Scaling Enterprise Machine Learning Through Governance & MLOps

In my roles as a customer success and business development executive covering Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning (AIML) at leading tech companies, I've spoken with executives, data scientists and IT managers across startups, Fortune 500 and Global 1000 companies about their AIML needs. After discussing what is AIML, platform features or API services easiest to use for non-specialist, companies get stuck on an equally important component of enterprise AIML, governance of operations. Companies get caught up in the hype led by consultants and industry media outlets that promote AIML led digital transformation is happening across every industry, in companies of all sizes with millions of models being deployed to production weekly. AIML software vendors promise adoption of their solution enables instant production readiness enabling their customers to, "Build and deploy a machine learning model in 9 minutes," with limited or no expertise. The reality is not quite as advertised but I'll help you on your journey by discussing why deploying ML in production can be difficult, provide a way to assess your return on investment (ROI) with AIML, how to create a comprehensive ML platform and provide a framework for assessing your organization's AIML maturity to better determine the capabilities you need to acquire to improve your org's proficiency. There are many definitions for Machine Learning Operations (MLOps) and governance but to keep things simple, I'll define governance and MLOps as the best practices and policies for businesses to run AIML successfully.