Name: AI on a Shoestring: Building and Deploying Small Language Models for Business Impact
Start: 2025-05-16T04:00:01-0500
End: 2025-05-16T04:00:01-0500

Friday May 16, 2025 TBA

Small Language Models (SLMs) offer a practical, cost-effective, and privacy-friendly alternative to Large Language Models (LLMs) for many use cases. This session explores how to create, fine-tune, and deploy AI solutions using an open-source SLM on consumer-grade hardware. Attendees will learn to compare and select models, apply LoRA-based fine-tuning, and optimize efficiency with quantization while balancing performance, all through a hands-on chatbot use case. This talk combines business insights with technical steps for leveraging SLMs in real-world applications—ideal for developers, researchers, and AI enthusiasts.

Speakers

Rajeev Bukralia, DSc

Associate Professor, Minnesota State University, Mankato

Dr. Rajeev Bukralia is an award-winning educator and thought leader in artificial intelligence and data science. He is a tenured associate professor and the founding director of the MS in data science program at Minnesota State University, Mankato.

Friday May 16, 2025 TBA

4 - Mostly Technical

Track AppliedAI

Data Tech 2025

Rajeev Bukralia, DSc

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