In this episode: Lauren Hawker Zafer is joined by Ayisha Piotti Who Can Benefit From This Conversation? Overall, when thinking about the regulation of AI technologies or the use of AI, we should be aiming to strike a balance between fostering innovation and ensuring that the technology is used in a way that aligns with ethical principles and societal values. This episode is therefore a key listen that invites us to think about how AI technology has the potential to significantly impact society. ...
Apr 04, 2023•36 min•Season 2Ep. 8
Spotlight Five is a snippet from our upcoming episode: Ayisha Piotti - AI Policy - How to Move The Needle Forward? Listen to the full episode, as soon as it comes out by subscribing to Redefining AI. Who is Ayisha Piotti? Ayisha Piotti is the Managing Partner at the Swiss-based firm RegHorizon. She is also the Director of AI Policy at the Center for Law and Economics of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology - the ETH Zurich. Ayisha and her colleagues at the Center for Law & Economics at ...
Apr 02, 2023•53 sec
In this episode: Lauren Hawker Zafer is joined by Sandra Helou. Who Can Benefit From This Conversation? This conversation is for anyone who is curious about the future of the internet and how it will impact our daily lives; it is for those who want to understand the creator economy and online culture. How does it work and what are the cultural norms that govern it? Take this opportunity to explore the exciting new developments in decentralized technologies, blockchain, and virtual reality, and h...
Mar 29, 2023•31 min•Season 2Ep. 7
Spotlighting Enterprise Generative AI and Machine Learning is a feature episode that places prominence on Generative AI and Large Language Models in an enterprise setting. Having built and worked with extractive question and answering models, Cognitive Search, and machine learning in a plethora of prestigious public organisations for several years now, Squirro's CEO and Co-Founder Dorian Selz, and Squirro's CTO Saurabh Jain are best placed to address this topic. These two special guests bring in...
Mar 25, 2023•32 min
In this episode: Lauren Hawker Zafer is joined by Krish Ramineni. Who Can Benefit From This Conversation? This episode is a topical listen that invites all of our listeners to think about the impact that generative AI will have on every day working practices and processes. What does the introduction of mass scale use of generative AI mean concretely for the software industry, for organisations, and for the knowledge worker? Will knowledge workers have to make trade offs and if so, what kind? How...
Mar 21, 2023•42 min•Season 2Ep. 6
Spotlight Four is a snippet from our upcoming episode: Krish Ramineni - Generative AI and The Knowledge Worker. Listen to the full episode as soon as it comes out, by subscribing to Redefining AI. Who is Krish Ramineni? Krish is the Co-Founder and CEO of Fireflies.ai, an AI voice assistant that helps transcribe, take notes, and complete actions during meetings. He graduated from Upenn and was one of the youngest Product Managers at Microsoft where he led projects around customer voice & grow...
Mar 15, 2023•1 min•Season 2Ep. 6
In this episode: Lauren Hawker Zafer is joined by Kay Giesecke and Squirro's CTO Saurabh Jain . Who Can Benefit From This Conversation? This episode is a unique educational listen that invites us to think about how machine learning is enabling industry innovation and powerful tools that can solve important problems arising in fixed-income and credit markets. It is a conversation for all of us who are interested in the use of AI in the financial industry. As a financial technologist, Kay provides...
Mar 07, 2023•38 min•Season 2Ep. 5
Spotlight Three is a snippet from our upcoming episode: Kay Giesecke - Deep Learning in Fixed Income Markets. Listen to the full episode as soon as it comes out, by subscribing to Redefining AI. Who is Kay Giesecke? Kay is the Founder, Chairman and Chief Scientist at Infima. He is also Professor of Management Science & Engineering at Stanford University , the director of the Advanced Financial Technologies Laboratory, and the director of the Mathematical and Computational Finance Program. Ka...
Mar 01, 2023•1 min•Season 2Ep. 5
In this episode: Lauren Hawker Zafer is joined by Iain S.Thomas Who Can Benefit From This Conversation? This conversation is for all of us who are interested in Generative AI - the AI technologies that are generating content - and the fusion that is happening between them, and creative content producers. How is generative AI being used in the creative industry, and what can its uses, tell us about ourselves? To explore this, the conversation takes us into the fascinating depths of Iain's creativ...
Feb 21, 2023•32 min•Season 2Ep. 4
Spotlight Two is a snippet from our upcoming episode: What Makes Us Human? GPT3 Answers Life's Biggest Questions with Iain S.Thomas. Listen to the full episode as soon as it comes out, by subscribing to Redefining AI. Who is Iain S. Thomas? Iain is one of the world’s most popular poets and is the bestselling creator and author of numerous books, including I Wrote This for You, an experimental and pioneering prose and photography project. He has spoken, toured, and read his work all over the worl...
Feb 14, 2023•1 min•Season 2Ep. 4
In this episode: Lauren Hawker Zafer is joined by Avi Goldfarb Who Can Benefit From This Conversation? This conversation is for all of us who are interested in taking an economist lens of thinking about technology and the statistical nature of prediction. As prediction becomes cheaper, what are the cream and sugar to prediction in this space? Join this informative conversation with Avi and Lauren to learn more about power and prediction. Who is Avi Goldfarb? Avi Goldfarb is the Rotman Chair in A...
Feb 07, 2023•36 min•Season 2Ep. 3
Spotlight One is a snippet from our upcoming episode: Power and Prediction with Avi Goldberg! Listen to the full episode as soon as it comes out, by following and subscribing to Redefining AI. Who is Avi Goldfarb? Avi Goldfarb is the Rotman Chair in Artificial Intelligence and Healthcare, and Professor of Marketing, at the Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto. Avi is also Chief Data Scientist at the Creative Destruction Lab and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economi...
Feb 01, 2023•1 min•Season 2Ep. 3
In this episode: Lauren Hawker Zafer is joined by Zee Kin Yeong Who Can Benefit From This Conversation? This conversation is for all of us who are interested in the role that forward-thinking governance on AI and data plays in the area of technology. It is for those who want to understand Singapore's approach to the development of technology and consumers' rights. Enjoy this episode and find out what Singapore is paying attention to when companies are using AI and "data". Who is Zee Kin Yeong? Z...
Jan 25, 2023•35 min•Season 2Ep. 2
In this episode: Lauren Hawker Zafer is joined by Peter Scott Who Can Benefit From This Conversation? This conversation is for anyone who wants to explore the relationship that we have with Artificial Intelligence. Peter outlines what Artificial Intelligence is, why it will affect you, and how you and your business can survive and thrive through the coming AI revolution. Who is Peter? Peter Scott is a futurist, coach, and technology expert helping people master technological disruption. After re...
Jan 11, 2023•36 min•Season 2Ep. 1
18 Episodes, 18 Momentous Guests! Have a look at what we redefined in season one and who helped us redefine it.
Dec 19, 2022•1 min•Season 1Ep. 19
In this episode: Lauren Hawker Zafer is joined by Andreas Blumauer Who Can Benefit From This Conversation? This conversation is for anyone who wants to understand what knowledge graphs are and how graph technologies are used. The conversation will help you learn more about building recommender systems with unstructured data and knowledge graph use cases. Andreas also goes in to depth about the role of a taxonomy and an ontology in knowledge graph use cases. Who is Andreas? Andreas Blumauer is CE...
Dec 19, 2022•38 min•Season 1Ep. 18
In this episode: Lauren Hawker Zafer is joined by Jordan Morrow - aka the "Godfather of Data Literacy." Who Can Benefit From This Conversation? This conversation is for anyone who is curious about the ever-growing importance of data literacy. Learn what data literacy is, understand why a data literate workforce is of ever-growing importance, and why it poses as a key empowerment tool in modern enterprises. Jordan and Lauren talk data superheroes and data skeptics. This conversation is set to emp...
Dec 06, 2022•38 min•Season 1Ep. 17
In this episode: Lauren Hawker Zafer is joined by serial entrepreneur, author, technologist, and futurist Byron Reese . Who Can Benefit From This Conversation? This conversation is for anyone who is interested in the impacts of technology, the human psyche and philosophy. It is a conversation that stems from Byron Reese's thought provoking book: T he Fourth Age. Lauren talks to Byron about this pivotal point in society and the technologies that are redefining what it means to be human. Byron exp...
Nov 23, 2022•43 min•Season 1Ep. 16
In this episode: Lauren Hawker Zafer is joined by Rasmus Hauch the CTO of 2021.AI Who Can Benefit From This Conversation? This conversation is for all listeners who are interested in understanding what boundaries need to be shifted in a trustworthy AI context in both the private and public sector. You will learn what tools and datasets are necessary when building models for production in machine learning projects and where maintenance and retraining is of essence. In addition, you will learn abo...
Nov 08, 2022•36 min•Season 1Ep. 15
In this episode: Master Data Management and The Insight Engine Lauren Hawker Zafer is joined by Malcolm Hawker the Head of Data Strategy at Profisee. Who can benefit from this conversation? Master Data Management and The Insight Engine is a conversation for anyone who is interested in the value of Master Data Management (MDM) and how MDM fits into the current data mandala of: data fabrics, the data mesh, data integration, data orchestration and data activation. Take the steps to become truly dat...
Oct 26, 2022•40 min•Season 1Ep. 14
In this episode: What is Trust in AI? Trustworthy AI – Lessons of a Chief Data Officer Lauren Hawker Zafer is joined by her colleague Dr. Moritz Müller to host a one off conversation with Shameek Kundu , the Chief Strategy Officer and Head of Financial Services at Truera Inc . Moritz and Lauren talk to Shameek about what trust in AI actually means. The whole conversation opens our eyes to the opportunities that data leaders can create and invites us to explore the candid successes and failures o...
Sep 28, 2022•47 min•Season 1Ep. 13
In this episode: People in Digital Transformation Lauren Hawker Zafer invites Ema Roloff to talk about why people need to stop working on their business and to start working in it. Having consulted a plethora of customers in her current role on the intrinsics and core processes that pertain to successful digital transformations, Ema empowers our listeners with practical tools and expert knowledge to motion transformation and change accordingly. Ema, is a widely recognized Intelligent Automation ...
Sep 01, 2022•43 min•Season 1Ep. 12
After years of trying to establish visible progression, awareness-raising and diverse employment efforts, there is still a lack of women and female diversification in the tech industry. Two reasons for this are: a lack of mentors a lack of female role models that embody diversity In this episode: Between the Spreadsheets, Lauren Hawker Zafer invites Susan Walsh - The Classification Guru , to talk about her own experiences in the industry as a prominent female who embodies diversity, and how she ...
Aug 15, 2022•36 min•Season 1Ep. 11
In this episode: Enterprise Modernisation - AI Ethics , Lauren Hawker Zafer talks to Oriana Medlicott , a senior researcher at Fujitsu about the current reach of ethics and their role in technology and AI. Their conversation focuses on conscious and unconscious biases, as well as the ambiguities that surround ethics and the ethical, especially when considering the cultural specificity of ethics and what is ethical. With a background in the effects of AI and Biotech on Human Nature, Oriana brings...
Aug 02, 2022•39 min•Season 1Ep. 10
Analytical research shows that around 93 percent of all online experiences begin with search. And, this happens because users rarely know what they want! A large proportion may have an idea but search is almost always required - to guide users, to show them what they are looking for and how to retrieve this. Ask yourself: how do you search for information? Have you ever enclosed a search term within quotation marks to prompt the search engine to search for that specific word or phrase, or used B...
Jul 14, 2022•37 min•Season 1Ep. 9
AI in Aviation, Aerospace and Autonomous Driving is an exciting dialogue led by Lauren Hawker Zafer and Dr. Oktay Arslan . The conversation is for all of us who have spent their time wondering about the minds that work on the world's most renowned automation systems and want to take an exclusive dive into the realms and challenges of automation at NASA and TESLA. Dr. Arslan is a well-recognised academic whose research has focused on planning, machine learning and computer vision for robotic syst...
Jul 04, 2022•59 min•Season 1Ep. 8
Search has progressed over the last few years dramatically and is a former shadow of the simple keyword matching it used to be. Many companies are passionately striving to produce improved language models, ones that enable more contextual and meaning-based matching of various guises. So, with search and its advancements breaking down barriers to accessing and retrieving information, how is this effecting professional ecosystems? From Cognitive Search to Insights is a conversation led by Lauren H...
Jun 17, 2022•45 min•Season 1Ep. 7
The Democratization of Machine Learning is an authentically inspiring conversation that invites us to explore the avenues of Hugging Face's crusade to democratize Machine Learning. In this episode, Lauren Hawker Zafer invites Julien Simon : the Chief Evangelist at Hugging Face to talk about the efforts that are going in to motioning more collaboration and openness, in a field that is still exposed to increasing risks of unaccountability, monopoly & power concentration. The conversation focus...
May 13, 2022•43 min•Season 1Ep. 6
Through an AI Lens is a candid conversation that invites us to discover how an active AI enthusiast and ambassador addresses the surging desire for informative content on emerging technologies like: AI, Robotics, Machine Learning, Virtual Reality and Chatbots. In this elevating episode, Lauren Hawker Zafer invites Tom Allen: The Founder of the AI Journal to share his lens, and discover the knowledge movement in the emerging technology field. Tom tells us about his motivation to establish the wel...
Apr 19, 2022•29 min•Season 1Ep. 5
The Promising Paths of AI and Data is a conversation that invites us to unearth what lies ahead for AI and Data and why the Deep Learning metaphor " AI is the new electricity" carries such a powerful denotation. In this illuminating episode, Lauren Hawker Zafer invites Ryan Keenan: head of product at DeepLearning.AI to share his experience with code and data, and prognosis about the need for " AI/Data Literacy " and why the term itself has become so elevated and discussed. An astrophysicist by t...
Mar 24, 2022•26 min•Season 1Ep. 4
