Uphill Conf 2024 (4th edition)

16 & 17 May, 2024 | Bern, Switzerland

In 2024, the AI community gathered in Bern for Uphill Conf's sold-out edition, where software developers explored the practical, real-world impact of Artificial Intelligence on engineering. The conference brought together national and international experts to share hands-on insights and cutting-edge applications, proving that AI isn't just theory. It's reshaping how we build software today.

Photos 2024 on Flickr

Talks 2024

Neural Networks: Where they are now, where they came from, and where they might go

Joshua Starmer

Unlocking the Potential of Large Language Models: RAG - Augment LLMs With Your Specific Data and Knowledge

Lisa Carpenter

Build the new generation of AI Agents with Google Gemini and Angular

Gerard Sans

Building Machine Learning Applications using Hugging Face

Lewis Tunstall

Training Large Language Models in the Open

Leandro von Werra

Efficient Pretraining of Text-to-Image Models

Pablo Pernías, Dominic Rampas

Would you like fries with that? How we added AI-powered recommendations to Developer Hub

Kyra Goud, Josephine Pfeiffer

From ML to LLM: On-Device AI in the Browser

Nico Martin

Building AI Applications: Successes and Lessons from Real World Projects

Tobias Kluge

Transforming Your Knowledge Ecosystem: Strategies for Enhanced Personal Knowledge Management with LLMs and Second Brain Techniques

Marc Herren

Speakers 2024

Joshua Starmer

Founder and CEO at StatQuest and Lead AI Educator at Lightning AI

Elle O'Brien

Lecturer and Research Investigator at University of Michigan

Chanel Greco

Technology content creator, MC Uphill Conf

Lewis Tunstall

Machine Learning Engineer at Hugging Face

Miquel Farré

Entrepreneur, prev. Google/YouTube and Disney

Leandro von Werra

Machine Learning Engineer at Hugging Face

Dave Berenbaum

Technical Product Manager at Iterative.ai

Lisa Carpenter

Lead Data Science & AI Instructor at Digital Futures

Gerard Sans

Generative AI GDE

Michael Gygli

Principal Applied Scientist at Zalando

Dominic Rampas

Machine Learning Research in StabilityAI

Pablo Pernías

Machine Learning Research in StabilityAI

pngwn (Pete)

Software Engineer at Hugging Face

Nico Martin

Google Developer Expert in Web Technologies

Dmytro Liubarskyi

Creator and Lead developer, LangChain4j

Dimitris Andreadis

Engineering Director at Red Hat, Quarkus Team, Cloud Native Runtimes

Lize Raes

Team Lead & Software Engineer in Bioinformatics and Generative AI

Kyra Goud

Specialist Solution Architect, Red Hat

Tobias Kluge

Mr. AI at Nexplore

Josephine Pfeiffer

Cloud Native Consultant, Red Hat

Marc Herren

Founder of remmen.io