Media & AI - Jaakko Lempinen, YLE

In our seventh episode, we discuss the state of AI in the media industry. YLE is the national broadcasting company of Finland, producing a broad spectrum of content such as TV, online video, radio, news and more. YLE is known for its cutting edge experiments with Machine Learning in many aspects of its operations and is taking on Netflix's technology stack with the YLE Areena application.

Jaakko Lempinen has built his carreer at the intersection of media, data, customer and AI. With a track record of roles such as Head of AI, Head of Customer Insights and CIO, Jaakko is the driver behind many of YLE's AI implementations. Find out Jaakko's views on how YLE is enabling data scientists to do more data science instead of data engineering, what are the MLOps lessons learned from the past few years and how ghost stories became the spearhead of Generative AI.