The conversation this week is with Blair Newman . Blair is an accomplished executive with more than 25 years of experience creating business value within the information technology industry. He's a decisive leader managing and overseeing PnLs, building pipelines, and generating multimillion-dollar cost savings by acquisitions and IT transformations. He is currently the Chief Technology Officer at Newton AI where he and the team helped companies automatically build extremely tiny and explainable ...
Jul 19, 2022•33 min•Season 2Ep. 20
The conversation this week is with Amelia Winger-Bearskin . Amelia innovates with artificial intelligence in ways that make a positive impact on our community and the environment. She's a Banks Family Preeminence Endowed Chair and Associate Professor of Artificial Intelligence and the Arts at the Digital Worlds Institute at the University of Florida. She's a 2019-2020 Mozilla Foundation Open Web Fellow in partnership with MIT Open Doc Lab , and MIT's Co-Creation Studio working on ethics and valu...
Jul 05, 2022•40 min•Season 2Ep. 19
The conversation this week is with Bryant Cruse . Bryant has been a pioneer in the application of AI technology to difficult real-world problems. He graduated from St. John's College in Annapolis, Maryland, where he acquired his lifelong interest in the philosophy of Epistemology. Or how we know what we know. After serving for eight years as a naval aviator, he returned to school for an MS in Space Systems Engineering from John Hopkins. While on the mission operations team for the Hubble Telesco...
Jun 28, 2022•53 min•Season 2Ep. 18
The conversation this week is with Rob Telson . Rob is an experienced sales leader with a demonstrated successful history working in the software and semiconductor industry, skilled and driving growth, negotiation, sales management, organizational leadership and technology. He holds degrees from the University of Arizona and Harvard Business School, and is the Vice President of Worldwide Sales and Marketing at BrainChip Holdings Limited , a company that is focused on software and hardware-accele...
Jun 21, 2022•39 min•Season 2Ep. 17
The conversation this week is with Brandon Satrom . Brandon is the VP of Developer Experience and Engineering at Blues Wireless , a driven technologist and experienced leader with a background in product management, strategy, architecture, software development and developer advocacy. He describes himself as a technologist first, and loves to use what he knows and learns to teach others how to build things and solve problems with the latest technologies and platforms. Finally, he has a mentor at ...
Jun 14, 2022•39 min•Season 2Ep. 16
The conversation this week is with Jigyasa Grover . Jigyasa recently co-authored a book titled Sculpting Data for ML: The First Act of Machine Learning . The book is a combination of a myriad of experiences from brief stints at Facebook, the National Research Council of Canada, and the Institute of Research and Development France, involving data science, mathematical modeling, and software engineering. She graduated from the University of California, San Diego with a master's degree in computer ...
Jun 07, 2022•29 min•Season 2Ep. 15
The conversation this week is with Prasanna Balaprakash . Prasanna is a group leader and computer scientist at the Mathematics and Computer Science Division and the leadership computing facility at Argonne National Laboratory . His research interests span the areas of machine learning, optimization, and high-performance computing. He is the recipient of the US Department of Energy 2018 Early Career Award, and is the artificial intelligence thrust lead at Rapids , the Department of Energy Compute...
May 31, 2022•44 min•Season 2Ep. 14
The conversation this week is with Caroline Sinders . Caroline is a machine learning design researcher and artist. For the past few years, she has been examining the intersections of technology's impact on society, interface design, artificial intelligence, abuse, and politics in digital conversational spaces. Sinders is the founder of Convocation Design+Research an agency focused on the intersection of machine learning, user research, designing for the public good and solving difficult communic...
May 24, 2022•54 min•Season 2Ep. 13
The conversation this week is with Erik Beall . Erik is an imaging AI scientist and product developer. Eric is the CEO of Thermal Diagnostics , where he has developed the fever inspect a thermal imaging based product that helps keep us all safe by providing accurate, reliable and foolproof fever detection. He's also a computer vision scientist at Digilabs where he is using AI for various applications for autonomous ground robots, with rover robotics and other Digilab companies. Eric holds a BA i...
May 17, 2022•47 min•Season 2Ep. 12
The conversation this week is with Tim Kraska . Tim is a professor at MIT in their Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory , and a Co-Founder at Einblick , where they are developing the first visual data computing platform based on six years of research at MIT and Brown University. Tim holds a Master of Information Technology from the University of Sydney, a postdoc in computer science from the University of California, Berkeley, and a Ph.D. in computer science from ETH Zurich . ...
May 10, 2022•27 min•Season 2Ep. 11
The conversation this week is with Robert Parker . Robert has engineered some of today's biggest life-changing innovations from Amazon Alexa to Fire TV and Prime music. Robert has disrupted everyday consumer life with voice assistance, and entertainment technology. After serving as a Director of Engineering at Amazon for five years, Robert became the CTO of SmartThings , leading the company's product and engineering teams while building the proprietary platform. From SmartThings Robert teamed up...
May 05, 2022•50 min•Season 2Ep. 10
The conversation this week is with Miles Porter . Miles is an experienced data scientist focused on image processing, time series analysis, and combinatorial optimization opportunities. He is currently a lead data scientist at Trimble Central AI . He holds a BA in math and did graduate work in applied math at Colorado State. He's worked as a consultant at a range of companies such as Medtronic, BestBuy, and bluestem. Brands. He's also a musician, playing jazz bass and teaching taekwondo. If you ...
May 03, 2022•50 min•Season 2Ep. 9
The conversation this week is with Scott Litman . Scott is a serial entrepreneur with multiple exits under his belt and someone whom I highly respect and appreciate for what he has done for the technology community here in the Twin Cities. Currently, he is the co-founder, managing partner, and CRO at Lucy.ai . Lucy is an AI-powered knowledge management platform. You see combed through more data in a minute that an entire team could sift through in a year, unlocking, democratizing, and making it ...
Apr 28, 2022•41 min•Season 2Ep. 8
The conversation this week is with Francis Brero . Francis is an aspiring hands-on T Rex obsessed with levering science to improve efficiency and effectiveness. He is a data scientist converted to sales along the way. Currently, he helps B2B SaaS companies get the most out of their inbound pipelines by automating the high-cost low leverage work of researching, qualifying, and engaging leads. He's the co-founder and CTO at MadKudu . MadKudu helps SaaS companies increase conversion rates, upsell, ...
Apr 26, 2022•44 min•Season 2Ep. 7
The conversation this week is with Scott Brown . Scott is a business focus Senior Technology executive with 25 years of experience in transforming organizations, solving complex problems, and building globally distributed systems. He drives cross-functional strategy development, continuous improvement and is committed to growing talent and developing the next generation of leaders. He's currently the CEO of Transfur , Transfur makes it easy to request, send, manage and review veterinary medical ...
Apr 12, 2022•39 min•Season 2Ep. 6
The conversation this week is with Paul Denman . Paul started his career as an engineer focused on new innovative technologies. He is passionate about technology and its integration to solve business problems and has a number of accomplishments in automation, AI, IoT medical device robotics, machine vision, and hard automation. As a member or advisor to corporate leadership, Paul is viewed as a key contributor and collaborator credited with identifying and securing missing links that have improv...
Mar 29, 2022•50 min•Season 2Ep. 5
The conversation this week is with Jeff Coyle . Jeff is a cross-discipline data-driven inbound marketing executive with 20 plus years of experience managing products and website networks focused on helping companies grow. He's the co-founder and chief strategy officer at Market Muse . Market Muse is an industry-leading technology and methodology for content planning and evaluation. It combines artificial intelligence, natural language processing, and machine learning algorithms to produce action...
Mar 15, 2022•43 min•Season 2Ep. 4
The conversation this week is with Josh Braaten . Josh is the CEO of Brandata where he and his team use brand measurement, consumer insights, and growth solutions to turn fast-moving companies into market leaders. Prior to Brand Data, Josh was a Senior Director of Marketing at Lead Pages . From venture-backed startups to Fortune 500 companies, Josh has developed his skills in high-growth digital marketing environments by working with brands that want to grow fast. As a business consultant, turne...
Mar 01, 2022•46 min•Season 2Ep. 3
The conversation this week is with Jacob Solawetz . Jacob is a Machine Learning Lead at RoboFlow where he’s developing and scaling computer vision using autoML model training and deployment. Prior to RoboFlow he was a Senior Quantitative Associate Analyst at Travelers. Jacob holds a bachelor's degree from Washington University in St. Louis where he majored in Mathematics, Economics, Philosophy, and Computer Science. That quite a range of things to be studying. I love it! Welcome, Jacob and thank...
Feb 15, 2022•33 min•Season 2Ep. 2
The conversation this week is with Eri O'Diah . Eri is a seasoned strategist who has been applying experience as a creative at the intersection of Black, immigrant, millennial, women to deconstruct biased systems and advocate for equitable social outcomes. A leading priority of her work currently, is the study of unconscious bias and how deep learning and emerging technologies can be used to better understand and accelerate the deconstruction of cognitive bias and reduce the impact on marginaliz...
Feb 01, 2022•40 min•Season 2Ep. 1
The conversation this week is with Erik Zwiefel . Erik is is a Director and Technical Specialist in the Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning group at Microsoft. He helps customers build out Advanced Analytics and Artificial Intelligence solutions leveraging Microsoft Azure and open source data science packages. Prior to that, he was a Senior Lead Data Scientist at Target as an operational Lead for the Enterprise Data, Analytics, and Business Insights Testing team. He holds a master's deg...
Dec 07, 2021•29 min•Season 1Ep. 26
The conversation this week is all about the intersection of Intellectual Property and Artificial Intelligence! I'm thrilled to have an expert in the fields of Artificial Intelligence, Patents, and Intellectual Property on the program. This is an amazing conversation and one in which I learned so much in just a short period of time from our guest, Ryan Phelan ! Ryan is a registered U.S. Patent Attorney and partner at the intellectual property law firm of Marshall Gerstein & Borun LLP. He work...
Sep 14, 2021•46 min•Season 1Ep. 25
If you are curious how a Data Science leader thinks about applying Artificial Intelligence to physical dynamic systems in the areas of Industrial IoT, then this is the episode for you! QingHui Yuan , a Director of Modeling and Data Science at Donaldson joins us to talk about all of the topics above and much, much more! Prior to joining Donaldson, he was a manager at Eaton in their Hydraulics Advanced Technology Group. QingHui has Master's Degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering and a Ph.D...
Aug 22, 2021•25 min•Season 1Ep. 24
Wow! Where to start. What an amazing interview and opportunity to have Greg Hayes on our program. We had a great conversation on applying Design Thinking and Machine Learning to solve business challenges. We talk through how to bring business stakeholders, R&D teams, and experimentations to apply MLOps at scale with an iterative approach. Greg is a technical leader in Machine Learning Engineering and Advanced Analytics with a strong interest in open source platforms written in Python. He has...
Jul 28, 2021•35 min•Season 1Ep. 23
This week I am thrilled to be joined but a serial entrepreneur, engineer, inventor, and pioneer in Artificial Intelligence, Peter Voss . Peter coined the term " AGI " (Artificial General Intelligence) in 2001 with fellow luminaries in this fascinating area of Artificial Intelligence. Peter is the Founder/ CEO and Chief Scientist at AGI Innovations and IGO and published a book on Artificial General Intelligence in 2002. He is a technology innovator who has for the past 20 years been dedicated to ...
Jul 13, 2021•33 min•Season 1Ep. 22
How does one ensure that data models are performing the right tasks as the right time? We've heard a lot about MLOps and in particular Responsible AI. In this episode, I speak with Sabina Stanescu on a number of applications she has worked on in Product Management address many of these points using MLOPs tools and techniques. Besides being the Director of Product Management and Data Analytics at Altair, she enjoys being a lead instructor of Data Analytics at BrainStation, has generously voluntee...
Jun 01, 2021•39 min•Season 1Ep. 21
How do machines on the internet know who and what to trust? As tens of billions of internet-connected devices are already online and billions more added each year, this becomes a real question and one with no easy answer. In this episode, I talk with Jason Shepherd , VP of Ecosystem at edge orchestration company Zededa . Jason shares with us how he helped lead an open-source initiative to form an entire platform to answer these questions of security and trust through a series of fabrics and inte...
May 18, 2021•39 min•Season 1Ep. 20
Bias in Machine Learning models is a real problem, but also is the lack of representation of women and minorities in the more general Data Science field. Join me this week as I speak with Jessica Meyer about going from the start of her career working at Best Buy in their Marketing department to today being a Principal Data Scientist at Optum. Jessica shares with us both her story and her passion for helping women and minorities be represented in the field of Machine Learning and Data Science. Sh...
May 05, 2021•34 min•Season 1Ep. 19
One of the areas in which Artificial Intelligence is making a huge impact on our lives is the areas of biomedical analysis. In this episode, I'm joined by Mike Hugo - CTO, and Co-founder at Vyasa Analytics . We discuss all of the latest and greatest trends going on in this amazing field and discuss everything from Transformer Models to his favorite books and what a Pteranodon is! I hope you enjoy this conversation and huge thanks to Mike for taking the time to break this complex subject down and...
Apr 21, 2021•36 min•Season 1Ep. 18
We've all heard the hype about Quantum Computing, but what does it really mean for Artificial Intelligence? In this episode, Danika Hannon breaks down what Quantum Computing is, how it's different from classical computing, and discusses real-world use cases of how it's going to change the landscape of what we'll be able to do with AI in the future. We also discuss women in technology and her work with a number of organizations such as Women in Quantum that are helping to be a resource for women ...
Apr 07, 2021•41 min•Season 1Ep. 17
