Lead of Artificial Intelligence @ Talpa Network

by Rodrigo Agundez - 01 Oct 2019
Tags: #data science #AI #AWS #Spark #JupyterHub #AI Roadmap #CI/CD #IaC #PyData stack #3rd party AI partnerships #AI hiring.

Talpa Network is one of the biggest media companies in The Netherlands with many brands offering content over radio, television, magazines, Ecommerce, podcasts, video-on-demand, and radio-on-demand. I started and built the AI department in the company. Some of my accountabilities were:

  • Hire and built the team using my vast network;
  • Built the AI development platform;
  • Kickstart AI related projects focused on value creation;
  • Assess AI partnerships for all brands;
  • Point-of-contact for the team;
  • Create AI awareness in the company;
  • Collaborate daily with the Data and DevOps team to create an end-to-end AI strategy;
  • Part of the architecture board;
  • GDPR related procedures to ensure compliance in our use cases;