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3h ago
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(02:15): Tacita's unconventional career path to becoming a CTO
(07:00): Textio's practices for building AI responsibly and ethically
(14:00) The impact of Textio's AI on performance feedback
(17:00) The importance of purpose-built vs generic AI models
(28:00) Balancing open source and proprietary data/models
(42:00) Advice for the AI industry moving forward
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Tacita Morway
“When you've got a team with different backgrounds, educational, lived experiences, identity, careers, all of those things, we have those different perspectives in t ..read more
Open||Source||Data
2w ago
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(00:02:29) Fabiana's journey starting YData and becoming a public speaker
(00:20:19) Misconceptions and hype around generative AI and AGI
(00:32:46) Potential real-world impact and use cases of LLMs today
(00:34:55) The role of synthetic data in making AI models more robust and fair
(00:43:55) Advice for founders: value your time and learn to say no
(00:48:24) The importance of technical leaders being able to communicate well
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Charna Parkey:
"It's a balance. I think that's also what led us to some of the demographic based ..read more
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1M ago
Episode timestamps
(02:15): Challenges of collecting open source usage data
(22:06): Driving impact with open source usage data
(28:27): Avi's entrepreneurial journey
(39:42) Persistence and vision in startups
(44:03) Tracking outcomes to stay motivated
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Avi Press
“I mean, one thing is, for any project that you might be thinking about doing or any initiative that you want to work on or goal that you have, I think there's a lot of power in just trying the thing. You may not have all the details figured out, but just try it anyway and see where it takes you. And I think a lot of pro ..read more
Open||Source||Data
1M ago
Timestamps
00:00 - Intro
05:10 - Paula’s Professional Journey
10:30 - What Inspired Paula to Go Through the Open Source Path
14:50 - What are some of the biggest challenges and impacts that Paula sees in companies trying to derive value?
23:30 - Is the Tech World a Meritocracy?
25:35 - A Shift Of What is a Tech Company?
27:30 - Kids Interacting with New Technologies
31:30 - What Does Open Source Data Means to Paula?
42:50 - What is a Question that Paula has never been asked before?
47:00 - What Advice would you give to the audience?
51:50 - Backstage with Executive Producer L ..read more
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2M ago
Starting the new season of Open Source Data, our new host Charna Parkey welcomes the CEO and Co-founder of deepset, Milos Rusic. With an impressive journey around NLP and AI, pioneering several areas in the Open Source field, Milos has revolutionized data search processes and brought about a new era of user-friendly and efficient enterprise search systems.
Charna also shares some common ground with Milos when talking about joining an NLP Startup in 2015-16, predictive maintenance and more.
Don’t miss it ..read more
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4M ago
This episode features an interview with Charna Parkey, Real-Time AI Product and Strategy Leader at DataStax. Charna has been developing AI and ML products over the last 17 years and has worked with 90 of the Fortune 100 in her various roles. She is also a co-author and inventor on several patents.
In this episode, Sam and Charna discuss handing over the role as host, Sam’s new startup journey, and how their thinking has evolved during the explosion of LLMs.
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“Now, it seems like we have this opportunity where the conversation and the place that society is at is different. Whe ..read more
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4M ago
This episode features a panel discussion with Stefano Maffulli, Executive Director of the Open Source Initiative (OSI); and Stephen O’Grady, Co-founder of RedMonk. Stefano has decades of experience in open source advocacy. He co-founded the Italian chapter of Free Software Foundation Europe, built the developer community of the OpenStack Foundation, and led open source marketing teams at several international companies. Stephen has been an industry analyst for several decades and is author of the developer playbook, The New Kingmakers: How Developers Conquered the World.
In this episode, Sam ..read more
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5M ago
This episode features a panel discussion with Mikiko Bazeley, Head of MLOps at Featureform; Zain Hasan, Senior Developer Advocate at Weaviate; and Tuana Celik, Developer Advocate at deepset.
In this episode, Mikiko, Zain, and Tuana discuss what open source data means to them, how their companies fit into the AI-first ecosystem, and how jobs will need to evolve with the AI-native stack.
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“We're almost part of a fancy new AI robot kitchen that you'd find in Tokyo, in some ways. I see a virtual feature store as, yes, you can have a bunch of your ingredients tossed into a closet ..read more
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6M ago
This episode features an interview with Mona Rakibe, CEO and Co-founder of Telmai, an AI-based data observability platform built for open architecture. Mona is a veteran in the data infrastructure space and has held engineering and product leadership positions that drove product innovation and growth strategies for startups and enterprises. She has served companies like Reltio, EMC, Oracle, and BEA where AI-driven solutions have played a pivotal role.
In this episode, Sam sits down with Mona to discuss the application of LLMs, cleaning up data pipelines, and how we should think about data reli ..read more
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6M ago
This episode features an interview with Larry Augustin, angel investor and advisor to early-stage technology companies. Larry previously served as the Vice President for Applications at AWS, where he was responsible for application services like Pinpoint, Chime, and WorkSpaces.
Before joining AWS, Larry was the CEO of SugarCRM, an open source CRM vendor. He also was the founder and CEO of VA Linux, where he launched SourceForge. Among the group who coined the term “open source”, Larry has sat on the boards of several open source and Linux organizations.
In this episode, Sam and Larry discuss w ..read more