About
Join Charles Pierse, Head of Weaviate Labs and Alvin Richards, Head of Product, for a practical look at embedding models and vector databases and how the right mix can fast-track your AI projects in 2025.
Presenters
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Amanda Scheldt
Cybersecurity Writer and Webinar Host
Amanda Scheldt is a cybersecurity writer with an extensive background in cybersecurity research, threat intelligence, national security intelligence, and security awareness training. She has a Masters of Science in Cybersecurity from Webster University. Amanda combines her past industry expertise along with a passion for writing to promote more awareness and education in cybersecurity.
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Charles Pierse
Head of Weaviate Labs - Weaviate
Charles leads a team dedicated to researching and developing new AI-native services that complement and expand the Weaviate ecosystem. With years of experience in AI startups, Charles has honed his expertise in search, recommendation systems, and machine learning solutions for production environments. His approach to problem solving is rooted in a user-centric product perspective, and he thrives on addressing challenges in a scalable manner through AI and ML technologies.
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Alvin Richards
Head of Product - Weaviate
Alvin Richards leads Product at Weaviate. At heart he's an engineer that likes to talk to people, so he connects the dots between the what/why of the users needs with the how/when of the innovation that engineering delivers. He's worked on just about every database technology that you have used.