Why Vodafone needed an AI Booster to scale data science

Telecom giant Vodafone is no stranger to the world of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML), having used the technology for years, with hundreds of data scientists that have built thousands of models. While Vodafone was able to deploy and benefit from AI, over the last several years it increasingly faced a number of challenges. Among the challenges was the issue of scaling its AI workloads in a standardized and repeatable approach. Vodafone also faced issues with speed and security. In a session at the Google Cloud Next 2022 event this week, Sebastian Mathalikunnel, AI strategy lead at Vodafone, detailed the issues his organization faced and what it had to do to help overcome them.