S1 | E17 | From an early career in Nasa to building out generative AI products with Vinesh Sukumar - Senior Director of AI and ML product - Qualcomm

In this episode, we spoke with Vinesh Sukumar, the Senior Director of AI and ML product at Qualcomm.

Vinesh has a wealth of experience in Product Management and Artificial intelligence and has worked for the likes of Nasa, Intel, Lenovo, and most recently Qualcomm.

He is also a member of the board of advisors for the AI forum, and is an AI advisor to San Francisco & California state university!

We had a cracking discussion about -

• His background, which started Nasa in an early AI & Data science capacity through to heading up AI and ML at Qualcomm
• Who Qualcomm are and why is Generative AI becoming more important for players like Qualcomm?
• What is behind the rapid rise in importance and demand for a dedicated Product team aligned explicitly to ML and AL
• What are some of the challenges AI product teams usually face and how is this handled?
• How do people break into Product management
• What does the future hold for Generative AI?