Track2: Analytics Innovation

Unlocking Creativity: Generative AI Applications with Vertex AI on Google Cloud

Explore the transformative power of Generative AI in your applications using Vertex AI on Google Cloud.

This hands-on workshop will guide participants through engaging exercises on leveraging Large Language Models like multimodal Gemini and PaLM. Learn to implement tasks such as ideation, sentiment analysis, text classification, text extraction from images or videos, and text summarization. Ideal for those seeking to enhance their understanding of Generative AI, this workshop will equip you with the skills to drive innovation and efficiency in your applications.

Learning goal

After the workshop, participants will be able to integrate LLMs, available in Google Cloud, in applications using APIs in Python, use multimodal LLMs like Gemini for tasks like text extraction and question answering in image and video data, use text LLMs like PaLM for tasks like sentiment analysis, ideation, text classification, and text summarization, as well as design effective prompts to optimize responses from the models.

Pre-requisites

Basic familiarity with Python is required.

  • Ilias Panagiotaras

    Ilias received his M.Eng. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens. He has extensive experience in AI and a demonstrated history of working on various data architectures and cloud platforms in the retail, legal and telecommunications industries. Ilias has been with the team since 2022.

  • George Verouchis

    George holds a Master Degree in Electrical Computer Engineering from the University of Patras. His previous professional experience extends in the field of Business Services where he worked as a Data Operations Project Coordinator, Researcher & Data Engineer. George has been with the team since 2023.