When we think about legal tech software, we think about value add discovery or document management. But with the explosion of AI, new opportunities are emerging. We're going to share a story about how technology can help lawyers help more people and you'll hear a word that might surprise you too: Justice. On this episode of the Georgian Impact Podcast, we'll be talking with the founders of one of Georgian's investments, a fascinating company with an absolutely wonderful name for a company in thi...
May 02, 2024•19 min•Season 2024Ep. 5
We all get a few chuckles when autocorrect gets something wrong, but there's a lot of time-saving and face-saving value with autocorrect. But do we trust autocorrect? Yeah. We do, even with its errors. Maybe you can use ChatGPT to improve your productivity. Ask it to a cool question and maybe get a decent answer. That's fine. After all, it's just between you and ChatGPT. But, what if you're a software company and you're leveraging these technologies? You could be putting generative AI output in ...
Mar 15, 2024•21 min•Season 2024Ep. 4
Sometimes it’s hard to know where to start when it comes to generative AI. It’s not too hyperbolic to say that many different aspects of a business have the potential to be affected by this new technology. Today, we’re going to talk about something that’s behind the scenes for most people, although hopefully not this audience. It’s coding. On this episode of the Georgian Impact Podcast, we dive into the world of generative AI and its impact on coding, testing, and product design with guest Rodri...
Feb 16, 2024•25 min•Season 2024Ep. 3
We’ve all heard about how generative AI is changing almost every aspect of a business. If you crack open the door and peer in on the AI teams. You’ll see them playing with models and, no, we’re not talking about planes and trains. We’re talking about providing the correct inputs necessary to drive desired outputs in an AI model. On this episode of the Georgian Impact Podcast, we will be discussing the impact of generative AI and fine-tuning data strategy with Rohit Saha, an ML scientist at Georg...
Feb 16, 2024•19 min•Season 2024Ep. 2
Generative AI is redefining businesses with its capacity to write text, generate code, execute tasks, create images, and more. Gen AI is fundamentally changing how companies have to build their products. This is the first in a series of podcasts featuring our AI team, where they share their experiences on the generative AI work they've already done with more than 20 of our portfolio companies. In this episode, we are joined by two technical leaders of Georgian's R&D team Parinaz Sobhani and ...
Nov 23, 2023•21 min•Season 2024Ep. 1
On this episode of the Georgian Impact podcast, we are talking to a guest we last had in 2020. Back in 2020, we were talking about AI and marketing and how to use things like automation tools to make our jobs easier. Now in 2023, generative AI tools are basically the biggest topic of conversation right now. So, we're here to break that down with Paul Roetzer. Paul is the author of several books on marketing and AI, including Marketing Artificial Intelligence, and he's the creator of the Marketin...
Oct 23, 2023•27 min•Season 2023Ep. 28
On this episode of the Georgian Impact podcast, we’ll be breaking down the technologies that make up generative AI and how it works. From Large Language Models (LLMs) to deep learning, this podcast will help you understand how AI has evolved to get us to this point with GenAI and what he’s excited about in the space. Mahan Salehi, AI and LLM product manager at NVIDIA, will explain how the space has evolved from his experience at NVIDIA working with AI. You’ll Hear About: ● Machine learning vs. a...
Jun 16, 2023•22 min•Season 2023Ep. 27
Since our inception, Georgian has identified new trends that we believe will change the way companies do business. This kind of thinking resulted in our thesis areas like Applied AI, Conversational AI and Trust. In this episode of the Georgian Impact Podcast, we talk to Sonia Lagourgue, Georgian’s Head of Purpose & ESG and Emily Walsh, Lead Investor at Georgian. They will break down Georgian’s latest thesis area: Product-led Purpose. Simply put, Product-led Purpose is our view that the next ...
Jun 08, 2023•26 min•Season 2023Ep. 26
In this episode of the Georgian Impact Podcast about the importance of purpose within a company, we talk to James Novak. The former CEO of Fiix Software — now a Rockwell Automation Company — explains the company’s journey of discovering its maintenance management solution could go beyond its utility and tackle real problems like climate change. Through that journey, they explained how a purpose was important for employee attrition, attracting consumers and so much more....
Jan 24, 2023•22 min•Season 2023Ep. 25
In this episode of the Georgian Impact Podcast, we talk to Tiffany Xingyu Wang, OpenWeb’s first-ever Chief Marketing Officer. With a mission to “save online conversations,” OpenWeb wants to improve the quality of conversations online while enabling conversation-based advertising, which allows brands to connect with their most active audiences. Through connecting with audiences, publishers can garner first-party data for ad targeting — a valuable tool as publishers prepare for the disappearance o...
Jan 20, 2023•31 min•Season 2022Ep. 23
In our first-ever episode of Bridging Web3, we’re talking about interoperability with Jon Kol from Hyperlane. Hyperlane allows developers to connect their apps across blockchains and are dedicated to interchain singularity. Our goal is to understand the building blocks to make Web3 more usable and drive adoption, and to understand the real-world opportunities in the long term
Jan 17, 2023•45 min•Season 2022Ep. 19
In this episode of the Georgian Impact podcast, we’re talking to Francois Chaubard, CEO of Focal Systems. Focal Systems leverages AI and cameras to automate many steps in the retail delivery supply chain.
Nov 23, 2022•34 min•Season 2022Ep. 18
In this episode on commercializing AI, we speak with Cameron Schuler, a key contributor to AI's game-changing prominence. Cameron is the Chief Commercialization Officer at the Vector Institute and is dedicated to advancing the transformative field of AI.
Oct 21, 2022•30 min•Season 2022Ep. 17
In this episode of the Georgian Impact podcast, we’ll be talking about one pillar of responsible AI: explainable AI. Explainability provides insight into what's training your data and how it's performing, so if something goes wrong you know exactly where to start looking for a solution. Fiddler.AI founder and CEO Krishna Gade breaks down how explainability provides insights into training data and performance, and why visibility on how this works enables trust.
Sep 30, 2022•25 min•Season 2022Ep. 16
In this episode of the Georgian Impact Podcast, we talk to PolyAI CEO and co-founder Nikola Mrkšić. PolyAI is a conversational AI company spun out of University of Cambridge research that builds voice assistants at scale in multiple languages. You'll get a helpful breakdown of the challenges of building conversational AI, what makes PolyAI different, and you’ll hear a demo of the tech in action. You’ll Hear About: ● Nikola Mrkšić and PolyAI’s vision ● The accuracy needed to ensure customers don’...
Sep 16, 2022•33 min•Season 2022Ep. 14
No matter how you get into entrepreneurship, once you're in the game, there are some common keys to success. On this episode of the Georgian Impact podcast, we talk to Neha Sampat founder and CEO of Contentstack. Contentstack is a pioneering headless content management system, a fast-growing space that could change how we consume content online. You’ll Hear About: ● Neha’s entrepreneurial journey and the beginning of Contentstack. ● Working with the technical teams when you aren’t a technologist...
Sep 02, 2022•27 min•Season 2022Ep. 15
Working from data has shifted from aggregation to getting helpful insight. With that change, it has become increasingly important to build an open-minded team with effective leadership. In this episode of the Georgian Impact Podcast, we talk to Brian Ritz, Director of Data Science Solutions at SPINS. SPINS connects wellness brands to their retail and omnichannel data, and they've partnered with over 300 brick-and-mortar retailers so far. Bringing advanced analytics to their clients allowing for ...
Jul 22, 2022•31 min•Season 2022Ep. 13
At Georgian, we love talking about self-sovereign identity. We’ve discussed it in previous episodes with Drummond Reed, the co-chair of Sovrin’s Governance Framework Working Group, Kaliya Young, a self-sovereign identity expert with over 20 years of experience in the field, and Mathieu Glaude, CEO of Northern Block. There’s a lot of layers to self-sovereign identity, and it’s easy to get lost in the noise of it all. We try to make it easy for you. In this episode, we cover it with Riley Hughes, ...
Jul 05, 2022•28 min•Season 2022Ep. 12
On this episode of the Georgian Impact podcast, we are joined by Kaliya Young. Kaliya is an expert in self-sovereign identity. You might know her as Identity Woman. Kaliya has spent the last 20 years developing a layer on the internet based on open standards, with the goal of empowering people. You’ll Hear About: ● The Internet Identity Workshop that Kaliya co-founded in 2005. ● What it means to have open standards for digital identity and its importance. ● What businesses would benefit most fro...
Jun 17, 2022•24 min•Season 2022Ep. 11
In part two of a two-part series on the Georgian Impact Podcast, we talk to Maggie Love, founder of SheFi and co-founder of W3BCLOUD. In part two, Maggie talks about how to get more underrepresented groups interested in Web3 and DeFi, what Maggie has learned about onboarding more people onto DeFi and the SheFi approach to education. In this podcast, you’ll hear about: How Maggie became interested in blockchain Challenges with onboarding more people onto Web3 How SheFi makes it easier to break th...
Jun 03, 2022•20 min•Season 2022Ep. 10
The old tech adage goes that you should move fast and break things, but moving fast could mean you could be leaving some of your users behind. According to our guest, the way we do design today is “broken.” On this episode of the Georgian Impact Podcast, we talk to Alwar Pillai, the CEO of Fable, a leading accessibility platform powered by people with disabilities. While many companies focus on trying to build for at least 80% of people, Alwar says, trying to build for people at the margins can ...
May 19, 2022•19 min•Season 2022Ep. 9
When it comes to quantum computing breaking encryption, it’s not a question of whether or not it will affect you, but when. In this episode of the Georgian Impact Podcast, we will be talking to Dr. Michele Mosca, CEO of evolutionQ. evolutionQ helps organizations work through all the various stages of getting ready secure as quantum technology advances. You’ll Hear About: ● The critical factors Dr. Mosca looks at when assessing risk. ● The need for quantum risk assessments. ● The current level of...
May 09, 2022•24 min•Season 2022Ep. 8
In part one of a two-part series on the Georgian Impact Podcast, we talk to Maggie Love, founder of SheFi and co-founder of W3BCLOUD. In part one, Maggie talks about her story, building the infrastructure needed to scale Web3 applications and how Layer 2 solutions can help us overcome scalability challenges. In part two, we’ll talk about how to get more underrepresented groups interested in Web3 and DeFi, what Maggie has learned about onboarding more people onto DeFi and the SheFi approach to ed...
Apr 21, 2022•23 min•Season 2022Ep. 6
In this episode of the Georgian Impact Podcast, we sit down with Lauren Feld. Lauren is Head of Business Development at 3Box Labs, the company behind Ceramic, a decentralized data network that allows developers to build apps with Web3 data. Lauren breaks down the problems Ceramic is trying to solve and how we should understand digital identity in this new world. You'll Hear About: ● The difference in building Web3 applications compared to Web2. ● Moving away from centralization and getting users...
Apr 01, 2022•30 min•Season 2022Ep. 4
Trolls or no trolls that is the question, and guess what? This could be in your control. In this episode of the Georgian Impact Podcast, we talk with Nadav Shoval CEO of OpenWeb. OpenWeb’s mission is to build a healthier open internet, starting with improving conversations. You’ll Hear About: ● What trust means to Nadav. ● The need for transparency when dealing with data. ● Users taking back control of their data, preferences and ID. ● How advertising needs to change and adapt. ● Why conversatio...
Feb 25, 2022•31 min•Season 2022Ep. 3
In this episode, we have a wide-ranging discussion on privacy, competition and advertising with Vass Bednar. Vass is the Executive director of McMaster University's Master of Public Policy in Digital Society program and works at the intersection of public policy and technology in Canada. You’ll Hear About: ● DuckDuckGo as an alternative option for consumers in a data-driven world. ● Apple’s approach to data collection. ● Consumer concerns surrounding data collection. ● The evolving way the digit...
Feb 04, 2022•27 min•Season 2022Ep. 2
Shouldn’t you own and control your identity? It is yours after all. That's the idea behind self-sovereign identity — the idea that you control your own data without intervening administrative authorities. Mathieu Glaude is our guest on this episode of the Georgian Impact podcast. Mathieu Glaude is the CEO of Northern Block and helps enable organizations to build digital trust platforms. He also has his own podcast on SSI, called SSI Orbit , which informs a lot of our conversation here. You’ll He...
Jan 20, 2022•30 min•Season 2022Ep. 1
Cybersecurity is a topic that is not to be taken lightly. We're working with Georgian's Head of Security and Privacy, Alex Manea, to bring you a series of content for your company's cybersecurity needs. In this episode, we approach the cybersecurity landscape metaphorically — we take you back to the middle ages where castles, kings, and knights existed. Think of your company as the castle you're protecting and dive into the systems to consider when creating a security architecture. You'll hear a...
Oct 22, 2021•26 min•Season 2021Ep. 12
For most of us, backing up files has become a part of everyday life. Throughout the years, there have been many ways to back up one’s information. We’ve gone from paper, CDs, hard drives, flash drives, and the new king, the cloud. In this episode of the Georgian Podcast, we’ll be talking to Mike Potter, Co-Founder & CEO of Rewind, to understand how cloud-based storage systems work and what it means for your data. You’ll hear about: · How cloud-based SaaS (Software as a Service) storage provi...
Sep 17, 2021•21 min•Season 2021Ep. 11
You might think that selling consumer products has never been easier. Not so fast. Sure, e-commerce is everywhere and is becoming more user-friendly by the minute, but where do you start? Who do you market to? How and where should you advertise? Digital advertising offers myriad of options, but with options, come decisions. Big decisions. That’s where Zeze Peters and Beam.city DNA come in. In this episode of the Georgian Podcast, we’ll be talking to Zeze Peters, Founder & CEO of Beam.city DN...
Sep 07, 2021•22 min•Season 2021Ep. 10
