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Brains Behind AI

Ari Yacobiwww.buzzsprout.com
Ari Yacobi meets the brains behind some of the most successful AI startups and dives into their journey from coming up with the idea to finding the product-market fit and from their experience draw a set of principles that we can take away to ours.
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Atomwise: Abraham Heifets on how AI is redefining drug discovery

On this episode of Brains Behind AI, Ari had the opportunity to chat with Dr. Abraham Heifets, the CEO and Co-Founder of Atomiwse, where he invented the use of deep convolutional neural networks for drug discovery. Abe’s doctoral work applied machine learning and classical AI techniques to organic synthesis planning, which is a long-standing challenge in chemistry. His vision of Artificial Intelligence bringing better, safe, and more potent drugs to patients has become a reality, and Atomwise is...

Apr 12, 202329 min

GenesisAI: Archie Cheisvili on building an AI Marketplac e & hosting AI Marketing Conference in Miami

On this episode of Brains Behind AI, Ari sat down with Archie Cheisvil, the founder and CEO of GenesisAI. GenesisAI is an Artificial Intelligence marketplace that allows companies to buy or sell AI products and services. Archie has basically founded the Amazon for Artificial Intelligence. Only in his 20s, Archie is taking over the world of AI and has recently been listed as Forbes 30 under 30. A Harvard graduate and frequently published by media outlets such as the New York Post and Yahoo Financ...

May 19, 202219 minSeason 1Ep. 36

Valyant AI: Rob Carpenter on Building and Scaling Conversational AI Platform for Quick Serve Restaurants

On our 35th episode of “Brains Behind AI”, Ari had the chance to chat with Rob Carpenter, the CEO and Founder of Valyant AI. Valyant AI is an enterprise grade conversational AI platform for the quick serve restaurant industry. In this episode, we learn how Rob has developed a proprietary software application that integrates within a restaurant's existing hardware infrastructure and allows the AI software to take the vast majority of customer orders and insert them directly into the POS for payme...

Feb 16, 202234 minSeason 1Ep. 35

CoRead AI: Dr. Ngo on AI algorithms to monitor for known radiologist blind-spots

On this episode of “Brains Behind AI”, Ari had the opportunity to speak with Lawrence Ngo, a practicing radiologist with a PhD in neurobiology. Lawrence is also the Co-founder and CEO of CoRead.AI, a start-up that has developed machine learning algorithms that analyzes the images and reports from radiology exams, and flags studies with high probability for peer review. We dive into Dr. Ngo’s ride from earning his PhD, working through his residency, and founding an AI company. CoRead AI been able...

Jan 19, 202239 minSeason 1Ep. 34

ArgoDesign : Jared Ficklin on Designing User Experiences for AI Applications

On our 33rd episode of ‘Brains Behind AI’, Ari spoke with designer Jared Ficklin, the Chief Creative Technologist of product design company Argo Design. Jared possesses two decades of experience creating products and visions for major companies, contributing to the visions, strategy, intellectual property, and products of clients that include HP, Microsoft, AT&T, & Motorola. On this episode, discover Jared’s creative journey as he started off as a saxophone player and transitioned into t...

Nov 09, 202141 minSeason 1Ep. 33

Stats Perform: Patrick Lucey on harnessing true power of sports data through AI

On our 32nd Episode of “Brains Behind AI”, Ari had the opportunity to speak with Patrick Lucey, the Chief Scientist at Stats Perform. Stats Perform is an award-winning Artificial Intelligence team that maximizes the value of global sports coverage dating back over 40 years by coupling it with machine learning technology to generate insights. As an athlete originally from Australia with a deep love for sports, Patrick worked for Disney Research, where he researched automatic sports broadcasting u...

Oct 28, 202128 minSeason 1Ep. 32

Indico: Slater Victoroff on unlocking the value of Unstructured Data

Slater Victoroff is the Founder and CTO of Indico, an enterprise AI solution for unstructured content that emphasizes document understanding. Slater has been building machine learning solutions for startups, governments, and Fortune 100 companies for the past seven years and is a frequent speaker at AI conferences. Indico’s framework requires 1000x less data than traditional machine learning techniques, and they regularly beat the likes of AWS, Google, Microsoft, and IBM in head-to-head bake-off...

Oct 06, 202147 minSeason 1Ep. 31

FoodSpace: Daniel DeMillard on building AI for online food shopping

On our latest Episode of “Brains Behind AI” Ari had the opportunity to speak with Daniel DeMillard, the CTO of Foodspace, an AI company that helps eCommerce teams increase online sales and brand loyalty by building underlying product data foundations. Foodspace uses vision AI to derive scanned product data into shopper-centric attributes needed for online grocery discovery. Throughout this episode, learn how Foodspace is revolutionizing the food industry, using AI to assist brands with organizat...

Aug 18, 202137 minSeason 1Ep. 30

Seekar: Kordel France on building a fast - growing AI platform with 3 successful medical products

On our 29th Episode of “Brains Behind AI”, Ari and Natalie sat down with CEO and Co-Founder of Seekar Technologies, KordelFrance. Seekar Technologies is a technology startup that builds Artificial Intelligence products for a variety of industries. In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, learn how Seekar contributed two products free of charge to physicians to help ease demand on medical staffing and screening for the virus faster, making a huge splash in the medical industry. Kordel also walks us ...

Jul 20, 202137 minSeason 1Ep. 29

SiFive: James Prior on fabless semiconductor enabling modern AI architectures

On this episode of “Brains Behind AI”, Ari and Natalie have a chat with James Prior, the Senior Director of Product Marketing Communications at SiFive. SiFiveis known to be an industry leader in RISC-V processors and silicon solutions. SiFive is also first hardware in Artificial Intelligence startups that have been on the show. In this episode, we discuss what has made SiFive so successful, especially working in the hardware space, and James’ advice for all aspiring entrepreneurs who are interes...

Jul 07, 202129 minSeason 1Ep. 28

Yonder: Jonathon Morgan on AI to identify and counteract online disinformation

On this Episode of “Brains Behind AI”, we had Jonathon Morgan on the show, the founder and CEO of Yonder. Yonder is an AI company that helps Fortune 500 communications teams identify and counteract online disinformation about issues that matter to their organization. Prior to Yonder, Jonathon developed AI to combat social media radicalization with DARPA and served as an advisor to the US State Department. Throughout this episode, learn how Yonder uses Artificial Intelligence to combat conspiracy...

Jun 25, 202147 minSeason 1Ep. 27

Boon AI: Marc Stevens on Machine Learning to power digital media management

On this episode of “Brains Behind AI”, Ari sat down to chat with Marc Stevens, the President & CEO of Zorroa. Zorroais a Gradient Ventures-backed machine learning-startup that has recently launched Boon AI, a machine learning integration platform that is modernizing media management pipelines for the media & entertainment industry. Marc is a global technology executivewith over three decades of experience driving tech and business transformation across film, television, and gaming indust...

Jun 15, 202140 minSeason 1Ep. 26

Comet: Gideon Mendels on Machine Learning Ops to track, compare, explain and optimize experiments and models

On this Episode of “Brains Behind AI” Ari and Natalie had the opportunity to sit down with the CEO and co-founder of Comet.ml, Gideon Mendels. Comet.ml is a leading provider of machine learning operations solutions that accelerate getting machine learning models into production. Gideon has a wide range of expertise, previously founding GroupWize where he trained and deployed over 50 NLP models in 15 different languages. Comet.ml now supports some of the biggest and best machine learning teams in...

Jun 01, 202135 min

MixPose : Peter Ma on Online Yoga with AI Pose Estimation in real - time

On this episode of “Brains Behind AI”, Ari and Natalie had the opportunity to speak with Peter Ma, the Co-Founder of MixPose, a live streaming yoga platform that uses AI pose detection in real time. By downloading the MixPose app, participants can train with top yoga and fitness instructors from the comfort of their own homes. Peter explains how the Artificial Intelligence pose tracking is used to virtually monitor the posturesof students, which is then sent to the instructors. This system creat...

May 18, 202139 minSeason 1Ep. 24

Arturo: how AI on aerial imagery is empowering the entire value chain for the property insurance carriers

On this Episode of Brains Behind AI, Ari and Natalie had the chance to sit down and speak with John-Isaac Clark, “JC”, the CEO of Arturo. Arturo is an AI property analytics company that helps insurance carriers improve the accuracy and speed of decision making across claims, underwriting, pricing, and renewals. JC possesses more than ten years in geographical and location-based analytics with a start-up background and experience. In this episode, we learn how Suncorp, one of Australia's and New ...

Apr 05, 202147 minSeason 1Ep. 22

Mike Betzer of Khoros on Redefining Customer Engagement with AI-powered Workflows

On this Episode of Brains Behind AI, Ari and Natalie sit down to chat with Mike Betzer, Chief Digital Transformation Officer at Khoros. Khoros is a digital customer care service with AI-powered workflows and operational analytics. Starting off in sales and marketing, Mike has over 30 years of experience building software to help brands engage with their customers. Throughout this episode, we learn firsthand how Khoros uses Artificial Intelligence to help brands really understand their customers ...

Mar 16, 202141 minSeason 1Ep. 21

Aryballe: Sam Guilaumé on combining biochemistry and AI to enable digitalization of smell

We had the opportunity to speak with the CEO of Aryballe, Sam Guilaumé. Aryballeis a unique Artificial Intelligence company that combines biochemistry, advanced optics and machine learning to mimic the human sense of smell, one of the more complicated, if not the toughest, sense to duplicate. Aryballe is also using Artificial Intelligence technologies to allow certain senses to convey a particular emotion, which assists brands and companies to truly create an overall five-sensory experience. Lea...

Feb 24, 202132 minSeason 1Ep. 20

Dragonfly.AI where Neuroscience meets AI to Design Effective Content Experiences

On thisepisode of “Brains Behind AI”, we had the privilege of speaking with Mark Bainbridge, one of the founders of Dragonfly AI. Dragonfly AI is a predictive visual analytics platform that uses cutting edge neuroscience to accurately predict how the design of anycontent or experience influences what your audience sees first, across any channel. Based in the UK, Mark has over 30 years of experience as an award-winningsenior leader and CMO across a wide range of industries. Mark brings a plethora...

Feb 10, 202138 minSeason 1Ep. 19

AI.Reverie: Daeil Kim On Building Virtual Worlds to Train Computer Vision Applications for Smarter AI

On our 18th Episode of “Brains Behind AI”, Ari and Natalie had the pleasure of speaking with Daeil Kim, the technical founder of AI.Reverie. AI.Reverie is a simulation platform that trains AI to understand the world, and was ranked by Forbes as one of the top 25 Machine Learning companies to look out for in 2020. With a PhD in computer science from Brown University, Daeil focused on the development of scalable machine learning algorithms, he believes that we can create a future where issues rela...

Jan 27, 202136 minSeason 1Ep. 18

Qomplx: Andrew Sellers on building Operational Risk and Situational Awareness management applications of AI

On this Episode of “Brains Behind AI”, Ari sat down with Andrew Sellers, the founder and CTO at QOMPLX, where he leads the development of next-generation operational risk management and situational awareness tools and information - sharing in multi-spatial, multi-temporal distributed systems. Andrew is a thought leader in cyber and data management with specific expertise in large-scale heterogeneous network design, deep-web data extraction, and data theory. In this episode, we dive into Andrew’s...

Jan 19, 202135 minSeason 1Ep. 17

Aion Advisors: Dr. Daniel Araya on public policy considerations in the AI and robotics driven world

On our 16th Episode of ‘Brains Behind AI’, Ari and Natalie sit down with Dr. Daniel Araya, co-founder of Aion Advisors, an international consultancy and Think Tank, Senior Partner with the World Legal Summit, and Senior Fellow at CIGI (to name a few). Throughout this episode, we dive deep into public policy considerations for governments in the AI and robotics driven world. We discuss the rise of China and Asia and how this coincides with the United States. Not to mention how our society, econom...

Dec 07, 202044 minSeason 1Ep. 16

EIGHTFOLD AI: Ashutosh Garg on building enterprise-scale Talent Intelligence Platform

On this episode of Brains Behind AI, Ari and Natalie speak with Ashutosh Garg, the CEO and Founder of Eightfold AI. Eightfold AI is the industry’s first Talent Intelligence Platform, built for the enterprise to address Talent Acquisition and Management in a holistic fashion. Tune in to learn about the technology behind EightfoldAI and how it is specifically designed to use Artificial Intelligence to understand how people move through their careers. Gain first insight on how Ashutosh & the te...

Nov 18, 202041 minSeason 1Ep. 15

LivePerson: Robert LoCascio on building and scaling one of the largest and fastest growing conversational AI companies

On this episode, Ari and Natalie sat down with Rob LoCascio, the CEO and founder of LivePerson, a conversational AI company that connects brands and consumers on the world’s most popular messaging platforms, making life easier for people and brands everywhere. As one of the longest-standing founding CEOs of the tech world today, learn how Rob’s company has grown to 1,200 employees while serving 18,000 clients worldwide, including some of the biggest brands in the world, such as HSBC, Delta Airli...

Oct 25, 202048 min

VIZ.AI: David Golan on building healthcare AI startup that uses deep learning to detect stroke

Ari and Natalie chatted with David Golan, the co-founder and CTO of VIZ.AI, a digital healthcare company harnessing deep learning to analyze medical data and improve clinical workflow. Throughout the episode, discover how VIZ.AI developed the first ever, FDA-approved AI-powered triage system for strokes, emerging as one of the top leaders in applied AI in healthcare. Also learn how VIZ.AI’s flagship product, VIZ LVO, is leveraging advanced deep learning to communicate time-sensitive information ...

Oct 12, 202035 minSeason 1Ep. 13

PotentiaMetrics: Bobby Palmer on data & AI for personalized treatment plans

On this episode of Brains Behind AI, Ari and Natalie met with Bobby Palmer , the President and CEO of PotentiaMetrics, an Austin-based healthcare analytics company. During the show, we learn firsthand how PotentiaMetrics’ data analytics and artificial intelligence platforms help providers, payers and medical technology companies inform personalized treatment plans by comparing patient-level outcome data related to survival, quality of life and cost of care. Bobby has been a business owner and CE...

Sep 29, 202034 minSeason 1Ep. 12

Qure AI: Rohit Ghosh on building a healthcare AI startup and how they are leveraging AI to save the world from Covid - 19

On the 11th Episode of “Brains Behind AI”, Ari and Natalie had the exciting opportunity to speak withRohit Ghosh -one of the founding members of the revolutionary AI Start-Up Qure.AI, a company with a mission to make healthcare more affordable and accessible through the power of Artificial Intelligence. Not to mention, Qure.AI was just ranked by Forbes as one of the top 15 companies that are saving the world from Covid-19. Rohit started his career working as an investment banker, and like many e...

Sep 16, 202047 minSeason 1Ep. 11

10 SnipFeed AI: Redouane Ramdani on AI enabled content discovery and monetization platform

On the 10th Episode of “Brains Behind AI”, Ari and Natalie had the opportunity to speak with Redouane Ramdani, the Co-Founder and CEO of Snipfeed AI. Snipfeed AI is an AI-powered mobile content discovery platform for the Generation Z. Originally from France, Redouane studied entrepreneurship at the Haas School of Business at Berkeley, His time in Silicon Valley led him to create Snipfeed, a platform for creators to host and distribute content all in one place. Snipfeed AI targets value added cre...

Sep 01, 202045 min

Leena.AI: Adit Jain on AI transforming HR function

On the 9th Episode of “Brains Behind AI”, Ari and Natalie sat down to talk with Adit Jain - the Co-Founder and CEO of LEENA.AI. LEENA.AI helps enterprises transform employee experience with conversational AI, in particular, disrupting the way HR is performed. Using high-tech AI technology, we learned how Adit was able to see a window of opportunity in assisting HR companies with hiring new employees. Instead of playing it safe by stepping into a high-paying tech job, Adit and his colleagues deci...

Aug 18, 202035 minSeason 1Ep. 9

Oloid.AI: Mohit Garg on contactless identification and how Oloid is using AI to enable the new normal post covid-19

Welcome to our 8th Episode of “Brains Behind AI”. In this episode, we bring you an exclusive interview with Mohit Garg, the CEO, and Co-founder of Oloid.AI, an identification and authentication company using facial recognition. On the show, Ari and Natalie had an open chat with Mohit about his 22+ years of experience building and scaling enterprise products and teams. With Oloid.AI being the second startup Mohit has built, we learn how he and his cofounder aligned with trends, formed the right t...

Aug 03, 202039 minSeason 1Ep. 8

Unlearn.AI: Charles Fisher on reimaging clinical trials with AI

On our 7th Episode of “Brains Behind AI”, Ari Yacobi and his co-host, Natalie Thomas, dive deep into the Healthcare Industry as they speak with the founder and CEO of Unlearn AI, Charles Fisher. Making massive waves in the pharmaceutical industry, Unlearn.AI is reimagining clinical trials with Artificial Intelligence, and is the first company to create an intelligent control arm using digital twins. Throughout this episode, Charles takes us through how his interest in developing new machine lear...

Jul 14, 202043 minSeason 1Ep. 7
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