TPUs, highlighting their significant performance advantages over traditional CPUs and GPUs for machine learning workloads, particularly in large-scale training and inference. The discussion will cover the concept of TPU Pods for distributed training and explore various use cases where TPUs excel.

A key focus will be on the TPU Research Cloud (TRC) program, which offers researchers access to these powerful computational resources at no charge. We will outline the application process for TRC and demonstrate how to leverage this program to accelerate your AI development. While VS Code will be showcased as a familiar and efficient interface for accessing and programming these TPUs, the emphasis remains firmly on the capabilities of the TPUs themselves.

Practical demonstrations will include training a model on the MNIST dataset using Keras, exploring applications from hand recognition to action, the methodology for training custom Large Language Models (LLMs) on TPUs, and more. Attendees will gain insights into harnessing the immense computational power of TPUs to tackle complex AI challenges and significantly reduce model training times, thereby supercharging their research endeavors.

This session will guide the audience through the evolving role of artificial intelligence in enterprise software. It begins by grounding the audience in the fundamentals of ERP systems, then highlights the top user pain points ripe for innovation. From there, the talk dives into practical strategies for infusing AI into ERP apps, offering a roadmap for developers on skills and technologies needed. It concludes with an inspiring look at global opportunities for those who can deliver intelligent ERP solutions in an era of digital transformation, automation, and business reinvention.