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What End-to-End AI Engineering Really Means

Part of AI Engineering in Practice: Role, Skills, Industry Reality.

45 min
Feb 20, 2026 11:00 AM
Virtual (Zoom)

In this video

What you'll learn

End-to-End Ownership of AI Systems

What it means to own an AI system from problem framing through deployment, evaluation, and long-term operation.

Designing AI Systems Under Real Constraints

How latency, cost, reliability, data quality, evaluation, and risk shape architecture choices in production AI systems.

Managing Change and Failure in Production AI

How AI engineers handle drift, regressions, updates, and failures through evals, monitoring, and controlled iteration.

Why this topic matters

AI Engineering has become an overloaded term, shaped by rapidly evolving tooling, fragmented infrastructure and inconsistent role boundaries. As the discipline evolves, teams risk misalignment and fragile systems. Establishing a shared understanding of what End-to-End AI Engineering is, and what it is not, is essential for building AI systems that survive beyond demos and scale in production.

You'll learn from

Aurimas Griciūnas

Aurimas Griciūnas

Founder & CEO @ SwirlAI | Former CPO @ Neptune.ai (acquired by OpenAI)

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