Agents of Innovation: AI-Powered Product Ideation with Synthetic Consumer Testing // MLOps Podcast #306 with Luca Fiaschi, Partner of PyMC Labs. Join the Community: https://go.mlops.community/YTJoinIn Get the newsletter: https://go.mlops.community/YTNewsletter // Abstract Traditional product development cycles require extensive consumer research and market testing, resulting in lengthy development timelines and significant resource investment. We've transformed this process by building a dis...
Apr 15, 2025•1 hr 2 min
Real-Time Forecasting Faceoff: Time Series vs. DNNs // MLOps Podcast #305 with Josh Xi, Data Scientist at Lyft. Join the Community: https://go.mlops.community/YTJoinIn Get the newsletter: https://go.mlops.community/YTNewsletter // AbstractIn real-time forecasting (e.g. geohash level demand and supply forecast for an entire region), time series-based forecasting methods are widely adopted due to their simplicity and ease of training. This discussion explores how Lyft uses time series forecasting ...
Apr 11, 2025•54 min
We're All Finetuning Incorrectly // MLOps Podcast #304 with Tanmay Chopra, Founder & CEO of Emissary. Join the Community: https://go.mlops.community/YTJoinIn Get the newsletter: https://go.mlops.community/YTNewsletter // Abstract Finetuning is dead. Finetuning is only for style. We've all heard these claims. But the truth is we feel this way because all we've been doing is extended pretraining. I'm excited to chat about what real finetuning looks like - modifying output heads, loss functions...
Apr 08, 2025•1 hr 1 min
From Shiny to Strategic: The Maturation of AI Across Industries // MLOps Podcast #303 with David Cox, VP of Data Science; Assistant Director of Research at RethinkFirst; Institute of Applied Behavioral Science. Join the Community: https://go.mlops.community/YTJoinIn Get the newsletter: https://go.mlops.community/YTNewsletter // Abstract Shiny new objects are made available to artificial intelligence(AI) practitioners daily. For many who are not AI practitioners, the release of ChatGPT in 2022 wa...
Apr 07, 2025•41 min
Streaming Ecosystem Complexities and Cost Management // MLOps Podcast #302 with Rohit Agrawal, Director of Engineering at Tecton. Join the Community: https://go.mlops.community/YTJoinIn Get the newsletter: https://go.mlops.community/YTNewsletter // Abstract Demetrios talks with Rohit Agrawal, Director of Engineering at Tecton, about the challenges and future of streaming data in ML. Rohit shares his path at Tecton and insights on managing real-time and batch systems. They cover tool fragmentatio...
Apr 04, 2025•49 min
Building Trust Through Technology: Responsible AI in Practice // MLOps Podcast #301 with Rafael Sandroni, Founder and CEO of GardionAI. Join the Community: https://go.mlops.community/YTJoinIn Get the newsletter: https://go.mlops.community/YTNewsletter // AbstractRafael Sandroni shares key insights on securing AI systems, tackling fraud, and implementing robust guardrails. From prompt injection attacks to AI-driven fraud detection, we explore the challenges and best practices for building safer A...
Apr 01, 2025•41 min
Beyond the Matrix: AI and the Future of Human Creativity // MLOps Podcast #300 with Fausto Albers, AI Engineer & Community Lead at AI Builders Club. Join the Community: https://go.mlops.community/YTJoinIn Get the newsletter: https://go.mlops.community/YTNewsletter // Abstract Fausto Albers discusses the intersection of AI and human creativity. He explores AI’s role in job interviews, personalized AI assistants, and the evolving nature of human-computer interaction. Key topics include AI-driv...
Mar 30, 2025•55 min
Building Trust Through Technology: Responsible AI in Practice // MLOps Podcast #299 with Animesh Singh, Executive Director, AI Platform and Infrastructure of LinkedIn. Join the Community: https://go.mlops.community/YTJoinIn Get the newsletter: https://go.mlops.community/YTNewsletter // AbstractAnimesh discusses LLMs at scale, GPU infrastructure, and optimization strategies. He highlights LinkedIn's use of LLMs for features like profile summarization and hiring assistants, the rising cost of ...
Mar 28, 2025•59 min
Building Trust Through Technology: Responsible AI in Practice // MLOps Podcast #298 with Allegra Guinan, Co-founder of Lumiera. Join the Community: https://go.mlops.community/YTJoinIn Get the newsletter: https://go.mlops.community/YTNewsletter // AbstractAllegra joins the podcast to discuss how Responsible AI (RAI) extends beyond traditional pillars like transparency and privacy. While these foundational elements are crucial, true RAI success requires deeply embedding responsible practices into ...
Mar 25, 2025•47 min
I Let An AI Play Pokémon! - Claude plays Pokémon Creator // MLOps Podcast #295 with David Hershey, Member of Technical Staff at Anthropic. Join the Community: https://go.mlops.community/YTJoinIn Get the newsletter: https://go.mlops.community/YTNewsletter // AbstractDemetrios chats with David Hershey from Anthropic's Applied AI team about his agent-powered Pokémon project using Claude. They explore agent frameworks, prompt optimization vs. fine-tuning, and AI's growing role in software, l...
Mar 21, 2025•47 min
From Rules to Reasoning Engines // MLOps Podcast #297 with George Mathew, Managing Director at Insight Partners. Join the Community: https://go.mlops.community/YTJoinIn Get the newsletter: https://go.mlops.community/YTNewsletter // AbstractGeorge Mathew (Insight Partners) joins Demetrios to break down how AI and ML have evolved over the past few years and where they’re headed. He reflects on the major shifts since his last chat with Demetrios, especially how models like ChatGPT have changed the ...
Mar 18, 2025•1 hr 5 min
GenAI Traffic: Why API Infrastructure Must Evolve... Again // MLOps Podcast #295 with Erica Hughberg, Community Advocate at Tetrate.Join the Community: https://go.mlops.community/YTJoinIn Get the newsletter: https://go.mlops.community/YTNewsletter
Mar 14, 2025•1 hr 6 min
The Unbearable Lightness of Data // MLOps Podcast #295 with Rohit Krishnan, Chief Product Officer at bodo.ai.Join the Community: https://go.mlops.community/YTJoinIn Get the newsletter: https://go.mlops.community/YTNewsletter // AbstractRohit Krishnan, Chief Product Officer at Bodo.AI, joins Demetrios to discuss AI's evolving landscape. They explore interactive reasoning models, AI's impact on jobs, scalability challenges, and the path to AGI. Rohit also shares insights on Bodo.AI’s open-...
Mar 11, 2025•54 min
Kubernetes, AI Gateways, and the Future of MLOps // MLOps Podcast #294 with Alexa Griffith, Senior Software Engineer at Bloomberg. Join the Community: https://go.mlops.community/YTJoinIn Get the newsletter: https://go.mlops.community/YTNewsletter // Abstract Alexa shares her journey into software engineering, from early struggles with Airflow and Kubernetes to leading open-source projects like the Envoy AI Gateway. She and Demetrios discuss AI model deployment, tooling differences across tech ro...
Mar 07, 2025•52 min
Future of Software, Agents in the Enterprise, and Inception Stage Company Building // MLOps Podcast 293 with Eliot Durbin, General Partner at Boldstart Ventures.Join the Community: https://go.mlops.community/YTJoinIn Get the newsletter: https://go.mlops.community/YTNewsletter // AbstractKey lessons for founders that are thinking about or starting their companies. 15 years of inception stage investing from how data science companies like Yhat went to market in 2013-14 and how that's evolved, ...
Mar 04, 2025•54 min
Agents in Production [Podcast Limited Series] - Episode Five, Dmitri Jarnikov, Chiara Caratelli, and Steven Vester join Demetrios to explore AI agents in e-commerce. They discuss the trade-offs between generic and specialized agents, with Dmitri noting the need for a balance between scalability and precision. Chiara highlights how agents can dynamically blend both approaches, while Steven predicts specialized agents will dominate initially before trust in generic agents grows. The panel also exa...
Mar 03, 2025•48 min
In Agents in Production [Podcast Limited Series] - Episode Four , Donné Stevenson and Paul van der Boor break down the deployment of a Token Data Analyst agent at Prosus—why, how, and what worked. They discuss the challenges of productionizing the agent, from architecture to mitigating LLM overconfidence, key design choices, the role of pre-checks for clarity, and why they opted for simpler text-based processes over complex recursive methods. Guest speakers: Paul van der Boor - VP AI at Prosus G...
Feb 28, 2025•54 min
Agents in Production [Podcast Limited Series] - Episode Three explores the concept of web agents—AI-powered systems that interact with the web as humans do, navigating browsers instead of relying solely on APIs. The discussion covers why web agents emerge as a natural step in AI evolution, their advantages over API-based systems, and their potential impact on e-commerce and automation. The conversation also highlights challenges in making websites agent-friendly and envisions a future where agen...
Feb 26, 2025•46 min
In Agents in Production Series - Episode Two , Demetrios, Paul, and Floris explore the latest in Voice AI agents. They discuss real-time voice interactions, OpenAI's real-time Voice API, and real-world deployment challenges. Paul shares insights from iFood’s voice AI tests in Brazil, while Floris highlights technical hurdles like turn detection and language processing. The episode covers broader applications in healthcare and customer service, emphasizing continuous learning and open-source ...
Feb 22, 2025•48 min
In Agents in Production Series - Episode One , Demetrios chats with Paul van der Boor and Floris Fok about the real-world challenges of deploying AI agents across @ProsusGroup of companies. They break down the evolution from simple LLMs to fully interactive systems, tackling scale, UX, and the harsh lessons from failed projects. Packed with insights on what works (and what doesn’t), this episode is a must-listen for anyone serious about AI in production. Guest speakers: Paul van der Boor - VP AI...
Feb 20, 2025•1 hr 9 min
Kenny Daniel is the founder and CEO of Hyperparam , building tools to make ML dataset curation orders of magnitude more efficient. Look At Your ****ing Data 👀 // MLOps Podcast 292 with Kenny Daniel, Founder of Hyperparam. Join the Community: https://go.mlops.community/YTJoinIn Get the newsletter: https://go.mlops.community/YTNewsletter // Abstract In this episode, we talk with Kenny Daniel, founder of Hyperparam, to explore why actually looking at your data is the most high-leverage ...
Feb 18, 2025•1 hr 8 min
Alex Milowski is a researcher, developer, entrepreneur , mathematician, and computer scientist .Evolving Workflow Orchestration // MLOps Podcast #291 with Alex Milowski, Entrepreneur and Computer Scientist.// AbstractThere seems to be a shift from workflow languages to code - mostly annotation pythons - happening and getting us. It is a symptom of how complex workflow orchestration has gotten. Is it a dominant trend or will we cycle back to “DAG specifications”? At Stitchfix, we had our own DSL ...
Feb 14, 2025•1 hr 15 min
Willem Pienaar is the Co-Founder and CTO of Cleric . He previously worked at Tecton as a Principal Engineer. Willem Pienaar attended the Georgia Institute of Technology. Insights from Cleric: Building an Autonomous AI SRE // MLOps Podcast #289 with Willem Pienaar, CTO & Co-Founder of Cleric.// AbstractIn this MLOps Community Podcast episode, Willem Pienaar, CTO of Cleric, breaks down how they built an autonomous AI SRE that helps engineering teams diagnose production issues. We explore how C...
Feb 11, 2025•56 min
Vinu Sankar Sadasivan is a CS PhD ... Currently, I am working as a full-time Student Researcher at Google DeepMind on jailbreaking multimodal AI models. Robustness, Detectability, and Data Privacy in AI // MLOps Podcast #289 with Vinu Sankar Sadasivan, Student Researcher at Google DeepMind. // Abstract Recent rapid advancements in Artificial Intelligence (AI) have made it widely applicable across various domains, from autonomous systems to multimodal content generation. However, these models rem...
Feb 07, 2025•53 min
Richard Cloete is a computer scientist and a Laukien-Oumuamua Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Center for Astrophysics, Harvard University. He is a member of the Galileo Project working under the supervision of Professor Avi, having recently held a postdoctoral position at the University of Cambridge, UK. AI & Aliens: New Eyes on Ancient Questions // MLOps Podcast #288 with Richard Cloete, Laukien-Oumuamua Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Harvard University. // Abstract Demetrios speaks wi...
Feb 04, 2025•48 min
A software engineer based in Delft, Alex Strick van Linschoten recently built Ekko, an open-source framework for adding real-time infrastructure and in-transit message processing to web applications. With years of experience in Ruby, JavaScript, Go, PostgreSQL, AWS, and Docker, I bring a versatile skill set to the table. I hold a PhD in History, have authored books on Afghanistan, and currently work as an ML Engineer at ZenML . Real LLM Success Stories: How They Actually Work // MLOps Podcast #2...
Jan 31, 2025•50 min
In his 13 years of software engineering, Ilya Reznik has specialized in commercializing machine learning solutions and building robust ML platforms. He's held technical lead and staff engineering roles at premier firms like Adobe, Twitter, and Meta. Currently, Ilya channels his expertise into his travel startup, Jaunt, while consulting and advising emerging startups. Navigating Machine Learning Careers: Insights from Meta to Consulting // MLOps Podcast #286 with Ilya Reznik, ML Engineering T...
Jan 27, 2025•1 hr 1 min
Tomaž Levak is the Co-founder and CEO of Trace Labs – OriginTrail core developers. OriginTrail is a web3 infrastructure project combining a decentralized knowledge graph (DKG) and blockchain technologies to create a neutral, inclusive ecosystem. Collective Memory for AI on Decentralized Knowledge Graph // MLOps Podcast #285 with Tomaz Levak, Founder of Trace Labs, Core Developers of OriginTrail. // Abstract The talk focuses on how OriginTrail Decentralized Knowledge Graph serves as a collective ...
Jan 24, 2025•53 min
Krishna Sridhar is an experienced engineering leader passionate about building wonderful products powered by machine learning. Efficient Deployment of Models at the Edge // MLOps Podcast #284 with Krishna Sridhar, Vice President of Qualcomm. Big shout out to Qualcomm for sponsoring this episode! // Abstract Qualcomm® AI Hub helps to optimize, validate, and deploy machine learning models on-device for vision, audio, and speech use cases. With Qualcomm® AI Hub, you can: Convert trained models from...
Jan 17, 2025•52 min
Machine Learning, AI Agents, and Autonomy // MLOps Podcast #283 with Zach Wallace, Staff Software Engineer at Nearpod Inc. // Abstract Demetrios chats with Zach Wallace, engineering manager at Nearpod, about integrating AI agents in e-commerce and edtech. They discuss using agents for personalized user targeting, adapting AI models with real-time data, and ensuring efficiency through clear task definitions. Zach shares how Nearpod streamlined data integration with tools like Redshift and DBT, en...
Jan 15, 2025•47 min
