Today's guest is John Thompson, Global Head of Advanced Analytics & AI at CSL Behring , who are the third largest biopharmaceutical company in the world. They derive lifesaving therapies from human plasma: specializing in treating rare diseases such as hemophilia. John manages the global advanced analytics & AI team, who are responsible for building, deploying and maintaining the analytics applications and models for the global organization. John is an accomplished operational executive ...
May 19, 2020•26 min
Today's guest is Afsheen Afshar. Afsheen is a Senior Business Executive and Deep AI Expert who has extensive experience across a variety of industries and enterprises driving large scale technological transformation associated with hundreds of millions in value. He held the first executive-level data and analytics role in multiple industries and companies. Afsheen regularly advises start-ups, universities, investors, enterprises, and others across the globe on how best to leverage modern technol...
May 05, 2020•32 min
Today's guest is David Kuntz, Head of Data Science at Degreed in New York. Degreed is the upskilling platform that connects learning to opportunities. They integrate everything people use to learn and build their careers, such as courses, articles, projects etc. and match everyone to growth opportunities that fit their unique skills, roles and goals. David is a global leader in the field of AI-driven adaptive learning/personalized learning within Higher Education and the digital learning industr...
Apr 28, 2020•28 min
Today's guest is Andrei Lopatenko, VP of Engineering within Search and Conversational AI at Zillow Group . Andrei brings years of experience designing, building and scaling world-leading search engines for hundreds of millions of users. Andrei has led various teams to build customer and business Machine Learning and NLP platforms within the real estate, e-commerce & retail sectors. Founded in 2006, Zillow Group's mission to give people the power to unlock life’s next chapter. Their homes are...
Apr 21, 2020•29 min
Today's guest is Alix Lacoste, VP of Data Science at BenevolentAI in New York. BenevolentAI is the global leader in the development and application of AI for scientific innovation. They aim to accelerate the journey from inventive ideas to medicines for patients by developing AI to generate new treatments for some of the world’s 8,000 untreated diseases. BenevolentAI's team of technologists, AI researchers and scientists build and applies AI to the entire drug discovery and development process. ...
Apr 07, 2020•20 min
Today's guest is Mark O’Neill, Chief Technology Officer at KeyMe . Founded in New York in 2012, KeyMe is North America's most trusted full-service locksmith with guaranteed service quality. Their network of self-service kiosks are located thousands of retail locations across the country which supports the duplication of home, office and vehicle keys. KeyMe's kiosks are complemented by the KeyMe locksmiths who provide unrivalled service quality for emergency lockouts and other skilled access and ...
Mar 03, 2020•22 min
Today's guest is Jason Davis, Co-Founder and CEO at Simon Data in New York. Simon is a tool that transforms your data into clear insights that let you get more out of your marketing. You can connect your data in minutes, create customized segments, deploy to existing channels and discover what your customers want. Simon Data is the enterprise customer data platform that empowers brands to deliver data-driven, personalized customer experiences everywhere. In the show, Jason will discuss: How they...
Feb 25, 2020•20 min
Today's guest is Jason Ezratty, who is the Co-Founder, Chairman & Chief Data Scientist at Brightfield in New York. Founded in 2006 as a workforce strategy consultancy, Brightfield has been a strategic advisor to the world’s largest companies looking to build, expand or optimize extended workforce programs. Brightfield is the leading augmented analytics company powering the economics of digital transformation in the new world of work. The massive market inefficiencies caused by a lack of tran...
Feb 18, 2020•19 min
Today's guest is Bora Beran, Vice President of Products at 1010Data in New York. 1010data transforms Big Data into smart insights to create the high-definition enterprise that can anticipate and respond to change. Their modern cloud-based operational performance, consumer intelligence and alternative data solutions enable over 900 clients to optimize company health, master consumer touchpoints and digitally renovate operations. Bora is an experienced Product leader with a track record of deliver...
Jan 07, 2020•17 min
Today's guest is Nabil Alsabah, Head of AI and Big Data.AI Summit at Bitkom . Founded in 1999 in Berlin, Bitkom is Germany’s digital association who represent more than 2,600 companies of the digital economy. Their members offer software, telecommunications and internet services, produce hardware and consumer electronics to operate in the digital media sector. Bitkom are advocating for the faster rollout of gigabit networks and digital infrastructure for energy and mobility, for trade and for sm...
Nov 29, 2019•27 min
Today's guest is Mark Hookey, CEO at DemystData in New York. DemystData helps financial institutions harness the explosive growth of data to serve more customers. With a mission to mobilize the world’s data, the company partners with leading financial institutions and consulting firms to power data access within tier-one global banks, insurers, and lenders Demyst's external Data Platform allows customers to explore and integrate new data more rapidly and gain a 360-degree view of data usage with...
Nov 11, 2019•24 min
Today's guest is Chet Chambers, who is the Vice-President and Chief Evangelist of the Americas at UI Path. Chet was one of the successful early adopters of RPA technology and saved his employer VHA millions by analyzing data on a previously impossible scale. He moved to UI Path in 2018 coming on board as a Chief Evangelist in helping UiPath customers scale their RPA initiatives. More than 2,750 enterprise customers and government agencies use UiPath's Enterprise RPA platform to rapidly deploy so...
Oct 15, 2019•24 min
Today's guest is Kenza Ait Si Abbou, Senior Manager of Robotics and AI at Deutsche Telekom . Kenza and her team are driving the RPA (Robotic Process Automation) and AI solutions within the IT department of Deutsche Telekom in Berlin. She also leads the Deutsche Telekom Women Network in Germany and is very proud to act as a Deutsche Telekom ambassador of Women in Technology. Deutsche Telekom are successfully shaping the digital world of tomorrow with innovative solutions for private and business ...
Sep 26, 2019•19 min
Today's guest is Alex Ermolaev, Director of AI at Change Healthcare . Alex has 20 years of experience building bleeding edge software businesses by combining deep market insights with high-performance teams, clever product road maps, focused product development and effective go-to-market execution. He has built two startups, advised two dozens and built several brand new billion-dollar divisions within the largest technology companies. Change Healthcare is inspiring a better healthcare system. C...
Sep 13, 2019•19 min
Today's guest is Samuel Mongeau, Lead RPA Developer with UI Path . Based in New York City, UiPath deliver the most advanced Enterprise RPA Platform, built for business and IT. More than 2,750 enterprise customers and government agencies use UiPath's Enterprise RPA platform to rapidly deploy software robots that perfectly emulate and execute repetitive processes, boosting business productivity, ensuring compliance and enhancing the customer experience across back-office and front-office operation...
Aug 30, 2019•24 min
Today's guest is Ron Bekkerman, who is the Chief Technology Officer at Cherre . Ron has extensive experience in commercial software engineering and is an expert in Big Data and intelligent Web applications. Ron is well connected both within the industrial and academic Data Mining communities and has now turned his focus to real estate data. Based in New York, Cherre provides investors, insurers, brokers and other large enterprises with a platform to collect, resolve and augment real estate data ...
Aug 26, 2019•23 min
Today's guest is Brian Dalessandro, Head of Data Science at SparkBeyond . Brian is a seasoned Data Science executive, professor and lifelong student whose focus is on making Data Science more accessible and using it to drive impact. SparkBeyond has built an AI-powered research engine, capable of finding complex patterns in data by understanding their meaning. Operating at the intersection of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence fields, their Machine Learning technology is being used by a gro...
Aug 09, 2019•24 min
Today's guest is Ankur Patel. Ankur is the VP of Data Science at 7Park Data , which transforms data to revolutionize business decisions. Successful companies globally depend on 7Park Data to realize the potential of proprietary data assets and guide strategy through data analytics software, insights and leading performance indicators derived from a diverse data portfolio. Founded in 2012 in New York City, 7Park Data's Platform leverages NLP and machine learning to create analytics-ready data fro...
Jul 19, 2019•16 min
Today's guest is Oliver Christie, co-Founder at Moven AI. Artificial Intelligence is the biggest technology disruption of our generation and Oliver helps companies envision their future and leverage this technology to stay ahead of the competition. Oliver looks at how AI can impact key aspects of the business such as acquiring and retaining customers, customizing products and services, and achieving profitability. He works with companies to develop the right solution which, at times, can fundame...
Jun 28, 2019•18 min
Today's guest is Dr. Luca Longo. Luca is an Academic, National Teaching Hero, AI researcher and TEDx speaker who has a deep passion for science. He is actively engaged in the dissemination of scientific material to the public as his TEDx talks demonstrate and has received various awards both for his research work and for his teaching. With his team of doctoral and post-doctoral researchers, he conducts fundamental research in Explainable Artificial Intelligence, Defeasible Reasoning and Non-mono...
Jun 11, 2019•12 min
In the episode, Chelsea and Frank will talk about: The impact they have made in Lab Automation with Zimark How Automation is transforming the Life Sciences The role of humans alongside Automation How Lab Automation will further impact the industry Interesting work to check out in Lab Automation
Jun 04, 2019•22 min
Today's guest is Rouzbeh Gerami, Director of Data Science at Xaxis in New York City. Leading the Data Science team at Xaxis, Rouzbeh works on the development of ML-based solutions for real-time bidding with a focus on translating current industry and academic-based AI research into practical solutions, with special attention to deep reinforcement learning. Xaxis are pioneering what it means for the advertising industry to offer simplicity and accountability to clients. They combine unique brand-...
May 24, 2019•20 min
Today’s guest is Sotir Hristev. Sotir is the Head of Data Science at Exactag in Frankfurt, Germany since early 2017 and he is also a member of the I-COM Germany Advisory Board. Sotir is responsible for the technological development and advancement of data modelling in Exactag’s platform. Previously, Sotir oversaw the development of Havas’ data science department and he also lead one of the largest teams of data scientists out of all German media agencies focused on digital marketing and marketin...
Apr 24, 2019•22 min
Today’s guest is Robert O’Callaghan, Director of Data Science at Ayasdi . Robert engages in the identification, analysis, modeling and visualization of data to produce actionable business improvement for the world’s largest organizations at Ayasdi, who are the global leader in the development of enterprise-grade, machine intelligent applications for financial services. Robert has successfully implemented machine learning solutions within several Fortune 500 companies, focusing in particular on b...
Apr 17, 2019•19 min
Today’s guest is Niall O’Connor, who is the CTO at Genospace . Originally from Ireland, Niall is a pragmatic engineering leader motivated by delivering meaningful, innovative and secure technology in healthcare and life sciences. He has grown organisations from being the only engineer to a group delivering products generating multi-million dollar recurring revenue. Based in Boston, Genospace improves patient outcomes with cloud-based software that gives you instant access to analytics and data i...
Mar 29, 2019•19 min
Today’s guest on the show is Marc Held, who is the CEO at ODYN . Based near Boston, ODYN help large manufacturers across the world synchronize their supply chains and reduce their in-transit inventory using low-cost pallet tracking and machine-learning. No matter which mode of transportation or carrier you’re using, ODYN can monitor the location and environment of your shipments from end-to-end. This allows you to ensure integrity and service level by gathering your data to see how trade lanes a...
Mar 20, 2019•19 min
Today’s guest on the show is Hamid Nawab, co-founder and Chief Scientist at Yobe Inc . Based in Boston, Yobe are bringing AI into the world of signal processing to introduce intelligent behavior much earlier in the process with “Signal Processing That Thinks.” While processing signals acquired in “noisy scenarios,” this type of advancement in technology enables platforms to accurately separate voices of interest from the background and near-field noise, in essence harnessing the “DNA” of individ...
Mar 15, 2019•18 min
In today’s episode, our guest is Jeff Orkin. Jeff is the Founder and CEO at Giant Otter Technologies , who are building a future where machines can participate in extended, coherent, context-rich conversations with people. The Giant Otter conversation authoring platform builds bots bottom-up from call recordings and live chat transcripts. Based on 10 years of research originating at MIT, their technology provides a structured, reliable, repeatable process to automate conversations directly from ...
Mar 08, 2019•18 min
Today’s guest is Scott Clendaniel. Scott is the Lead Data Scientist of the Strategic Artificial Intelligence Lab at Legg Mason based in Baltimore, Maryland. Scott is aiming to create cutting-edge Artificial Intelligence accessible by all. He specializes in designing and developing new Machine Learning departments for mid-large size organizations. In this episode, Scott will discuss (all opinions are his own): Is AI living up the hype? Examples of AI being used in industry, such as fraud detectio...
Mar 01, 2019•15 min
Today’s guest on the AI in Action podcast is Nachi Junankar, CEO and Founder at Avrio AI. Avrio AI are building an AI platform that uses machine intelligence to bring people and companies together through their Artificial Intelligence Talent Platform. Avrio AI analyzes and matches data from your ATS using their proprietary Machine Learning algorithms and the AI chatbot “RIO” engages and screens candidates and applicants to eliminate one-third of a recruiter’s workload. This allows them to focus ...
Feb 15, 2019•21 min
