Chandra Khatri , Chief Scientist and Head of AI at Got It AI, was a key team member in the early days of AI at eBay, Amazon, and Uber. He has been on the cutting edge of NLP research for more than a decade and now leads AI at Got It AI. Chandra and the team are making it easier for customers to have conversations with bots. He's making innovative use of transformers and active learning to use "small data" to train sophisticated large language models to automatically answer custome...
May 15, 2022•33 min•Ep 19•Transcript available on Metacast Paul Lee , serial entrepreneur and co-founder of Synesis One, combined his love of games with a passion for NLP and AI. He realized language ontologies can be developed by players solving problems in games. They can be rewarded with NFTs backed by tokens on a blockchain. A brilliant idea... from a Renaissance man who is also a medical doctor and the founder of a care marketplace for veterinarians. This is a fascinating one! Listen and learn... The future of large language models (LLMs) How ontol...
May 08, 2022•35 min•Ep 18•Transcript available on Metacast Phil Johnson , founder and CEO of Master of Business Leadership (MBL) and veteran tech exec, overcame adversity as a kid when he was diagnosed with dyslexia. Phil taught himself to learn differently. He has helped organizations generate more than $1.5B by teaching leaders how to improve their emotional intelligence. Listen and learn... Why emotional intelligence is the most important skill for leaders. Why Phil says leaders battle our "500 million year old brain that doesn't like chang...
May 01, 2022•33 min•Ep 17•Transcript available on Metacast Dipanwita ("D") Das , Founder and CEO of Sorcero, is an award-winning technology entrepreneur and AI innovator. She is the CEO & Co-founder of Sorcero, a venture-backed AI Saas product startup, focused on using AI and NLP to inform critical decisions to improve lives. Prior to starting Sorcero, D was the founder & CEO of 42 Strategies, managing digital transformation projects for Richard Branson's Virgin United, Al Gore's Climate Reality Project, and Bloomberg Philant...
Apr 24, 2022•36 min•Ep 16•Transcript available on Metacast Christopher Nguyen , serial entrepreneur and CEO of Aitomatic, realized big data isn't the only answer when training AI models. In fact, when doing preventive or predictive maintenance on industrial equipment, only small data is available. He and his team asked what if instead of relying on automated data collection we codify expertise in the heads of a small number of experienced technicians. And thus human-first AI was born. Aitomatic was launched in 2021 to productize the new field. It b...
Apr 17, 2022•33 min•Ep 15•Transcript available on Metacast Matt K. Parker , author and engineering leader formerly at Pivotal Labs, profiled 13 collaborative work cultures in his book A Radical Enterprise . They're devolving control to employees and rethinking traditional organizational structures to give teams unprecedented levels of freedom. Not surprisingly, they're more successful than their peers. Listen and learn: What is a radical enterprise and what is radical collaboration? Why do employees do better work when they have freedom to def...
Apr 11, 2022•40 min•Ep 14•Transcript available on Metacast Jaime Ramirez , CEO and Founder of Preventor, and stalwart of the Miami tech scene, shares how banks and brands are using new authentication technology to make life online safer. Automating authentication to verify age and other personal attributes is cheaper than manual verification and also more accurate. The stakes are high if automated decisions are wrong. Hear Jaime explain the best way to automate the process of verifying your age or gender with AI. Listen and learn: How banks are automati...
Apr 03, 2022•29 min•Ep 13•Transcript available on Metacast Edmundo Gonzalez , Co-founder and CEO of Marpai Health, realized our health plans have a significant impact on the quality of our health. Using AI to predict who will need care and when can lead to better health care plans and a healthier population. Edmundo's on a mission to make it easier for all of us stay healthy... which first requires the traditional healthcare system to be disrupted. Listen and learn: How to turn America's "sickcare" system into a true "healthcare...
Mar 27, 2022•38 min•Ep 12•Transcript available on Metacast Doug Kerwin is an engineering leader and entrepreneur who recently published " Riley and Bot: Jobs for Robots and Jobs for Me ". By day, he's a Vice President of Cloud Engineering at Prudential. After hours, he's a dad who wants the best for his daughter and needed to answer her questions about the impact of AI on jobs. Listen and learn... What inspired an engineer without an AI background to write a kids book about AI Why Doug concludes that "no job will be completely A...
Mar 20, 2022•33 min•Ep 11•Transcript available on Metacast Phil McKinney , former HP CTO and one of the "50 most innovative" thinkers on the planet according to Fast Company, has helped develop products used by more than a half billion people. Hear Phil put on a master class in how to turn ordinary teams into innovation machines. Listen and learn... Phil's seven rules of innovation. What it means to have a "T-shaped" career... and why you should want one. How Phil got his start in podcasting... in 2005! Phil's secrets for h...
Mar 13, 2022•37 min•Ep 10•Transcript available on Metacast Rene Steenvoorden , Chief Digital Officer (CDO) at HR behemoth Randstad, started in IT 30 years ago when technology was a distraction and IT gear was relegated to server rooms in the basement. He's a two-time CIO of the year award winner and a visionary in HRTech. Rene's an evangelist for using technology to improve the employee experience having served in similar roles at Rabobank, McKinsey, and Procter & Gamble. You might ask why a 60-year old staffing firm needs a CDO. Well, you...
Mar 06, 2022•36 min•Ep 9•Transcript available on Metacast Gordon Wilson , CEO and founder of Rain Neuromorphics, turned a childhood fascination with science fiction into an entrepreneurial passion to recreate the human brain on a chip. Neuromorphic computing is an emerging field of AI that strives to build synthetic nervous systems for use on edge computing devices. The challenges are numerous but if Gordon and his team succeed they may make Isaac Asimov's bold visions of life with robots seem quaint in a decade. Listen and learn: How a love of sc...
Feb 27, 2022•35 min•Ep 8•Transcript available on Metacast Jason Corsello , Founder & General Partner at Acadian Ventures, didn't set out to be a venture capitalist. He was a tech industry analyst and product manager before falling in love with HRTech and the future of work. He has become one of the most prominent investors focused on disruptive technologies defining the new employee experience based in part on what he learned growing Cornerstone OnDemand from $40M to over $500M ARR. Listen and learn... What Jason learned about entrepreneurship...
Feb 21, 2022•42 min•Ep 7•Transcript available on Metacast Dr. Mamoun Samaha , CTO at the International Technological University and Professor of Computer Science at Northeastern University, is an operator and academic with a long track record of success in the classroom and board room. His research spans the areas of mobility, security, and networking. He has strong opinions about what it means to be human in an age of automation. Worth a listen to hear his insights about how technology will change our lives in the next decade. Listen and learn... What...
Feb 13, 2022•40 min•Ep 6•Transcript available on Metacast Paddy Padmanabhan , CEO of Damo Consulting, has spent 20 years educating healthcare CIOs about digital transformation and writing about healthcare innovation. Damo helps organizations turn new technology into better patient outcomes in areas like telemedicine, electronic health records, and patient engagement platforms. Paddy shares wisdom about innovative solutions that will improve our quality of life for decades ahead. Listen and learn... Paddy's single biggest insight from research for ...
Feb 06, 2022•36 min•Ep 5•Transcript available on Metacast Dave Kellogg , serial CEO, investor, and advisor, is a prolific blogger over at Kellblog.com . His annual predictions are a must-read for anyone in tech. This year's insights were no exception. Dave recently joined Balderton Capital as an executive in residence. His illustrious career has spanned exec stints at iconic companies like Host Analytics, Salesforce, MarkLogic, and Business Objects before it was acquired by SAP. Among other accolades, Dave’s SaaStr talks routinely rank in the top ...
Jan 30, 2022•47 min•Ep 4•Transcript available on Metacast Graham Brown , storyteller extraordinaire, has traveled the world learning about work, culture, and technology. He's a cognitive psychologist with a passion for AI but also a student of history and art who is on a personal mission to link the present and future with great stories from the past. Graham's also the CEO of Pikkal, a podcast agency, and the host of the Asia Tech Podcast. Listen and learn: What entrepreneurs need to know about the art of great storytelling What the cave pain...
Jan 23, 2022•38 min•Ep 3•Transcript available on Metacast Rob May , serial AI entrepreneur and investor, started as a hardware engineer but realized he could have more of an impact as an entrepreneur and investor. Since then, he has started companies including Backupify (acquired by Datto) and Talla (conversational AI) and invested in over 100 startups. Rob's a deep thinker and the author of the popular Inside AI weekly newsletter and Investing in AI podcast. Listen and learn... What's holding back AI adoption in the enterprise New approaches...
Jan 16, 2022•36 min•Ep 2•Transcript available on Metacast Elliot Shmukler , CEO and founder of Anomalo, needed a better way to monitor data quality at scale. He previously led growth teams at Wealthfront, Instacart, and LinkedIn and experienced firsthand the impact of incomplete or inaccurate data. Anomalo has now raised nearly $40M from amazing investors including Norwest, Two Sigma, and Foundation to make data problems a thing of the past. Listen and learn... What Elliot means when citing Jeff Weiner from Linkedin: "If you're launching a ro...
Jan 09, 2022•33 min•Ep 1•Transcript available on Metacast Luke Arrigoni started Arricor in 2012 to help large companies make sense of their data. Since then, he and the team have taught organizations like Goldman Sachs, AT&T, and Thomson Reuters about the principles of AI. His secret? Focus on the business problem and the right technology approach becomes obvious. Listen and learn... How UPS uses AI to automatically assign the right tax code for packages What responsibility AI developers have for the decisions their algorithms make How to clean dir...
Jan 02, 2022•34 min•Ep 58•Transcript available on Metacast Peter Fishman ("Fish"), co-founder and CEO of Mozart Data, had a vision for making it easy for any business to unlock the value of their data via a modern data stack. He and his co-founder believe rote data engineering work shouldn't require teams of in-house data engineers. Fish turned his PhD in Economics and passion for statistics into a successful, venture-backed YC company that is defining the future of data analytics. Listen and learn... Why Fish believes "not every bus...
Dec 27, 2021•37 min•Ep 57•Transcript available on Metacast Shawn Merani , entrepreneur and venture investor, has started two venture funds and been an operator at early stage companies including Liquidnet and ReachLocal. Shawn has invested in some amazing companies including Clubhouse, Dollar Shave Club, and Stance. He shares his definition of "hustle" and the challenges of raising money for a venture fund vs. raising money for a company. Listen and learn... How to raise your first venture fund. Why the goal of Parade Ventures is "to be t...
Dec 20, 2021•35 min•Ep 56•Transcript available on Metacast Mel Engle , executive and cancer survivor, has spent more than 30 years in and around the intersection of healthcare and technology. He's now the CEO of Predictive Oncology using AI and patient data to develop personalized cancer treatments. Mel discusses how research from Carnegie Mellon is being commercialized to accelerate the future of healthcare. Listen and learn... How Mel and his team have turned cancer detection and prevention into a data problem. How to use AI to figure out which t...
Dec 12, 2021•31 min•Ep 55•Transcript available on Metacast Matt Cowell started QuantHub in 2018 to help upskill and reskill employees to prepare for careers in data and AI. The QuantHub data skills platform exists to satisfy the growing demand for data-fluent team members. Amazing organizations like Uber and Southern Company use QuantHub to improve data literacy for employees. Plus, Matt's the first Alabamian on the podcast. Roll tide! Listen and learn... How a Chemist landed in IT and eventually became a venture-backed entrepreneur Why there'...
Dec 05, 2021•31 min•Ep 54•Transcript available on Metacast Dan Grunfeld , former professional basketball player and operator at Lightspeed Venture Partners, discusses the parallels between sports and entrepreneurship. His grandma's escape from the Holocaust inspired him to share her story, one he has been writing for five years. Dan's family history is inspirational. His advice for entrepreneurs is timeless. Listen and learn... Why professional basketball is a lot like entrepreneurship Dan's lessons from experiencing hardship on the court...
Nov 26, 2021•33 min•Ep 53•Transcript available on Metacast Matt Compton's a restless tinkerer from Indianapolis who started Filo.co to solve a problem he had. He needed something better than Zoom to be able to spend more time with his family without being on the road three weeks a month. He and his co-founders joined a venture studio and built the prototype for Filo.co in four weeks. Now it powers virtual employee events for an impressive list of companies. Listen and learn... What's really required to make virtual events productive How Filo&a...
Nov 21, 2021•37 min•Ep 52•Transcript available on Metacast Phil Heltewig , co-founder and CEO of Cognigy, the low-code conversational AI platform for managing customer service bots, discusses how new AI technologies are improving the support experience. Phil started Cognigy in 2016 with two co-founders and has since raised $55M from Insight Partners among others. The team is now about 100 employees and boasts an amazing customer list including Lufthansa and Bosch. Listen and learn... What Teddy Ruxpin has to do with the future of conversational AI. Abou...
Nov 14, 2021•38 min•Ep 51•Transcript available on Metacast Dr. Panos Siozos , LearnWorlds CEO, went from academic to high-tech CEO and raised $32M from Insight Partners to help creators monetize e-learning courses. Dr. Siozos is our first guest from Cyprus and his story about building a remote-first, global team should inspire international entrepreneurs everywhere. As Dr. Siozos says, "everyone has something to teach... that someone else wants to learn." This is a great opportunity to understand the future of learning... in 30 minutes. Listen...
Nov 07, 2021•39 min•Ep 50•Transcript available on Metacast Scott Zoldi , FICO Chief Analytics Officer and PhD in Theoretical Physics, shares how to use AI responsibly. FICO uses consumer data and machine learning models to make decisions ranging from fraud to credit risk. Hundreds of thousands of signals can be used to make a single decision by comparing new data with historical data. Scott's team is focused not just on making accurate decisions but also ensuring the signals used and the decision-making process are bias-free. Listen and learn... Ho...
Oct 31, 2021•31 min•Ep 49•Transcript available on Metacast Bindu Reddy , CEO and co-founder of Abacus AI , was a product exec at Google and Amazon and an accomplished entrepreneur before setting out to make AI model management accessible to non data scientists. Bindu has since raised more than $40M from investors like Index Ventures, Coatue, Ram Shriram, Deep Nishar, and others. Her team is investing in core AI research and building a platform to make it easy to deploy models trained on deep neural nets with tabular data. Hear Bindu's vision... the...
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