Toby Espinosa, Vice President of DoorDash, joins Scale AI CEO Alexandr Wang in a fireside chat. The two discuss how DoorDash launches new products and services and how AI can help drive scale.

Fireside Chat: Using AI to Launch New Products in eCommerce

Alex is the CEO and Founder at Scale AI. He was inspired to solve ML infrastructure problems and accelerate the development of AI through his work at Quora, where he worked as a technical lead. Alex worked as an algorithm developer at Hudson River Trading and as a software engineer at Addepar. He attended, and dropped out from, MIT, studying Artificial Intelligence.

Alexandr Wang

CEO and Founder at Scale AI

Toby Espinosa is Vice President at DoorDash and he is responsible for the company's largest partnerships across the restaurant, grocery, corporate, and retail categories. DoorDash has partnered with several of the largest merchants in the world including Walmart, McDonald’s, Chick-fil-A, Chipotle, Brinker International, and The Cheesecake Factory. Previously, Toby was a member of the operations team at DoorDash, responsible for the business units in Phoenix, Vancouver, and Atlanta. Prior to DoorDash, Toby was an investor at Henry Crown and Company, a family owned and operated investment company whose holdings include diversified manufacturing operations, private equity, banking, oil and gas and real estate companies. He has held operations and investment roles at Google/Lux Capital and is a Lecturer at Stanford Engineering School. Toby graduated with an A.B. from Brown University and an M.S. from Stanford Engineering School.

Toby Espinosa

VP of DoorDash

Toby Espinosa, Vice President of DoorDash, joins Scale AI CEO Alexandr Wang in a fireside chat. The two will discuss how DoorDash launches new products and services and how AI can help drive scale.

Scale Converge | Using AI to Launch New Products in eCommerce

Sebastian Barrios, VP of Technology at Mercado Libre, Pranam Kolari, Sr. Director of Engineering at Walmart Technology, and Jason Sleight, Group Tech Lead at Yelp join Aatish Nayak, Head of Content and Language at Scale AI in an expert panel. The panel will discuss how the field is leveraging advancements in AI/ML to accelerate the world’s move to online retail. We’ll also explore the various challenges on the path to making these technologies work at global scale.

Panel: Combining AI and Human Insights to Accelerate AI Adoption in eCommerce

Aatish is the Head of Content &amp; Language products including NLP, Speech, Cataloguing, Classification, and Search Relevance. The team focuses on empowering customers in social media, e-commerce, and broader enterprise to get diverse human insight on content quickly and fairly. Aatish previously was an early engineer at robotics startup Shield AI, focused on building AI systems to protect service members, and Skurt, an on-demand car rental marketplace acquired by Fair.com. In college, Aatish ran Autolab.com, a learning management startup used at CMU, Cornell, Rutgers, NYU, PKU, and others. He graduated with a B.S. in Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University.

Aatish Nayak

Head of Content & Language, Scale AI

Dr. Jason Sleight is currently a group tech lead for the Applied Machine Learning group at Yelp where he focuses on the intersection of machine learning (ML) and systems engineering. He leads several initiatives to create platforms for ad hoc computing, data ETL, and ML as well as to collaborate with stakeholders across all of Yelp to apply these platforms towards Yelp’s business goals. Prior to Yelp, Jason completed his PhD from the University of Michigan studying artificial intelligence and cooperative multiagent systems.

Jason Sleight

Group Tech Lead

Sebas joined Mercado Libre in 2020 as Tech Vice President. In his role, Sebas leads all cross-technology teams including Infrastructure, Cloud &amp; Platform, Architecture, Mobile, BI, Machine Learning and UX, among others. Sebas developed his entire career as an entrepreneur in the world of technology, founded 2 companies in Mexico: Zeb Studios and Yaxi, which he sold to Cabify. His last experience was at Cabify where he worked for the last 3 years as CTO at the headquarters in Spain. For Yaxi, he was recognized as “The youngest entrepreneur of the year”. Sebas still holds the record as the youngest Endeavor Entrepreneur in history (22 years old at the time). In 2020, he was also recognized by Forbes magazine in the “30 under 30” ranking that highlights Europe's youngest visionary entrepreneurs. Sebas is a Systems Engineer, graduated from ITAM (Instituto Tecnológico Autónoma de México)

Sebastian Barrios

Vp of Technology

Pranam is a Sr. Director of Engineering at Walmart Technology. He leads Search Algorithms for Walmart, and previously incubated and developed personalization and recommendation technology at Walmart. Pranam has over two decades of experience unlocking and perfecting machine learning to critical problems in product and content discovery, at scale. Previously, he was at Yahoo! and even earlier, his work was critical in tackling and driving awareness of spam in social media.

Pranam Kolari

Sr. Director of Engineering

The panel will discuss how the field is leveraging advancements in AI/ML to accelerate the world’s move to online retail. We’ll also explore the various challenges on the path to making these technologies work at global scale. Sebastian Barrios, VP of Technology at Mercado Libre, Pranam Kolari, Sr. Director of Engineering at Walmart Technology, and Jason Sleight, Group Tech Lead at Yelp join Aatish Nayak, Head of Content and Language at Scale AI in this expert panel. 

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