On this podcast I am joined by Mike Hughes and Antonio Allegria to talk about Low-Code generally and what Outsystems is doing specifically in the space. Low-Code is transforming how software gets developed and we are really just at the beginning of the revolution it is driving. Outsystems is doing some really neat stuff and I love their vision around what it is going to take to win the Low-Code market. SHOW SUMMARY: Start - Outsystems elevator pitch 1:57 - What is Low-Code? 4:01 - How does Low-C...
Feb 10, 2021•36 min
On this podcast I am joined by Sagi EliYahoo, the Co-Founder and CEO of Tonkean. Tonkean’s Adaptive Business Operations platform simplifies the orchestration of complex, enterprise-level business processes with a truly no-code interface. Ops professionals are becoming a critical component of business units and No-Code generally, and Tonkeans platform specifically, empowers them. I think everyone will benefit from Sagi’s keen insights. Summary: 2:06 - Tonkean elevator pitch 3:55 - Who uses No-Cod...
Feb 03, 2021•37 min
On today’s podcast I am joined by Toby Phillips who is the executive director of the Oxford COVID-19 Government Response Tracker at the Blavatnik School of Government at Oxford and Bret Greenstein, Senior Vice President of AI and Analytics at Cognizant to talk about the Xprize Pandemic Response Challenge. The Pandemic Response Challenge is a $550k, four month challenge that focuses on the development of data-driven AI systems to predict CODI-19 infection rates and to prescribe Intervention Plans...
Jan 28, 2021•46 min
On this podcast I have the pleasure of being joined by Ben Taylor, Datarobots Chief AI Evangelist. Ben is a recognized and engaging speaker for AI with over 16 years of machine learning experience. He has a diverse career including work with Intel/Micron, as the HPC/AI expert for the hedge fund AIQ where he built out models using a 600 GPU cluster to predict stock movements based on the news, and as the Chief Data Scientist for HireVue. He joined DataRobot in early 2020 when they acquired an Aut...
Jan 14, 2021•41 min
On this podcast I am excited to be joined by Amir Banifatemi of Xprize and Babak Hodjat of Cognizant to talk about a new Xprize Challenge which is designed to develop AI driven insights and solutions to help government officials make better policy decisions around closures and re-opening efforts in response to Covid. This challenge is based on work started early in the pandemic, completely pro bono, that Babak and his team at Cognizant did based on their expertise in Evolutionary AI. It is reall...
Dec 19, 2020•48 min•Ep. 3
On this podcast discussion I talk with Jay Gopinath, GM of Advanced Tech, Platforms, Innovation Data and Analytics @ Toyota North America and Bret Greenstein, SVP and Global Head of AI and Analytics for @Cognizant, about the sweeping changes that data and AI are driving in the over century old automotive industry.
Dec 07, 2020•23 min
On this podcast I am joined by Evan Sparks, Co-Founder and CEO of Determined.ai, to talk about how AI differs today from SaaS software, why that difference will be eliminated in the future, ways in which companies should look at determining if AI is a viable solution to valuable problems, how to successfully build and deploy AI once that determination has been made and so much more. If you are on the journey to AI in the enterprise this is a podcast that will be an invaluable resource to help ov...
Nov 09, 2020•33 min
On this podcast I am joined by CEO and Founder of Eightfold.ai, Ashutosh Garg. Eightfold.ai is experiencing phenomenal growth and just raised an additional $125 million in funding to make it Silicon Valley’s newest unicorn. People are a company’s greatest asset and AI is dramatically changing how companies identify, engage with and grow talent. Eightfold.ai’s mission is to enable the right career for everyone in the world. A lofty goal that Ashutosh is laser focused on achieving. I hope you enjo...
Oct 30, 2020•27 min
Coming off of Dataiku’s recent announcement of raising $100 million in new funding I got the opportunity to speak with their Chief Customer Officer Kurt Muehmel. Dataiku is one of the world’s leading AI and machine learning platforms, supporting agility in organizations’ data efforts via collaborative, elastic, and responsible AI, all at enterprise scale. Dataiku provides one simple UI for the entire data pipeline, from data preparation and exploration to machine learning model building, deploym...
Oct 23, 2020•37 min
On this podcast I am joined by Phil Le-Brun, former CIO of McDonalds and now Enterprise Strategist @ AWS, and Bret Greenstein, SVP and Global Head of AI and Analytics @ Cognizant to talk about how companies can create a data centered and driven culture. and why treating data as a first class citizen is important to this process. Data is moving from the IT department into the business units and the heavy lifting of digital transformation going forward is really going to be around creating a cultu...
Oct 08, 2020•30 min
On this podcast I am joined by Pallab Deb, Head of Partner Solutions and AI Partnerships at Google Cloud and Bret Greenstein, SVP and Global Head of the AI and Analytics Practice at Cognizant to talk about the value of data. As companies increasingly look to leverage data in their business processes, and as data has moved from the IT department to the business units, the need to understand the value of data, set up processes and build a culture to include business partners in the use of data and...
Sep 18, 2020•32 min
On this podcast I am joined by JG Chirapurath, VP Azure Data, Artificial Intelligence & Edge and Bret Greenstein, SVP and Global Head of the AI and Analytics Practice at Cognizant to talk about how business leaders can use data in times of rapid change. If you are trying to figure out how to navigate a world where your historical data models have been made obsolete by the disruption caused by Covid then this is a podcast that will help. In this wide ranging discussion these two thought leade...
Sep 18, 2020•25 min
Data perishability is always an issue but it gains significance in times of rapid change. Covid brought into stark relief just how volatile the world can be, and of course volatility wreaks havoc on historical data models. As business leaders accelerate their focus on data they are realizing that they need to take different approaches to derive maximum value from their data. Over the next four podcasts I will be joined by thought leaders, business leaders and technologists in the AI and Data spa...
Sep 16, 2020•18 min
Countries are rushing to create national AI strategies that will ensure that they dominate the field of AI for the foreseeable future. This involves investing in research, fostering and encouraging partnerships between government, academia and business as well as making sure that we train our current workers, as well as our young people, in the skills they need to fill the well paying jobs of the future. AI is built on data and so we also need to find a responsible way to collect and use data wh...
Sep 02, 2020•36 min•Ep. 3
I am pleased to have Congressman McNerney (R-CA) and Bret Greenstein, Senior Vice President and Head of the AI and Analytics Practice at Cognizant, joining me on this podcast to talk about the Future of Work in a world quickly being transformed by Artificial Intelligence. We all know that AI will eliminate some jobs, create many new jobs and will fundamentally change all jobs. To prepare our current workers, as well as those who are in school and yet to enter the workforce, for the new and excit...
Aug 13, 2020•21 min
For this discussion I am joined by Congressman Will Hurd of Texas and Bret Greenstein of Cognizant to talk about what a national AI strategy should look like here in the United States. Congressman Hurd (R-TX) along with Robin Kelly (D-IL), and working closely with the Bipartisan Policy Center (BPC), recently released a white paper on a national artificial intelligence strategy called “AI and the Workforce”. Recommendations of the white paper include: Calling on the US to take a larger role in AI...
Aug 11, 2020•40 min
On this show I am joined by Stephanie Forrest and Risto Miikkulainen to talk about Evolutionary AI: What it is, how it is being used today, the challenges it faces, the opportunities it offers and what its future might entail. If you are at all interested in Evolutionary AI then you will find this discussion extremely informative and interesting. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did.
Jul 20, 2020•46 min
On this podcast I am joined by Kenneth Stanley, currently of OpenAI, and Babak Hodjat, VP of Evolutionary AI at Cognizant, to talk about creativity, novelty search, Evolutionary AI, open endedness and all things in between. I was absolutely blown away by the breadth and depth of the insights around these topics.
Jul 09, 2020•1 hr 4 min
On this podcast I am joined by Quoc Le and Risto Miikkulainen to talk about AutoML and the future direction of AI. Risto is an associate VP of Evolutionary AI at Cognizant and also a professor at the University of Texas. Quoc Le needs little introduction because he is one of the preeminent thought leaders in AI today and is known for many things including co-founding Google Brain and as the person behind AutoML.
Jul 09, 2020•40 min
On this podcast I am joined by Dr. Jordan Pollack and Babak Hodjat to talk about the Demystification of AI. It is hard to find two people who add more value to this conversation than these two guests. Both are preeminent thought leaders in the field and in this wide ranging and lively conversation we cover a lot of ground that will be interesting to anyone involved in the field of AI generally and Evolutionary AI specifically. Our discussion range’s from the theoretical to the practical and the ...
Jul 09, 2020•45 min
World renowned AI thought leader’s Joydeep Ghosh and Risto Miikkulainen join me on this podcast in a wide ranging discussion centered around the issue of Trustworthiness in AI. As our businesses and society increasingly rely on AI the issues around trust and explainability have become much more important. And in fact, failure to successfully address the issue will hamper further adoption of AI. Whether you are a business leader, AI scientist, or a policy maker this podcast will help you understa...
Jun 29, 2020•47 min
Ever since the Covid pandemic spread across the globe many have asked the question “where is AI in this fight”? And it is a valid question because many of the techniques used in AI require large amounts of training data, which a new pandemic like Covid simply lacks. However, a project developed by Babak Hodjat and Risto Miikulainen and their team at Cognizant has come the closest I have seen to answering this question. The system uses evolutionary AI which requires less data, utilizes creativity...
Jun 22, 2020•31 min
This podcast will help you successfully complete your journey to AI and data transformation. I am joined by Saket Malhotra of Takeda and Bret Greenstein of Cognizant to talk about the importance of data strategy, establishing KPI’s and Metrics, and the importance that change management plays in successful digital transformation efforts. Digital transformation is hard and it is exciting to hear from a company that is doing it right. Lots of great insights to say the least.
Jun 18, 2020•17 min
Join me on this podcast as I speak with Bret Greenstein of Cognizant and Inder Kochar of Novartis Oncology about the challenges, opportunities and best practices around centering an enterprise around data and AI. Inder brings to light his “Journey to AI” experience over the past several years while Bret brings a cross-industry global perspective. We talk about data strategy, change management, using design thinking to understand and improve the customer journey and much more. If you are struggli...
Jun 12, 2020•19 min
In this podcast I speak with Babak Hodjat, VP of Evolutionary AI at Cognizant, and his collegue Naveen Sharma who is Head of AI and Analytics for Life Sciences about the exciting and profound changes that are occuring in pharma and healthcare driven both by Covid and the opportunities presented by AI techniques like Evolutionary AI. I am a big believer that AI will enable innovation throughout the life sciences ecosystem from better and faster drug discovery to more efficient manufacturing to ne...
May 14, 2020•23 min
On this podcast I speak with Babak Hodjat, VP of Evolutionary AI at Cognizant, and his associate Maria Nazareth who is Head of AI and Analytics for the Banking and Financial Services Industry. Covid is forcing banks to accelerate their digital transformation efforts, re-think how they interact with customers, build more resilient models to evaluate risk and much more. And to do all of this they are leveraging data and AI in exciting and innovative ways. Part of the solution in my mind is using a...
May 10, 2020•18 min
Some companies are dealing with the disruption caused by the Covid crisis better than others. Cognizant virtually overnight changed the entire way their almost 300k global workforce operated. It is an amazing story. Join me as I talk to Seth Bartlett, Global Chief Operating Officer of Cognizant’s Digital Business, and Bret Greenstein, SVP and Global Head of the AI & Analytics Practice, about how Cognizant immediately responded to the crisis and over the following weeks changed the way the en...
Apr 30, 2020•15 min
Join me as I speak with AI thought leader Dr. Michael Zeller about how companies should be focused on quickly accelerating their AI efforts in light of the crisis caused by the Covid pandemic. Business leaders that were already well down the path of AI deployment have weathered this storm better than those that weren’t. The time to deploy AI is now. We cover many interesting topics that will be interesting to business leaders who are trying to figure out how to both quickly deploy AI during this...
Apr 24, 2020•26 min
Join me as I talk to Dr. Ashutosh Saxena, founder and CEO of Casper.ai, to learn how their technology, using AI and IoT, power robot homes and how when implemented in nursing homes and assisted living facilities it greatly reduces death from communicable diseases. Covid has exposed just how vulnerable seniors are who live in nursing homes and assisted living facilities. In fact, studies show that so far fully 20%+ of all deaths due to Covid in the US have occured in assisted living facilities. B...
Apr 23, 2020•21 min
Join me in this engaging and insightful conversation with Marco Iansiti, David Sarnoff professor of Business Administration and co-director of the Labratory for Information Science at Harvard and of the Digital Initiative at Harvard Business School, and Bret Greenstein, Senior Vice President and Global Head of the AI & Analytics Practice at Cognizant, where he leads over 26,000 associates worldwide focused on Data and AI based transformation We talk about how the Covid-19 pandemic is impacti...
Apr 20, 2020•25 min
