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# Engineering ML & AI at Scale: Feature Selection, Explainability & Agentic Engineering

by [PyData Amsterdam](https://fde.amsterdam/communities/pydata-amsterdam)

## About this event

Calling all data scientists, machine learning engineers, and data enthusiasts! Join us on Wednesday, Oct 28 at Mollie.

We're bringing together engineers from Mollie and Bonnie to share hard-earned lessons from the trenches—covering everything from feature selection and interpretable AI predictions to practical methods for navigating AI-generated code to help teams ship better software. Stick around after the talks for good food, drinks, and great conversations with fellow tech enthusiasts.

📋 Agenda

17:30 - 18:00: Welcome with food and drinks! 🍕🍺

18:00 - 18:05: Mollie’s Intro

18:05 - 18:35: Talk 1: Feature Selection in Production: Lessons from Fraud Detection, by Nicole Van de Weijer (Mollie)

[Full details on Luma ↗](https://luma.com/rb69dytf)

## Topics

[AI agents](https://fde.amsterdam/events/topics/ai-agents) [ML & data](https://fde.amsterdam/events/topics/ml-data) [LLMs & GenAI](https://fde.amsterdam/events/topics/llms-genai)

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