Ai In Action

Today's guest is Shay Neufeld, Director of Data Products and Analytics at Inscopix, a Bruker company. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in Mountain View, California, Inscopix is empowering researchers in academia and industry with a pioneering neural circuit approach, to improve their understanding of the brain and accelerate therapeutic development for neurological and psychiatric disorders. Their Miniscope platform is the integration and miniaturization of the benchtop fluorescence microscope into a 2-gram device that can be mounted onto the head of a freely behaving animal to observe its brain activity. With over 1000 installations worldwide, these miniscopes are empowering advances in neuroscience research and preclinical research for the development of transformational therapeutics. In the episode, Shay will talk about: The interesting work they do at Inscopix An insight into the life of the data insights team What excites him for the future within neuroscience Their recent acquisition by Bruker an

Today's guest is Chase Spurlock, Co-Founder and CEO at Decode Health in Nashville, Tennessee. Founded in 2019, Decode Health is a Healthcare AI company that powers an ecosystem of industry-leading diagnostic and pharmaceutical companies to unlock discoveries with data. Current projects the team are working on include genomic data creation, RNA diagnostics and population health analytics. Over the course of a decade, the team leading Decode has built a framework leveraging a variety of advanced machine learning approaches. The company’s flexible, scalable approach layers clinical data with SDoH and non-clinical data to fuel innovation and advance precision medicine. Decode’s data assets, products and services improve patient outcomes, lower costs and promote health equity. In the episode, Chase will discuss: The interesting work he does with Decode Health, An insight into the day-to-day life of the data team, Examples of the benefits that they bring to customers, What the future holds for Decode Health, Wh

Today's guest is Nima Keyhani, Managing Director Americas at Serity. Founded in 2020 with offices in Germany, the United States and Colombia, Serity has the right mix between domain expertise and technical knowledge to make your project successful. With a team of experts in the areas of GRC, Security Operations, Third Party Risk Management and BCM, they not only know the challenges that customers face every day, but they also come up with a solution that suits their needs. By implementing these solutions for several years on the ServiceNow Platform, Serity have become a reliable partner and a trusted advisor, building a bridge between business and technology. Their mission is to digitize and improve processes to protect an enterprise and its most valuable assets. They achieve this through their domain expertise which helps them to design an integrated solution that enables their customers and reduces their costs. In the episode, Nima will talk about: The interesting work he does with Serity, Benefits th

Today's guest is Nan Li, VP of AI, ML and Statistical Practice at Nationwide in Columbus, Ohio. Nationwide is one of the largest and strongest diversified insurance and financial services organizations in the United States. Nationwide provides a full range of insurance and financial services products including auto, business, homeowners, farm and life insurance; public and private sector retirement plans, annuities and mutual funds; excess & surplus, specialty and surety; pet, motorcycle and boat insurance. Nan is a passionate, versatile, and human-centric data and analytics executive with 20 years of experience in the insurance, financial services, and healthcare industries. A creative and pragmatic business problem solver, innovator and communicator, Nan is skilled at setting up data & analytics strategy and roadmap, bringing business, analytics, and IT together to achieve business outcomes, and operationalizing data & analytics solutions to deliver scalability and ROI. In the episode, Nan will

Today's guest is Peter Foley, Head of Data Science at EDO in California. EDO is a leading platform for measuring the immediate impact of TV advertising across linear and streaming. Modern marketers across brands and networks combine real-time TV engagement signals with world-class decision science, to maximize creative and media performance. EDO's investment-grade data aligns advertising investments to business results with detailed competitive, category, historical and predictive intelligence. In 2015, award-winning filmmaker and entrepreneur Edward Norton and PhD economist, poet, and entrepreneur Daniel Nadler saw an opportunity to modernize linear TV advertising measurement and help the film industry better market their work using data science. Eight years later, EDO has grown well beyond a tool for media and entertainment. They now empower marketers, networks, advertising agencies and creatives to understand when and how Convergent TV ads trigger consumers to take actions that lead to economic outcomes. I

Today's guest is Artem Tyndyk, Lead Technical Consultant at NTT Data in Frankfurt, Germany. As part of the NTT Group, NTT Data is a trusted global innovator of IT and business services. They help clients transform through consulting, industry solutions, business process services, IT modernization and managed services. NTT Data enables clients, as well as society, to move confidently into the digital future. They are committed to their clients’ long-term success and combine global reach with local client attention to serve them in over 50 countries. NTT Data have developed industry-leading best practices and deliver unparalleled industry knowledge and true guidance to help leaders transform the modern enterprise. With hundreds of successful customer transformations across all areas, they bring a unique design-centered approach to all engagements to optimize user experience and realize ROI. Whether you are just starting out, looking to reimplement or heading up a new strategic initiative on the platform, NTT DA

Today's guest is Ylan Kazi, Chief Data Officer at Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Dakota. Ever since Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Dakota began following the Great Depression, they have been dedicated to helping people get affordable health care solutions to improve their health and well-being. As we enter a new era of healthcare, BCBSND continues to transform the way healthcare is delivered and to make a meaningful difference for those they serve. Ylan brings deep strategic experience in analytics, emerging technology, data governance and other aspects of creating a data-driven culture. He leads the Enterprise Data and Analytics Solutions team, where he is focused on creating and executing data strategy using sophisticated analytic capabilities and modern data governance practices. He works closely with C-level and other senior executives by finding value in data and using it to drive clinical and financial results for members. In the episode, Ylan will talk about: The work they do at Blue Cross Blue Shiel

Today's guest is James Hamet, Founder and CEO at Vistim Labs in Salt Lake City. Founded in 2021, Vistim Labs' offer quick & affordable screening diagnostic for biomarkers of neurodegenerative disease. Their mission is to increase patient access to care and clinical decision making ability with their screening diagnostic. Their AI tracks neurodegeneration by identifying visuospatial & cognitive deficits from EEG patterns that indicate specific levels of amyloid and tau protein accumulation, as well as cognitive impairment. James is a serial entrepreneur specialized in signal-processing and machine learning for brain activity. Since his first foray into neuroscience with brain computer interfaces, he has developed a variety of new technologies. They include enabling remote control of software and devices using brain activity, predicting highway accidents by monitoring mental fatigue, accelerating behavior change with attentional priming, and predicting pre-symptomatic cognitive decline with a novel evok

Today's guest is Philip Swann, Managing Consultant at Wrangu. Founded in 2016 with offices in Amsterdam and London, Wrangu's mission is to enable their clients to maximise the value from their ServiceNow investment through world class implementation and services. They are also creating intelligent apps which help to solve localisation needs and address the industry specific challenges that their clients have in their business. Philip is an experienced IT Principal Technical Consultant with strong delivery focused skills. He has an extensive background in application management across global customer service and retail industries. With a strong focus on Customer centricity throughout all stages of the system life cycle, Philip has the ability to deliver multi-million dollar initiatives and improve operational efficiency through innovative solutions that align customer expectations with business needs. In the episode, Philip chats about: The interesting work he does with Wrangu, Trends he is seeing such as regu

Today's guest is Peyton Greenside, Founder and CSO at BigHat Biosciences in the San Francisco Bay Area. Founded in 2019, BigHat Biosciences is designing safer, more effective antibody therapies for patients using machine learning and synthetic biology. BigHat integrates a wet lab for high-speed characterization with machine learning technologies to guide the search for better antibodies. They are applying these design capabilities to develop new generations of safer and more effective treatments for patients suffering from today’s most challenging diseases. A pioneer of deep learning applied to life science problems, Peyton has developed computational, statistical, and AI/ML techniques to model, understand, and optimize biological sequences in academia and industry. Peyton was an inaugural Schmidt Science Fellow, a computational biologist at the Broad Institute and a scientific founder of Valis. She also holds a PhD from Stanford University (Accel Innovation Scholar), an MPhil in Computational Biology from Ca

Today's guest is Rui Aguiar, Co-Founder and CTO at Expedock in Silicon Valley, CA. Founded in 2019, Expedock is the AI-powered automation service behind some of the leading players in the global supply chain. Thousands of freight containers are now being moved internationally via Expedock every week through their technology that eliminates inefficiencies by automating the manual processes, and connects all physical and digital data sources into one platform. Expedock are eliminating the time and complexity to connect and reconcile disparate data sources by building the single source of truth to unlock supply chain visibility like never before. Their mission is to digitize the global supply chain with best-in-class technology for thought leadership and innovative solutions. Their international team of tech and logistics executives are committed to transforming the future of supply chain and logistics, one business at a time. In the episode, Rui will talk about: The interesting work they do at Expedock, Be

Today's guest is Anne Granet,  Presales manager & Employee Workflow Champion EMEA at Devoteam in Paris, France. Devoteam is a leading consulting firm focused on digital strategy, tech platforms, data and cybersecurity. By combining creativity, tech and data insights, they empower customers to transform their business and unlock the future. With 25 years’ experience and more than 10,000 employees across Europe, the Middle East and Africa, Devoteam promotes responsible tech for people and works to create better change. With a career spent both in business and in consulting, Anne has built up experience in the operational vision of support and business processes in various industries. She advises companies in the transformation of their customers, employee workflows, digitalization of their support services, and the human and digital shift to sustain their vision. As a ServiceNow platform aficionada, she helps companies to make their vision a reality with Customer Service Management, HR Service Delivery

Today's guest is Michael Goedde, VP of Global Data Operations at ICON plc in Maryland, USA. Founded in Dublin, Ireland in 1990, ICON offer a full range of consulting, clinical development and commercialization services from a global network of offices in 46 countries.  It is their mission has been to help their clients to accelerate the development of drugs and devices that save lives and improve quality of life. ICON are a global provider of consulting, outsourced development and commercialization services to pharmaceutical, biotechnology, medical device, government and public health organizations. They focus their innovation on the factors that are critical to their clients such as reducing time to market, reducing cost and increasing quality, and their global team of experts has extensive experience in a broad range of therapeutic areas. In the episode, Michael will discuss: An insight into the data operations team at ICON, Projects they work on within clinical data and analytics, Their approach to so

Today's guest is Dilyan Kovachev, Director of Machine Learning and Analytics at Treasure Data. Founded in 2011, Treasure Data was built to radically simplify customer data management and help brands use all of their customer data to improve campaign performance, achieve operational efficiency, and drive business value with connected customer experiences. Treasure Data helps hundreds of Fortune 500 and Global 2000 customers - including some of the world’s most recognizable brands - generate new data opportunities. Customer Data Cloud, their award-winning suite of customer data platform solutions, integrates customer data, connects identities in unified customer profiles, applies privacy, and makes insights and predictions available for Marketing, Service, Sales and Operations to drive personalized engagement and improve customer acquisition, sales and retention. This flexible, scalable and secure platform has a comprehensive connector network that evolves with  existing technology stack to future-proof al

Today's guest is Katharine Kennedy, Global Head and GM of the ServiceNow Business Unit at Microsoft. Katharine is an award-winning, enthusiastic and customer-centric business leader in the high-tech industry working with some of the biggest brands in the business. She brings a unique perspective to her customers and team, having worked for Silicon Valley software and hardware startups, upstarts and tech giants in Washington D.C., New York City, Canada and Florida. Katharine joined Microsoft in 2022 where she specializes in building data-driven marketing and sales GTM strategies, as well as growing and leading high performing teams. She is also responsible for cultivating strategic partnerships by working with business and technology leaders of global organizations in accelerating their digital transformation journey to drive significant business outcomes that both impress customers and empower employees. In the episode, Katharine will discuss: Her role & responsibilities at Microsoft, Latest trends and foc

Today's guest is Patrick Chen, Senior Director of Business Intelligence, Growth and Accountable Care Enterprise at Scripps Health in San Diego, CA. Each day at Scripps, they put the vision of their founders — Ellen Browning Scripps and Mother Mary Michael Cummings — into action by dedicating themselves to quality, safe, cost-efficient and socially responsible health care for everyone that they serve. Scripps keeps that vision at the forefront as they care for patients, engage in clinical research and ultimately improve community health. Patrick is a senior leader for business intelligence and growth at Scripps Health, specializing in the development of innovative partnerships and leveraging advanced analytics for market intelligence, healthcare economics, and mergers & acquisitions. He is deeply committed to driving positive impact in underserved communities for both clinical outcomes and social determinants, with thoughtful execution of data-driven population health programs and technology enabled soluti

Today's guest is Shiva Amiri, VP, Head of AI and Data Intelligence at Pivotal Life Sciences in San Francisco, CA. Founded in 2017, Pivotal Life Sciences back the brightest minds in life sciences throughout the world. The Pivotal Life Sciences platform includes Pivotal bioVenture Partners US, Pivotal bioVenture Partners China and Pivotal Growth. Their teams make direct investments into high-quality life sciences companies that are developing and commercializing products that address well-defined, substantial medical and market needs. Working at the intersection of computing and biology, Shiva is experienced in large-scale, multi-stakeholder technology development in data science and biology with a focus on computational biology, bioinformatics, machine learning, and big data systems. She is a team builder and entrepreneur in cutting edge computational methods in biology, digital health and medical research with a proven track record in big data/data science and program execution and strategy. In the episode, S

Today's guest is Andrea Leigh Buma, Practice Director of Security & Risk at c1secure. Founded in 2012, c1secure is an independent security and compliance firm addressing the stringent demands of Domestic & International mandates and cyber security policy. c1secure provides a full suite of security and compliance solutions including, managed security services, professional services and product sets. They are pioneering intelligent security solutions for the extended digital enterprise with their CISO Sentinel™ Security & Compliance platform, a continuous monitoring platform hosted in the cloud and related offerings. As a Premier ServiceNow partner focused on the Integrated Risk Management and Security Operations modules, they offer implementation services, managed services and product development on the platform. In the episode, Andrea will discuss: Why ESG is a hot topic in the industry, The challenges of working with ESG products in supply chain, The role of ServiceNow supporting ESG programs, Ho

Today's guest is Payton Soicher, Director of Machine Learning at Wurl. Since 2017, Wurl has been on a mission to make TV better for everyone. As the world leader in powering streaming TV, Wurl's video distribution and advertising services reach over 300 million connected TVs, delivering hundreds of millions of hours of TV viewing and millions of individually targeted ads. Wurl’s innovative, market-leading technologies enable content companies, streamers and advertising to continually reach new viewers and grow revenue. In the episode, Payton will discuss: Their work within content streaming advertizing, Challenges the team are solving using Machine Learning, The benefits that Wurl bring to customers, How the acquisition by AppLovin will impact the company, What the near future looks like for Wurl and Why Wurl is a great place to work

Today's guest is Gary Velasquez, Chief Executive Officer at Cogitativo in Berkeley, CA. Spanish for meditative and contemplating, Cogitativo was founded in 2015 with the purpose of thinking deeply about the issues affecting the healthcare system. It is their mission to improve the healthcare system by helping their clients make sense of complex data so they can answer their most challenging questions. Using a challenge-based learning approach, Cogitativo's data scientists connect their client’s disparate, noisy data and then develop customized solutions that allow clients to look deeply into their business. Just as an MRI is able to see what is happening inside the human body, their ‘data science as a service’ model quickly visualizes their client’s business enabling them to solve their most intractable problems. In the episode, Gary will discuss: The interesting work he does with Cogitativo, The journey of building the company from the ground up, Current make-up of the team, Upcoming projects and milestones