# Sam Witteveen

> Sam Witteveen is the Singapore-based co-founder and CEO of Red Dragon AI, a Google Developer Expert in machine learning, an AI educator, and a VentureBeat contributor. His path runs from music studies and educational games through machine learning research to public tutorials, a Singapore meetup, and enterprise AI reporting.

- **Role:** Co-founder and CEO, Red Dragon AI
- **Organizations:** Red Dragon AI, Google Developer Experts, Google for Startups, Machine Learning Singapore, VentureBeat, Family Play
- **Education:** Bachelor of Arts in Music, La Trobe University
- **Known for:** Appointed among the first 12 Google Developer Experts for machine learning in 2017., Co-authored machine learning research presented or published in venues including EMNLP and NAACL., Co-organizes Machine Learning Singapore, a meetup with more than 7,500 members as of September 2026.

## Career timeline

- **2012–2017** — Founded and led the educational games company Family Play.
- **2017** — Co-founded Red Dragon AI and was appointed a Google Developer Expert in machine learning.
- **2019** — Co-authored research on explanation generation and question answering.
- **2020** — Became an anchor mentor with Google for Startups.
- **2022** — Launched the YouTube channel @samwitteveenai.
- **2025** — Began co-hosting VentureBeat’s Beyond the Pilot podcast with Matt Marshall.
- **2026** — Contributed enterprise AI reporting to VentureBeat while continuing AI tutorials and talks.

## Achievements

- Appointed among the first 12 Google Developer Experts for machine learning in 2017.
- Co-authored machine learning research presented or published in venues including EMNLP and NAACL.
- Co-organizes Machine Learning Singapore, a meetup with more than 7,500 members as of September 2026.
- Built a YouTube audience of about 133,000 subscribers as of September 2026.
- Co-hosts VentureBeat’s Beyond the Pilot podcast.

## Latest updates

- **2026-09** — His YouTube channel reached roughly 133,000 subscribers and 370 videos, according to Social Blade’s September 28 snapshot.
- **2026-07** — Published a VentureBeat analysis of Tencent’s Apache-licensed Hy3 model.
- **2025-11** — VentureBeat launched Beyond the Pilot, co-hosted by Witteveen and Matt Marshall.

## Links

- Website: https://reddragonai.com/
- LinkedIn: https://sg.linkedin.com/in/samwitteveen
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/Sam_Witteveen
- GitHub: https://github.com/samwit
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@samwitteveenai
- Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/samwitteveen.bsky.social

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Last updated: 2026-09-29