Christopher Lennan

Lead Machine Learning Engineer at idealo

Christopher Lennan is a Lead Machine Learning Engineer at idealo, currently focussed on exploring Generative AI solutions for B2C use cases. He also serves as the Tech Lead for the central Machine Learning Engineering team, where he has contributed to various ML projects across the company. In previous positions he applied ML methods to medical as well as financial data. Christopher holds a Master’s degree in statistics from Humboldt University Berlin.

You can find him and follow his journey on LinkedIn.

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Beyond LLM prototypes: 5 key learnings from putting LLMs into production

In this talk, we share key learnings from idealo’s journey of moving GenAI solutions beyond the prototype phase. We’ll discuss our strategy for identifying high-impact GenAI use cases, the importance of structured outputs, and advanced prompt engineering techniques. Attendees will gain insights into overcoming production challenges and optimising LLM performance for real-world applications.

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