Bringing DevOps Agility to ML

Luis Ceze is Co-Founder and CEO of OctoML, which enables businesses to seamlessly deploy ML models to production making the most out of the hardware. OctoML is backed by Tiger Global, Addition, Amplify Partners, and Madrona Venture Group. Ceze is the Lazowska Professor in the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington, where he has taught for 15 years.

Luis co-directs the Systems and Architectures for Machine Learning lab (sampl.ai), which co-authored Apache TVM, a leading open-source ML stack for performance and portability that is used in widely deployed AI applications.

Luis is also co-director of the Molecular Information Systems Lab (misl.bio), which led pioneering research in the intersection of computing and biology for IT applications such as DNA data storage. His research has been featured prominently in the media including New York Times, Popular Science, MIT Technology Review, and the Wall Street Journal. Ceze is a Venture Partner at Madrona Venture Group and leads their technical advisory board.

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.

Mihail is a co-CEO of Storia AI, an early-stage startup building an AI-powered creative assistant for video production. He has over a decade of experience researching and engineering AI systems at scale. Previously he built the first deep-learning dialogue systems at the Stanford NLP group. He was also a founding member of Amazon Alexa’s first special projects team where he built the organization’s earliest large language models. Mihail is a serial entrepreneur who previously founded Confetti AI, a machine-learning education company that he led until its acquisition in 2022.