Ashok Volati
Director, Product at FOX
Phoenix, Arizona, United States •
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Ashok Volati is Director, Product at FOX, where he leads the AI Products team serving the company's media, sports, and news businesses. His work centers on moving AI from experimentation into dependable, production-grade products. He leads FOX Force, an initiative that hardens rapidly built, Replit-…
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Anyone can now build an AI demo in an afternoon, which makes product judgment and trust the scarce resources. This talk shares practical lessons from turning fast-built AI experiments into tools people trust: treating prototypes as user research, defining what "wrong" means before defining "done", and designing for failure. Attendees leave with a repeatable approach for hardening AI prototypes into dependable internal products.
In streaming and live media, AI that fails quietly is worse than AI that never shipped. This talk walks through a practical checklist for taking rapidly built AI apps to production: contracts around model calls, confidence-based routing, retrieval boundaries, observability, cost control, and graceful degradation. Attendees get patterns they can apply to AI tools that must work on a live broadcast schedule.
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