Anaconda is a software company that's well known for its solutions for managing packages,

environments, and security, and large-scale data workflows.

The company has played a major role in making Python-based data science more accessible,

efficient, and scalable.

Anaconda has also invested heavily in AI tool development.

Greg Jennings is the VP of Engineering and AI

at Anaconda. He joins the podcast with Kevin Ball to talk about the tooling ecosystem around

AI app development, the Anaconda Toolbox, the rapidly evolving role of AI and engineering, and more.

Kevin Ball, or K Ball, is the vice president of engineering at Mento and an independent coach

for engineers and engineering leaders.

He co-founded and served as CTO for two companies, founded the San Diego JavaScript meetup,

and organizes the AI inaction discussion group through latent space.

Check out the show notes to follow KBall on Twitter or LinkedIn or visit his website,

kball.l. LLC.

Greg, welcome to the show.

Hi, Kevin.

Very nice to meet you.

Yeah, excited to have you on here.

Let's maybe start with a little bit about you.

Can you share some of your background and how you got involved with Anaconda?

Sure.

So I started as a graduate out of physics and material science out of graduate school and went to work at a large consulting organization where we were building sort of complex models and simulations for mostly government organizations to help them do things like figure out complex dependencies and procurement schedules and anticipate what the capabilities that they would gain from picking Platform A versus Platform B and

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