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Speakers

Ethan works at Runway building systems for media generation. Ethan's work generally straddles the boundary between research and engineering without falling too hard on either side. Before Runway, Ethan spent 4 years at Square. There, he led a small team of AI Engineers training large language models for Conversational AI. Before Square, Ethan freelance consulted and worked at a couple of e-commerce startups. Ethan found his way into tech by way of a Physics PhD.

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.

Mike is the co-founder of Tecton, where he is focused on building next-generation data infrastructure for Operational ML. Before Tecton, Mike was the PM lead for the Uber Michelangelo ML platform. He was also a product manager at Google where he managed the core ML systems that power Google’s Search Ads business.
SUMMARY
The relationship between ML Engineers and Product Managers is something that we don't talk about enough. We've got to get this right. If we don't get this right, either you're not focusing on the business problems in the right way or the Product Managers are not going to understand the tech appropriately to help make the right decisions.

