About the speaker: Deepak Agarwal is the Vice President of Core Engineering, Artificial Intelligence at Pinterest. In this role, he is responsible for the digital engineering that power all consumer experiences on Pinterest – growth and publishing/creators, shopping, trust and safety and client platforms. In addition, he leads the Advanced Technology Group within the organization that is responsible for AI and GenAI innovation across Pinterest. Prior to joining Pinterest, he led all AI efforts at LinkedIn (VP, Engineering, Artificial Intelligence), growing their team from 2 to 500+ in 7 years. An early focused AI leader, he embedded AI in every single product feature, building a world class ML platform called Pro-ML and creating an expansive AI training program for the company.

About the company: Pinterest is an American image sharing and social media service designed to enable saving and discovery of information like recipes, home, style, motivation, and inspiration on the internet using images and, on a smaller scale, animated GIFs and videos, in the form of pinboards. Often ranked as one of the top #10 most popular social media apps in the world, Pinterest has over 482 Million active users and continues to grow as a reputable social media platform.

Number of Employees: 3,900

Revenue: $1.69 Billion USD