A MLOps Platform for All Data Personas - Karan Honavar, IKEA IT AB
Channel: The Linux Foundation
Date: 2023-05-25

A MLOps Platform for All Data Personas - Karan Honavar, IKEA IT AB

At IKEA, we are a furniture retailing company with a plethora of different personas that work with Data. An evaluation resulted in us having 7 distinct personas that work with data and algorithms at different levels, each following different methods to productionize their AI/ML models. This presented a very clear and obvious challenge as an engineering area - - How do we standardize all model development? - How do we handle the complexities surrounding Responsible AI? - How can we be more cost efficient when developing compute intensive models? - How do we address the needs of personas that are not code first? - How do we leverage open-source components together with custom-built components to produce a cohesive platform for MLOps? - How do we establish the desired governance for such vast organization? The answer lied in establishing a custom developed MLOps platform that leverages Open Source, Public Cloud, Private Cloud, and multiple interaction interfaces that meets the need of our data community. Come, learn and take experience from our journey of building a MLOps platform with a platform as product mindset!