🎥 From the MLOps World | GenAI Summit 2025 — Virtual Session (October 7, 2025) Session Title: Story Is All You Need Speaker: Lin Liu, Director, Data Science, Wealthsimple Talk Track: Scoping and Delivering Complex AI Projects (formerly Scoping ML Projects in an AI Era / AI Product Strategy & Delivery) Abstract: In the age of Generative AI, what if the most complex feature engineering could be replaced by simple storytelling? In this talk, Lin Liu introduces a new paradigm for predictive analytics—transforming structured data like transaction logs or app usage data into coherent, text-based “stories.” These stories are then fed directly into Large Language Models (LLMs) to generate predictive scores, bypassing traditional modeling and feature engineering. Through real-world case studies, Lin demonstrates how “data-as-story” can predict major life events from credit card transactions and detect fraud anomalies from app behavior narratives—often outperforming rule-based systems. What you’ll learn: • A practical framework for applying the “data-as-story” technique • How storytelling can simplify the MLOps pipeline • How to leverage LLMs for predictive analytics tasks traditionally handled by bespoke models • Ways to unlock new predictive power and operational efficiency in real-world applications.