Anna
Connolly
VP, Customer Success
OctoML
Anna Connolly is the VP of Customer Success and Experience at OctoML, where she has led the postsales team for the past 2 years and focuses on bringing cost savings, developer agility, and hardware portability to enterprises running ML workloads at scale. Before OctoML, she was the Global Head of Customer Success for Primer AI, a NLP/NLG company serving clients across the national security, financial, and retail sectors. Prior to joining the private sector, Anna spent 12 years at the Central Intelligence Agency leading teams of analysts covering the Middle East.
16 April 2024 13:45 - 14:15
Unlocking AI efficiency - how to speed up your apps and spend less
Join OctoML’s VP of Customer Success, Anna Connolly, and Solutions Architect Bassem Yacoube as they discuss how organizations can optimize their AI workloads for maximum efficiency. The cost of production AI can skyrocket as an app or service gains user traction. Fortunately, organizations can stave off unexpected (and unsustainable) cost increases by optimizing ML models and identifying low-cost hardware. Anna and Bassem will share real-world examples from Microsoft Xbox and generative AI startup Wombo, who successfully optimized their computer vision workloads to run fast on multiple types of hardware. Learn from their experiences and insights on how to make your AI workloads more efficient, ultimately driving better performance and cost-effectiveness in your AI deployments.