Ai In Action

Today's guest is Mike Salem, Associate Director of Data Science at Gilead Sciences. Founded in 1987, Gilead set bold ambitions to create a healthier world for all people. From their pioneering virology medicines to their growing impact in oncology, they are delivering innovations once thought impossible in medicine. Their focus goes beyond medicines as they also strive to remedy health inequities and break down barriers to care. Gilead empower their people to tackle these challenges and they are all united in their commitment to help millions of people live healthier lives. Mike is an experienced Data Scientist & Mathematician with over ten years of experience utilizing Artificial Intelligence to solve unique problems across multiple domains including robotics, sensors and IoT. He has a demonstrated ability working with large, unstructured and messy data sets, responsible for architecting, building and maintaining automated pipelines. Mike is also a strong technical lead that mentors co-workers by bui

Today's guest is Paul Powers, Founder and CEO at Physna in Columbus, Ohio. Founded in 2015, Physna was launched on the principle that computers should be taught to accurately “think” in 3D – sorting and analyzing geometric objects like written code. The company dream of a future where people have the tools they need to design and analyze the parts and products that shape the world to create and drive innovation in product design, 3D printing, augmented and virtual reality, gaming, healthcare and beyond. In the episode, Paul will discuss: The motivation for founding Physna, Challenges he faced building the company from scratch, Benefits they bring to customers, The launch of Thangs, The current make-up of the team & plans for growth, What’s in store for the near future at Physna

Today's guest is Kunal Kapoor, Director of Global Partner Strategy and Sales at Microsoft in New York. Kunal is a strategic business executive with a track record of leading matrixed multi-year, technology software and services deals globally. He has worked across multiple industries including Financial, Retail, CPG, Hi-tech, Pharma/Life Sciences, Healthcare, Hospitality and Travel. In his current role, Kunal is responsible for formalizing partnerships in Regulated Industries business of Microsoft with ISVs and SIs, as well as sales and business development in the Microsoft Commercial Partner team. Kunal is also focused to grow Microsoft's AI, ML business with a specific focus towards Financial Services industry and the enterprise, SI and ISV customers/partners. In this episode, Kunal will talk about: His role and how he got into the world of ServiceNow, Why ServiceNow is the platform of choice for organizations, Examples of how Microsoft is adding value utilizing ServiceNow, How the Microsoft and Ser

Today's guest is Pierre Gautreau, Head of Machine Learning at Link Money. Headquartered in San Francisco, Link Money offers the first pay-by-bank solution focused exclusively on the United States. Powered by open banking, Link Money’s Pay by Bank Solution provides merchants with an alternate, low-cost payment solution and enables customers to pay with their bank accounts. Link Money's flagship product makes pay-by-bank as easy as using a credit or debit card while saving merchants up to 70% in payment processing fees. In addition, their proprietary machine-learning process allows them to guarantee funds and cut down on fraud. Therefore, using Link Money’s Pay by Bank Solution is a win-win for merchants and customers. In the episode, Pierre will discuss: The work Link Money are doing in the banking industry, How they’re using AI and the benefits they bring to customers, The day-to-day life of the team, What excites him for the future at Link Money, Why Machine Learning is driving success in the compa

Today's guest is Joshua Shubert, Director of Engineering at Avenda Health in California. Founded in 2017, Avenda Health is creating a more personalized future of prostate cancer care. The company have built a platform that uses deep learning to map a patient's cancer in 3D, giving physicians never before available 3D visualization and precise information enabling more confident care plan decisions. Avenda Health aims to improve outcomes, preserve quality of life and create a new standard of cancer care. Joshua joined Avenda Health as their first Software Engineer in 2018 and is currently managing a team of skilled software engineers and scientists to bring their breakthrough cancer treatment to market. Joshua holds a M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Johns Hopkins University and has gained industry experience in cloud-based medical software, as well as developing a strong background in deep learning, medical imaging and robotics. In the episode, Joshua will discuss: The interesting work they do at A

Today's guest is Tommy LaMonte, Principal Consultant at Thirdera. Founded in 2021, Thirdera helps organizations adopt better patterns of work and get more from ServiceNow. Thirdera is a new type of ServiceNow partner – one that blends the scale and depth of experience that massive multi-national consultancies offer with the responsiveness, agility, and relationship focus of boutique providers. The Thirdera team unlocks enterprise potential to elevate experiences across the world of work. As a Principal Consultant in the Security and Risk practice at Thirdera, Tommy acts as both a presales solutions consultant and implementation Solution Architect. He works with customers to guide them through the process of implementing ServiceNow applications from acting pre-sales through go-live, ensuring customers achieve maximum value and efficiency from their implementations. Tommy has an in-depth experience in many areas of the ServiceNow platform running both the process and technical sides of projects. In this epi

Today's guest is Gissele Gajate Garrido, Director of Data Science at EY in Virginia. Gissele has a PhD in Economics and over 18 years of experience designing, leading and implementing creative analytic solutions. She has focused her work on applied behavioral analysis that ranges from impact evaluation in developing countries, consumer behavior in the CPG Industry and People Analytics. Gissele believes using behavioral economics to inform Machine Learning models is key to successful analytics in the future.  Currently, Gissele leads the Advanced Analytics and Forecasting Lab at EY, which provides a diverse set of analytic tools to leadership in order to facilitate strategic decision making. She has a passion to deliver high-impact actionable results and advance strategic decisions that drive profitable growth by producing insight-based recommendations. She is also a dedicated mentor that displays an empathetic and energetic leadership style by promoting collaboration and creating an environment of trust t

Today's guest is Laurens Kruidenier, Chief Scientific Officer at Cellarity, a Flagship Pioneering company. Launched in 2019, Cellarity are fundamentally redesigning the way drugs are created. Unlike conventional drug discovery, which attempts to reduce disease to single causal targets, Cellarity’s approach leverages a deep understanding of disease biology. The company's approach is a more robust path for drug creation because they target the whole cell—the complex, networked living system that is the ultimate integrator of human biology. The Cellarity platform provides critical insights into cellular dysfunction and reveals new biology that they can use to treat disease. This vantage point opens treatment avenues in countless diseases, including many that have been overlooked or have been too complex to resolve with traditional approaches. With programs in hematology, immuno-oncology and metabolism, Cellarity are pioneering a new generation of medicines. In the episode, Laurens will talk about: Intere

Today's guest is Ryan Smith, Global Director ServiceNow and Strategic Partnerships & Gene Eun, Director of Product Marketing at OwnBackup. Founded in 2015, OwnBackup is a leading SaaS data protection platform for some of the largest SaaS ecosystems in the world, including Salesforce, Microsoft Dynamics 365 and ServiceNow. Through capabilities like data security, backup and recovery, archiving, and sandbox seeding, they empower organizations worldwide to manage and protect the mission-critical data that drives their business. Ryan is experienced in building relationships and evangelizing emerging brands and technologies. Respected for his vision, integrity and excellence, he has been successful in starting, marketing, and building diverse businesses and Go-to-market plans. Gene is a dynamic product strategist with almost 20 years in enterprise software product management and marketing. He is a great leader, storyteller, communicator, writer and team player with a proven track record of successfully dev

Today's guest is Chad Webb, Chief Technology Officer at Rhaeos. Founded in 2018, Rhaeos is a clinical stage medical device company developing FlowSense, a patent protected platform technology and a noninvasive wireless, wearable skin patch that can assess and monitor fluid flow subdermally throughout the body. The company is initially targeting hydrocephalus, a life threatening condition caused by an abnormal accumulation of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF). Implantable shunts, the gold standard treatment, often fail, leading to multiple trips to the emergency room and repeat surgeries. There is no technology available today that can easily assess CSF flow in shunts wirelessly, bedside, and without capital equipment until now. Chad began his technical career 16 years ago doing electronic test fixture design for a small tech start-up. Since then, he has held R&D positions in academia, government labs, startups, and Fortune100 companies. Most recently, he spent six years building global technology R&D prog

Today's guest is Jonah Leshin, Head of Privacy Research at Datavant. Founded in 2017, Datavant is the leader in helping organizations securely connect health data. They power the compliant exchange of both de-identified and identified health data, eliminating data silos, protecting patient privacy, and accelerating healthcare innovation, research and improved patient outcomes. From linking clinical trial data to real-world data to medical record retrieval for payers and disease registries, hundreds of organizations across the industry trust Datavant to solve their connectivity needs. Through their ecosystem of health data partners (the largest in the U.S.), organizations can find and connect their patient-level data to over 500 sources of real-world data. In the episode, Jonah will talk about: Datavant’s mission to connect the world’s healthcare data, The Privacy Hub and his role within the company, How the wider data team is structured for success, Upcoming trends & how Data Privacy will continue to

Today's guest is John Barber, Founder at Streamliner Consulting. After working 12 years in large corporations such as Expedia and ServiceNow, John decided to use his skills and knowledge to help small to medium sized businesses. John recognized in 2016 that many small and medium sized businesses don't have the regular business analysis resources to regularly evaluate and improve their processes, procedures and supporting tools. Because of this, they often suffer from lost productivity and profit potential that they sometimes don't even realize. By adapting and expanding the IT Service Management best practices, known to help enterprise level  corporations be more efficient, effective and profitable at delivering their services, to the small to medium sized businesses, Streamliner Consulting is dedicated to maximizing their clients business potential, while balancing the cost of improvements. Their goal is to help small and medium sized businesses have enterprise level business process analysis and

Today's guest is John Bourbeau, Vice President of IT Support Services at Beth Israel Lahey Health. Beth Israel Lahey Health is a healthcare system that brings together academic medical centers and teaching hospitals, speciality and community hospitals, more than 4,800 physicians and 36,000 employees in a shared mission to expand access to care and advance the science and practice of medicine through groundbreaking research and education. They are helping their patients and their families, their communities and healthcare as a whole be healthier. John is a proven thought leader with a focus on building customer-focused teams delivering world-class support and associate productivity. A specialist with organizational transformation and evolving teams, John also delivers impressive Corporate IT Support Operations Management process improvement as a highly innovative, multi-skilled and outstanding problem solver and relationship builder. He consistently directs successful Global Enterprise Client Support depar

Today's guest is Steve Labkoff, Global Head, Clinical and Healthcare Informatics at Quantori. Quantori develops cutting-edge technology systems, applications, and infrastructures for biotech, pharmaceutical and healthcare companies that accelerate drug discovery and improve patient outcomes. Their innovative approach harnesses the power of data engineering and informatics, machine learning, emerging technologies and cloud expertise to advance research and development and ultimately bridge the gap between meaningful data and patient success. Steve is one of the leading clinician-informaticians in the US today with nearly 30 years of experience in the life sciences and healthcare sector. His current role with Quantori involves assisting life science clients to develop and implement innovative informatics solutions throughout the entire drug development lifecycle. In addition, he is working with foundations and not-for-profit groups in helping with data acquisition, management and analytics to assist these o

Today's guest is Gaurav Rao, EVP & GM of Machine Learning and AI at AtScale in Boston, MA. Founded in 2013, AtScale enables smarter decision-making by accelerating the flow of data-driven insights. The company’s semantic layer platform simplifies, accelerates, and extends business intelligence and data science capabilities for enterprise customers across all industries. With AtScale, customers are empowered to democratize data, implement self-service BI and build a more agile analytics infrastructure for better, more impactful decision making. AtScale has brought together a leadership team comprised of accomplished executives from across the global technology ecosystem. Drawing experience from companies including Vertica, Yahoo, Oracle, Dell, Citrix, AWS and IBM, AtScale is squarely focused on transforming the way organizations think about their data and analytics. Gaurav brings his expertise across Product, Engineering, Sales and Corporate Strategy to AtScale, specializing in Data Science, Machine Le

Today's guest is Tim Woodruff, Senior ServiceNow Architect & Developer at Tanium. Founded in 2007, Tanium is the industry's first and only provider of converged endpoint management (XEM) and leads the paradigm shift in endpoint management by consolidating tools, connecting workflows and bringing together people to create a convergence. Tanium's mission is to create a single platform that can identify where all your data is, patch every device you own in seconds, implement critical security controls - and they do that all in a single pane of glass, in real time. Tim is an experienced ServiceNow IT Service Management platform Architect, Developer, and Administrator. He has 10 years of experience architecting powerful best-practice solutions, teaching, reviewing code, and building and leading teams of developers, as well as over 12 years of experience building a wide-range of ServiceNow solutions. Tim is also the author of several books on ServiceNow including The ServiceNow Development Handbook,

Today's guest is Wouter van Groenestijn, Head of Data & Analytics, EVP Digital & Technology Practice at EY-Parthenon. Whether it’s digital transformation, sector convergence and dislocation, or financial and operational complexities, EY-Parthenon teams bring data analytics, leading technology and digital capabilities to a CEO's toughest strategic issues. In doing so, EY-Parthenon teams can move quickly from idea to implementation to help clients realize their strategy with speed and certainty, which they call Strategy Realized. Wouter leads the data, decision science and analytics capabilities within EYP's digital and technology ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) practice. His team focuses on making better use of under-utilized data around us to identify business growth opportunities and inform strategic decision-making. They do so through the application of advanced analytics, AI, machine learning, modelling and algorithm development in combination with deep domain expertise a

Today's guest is Chen Peng, Head of Data at Faire. Founded in 2017, Faire is the online wholesale marketplace connecting independent retailers and brands around the world. The company's vision is to help small businesses come together to compete on a more level playing field with the likes of Walmart and Amazon. Today, Faire is the online marketplace where retailers discover their next bestsellers from independent brands across the globe. The data team at Faire is currently a 70+ person full-stack team including data engineering, analytics engineering, machine learning engineering, and data science. They own data warehouse, ETL pipelines, experimentation platform, ML platform, data discovery & quality tooling. The team also work on various ML & optimization systems related to search & recommendation, paid placement, financial underwriting, lead scoring, marketplace dynamics, incentives & pricing, etc. In the episode, Chen will talk about: Faire’s B2B ecommerce marketplace for wholesale

Today's guest is Nicholas Puleo, Senior Director of Enterprise Architecture and Software Solutions at Tierpoint. Founded in 2010, Tierpoint's mission is to be a champion for untangling the complexity in Hybrid IT. They meet their customers where they are on the path to digital and IT transformation by leading with security, being cloud-agnostic, and always solutioning for business outcomes. TierPoint draws on a comprehensive portfolio of services, from public to private to multitenant cloud, from colocation to disaster recovery, security and more. Nicholas is directly responsible for teams working on strategic software development initiatives, enterprise application integration and custom software solutions within TierPoint, overseeing all application architecture for critical business and operational systems. He leads teams that build custom applications to support customers and increase opportunities for further acquisition of customer services. He is responsible for creating TierPoint's Service

Today's guest is Alex Siegman, Machine Learning Technical Program Manager at Google AI. Google are excited about the transformational power of AI and the helpful new ways it can be applied. From research that expands what's possible, to product integrations designed to make everyday things easier, and applying AI to make a difference in the lives of those who need it most, Google are committed to responsible innovation and technologies that benefit all of humanity. Alex is an experienced leader in the AI/ML space, specializing in designing and leading AI-centric programs. He joined Goggle in April 2021 and currently partners with scientists, applied researchers, and engineering & product teams, alongside compliance, ethics and fairness orgs to develop and deploy human-centric, generative foundation models and other incubatory programs. He is also responsible to manage strategic planning, budgeting, communications, compute, and resource allocation for a 110+ person organization within Research. In