Building ML Infrastructure (HW & SW) for Developer Efficiency - What AI Developers Need and How Technology Vendors Can Help | Kisaco Research

In developing applications for a variety of different infrastructure and hardware targets, machine learning developers face a dynamic and uncertain landscape where optimization and interoperability become challenging tasks. 

This panel will address how to build infrastructure with developer efficiency in mind, so that developers can focus on creating game-changing machine learning solutions for organizations and consumers. It will also address how hardware, systems and other technology vendors can assist in this effort.

Session Topics: 
Developer Efficiency
Enterprise AI
ML at Scale
Systems Design
Speaker(s): 

Author:

Ritu Goel

Director, Product Management, Adobe Sensei
Adobe

Ritu Goel is Director of Product Management at Adobe, where she has been driving strategy for AI/ML platform since its early days with the vision of democratizing AI/ML development at Adobe. Prior to this, Ritu has spent more than a decade leading product strategy and execution of various enterprise to consumer products and platforms at eBay, Macys.com and Infosys. Ritu has a bachelor of engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee. 

Ritu Goel

Director, Product Management, Adobe Sensei
Adobe

Ritu Goel is Director of Product Management at Adobe, where she has been driving strategy for AI/ML platform since its early days with the vision of democratizing AI/ML development at Adobe. Prior to this, Ritu has spent more than a decade leading product strategy and execution of various enterprise to consumer products and platforms at eBay, Macys.com and Infosys. Ritu has a bachelor of engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee. 

Author:

Jeff Boudier

Product Director
Hugging Face

Jeff Boudier is a product director at Hugging Face, creator of Transformers, the leading open-source NLP library. Previously Jeff was a co-founder of Stupeflix, acquired by GoPro, where he served as director of Product Management, Product Marketing, Business Development and Corporate Development.

Jeff Boudier

Product Director
Hugging Face

Jeff Boudier is a product director at Hugging Face, creator of Transformers, the leading open-source NLP library. Previously Jeff was a co-founder of Stupeflix, acquired by GoPro, where he served as director of Product Management, Product Marketing, Business Development and Corporate Development.

Author:

Sree Ganesan

Head of Software Products
Habana Labs

Sree Ganesan leads Software Product Management at Habana Labs, working alongside a diverse global team to deliver state-of-the-art deep learning capabilities of the Habana SynapseAI® software suite to the market. Previously, she was Engineering Director in Intel’s AI Products Group, where she was responsible for AI software strategy and deep learning framework integration for Nervana NNP AI accelerators.  Ms. Ganesan joined Intel in 2001 and has held a variety of technical and management roles in software engineering, VLSI CAD and SOC design methodology. Ms. Ganesan received a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India and a PhD in computer engineering from the University of Cincinnati, Ohio.

Sree Ganesan

Head of Software Products
Habana Labs

Sree Ganesan leads Software Product Management at Habana Labs, working alongside a diverse global team to deliver state-of-the-art deep learning capabilities of the Habana SynapseAI® software suite to the market. Previously, she was Engineering Director in Intel’s AI Products Group, where she was responsible for AI software strategy and deep learning framework integration for Nervana NNP AI accelerators.  Ms. Ganesan joined Intel in 2001 and has held a variety of technical and management roles in software engineering, VLSI CAD and SOC design methodology. Ms. Ganesan received a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India and a PhD in computer engineering from the University of Cincinnati, Ohio.

Author:

Daniel Wu

Course Facilitator
Stanford University

Daniel Wu is a technical leader who brings more than 20 years of expertise in software engineering, AI/ML, and high-impact team development. He is the Head of Commercial Banking AI and Machine Learning at JPMorgan Chase where he drives financial service transformation through AI innovation. His diverse professional background also includes building point of care expert systems for physicians to improve quality of care, co-founding an online personal finance marketplace, and building an online real estate brokerage platform.

Daniel is passionate about the democratization of technology and the ethical use of AI - a philosophy he shares in the computer science and AI/ML education programs he has contributed to over the years.

Daniel Wu

Course Facilitator
Stanford University

Daniel Wu is a technical leader who brings more than 20 years of expertise in software engineering, AI/ML, and high-impact team development. He is the Head of Commercial Banking AI and Machine Learning at JPMorgan Chase where he drives financial service transformation through AI innovation. His diverse professional background also includes building point of care expert systems for physicians to improve quality of care, co-founding an online personal finance marketplace, and building an online real estate brokerage platform.

Daniel is passionate about the democratization of technology and the ethical use of AI - a philosophy he shares in the computer science and AI/ML education programs he has contributed to over the years.