How AI Happens

Feb 28 2025 120 ep. 29 mins 112
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How AI Happens is a podcast featuring experts and practitioners explaining their work at the cutting edge of Artificial Intelligence. Tune in to hear AI Researchers, Data Scientists, ML Engineers, and the leaders of today’s most exciting AI companies explain the newest and most challenging facets of their field. Powered by Sama.

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AWS Director of Generative AI Apps Srini Iragavarapu

Feb 28 2025 32 mins  
Generative AI is still part of the conversation, but perhaps more relevant today is the question of how to develop and leverage more advanced agents. Srini Iragavarapu is the Director of Generative AI applications and Developer Experiences at AWS, and he joins us today to discuss this key topic. Srini explores the evolution from basic generative AI models to sophisticated agents ca

Exploring Retail in AI with Freshworks CMO Mika Yamamoto & Sama VPM Lisa Avvocato

Feb 21 2025 32 mins  
AI is transforming industries worldwide, but how is it reshaping the retail experience? In this episode, we sit down with Lisa Avvocato and Mika Yamamoto to delve into the role of AI in retail and marketing. Lisa and Mika are seasoned marketing and business leaders specializing in AI, customer experience, and enterprise transformation. Lisa is the VP of Global Marketing and AI Comm

eBay Chief AI Officer Nitzan Mekel-Bobrov

Jan 30 2025 33 mins  
How is AI disrupting the retail landscape? In this episode, we welcome Nitzan Mekel-Bobrov to explore the transformative role of AI in reshaping online marketplaces. Nitzan is a visionary leader and AI expert driving innovation at the intersection of technology and commerce. As Chief AI Officer at eBay, he spearheads cutting-edge AI initiatives that transform the online marketplace

Unilever Head of Data Science Dr. Satyajit Wattamwar

Jan 24 2025 25 mins  
How can data science and AI drive sustainable innovation in a rapidly evolving world? In this episode, we speak with Dr. Satyajit Wattamwar, Data Science and Statistical Leader at Unilever, to explore how these technologies are shaping novel solutions. Unilever is a global leader in consumer goods committed to creating responsible, impactful products that improve lives. Leveraging

Vanguard Principal of Center for Analytics & Insights Jing Wang

Dec 30 2024 35 mins  
Jing Wang, Principal and Head of the Center for Analytics and Insights at Vanguard, shares her fascinating journey from high-energy physics to leading AI initiatives that are reshaping investor outcomes for the better.

Sema4 CTO Ram Venkatesh

Dec 23 2024 30 mins  
Today, we are joined by Ram Venkatesh, the founder of Sema4.ai – an enterprise AI agent platform that enables businesses to build, operate, and scale AI agents. Ram shares the risks of training LLMs from agent data, and the contextual work training protocol for agents. We also unpack the requirements of a large language model when you’re not responsible for training it, the var

Unpacking Meta's SAM-2 with Sama Experts Pascal & Yannick

Dec 18 2024 49 mins  
Fresh from Sama's AI Research Book Club are Solutions Engineer Yannick Donnelly and Sr. Applied Scientist Pascal Jauffret, who join the podcast to unpack the use cases, limitations, and implications of Meta's SAM-2.

Qualcomm Senior Director Siddhika Nevrekar

Dec 16 2024 32 mins  
Siddhika worked on groundbreaking projects at Microsoft and Apple before co-founding Tetra AI Hub, later acquired by Qualcomm, where she now serves as the Senior Director of Project Management. Our guest explains why she switched focus from cloud to edge computing, why there’s a need to both increase compute on edge devices and develop more efficient AI models, and how the conver

Block Developer Advocate Rizel Scarlett

Dec 03 2024 28 mins  
Rizel describes how she helped others to understand how GitHub Copilot should be used, her duties and ongoing projects at Block, how the conversation around AI copilots has evolved in the last 18 months, and the importance of having a refined system for objection handling.

dbt Labs Co-Founder Drew Banin

Nov 21 2024 28 mins  
Drew details the emergence of cloud data warehouses and the rapid adoption that followed, unpacks the practical uses of LLMs , and demystifies some of their reasoning-based limitations. He also sheds light on vector embeddings, their transformative potential, and what’s next for this dynamic space.