Hard Learned Lessons from Over a Decade in AI
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Tecton Founder and CEO Mike Del Balso talks about what ML/AI use cases are core components generating Millions in revenue. Demetrios and Mike go through the maturity curve that predictive Machine Learning use cases have gone through over the past 5 years, and why a feature store is a primary component of an ML stack.
// Bio
Mike Del Balso is the CEO and co-founder of Tecton, where he’s building the industry’s first feature platform for real-time ML. Before Tecton, Mike co-created 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. He studied Applied Science, Electrical & Computer Engineering at the University of Toronto.
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Website: www.tecton.ai
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Timestamps:
[00:00] Smarter decisions, less manual work
[03:52] Data pipelines: pain and fixes
[08:45] Why Tecton was born
[11:30] ML use cases shift
[14:14] Models for big bets
[18:39] Build or buy drama
[20:20] Fintech's data playbook
[23:52] What really needs real-time
[28:07] Speeding up ML delivery
[32:09] Valuing ML is tricky
[35:29] Simplifying ML toolkits
[37:18] AI copilots in action
[42:13] AI that fights fraud
[45:07] Teaming up across coasts
[46:43] Tecton + Generative AI?
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