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Date: "2024-08-01"
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# Podcast recording — 2024-08-01
Recorded episode with Piergiorgio Conte. Great conversation.

## Notes
- Episode theme: the intersection of data engineering and machine learning operations — building reliable ML pipelines that actually make it to production
- Piergiorgio shared war stories from deploying ML models in a regulated financial services environment, including the compliance and auditability challenges that most MLOps content completely ignores
- His background combining traditional data engineering with modern ML infrastructure gave the conversation a practical grounding that pure research-focused guests often miss
- Solid episode that will appeal strongly to our data engineering audience segment; Piergiorgio is methodical in his explanations and provides clear, actionable frameworks
- Key quote: "Ninety percent of ML projects fail not because the model is wrong, but because the data pipeline is unreliable. Fix your plumbing before you tune your hyperparameters"
- Audio was good; Piergiorgio recorded via Riverside from his office in Milan with a decent condenser microphone

## Follow-up
- [ ] Send thank-you email to Piergiorgio
- [ ] Draft show notes emphasizing the MLOps pipeline architecture he described
- [ ] Schedule editing with [[person-paco-furiani]]
