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GenAI Security: Defending Against Deepfakes and Automated Social Engineering
In this episode, QCon AI New York 2025 Chair Wes Reisz speaks with Reken CEO and Google Trust & Safety founder Shuman Ghosemajumder about the erosion of digital trust. They explore how deepfakes and automated social engineering are scaling cybercrime and argues defenders must move beyond default trust, utilizing behavioral telemetry and game theory to counter attacks that simulate human behavior.
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Sovereign Clouds, Hyperscalers and European Alternatives: InfoQ Dev Summit Munich 2025 Preview
In this podcast episode, speakers from the upcoming InfoQ Dev Summit Munich 2025 tackle the practical challenges facing European developers caught between regulatory pressures and technological realities. The panel discusses trade-offs between using US cloud providers versus emerging European alternatives, exploring cloud-agnostic architecture strategies and the implications of data sovereignty.
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Susan Shu Chang on Bridging Foundational Machine Learning and Generative AI
Live from the QCon San Francisco Conference, we are talking with Susan Shu Chang, Principal Data Scientist at Elastic. Chang shares insights on bridging foundational machine learning with generative AI, emphasizing the importance of deploying ML models effectively, leveraging collaborative tools for prototyping, and aligning team roles with the ML life cycle to create scalable AI solutions.
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Generally AI: Time to Travel
In this special episode, Roland Meertens and Anthony Alford meet at QCon San Francisco to discuss Time and Travel. Meertens presents three case studies where temporal misunderstandings in data science led to poor predictive performance. Alford tells the story of how the first Transcontinental Railroad shortened travel times between the East and West Coasts of the United States.
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AI, Rust, and Resilience: Key Software Trends Seen by the QCon San Francisco 2024 Program Committee
QCon conferences cover emerging trends in software, and this episode features members of the QCon San Francisco 2024 programming committee discussing those trends selected to be the focus of this year’s QCon San Francisco. This discussion is similar to InfoQ trends reports, with expert practitioners highlighting the technologies and practices that they feel deserve attention.
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Authenticity Over Convention: Lessons from 16 Years of Solo Game Development
In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods spoke to Joe Cassavaugh about building a sustainable solopreneur game development business, the importance of authenticity over conventional wisdom, and learning from both successes and failures in the digital content marketplace.
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Founding and Growing an Engineering Company with Dr. Olga Kubassova
In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods spoke to Dr Olga Kubassova about founding and growing an engineering company in the medical imaging domain.
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Platforms, People and Process for Great Developer Experience
In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods spoke to Daniel Bryant, the News Manager at InfoQ, about engineering culture and developer experience.
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Empathy as a Key Success Factor for High Performing Development Teams
In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods spoke to Cassie Shum, VP of Field Engineering at Relational AI, about the importance of empathy in engineering culture and the key elements of building a strong team.
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Resilience and Incident Management with Vanessa Huerta Granda
In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods spoke to Vanessa Huerta Granda Manager of Resiliency Engineering at Enova about resilience and incident management.