Empowering Data and AI teams with Chris Pedder from Obrizum

Find Chris on LinkedIn, and learn about Obrizum.

I talk with Chris Pedder from Obrizum. Chris started his career as a Physicist, before moving into AI and Data. He is now Chief Data and AI Officer at Obrizum, who use AI to deliver adaptive learning. 

In this episode we talk about the behaviours that Chris intentionally fosters in his team, including: 

• Empowering your team to own and deliver the whole AI/ML stack
• Fostering ownership and growth in teams, along with a culture of learning
• Chris' experience using ideas from Team Topologies to organise Obrizum's teams
• The importance of friction in learning, and why you don't want AI to remove all the friction
• Being mindful of the ethical considerations in the Education domain
• Chris' lessons learned