Speaker

Sam Charrington

Founder

TWIML

Connect with Sam

Sam is a noted ML/AI industry analyst, advisor and commentator, founder of TWIML, and host of the popular TWIML AI Podcast. The show is one of the most popular Tech podcasts with nearly 10 million downloads. Sam has interviewed over 400 of the industry's leading machine learning and AI experts. In addition, he has conducted extensive research into enterprise AI adoption, MLOps, emerging ML and AI platforms, and other enabling technologies.

Conference Sessions

Live from TWIMLcon! Overcoming the Barriers to Deep Learning in Production

Keynote Interview

TWIMLcon 2019

Andrew Ng, former Chief Scientist at Baidu and founding lead of Google Brain, will join Sam Charrington on the TWIMLcon stage for a live podcast interview. They'll discuss the state of AI in the enterprise, barriers to using deep learning in production and how to overcome them, developing a strong culture for AI, and other topics from Andrew's recently published AI transformation playbook.

Live from TWIMLcon! Encoding Company Culture in Applied AI Systems

Keynote Interview

TWIMLcon 2019

Deepak Agarwal, vice president of artificial intelligence at LinkedIn, will join Sam Charrington on the TWIMLcon stage for a live podcast interview to explore the challenges of scaling AI readiness across the organization, tailoring machine learning systems for developer, data scientist and member needs, and how his team is sharing its "data-first" mindset with the company as a whole.

Team Teardown: Organizing and Supporting ML at Airbnb

Panel Discussion

TWIMLcon 2019

In this panel, we will explore how teams at Airbnb collaborate to deliver ML throughout the Airbnb product. We dive into how ML is organized within AirBnB, how teams interface with each other on large initiatives, building ML in a diverse multi-functional organization, and more.

Live from TWIMLcon! Operationalizing ML at Scale

Keynote Interview

TWIMLcon 2019

What should we take away from how web giants and autonomous vehicles are redefining scale and impact for ML platforms? From founding the AI platforms team at Facebook, engineering for Google and now pioneering the development of AI/ML platforms in the uncharted waters of autonomous vehicles, Hussein Mehanna, Head of AI/ML at Cruise, is in a unique position to answer this question.

Live from TWIMLcon! Use-Case Driven ML Platforms

Keynote Interview

TWIMLcon 2019

Franziska Bell, PHD leads a team of 100 data scientists building use-case-driven data science platforms at Uber, building on top of lower-level capabilities from Uber's Michelangelo. Fran will join Sam on the TWIMLcon stage for a live podcast interview exploring how both low-level and higher-level ML platforms can drive data scientist and developer productivity.

Team Teardown: Evolving an ML Platform at SurveyMonkey

Panel Discussion

TWIMLcon 2019

We typically hear conference presentations from the single perspective of an organization's data scientists, data engineers, platform engineers, or ML/AI leaders. "Team Teardown" turns this model on its head, speaking with several members of an organization's team. This panel will explore the evolution of machine learning at SurveyMonkey.