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Buying AI in a Big Company: A Field Guide
Andre Lucas
- When
- Thursday, September 172:00 PM – 2:30 PM · 30 min
- Where
- Room 2BFort Mason Center, San Francisco
About this session
Procurement, security review, and the eighteen-month contract cycle — from the perspective of the engineer who has to make something work inside it. Practical advice for both buyers and vendors.
Speaker
Andre Lucas
Head of AI, Bellweather
Andre runs a ten-person AI group inside a four-thousand-person company and spends half his time on procurement. He is honest about which of those two is harder.
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