Enterprise Scale MLOps at NatWest Group

Tonight we'll be hearing from Andy McMahon and Helena Orihuela Salvatierra on the topic of "Enterprise Scale MLOps at NatWest Group":

"As businesses embrace Machine Learning across their organisations, manual workflows for building, training, and deploying ML models tend to become bottlenecks to innovation.

MLOps is helping companies streamline their end-to-end ML lifecycle and boost productivity of data scientists while maintaining high model accuracy and enhancing security and compliance.

In this session, we will share some of the capabilities we have built and deployed at NatWest Group in order to accelerate our development processes and deploy valuable solutions to production more robustly, reliably and repeatably."

• Andy McMahon is Head of MLOps at NatWest Group and is author of the book “Machine Learning Engineering with Python”. He is an award winning data science and machine learning leader with a passion for taking ML into production at scale.
• Helena Orihuela Salvatierra is a senior machine learning engineer in the Data Science and Innovation team at NatWest group. She has led the deployment of models and software platform capabilities across multiple cloud platforms in the energy and now financial services industry.

We will be hosted once-again by Skyscanner in their Quartermile office in Edinburgh.

Plan for the event:

• 18:30 -> 19:15: Attendees arrive, get shepherded to Pizza and Beer
• 19:15: Corral people into room, admit any late arrivals
• 19:20: Do general intro + hand out Raffle tickets for book
• 19:25: Presentation + Q/A
• 19:55 (though time flexible): Choose Raffle winners, hand out books
• 20:00->20:30: Tidy-up / finish-off any Pizza / Adjourn to nearby pub (likely Doctors)

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