Nicholas Renotte, Global Head of AI Developer Advocacy, started coding in VBA when he was eight years old but gave it all up for a life of finance. He finally came to his senses, has since built machine learning models for Fortune 500 companies, founded an EdTech startup and currently heads up worldwide developer advocacy for AI at IBM. Over the past 5 years, he has built a following of over 300,000 AI engineers and data scientists on YouTube, created hundreds of machine learning models and shared over 50,000 lines of code on GitHub, which has helped thousands of organisations and individuals take their first steps into the field of AI to build better, faster, more efficient businesses.