Ines Montani 〰️
@inesmontani.bsky.social
💥 Founder & CEO @explosion.ai
👩💻 Developing spacy.io & prodi.gy
🐍 Python Software Foundation Fellow
⚡ Hacking @feministai.party
🧠 AI, Machine Learning & NLP
💼 linkedin.com/in/inesmontani
🐘 sigmoid.social/@ines
💥 explosion.ai
🌎 ines.io
👩💻 Developing spacy.io & prodi.gy
🐍 Python Software Foundation Fellow
⚡ Hacking @feministai.party
🧠 AI, Machine Learning & NLP
💼 linkedin.com/in/inesmontani
🐘 sigmoid.social/@ines
💥 explosion.ai
🌎 ines.io
Back from a great PyCon Ireland #PyConIE in Dublin! 💚 As always, some of my personal highlights:
www.linkedin.com/posts/inesmo...
www.linkedin.com/posts/inesmo...
November 18, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Back from a great PyCon Ireland #PyConIE in Dublin! 💚 As always, some of my personal highlights:
www.linkedin.com/posts/inesmo...
www.linkedin.com/posts/inesmo...
Back from a few days in Amsterdam for PyData! Here are some of my highlights:
www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
September 29, 2025 at 7:35 AM
Back from a few days in Amsterdam for PyData! Here are some of my highlights:
www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
In town for PyData Amsterdam! Who will be there? 🙋♀️
Looking forward to chatting about NLP and more, some cool Feminist AI hacking and catching up with everyone. I also have some brand new and exciting dev tooling to demo for those interested ✨
Looking forward to chatting about NLP and more, some cool Feminist AI hacking and catching up with everyone. I also have some brand new and exciting dev tooling to demo for those interested ✨
September 24, 2025 at 12:04 PM
In town for PyData Amsterdam! Who will be there? 🙋♀️
Looking forward to chatting about NLP and more, some cool Feminist AI hacking and catching up with everyone. I also have some brand new and exciting dev tooling to demo for those interested ✨
Looking forward to chatting about NLP and more, some cool Feminist AI hacking and catching up with everyone. I also have some brand new and exciting dev tooling to demo for those interested ✨
I was interviewed for a German article on it-daily about efficient AI development in industry, the role of open source, and using Generative AI to create systems and data for smaller models. Thanks Silvia for the feature!
www.it-daily.net/it-managemen...
www.it-daily.net/it-managemen...
June 18, 2025 at 7:44 AM
I was interviewed for a German article on it-daily about efficient AI development in industry, the role of open source, and using Generative AI to create systems and data for smaller models. Thanks Silvia for the feature!
www.it-daily.net/it-managemen...
www.it-daily.net/it-managemen...
What a great meetup! Thanks to everyone who came by yesterday for an evening of real-world AI and bullshit-free strategies for building LLM applications.
Recap and highlights: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
Recap and highlights: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
June 17, 2025 at 8:43 AM
What a great meetup! Thanks to everyone who came by yesterday for an evening of real-world AI and bullshit-free strategies for building LLM applications.
Recap and highlights: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
Recap and highlights: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
I'm back from a busy four days in London! 💜 I had a great time at @pydatalondon.bsky.social and you can read my recap and highlights here: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
June 9, 2025 at 7:13 AM
I'm back from a busy four days in London! 💜 I had a great time at @pydatalondon.bsky.social and you can read my recap and highlights here: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
Hi Berlin people! @hugobowne.bsky.social is in town & we're celebrating by hosting a meetup together 🎉 This one is all about building with AI & we'll also open the floor for lightning talks. If you're around, come hang out with us!
📆 June 16, 18:00
📍 Native Instruments (Kreuzberg)
🎟️ lu.ma/d53y9p2u
📆 June 16, 18:00
📍 Native Instruments (Kreuzberg)
🎟️ lu.ma/d53y9p2u
June 2, 2025 at 7:48 AM
Hi Berlin people! @hugobowne.bsky.social is in town & we're celebrating by hosting a meetup together 🎉 This one is all about building with AI & we'll also open the floor for lightning talks. If you're around, come hang out with us!
📆 June 16, 18:00
📍 Native Instruments (Kreuzberg)
🎟️ lu.ma/d53y9p2u
📆 June 16, 18:00
📍 Native Instruments (Kreuzberg)
🎟️ lu.ma/d53y9p2u
THE FEMINIST AI ZINE IS HERE 🎉 This was so much fun to make and thanks again to everyone who contributed. Here are 17 spreads full of art, creativity and oldschool DIY vibes that we created together at @pyconde.bsky.social.
speakerdeck.com/feministai/z...
speakerdeck.com/feministai/z...
April 28, 2025 at 10:39 AM
THE FEMINIST AI ZINE IS HERE 🎉 This was so much fun to make and thanks again to everyone who contributed. Here are 17 spreads full of art, creativity and oldschool DIY vibes that we created together at @pyconde.bsky.social.
speakerdeck.com/feministai/z...
speakerdeck.com/feministai/z...
Another great @pyconde.bsky.social is over and I'm exhausted but happy, and feel very inspired! ⚡
Here are my personal highlights: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
Here are my personal highlights: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
April 26, 2025 at 9:11 AM
Another great @pyconde.bsky.social is over and I'm exhausted but happy, and feel very inspired! ⚡
Here are my personal highlights: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
Here are my personal highlights: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
In Darmstadt for @pyconde.bsky.social 🐍✨
Tomorrow I'll be speaking about conquering PDFs and document understanding, and Thursday I'm joining the fireside chat panel on enterprise AI & open source. And I'll be around for the @feminist-ai.bsky.social LAN Party open hours to hack LLMs. See you there!
Tomorrow I'll be speaking about conquering PDFs and document understanding, and Thursday I'm joining the fireside chat panel on enterprise AI & open source. And I'll be around for the @feminist-ai.bsky.social LAN Party open hours to hack LLMs. See you there!
April 22, 2025 at 2:49 PM
In Darmstadt for @pyconde.bsky.social 🐍✨
Tomorrow I'll be speaking about conquering PDFs and document understanding, and Thursday I'm joining the fireside chat panel on enterprise AI & open source. And I'll be around for the @feminist-ai.bsky.social LAN Party open hours to hack LLMs. See you there!
Tomorrow I'll be speaking about conquering PDFs and document understanding, and Thursday I'm joining the fireside chat panel on enterprise AI & open source. And I'll be around for the @feminist-ai.bsky.social LAN Party open hours to hack LLMs. See you there!
Feminist AI is coming to @pyconde.bsky.social! If you're around, drop by at any time during the open hours and join us for workshops on hacking LLMs and data development, or contribute to our DIY PyCon zine ⚡
Follow for updates: @feminist-ai.bsky.social
Details: feministai.party/events/2025-...
Follow for updates: @feminist-ai.bsky.social
Details: feministai.party/events/2025-...
April 18, 2025 at 6:48 AM
Feminist AI is coming to @pyconde.bsky.social! If you're around, drop by at any time during the open hours and join us for workshops on hacking LLMs and data development, or contribute to our DIY PyCon zine ⚡
Follow for updates: @feminist-ai.bsky.social
Details: feministai.party/events/2025-...
Follow for updates: @feminist-ai.bsky.social
Details: feministai.party/events/2025-...
Wrapping up my series on how to make beautiful slides for your talks and just published part 4 and 5!
🎨 Part 1: Design tips for beginners
✨ Part 2: All about aesthetics
🛠️ Part 3: Technical content
🧩 Part 4: Design elements and inspiration
💌 Part 5: Sharing your presentation
🎨 Part 1: Design tips for beginners
✨ Part 2: All about aesthetics
🛠️ Part 3: Technical content
🧩 Part 4: Design elements and inspiration
💌 Part 5: Sharing your presentation
April 14, 2025 at 7:47 AM
Wrapping up my series on how to make beautiful slides for your talks and just published part 4 and 5!
🎨 Part 1: Design tips for beginners
✨ Part 2: All about aesthetics
🛠️ Part 3: Technical content
🧩 Part 4: Design elements and inspiration
💌 Part 5: Sharing your presentation
🎨 Part 1: Design tips for beginners
✨ Part 2: All about aesthetics
🛠️ Part 3: Technical content
🧩 Part 4: Design elements and inspiration
💌 Part 5: Sharing your presentation
Enjoying my train ride to Münster for data:unplugged!
Tomorrow I'll be speaking about real-world use cases of AI, how to navigate black-box models and why open source means that nobody can monopolize AI (unless we let them) ✊
I will be around all day, so if you're attending, come and say hi!
Tomorrow I'll be speaking about real-world use cases of AI, how to navigate black-box models and why open source means that nobody can monopolize AI (unless we let them) ✊
I will be around all day, so if you're attending, come and say hi!
April 9, 2025 at 7:16 AM
Enjoying my train ride to Münster for data:unplugged!
Tomorrow I'll be speaking about real-world use cases of AI, how to navigate black-box models and why open source means that nobody can monopolize AI (unless we let them) ✊
I will be around all day, so if you're attending, come and say hi!
Tomorrow I'll be speaking about real-world use cases of AI, how to navigate black-box models and why open source means that nobody can monopolize AI (unless we let them) ✊
I will be around all day, so if you're attending, come and say hi!
My friend @hugobowne.bsky.social launched new course on Building LLM Applications for Data Scientists and Software Engineers! I'll be joining for a guest lecture on human-in-the-loop development and distillation workflows.
You can get 10% off with my code + lots of perks: maven.com/hugo-stefan/...
You can get 10% off with my code + lots of perks: maven.com/hugo-stefan/...
April 5, 2025 at 6:14 AM
My friend @hugobowne.bsky.social launched new course on Building LLM Applications for Data Scientists and Software Engineers! I'll be joining for a guest lecture on human-in-the-loop development and distillation workflows.
You can get 10% off with my code + lots of perks: maven.com/hugo-stefan/...
You can get 10% off with my code + lots of perks: maven.com/hugo-stefan/...
Announcing a new event initiative: Feminist AI LAN Party! Katharine and I did a pilot event last year and we're now taking it to @pyconde.bsky.social.
We've also open-sourced event kits to make it easy to host your own, including:
💣 hacking LLMs
📑 data development
✂️ zine making
feministai.party
We've also open-sourced event kits to make it easy to host your own, including:
💣 hacking LLMs
📑 data development
✂️ zine making
feministai.party
April 4, 2025 at 6:37 AM
Announcing a new event initiative: Feminist AI LAN Party! Katharine and I did a pilot event last year and we're now taking it to @pyconde.bsky.social.
We've also open-sourced event kits to make it easy to host your own, including:
💣 hacking LLMs
📑 data development
✂️ zine making
feministai.party
We've also open-sourced event kits to make it easy to host your own, including:
💣 hacking LLMs
📑 data development
✂️ zine making
feministai.party
I don't normally write advice columns but this question I got deserved its own post: With all the hype around Generative AI, how can you, as a developer, communicate the nuances and advocate for new and modular solutions that are better, easier and cheaper?
explosion.ai/blog/modular...
explosion.ai/blog/modular...
March 31, 2025 at 11:48 AM
I don't normally write advice columns but this question I got deserved its own post: With all the hype around Generative AI, how can you, as a developer, communicate the nuances and advocate for new and modular solutions that are better, easier and cheaper?
explosion.ai/blog/modular...
explosion.ai/blog/modular...
So many good events coming up this season. Here's my schedule – hope to see you there!
Apr 10: data:unplugged (Münster)
Apr 23: @pyconde.bsky.social (Darmstadt)
May 31: @pyconit.bsky.social (Bologna)
Jun 5: ECONDAT (London)
Jun 7-8: @pydatalondon.bsky.social (London)
📆 Details: explosion.ai/events
Apr 10: data:unplugged (Münster)
Apr 23: @pyconde.bsky.social (Darmstadt)
May 31: @pyconit.bsky.social (Bologna)
Jun 5: ECONDAT (London)
Jun 7-8: @pydatalondon.bsky.social (London)
📆 Details: explosion.ai/events
March 29, 2025 at 11:06 AM
So many good events coming up this season. Here's my schedule – hope to see you there!
Apr 10: data:unplugged (Münster)
Apr 23: @pyconde.bsky.social (Darmstadt)
May 31: @pyconit.bsky.social (Bologna)
Jun 5: ECONDAT (London)
Jun 7-8: @pydatalondon.bsky.social (London)
📆 Details: explosion.ai/events
Apr 10: data:unplugged (Münster)
Apr 23: @pyconde.bsky.social (Darmstadt)
May 31: @pyconit.bsky.social (Bologna)
Jun 5: ECONDAT (London)
Jun 7-8: @pydatalondon.bsky.social (London)
📆 Details: explosion.ai/events
Here are some more details about @lovewithoutsound.bsky.social's solution from our most recent case study. It has already helped recover hundreds of millions in lost revenue!
March 25, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Here are some more details about @lovewithoutsound.bsky.social's solution from our most recent case study. It has already helped recover hundreds of millions in lost revenue!
TIL: Incorrect music metadata is a huge problem and is causing artists to lose millions in royalties. This disproportionaly affects independent musicians. But structured NLP can help!
explosion.ai/blog/love-wi...
explosion.ai/blog/love-wi...
March 25, 2025 at 12:55 PM
TIL: Incorrect music metadata is a huge problem and is causing artists to lose millions in royalties. This disproportionaly affects independent musicians. But structured NLP can help!
explosion.ai/blog/love-wi...
explosion.ai/blog/love-wi...
New case study: How Love Without Sound built innovative AI-powered tools for the music industry and law firms, and helped publishers recover hundreds of millions of dollars in lost revenue for artists.
explosion.ai/blog/love-wi...
explosion.ai/blog/love-wi...
March 24, 2025 at 11:10 AM
New case study: How Love Without Sound built innovative AI-powered tools for the music industry and law firms, and helped publishers recover hundreds of millions of dollars in lost revenue for artists.
explosion.ai/blog/love-wi...
explosion.ai/blog/love-wi...
Out now: Prodigy v1.18! New features include:
✍️ edit text during span annotation
💬 fully custom UI translations
🎛️ new JavaScript events and functions
✅ various small fixes and docs
More details: prodi.gy/docs/changelog
✍️ edit text during span annotation
💬 fully custom UI translations
🎛️ new JavaScript events and functions
✅ various small fixes and docs
More details: prodi.gy/docs/changelog
February 25, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Out now: Prodigy v1.18! New features include:
✍️ edit text during span annotation
💬 fully custom UI translations
🎛️ new JavaScript events and functions
✅ various small fixes and docs
More details: prodi.gy/docs/changelog
✍️ edit text during span annotation
💬 fully custom UI translations
🎛️ new JavaScript events and functions
✅ various small fixes and docs
More details: prodi.gy/docs/changelog
These are the kinds of NLP stories I love! TFW you "accidentally" train a great 2 MB (!) task-specific model 🤯 @strickvl.bsky.social
February 14, 2025 at 9:43 AM
These are the kinds of NLP stories I love! TFW you "accidentally" train a great 2 MB (!) task-specific model 🤯 @strickvl.bsky.social
Look what arrived in the mail today! 🎉
This is the 2nd edition of "Mastering spaCy" by Duygu Altinok and Déborah Mesquita, featuring how to build structured NLP solutions with custom components, and updated content on using models powered by LLMs.
You can get it here: www.amazon.com/dp/B0DVBTX2BL
This is the 2nd edition of "Mastering spaCy" by Duygu Altinok and Déborah Mesquita, featuring how to build structured NLP solutions with custom components, and updated content on using models powered by LLMs.
You can get it here: www.amazon.com/dp/B0DVBTX2BL
February 13, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Look what arrived in the mail today! 🎉
This is the 2nd edition of "Mastering spaCy" by Duygu Altinok and Déborah Mesquita, featuring how to build structured NLP solutions with custom components, and updated content on using models powered by LLMs.
You can get it here: www.amazon.com/dp/B0DVBTX2BL
This is the 2nd edition of "Mastering spaCy" by Duygu Altinok and Déborah Mesquita, featuring how to build structured NLP solutions with custom components, and updated content on using models powered by LLMs.
You can get it here: www.amazon.com/dp/B0DVBTX2BL
Now that @honnibal.bsky.social is live-streaming spaCy development (check it out if you haven't!) I tidied up our YouTube and added our latest talks & interviews.
I forgot how much content there is and it makes me want to get back into doing videos when I have time ✨
youtube.com/c/ExplosionAI
I forgot how much content there is and it makes me want to get back into doing videos when I have time ✨
youtube.com/c/ExplosionAI
January 31, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Now that @honnibal.bsky.social is live-streaming spaCy development (check it out if you haven't!) I tidied up our YouTube and added our latest talks & interviews.
I forgot how much content there is and it makes me want to get back into doing videos when I have time ✨
youtube.com/c/ExplosionAI
I forgot how much content there is and it makes me want to get back into doing videos when I have time ✨
youtube.com/c/ExplosionAI
Writing a new talk on "What the history of the web can teach us about the future of AI" 🔮 I've wanted to do this for so long because I think there are some great lessons and analogies here.
I'll be presenting it for my keynote at PyCon+Web in Berlin on Jan 25 – hope to see you there!
I'll be presenting it for my keynote at PyCon+Web in Berlin on Jan 25 – hope to see you there!
December 30, 2024 at 11:08 AM
Writing a new talk on "What the history of the web can teach us about the future of AI" 🔮 I've wanted to do this for so long because I think there are some great lessons and analogies here.
I'll be presenting it for my keynote at PyCon+Web in Berlin on Jan 25 – hope to see you there!
I'll be presenting it for my keynote at PyCon+Web in Berlin on Jan 25 – hope to see you there!