Michael Halagan
Bio
Mike Halagan is the founder and CEO of Local AI, a Twin Cities consulting firm that helps companies put AI to work in production. He's spent the last 15+ years building ML and AI systems, starting as a bioinformatics scientist at Be The Match working on bone marrow donor-recipient matching, then moving through data science, engineering, and leadership roles at C.H. Robinson where he eventually led 50+ engineers across five teams. The dynamic pricing engine his teams shipped became a recurring talking point on quarterly earnings calls.
These days he spends most of his time embedded with client engineering teams, designing and shipping LLM and agent-based systems on AWS Bedrock AgentCore and Azure Agent Service. Recent work has included customer-facing chatbots, underwriting agents, compliance automation, and end-to-end MLOps platforms for clients in healthcare, insurance, retail, and logistics.
Based in Maple Grove. M.S. in Biomedical Informatics & Computational Biology from the University of Minnesota.