# AI/ML Sessions at Explore Barcelona 2023

Frank Denneman's recent blog, "[Gen AI Sessions at Explore Barcelona 2023"](https://frankdenneman.nl/2023/11/01/gen-ai-sessions-at-explore-barcelona-2023/), inspired me to list and categorize the different AI/ML sessions that will be presented this week at VMware Explore Barcelona. [The live broadcast for Tuesday can be watched here.](https://blogs.vmware.com/explore/2023/11/06/announcing-vmware-explore-2023-barcelona-general-session-live-broadcast/)

I differentiate sessions by format, breakout sessions, Customer Tech Exchange, Meet the Experts, and workshops hosted by Hands on Labs. I've formatted the session numbers to allow for easier scheduling via [Explore Barcelona Content Catalog](https://event.vmware.com/flow/vmware/explore2023bcn/content/page/catalog) or for watching after the live conference ends.

I hope this helps attendees towards scheduling, or if one is like me, list sessions to watch recordings post-Explore. [William Lam will list links on his GitHub here.](https://github.com/lamw/vmware-explore-2023-session-urls)

### Breakout Sessions (Monday->Thursday):

These sessions are limited by room capacity. If a session is sold out, add yourself to the waitlist, as can lead the events team to schedule later in the week. One can also show up before the session and wait in the queue. If seating is available, the event staff will let one in a few minutes after the session begins.

* **’Til the Last Drop of GPU: Run Large Language Models Efficiently VIT2101BCN** Monday 11:00-12:30pm CET  
    Agustin Malanco, Emerging Workloads Solutions Architect, VMware  
    Steve Blow, Solutions Engineer, Run:ai
    
* **Using VMware Private AI for Large Language Models & Generative AI on VMware Cloud Foundation & vSphere** **CEIB2050BCN**  
    Tuesday 10:30-11:15am CET  
    Justin Murray, Technical Marketing Architect, VMware  
    Shawn Kelly, Principal Solutions Engineer, VMware
    
* **How to Accelerate Innovation with Artificial Intelligence VIB2613BCNS**  
    Tuesday 10:30-11:15am CET  
    Elliott Young, CTO, EMEA, Dell Technologies
    
* **Ask Me Anything: Large Language Models VIM2332BCN**  
    Tuesday 10:30-11:00amCET  
    Rick Battle, Staff Machine Learning Engineer, VMware
    
* **ML/AI & Large Language Models – Implications for VMware Infra** **CEIM2282BCN** Tuesday 12:30-1:00pm CET  
    Justin Murray, Technical Marketing Architect, VMware
    
* **Empowering Business Growth with Generative AI VIB2368BCN**  
    Tuesday 2:15-3:00pm CET  
    Robbie Jerome, Principal Technologist - AI, VMware  
    Serge Palaric, Vice President Alliances & OEMs EMEA, NVIDIA  
    Shobhit Bhutani, Principal Product Marketing Manager, VMware
    
* **AI and ML Accelerator Deep Dive** **CEIB1197BCN**  
    Wednesday 9:00-9:45am CET  
    Frank Denneman, Chief Technologist, VMware
    
* **Exploring the Future of AI/ML and Edge with VMware AI Labs VIB1780BCN**  
    Wednesday 10:15-11:00am CET  
    Natalie Fisher, Sr Product Line Manager, VMware
    
* **When Healthcare Meets Modern AI & VMware: The Results are Life-Changing INDB1728BCN**  
    Wednesday 10:15-11:00am CET  
    Enrique Estrada, Sr. Director Healthcare Industry Solutions, VMware  
    Jens Koegler, Healthcare and Life Science Industry Director EMEA, VMware  
    Hasan Jouni, EMEA Senior Partner Manager, Healthcare, NVIDIA
    
* **Accelerate End-to-End AI Pipeline on VMware VIB2287BCNS**  
    Wednesday 11:30-12:15pm CET  
    Simon Todd, Technical Solution Specialist, Intel
    
* **Improving Developer Productivity Using LLM’s VBT2627BCN  
    **Wednesday 12:30-12:55pm CET  
    Giampiero Caprino, Staff 2 Software Engineer, VMware
    
* **AI Without GPU’s: Run AI/ML Workloads on Intel AMX CPU’s with vSphere 8 & Tanzu MAPB2367BCN**  
    Wednesday 12:45-1:30pm CET  
    Chris Gully, Staff II Solutions Architect, VMware  
    Earl Ruby, Staff Engineer, VMware
    
* **Fighting Fiscal & Social Fraud: How IT Could Save Billions to Taxpapers INDB1517BCN**  
    Wednesday 12:45-1:30pm CET  
    Joachim Murat, Civilian Government Industry Director EMEA, VMware  
    Serge Palaric, Vice President Alliances & OEMs EMEA, NVIDIA  
    Rodolfo Rotondo, Business Solution Strategist Director, VMware
    
* **Leveraging the AI Ecosystem: VMware Private AI Partnership Panel** **VIB2306BCN**  
    Wednesday 2:00-2:45pm CET  
    Abhay Kumar, Vice President, Ecosystem Strategy & Technology Pa, VMware  
    Ana Manrique, VP of Design - watsonx, IBM  
    Yuval Zukerman, Director, Technical Alliances, Domino Data Lab
    
* **Deploy Generative AI with VMware Private AI and Unlock Business Innovation CEIB2369BCN**  
    Thursday 10:00 AM - 10:45 AM CET  
    Shobhit Bhutani, Principal Product Marketing Manager, VMware  
    Earl Ruby, Staff Engineer, VMware  
    Himanshu Singh, Director, Cloud Infrastructure & AI, VMware  
    Chris Gully, Staff II Solutions Architect, VMware
    

### Customer Tech Exchange (CTEX)

CTEX sessions require an invitation and a non-disclosure agreement (NDA.) These small sessions feature roadmap presentations and provide avenues for feedback discussions

* **Why Do I Need AI in My Data Center? Does this Help Me Become a Differentiator?**  
    Tuesday 3:30-4:00pm CET  
    Gareth Edwards, Solution Engineer
    
* **Building an LLM Deployment Architecture**: **Five Lessons Learned**  
    Wednesday 1:30-2:30pm CET  
    Frank Denneman, Chief Technologist, VMware  
    Shawn Kelly, Principal Solutions Engineer, VMware
    

### Hands on Labs Expert Led Workshops (ELW):

Expert Led Workshops offer a guided hands on enablement session led by 2-3x subject matter experts in the lab topic. These sessions are typically capped at around 50x attendees.

* **Tanzu and Kubernetes for the vSphere Administrators ELW-2413-01-SDC**  
    Monday 9:45-11:15am CET  
    Tuesday 11:45-1:15pm CET  
    Bob Bauer, Sr. Staff Solutions Engineer, VMware  
    Jose Manzaneque, Emerging Solutions Engineer, VMware  
    Thomas Kraus, Field Principal, VMware
    
* **Introduction to AI/ML ELW-HOL-2447-01-ISM**  
    Wednesday 3:30-5:00pm CET  
    Thursday 1:15-2:45pm CET  
    Diane Scott, Staff Solutions Engineer, VMware  
    Cristian Lamson, Staff Cloud Infrastructure Engineer, VMware  
    Matthew Meyer, Staff Solutions Architect, VMware
    

[Dive into Hands on Labs workshops and their self-paced labs, Meet the Experts panels, and more Explore Activities here.](https://www.vmware.com/explore/eu/engage/activities.html)

### Meet the Experts:

These sessions offer intimate, ~6-10x round table discussions led by an Subject Matter Expert (SME) with a whiteboard to 1:1 or 1:M questions, answers, and architectural diagrams.

* **Machine Learning Accelerator Deep Dive CEIM1199BCN**  
    Monday 4:30-5:00pm CET  
    Tuesday 11:30am-12:00pm CET  
    Frank Denneman, Chief Technologist, VMware
    
* **Ask Me Anything: Large Language Models VIM2332BCN**  
    Tuesday 10:30 AM - 11:00 AM CET  
    Wednesday 3:30 PM - 4:00 PM CET  
    Rick Battle, Staff Machine Learning Engineer, VMware
    

* **ML/AI and Large Language Models – Implications for VMware Infrastructure CEIM2282BCN**  
    Tuesday 12:30 PM - 1:00 PM CET  
    Wednesday 4:30 PM - 5:00 PM CET  
    Justin Murray, Technical Marketing Architect, VMware
    

* **Intel Xeon Accelerator Benefits for Your Critical Workloads** **CEIM2313BCNS**  
    Tuesday 4:30-5:00pm CET  
    Mohamed Elsaid, Cloud Solutions Specialist, Intel
    

* **What Can AI Do for You: Lenovo, NVIDIA, and VMware Deep Dive** **CEIM2459BCNS**  
    Wednesday 2:30-3:00pm CET  
    David Reeves, Director, Global Alliances, Lenovo  
    Terry Kaigg, Alliance Manager, NVIDIA  
    Anthony Sayers, EMEA Edge Business Development, Lenovo
    

### Sponsor Booth Sessions:

* **Lenovo + NVIDIA + VMware: 90 Minute Tutorial – Future Ready AI Infrastructure: Edge to Cloud Transformation** at Lenovo Booth
    
* **VMware: Democratizing Generative AI for All Enterprises with VMware Private AI VBT2596BCN** at VMware booth  
    Wednesday 3:00-3:25pm  
    Shubot Bhutani, Principal Product Marketing Manager, VMware
    
* **Intel:** Technology Innovation Showcase **TECK3257BCN**
    

### Exhausted? What to do next:

* [Dive into the VMware Explore Barcelona Session Catalog](https://event.vmware.com/flow/vmware/explore2023bcn/content/page/catalog?tab.contentcatalogtabs=1627421929827001vRXW) \*Recordings will also be available here
    
* Check out [VMware's AI Labs models on HuggingFace](https://huggingface.co/VMware) and [open source projects on GitHub](https://github.com/vmware-ai-labs)
    
* [Read Frank Denneman's blog](https://frankdenneman.nl/) for deep technical knowledge into designing systems for support AI/ML applications
    
* Think about how your team's projects can measure successful outcomes by leveraging these new AI/ML technologies