Ai In Action

Today's guest is Liran Eisenberg, Senior Director of Data Architecture & Engineering at Macy's in New York. Macy's operate one of retail’s largest e-commerce businesses integrated with a nationwide footprint to deliver the most convenient and seamless shopping experience. They help customers express their unique style and celebrate special moments, big and small. It is their purpose is to create a brighter future with bold representation so that they can realize the full potential of everyone of us. Liran is a forward-thinking Data Architect with 20 years of technical management experience guiding the development and design of enterprise database platforms for global organizations. Working both as a consultant and employee, Liran has overseen the implementation of data architecture projects and platform solutions within highly regulated high-tech, financial, military and healthcare sectors ranging from startups to large corporate enterprises. In the episode, Liran will talk about: What attracted

Today's guest is Rami Khoury, CEO at auxi in Boston, MA. Founded in 2020, auxi is building the modern productivity suite for knowledge workers. They want smart people to focus on what matters instead of wasting time on mundane tasks, such as formatting slides, aligning shapes, annotating images and reshaping training data. auxi's first product takes you from a hand drawn sketch to a fully formatted PowerPoint or Google Slides Presentation. In the episode, Rami will talk about: The motivation for founding auxi, How the platform helps consultants with Powerpoint presentations, The role of AI in the platform, Day-to-day life of the Machine Learning team & upcoming projects, Why auxi is a great place to work, and What excites him for the future at auxi

Today's guest is Ashutosh Munot, ServiceNow Technical Architect at Nationale-Nederlanden. The NN Group is an international financial services company, active in 11 countries, with a strong presence in a number of European countries and Japan.. With roots in The Netherlands and a rich history of more than 175 years, NN Group provides retirement services, pensions, insurance, banking and investments to approximately 18 million customers. NN Group includes Nationale-Nederlanden, NN, ABN AMRO Insurance, Movir, AZL, BeFrank, OHRA and Woonnu. NN Group put their resources, expertise and networks to use for the well-being of their customers, the advancement of their communities, the preservation of the planet, and for the promotion of a stable, inclusive and sustainable economy. Their purpose is to help people care for what matters most to them. In the episode, Ashutosh will discuss: Balancing his community work with his full-time role, How to generate your projects into ROI, Case studies of the impact they bring to

Today's guest is Paxton Maeder-York, CEO and Founder Alife Health in San Francisco, CA. Founded in 2020, Alife is on a mission to modernize and personalize IVF with cutting edge AI. They have built one of the largest and most diverse IVF data collections, made up of millions of patient cycles and sourced from the top fertility clinics around the world. Alife's AI software analyzes this data to identify what treatment plans have produced the best outcomes for past IVF patients that are similar to you. When you come in for care, your fertility clinician can combine these insights with their own expertise to craft a personalized IVF treatment plan. In the episode, Paxton will talk about: The inspiration for Alife Health, Applying AI to improve the equity and efficacy of IVF, The journey of bringing their product to life from concept to now, Building the team to help bring the idea to life, What the near future holds for Alife Health, and  Why Alife Health are great place to work

Today's guest is Srinath Sridhar, Co-Founder and CEO at Regie.ai in San Francisco, CA. Founded in 2020, Regie's advanced software blends the art of language and the science of delivery to create, test and analyze personalized prospecting sales campaigns so you don’t have to. Regie comes with all the benefits of an internal content team and replaces each teammate's habits and bias with data and insights. With a few simple steps to identify the buyers you’re targeting, Regie will automatically create custom prospecting email campaigns, sales scripts and social touches with the tone and messaging that has proven most effective with your prospect’s persona. Regie will then tell you exactly when to deliver your touch points so that you are converting more of your prospecting activity into qualified sales opportunities. In the episode, Srinath will chat about: Using NLP in their content platform for sales & marketing, Problems they are solving for customers, The AI & Sales team that brings the platform to l

Today's guest is Deedy Das, Founding Engineer at Glean in Palo Alto, CA. Founded in 2019, Glean are on a mission to bring people the knowledge they need to make a difference in the world.  Glean was founded by a seasoned team of former Google search and Facebook engineers, who wondered why we don’t have an easier way of finding what we need at work. In our personal lives, we have tools to help us find pretty much whatever we need. They wondered why don’t we have that at work and that was the beginning of Glean. As an engineering leader at Glean, Deedy's team works on Search & Intelligence problems which need dedicated end-to-end engineering thinking - indexing, processing, retrieval, ranking, serving, product - and power structured search (people, teams, customers, knowledge), chat search and code search. Prior to Glean, Deedy has been a Tech Lead at Google Search working on query understanding and the sports product in New York, Tel Aviv and Bangalore. Previously, he was also an engineer at Facebook

Today's guest is Larry Williams, President and CEO at TAG: Technology Association of Georgia. Founded in 1999, TAG’s mission is to Connect, Promote, Influence and Educate Georgia’s technology ecosystem to advance the innovation economy. Through those four foundational pillars, TAG serves the technology community by helping to support, grow and ignite tech leaders, companies and the overall Georgia economy. Larry brings over 25 years of experience in global branding, international trade and finance, public and industrial policy, and administration and management to TAG. Previously with The Beacon Council, Miami-Dade County’s official economic development partnership, Larry helped facilitate local, national and international business growth and expansion programs. Larry executed a new economic development framework for The Beacon Council, which resulted in $687 million in new investment, 119 company relocations or expansions, and more than 4,500 new jobs. In the episode, Larry will discuss: His role and respons

Today's guest is Jon Davis, Chief Meteorologist at Everstream Analytics. Everstream Analytics risk scores and predictive insights set the world’s supply chain standard, helping global companies turn supply chains into business-changing, market-shifting, competition-crushing assets. Removing the traditional blinders of one-dimensional data, they offer more complete information, sharper analysis and accurate predictions. Companies like Google, Schneider Electric & Unilever rely on Everstream to push their supply chains to be faster, smarter, leaner and more sustainable. Jon leads Everstream's forecasting operations for energy, agriculture and supply chain logistics. He brings over 35 years of experience and is widely considered one of the foremost experts on the impact of weather and climate on global commodities. Jon previously spent 18 years on Wall Street in the commodity divisions within Citigroup focusing on risk management in agriculture, energy, and the financial sectors, while he also spent 10 years

Today's guest is Elia Brodsky, CEO at Pine Biotech in New Orleans, LA. Founded in 2014, Pine Biotech's vision is to enhance human health and well-being by enabling Biological Research and Discovery with relevant data, solutions and support. Their mission is to simplify bioinformatics and advance research through our modular and intuitive multi-omics analysis platform powered by Human Experience and Artificial Intelligence. Pine Biotech's team consists of bioinformaticians and data scientists that have years of experience collaborating with researchers and industry to develop solutions that leverage omics data. Their experience, unique solutions and passion to democratize bioinformatics have resulted in numerous publications, solutions used by thousands of researchers and collaborative projects in oncology, virology and neuroscience. In the episode, Elia will discuss: The current work he is doing with Pine Biotech, Combining bioinformatics with AI & Data Analytics, The life-cycle of a typical customer jour

Today's guest is Jelane Johnson, Vice President of Transformation at UnitedHealthcare in Phoenix, AZ. UnitedHealthcare are dedicated to helping people live healthier lives and helping to make the health system work better for everyone by simplifying the health care experience, addressing consumer health and social issues, delivering access to high-quality care and sustaining trusted relationships with care providers. Today, advanced data and technologies, breakthrough treatments and consumer choice are redefining what can be achieved. Jelane is a management, organizational and IT professional with over 20 years of experience in consulting, system implementation, operations, process development and client delivery. She has a proven ability to mobilize and lead diverse, matrixed, global teams to deliver on demanding requirements and timelines. Jelane is also an experienced solution architect, implementation and operations lead with business process and system design experience across Health, Commercial, State a

Today's guest is Jesse Johnson, Head of Data Science and Data Engineering at Dewpoint Therapeutics in Boston, MA. Founded in 2018, Dewpoint Therapeutics is the first company to apply the emerging understanding of biomolecular condensates to drug discovery. Dewpoint believes that a vast range of conditions have pathways that are regulated by condensates or arise from the dysfunction of condensates, including cancer, neurodegeneration, infectious disease and metabolic disease. Dewpoint scientists work in Boston, Dresden and Frankfurt to translate condensate biology into treatments for the toughest diseases. In the episode, Jesse will discuss: The interesting work they are doing in Biotechnology, The main objectives and goals of their work within Drug Discovery, Combining his life sciences skills with technical skills, An insight into the data science & engineering team, What’s in store for the near future at Dewpoint, & His advice to those considering a career in life sciences

In today's show, we're delighted to welcome back Charles Fisher, CEO at unlearn.ai in San Francisco. Founded in 2017, Unlearn helps biopharma companies develop drugs more ethically and efficiently by leveraging generative machine learning models to reduce the number of patients required for placebo controls in clinical trials. They enable clinical trial sponsors to run RCTs that are up to twice as fast, require fewer participants, produce better evidence about therapeutic efficacy, and in which fewer participants need to be given placebos. Charles is a scientist with interests at the intersection of physics, machine learning and computational biology. Previously, Charles worked as a machine learning engineer at Leap Motion and was a computational biologist at Pfizer. He was a Philippe Meyer Fellow in theoretical physics at École Normale Supérieure in Paris, France and a postdoctoral scientist in biophysics at Boston University. Charles holds a Ph.D. in biophysics from Harvard University and a B.S. in bio

Today's guest is Nicholas Freund, Founder and CEO at Workstream in New York. Founded in 2020 by Nick and his co-founder Chris Ibarra, Workstream are passionate about the future of analytics and its potential to transform companies. They have seen firsthand the transformative nature of the modern data stack, but found the way that teams empower their organization to be data-driven is still broken. By building around the tools that data analysts already use, Workstream knew that technology could remove some of this burden and let teams get back to what they are good at: interpreting ambiguous data sets to identify areas of opportunity to grow the business. As the first solution purpose-built to unify the data analyst workflow, their SaaS application natively integrates with your existing tools. In the episode, Nick will talk about: His background and origins of Workstream, Problems they are solving for customers in BI and Analytics, An insight into the team driving their success, What’s in store for Workstream

Today's guest is Gil Allouche, Chief Executive Officer at Metadata.io. Founded in 2015 with headquarters in Colorado, Metadata eliminates technical, mundane and repetitive tasks through AI and automation. Their patented technology combines predictive scoring and programmatic advertising to deliver a predictable pipeline of opt-in lead qualified leads for B2B enterprises. A software engineer turned data-driven growth marketer, Gil founded Metadata.io to make demand generation easy for non-technical marketers. In the episode, Gil will talk about: How Metadata.io all came about, The role of AI and Data within their platform, Why Metadata is a great place to work, What excites him for the future of the company, & Upcoming opportunities to join the team

Today's guest is Jeff Schmitz, Chief Human Resources & Marketing Manager at Zebra Technologies in Chicago, IL. Founded in 1969, Zebra empowers the front line of business in retail/ecommerce, manufacturing, transportation and logistics, healthcare, public sector and other industries to achieve a performance edge. With more than 10,000 partners across 100 countries, they provide better visibility through industry-tailored, end-to-end solutions that intelligently connect people, assets and data to help their customers make business-critical decisions. Jeff is a senior executive with demonstrated ability to lead teams to new levels of success in highly competitive environments. He has 25+ years of hands-on global experience in Executive Management, General Management, Product Management, Product Marketing, Research and Development, Operations, Business Development, Marketing and Sales. In his current role, Jeff is responsible to lead Zebra’s Human Resources team to create, sustain and nurture a dynamic commun

Today's guest is Eilon Baer, Data Science Team Lead at Explorium. Explorium provides the first External Data Platform that automatically discovers thousands of relevant data signals to improve analytics and machine learning. They are on a mission to reshape the way organizations access external data to build their unique competitive advantage. Explorium's External Data Platform empowers data scientists and business analysts to acquire and integrate third party data efficiently, cost-effectively and in compliance with regulations. With faster, better insights from their models, organizations across fintech, insurance, consumer goods, retail and e-commerce can increase revenue, streamline operations and reduce risks. In the episode, Eilon will talk about: His background and current role with Explorium, Building their external data cloud, Benefits that the platform brings to customers, An insight into the day-to-day life of the data team, Plans for growth and career opportunities at Explorium, and What it’s like

Today's guest is Artem Kroupenev, VP of Strategy at Augury in New York. Augury helps eliminate downtime, reduce maintenance costs and maximize productivity for critical machines in industrial and commercial applications. Augury's Machine Health solutions combine advanced sensors with powerful AI capabilities and collaboration tools to help teams understand when machines are at risk. They also provide the expertise so customers know what to do to prevent failures long before those risks can threaten production or productivity. Augury is on a mission to give their customers superior insights into the health and performance of the machines they use to make products, deliver services and improve lives. We are all surrounded by machines and rely on them in everything we do – from the food and medicines that keep us healthy to the clothes we wear and the goods we use. Augury makes these machines more reliable, more efficient and ensure they are there when their customers need them, to deliver the products and servi

Today's guest is Troy Astorino, Co-Founder and CTO at PicnicHealth in San Francisco, CA. Founded in 2014, PicnicHealth are building deep real-world datasets fueling cutting edge research while giving patients control of their own medical record data. These complete, clinically-rich datasets produce unique insights - across dozens of diseases - to ultimately get the right treatments into patients’ hands faster. PicnicHealth do this by working directly with patients and leveraging state-of-the-art machine learning and human curation to transform messy medical records into structured, research-ready datasets. By partnering with some of the largest life sciences companies, they have helped tens of thousands of patients securely access their records and proactively contribute to advancing research in diseases that impacts their lives. In the episode, Troy will discuss: Problems they are solving within patient medical data, The role of AI, Data Science & Analytics in their platform, How the team is set up for s

Today's guest is Jan Pennel, ServiceNow Practice Lead at D2M Services, a division of DISYS. Founded in 1994 and headquartered in  McLean, Virginia with more than 45 offices worldwide, D2M (Data & Digital Managed Services) is an outcome-driven service and solutions partner that serves enterprises across their IT operations. D2M's digital transformation and cognitive automation services help clients in accelerating their digital transformation journeys and meet their business goals. By leveraging automation in every aspect of their infrastructure support services, D2M guarantees hyper-stability, increased efficiency and the highest level of user satisfaction. D2M enables businesses to go through digital transformation by powering their services through the cloud, providing data and analytics and modernizing their legacy systems. With this multi-pronged approach to modernizing business systems, D2M helps businesses improve their systems and establish a meaningful digital presence. In the episode, Jan wi

Today's guest is Sivakumar Lakshmanan, CEO of Antuit.ai, a Zebra Technologies company. Founded in 2013 in Dallas, Texas, Antuit.ai is rethinking the way consumer products and retail companies use AI to solve real business problems. They offer solutions that inform the most important business decisions, from supply chain to merchandising to marketing, empowering world-class retail and consumer products companies to digitally transform their businesses to achieve substantial business results. Sivakumar has extensive experience in driving supply chain transformation leveraging advanced analytics. He has advised many Fortune 500 companies on demand forecasting, supply chain planning, network design, and inventory optimization across CPG, Retail and Manufacturing.  He joined antuit.ai in 2013 as a Partner and lead for developing new business in Asia. In his current role as a member of the Executive team and head of Forecasting and Supply Chain business unit, Sivakumar is responsible for driving revenue growth