Manasi Vartak is the founder and CEO of Verta, an MIT spinoff building an open-core MLOps platform for the full ML lifecycle. Verta grew out of Manasi's Ph.D. work at MIT on ModelDB, the first open-source model management system deployed at Fortune 500 companies. The Verta MLOps platform enables data scientists and ML engineers to robustly take trained ML models through the end-to-end MLOps cycle including versioning, packaging, release, operations, and monitoring. Previously, Manasi worked on feed ranking at Twitter and dynamic ad-targeting at Google. Manasi has spoken at several top research as well as industrial conferences such as the Strata O’Reilly Conference, SIGMOD, VLDB, Spark + AI Summit, and AnacondaCON, and has authored a course on model management.