Things you'll learn
- The real risks of sourcing models directly from public registries
- How model drift and mutable artifacts impact reproducibility and safety
- How to create a trusted intake path for Hugging Face models
- How to quarantine, verify, and promote models before they reach production
- What “artifact management for AI” actually looks like in practice
Speakers

Nigel Douglas
Head of Developer RelationsCloudsmith

Liana Ertz
Product ManagerCloudsmith
Summary
Open model ecosystems like Hugging Face have transformed how teams build with AI. But with that speed comes risk: unverified publishers, mutable artifacts, dependency confusion, and models that change beneath your feet.
If you’re pulling models straight into production pipelines, you’re inheriting all the uncertainty of the public internet - into some of your most sensitive systems.
In this live session, Cloudsmith experts will show you how to take control of your AI supply chain. You’ll learn how to securely ingest, verify, and distribute LLM models from Hugging Face without slowing your teams down.