In 2018, I co-hosted the Google Cloud Platform Podcast with Mark Mandel, contributing to nearly 60 episodes of the show he originally launched with Francesc Campoy Flores. Together, we explored everything from AI and machine learning to developer tools and customer stories.

Looking back on that experience, I wrote Stop Accepting Less than Equal - a retrospective on my intentional approach to featuring diverse voices and perspectives throughout our podcast episodes.

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93What’s AI with Melanie WarrickWhat is the difference between AI and ML? Melanie Warrick joins your co-hosts Mark and Francesc to discuss the differenc…Machine Learning, AI
102Smart Parking and IoT Core with Brian GranatirBrian Granatir comes on the podcast this week to tell us all about the New Zealand company Smart Parking taking advantag…IoT, Serverless, Big Data, Customer
103Performance Atlas with Colt McAnlisColt McAnalis joins the podcast this week to talk about his Performance Atlas series where he dives into how to make Goo…Performance Analysis, Profiling, TCP/IP, SRE
104Dataprep with Eric AndersonOn this week’s podcast, Eric Anderson shares how Dataprep helps summarize, transform, visualize and cleanup data o…Data Analysis, Dataprep, Dataflow, Data Munging, Big Data
105Node.js with Myles BorinsMyles Borins talks with Mark and Francesc about Node.js from its history, how to contribute, the consensus-seeking gover…Node.js, JavaScript, Open Source, Chrome V8
106New York Times with Deep Kapadia and JP RobinsonDeep Kapadia and JP Robinson from New York Times join Mark and Francesc to discuss how they use Google Cloud Platform to…App Engine, Kubernetes, BigQuery, Cloud Endpoints, Customer
107A Year in Review with Francesc Campoy Flores and Greg WilsonThis week we get the band back together! Francesc Campoy Flores rejoins the show along with Director of Google Cloud Dev…Podcast
108Launchpad Studio with Malika Cantor and Peter NorvigLaunchpad Studio, a product development acceleration program focused on helping machine learning startups iterate quickl…Launchpad Studio, Machine Learning, Startups, Applied AI
109Cloud AutoML Vision with Amy Unruh and Sara RobinsonAmy Unruh and Sara Robinson join the podcast this week to talk with Mark and Melanie about the alpha launch of Cloud Aut…Cloud AutoML Vision, AutoML, Transfer Learning, Neural Architecture Search, Machine Learning
110CPU Vulnerability Security with Matt Linton and Paul TurnerBringing you a special second episode this week with Matt Linton and Paul Turner sharing insights with Mark and Melanie …Security, CPU Vulnerabilities, ProjectZero, Meltdown, Spectre
111Google Cloud Platform with Sam RamjiThe delightful Sam Ramji joins Mark and Melanie this week to talk about Google Cloud Platform, Open Source, Distributed …Cloud, Open Source
112Percy.io with Mike FotinakisWe return once again to Continuous Integration tooling, this time with a visual spin. Mike Fotinakis joins Mark and Mela…Continuous Integration, Visual Testing
113Open Source TensorFlow with Yifei FengYifei Feng talks with Mark and Melanie about working on the open source TensorFlow platform, the recent 1.5 release, and…TensorFlow, Open Source
114Machine Learning Bias and Fairness with Timnit Gebru and Margaret MitchellThis week, we dive into machine learning bias and fairness from a social and technical perspective with machine learning…Machine Learning, Machine Learning Bias, Machine Learning Fairness, AI Ethics
115Google Play Marketing with Dom Elliott and Stewart BrysonIn this episode, Google Play Marketing is the customer of Google Cloud Platform. Melanie and Mark chat with Dom Elliott …Customer, Analytics, Data Studio
116Solution Architects with Miles Ward and Grace MollisonWe have the pleasure this week of having the Director of Solutions for Google Cloud Miles Ward and Cloud Solutions Archi…Solution Architects
117Cloud AI with Dr. Fei-Fei LiDr. Fei-Fei Li, the Chief Scientist of AI/ML at Google joins Melanie and Mark this week to talk about how Google enables…Cloud AI, Cloud ML, Machine Learning
118OpenCensus with Morgan McLean and JBDProduct Manager Morgan McLean and Software Engineer JBD join Melanie and Mark this week to discuss the new open source p…Metrics, Tracing, Diagnostics
119NVIDIA and Deep Learning Research with Bryan CatanzaroBryan Catanzaro, the VP Applied Deep Learning Research at NVIDIA, joins Mark and Melanie this week to discuss how his te…NVIDIA, GPUs, Deep Learning
120Forseti with Nenad Stojanovski and Andrew HoyingNenad Stojanovski and Andrew Hoying join Mark and Melanie this week to discuss Forseti - open source tools for Google Cl…Security, Open Source
121Kontributing to Kubernetes with Paris Pittman and Garrett RodriguesParis Pittman and Garrett Rodrigues join Mark and Melanie to discuss the Contributor Experience on Kubernetes, and how p…Kubernetes, Open Source
122Project Jupyter with Jessica Forde, Yuvi Panda and Chris HoldgrafJessica Forde, Yuvi Panda and Chris Holdgraf join Melanie and Mark to discuss Project Jupyter from it’s interactiv…Project Jupyter, Jupyter Hub, Binder, Jupyter Notebook, iPython, Data Science, Machine Learning, Scientific Computing, Open Source
123Post-Quantum Cryptography with Nick Sullivan and Adam LangleyNick Sullivan, and Adam Langley join Melanie and Mark to provide a pragmatic view on post-quantum cryptography and what …Post-Quantum Cryptography, Quantum Computing, Cryptography, Security
124VP of Infrastructure Eric BrewerVP of Infrastructure at Google Cloud Eric Brewer, talks to Melanie and Mark all about open source at Google Cloud, distr…Open Source, Kubernetes, Istio, Hybrid Cloud
125Open Source at Google Cloud Platform with Sarah NovotnyMark and Melanie are joined by Sarah Novotny, Head of Open Source Strategy for Google Cloud Platform, to talk all about …Open Source, Cloud Native, CNCF, Kubernetes
126Beam and Spark with Holden KarauHolden Karau is on the podcast this week to talk all about Spark and Beam, two open source tools that helps process data…Beam, Spark, Distributed Computing, Big Data, Open Source, Data Streaming
127SRE vs Devops with Liz Fong-Jones and Seth VargoThis week is a clash of titans! Liz Fong-Jones and Seth Vargo join Mark and Melanie, to battle out on which is better: S…SRE, DevOps
128Decision Intelligence with Cassie KozyrkovChief Decision Scientist, Cassie Kozyrkov joins Mark and Melanie this week to explain data science, analytics, machine l…Machine Learning, AI, Decision Intelligence
129Developer Relations with Mandy WaiteMandy Waite joins Mark and Melanie to share what is developer relations and how trust and empathy are key to its success…Developer Relations, Developer Advocate, Cloud Advocate
130Data Science with Juliet Hougland and Michelle CasbonJuliet Hougland and Michelle Casbon are on the podcast this week to talk about data science with Melanie and Mark. We ha…Data Platform, Data Science, Machine Learning, Kubeflow, Data Engineering
131Actions on Google with Mandy ChanThis week is all about Voices! 🎶🎤🔊 Mandy Chan joins Melanie and Mark to discuss the intricacies of building user Voic…Voice Actions, SSML, Open Source
132Hand Talk with Thadeu LuzThadeu Luz from Hand Talk shares with Melanie and Mark how the free Hand Talk education application translates and inter…Brazilian Sign Language, LIBRAS, Firebase, Cloud Functions, ASL
133ML Kit with Brahim Elbouchikhi and Sachin KotwaniBrahim Elbouchikhi and Sachin Kotwani talk with Melanie and Mark about Firebase’s ML Kit and how it enables machin…Machine Learning, Mobile
134Connected Games with Unity and Google Cloud with Brett Bibby and Micah BakerHappy 4th of July! Today, Melanie and Mark go in depth with Brett Bibby and Micah Baker to learn more about Unity and it…Unity, Gaming, Hackweek, Connected Games
135VirusTotal with Emi MartínezOn this episode of the podcast, Melanie and Mark talk with Emiliano (Emi) Martínez to learn more about how VirusTotal is…VirusTotal, Cyber Security, Malware, Security Research
136Robotics, Navigation, and Reinforcement Learning with Raia HadsellOn this episode of the podcast, Mark and Melanie delve into the fascinating world of robotics and reinforcement learning…Reinforcement Learning, Navigation, Robotics, DeepMind, Machine Learning
137Next Day 1On this very special episode of the Google Cloud Platform Podcast, we have live interviews from the first day of NEXT! M…NEXT, Intel, Open Service Broker, SAP
138Next Day 2Day two of NEXT was another day full of interesting interviews! Melanie and Mark sat down for quick chats with Haben Gir…NEXT, Microsoft SQL, Accessibility, .NET, Holberton, NVIDIA
139Next Day 3It’s the third and final day for us at NEXT, and Mark and Melanie are wrapping up with some great interviews! Firs…NEXT, Techtonica, Kubernetes
140Container Security with Maya KaczorowskiLet’s talk container security! This week, Melanie and Mark learn all about the three main pillars of container sec…Container Security, Borg, Kubernetes, Google Container Registry
141Accessibility in Tech with Haben GirmaOn this episode of the podcast we continue a conversation we started with Haben Girma, an advocate for equal rights for …Accessibility, Disability Rights, WCAG
142Agones with Mark Mandel and Cyril TovenaMark Mandel is in the guest seat today as Melanie and our old pal Francesc interview Cyril Tovena of Ubisoft and Mark ab…Agones, Ubisoft, Gaming
143What’s new in App Engine with Steren Giannini and Stewart ReichlingMark and Melanie are your hosts again this week as we talk with Steren Giannini and Stewart Reichling discussing what&rs…App Engine, Scalability, Serverless, Idiomatic
144Mercari with Taichi Nakashima and Tonghui (Terry) LiThis week we learn about how Mercari is handling migrating from an on-prem monolithic infrastructure to cloud microservi…Mercari, GKE, Kubernetes, Microservices, Identity Management System
145ATLAS with Dr. Mario LassnigOur guest today is Dr. Mario Lassnig, a software engineer working on the ATLAS Experiment at CERN! Melanie and Mark put …ATLAS, CERN, Rucio, Data Mangement
146Google AI with Jeff DeanJeff Dean, the lead of Google AI, is on the podcast this week to talk with Melanie and Mark about AI and machine learnin…AI, Machine Learning, TPU, Parallel Processing
147DL Indaba: AI Investments in AfricaThis week we are bringing you a couple of interviews from last week’s Deep Learning Indaba conference. Dr. Vukosi …Machine Learning, Africa, AI, Artifical Intelligence
148Wellio with Sivan Aldor-Noiman and Erik AndrejkoIn our last (but not least!) interview from NEXT, Mark and Melanie talked with Sivan Aldor-Noiman and Erik Andrejko abou…AI, Artificial Intelligence, Wellio, Machine Learning, Data Science
149Deep Learning Research in Africa with Yabebal Fantaye & Jessica PhalafalaToday, Melanie brings you another great interview from her time at Deep Learning Indaba in South Africa. She was joined …Deep Learning, Africa, Machine Learning, AI
150Strange Loop, Remote Working, & Distributed Systems with KFMelanie and Mark celebrate their 150th episode this week with a high-energy interview of mutual friend, KF, at Strange L…Remote Working, Strange Loop, Distributed Systems
151Java & Jib with Patrick Flynn and Mike EltsufinMark and Melanie speak with Patrick Flynn and Mike Eltsufin about their exciting new Java products for Google Cloud. Mik…Java, Jib
152AI Corporations and Communities in Africa with Karim Beguir & Muthoni WanyoikeOn the podcast today, we have two more fascinating interviews from Melanie’s time at Deep Learning Indaba! Mark he…AI, Africa, Indaba, Machine Learning
153Bazel with Tony AiutoHappy Halloween! On this not-so-spooky episode of the Google Cloud Podcast, Melanie and Mark talk with Tony Aiuto of Baz…Bazel, Open Source, Build System
154G Suite with Joanna Smith and Alicia WilliamsJoanna Smith and Alicia Williams talk G Suite with Mark and Melanie this week! G Suite is Google’s collection of a…G Suite, Sheets
155Confluent and Kafka with Viktor GamovViktor Gamov is on the podcast today to discuss Confluent and Kafka with Mark and special first-time guest host, Michell…Confluent, Kafka, Confluent Cloud
156Grace Health with Therese Mannheimer and Roman JasinsHappy Thanksgiving! On this episode, Mark and Melanie learn about Grace.health with co-founders Therese Mannheimer and R…Grace.health, Women’s Health
157NeurIPS and AI Research with Anima AnandkumarMelanie is solo this week talking with Anima Anandkumar, a Caltech Bren professor and director of ML research at NVIDIA….NeurIPS, AI, Machine Learning
158VP of Engineering - Melody MeckfesselMelanie and Mark talk with Google Cloud’s VP of Engineering, Melody Meckfessel, this week. In her time with Google…DevOps, Kubernetes
159End of Year Wrap-upHappy Holidays, everyone! Melanie and Mark wrap up a great year by reminiscing about some of their favorite episodes! We…AI, Kubernetes, Machine Learning, Open Source, DevOps