Today's guest is Dr. Ruth Janning, Head of Data Science at OBI next in North Rhine-Westphalia. OBI next drive digitization and innovation in the OBI hardware store, and enable people to design their home creatively and individually. Regardless of whether it is a new look for the kitchen or a garden project with the whole family, they inspire, advise and make everything possible for their customers. To this end, OBI next are developing an extensive service ecosystem and together they create uniqu...
Jul 27, 2021•18 min
Today's guest is Adam Almozlino, VP of Data and Products at OptimizeRx . Founded in 2006, OptimizeRx provides unique physician and consumer platforms and strategies to help patients better afford and adhere to their treatment regimens, while offering pharmaceutical and healthcare companies more effective ways to deliver relevant information and services to healthcare providers and their patients right at the point of care. Adam is responsible for driving the development and commercialization of ...
Jul 26, 2021•19 min
Today's guest is Adam Katz, Chief Revenue Officer and Adam Smith, VP of Analytics and Data Science at Sightly in New York. Founded in 2013, Sightly are helping Brands Anticipate the Unexpected. They use data science, predictive algorithms and expert human know-how to maximize your outcomes and align your Brand Mentality™ at speed, no matter what lies ahead. Their smart, agile approach to media planning, buying and fine-tuning extends across YouTube, TikTok, Connected TV & OTT, Live Streaming...
Jul 23, 2021•26 min
Today's guest is David Yang, Vice President for Digital Transformation at ICF . David is an industry expert at leading cutting-edge digital transformation initiatives and is passionate about enabling digital transformation in the public and private sector. He has held leadership positions in industry organizations and the Federal Government. David is also the co-host of The Inc.Tank - a podcast that features insights from the leaders in AI, Blockchain, Big Data, Synthetic Biology and Space Explo...
Jul 21, 2021•29 min
Today's guest is Eran Udassin, VP of Product and Operations at Simplaex's Rivr in Berlin. Rivr is an AI-powered, traffic shaping library built for the Supply Side of the programmatic advertising ecosystem. Through intelligent filtering, Rivr improves monetization, increases scalability and strengthens demand-supply relationships for their partners. Rivr is on a mission to support supply-side companies in developing their competitive advantage by maximizing financial health and operational effici...
Jul 20, 2021•12 min
Today's guest is Kushal Chakrabarti, VP of Research and Data Science at Opendoor in San Francisco. Founded in 2014, Opendoor’s mission is to empower everyone with the freedom to move by building a digital, end-to-end customer experience that makes buying and selling a home simple, certain and fast. They have assembled a dedicated team with diverse backgrounds to support more than 100,000 homes bought and sold with them and the customers who have selected Opendoor as a trusted partner in handling...
Jul 19, 2021•17 min
Today's guest is Charles Taylor, Founder & Chief Technology Officer at Heartflow in Redwood City, California. HeartFlow is a medical technology company transforming the way cardiovascular disease is diagnosed and treated. With their HeartFlow Analysis, a non-invasive personalized cardiac test, physicians are able to make better care decisions for their patients with suspected coronary artery disease, the number one killer of men and women worldwide. With offices in Redwood City, Austin, Lond...
Jul 16, 2021•24 min
Today's guest is Sean McDermott, Founder, President and CEO at Windward Consulting in Virginia. As a serial entrepreneur, Sean has worked for more than twenty years to assist hundreds of global clients and the Federal Government in the design, development and operation of large-scale IT networks and data centers. In 1997, Sean founded Windward Consulting Group to help CIOs strategically transform IT from a “cost of doing business” into a competitive business differentiator. Windward help IT orga...
Jul 14, 2021•40 min
Today's guest is Michael Koch, Director of Data Analytics & Artificial Intelligence at Lufthansa Industry Solutions in Norderstedt, Germany. This Lufthansa subsidiary is a service provider for IT consulting and system integration which helps clients with the digital transformation of their companies. Their customer base includes both companies within the Lufthansa Group, as well as more than 300 companies in various lines of business. In the episode, Michael will tell you about: Building AI ...
Jul 13, 2021•20 min
Today's guest is Jason Christiansen, Co-Founder & Co-CEO at Young Alfred in New York. Founded in 2016, Young Alfred unlocks access to home insurance for both homeowners and businesses. With over 40 direct insurance carrier partners, they are on a mission to turn the five-hour nightmare of shopping for home insurance online into an informed 15-minute transaction. Young Alfred's technology analyzes billions of data points for every customer to find the best-priced insurance options available. ...
Jul 12, 2021•32 min
Today's guest is Joanne Chen, VP of Data at Thirty Madison in New York. Founded in 2017, Thirty Madison is a healthcare company bringing specialized care and treatment to everyone. As one of Built In's Top 100 Companies in NYC, Thirty Madison work to improve how millions of people manage their chronic conditions with a patient-first approach that provides care and support from diagnosis to treatment and tracking. Their products include Keeps, a men’s hair loss solution, Cove, which focuses on mi...
Jul 09, 2021•18 min
Today's guest is Fliria Jernigan, Vice President of Technology at LPL Financial , who are a leader in the retail financial advice market. They serve independent financial advisors and financial institutions, providing them with the technology, research, clearing and compliance services, and practice management programs they need to create and grow thriving practices. LPL enables them to provide objective guidance to millions of American families seeking wealth management, retirement planning, fi...
Jul 07, 2021•14 min
Today's guest is Robin Rohm, CEO and co-founder at Apheris in Berlin. Founded in 2019, Apheris is a deep tech company with the mission to fundamentally change how organizations collaborate securely and extract value from data. Their platform enables secure data analyses across organizations while keeping proprietary information private. With Apheris, organizations can build new data solutions and unlock entirely new insights from distributed data of multiple parties without compromising on secur...
Jul 06, 2021•14 min
Today's guest is Eddie Newland, Director of AI Services at SFL Scientific in Boston, MA. SFL Scientific is a US-based data science consulting and professional services firm that provides data strategy & consulting, engineering, machine learning and Artificial Intelligence services to public and private clients spanning multiple industries. With a globally connected network of technology and cloud partners, SFL Scientific brings world-class capabilities, delivering professional services and i...
Jul 02, 2021•23 min
Today's guest is Erica Cary, VP of Product and Services at Hilton in Dallas, Texas. Erica is a highly accomplished leader responsible for the strategy, design, development, delivery and deployment of global workplace and marketplace technology solutions. She is well known for establishing and maintaining relationships with internal and external business partners and vendors to execute key strategic priorities. Erica is passionate about inspiring, mentoring and developing people as well as delive...
Jun 30, 2021•26 min
Today's guest is Jack Lampka, Head of Data at MSD in Munich. MSD is a research-based pharmaceutical company and is one of the five largest healthcare companies in the world in terms of sales. They research, develop and manufacture prescription drugs, vaccines, biologics and animal health products. In Germany, MSD is one of the three largest and most important pharmaceutical manufacturers. For more than 125 years, MSD has been researching drugs and vaccines to combat the world's most important di...
Jun 29, 2021•14 min
Today's guest is Pranav Gandhi, Head of Business & Strategy Analytics at Signifyd . Founded in 2011 and headquartered in California's San Jose, Signifyd is the world’s largest provider of guaranteed fraud protection that enables online retailers to provide a friction-free buying experience for their customers. Signifyd leverages big data, machine learning and domain expertise to provide a 100 percent financial guarantee against fraud on approved orders that later turn out to be fraudulent. T...
Jun 28, 2021•16 min
Today's guest is Manny Akintayo, Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer at Gentem Health in San Francisco. Founded in 2019, Gentem Health is a Silicon Valley-based company with a simple mission: Get healthcare providers reimbursed more and faster with minimal administrative cost. Gentem accomplishes this by leveraging technology such as Artificial Intelligence, Automation & Data to streamline and accelerate the reimbursement process. In today's episode, Manny tells us about: Their mission a...
Jun 25, 2021•31 min
Today's guest is Ryan Walton - King, AVP Transformation - Technology and User Experiences at AT&T in Dallas, Texas. Ryan is a successful Transformation executive and top performer with over 20 years of experience leading large enterprise teams, defining and executing strategic direction, delivering business outcomes through process and technology transformation. He is an expert at design strategy and research, convergent and divergent ideation, end-to-end design solutions and execution acros...
Jun 23, 2021•38 min
Today's guest is Notger Heinz, Principal Engineer Data Science at sennder in Berlin. Founded in 2015, sennder are Europe’s number one digital freight-forwarder platform for Full Truck Loads. With its in-house-developed platform, sennder provides a new level of automation, transparency and efficiency to the European €300 billion road freight market, which until now has been dependent on paper, phone and fax and characterized by multi-layer subcontracting. sennder’s digital connection to over 10,0...
Jun 22, 2021•16 min
Today's guest is Bret Greenstein, SVP and Global Head of AI & Analytics at Cognizant in New York. Cognizant is one of the world's leading professional services companies, transforming clients' business, operating and technology models for the digital era. Ranked on the Fortune 500 and consistently listed among the most admired companies in the world, Cognizant's unique industry-based, consultative approach helps clients envision, build and run more innovative and efficient businesses. Bret ...
Jun 21, 2021•20 min
Today's guest is Rameez Tase, Co-Founder & CEO at Antenna in New York. Antenna is an early-stage data analytics startup that is shaking up the way subscription businesses in various industries have access to insightful metrics to make strategic business decisions in today's hyper-competitive environment. They help define the metrics that matter, benchmark success standards vs. the competition, and illuminate the strategies required to build winning direct-to-consumer subscription businesses....
Jun 18, 2021•23 min
Today's guest is Emil D. Atanassov, VP of Internationalization at ServiceNow in Dublin, Ireland. Emil is an experienced Vice President with a demonstrated history of working in the computer software industry. He is responsible for providing a meaningful voice to the internationalization strategy and execution at ServiceNow. Headquartered in California, ServiceNow make the world of work, work better for people. They deliver digital workflows that create great experiences and unlock productivity. ...
Jun 16, 2021•23 min
Today's guest is Puneet Gangrade, Data Science Team Lead at MightyHive in New York. Founded in 2012, MightyHive is the leading data and digital media consultancy that helps marketers take control. MightyHive delivers sustained results from the ground up through advisory for business transformation, privacy-first data strategy and digital media services. MightyHive is trusted by brands like Autodesk, Bayer , Electrolux, Renault, Sony, Sprint, TransUnion and US Bank to name a few. Puneet manages a...
Jun 14, 2021•17 min
Today's guest is Shawn Ramirez, Head of Data Science at Shelf Engine in Seattle. Shawn is an accomplished data science leader and SME in causal inference, experimentation, Machine Learning, statistics, optimization and game theory. She drives AI product development building, testing, and leveraging statistical and cutting edge machine learning at scale on high impact problems. Shawn's passion is working on complex questions about behavior, users and customers. Founded in 2015, Shelf Engine uses ...
Jun 11, 2021•20 min
Today's guest is Richard Ross, Director of Emerging Technology at ICF . Richard is a technology executive with a demonstrated history of leading and implementing complex initiatives across the public and private sectors, setting a strategic vision and executing comprehensive digital & business transformation strategies and IT plans. His expertise includes aligning technology and organizational strategy, guiding large-scale transformative initiatives from concept to completion with an executi...
Jun 09, 2021•27 min
Today's guest is Kolja Dobrindt, VP and Global Head of Analytics at Lidl International in Germany. Kolja is responsible for the end-to-end analytics capability of a $100 billion+, 11,000 store, 32 country organization, ranging from decentralized self-service capabilities to large-scale, operational data products. Lidl are on a mission to build an operational analytics capability from vision and strategy, from hiring the right talent of experts and leaders to defining the organizational and techn...
Jun 08, 2021•26 min
Today's guest is Emily Bailey, Director of Data Products & Machine Learning at Rent the Runway in New York. Founded in 2009, Rent the Runway is transforming the way modern women get dressed by pioneering dynamic ownership and enabling women to rent, subscribe to and purchase secondhand clothing. They have been named on CNBC’s “Disruptor 50” five times in ten years and have placed on Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies list multiple times. Rent the Runway is disrupting the $2.4 trillion ...
Jun 07, 2021•20 min
Today's guest is Emily Capodilupo, VP of Data Science and Research at WHOOP in Boston. Founded in 2012, WHOOP are on a mission to unlock human performance. They believe that every individual has an inner potential that can be enhanced through continuous monitoring. As such, they have built a system across hardware, software and analytics designed to collect and analyze the most important data on the human body. Today, WHOOP is fortunate to monitor professional athletes, the military, aspirationa...
Jun 04, 2021•19 min
Today's guest is Tameem Hourani, Principal at RapDev in Boston. Founded in 2017, RapDev helps customers of all sizes transform into true DevOps organizations. They have taken several customers from deploying applications once a month to hundreds of times a day. Over the past few years, they have taken customers on journeys ranging from Tool integrations to Culture and Organizational changes. RapDev is a team of experienced ServiceNow Wizards and passionate SRE's contributing to the open-source c...
Jun 02, 2021•20 min
