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Free Lesson
Kickstart Your Recommender System
60 min
Feb 6, 2026 12:00 PM
Virtual (Zoom)
In this video
What you'll learn
Understand the core building blocks of a recommender system
and how metrics connect them.
Use metrics to guide recommender system design
and shape architecture and engineering decisions
Build a metrics stack that reflects your product goal
and move from vague objectives to concrete levers you can pull.
Why this topic matters
In modern recommender systems, metrics are at the steering wheel, not just the dashboard. If you don’t choose them deliberately, a single metric will quietly take over and push your system into behaviors you never intended. This session starts from recommender first principles, then shows the first step to designing your system with a metrics-first approach.
You'll learn from
Katerina Zanos
Principal Machine Learning Engineer, Disney+/ESPN at The Walt Disney Company
