Austrian Artificial Intelligence Podcast

Guest Interviews, discussing the possibilities and potential of AI in Austria. Question or Suggestions, write to austrianaipodcast@pm.me

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8. Sanja Jovanovic: On AI services in azure and women in AI

What kind of AI related services does azure cloud offer? What are some common reasons companies move into the cloud, and what are common first mistakes that companies encounter? If those are questions that interest you, then the first part of the interview is for you! In the second part of the interview, Sanja talks about the global initiative "Women in AI" that she as the Vienna Lead is supporting in order to help women in the field of AI to connect, support each other and increase the represen...

May 28, 2021•50 min•Season 1Ep. 8

7. Tanja Zinkl: On hiring for an AI Startup

What are the challenges hiring for an AI startups? How do you hire today, but be prepared for continously changing requirements of tomorrow? Or how do you convince the HR department of your talent and motivation? If those questions have crossed your mint recently, than this episode with Tanja Zinkl, hiring for the successful Austrian AI company Kaleido, is for you! References: Tanja Zinkl : https://www.linkedin.com/in/tanja-zinkl-4aa647114/ Book : Data Teams - A unified Management Model for Succ...

May 14, 2021•46 min•Season 1Ep. 7

6. Stefan Habenschuss: Building massive simulation environments at blackshark.ai

Have you ever been excited to browse the other side of the world on google earth? Just to be disappointed by the poor quality of the 3d reconstructions, and the limited level of detail? The Graz based AI company blackshark.ai has you covered! In todays interview, Stefan Habenschuss, leading machine learning at blackshark.ai is explaining their massive scalable aerial image segmentation system that has been used to create a digital twin earth with more than 1.5 Billion 3d building reconstructions...

May 01, 2021•1 hr 5 min•Season 1Ep. 6

5. Lukas Fischer: On the Software Competence Center Hagenberg (SCCH)

The field of AI and Machine learning is moving with an ever increasing pace, and for most small and medium companies that cannot afford their own research labs, keeping up new scientific papers and software frameworks is almost impossible. Today on the show I interview Lukas Fischer who is the Research Manager of the Data Science branch of the Software Competence Center Hagenberg that is here to help companies achieve this difficult task. The center has the mission to enable the knowledge transf...

Apr 17, 2021•1 hr 6 min•Season 1Ep. 5

4. Raphael Mitsch: AI consultancy and reinforcement learning in the real world

On the show today, I have the pleasure to talk to Raphael Mitsch, currently working as a Senior Machine Learning Engineer at the Austrian AI consultancy enliteAI. Are you curious to learn, what AI consultancy looks like in practice, and what skills are required to be successful as a consultant? Or are you interested to hear about the challenges and opportunities of reinforcement learning in real world tasks? If so, then this interview is for you! --- ## Raphael Mitsch contact details https://www...

Mar 31, 2021•1 hr 3 min•Season 1Ep. 4

3. Jillian Augustine: Making the career jump from academia to industry and the intrinsic value of inclusiveness

On the show today, I have the pleasure to talk to Jillian Augustine. Jillian is currently working as a Data Scientist in the Digital Excellence Team of the international paper and packaging manufacturer Mondi, but has received your Phd in Molecular Biology. On the show we are discussing Jillian experience working in academia and private industry. She is contrasting the mindset prominent on both sides, and what is needed to be successful, as well what industry can learn from academia, and vice ve...

Mar 09, 2021•45 min•Season 1Ep. 3

2. Frank Fichtenmueller: On building AI Teams, business relevant skills and the future of Data Science

Summary Today on the show, we have Frank Fichtenmueller. Frank is currently working as a Senior Solution architect, at Crayon's AI Center of Excellence; here in Vienna, where he is developing distributed systems at scale that apply the power of Machine Learning to solve real world problems and enable new business cases. Frank has been in AI, for more than a decade now, going through many ups and downs. He has build and sold his own startup, started, managed and grew AI teams from he ground up, a...

Feb 21, 2021•59 min•Season 1Ep. 2

1. Ivona Vlčková: On Professional growth, how Vienna attracts Ai talent, and Gender bias in Tech.

Summary On this episode of the Austrian AI Podcast, we have the pleasure to interview Ivona Vlčková, a young Data Scientist working at the Viennese AI startup Mostly.ai. Ivona shares her experience working as a Data Scientists at a Startup with about 30 people and contrasts it with her experience working at an international company with thousands of employees. We discuss her reasons to move to Vienna, and what Vienna has to offer and how it compares to other cities in attracting talent and compa...

Feb 10, 2021•44 min•Season 1Ep. 1

Introduction

Welcome to the Austrian AI Podcast! I am your host, Manuel Pasieka and I am excited to share with you on this Podcast my passion for Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Data Science. I will bring onto the show, experts from academia and privat industry, hobbyists from none profit organisations, and decision makers in public institutions to talk with them about the possibilities and potential of AI in Austria. I hope you will join me for this journey, and you are as excited about it as ...

Feb 07, 2021•1 min

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