Real-time Machine Learning with Chip Huyen

Chip Huyen runs Tep Studio at the intersection of AI, education, and storytelling. Previously, she was with Snorkel AI and NVIDIA, founded an AI infrastructure startup (acquired), and taught Machine Learning Systems Design at Stanford.

She was a core developer of NeMo, NVIDIA’s generative AI framework.

Her first English book, Designing Machine Learning Systems (2022), is an Amazon bestseller in AI and has been translated into 10+ languages. Her new book, AI Engineering (2025), has been the most-read book on the O’Reilly platform since its launch.

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.

Vishnu Rachakonda is the operations lead for the MLOps Community and co-hosts the MLOps Coffee Sessions podcast. He is a machine learning engineer at Tesseract Health, a 4Catalyzer company focused on retinal imaging. In this role, he builds machine learning models for clinical workflow augmentation and diagnostics in on-device and cloud use cases. Since studying bioengineering at Penn, Vishnu has been actively working in the fields of computational biomedicine and MLOps. In his spare time, Vishnu enjoys suspending all logic to watch Indian action movies, playing chess, and writing.