In Conversation: Hamel Husain and Greg Ceccarelli on AI Essentials for Tech Executives

Hamel Husain is a machine learning engineer with over 25 years of experience. He has worked with innovative companies such as Airbnb and GitHub, where he conducted early LLM research used by OpenAI for code understanding. He has also led and contributed to numerous popular open source machine learning tools. Hamel is currently an independent consultant helping companies operationalize large language models to accelerate their AI product journey.

Greg Ceccarelli is an advisor with Tola Capital and the former CPO at Pluralsight. He’s shipped multiple AI products at both Pluralsight and GitHub, and has spent the last two decades helping companies like Dropbox and Google create competitive advantage with data. He shares his insights in his weekly newsletter on Substack, where he explores the practical applications of AI in business, product development, and leadership.

Jess Haberman is director of content strategy at Anaconda and a technical publishing consultant. Jess regularly collaborates with tech industry leaders to develop instructional content about data and AI. She has presented at and facilitated technology conferences (Data Day Texas, Data Con LA, Scale By the Bay, O’Reilly Superstreams), webinars, training courses, podcasts, publishing seminars, and writing retreats.