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Operationalizing AI: From Prototype to Production
PRESENTED BY
Ken Sipe
Cloud Architect & Tech Leader
Building an AI model is the easy part—making it work reliably in production is where the real engineering begins. In this fast-paced, experience-driven session, Ken explores the architecture, patterns, and practices behind operationalizing AI at scale. Drawing from real-world lessons and enterprise implementations, Ken will demystify the complex intersection of machine learning, DevOps, and data engineering, showing how modern organizations bring AI from the lab into mission-critical systems.
Attendees will learn how to:
Design production-ready AI pipelines that are testable, observable, and maintainable
Integrate model deployment, monitoring, and feedback loops using MLOps best practices
Avoid common pitfalls in scaling, governance, and model drift management
Leverage automation to reduce friction between data science and engineering teams
Whether you’re a software architect, developer, or engineering leader, this session will give you a clear roadmap for turning AI innovation into operational excellence—with the same pragmatic, architecture-first perspective that Ken is known for.
Ken Sipe
Ken is a distributed application engineer. Ken has worked with Fortune 500 companies to small startups in the roles of developer, designer, application architect and enterprise architect. Ken's current focus is on containers, container orchestration, high scale micro-service design and continuous delivery systems.
Ken is an international speaker on the subject of software engineering speaking at conferences such as JavaOne, JavaZone, Great Indian Developer Summit (GIDS), and The Strange Loop. He is a regular speaker with NFJS where he is best known for his architecture and security hacking talks. In 2009, Ken was honored by being awarded the JavaOne Rockstar Award at JavaOne in SF, California and the JavaZone Rockstar Award at JavaZone in Oslo, Norway as the top ranked speaker.
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