Kickstarting AI for startups the easy way with Benjamin Biering, Podimo | TLH #33

<p>If you want to harness the power of AI &amp; machine learning, how do you get started building a team and setting your department up for success?</p> <p>And if you’re a fresh Head of ML tasked with building a team from scratch, how can you make sure you haven’t missed any steps?</p> <p>More importantly, how do you ensure that your initiatives end up in production creating value to your company instead of in the trash can?</p> <p>During this session, we talked about AI strategy, team building, data science roles, data product development, data productization, the most common bottlenecks to avoid and more!</p> <p>Benjamin Biering, our next Tech Leaders Hub guest, can tell you all about it—he’s done it more than once.</p> <p>Benjamin’s machine learning journey has taken him through various roles (Digital Analyst, Data Product Manager, Head of Data Science) at various companies (@Creuna, @Ebay, @2021.AI) all the way to becoming Head of Machine Learning at Podimo.</p> <p>If you haven’t heard of Podimo yet, they’re on the path to building the equivalent of Netflix for the audio stories space: their platform offers podcasts, audiobooks, news, and more.</p> <p>We discussed about:</p> <ul> <li>The specific questions you need to ask yourself before building a machine learning team</li> <li>How to synchronize your ML team with the overall strategy of the business</li> <li>How to hire the right ML talent</li> <li>How to support teamwork between your ML team and the rest of the organization</li> <li>How to create the right conditions for success</li> <li>The importance of thinking about productizing ML-based data products</li> </ul> <p>Get more guides, news, and videos from STX Next!</p> <p>Website: <a href="https://stxnext.com/" target="_blank">https://stxnext.com/</a></p> <p>LinkedIn: <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/company/stx-next-python-experts" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">https://www.linkedin.com/company/stx-next-python-experts</a></p> <p>Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/STXNext/" target="_blank"