AI Architecture for Tech Leaders: Building Blocks for AI Applications

The AI space is moving incredibly fast, it seems new methodologies and technologies are coming every week. How’s a technology leader (whether your a VP Engineering, Software Dev Manager or Team Lead) supposed to understand what are the true building blocks for this new class of applications. How do you scope an AI development project, both in terms of developer time and cloud & AI infrastructure? Should you buy AI hardware or pay for API access to OpenAI, Claude, Gemini, etc? Do you have sensitive information that you want to keep from leaking out to an external LLM provider?

In this session, we’ll tackle these issues and also discuss the evolution of applications and the difference between:

• existing applications that have added AI capability as an accessory

• this new class of applications that are built with AI in mind from the start

This session is intended to be interactive - I’ll start by laying the foundation for building AI applications today, and we’ll discuss the experiences of the tech leaders in the room so everyone can share and learn from each other.

About Pratik Patel

Pratik Patel is a Java Champion and developer advocate at Azul Systems and has written 3 books on programming (Java, Cloud and OSS). An all around software and hardware nerd with experience in the healthcare, telecom, financial services, and startup sectors. He's also a co-organizer of the Atlanta Java User Group and North Atlanta JavaScript meetup, frequent speaker at tech events, and master builder of nachos.

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