Sam Charrington

Sam Charrington is a podcast host and AI commentator whose interviews bring machine-learning and AI researchers and practitioners to a broad audience. He holds a B.S. in Computer and Systems Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Northwestern University, and launched This Week in Machine Learning & AI in mid-2016. The podcast reached 500,000 SoundCloud plays in 2017; in 2019, he spoke at OSCON about machine-learning platforms, published an ebook, and interviewed Andrew Ng at TWIMLcon. At TWIMLfest 2020, he interviewed Sal Khan and Shakir Mohamed; at TWIMLcon 2021, he interviewed Chris Albon and joined the Build vs Buy panel in 2022. As of October 2026, he is founder of TWIML and host of its podcast, with 780 episodes and more than 600 AI practitioner and executive interviews, and is an executive advisor on Maven's course AI Mastery for Busy Executives.

Now at: TWIML
Badges: Founder
Links: X and LinkedIn

Timeline

2016

Launching the TWIML podcast

He holds a B.S. in Computer and Systems Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Northwestern University. In mid-2016, he launches This Week in Machine Learning & AI, bringing machine-learning and AI researchers and practitioners to a broad audience.
2017

Half a million podcast plays

In August 2017, the podcast reaches its 500,000th SoundCloud play.
July 2019

OSCON on ML platforms

At O'Reilly OSCON in Portland in July 2019, he speaks as founder of CloudPulse Strategies and host of This Week in Machine Learning & AI, with more than 200 machine-learning and AI experts interviewed. He outlines the capabilities of platforms built by Facebook, Uber and Google and reviews open-source alternatives.
September 2019

An ebook on ML platforms

In September 2019, he discusses his recently published ebook, The Definitive Guide to Machine Learning Platforms. By September 2019, the podcast approaches 300 episodes.
October 2019

Andrew Ng at TWIMLcon

At TWIMLcon in October 2019, he hosts a live podcast interview with Andrew Ng, former Chief Scientist at Baidu and founding lead of Google Brain. They discuss enterprise AI and the barriers to using deep learning in production.
2020

TWIMLfest keynote interviews

At TWIMLfest 2020, he interviews Sal Khan about building Khan Academy and serving its community. He also interviews Shakir Mohamed, a senior research scientist at DeepMind and leader of Deep Learning Indaba, about decolonisation in AI.
2021–2022

TWIMLcon interview and panel

At TWIMLcon 2021, he interviews Chris Albon, who joined the Wikimedia Foundation in 2020 as director of machine learning. In 2022, he joins Maisha Lopa of Spotify, Chris Albon and Srivathsan Canchi of SeatGeek on the Build vs Buy panel at TWIMLcon.
As of October 2026

Founder and podcast host

As of October 2026, he is founder of TWIML and host of The TWIML AI Podcast. The podcast's 780th episode appears in October 2026; he has interviewed more than 600 AI practitioners and executives and serves as executive advisor on Maven's AI Mastery for Busy Executives course.