In this episode, host Heidi Schock interviews Nisha Tagagala. Nisha shares her insights on the importance of AI education for businesses, and how it can be leveraged to improve productivity and efficiency. She also discusses the challenges of adopting AI, the need for professional training, and the future trends in AI technology. Tune in to learn how businesses can stay competitive in a rapidly evolving field.

Nisha is the CEO and founder of AIClub and AIClubPro, bringing AI Literacy to K-12 students and individuals worldwide. Nisha has significant experience in introducing technologies like Artificial Intelligence to new learners, from students to professionals. Previously, Nisha co-founded ParallelM which pioneered the MLOps practice of managing Machine Learning in production for enterprises - acquired by DataRobot. Nisha is a recognized leader in the operational machine learning space, having also driven the USENIX Operational ML Conference, the first industry/academic conference on production AI/ML. Nisha was previously a Fellow at SanDisk and Fellow/Lead Architect at Fusion-io, where she worked on innovation in non-volatile memory technologies and applications. Nisha has more than 20 years of expertise in enterprise software development, distributed systems, technical strategy, and product leadership. She has worked as technology lead for server flash at Intel - where she led server platform non-volatile memory technology development, storage-memory convergence, and partnerships. Prior to Intel, Nisha was the CTO of Gear6, where she designed and built clustered computing caches for high-performance I/O environments. Nisha Talagala is also the pillar lead for Skills Development for the Sri Lanka National AI Strategy 2024-2028 (as part of the Committee on Formulating a Strategy for Artificial Intelligence - CFSAI). Nisha earned her PhD at UC Berkeley, where she did research on clusters and distributed systems. Nisha holds 75 patents in distributed systems and software, over 25 refereed research publications, is a frequent speaker at industry and academic events, and is a contributing writer to Forbes and other publications.

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