PyData Amsterdam 2026

Jay Alammar

Through his popular AI/ML blog, Jay has helped millions of researchers and engineers visually understand machine learning concepts from Transformers to reasoning LLMs. Jay is the co-author of the bestselling “Hands-On Large Language Models” and the upcoming “An Illustrated Guide to AI Agents” books, published by O’Reilly Media. Jay is Director and Engineering Fellow at Cohere (The Security-first Enterprise AI Company), where he conducts applied research on LLM code generation and code agents.


Session

09-10
09:30
50min
From LLMs to Agents and from words to actions
Maarten Grootendorst, Jay Alammar

The title is self-explanatory but we will cover this transition to the realm of Agents and how actions speak louder than words.

Main stage