"No" - the new AI Strategy for Eng. Managers and PMs

Sairam Sundaresan is a seasoned Machine Learning Leader with over 14 years of experience in the tech industry. He currently spearheads advanced AI projects at Valeo, managing a large team of researchers who teach automobiles to understand the world around them. Before this, he pioneered research at Intel Labs centered on deep learning algorithms, specifically algorithm-hardware co-design and multimodal models. 

He began his career at Qualcomm as a Senior Machine Learning Engineer. Sairam's work on the development of Qualcomm's FastCV library, Touch to Track, and real-time 3D reconstruction on mobile devices earned significant recognition and was featured in Forbes. Some of this technology found its way into consumer devices.

His research work has earned him several patents and led to numerou

An educator at heart, Sairam has served as a Machine Learning Lead and Mentor at the Frontier Development Lab (collaboration with NASA) since 2019. During this time, he has led projects on understanding the Sun, focusing on Starspots, Solar Wind, and reconstructing its surface. The teams he mentored have achieved significant recognition, with their work accepted at high-profile conferences s

Avinash Mahalingam brings 14+ years of strategic product management , product and career coaching and business development experience across diverse global industries in USA, Canada and India, led AI platform innovation at RBC and earlier led several 0 to 1 Products at Amazon. He's passionate about empowering product professionals with practical insights gained from building and scaling successful products. He currently is the Co-Founder and CEO for an AI-powered conscious wealth creation Platform and leads a Product Management Course on Maven.

Key Experiences & Expertise:

1- He led AI platform product development for an internal developer platform at a major Canadian bank, offering first-hand exposure to the intricacies of building and scaling AI-powered products.

2- At Amazon Freight, Avina