In the latest episode of Inference – an AI Business Podcast by Silo AI, our CTO Niko Vuokko and COO Jaakko Vainio sit down to discuss how companies can build real value and a competitive edge by scaling AI initiatives that redefine companies. Tune in to hear our COO's and CTO's outlooks on the main challenges companies face when trying to transition from experimenting with AI to integrating AI into the core of their products, services, or processes. Learn more at www.silo.ai...
May 31, 2024•1 hr 1 min•Transcript available on Metacast S2 E9: Niko Vuokko, CTO of Silo AI, talks about the current and upcoming trends in AI. Niko Vuokko is the CTO of Silo AI, leading Silo AI’s technology strategy and IP. Niko is an experienced technology leader of multiple successful enterprises, such as Eniram, Sharper Shape and Metrify, as well as an International Mathematical Olympiad competitor and national team coach. In this episode, we talk about the current trends of AI, as well as the trends that are on the horizon of 2023 and beyond. We ...
Feb 13, 2023•1 hr 4 min•Ep 9•Transcript available on Metacast Sabrina Maniscalco, a Professor and the CEO of Algorithmiq, talks about the quantum computing and AI. S2 E8: Sabrina Maniscalco is a quantum information and logic professor at the University of Helsinki. She is also the co-founder and CEO of Algorithmiq - a pioneering startup developing real world impact challenges through quantum computing algorithmics. In this episode, we talk about the current state of quantum computing, as well as the close relationship quantum computing has with AI. Sabrina...
Dec 05, 2022•24 min•Ep 8•Transcript available on Metacast In this episode, Lina Weichbrodt discusses AI Post Mortems and shares her favorite stories regarding machine learning damage control. Lina Weichbrodt is an experienced ML engineer. Having built her career at Zalando and Deutsche Kreditbank, she has developed a specialty for debugging and understanding performance risks of large-scale, deployed systems. Catch Lina’s recap on debugging near-invisible edge cases, customer preference inclusion , &nbs...
Sep 19, 2022•18 min•Ep 7•Transcript available on Metacast Meet Michael Munn from Google, discussing the Advanced Solutions Lab. In the latest episode of Inference, Ville Hulkko of Silo AI sits down with engineering specialist of ML design pattern and explainable AI, Michael Munn. Michael walks us through the operations behind Google’s Advanced Solutions Lab. Catch Michael’s insights on the future of organizational ML adoption, and learn about the evolution behind AI education and the democratization of AI in the industrial space.
Aug 16, 2022•17 min•Ep 6•Transcript available on Metacast S2 E5: Errol Koolmeister, CEO of The AI Framework, talks about the role of strategic AI advisory. Errol is one of the most well-known figures in the Nordic AI scene. Known for his work as the AI lead at H&M, Vodafone , and Nordea, Errol has developed his expertise in pioneering practical large-scale AI implementations. Recently, Errol has “gone rogue”, helping companies make intelligent AI management decisions. In this episode, we learn about the managerial challeng...
Jun 29, 2022•31 min•Ep 5•Transcript available on Metacast Douglas Castro, NeuralDSP: AI transforming an industry. In S2 E4 of Inference we deep dive into audio processing as NeuralDSP’s CEO Douglas Castro discusses how Machine Learning has transformed an entire industry’s approach to technology. NeuralDSP is the market leader in professional grade audio processing. Their guitar- and bass amplification modeling software, as well as Quad Cortex computation device, have been adopted by both industry professionals as well as advanced hobbyists globally. Th...
Jun 13, 2022•56 min•Ep 4•Transcript available on Metacast Timo is a professor at Aalto University ’s Department of Industrial Engineering and Management. Timo is also the co-author of Platform Strategy: a recent book discussing business transformations enabled by AI and platform business models. With Timo, we discuss about the implications that AI will have in management, peopleops, talent matching and leadership. Tune in to catch Timo’s insights into the “whats and hows” of an AI-as-a-manager organization, learn about the key challenges of skill class...
May 23, 2022•34 min•Ep 3•Transcript available on Metacast S2 E2: Lina Weichbrodt of Deutsche Kreditbank discusses AI diagnostics, usability and post mortems. Lina Weichbrodt is the Machine Learning Lead Engineer at Deutsche Kreditbank, formerly at Zalando. She has pioneered Machine Learning -focused quality management, debugging and post mortem practices throughout her career and shares her insights regarding ML quality & problem discovery. Machine Learning quality monitoring can be notoriously difficult, due to an absence of the “it either works o...
May 09, 2022•20 min•Ep 2•Transcript available on Metacast NEW SEASON: Episode 1 - Motherbrain, Daniel Wroblewski, EQT Profile photo colorized by a Generative Adverserial Network. EQT is one of the leading private capital powerhouses in Europe, investing heavily in AI and other cutting-edge technologies. To elevate their investment ops, EQT created the “Motherbrain” data & AI platform. Daniel Wroblewski, EQT:s former Chief Architect and Chief of Staff and the head of Motherbrain, walks us through the “why:s and how:s” of creating a private capi...
Apr 14, 2022•24 min•Ep 1•Transcript available on Metacast Inference #20 out - State of AI in Denmark with Stephen Alstrup, Supwiz With the release of the State of AI in Nordics 2021 report, we’ll be taking a look at the Danish AI ecosystem. Professor Stephen Alstrup is one of the most prominent figures of Danish digital affairs. Stephen is a professor of algorithms at University of Copenhagen, the chair of the national digital advisory as well as the CEO of Supwiz. With Stephen, we’ll be taking a look a...
Dec 20, 2021•36 min•Ep 20•Transcript available on Metacast Jouni is a senior AI engineer at Silo AI and the Nordic champion of the globally renowned DeepRacer competition. An enthusiast of signal processing, cloud + local data management, Jouni jumped into the deep end of Reinforcement Learning and simulation-based training to take on the challenges creating an autonomously piloting system. Tune in to catch Jouni’s shock and recovery during his first physical race, learn about the deeper implications of DeepRacer and catch Jouni’s predictions of th...
Nov 12, 2021•14 min•Ep 19•Transcript available on Metacast Tero Ojanperä discusses intelligent platforms & platform strategy. Tero Ojanperä is a co-founder and chair of Silo AI, and a professor of practice at Aalto University. This fall, Tero and his co-author, Professor Timo Vuori, released a book called Platform Strategy: Transform Your Business with AI, Platforms, and Human Intelligence. The book describes seven steps to converting a business into a platform. Tune in to catch Tero’s thoughts on upcoming transformation trends caused by p...
Oct 27, 2021•23 min•Ep 18•Transcript available on Metacast Inference #17: ML Design Patterns with Michael Munn from Google Information can be lost in translation. As new technologies require a unified framework for discussion, they too require it for semantics. Michael Munn, along with his co-authors Valliappa Lakshmanan and Sara Robinson, released a book called ML Design Patterns to help codify common modeling- and engineering problems, solutions, and approaches into uniform language, aiming to democratize ML comprehension. Michael is a professor and m...
Oct 05, 2021•14 min•Ep 17•Transcript available on Metacast Regulation, ethics & geopolitics of AI. AI development advances with staggering speeds across the globe, while the democratization of tools grow the number of developers in every corner of the planet. "Through the explosion of smart devices, more people arguably have access to Artificial Intelligence than clean water today", says Mark Caine from World Economic Forum. In a world where transformative technologies outrun human procedure, defining regulative and ethical boundaries can be an...
Sep 17, 2021•52 min•Transcript available on Metacast Anna Mossberg – Managing Director, Silo AI Sweden, ex-Google and Telia Choosing the first AI path of an organization can be a daunting task. Which challenge to tackle first? Where to get the skills and tools to do it? How to manage and budget the process? Anna Mossberg walks us through the steps that organizations both lean and large need to take to successfully embark on their AI journey and implement data strategies. Anna is a technology leadership professional, with a solid background in comp...
Jun 07, 2021•30 min•Ep 15•Transcript available on Metacast Ville Tuulos - Manager, ML Infrastructure at Netflix, author, entrepreneur Machine Learning is defined by a need for rapid experimentation. To achieve an environment of fast, iterative and low-risk experimentation, both hard aspects (tools and platforms) and soft aspects (culture, ways of working) of the ecosystem need to be aligned. Ville Tuulos, the driving force behind Netflix's Metaflow platform, explains how Netflix has managed to tackle both sides of the coin to build a truly experimentati...
Apr 08, 2021•34 min•Transcript available on Metacast Data monitoring & quality - Patrik Tran, CEO of Validio “We have good quality data” is a phrase spoken by most organizations. Theory and practice differ, however, as Validio approaches data from a different perspective: all data is flawed by nature, and thus our focus should be on monitoring, understanding and tolerating it. Patrik Tran, PhD, is the co-founder and CEO of Validio, working on a toolkit for data monitoring. With a stellar background in academia and upper management data consult...
Mar 19, 2021•33 min•Ep 13•Transcript available on Metacast Predictive maintenance with a human in the loop - Patrik Strand, General Manager, Product Management – Performance Services at Wärtsilä Predictive maintenance is a concept everyone talks about, but few are actually applying. Wärtsilä, an industry leading martitime & energy sector technology and power source company, executes a data-driven strategy through their "Expert Insight" predictive maintenance product. With a strong focus on matching data insights with the deep knowledge base of their...
Feb 09, 2021•29 min•Transcript available on Metacast Internal AI Center-of-Excellence - Girish Agarwal, Director AI Lab at Husqvarna Among the most interesting management frameworks of AI development is the emergence on internal AI Centers-of-Excellence. Husqvarna is a Swedish global industry leader of power products and robotics, with a product portfolio ranging from forestry and landscaping consumer equipment to industrial scale solutions. With autonomous operations being a cornerstone of Husqvarna’s strategy, the AI lab was established to enabl...
Jan 13, 2021•36 min•Transcript available on Metacast State of AI in Sweden - Hedvig Kjellström, Professor at KTH, Lead AI Scientist at Silo AI Sweden KTH Royal Institute of Technology’s Division of Robotics, Perception and Learning is among the most renowned AI research organisations globally. Hailing from Stockholm, Sweden, we are joined by Professor Hedvig Kjellström to learn more about the state of research and development of AI in Sweden. Hedvig's pioneering research on artificial sensing is known to most on the industry. In 2010 she received ...
Dec 19, 2020•31 min•Transcript available on Metacast State of AI in Finland - Alexander Törnroth, Head of FAIA Finnish AI Accelerator is the national support entity for Artificial Intelligence, accelerating Finland’s adoption of AI in both the private and public sectors. In October 2020, FAIA released a report titled “State of AI in Finland 2020”. The report, first of its kind, outlines the development of AI adoption in Finland, reviews key enables and obstacles of AI onboarding, and outlines winning case studies of AI implemented in Finland. Alex...
Nov 26, 2020•31 min•Transcript available on Metacast AI Toolkits - Luka Crnkovic-Friis, CEO of Peltarion Peltarion is one of the leading star companies of Nordic AI, building an operational AI platform that seeks to make AI accessible to not just AI scientists, but to a much broader user base. Hailing from Stockholm, Sweden, Peltarion's platform has already been onboarded by organisations such as NASA, Tesla, General Motors and many more. Luka is a prolific AI scientist who, together with his co-founder Måns Erlandson, pioneered an early version o...
Sep 23, 2020•32 min•Transcript available on Metacast Jaakko Lempinen, Head of CX of YLE. YLE, the Finnish National Broadcasting Company, is a well known industry leader in digital media experiments and technological innovations. As such, YLE has been among the first in Europe to begin implementing AI on a broad spectrum across their operations and content types. Jaakko is a pioneer of designing and leading AI initiatives across content types and -platforms. YLE Areena, a leading public streaming platform, is YLE’s stomping ground for experimental ...
Sep 09, 2020•51 min•Transcript available on Metacast Impact, data & AI - Annu Nieminen, Upright Project In our sixth episode, we dive into the world of impact data. The Upright Project seeks to collect and universalise corporate impact metrics into one, standardised, comprehendible set. Find out how Upright uses AI to extract novel data sources and integrates them into their larger model. Annu Nieminen is the CEO and founder of the Upright Project. Previously is known as the CEO of Kasvuryhmä, a renowned group of scale-ups and established grow...
Aug 26, 2020•26 min•Transcript available on Metacast Speech & AI - Otto Söderlund, Speechly In our fifth episode, we discuss the the rising creed of speech user interfaces and the pivotal role AI technologies play in their emergence. Speechly is a unique speech understanding & Natural Language Understanding technology company, formed around ex-Apple Siri developers. In this episode, we discuss the status of speech technologies globally, and focus on local languages and the strategic and political importance of having independent techn...
Jun 26, 2020•49 min•Ep 5•Transcript available on Metacast MLOps - Eero Laaksonen, Valohai In our fourth episode, we discuss the emerging creed of MLOps - the art of managing Machine Learning workflows as a part of operations. Valohai is a pioneering MLOps & ML deployment platform startup that focuses on enabling the deployment of complex data science workflows through the Valohai platform. In this episode, we discuss different creeds of ML deployment platforms, and hear Eero's opinion about the current state of MLOps across company types. Eero Laak...
Jun 18, 2020•31 min•Ep 4•Transcript available on Metacast Oura - Wearables & AI In our third episode, we discuss the Oura Ring - a tiny ring-sized wearable device that gathers data on sleep, activity, readiness, and more. During the episode, we explore how machine learning can be used to create a personalized experience for Oura users, and what is it like to work with highly science-driven teams. Heli also reveals her learnings from working next to the customer service team. Heli Koskimäki is the science team lead of Oura. An elite research scienti...
Jun 05, 2020•46 min•Transcript available on Metacast Building AI products & teams - the art of combining human, machine and design. We discuss how the perception of AI products has shifted from core technology to holistic design, and map out changes in team structures. Human-machine interfacing is becoming a critical part of almost every digital process - find out what demands it sets for teams. Marc Dillon is a renowned technology entrepreneur and the active CTO of Basemark. Previously known for his work as the Co-founder and figurehead of Jo...
May 29, 2020•31 min•Ep 2•Transcript available on Metacast TinyML - AI pushed to the edge, delivering larger impact in smaller packages We discuss the state of edge technologies, emergence of AI in microcontrollers, use cases of TinyML ranging from maritime to savannah plains, and predict what’s going to happen in the future of edge AI. Zach Shelby is the CEO of Edge Impulse, and a seasoned veteran of edge technologies. Zach sold his previous IoT technology company, Sensinode, to ARM in 2013, he has since directed ARM’s development and edge technology t...
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