In this episode, we had the pleasure of welcoming Co-Founder and CISO of Weights & Biases, Chris Van Pelt, to the MLSecOps Podcast. Chris discusses a range of topics with hosts Badar Ahmed and Diana Kelley, including the history of how W&B was formed, building a culture of security & knowledge sharing across teams in an organization, real-world ML and GenAI security concerns, data lineage and tracking, and upcoming features in the Weights & Biases platform for enhancing security.

More about our guest speaker: 

Chris Van Pelt is a co-founder of Weights & Biases, a developer MLOps platform. In 2009, Chris founded Figure Eight/CrowdFlower. Over the past 12 years, Chris has dedicated his career optimizing ML workflows and teaching ML practitioners, making machine learning more accessible to all. Chris has worked as a studio artist, computer scientist, and web engineer. He studied both art and computer science at Hope College.

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