Free Lesson
You're Already Building a Recommender
60 min
Oct 16, 2026 11:00 AM
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What you'll learn
Recognize the recommender already inside your product
whether it’s a feed, a search page, a checkout flow or an AI agent.
Understand why relevance drives the value users actually see
and what that means for what you build first.
See how AI agents are becoming the next gen RecSys
and why that makes recsys skills more valuable than ever.
Why this topic matters
Almost every product we use decides what to show us: the next video, the top hotel, the product we almost bought, the answer an AI agent gives back.
Those decisions shape what we read, what we buy and how we move through the world. Yet most teams treat recommendations as something to add later.
In this session, Katerina Zanos shows why understanding these systems is fast becoming a core skill for engineers and product managers alike.
