Interview about the initialphase with ML engineer from Zühlke

The feedback on the current prototype helped me a lot to better understand the ML Engineer's perspective. She is now the second expert to point out to me that in a project process they already conduct a kind of ML kick-off with the customer before the official start. The kick-off is a kind of workshop and is very similar to the design sprint. That idea got me wondering if I can link the two and create a sprint/workshop that combines the topics of ML and UX?