The conversation this week is with Cameron Wolfe . Cameron has a passion for leveraging academic research and industry to solve large scale industrial problems. He is currently the director of AI at c, personalized search and recommendations platform for D to C e-commerce brands, where he works with an amazing team of engineers and researchers. He holds a PhD in computer science from Rice University, and a bachelor's in computer science from UT Austin. Finally, he's an avid fan of Mixed Martial ...
Sep 12, 2023•50 min•Season 3Ep. 18
The conversation this week is with Seth Uschuk . Seth is a full stack software engineer with a passion for developing high quality software solutions. He's had the pleasure of working with cutting edge technologies and programming languages to build scalable and robust applications for a variety of clients and industries. He's also constantly exploring new technologies and methodologies to improve his skills and stay up to date with the latest trends in the industry. Today, as this is the applie...
Aug 29, 2023•28 min•Season 3Ep. 17
The conversation this week is with Matt Nash . Matt is the CEO at Kairos Technologies , where he and the team are focused on building a better future for healthcare by making technology products, recruiting the best in the industry, and directing them at the gross inefficiency and waste that is the health industry. He's skilled at technical architecture, Team delivery paradigms, applying emerging technologies and leading effective teams that can execute. If you are interested in learning about h...
Aug 15, 2023•33 min•Season 3Ep. 16
The conversation this week is with Avinash Malladhi . Avinash is a PSPO certified professional with over 15 years of experience and implementing finance, artificial intelligence and related IT projects. He holds an MBA in accounting from Wilmington University, and has completed his expertise in finance with Fintech courses from Harvard University. Throughout his career, he has been able to network with other Fintech specialists from over 30 countries and stay informed about the latest developmen...
Aug 01, 2023•41 min•Season 3Ep. 15
The conversation this week is with Corbin Fonville . Corbin is the owner of the Minnesota Championship Series , which delivers pro quality free to compete eSports tournaments to amateur players of all levels. He's also the CEO at Skillquest where he enjoys helping gamers go from zero to a career in technology. Skillquest is a platform where high school Rocket League players learn to code. He started with a mechanical engineering degree, but established his career through online learning and buil...
Jul 18, 2023•46 min•Season 3Ep. 14
The conversation this week is with Damien Riehl . Damien is a technology lawyer who has advised clients on tech litigated tech issues, remedied cybersecurity issues and develop software. His legal experience is diverse over his career, and has been working for a variety of clients from large businesses to nonprofits and individuals. He currently leads the design development and expansion of products at Fastcase . Integrating AI back in technologies to improve legal workflows, and to power legal ...
Jul 04, 2023•39 min•Season 3Ep. 13
The conversation this week is with Christopher Nguyen . Christopher is CEO and co-founder of Aitomatic , where he's helping businesses harness the power of knowledge-first AI for solutions in predictive maintenance, energy optimization, demand forecasting, and more. Outside of his deep experience in AI, his background includes strategic executive leadership, hands-on software engineering, management, and highly available low-latency services architecture. If you are interested in learning about ...
Jun 20, 2023•37 min•Season 3Ep. 12
The conversation this week is with Sam Tyner-Monroe . Sam is an accomplished, applied statistician and data scientist with a PhD in statistics from Iowa State University. She has expertise in data visualization, and deep experience in developing and applying statistical modeling and machine learning techniques to the social and physical sciences, as well as within the federal government. Currently, she's Managing Director of Accountable AI at DLA Piper If you are interested in learning about how...
Jun 06, 2023•32 min•Season 3Ep. 11
The conversation this week is with Deborah Carver . Deborah is the writer and publisher of The Content Technologist . When she's not compiling the weekly newsletter, she's a digital strategy consultant at the intersection of technology and content. She truly believes in helping content professionals navigate to technical ins and outs of algorithms, automation, and analytics so they can free up more brain space for creativity. I love this mission. And we all need time for more creativity. Since 2...
May 23, 2023•46 min•Season 3Ep. 10
The conversation this week is with Dishant Gandhi . Dishant is an AI/ML Engineer at Hoory , who reads an AI-powered Customer Support Assistant that helps your business automate customer communications and provides 24/7 support with zero delays. Dishant is also building a community for chatbot developers and learners. He has a YouTube channel under the name Droid City where he creates videos on chatbot development and Android app development. Finally, he is a RASA Superhero, which is a distinctio...
May 09, 2023•39 min•Season 3Ep. 9
The conversation this week is with Seth Clark . Seth is an MIT-trained engineer who just likes building things. He's the Head of Product for Modzy and worked with a team of brilliant designers, developers, and data scientists building the future of ML ops and AI at scale. When he's not in the office, he's probably soldering something in his Makerspace checking in on one of his beehives, or fixated on a bad product experience that he wishes he could fix. If you are interested in learning about ho...
Apr 25, 2023•35 min•Season 3Ep. 8
The conversation this week is with Mona Akmal . Mona is the CEO and co-founder at Falcon AI . Falcon is the first intelligence platform for the entire GTM team, which includes marketing, sales, and account management. She is a product and engineering veteran who builds resourceful, kind, and output-driven teams at scale, with a passion for crafting elegant solutions to technically difficult problems. She has grown teams, businesses, and many products at Microsoft, Code.org, and Zulily. If you ar...
Apr 11, 2023•39 min•Season 3Ep. 7
The conversation this week is with Eric Olson . Eric is the co-founder and CEO at Consensus a search engine that uses AI to surface expert answers. Prior to Consensus , he worked at Draft Kings analytics, where he built cool models and created new metrics to better understand their users. In 2017, he graduated with a master's of science in predictive analytics from Northwestern University and was a three year starter for the Northwestern University football team and a four time academic, All Big...
Mar 28, 2023•35 min•Season 3Ep. 6
The conversation this week is with Dr. Antonio Di Fenza . Antonio has a Master of Arts and a Ph.D. in Romantic Languages, Literature, and Linguistics from Cornell University. He has envisioned and written a project of a chatbot trained on philosophers and poets that is capable of meaningful interactions. Additionally, he is currently a futurist providing inspiration, suggestions, and solutions for the period of humanity's transition to the time when it will coexist with super intelligence. If yo...
Mar 14, 2023•53 min•Season 3Ep. 5
The conversation this week is with Panos and George Karagiannis , co-founders of Moveo.AI . Both of these guys are passionate about new technologies and always eager to learn. They love turning ideas into practice by working with people that share the same enthusiasm about technology as they do at their company. They are building a new type of conversational AI platform that works on automating mundane tasks, using no-code platforms and self-learning capabilities to transform customer experience...
Feb 28, 2023•25 min•Season 3Ep. 4
The conversation this week is with George Bryant , a partner of Fulton Analytics . Fulton Analytics is a Minnesota-based data analytics strategy and consulting company committed to delivering data success. Their data success framework aligns people's processes and technology toward agile data transformation. George has a passion for soccer as well as being a head coach for a number of teams around the Twin Cities. If you are interested in learning about how AI is being applied across multiple in...
Feb 14, 2023•41 min•Season 3Ep. 4
The conversation this week is with Sam Cartford . Sam is doing cybersecurity by day and is the co-founder of his own startup called Babbl, which he is working on anytime else. Babbl is a website that tracks stock market news sentiment, it aggregates and runs sentiment analysis on thousands of finance articles to distill high-impact information and ultimately help investors supplement their current research. This saves them time, reduces bias, and helps them gain insights. It was recently accepte...
Jan 31, 2023•29 min•Season 3Ep. 3
The conversation this week is with Peter Scott . Peter is the author of Crisis of Control: How Artificial Super Intelligences May Destroy or Save the Human Race. He holds a Master's of Computer Science from the University of Cambridge and worked for NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory for 16 years. But today actually spends his time as an author, futurist and business coach focusing on assisting clients through exponential change. He has appeared on radio, TV and podcasts, in addition to giving a T...
Jan 17, 2023•36 min•Season 3Ep. 2
The conversation this week is with Lois Melbourne & Ross Melbourne . Lois is an author presenting visions of what if her former life was exciting as a software CEO and entrepreneur, and she is now the Chief Story Officer at My Future Story. Within her nonprofit work for My Future Story she published The STEM Club Goes Exploring, and Kids Go to Work Day. She loves to coach kids and schools through the wonderment of career exploration with a mission to inspire kids toward purposely designing t...
Jan 03, 2023•44 min•Season 3Ep. 1
The conversation this week is with Ngan MacDonald . Ngan is the chief of data operations at the Institute for Augmented Intelligence in Medicine, where she is bridging computational methods with human experience to advance medical science and improve human health. Nana's, a 2022 cohort candidate for the Women In Bio 3/8 Initiative, named for the March 8, International Women's Day where her team seeks to increase startup board leadership for women in Chicago's Life Sciences. Finally, if that isn'...
Dec 20, 2022•34 min•Season 2Ep. 31
The conversation this week is with Cal Al-Dhubaib . Cal is a data scientist, entrepreneur, and Chief Executive Officer of Pandata , where his team empowers organizations to use artificial intelligence competitively. Cal has an emphasis on designing and building trustworthy AI, and is especially passionate about the ethics of AI and how organizations can build the right talent to support their AI initiatives. Cal has been listed on the Crain's Cleveland 20 in their 20s, and Cleveland Smart 50. He...
Dec 06, 2022•38 min•Season 2Ep. 30
The conversation this week is with Fraser Gray-Smith . Fraser is a business strategy professional that specializes in using analytics to drive value in organizations. He takes advantage of his unique mix of technical skills and business acumen to uncover valuable insights, develop business cases, create management buy-in and manage the execution of projects. Outside of work, Fraser likes to learn about leadership and politics. He also enjoys experimenting with emerging technologies in the financ...
Nov 22, 2022•32 min•Season 2Ep. 29
The conversation this week is with Stefan Krawczyk . Stefan is a data-focused leader and polymath engineer. His interest has spanned design, implementation, integration, and peer education of data-related systems. Most recently, his focus has been on futurization and model-serving systems and platforms. He has a Bachelor's in Computer Science and Mathematics from Victoria University at Wellington, and a master's in computer science from Stanford University specializing in artificial intelligence...
Nov 08, 2022•38 min•Season 2Ep. 28
The conversation this week is with Shawn Hymel . Sean is a machine learning DevRel Engineer, Instructor and University Program Manager at Edge Impulse . He creates compelling technical videos, courses and workshops around edge machine learning that inspire engineers of all skill levels. Shawn is an advocate for enriching education through stem and believes that the best marketing comes from teaching, you can be found giving talks, running workshops and swing dancing in his free time. If you are ...
Oct 25, 2022•49 min•Season 2Ep. 27
The conversation this week is with Pete Warden . Pete's mission is simple: Organizing the physical world's information to make it universally accessible and useful. He was the founder and CTO at Jetpac where he built a technical team and created a unique data product that analyzed the pixel data, over 140 million photos from Instagram and turn them into in depth guides for more than 5000 cities around the world. Jetpac was acquired by Google in 2014. From there, he was a founding member and tech...
Oct 11, 2022•46 min•Season 2Ep. 26
NOTE: I am excited to announce that all listeners of the Conversations on Applied AI Podcast are eligible to receive a 50% discount at the 2022 Applied AI Conference! Just use the discount code of "podcast" when purchasing your ticket. The conversation this week is with Younes Amar and Mohammed Sabri . Younes is the head of product at Wallaroo , an enterprise platform for production AI. As a product leader, he is responsible for vision, strategy, and roadmap and for building product teams that u...
Sep 27, 2022•39 min•Season 2Ep. 25
NOTE: I am excited to announce that all listeners of the Conversations on Applied AI Podcast are eligible to receive a 50% discount at the 2022 Applied AI Conference! Just use the discount code of "podcast" when purchasing your ticket. The conversation this week is with Daniel Kornev . Daniel is Chief Product Officer for DeepPavlov.ai , which is the developer behind the Deep Pavlov Open Source Conversational AI stack for building voice assistants. Daniel has also served as an adviser to the Alex...
Sep 13, 2022•46 min•Season 2Ep. 24
The conversation this week is with Neil Sahota . Neil is an IBM Master Inventor, United Nations AI advisor, Chief Innovation Officer, and globally recognized speaker and author of the award-winning Best Business Book of 2019. Own the AI Revolution . Neil is a founding member of the UN's AI For Good initiative, and is actively helping them build out their ecosystem of strategic partnerships. Additionally, through his work with the Global Fortune 500 companies as a change maker, he created a disru...
Aug 30, 2022•36 min•Season 2Ep. 23
The conversation this week is with Tom Doyle . Tom is a veteran in the semiconductor industry working in many different areas over the last 35 years, including RF and satellites, analog and mixed-signal integrated circuit solutions, IP software, and sales. He holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from West Virginia University and an MBA from California State University. Tom is the CEO of Aspinity . Aspinity is a world leader in the design and development of analog machine learning chips that are ...
Aug 16, 2022•31 min•Season 2Ep. 22
The conversation this week is with Gian Marco . Gian is a tech lead in the machine learning group at ARM and the author of the TinyML Cookbook published in April of 2022. At ARM Gian looks after the ML performance optimizations for the arm compute library, which he co-created in 2017 to get the best performance on ARM Cortex-A CPUs. ARM Compute Library is currently the most performant library for machine learning on ARM. And it's deployed on billions of devices worldwide from servers to smartpho...
Aug 02, 2022•41 min•Season 2Ep. 21
