Agile organizations have been successful in improving collaboration and reducing waste in software development. They have also learned to automate and streamline their software delivery process. But a lot of teams are still struggling to leverage the same agile principles to their artificial intelligence (AI) initiatives. Operationalization of Machine Learning (ML) models is an increasing challenge and a barrier to AI adoption in many companies. Too many AI teams are working in silos, disconnected from the rest of the organization. Creation, deployment, and monitoring of ML models often include manual steps, which is not only inefficient but also error-prone. By applying DevOps practices to machine learning systems, the MLOps approach helps optimize the entire ML lifecycle management. It reduces frictions and delays in the AI value stream to shorten the time needed to convert a business need into an AI service.

In this talk, we will explore how Data Scientists, ML Engineers and Operations teams can work better together using MLOps practices. We will identify the prerequisites for successful enterprise AI initiatives, and we will describe the different MLOps techniques to support production-grade ML systems.