Solmaz Shahalizadeh In our recent TWIMLcon conversation with Solmaz Shahalizadeh, VP of Commerce Intelligence at Shopify, she shared her journey from deploying Shopify’s first machine learning model four years ago to now having over 100 models in production across all aspects of the business. Though she had much to share, one quote that stood out...
In our recent conversation with Nishan Subedi, VP of Algorithms at Overstock.com, he shared with us his approach to machine learning systems and organizational design. Applying architectural patterns to ML system design Nishan shared how the seminal book “Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software” inspired him to look at system architecture as a set...
How do you build a machine learning platform for one of the world’s largest websites from the ground up? This is the question we posed to Chris Albon, Director of Machine Learning, at the Wikimedia Foundation. This is what told us: Learn everything you can about your organization, the customers it serves, and the critical...
What a start to week two of TWIMLcon 2021! Today’s sessions featured speakers from WikiMedia, Prosus Group, Palo Alto Networks, Clorox, Dataiku, Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies, iRobot, Algorithmia, and ClearML sharing their thoughts on building and running data science and ML platforms. We also got an overview of major themes and trends in machine learning for...
What are the most important factors to consider when building a global data science team? Ya Xu, Head of Data Science at LinkedIn, recently shared at TWIMLcon how she went from being an individual contributor to becoming a data science leader with over 350 global team members. During our conversation, Ya encouraged us to remember...
Today was the sixth day of TWIMLcon and the final day of presentations before we head into a full day of workshops and then a wrap-up unconference. Today we were fortunate to speak to folks from LinkedIn, Intuit, Cloudera, Yelp, Rakuten, Microsoft, Salesforce, and Fiddler. We covered a variety of subjects including: how to build...
Friday’s TWIMLcon Executive Summit closed out a full first week at the conference! Speakers from BP, Walmart, Accenture, Qualcomm, Orangetheory Fitness, and more shared their experiences and insights on key issues faced by AI/ML leaders and teams. The day began with a keynote interview featuring Franziska Bell, VP of Data and Analytics at BP. Fran...
Day 3 of TWIMLcon 2012: AI Platforms was all about how to get models from development to production reliably and consistently by using modern MLOps tools and platforms. (The conference started Tuesday and runs through Friday, January 29th. It’s not too late to join in! Use discount code GREATCONTENT for 25% off registration.) David Hershey,...
Day 2 (of 8!) of TWIMLcon: AI Platforms 2021 was a day of sharing hard-earned lessons. (The conference started yesterday and runs through January 29, 2021. It’s not too late to join in! Use discount code GREATCONTENT for 25% off registration.) We kicked off the day interviewing Faisal Saddiqi, Director of Engineering for Personalization Infrastructure...
We had a solid kick-off today at TWIMLcon 2021: AI Platforms. The conference started today and runs through January 29, 2021. It’s not too late to join in! Use discount code GREATCONTENT for 25% off registration. We started off the day talking to Solmaz Shahalizadeh, VP of Commerce Intelligence, at Shopify. During her time there,...
In spite of all the hype, the reality is that the typical enterprise doesn’t need to do anything different to benefit from AI. They won’t need to hire data scientists, or collect any training data, or build any machine learning or deep learning models. It is already the case, and it will be increasingly true...
We have a TON of practical presentations coming your way from companies like Google, Spotify, and Intuit – and we’re so excited about these keynotes we just announced! Keynote Interview with Solmaz Shahalizadeh of Shopify Solmaz is the Vice President of Data Science & Engineering at Shopify. During her time at the company she implemented...
What a start to week two of TWIMLcon 2021! Today’s sessions featured speakers from WikiMedia, Prosus Group, Palo Alto Networks, Clorox, Dataiku, Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies, iRobot, Algorithmia, and ClearML sharing their thoughts on building and running data science and ML platforms. We also got an overview of major themes and trends in machine learning for...
On the heels of TWIMLcon, we bring you the final edition of #TWIMLcon Shorts. During and after day 2 of TWIMLcon, we were joined by a few of the awesome sponsors, attendees, and even some former podcast guests, to chat about what they are working on, their favorite TWIML podcast episode, parting thoughts on #TWIMLcon...
Continuing the live interviews from #TWIMLcon! Last night we sat down with a few of the awesome #TWIMLcon speakers, sponsors, and attendees to chat about what they are working on, their favorite TWIML podcast episode, the best #TWIMLcon session so far and more! Weiping Peng Software Architect at Salesforce, longtime TWIML podcast listener! Drew Bollinger...
Day 1 #TWIMLcon! We sat down with a few of the awesome #TWIMLcon speakers, sponsors, and attendees to discuss their favorite TWIML podcast episode, the best #TWIMLcon moment so far and their thoughts on the evolution of machine learning and AI platforms – check’em out! David Mwaura From Sift, digital trust and safety company Nicholas...
Over the past couple weeks I got to sit on the other side of the (proverbial) interview table and take part in a few fantastic podcasts and video conversations about the state of machine learning in the enterprise. We also cover current trends in AI, and some of the exciting plans we have in store for TWIMLcon:...
Another #TWIMLcon short with the wonderful Rosie Pongracz and Trisha Mahoney, from a Founding sponsor who you all know, IBM. Rosie is the World Wide Director of Technical Go-to-Market and Evangelism for Data Science and Trisha is a Senior Tech Evangelist. We chat about the latest IBM research, projects, and products, including AI Fairness 360,...
I had the chance to sit down with Scott Clark, Founder & CEO of SigOpt, a Founding sponsor of the upcoming TWIMLcon: AI Platforms! Scott discusses what SigOpt has been up to, the unique value he sees #TWIMLcon bringing to the ML/AI industry and what you can expect from the expert-driven SigOpt session and booth!...
Welcome to #TWIMLcon Shorts – a series where I sit down with some of our awesome Founding Sponsors and talk about their ML/AI journey, current work in the field and what we can expect from them at TWIMLcon: AI Platforms! First up is Luke Marsden, Founder & CEO of Dotscience. Based in Bristol, UK, Luke...
Drum roll please…I’m excited to share our brand new ebook, The Definitive Guide to Machine Learning Platforms! This project has been a long time in the making and is the result of extensive research and interviews. You can access the book by clicking here: https://stage.twimlai.net/mlplatforms-ebook. We created the book as a resource for ML, AI...
Recently, with the publication of our ML Platforms ebook, and our conference on the topic quickly approaching, I’ve been talking a lot about scaling machine learning, deep learning and AI in the enterprise. Every so often, in a conversation about the topic, I’ll get a lot of vigorous head nodding, and then, out of the blue, a comment...
There’s no doubt about it. Machine learning and AI are getting real in the enterprise. Many of the ML/AI leaders and practitioners I speak to report being in a similar place: With their initial POC projects maturing, and a few successes under their belts, their colleagues across the business finally get it. They’re ready. They...
