In this talk we'll walk the audience through the modern AI-powered service set up, from the very basics to technicalities of hosting AI applications in a cloud.

We will describe how to convert the idea into the AI-powered pipeline and then what challenges awaits you when rendering this theoretical concept into live. We will talk about: * Structured inputs and outputs and how engineer the context * How to host such an application in a cloud and what building blocks will you need * The importance of observing and monitoring the performance: what problems to expect and how to battle them * The criticality of avoiding vendor lock-in and the need to experiment quickly with models and prompts

Sergey Konstantinov is an experienced web developer with over 15 years in the field, from heading a 50M DAU API service to working as a tech lead in a startup. He is particularly interested in APIs as a broad topic, about which he has given many speeches and authored two books.

Alena Panshina is a product manager and consultant with 13 years in tech. Former Yandex PM and ex-CEO of a $2M AI startup, she has been working with LLMs since 2019. She has scaled products from zero to millions of users and now helps companies build AI-powered solutions. Based in Ireland, she has traveled to 40 countries.