AI That Ships: The Operating Model and the Serving Stack

📢 Join DataPhilly for our October Tech Talks to learn what it takes to get AI working in the real world, from the operating model behind it to the way models are served. Our host is Center for Business Analytics (CBA). The CBA prepares students to become analytics leaders in their organizations. We bring together industry executives and world class faculty to create curricula and experiential programming that positions students to deploy analytics education and techniques to solve increasingly complex business problems. Agenda: 6:00 - 6:30 PM: Arrival, networking, and refreshments 6:30 - 7:15 PM: Mariano Mattei: From Pilot to Production: The Operating Model Behind AI That Ships, followed by Q&A 7:15 - 8:00 PM: Vicki Boykis: Small but Mighty: ONNX + ONNXRT for Model Serving, followed by Q&A 8:00 - 8:30 PM: Networking Speakers: Mariano Mattei: From Pilot to Production: The Operating Model Behind AI That Ships Abstract: Most large enterprises have already gotten AI into production: recent survey data puts the number above seventy percent. Far fewer can say the deployment is actually working. Half of those production-stage companies cannot prove ROI, and separate research shows the share of organizations converting AI activity into real bottom-line impact is closer to six percent. This talk argues that gap is not technical, it's operational. Drawing on work inside regulated, security-conscious enterprises, I'll walk through what changes when an AI system moves from pilot to production: who owns it, what culture does to even a well-written review process, and why governance, done right, is what lets organizations move faster rather than slower. The talk closes with a practical, four-move playbook that any team, not just ones with a dedicated AI platform, can start using immediately. Bio: Mariano Mattei builds AI agent systems that hold up under audit. He has spent more…