OdiaGenAI and KIIT DU are excited to present an extended three-day Generative AI workshop. This immersive experience will focus on the fundamentals of Generative AI and Large Language Models (LLMs) with a special emphasis on Indic languages, including low-resource languages. Participants will gain hands-on experience with cutting-edge tools and technologies to create innovative AI-driven solutions, making it ideal for researchers, developers, and language enthusiasts.

Eligibility

Open to students, professionals, and anyone interested in learning about Generative AI and LLM-based tools and technologies.

Activities

• GenAI Product Launch
• Expert Talks
• GenAI Hackathon
• Poster Presentations
• GenAI Demos (with awards from Tanumanasa)
• GenAI Quizzes
• GenAI Pitch Session (with awards from DublinAI)
• Expert Panel Discussion
• Media Communication

Experts:

1. Prof. Dilip K. Prasad

Department of Computer Science, UiT The Arctic University of Norway.

"Towards a More Inclusive AI: Large Language Model Training for the ultra low resource language - S'ami Language"

2. Dr. Shantipriya Parida

Senior AI Scientist, Silo AI, Helsinki, Finland

Empowering Indic Languages: The Need for LLM Resource Development"

3. Prof. Kalyanamalini Sahoo

Professor, Linguistic, Artois University, Arras, France

"SanskritiBench: Bridging NLP and Indian Cultural Richness"

4. Prof Ondrej Bojar

Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics, Charles University Prague, Czech Republic

"How to Have Your Language Covered, Experience from Czech"

5.Ravi Theja Desetty

Developer Advocate Engineer, LlamaIndex, Bangalore India

"Navarasa: Extending Gemma to 15 Indian languages"

6.Chandan Pani

Chief Information Security Officer, LTIMindtree, Bangalore India

"Guardrails for Gen AI from a CyberSecurity Prospective"

7.Nirant Kasliwal

AI Engineer, Qdrant, Bangalore, India

"Auto-prompting for Hindi with Qdrant"

8. Dr. Sunayana Sitaram

Principal Researcher, Microsoft, Bangalore India

"Evaluating LLMs on Languages Beyond English: Challenges and Opportunities"