Shir Meir Lador leads an Applied AI Engineering team at Google Cloud with the mission to accelerate the developer journey from code to secure AI workloads in production. She is also the co-host of  "The agent factory"  podcast that dives into building production-ready AI agents. Previously, she worked as the AI group Manager of the Document Understanding Group at Intuit, where she led teams in developing AI services that helps consumers and small businesses prosper. Prior to intuit, Shir worked at 2 Israeli startups as a data scientist and researcher. A recognized leader in AI and data science, Shir has served as WiDS Tel Aviv Ambassador, KDD workshop organizer, co-founder and organizer of PyData Tel Aviv, and the co-host of "Unsupervised" a podcast exploring the latest in data science in Israel. She frequently speaks at international AI and data science conferences, sharing insights on applied machine learning and AI innovation. Shir holds an M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering and Computers from Ben-Gurion University, specializing in machine learning.