Alex Salazar is the CEO and Co-Founder of Arcade.dev, working on secure AI agents and real-world automation integrations. Chiara Caratelli is a Data Scientist at Prosus Group, working on AI agents, web automation, and evaluation of robust multimodal models. Join the Community: https://go.mlops.community/YTJoinIn Get the newsletter: https://go.mlops…

Jonathan Wall is the CEO at Runloop.ai, working on enterprise-grade infrastructure and execution environments for AI coding agents. The Future of AI Agents is Sandboxed // MLOps Podcast #353 with Jonathan Wall, CEO at Runloop.ai. Join the Community: https://go.mlops.community/YTJoinIn Get the newsletter: https://go.mlops.community/YTNewsletter Shou…

Simba Khadder is the founder and CEO of Featureform, now at Redis, working on real-time feature orchestration and building a context engine for AI and agents. Context Engineering 2.0, Simba Khadder // MLOps Podcast #352 Join the Community: https://go.mlops.community/YTJoinIn Get the newsletter: https://go.mlops.community/YTNewsletter // Abstract Fe…

Satish Bhambri is a Sr Data Scientist at Walmart Labs, working on large-scale recommendation systems and conversational AI, including RAG-powered GroceryBot agents, vector-search personalization, and transformer-based ad relevance models. Join the Community: https://go.mlops.community/YTJoinIn Get the newsletter: https://go.mlops.community/YTNewsle…

Zack Reneau-Wedeen is the Head of Product at Sierra, leading the development of enterprise-ready AI agents — from Agent Studio 2.0 to the Agent Data Platform — with a focus on richer workflows, persistent memory, and high-quality voice interactions. How Sierra Does Context Engineering, Zack Reneau-Wedeen // MLOps Podcast #350 Join the Community: ht…

Spencer Reagan leads R&D at Airia, working on secure AI-agent orchestration, data governance systems, and real-time signal fusion technologies for regulated and defense environments. Overcoming Challenges in AI Agent Deployment: The Sweet Spot for Governance and Security // MLOps Podcast #349 with Spencer Reagan, R&D at Airia. Join the Community: h…

Thanks to Prosus Group for collaborating on the Agents in Production Virtual Conference 2025. Abstract // The discussion centers on highly technical yet practical themes, such as the use of advanced post-training techniques like Direct Preference Optimization (DPO) and Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning (PEFT) to ensure LLMs maintain stability while s…

Ricky Doar is the VP of Solutions at Cursor, where he leads forward-deployed engineers. A seasoned product and technical leader with over a decade of experience in developer tools and data platforms, Ricky previously served as VP of Field Engineering at Vercel, where he led global technical solutions for the company's next-generation frontend platf…

Dr. Jure Leskovec is the Chief Scientist at Kumo.AI and a Stanford professor, working on relational foundation models and graph-transformer systems that bring enterprise databases into the foundation-model era. Relational Foundation Models: Unlocking the Next Frontier of Enterprise AI // MLOps Podcast #348 with Jure Leskovec, Professor and Chief Sc…

Jeff Huber is the CEO of ​Chroma, working on context engineering and building reliable retrieval infrastructure for AI systems. Context Engineering, Context Rot, & Agentic Search with the CEO of Chroma, Jeff Huber // MLOps Podcast #348. Join the Community: https://go.mlops.community/YTJoinIn Get the newsletter: https://go.mlops.community/YTNewslett…

Brooke Hopkins is the CEO of Coval, a company making voice agents more reliable. Reliable Voice Agents // MLOps Podcast #347 with Brooke Hopkins, Founder of Coval. Join the Community: https://go.mlops.community/YTJoinIn Get the newsletter: https://go.mlops.community/YTNewsletter // Abstract Voice AI is finally growing up—but not without drama. Broo…

Rani Radhakrishnan is a Principal at PwC US, leading work on AI-managed services, autonomous agents, and data-driven transformation for enterprises. The Future of AI Operations: Insights from PwC AI Managed Services // MLOps Podcast #345 with Rani Radhakrishnan, Principal, Technology Managed Services - AI, Data Analytics and Insights at PwC US. Hug…

Andy Pernsteiner is the Field CTO at VAST Data, working on large-scale AI infrastructure, serverless compute near data, and the rollout of VAST’s AI Operating System. The GPU Uptime Battle // MLOps Podcast #346 with Andy Pernsteiner, Field CTO of VAST Data.Huge thanks to VAST Data for supporting this episode! Join the Community: https://go.mlops.co…

Dr. Jeff Schwartzentruber is a Senior Machine Learning Scientist at eSentire, working on anomaly detection pipelines and the use of large language models to enhance cybersecurity operations. The Evolution of AI in Cyber Security // MLOps Podcast #344 with Jeff Schwartzentruber, Staff Machine Learning Scientist at eSentire. Join the Community: https…

Jaipal Singh Goud is the CTO at Prem AI, working on model customization and privacy-preserving compute. This episode was recorded at the Plan B studios in Lugano, Switzerland. For more information, visit https://pow.space/ How do fine-tuned models and RAG systems power personalized AI agents that learn, collaborate, and transform enterprise workflo…

The Semantic Layer and AI Agents // MLOps Podcast #343 with David Jayatillake, VP of AI at Cube.dev. Join the Community: https://go.mlops.community/YTJoinIn Get the newsletter: https://go.mlops.community/YTNewsletter // Abstract David Jayatillake argues that the real battle in data isn’t about AI — it’s about who controls the semantics. In this epi…

Building Claude Code: Origin, Story, Product Iterations, & What's Next // MLOps Podcast #342 with Siddharth Bidasaria, Member of Technical Staff at Anthropic. Join the Community: https://go.mlops.community/YTJoinIn Get the newsletter: https://go.mlops.community/YTNewsletter // Abstract Demetrios Brinkmann talks with Siddharth Bidasaria about Anthro…

What if AI could actually remember like humans do? Biswaroop Bhattacharjee joins Demetrios Brinkmann to challenge how we think about memory in AI. From building Cortex—a system inspired by human cognition—to exploring whether AI should forget, this conversation questions the limits of agentic memory and how far we should go in mimicking the mind. G…

LLMs at Scale: Infrastructure That Keeps AI Safe, Smart & Affordable // MLOps Podcast #341 with Marco Palladino, Kong's Co-Founder and CTO. Join the Community: https://go.mlops.community/YTJoinIn Get the newsletter: https://go.mlops.community/YTNewsletter // Abstract While conversations around AI regulations continue to evolve, the responsibility f…

AI Conversations Powered by Prosus Group Unicorn Mafia won the recent hackathon at Raise Summit and explained to me what they built, including all the tech they used under the hood to make their AI agents work. Winners: Charlie Cheesman - Co-founder at 60x.ai Marissa Liu - Tech Lead, Reporting at Watershed Ana Shevchenko - Software Engineer II at S…

AI Conversations Powered by Prosus Group Your AI agent isn’t failing because it’s dumb—it’s failing because you refuse to test it. Chiara Caratelli cuts through the hype to show why evaluations—not bigger models or fancier prompts—decide whether agents succeed in the real world. If you’re not stress-testing, simulating, and iterating on failures, y…

AI Conversations Powered by Prosus Group Russ d'Sa shares how LiveKit went from a small open-source project during the pandemic to powering voice interfaces for giants like OpenAI. He talks about the turning point when LiveKit teamed up on ChatGPT’s voice features, the challenges of making AI sound human, and why voice could be the future of multim…

AI Conversations Powered by Prosus Group. Craig Tavares, COO of Buzz High Performance Compute, shares lessons from building GPU cloud infrastructure worldwide. He stresses the role of sovereign mandates, renewable power, and modular cooling in scaling data centers, while highlighting NVIDIA partnerships and orchestration as key to sustaining AI wor…

AI Conversations Powered by Prosus Group Nishikant Dhanuka talks about what it really takes to make AI agents useful—especially in e-commerce and productivity. From making them smarter with context (like user history and real-time data) to mixing chat and UI for smoother interactions, he breaks down what’s working and what’s not. He also shares why…

AI Conversations Powered by Prosus Group Demetrios chats with Beyang Liu about Sourcegraph’s AMP, exploring how AI coding agents are reshaping development—from IDEs to natural language commands—boosting productivity, cutting costs, and redefining how developers work with code. Guest speaker: Beyang Liu - CTO of Sourcegraph Host: Demetrios Brinkmann…

AI Conversations Powered by Prosus Group Stack Overflow is adapting to the AI era by licensing its trusted Q&A corpus, expanding into discussions and enterprise tools, and reinforcing its role as a reliable source as developer trust in AI output declines. Guest speaker: Prashanth Chandrashekar - CEO of Stack Overflow Host: Demetrios Brinkmann - Fou…

Agents in Production [Podcast Limited Series] Episode Nine – Training LLMs, Picking the Right Models, and GPU Headaches Paul van der Boor and Zulkuf Genc from Prosus join Demetrios to talk about what it really takes to get AI agents running in production. From building solid eval sets to juggling GPU logistics and figuring out which models are wort…

Demetrios chats with Paul van der Boor and Bruce Martens from Prosus about the real bottlenecks in AI agent development—not tools, but evaluation and feedback. They unpack when to build vs. buy, the tradeoffs of external vendors, and how internal tools like Copilot are reshaping workflows. Guest speakers: Paul van der Boor - VP AI at Prosus Group B…

Building AI agents that actually get things done is harder than it looks. Demetrios, Paul, and Dmitri break down what makes agents effective—from smart planning and memory to treating tools, systems, and even people as components. They cover the "react" loop, budgeting for long tasks, sandboxing, and learning from experience. It’s a sharp, practica…

Building AI Agents that work is no small feat. In Agents in Production [Podcast Limited Series] - Episode Six, Paul van der Boor and Sean Kenny share how they scaled AI across 100+ companies with Toqan—a tool born from a Slack experiment and grown into a powerful productivity platform. From driving adoption and building super users to envisioning A…