About the Session

In this episode of Leading With Data, we interact with Julien Simon, Chief Evangelist at Hugging Face 🤗

 

Julien Simon is an engineer at heart and has a knack for explaining complex technologies in a very simple and understandable format.

 

Watch as he delves into:

➡️ How he got hooked to computers as a young boy that charted his journey in this field

➡️ Explains his Evangelist role at Hugging Face and AWS

➡️ Talks about why the cutting-edge tools may not always be the solution for real-world problems

➡️ Underscores the need for more and better open-source LLMs

➡️ How he comes up with stunningly simple explanations to complex technologies

➡️ Why it is important to drill down to the core of the customer problem

➡️ His bet on industry leading open-source LLMs and local inference with LLMs for the coming years

About the Speaker

Julien is currently Chief Evangelist at Hugging Face. He previously spent 6 years at Amazon Web Services where he was the Global Technical Evangelist for AI & Machine Learning. Prior to joining AWS, Julien served for 10 years as CTO/VP Engineering in large-scale startups.