Ai In Action

Today's guest is Gary Beasley, CEO and Co-Founder at Roofstock in Oakland, CA. Founded in 2015, Roofstock is building the world’s leading real estate investment marketplace. Their mission is to make ownership of investment real estate radically accessible, cost-effective and simple. Roofstock's platform lets everyone from first-time investors to global asset managers evaluate, purchase and own residential investment properties with confidence, from anywhere in the world. Roofstock are combining highly-experienced people in the business with the power of AI and the efficiencies of institutional scale, knocking down the traditional barriers to real estate investing. They are building a vibrant and proactive marketplace for real estate investing where the accessibility to information is matched only by the ease of transaction. It's a new model where everyone can participate, from anywhere, at any time. Roofstock believe that building wealth through real estate should be nothing short of radically simple. In the

Today's guest is Merav Yuravlivker, CEO and Co-Founder at Data Society in Washington D.C. Founded in 2014, Data Society provides customized, industry-tailored data science training and AI solutions, partnering with organizations to educate, equip and empower their workforce with the skills to achieve their goals and expand their impact. They have become a leading provider of cutting-edge technology solutions and custom workforce development programs for both commercial and government clients. With over ten years of experience in instructional design, training and teaching, Merav started her career teaching elementary special education in NYC public schools through the Teach for America program. Merav found her passion for education and knew that she wanted to make an impact on an even larger scale. She recognized the importance of data literacy and began her data journey by learning how to program and design best practices for students during her free time. Six months later, she left her full-time job to focu

Today's guest is François Candelon, Global Director at the BCG Henderson Institute in Paris, France. The BCG Henderson Institute is the Boston Consulting Group’s strategy think tank, dedicated to exploring and developing valuable new insights from business, technology and science by embracing the powerful technology of ideas. The Institute engages leaders in provocative discussion and experimentation to expand the boundaries of business theory and practice and to translate innovative ideas from within and beyond business. With nearly 30 years experience working with Boston Consulting Group, François' work has been published in prestigious business and management magazines such as Harvard Business Review & MIT Sloan Management Review, and has presented at multiple global conferences. His most recent work focuses on AI and data analytics in the technology, media and telecommunications sectors. In 2021, François was short-listed for Thinkers50 Distinguished Achievement Awards in Digital Thinking for his

Today's guest is Marin Ferara, Senior Data Scientist at Data Insights GmbH. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Munich, Data Insights generates real added value from data, such that their customers can remain competitive. The company employs the latest ideas, a pre-emptive approach and creative mindsets to achieve intelligent results from data. Data Insights covers the entire project cycle, is constantly aligned with customers’ needs and requirements, and supports them in implementing Big Data, Data Science and Cloud projects. In the episode, Marin discuss: His role and current work at Data Insights, Problems they are solving for customers, The challenges of applying AI in the industry, Delivering to customer expectations, His predictions for the future of AI

Today's guest is Donal Tobin, CEO at integrate.io in San Francisco. Founded in 2012, Integrate.io allows organizations to integrate, process and prepare data for analytics on the cloud. By providing a coding and jargon-free environment, their scalable platform ensures businesses can quickly and easily benefit from the opportunities offered by big data without having to invest in hardware, software or related personnel. With Integrate.io, every company can have immediate connectivity to a variety of data stores and a rich set of out-of-the-box data transformation components. In the episode, Donal discuss: Helping companies centralise their data in a data warehouse, The rise of Data Warehousing & current trends, Use cases of how eCommerce companies benefit from Data Science, Insights into Search, Customer Lifetime Value, Customer Retention & more, What a typical project life cycle looks like, and What excites him for the future at integrate.io

Today's guest is Maarten Braspenning, Founder & CEO and Alexander Lukyanov, Scientific Director at BISC Global. Founded in 2017 by an experienced team of bioinformaticians, statisticians and business leaders, BISC Global's goal is to help customers overcome their challenges in data-analysis, pipeline automation, visualization and compute environments. Over the past few years, BISC Global has grown to become one of the world’s premier consulting companies in bioinformatics, statistics and ML/AI. With teams located in Boston, San Francisco, Belgium and Switzerland, BISC Global supports a variety of data analysis tools, including machine learning (data mining, pattern recognition, image analysis, (un)supervised learning, neural networks, deep learning), bioinformatics (single-cell transcriptomics, metabolomics, metagenomics, epigenomics), and statistics (experimental design, mathematic modelling, signal-to-noise enhancement, and independent data cross validation). In the episode, Marten and Alexander discuss

Today's guest is Walter Mayo, CEO at Expert.ai in Boston, MA. Expert.ai is the premier AI platform for language understanding. Its unique hybrid approach to NL combines symbolic human-like comprehension and machine learning to transform language-intensive processes into practical knowledge, providing the insight required to improve decision making throughout organizations. By offering a full range of on-premise, private and public cloud offerings, expert.ai augments business operations, accelerates and scales data science capabilities and simplifies AI adoption across a vast range of industries including Insurance, Banking & Finance, Publishing & Media, Defense & Intelligence, Life Science & Pharma, Oil Gas & Energy, and more. In the episode, Walter will discuss: The work he does with expert.ai, Helping organizations understand the language of their business, Current projects the team are working on in ML, Automation and NLP, The current make-up and culture of the team, What the future hol

Today's guest is Jeff Seibert, Co-Founder at Digits in San Francisco, CA. Founded in 2018, Digits' mission is to provide the real-time visibility and powerful, actionable intelligence that business operators and their finance teams require to chart their course in the world. From their concierge efforts to the smallest details in their product’s design and implementation, Digits are constantly pushing the boundaries on how to delight customers, ship industry-defining products at scale and build true friendships with each other along the way. Digits gives you live, total visibility into your business by combining advanced machine learning, full-historical statistical analysis, and layers of proprietary datasets and heuristics. Digits leverage the latest in machine-learned algorithms to automatically identify patterns, intelligently classify incoming data and detect anomalies. Digits are a fully distributed team of enginee

Today's guest is Ravi Mayuram, Chief Technology Officer and Senior Vice President of Engineering at Couchbase in Santa Clara, CA. Founded in 2009, Couchbase believes data is at the heart of the enterprise. They empower developers and architects to build, deploy and run their mission-critical applications. Couchbase delivers a high-performance, flexible and scalable modern database that runs across the data center and any cloud. Many of the world’s largest enterprises rely on Couchbase to power the core applications their businesses depend on. As CTO, Ravi is focused on driving deeper customer and partner relationships and evangelizing Couchbase in the market. He joined Couchbase from Oracle, where he served as senior director of engineering and led innovation in the areas of recommender systems and social graph, search and analytics, and lightweight client frameworks. Ravi was responsible for kickstarting the cloud collaboration platform at Oracle. Previously in his career, Ravi held senior technical and mana

Today's guest is Travis Toulson, ServiceNow Architect at CodeCreative in Raleigh, NC. When transitioning from working in maintenance and production into IT, Travis faced a lot of challenges breaking in. Information was hard to find unless you already knew what to look for and he felt people were generally unhelpful. Because of this, it took him around five years just to learn to code and a few more years to cross into IT. When at rock bottom, Travis promised himself that if he made it, he would do everything he could to hold the door open for others. Thanks to the ServiceNow Community, it’s members, and an amazing group of mentors and recruiters, Travis was given an opportunity better than he ever imagined. Following through on his commitment, Travis uses CodeCreative to share educational content to help people start and grow their careers on the ServiceNow platform. In the episode, Travis will discuss: How he got into the world of ServiceNow, Why ServiceNow is the platform of choice, Favorite projects h

Today's guest is William Balance, CEO at Lavender in New York. Founded in 2020, Lavender is your AI email assistant that combines everything you need to easily write emails that get replies. Lavender provides real time AI-driven coaching on your email, allows you to research your prospect without leaving your inbox, confirm their email is valid, check if your email will land in SPAM, see how it looks on mobile, plus much more. Some of the world's largest companies use Lavender to boost opens and double replies. In the episode, William will discuss: His journey to founding Lavender, Building their AI email assistant & the success it brings to customers, How they utilize NLP and internal technology in their product, The impact of the pandemic on sales & communications, What the future looks like for Lavender and Exciting opportunities to join the team

Today's guest is Oscar Beijbom, Co-Founder at Nyckel in San Francisco. Founded in 2021, Nyckel is democratizing access to machine learning for companies of all sizes. Instead of needing teams of ML specialists and years of expertise, Nyckel allows developers to add state-of-the-art machine learning to their applications in minutes. Nyckel's API-first design enables a fast and secure fully automated integration of ML into your application. You can also scale to millions of invokes on day one with an instant model deploy to elastic inference infra with 99.99% uptime and 300ms latency. They also offer highly parallelized AutoML trains and evaluates top deep learning methods on your data in seconds. In the episode, Oscar will talk about: The motivation for setting up Nyckel, Use cases of the benefits they can bring to customers, An insight into their data & engineering team, What’s in store for the near future at Nyckel, & Why Nyckel is a great place to work

Today's guest is Mona Khalil, Data Science Manager at Greenhouse Software in New York. Founded in 2012, Greenhouse Software is the fastest-growing provider of enterprise talent acquisition software. Thousands of the smartest and most successful companies like Cisco Meraki, Time Inc. and Airbnb use Greenhouse’s intelligent guidance to design and automate all aspects of hiring throughout their organizations, helping them compete and win for top talent. In the episode, Mona will talk about: The work Greenhouse are doing within talent acquisition, Day-to-day life of the Data Science team, How the wider data team has evolved in the past 3 years, Current projects the team are working on, What’s in store for the near future, & Exciting career opportunities with Greenhouse

Today's guests are Chris Blakey, Senior Director of Data Science & Kristian Fryer-Kelsey, Head of Data Products at Universal Music Group. UMG is the world leader in music-based entertainment with a broad array of businesses engaged in recorded music, music publishing, merchandising and audiovisual content in more than 60 countries. Featuring the most comprehensive catalog of recordings and songs across every musical genre, UMG identifies and develops artists, and produces and distributes the most critically acclaimed and commercially successful music in the world. With 12 years of experience at UMG, Kristian heads the team behind the app Universal Music Artists. He creates the strategy and execution of UMG’s UMX data product suite, four products that service UMG’s: Artists (UMA), Labels (UML), A&R’s Discovery of Unsigned Artists (UMD) and a Financial view (UMC). Chris has also spent 12 years working for UMG and has played an integral role in the core team that has driven change throughout the business

Today's guest is Max Henderson, Chief Data Officer at Datastream Cyber Insurance. DataStream Insurance is a specialist cyber insurance broker that focuses on helping small and medium sized businesses get the best cyber insurance coverage. They work in partnership with your existing technology and cybersecurity teams to build a comprehensive cyber risk program that combines technology and insurance to keep you safe from the damage caused by cyber attacks. As the Chief Data Officer, Max helps facilitate projects involving machine learning, data science and mathematical modeling. Max has provided technical solutions in cyber, quantum computing, bioinformatics and natural language processing domains, including holding Data Scientist positions at Rigetti Computing, QxBranch, JPMorgan Chase & Co. and Lockheed Martin. Max also has a PhD and MS from Drexel University in Physics as well as a BS in Physics from West Chester University. In the episode, Max discusses: His background and journey to Datastream, An insi

Today's guest is Vicki Harris, Director of Business Development at Thirdera. Founded in 2021, Thirdera is a global services provider that uses ServiceNow to help enterprises unlock their business and customer workflows in the cloud through digitization and automation. Thirdera brings together the power of the ServiceNow platform and its limitless potential across the world of work. Thirdera's architects, developers, consultants, designers and project managers help their customers transform, get more from ServiceNow and unlock hidden potential. They are ushering in the next era of transformation, digitization, automation and partner expectation, all with and at the speed of NOW. In the episode, Vicki will discuss: Her background and current role with Thirdera, Problems they are solving using ServiceNow within Telecoms, Use cases of the benefits it brings to the industry, The importance of change management & Future innovation within the Telecoms sector

Today's guests are Alessya Visnjic, Co-Founder and CEO at WhyLabs in Seattle, WA. Founded in 2019, WhyLabs is an AI observability platform that prevents model performance degradation by allowing you to monitor your machine learning models in production. If you deploy an ML model but don’t have visibility into its performance, you risk doing damage to your business because the model stops working and you don’t even know. With WhyLabs, you can prevent this performance degradation by monitoring your model with a platform that’s easy to use, privacy preserving and cost efficient. In the episode, Alessya discusses: Her background and journey to founding WhyLabs, How the company has evolved since their launch in 2019, Use cases of problems they are solving for customers, How the team is structured for success, What the future looks like for WhyLabs,  Hiring plans and why WhyLabs is a great place to work

Today's guest is Alexander Thamm, CEO and Founder at Alexander Thamm GmbH. Founded in Munich in 2012, Alexander Thamm help people and organizations to use data and AI responsibly and for the benefit of the people. Their focus is always on generating real added value from data. In this way, they are creating an economically strong Europe with digital products and services that scale globally. They believe technologies like AI will help humanity face its biggest challenges like climate change, epidemics and a fair global economy. Alexander Thamm have data in their DNA. They are passionate about developing real innovations and added value. Together with their customers, they generate real added value from data which allows them to develop and implement data-driven innovations as well as new business models. They enable customers to develop their own strengths and accompany them on their way with their data journey, from data strategy to the development of algorithms and the construction of IT architectures

Today's guests are Nick Hobbs, Senior Data Scientist & Wilson Lee, Senior ML Research Scientist at The Trevor Project. Founded in 1998, The Trevor Project is the world’s largest suicide prevention and crisis intervention organization for LGBTQ young people. The organization works to save young lives by providing support through free and confidential suicide prevention and crisis intervention programs on platforms where young people spend their time: their 24/7 phone lifeline, chat, text and soon-to-come integrations with social media platforms. Nick is a published Senior Data Scientist with over five years of Machine Learning Experience using Natural Language Processing to Help Save LGBTQ Lives at The Trevor Project. Wilson has over seven years of experience in research and industry and turns cutting-edge research in natural language processing into fully productionised machine learning systems. He was the technical lead on the Crisis Contact Simulator, which won Time Magazine’s 2021 Best Innovation for S

Today's guest is Maher Hanafi, VP of Engineering at January AI in California. Founded in 2017, January AI believes that every day is a fresh start, that getting healthy is a team sport and that small steps add up to big change. January AI has assembled a multidisciplinary team of computational, food, translational and medical scientists to tackle unmet needs in people with or at risk for developing diabetes. Their multi-omic approach synthesizes wearable, food and microbiome data to make personalized recommendations and products to address hyperglycemia. January AI's new metabolic health program, Season of Me, helps you understand how your body uniquely responds to food, so you can avoid glucose spikes and build better habits in just 90 days. It is designed to give you real-time insights on how diet and exercise affect your glucose levels, from which foods to avoid to when a brisk walk can bring you back into a healthy zone. January’s other AI-derived innovations include nutritional labels for local restauran