
Ishan Anand is Chief AI Officer (CAIO) at InsightSciences.ai, where he builds LLM-powered synthetic persona systems for market research, using generative AI to model audiences, predict preferences, and validate synthetic methods against real-world data. He has 15+ years of experience leading product, engineering, and technology strategy, including roles as VP of Product and CTO across companies from early stage to acquisition. Ishan is also known for his AI enablement and training consulting work, making complex AI systems understandable and actionable for businesses, most notably through Spreadsheets Are All You Need, an educational project and companion course that implements GPT-2 entirely in Excel.
Ishan Anand is a rare technical educator who makes LLM internals genuinely accessible — his project implementing GPT-2 entirely in Excel and vanilla JavaScript has earned wide recognition (1.6k GitHub stars) and a slot at CascadiaJS 2025. Attend his session for an intuitive, hands-on understanding of how large language models actually work under the hood.
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