Speaker Profile

Meg Risdal is Head of Product at Kaggle (a Google company) where she’s worked since 2016 as a product leader and developer advocate. As Head of Product, Meg oversees the strategy for Kaggle’s platform. Her recent work emphasizes raising standards for the rigorous evaluation of GenAI applications and democratizing AI benchmarking. As part of this, she is a lead on Kaggle’s Game Arena collaboration with Google DeepMind, a platform where AI models are stress-tested in complex, game-based environments including chess, poker, and werewolf.

In 2019, she served as lead Product Manager for Stack Overflow’s Q&A platform before returning to Kaggle. She has a longtime passion for open, technical communities and community-building, recently serving as a co-chair for the 2025 NeurIPS Datasets & Benchmarks track as well as being an organizer for the Toronto Machine Learning Summit. She’s also the co-creator and co-host of SLICED, a competitive live ML coding competition show streamed on Twitch.

Meg has Master's degrees from UCLA and North Carolina State University where she studied sociophonetics, laboratory phonology, and language variation. She lives in Toronto.

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