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Dr. Greg Loughnane is the Owner & CEO of AI Makerspace, where he leads agentic AI training programs for mid-market & enterprise clients. Since 2023, he has built and led cohort-based courses on Maven, including The AI Engineering Bootcamp. Previously, he developed courses like Machine Learning Engineer as part of Andrew Ng's AI Fund ecosystem. Prior, he served as an AI product manager, university professor, consultant, advisor, and researcher. He loves trail running and is based in Columbus, Ohio.

"My friends call me Mr. Security."

Matt has led many successful data initiatives for both startups and large tech companies alike. He specializes in deploying, managing, and scaling machine learning and generative AI models in production, regardless of what that production setting looks like.

Local AI is a hobby of Matt's. He's been doing personal projects for a long time, from building a game in a past AI Makerspace course, to a StarCraft bot, and to creating a translation app so he could communicate with his in-laws better.

Matt is from Lehi, Utah, has a degree in Chemical Engineering from BYU.

Tyler Laughlin is an Information Systems Engineer at Adobe with a background in business intelligence, data science, machine learning, and cloud-native application development. He has worked across analytics and engineering at Adobe and has developed hands-on expertise in Python, machine learning, LLM applications, and LLMOps. Tyler is also an active member of the AI Makerspace community, where he has participated as a learner, teaching assistant, and contributor to AI engineering projects and hackathons.