Techzine Talks on Tour
Techzine Talks on Tour is a podcast series recorded on location at the events Coen and Sander attend all over the world. A spin-off of the successful Dutch series Techzine Talks, this new English series aims to reach new audiences.
Each episode is an approximately 30-minute discussion that Coen or Sander has with a high-level executive of a technology company. The episodes are single-take affairs, and we don't (or hardly) edit them afterwards, apart from polishing the audio up a bit of course. This way, you get an honest, open discussion where everyone speaks their mind on the topic at hand.
These topics vary greatly, as Coen and Sander attend a total of 50 to 60 events each year, ranging from open-source events like KubeCon to events hosted by Cisco, IBM, Salesforce and ServiceNow, to name only a few. With a lot of experience in many walks of IT life, Coen and Sander always manage to produce an engaging, in-depth discussion on general trends, but also on technology itself.
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Techzine Talks on Tour
Open source is at the heart of AI innovation
We recently attended the Ubuntu Summit, where Canonical showcased all of the innovation and other developments around Ubuntu. Open source in general and Ubuntu in particular have played and continue to play a vital role in the development of AI and ML. Learn all about this relationship in the latest episode of Techzine Talks on Tour.
We sit down during the Ubuntu Summit with Andreea Munteanu, AI/ML & MLOps Product Manager at Canonical. She has a data science background, which gives her a different perspective on AI than more technology oriented people. During her time as a data scientist, she "spent more time on tinkering with the tooling rather than building models". That's not what you want as a data scientist, but it is something that needs to be solved at least partly at the product level. That's why she got into product marketing at Canonical.
With this background and objective in mind, we have a very broad ranging conversation with Munteanu. Obviously, part of it is on Canonical's role in all of this, its 20-year history and its relevance for AI and ML development. Ubuntu plays a foundational role in various environments (desktop, server, edge), which makes its impact on AI (and the other way around) quite significant.
Besides diving into Ubuntu's role in the AI discussion, both in the past, present and the future, we also talk about the importance of optimizing existing infrastructure for AI projects. Especially MLOps has Munteanu's full attention. In addition, we discuss the security concerns associated with AI and data management, and the future of the relationship between AI and open source.
In our opinion, the conversation we had with Munteanu reflects the comprehensive discussion around AI, ML in general, with a specific focus on the role of open source, Ubuntu and Canonical in these fields. We hope you agree. Listen to the new episode of Techzine Talks on Tour now!