Francesca Lazzeri, Ph.D. has over 16 years of experience in research, applied machine learning, AI product development and engineering team management. Francesca is Principal Director of Applied Data Science and AI Engineering at Microsoft, where she leads an organization of data scientists and machine learning scientists building AI applications on the Cloud, utilizing data and techniques spanning from generative AI, time series forecasting, experimentation, causal inference, computer vision, natural language processing, reinforcement learning. Before joining Microsoft, she was a Research Fellow at Harvard University in the Technology and Operations Management Unit, Technical Advisor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Adjunct Professor of Python for AI at Columbia University.Francesca is the author of a few books on applied machine learning and AI, such as:• Machine Learning Governance for Managers (2023, Springer Nature) • Impact of Artificial Intelligence in Business and Society (2023, Routledge) • Machine Learning for Time Series Forecasting with Python (2020, Wiley)• Many other publications, including technology journals (O’Reilly, InfoQ, DZone). You can find her on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/francescalazzeri/ and Medium https://medium.com/@francescalazzeri.