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Dogukan

Sonmez

Project Lead, ML

BMW

Dogukan Sonmez is the AI Project Lead at the BMW Research Department. He has 18+ years of industry experience in the domains of AI/ML, big data, and software engineering. He joined BMW in 2017 in the division for Autonomous Driving. He has worked on various projects, ranging from developing scalable image processing solutions to building an MLOps ecosystem for the autonomous driving project. Since 2021, he has been working on research projects to develop advanced AI/ML solutions and transform businesses to be data-driven with next-gen AI applications.

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11 September 2025 14:50 - 15:10

Mastering Gen AI: A practical guide to transformers beyond language domains

This talk explores the end-to-end process of pre-training generative AI models beyond language, covering model development, dataset preparation, metric definition, infrastructure selection, training, deployment, and monitoring. Through practical examples and key insights, attendees will learn effective strategies for building and scaling generative AI models in non-language domains.