DevConf.CZ 2025

Marina Volkova

Since 2008, Marina Volkova has been involved in Machine Learning, starting with her PhD. Over the last decade, she's solved problems in medical diagnosis, cybersecurity, and tons of other industries. These days, she's an AI Researcher at Emplifi, where they build cool tools for social media management, analytics, customer service, and marketing campaigns. Marina's designing and developing innovative apps that leverage Large Language Models (LLMs). Through years of hands-on experience, she's gathered valuable insights and lessons that she's eager to share with curious minds in the field.


Company or affiliation

Emplifi CZ

Job title

AI Researcher


Session

06-14
14:00
35min
Designing LLM Applications for Massive Datasets
Marina Volkova

AI won’t take your job (yet) because building LLM-powered applications is more than just API calls and prompt engineering. It requires thoughtful design, scalable architecture, and a good dose of common sense. In this talk, we’ll break down what actually works when developing LLM-based applications that handle 200M+ text records while staying modular and adaptable. We’ll explore when to use an agentic approach and how to keep things simple. No hype - just real-world insights and battle-tested strategies for making LLMs work in production.

Artificial Intelligence and Data Science
D105 (capacity 300)