Bringing Audio ML Models into Production

Valerio is MLOps Lead at Utopia Music. He’s also an AI audio consultant who helps companies implement their AI music vision by providing technical, strategy, and talent sourcing services. Valerio is interested both in the R&D and productization (MLOps) aspects of AI applied to the audio and music domains. He's the host of The Sound of AI, the largest YouTube channel and online community on AI audio with more than 22K subscribers. Previously, he founded and led Melodrive, a tech startup that developed an AI-powered music engine capable of generating emotion-driven video game music in real-time. Valerio earned a Ph.D. in music AI from the University of Huddersfield (UK).

At the moment Demetrios is immersing himself in Machine Learning by interviewing experts from around the world in the weekly MLOps.community meetups. Demetrios is constantly learning and engaging in new activities to get uncomfortable and learn from his mistakes. He tries to bring creativity into every aspect of his life, whether that be analyzing the best paths forward, overcoming obstacles, or building lego houses with his daughter.