Ai In Action

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

Today's guest is Fredrik Spets, Digital Transformation Director at Saab in Sweden. Saab is a leading defence and security company with an enduring mission to help nations keep their people and society safe. Empowered by 18,000 talented people, Saab constantly pushes the boundaries of technology to create a safer, more sustainable and more equitable world. They design, manufacture and maintain advanced systems in aeronautics, weapons, command and control, sensors and underwater systems. Fredrik is leading the digital transformation journey at Saab where he is focused on digitalizing and automating their ways of working within the Saab enterprise as a whole. Fredrik also drives strategies and initiatives for more efficient operations and administration such as robotic process automation, digital workflows and cross functional digital initiatives. He is also the lead of the Intelligent Automation/Hyperautomation Center of Excellence team at Saab. In the episode, Fredrik will discuss: Using ServiceNow at Saab for

Today's guest is Prashant Natarajan, VP of Strategy and Products at H2O.ai in Mountain View, California. Founded in 2012, H2O.ai is the leading AI cloud company who are on a mission to democratize AI for everyone. Customers use the H2O AI Cloud platform to rapidly make, operate and innovate to solve complex business problems and accelerate the discovery of new ideas. H2O.ai is the trusted AI partner to more than 20,000 global organizations, over half of the Fortune 500 and one million data scientists. Prashant is an enthusiastic, collaborative and results-focused executive who loves to build new businesses, transform existing ones, and ensure happy and repeat customers. He has a proven track record as product leader, product led growth expert, a trusted customer advisor/confidant, and an impactful domain expert in insurance, health, life sciences and financial services. Also a best-selling author, Prashant strives to demystify cloud, data, analytics, AI/ML and digital transformation for business leaders, doma

Today's guests are Umashangar Ariyaratnam & Alexis Mendoza, Co-Founders at Proceed in France. Proceed are an integrator, a consulting company and a training center on a human scale. This means that they favour expertise in their areas of choice such as the management of services and information systems on ServiceNow,  support for change and training, and the Convergence and transformation in national or international environments. Proceed chairman Alexis is a Program Director of international transformations from several IT departments, an expert in the implementation of IT organizations, in particular global Service Desks, and an accredited ITIL trainer. CEO Umashangar is a Factory Director and Service Delivery Manager having implemented several teams of developers and process managers on different French or global ServiceNow platforms. In the episode, Umashangar and Alexis will discuss: The interesting work they do at Proceed, Why ServiceNow is the platform of choice, An insight into

Today's guest is Theo Petropoulos, Director of Data Science at Abacus.AI. Founded in 2019 with headquarters in San Francisco, Abacus.AI is the world’s first cloud AI platform that handles all aspects of machine and deep learning at enterprise scale. For repeatable use-cases such as churn prediction, time-series forecasting and deep-learning based personalization, they offer an extremely customizable end to end autonomous AI service where their expert AI agents wrangle data, train machine and deep learning models, and monitor them in production. In addition to all available open source algorithms, Abacus.AI has developed techniques to train custom neural networks that outperform classical models and are easily automated. For custom, highly specific models, Abacus.AI offers a state-of-the-art toolset that allows ML practitioners and data science teams to wrangle data, build real-time machine and deep learning features, upload ipython notebooks, monitor model drift and set up CI/CD for machine learning systems.

Today's guest is Chris Whitney, Chief Digital Officer at Monarch Tractor in California. Monarch Tractor are leading the digital transformation of farming. Monarch believes in putting farmers first with their smart electric tractor enhancing existing farm ecosystems. Monarch helps farmers by addressing labor availability, meeting consumer demands for sustainability and providing actionable data-driven farming insights. Monarch enables economically competitive organic and beyond farming through intelligent electro-mechanical solutions that replace harmful chemicals. While driven by bleeding-edge technology, the Monarch Tractor still plows, tills and hauls better than any other tractor in its class. The Monarch Tractor will both spur and enable future generations of farming technologies. They have the technology and the team to develop, build and scale the Monarch to digitally transform farming around the world. In the episode, Chris will discuss: His background and what attracted him to Monarch Tractor, Their i

Today's guest is Alex Song, CEO and Founder at Proxima in New York. Proxima empowers modern brands to navigate changes in the digital landscape and achieve greater marketing performance with breakthrough data solutions. Realizing the challenges many DTC businesses face, they launched a data-driven solution designed to power the future of how brands grow, quickly and with capital efficiency. Today, Proxima's distributed team is focused on building machine learning tools to help innovative brands reimagine how to scale their marketing strategies. They believe in putting customers first and helping businesses stay ahead of changes in the digital landscape with industry-leading data intelligence solutions. Data integrity is baked into their DNA and they hold themselves to the highest standards of ethical AI. In the episode, Alex will discuss: The interesting work he does with Proxima, Problems they are solving for customers, How he structured the data team for success, Attracting top talent to Proxima,  Plan

Today's guest is Howard Ting, CEO at CyberHaven in Palo Alto, CA. Every day, millions of sensitive documents, files and other data are being exfiltrated because traditional data security products have failed to do their job, resulting in an estimated $600 billion annual cost to the US economy. These data breaches cause severe near and long-term impact, including stolen IP, business interruptions, loss of customer trust, weakened competitiveness and significant financial penalties. Cyberhaven will help organizations secure all of the data they must protect in order to compete and thrive in the digital economy. It’s one big hairy problem but Cyberhaven are up to the challenge. Howard joined Cyberhaven as CEO in June 2020 and in the past decade, he has played a critical role in scaling Palo Alto Networks and Nutanix from initial sales to over $1billion in revenue, generating massive value for customers, employees and shareholders. Howard has also served in GTM and product roles at Redis Labs, Zscaler, Micro

Today's guest is Sofiia Shvets, Co-Founder and CEO at Let’s Enhance in San Francisco. Founded in 2018, Let's Enhance is a deep tech AI company that builds End-to-End imaging solutions for photo enhancement and optimization. This helps to get control over the quality of user-generated content and make it look better for higher conversion rates. Supported by Techstars, Nvidia and Google for Startups, Let's Enhance are used by more than four million people worldwide and their API is automating image enhancement for Fortune 500 companies. Let’s Enhance offers state-of-art AI technology for improving photo quality, removing compression, automating retouch and low light correction using deep learning methodology. In the episode, Sofiia will discuss: The origins and current work at Let’s Enhance, Behind the scenes on how the AI platform comes together, Use cases of the benefits they bring to customers, How the team is set-up for success, Upcoming projects and what’s in store for the near future, and Why Let’s Enhanc

Today's guest is Sid Roy, Machine Learning Engineering Manager at Devron in New York. Founded in 2020, Devron is rethinking the way data science platforms read and share insights across datasets. Sensitive data is often siloed off in private networks, on-premise and in entrenched environments, limiting data scientists in deriving actionable insights for business decisions. Multiple parties often duplicate or lose track of data being shared within and across organizations, often increasing data engineering and cloud costs. Devron is enabling data scientists to build on top of decentralized data stores. They reduce the clutter and steps required for data engineers and scientists to conduct data science and they obviate the need to centralize and duplicate data. Devron is on the path to build the next-generation data science and machine learning platform to enable decentralized analytics. They foresee a globally distributed data fabric that preserves the privacy of the source data, freeing it to drive innovation

Today's guest is Subra Krishnan, CEO at Lemnisk in Boston, MA. Founded in 2019, Lemnisk is the world’s first real-time marketing automation built on an Intelligent and Secure Customer Data Platform orchestrating one-to-one personalization and cross-channel customer journeys at scale that increases conversion, retention and growth for enterprises. Right from solutioning, to implementation, to delivery and reporting, Lemnisk get you the results that you want out of the platform. In the episode, will discuss: His motivation for setting up Lemnisk, The work they do in building a ML driven customer data platform, Making the most out of their Machine Learning practices, Building a startup and challenges they had to overcome, What excites him for the future of the company, and Exciting opportunities to work with Lemnisk

Today's guest is Ben Williams, Chief Operating Officer at Exyn Technologies in Philadelphia. Founded in 2014, Exyn Technologies is pioneering autonomous aerial robot systems for complex, GPS-denied environments. The company’s full-stack solution enables flexible deployment of single or multi-robots that can intelligently navigate and dynamically adapt to complex environments in real-time. Exyn is powered by a team of experts in autonomous systems, robotics and industrial engineering from Penn’s world-renowned GRASP Laboratory and other storied research institutions. Ben is an experienced entrepreneur with over 20 years working in large organizations, as well as founding and leading smaller startups. He has built expertise around innovation, operations, product development, technical management, product management, business strategy, and enterprise business development. In his spare time, he likes to keep up with subjects like engineering, product development, and business at large... and in his finer moments:

Today's guest is Neil Redmond, Director of Cyber at PwC Ireland. Neil is an experienced senior leader with a demonstrated history of working in the cybersecurity and telecom industries. His experience also covers a strong Risk Advisory background for cybersecurity and information security within the Financial Services, Utilities, Transportation, Cloud and Telecoms sectors. Neil's experience also includes introducing new products, business development, technology development and people transformation programs. He also holds strong professional qualifications with a Masters in Business Administration from Dublin City University and a Master of Science focused on Forensic Computing and Cybercrime Investigation from University College Dublin. In the show Neil will discuss: What governance & risk compliance means to organizations, An overview of the cyber threats facing companies, Process, technology and people, The importance of transparency and communication, and How Cybersecurity functions have evolved

Today's guest is Mathaeus Dejori, Chief Data Scientist at Premier Inc. Premier Inc. is a healthcare improvement company uniting an alliance of approximately 4,400 U.S. hospitals and health systems, and more than 225,000 other providers and organizations. As an industry leader, Premier has created one of the most comprehensive databases of actionable data, clinical best practices and efficiency improvement strategies. Premier's award-winning and revolutionary technologies enables members to collaborate more easily and efficiently. Their goal is to improve our members’ quality outcomes, while safely reducing costs. By engaging members and revealing new opportunities, we empower the alliance to improve the performance of healthcare organizations, helping them do what they do best, Heal First™. Named one of the World’s Most Ethical Companies® 13 years in a row, Premier are well-equipped to help health systems thrive. In the episode, Mathaeus will discuss: Interesting roles he has held through the years, How Premi