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# The State of GenAI & Machine Learning in 2025


- **Date:** Thursday, Jul 10, 2025
- **Time:** 10:10–10:40 (30 min)
- **Room:** Mainstage
- **Event:** World Congress 2025

## Recording

[Watch recording](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1383-the-state-of-genai-machine-learning-in-2025)

## Description

The growth of GenAI & Machine Learning has brought new emerging challenges; in this talk we dive into the state of GenAI & ML in the ecosystem, where we provide an overview of trends, challenges, opportunities and tooling that the ecosystem is standardizing towards.

As part of this session, we will provide a snapshot of the current state of the ecosystem, as uncovered by recent surveys, which highlights the gaps in tooling and skills [1]. We will then cover the best practices and tooling that are arising from production use-cases of LLMOps/MLOps at scale to tackle domain-specific challenges such as agentic-workflows, AI guardrails, efficiency requirements - between others. These include the OSS frameworks [2] that are supporting the end-to-end LLMOps / MLOps lifecycle across pipelining, optimization, productionisation, monitoring/observability and ML safety.


[1] <https://ethical.institute/state-of-ml-2024>

[2] <https://bit.ly/ml-list>

## Speaker

### [Alejandro Saucedo](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/@alejandro-saucedo)

Director of Engineering, Science & Product at Zalando


## Related talks at this congress

- [Beyond the Hype: Building Trustworthy and Reliable LLM Applications with Guardrails](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2025/sessions/552-beyond-the-hype) — Alex Soto
- [GenAI Security: Navigating the Unseen Iceberg](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2025/sessions/515-genai-security) — Maish Saidel-Keesing
- [One AI API to Power Them All](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2025/sessions/718-one-ai-api-to-power) — Roberto Carratalá
- [Best practices: Building Enterprise Applications that leverage GenAI](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2025/sessions/494-best-practices) — Damir