AI Exchange May - WeBuild-AI, Nova Intelligence, AWS

Last night we were back at the AWS offices in Holborn for our 3rd event of the year, with another packed room as we explored three topics shaping how AI is built, deployed, and used day to day.

First up, Adel Rahimi looked at small language models and why a bigger model isn’t always the better option. He showed how lightweight models that can run on laptops can still deliver strong performance while being cheaper, more private, and more practical for business use, and talked through techniques like quantisation, distillation, and fine tuning that make them work so well.



Next, Marcello Urbani covered the challenges of bringing AI agents into the SAP ecosystem. He explained why traditional file based AI tools fall short with SAP’s database stored code, and how Nova is tackling this with dev containers, bidirectional syncing, git versioning, and custom software cataloguing to modernise SAP development and migration.



Finally, Elliott Almeida from our hosts at AWS explained that AI improves productivity and quality but can weaken skills through over reliance and cognitive offloading. He shared personal experience of skill loss, noted research on AI’s impact on thinking and memory, and highlighted how personality affects AI use.



If you have missed any of our previous events, and would like to catch up on what you may have missed, head over to our YouTube Channel here.

A big thank you to everyone who joined us, to our speakers for sharing their insights, and to AWS for hosting us again.

Our next AI Exchange event is on the 25th June at Coralogix in Devonshire Square, more details coming soon.

If you’d like to speak, sponsor, or host a future event, we’d love to hear from you. Submit your talk proposal here, and we'll get back to you!

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See you next month!