Why your AI roadmap is lying to you

Hosted by Dr. Marily Nika and Jeanne Williams

Fri, Feb 27, 2026

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Data Operations for AI Products Certification
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What you'll learn

Why AI failures start with data, not models

Understand how data trade-offs quietly break AI systems that look fine in demos.

The speed, cost, quality triangle for AI data

Learn how teams unintentionally pick the wrong two and why context matters.

How data strategy changes by use case

See why prototypes, user features, and analytics demand different data decisions.

What’s changing in AI data right now

Understand the shift from big data to better, curated, and synthetic data.

How to make defensible data trade-offs

Use a simple checklist to decide where quality matters and where it doesn’t.

Why this topic matters

Most AI roadmaps fail because data decisions are made implicitly, not deliberately. Teams optimize for speed and cost while assuming quality will hold. In production, it doesn’t. This lesson reframes AI strategy around data trade-offs, helping leaders choose the right level of quality, cost, and speed for each use case before failures show up in customers, metrics, or trust.

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Dr. Marily Nika

Gen AI PM Lead @ Google | ex-Meta, Fellow @ Harvard | TED AI Speaker | 40u40

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Based in Silicon Valley, Dr. Marily Nika is an award-winning AI Product Management leader & one of the world's best AI educators, with 12+ years of experience at Google & Meta, with a PhD in Machine Learning. Featured in TechCrunch, executive Fellow at Harvard, TED AI Presenter.


Marily created the first (and best) AI Product Management Certification on Maven. Marily is also a keynote speaker (TED AI / 3 x TEDx) and has been recognized for her contributions in AI & tech several times: Amplitude most influencial product leader, medal of Outstanding Achievement, WISE Influence Award, 2020's Top 100 Women in tech, Emerging Leader Award, 2021's 40 under 40 list.


Marily is also an Executive Fellow at Harvard Business School where she teaches AI Product Management.


She has taught over 8k students on Maven and offers these courses:


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Jeanne Williams

ex-Head of tPgM/Ops @ Google & ex-Apple

ex-Head of tPgM/Ops @ Google & ex-Chief of Staff @ Apple with 20 years in Big Tech across AI/ML Engineering, Digital Ads, and HR Programs — specializing in Data, Operations, and Scaling high-impact teams and infrastructures.

Led global DataOps and AI program operations across pipelines, governance, readiness, and measurement systems powering AI products at scale.

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