We’re pleased to sponsor these innovative conferences to facilitate connections, transfer knowledge, and highlight advances in Deloitte Engineering with the developer community of API providers and consumers.
October 24-26, 2023, In-Person, Santa Clara Convention Center
October 31-Nov 2, 2023, Virtual Conference
Check out our amazing speaker sessions to learn more about how Deloitte delivers an Engineering Advantage.
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| Innovation stage: | How to Build Future Forward-Proof API Architecture Design |
| In-Person Session: | Wednesday, October 25, 2023. 9:30 AM - 9:55 AM (PT) |
| Virtual Session: | Wednesday, November 1, 2023. 9:30 AM - 9:55 AM (PT) |
| Moderator: | Alpinder Sidhu, Senior API Architect, Deloitte Consulting |
| Panelist: | Guang Yao, Director Software Engineering, CME |
 | Alpinder Sidhu, Senior API Architect, Deloitte brings over 7 years of expertise in software development, enterprise integration, and API orchestration. His extensive domain knowledge encompasses finance, automotive, and fluid solutions, which underpins his role in spearheading transformative API implementations. These implementations not only enhance performance but also bolster security. Backed by a range of certifications, Alpinder excels in devising intricate API strategies that seamlessly integrate security models, automation, and innovation. His forward-thinking insights consistently cultivate elevated engineering experiences, leaving a lasting impact on the digital transformation landscape. | |
 | Guang Yao, Director Software Engineering, CME is an experienced software architect and technology leader in designing, implementing and integrating enterprise applications in financial services industry. Since 1997 he has been working at CME Group, one of the world's largest derivative exchanges, developing various software solutions in customer identity and access management domain. Currently he is leading the development of an enterprise application security system used by hundreds of applications throughout the exchange. Guang has a master’s degree in health informatics from the University of Minnesota and an MBA from the University of Chicago. | |
CME Session details:
It’s not enough to just use the cloud, have APIs, or simply adopt API management. During this session Guang Yao, Director Software Engineering, CME and Alpinder Sidhu, Senior Integration Consultant, Deloitte share how to approach engineering for your organization by building a future forward and flexible mechanism to manage the configuration of your APIs.
CME will share how they’ve worked with Deloitte to implement current best of breed API technologies to transform their Customer Center and application security framework. They’ll also share how they effectively integrated an API management solution with their existing systems.
What you’ll learn:
- Why it’s important to approach your design architecture to be flexible for the future.
- How to bring a best-in-breed API management solution (like Apigee X) into your existing systems
- View the technology diagram that outlines steps for a successful integration and implementation
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| Keynote: | Keynote Session. Navigating GenAI Invention, Innovation & Disruption |
| In-Person Session: | Tuesday, October 24, 2023. 12:00 PM - 12:5 PM (PT) Wednesday, October 25, 2023. 1:30 PM - 1:55 PM (PT) |
| Virtual Session: | Wednesday, November 1, 2023. 1:30 PM - 1:55 PM (PT) |
| Moderator: | Khurram Latif, Managing Director, AI and Data Engineering, Deloitte Consulting |
| Panelist: | Michaël Chaize, Sr. Director of Product and Justin Hiza, Vice President, Data Services |
 | Khurram Latif, Managing Director, AI and Data Engineering, Deloitte Consulting is an AI & Data Engineering Practice leader focused on the TMT industry and has over 20 years of experience in delivering custom web, mobile, and AI/ML applications, modern data tools, platforms, and cloud-native intelligent products and platforms. He has helped his clients stand up engineering organizations while infusing modern product engineering practices into their organization’s ability to deliver solutions. He is known for leading modern complex delivery programs. Khurram is currently leading multiple Generative AI initiatives and projects. | |
 | Michaël Chaize, Sr. Director of Product, Shutterstock oversees the utilization of Generative AI and Creative Automation to support individuals in realizing their creative visions with Shutterstock assets. With more than 20 years of experience in the creative industry, Michaël has held product leadership positions at Adobe and InVision. Additionally, Michaël has been invited as a speaker at various international events, highlighting creative trends and the transformative role of technology for creative professionals. | |
 | Justin Hiza, Vice President, Data Services, Shutterstock Justin is currently the Vice President of Data Services at Shutterstock, where he manages the technology solutions to solve customer needs across the company's full content lifecycle. This spans from content acquisition to search, recommendations, generative, and other data commercialization opportunities. He also plays a strategic role across data commercialization and generative AI. Justin has more than 15 years of experience in the creative content industry and more than 20 years in technology as a whole. |
Navigating Invention, Innovation & Disruption in the Age of AI
AI is transforming industries faster than anyone expected. With accelerated pressure to adapt and innovate, engineering and product teams across industries are changing their product roadmaps even as new applications for AI remain in nascent development.
In this session, Khurram Latif, Deloitte Managing Director, AI TMT will lead a discussion with Shutterstock's Head of Data Services Justin Hiza, and Sr. Director of Product Michaël Chaize about how they’ve mobilized Shutterstock’s resources quickly to deliver an Engineering Advantage while building new technology, new products, and new business models as the ecosystem around them fundamentally changed.
What you’ll learn:
- What works and what doesn’t when it comes to Ai-powered development
- Preparing for learning curves
- How to reskill existing teams and spin up new ones
- Frameworks for addressing ethical questions amid the growing unknowns AI presents
- Advice for how to change your gameplan when the game around you changes
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| Keynote: | The Interaction Layer of the Future: Unleashing Language Models for Digital Assistants |
| In-Person Session: | Thursday, October 26, 2023, 11:30 - 11:55 AM (PT) |
| Virtual Session: | Thursday, November 2, 2023, 11:30 AM - 11:55 AM (PT) |
| Moderator: | Khurram Latif, Managing Director, AI and Data Engineering, Deloitte Consulting |
| Panelist: | Rajib Deb, Specialist Leader, AI and Data Engineering, Deloitte Consulting |
 | Rajib Deb, Specialist Leader, AI and Data Engineering, Deloitte Consulting is a passionate technology leader specializing in Data, Analytics and AI, with a commitment towards innovation. Rajib is currently engaged with multiple Generative AI initiatives across sectors and industries. He thrives on pushing the boundaries of the art of possibility in the world of technology. With a track record of driving impactful solutions, Rajib combines expertise with a keen interest in crafting data-driven strategies. His mission is to shape the future by harnessing the power of AI and driving transformative changes. Rajib is active in the Generative AI community and is a contributor to LangChain and actively helps community members solve their challenges. Rajib on YouTube | |
Session details:
During this session Rajib Deb, Specialist Leader, AI and Data Engineering, Deloitte Consulting share best practices and key takeaways when developing a unique interaction layer powered by language models. He will share how a combined traditional microservices based architecture and an emerging language model-based application architecture can supply improved stakeholder productivity and experience while delivering Gen AI enabled engineering.
What you’ll learn:
- Choose the optimal GenAI solution archetype based on use case
- Ensure data security while using “data to model” approach
- Evaluate and choose the best-fit model for RAG (retrieval augmented generation)
- Design and build core capabilities of a language model-based application
- Leverage LangChain, a language model integration framework to accelerate development
- Identify and alleviate challenges during implementation
In-Booth events & demos (Expo space #206)
Wednesday October 25, 2023, 10:30-11:30 AM & 2:30-3:30 PM, Thursday October 26, 2023, 2:30-3:30
- Meet & greet with CME on Wednesday October 25 from 10:30 – 11:30 AM
- Meet & greet with Shutterstock on Wednesday October 25 from 2:30 – 3:00 PM
- Meet & greet with Rajib Deb on Thursday October 26 from 2:30 – 3:00 PM
- Meet our clients
- Happy hour & networking on Wednesday October 25, 2023 at 4:30 PM
- MLOps demo by Aprameya Bhat (A.B) VP, Product Management – ReadyAITM , Deloitte Consulting
- TurboCode demo by Abhisek Ghosal, Senior Cloud Engineering Manager, Deloitte Consulting
Download Content
The Generative AI Dossier: A selection of high-impact use cases across six major industries
Software-defined vehicles: Engineering the mobility revolution
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Deloitte Engineering: Building a future forward API platform
Deloitte Engineering: Navigating invention, innovation & disruption in the Age of AI
