Axel Sirota
Axel Sirota is an experienced AI leader, engineer, educator and consultant for global technology organizations.
For close to 15 years, Axel has been on the forefront of AI. He founded and grew a successful training consultancy, teaching AI, GenAI, and Python to Fortune 500 companies such as Intuit,
Salesforce, Barclays, Netflix, Apple, and Yahoo.
Axel has been a keynote speaker throughout South America and is known as one of the leading voices on AI Safety and AI technologies. He is eager to work with and support leaders around the world make thoughtful decisions around AI policy and how it impacts society.
Axel’s passion for education is evident in his 50+ published online courses across Pluralsight, O’Reilly Media, and LinkedIn Learning.
Axel received his Master’s Degree in Mathematical Sciences - Probability and Statistics from Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires.
Session
AI assistants are evolving from simple Q&A bots to intelligent, multimodal, multilingual, and agentic systems capable of reasoning, retrieving, and autonomously acting. In this talk, we’ll showcase how to build a voice-enabled, multilingual, multimodal RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) assistant using Gradio, OpenAI’s Whisper, LangChain, LangGraph, and FAISS. Our assistant will not only process voice and text inputs in multiple languages but also intelligently retrieve information from structured and unstructured data. We’ll demonstrate this with a flight search use case—leveraging a flight database for retrieval and, when necessary, autonomously searching external sources using LangGraph. You will gain practical insights into building scalable, adaptive AI assistants that move beyond static chatbots to autonomous agents that interact dynamically with users and the web.