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4 days agoODSC AI East 2026: Ten Sessions AI Engineers Should Not Miss
The ODSC AI East 2026 schedule emphasizes production readiness and operational reliability in applied AI.
The title "data scientist" is quietly disappearing from job postings, internal org charts, and LinkedIn headlines. In its place, roles like "AI engineer," "applied AI engineer," and "machine learning engineer" are becoming the norm. This Data Scientist vs AI Engineer shift raises an important question for practitioners and leaders alike: what actually changes when a data scientist becomes an AI engineer, and what stays the same? More importantly, what skills matter if you want to make this transition intentionally rather than by accident?