Ai In Action

Today's guest is Christopher Li, Co-Founder and CEO at BioBox Analytics in Toronto, Canada. As their understanding of life sciences grow, so does the scope of research. Legacy software was built to tackle challenges that now represents a small fraction of modern research needs. BioBox is revolutionizing the way they do research by creating the world’s most intelligent and intuitive data analytics platform for modern scientists. Scientific breakthroughs are often just around the corner, but when the tools are scattered all over the place, they can be missed. BioBox was designed to provide scientists with all the tools they need along their journey all in one place. BioBox is a platform that manages your data and your research computing infrastructure, which means you spend less time looking for data and setting things up, and more time for your research. In the episode, Christopher will discuss: The journey to founding BioBox Analytics, Their mission and challenges they are solving within scientific research,

Today's guest is Mehrshad Setayesh, CTO at NextHealth Technologies in Denver, Colorado. NextHealth Technologies is demystifying the most complicated industry in the land: the American healthcare system. They empower decision makers  to cut through the complexity and get to better decisions faster, and ultimately do what everybody needs: make healthcare more affordable. Health plan leadership - from the C-suite, to program managers, to critical initiatives champions - all stand to benefit from NextHealth Technologies. Together, they will identify which members to engage and how to reach them. Through personalized outreach and analytics, they can predict who’ll enroll, participate and stick with each program. In the episode, Mehrshad will discuss: The interesting work he does with NextHealth, How the tech & data team is structured for success, Use cases of the AI & ML projects they deliver for customers, The success they’ve enjoyed in the past couple of years, Plans for growing the team, and What e

Today's guest is Jay Nanduri, Chief Technical Officer at Truveta in Seattle. Founded in 2020, Truveta's aim is to enable researchers to find cures faster, empower every clinician to be an expert and help families make the most informed decisions about their care. Clinical data from their members is de-identified daily and brought together in an unprecedented data platform to enable research on all health conditions. Truveta believe their collective de-identified data can be used to accelerate research, advance health equity and save lives. Jay is a former Microsoft Technical Fellow with over twenty years of experience, 25+ patents and several publications that demonstrate exemplary technical and business leadership. He has a proven track record of managing and delivering mission critical projects from conception to delivery. Jay also has extensive hands-on experience in designing highly scalable distributed systems, big data, big graph, secure internet platforms, fraud prevention, BI analytics, Ecommerce, per

Today's guest is Adam Gotlin, Head of Business Analytics at Kaia Health in New York. Founded in 2016, Kaia Health is a leading digital therapeutics company that creates evidence-based treatments for a range of disorders including musculoskeletal conditions and COPD. Kaia Health uses innovative technology such as AI and Computer Vision, and works with medical experts to create an interdisciplinary digital approach. This empowers and motivates individuals to take control and self-manage their condition with effective, non-pharmacological, digital alternatives at low costs. In the episode, Adam will talk about: The work they do at Kaia Health in home rehabilitation care, The role of AI in their platform, Creating the best user experience for customers, The impact of Covid-19 on the business, How the tech team is set up for success, The culture and what it is like to work at Kaia Health & What the future holds for the company

Today's guest is Jason Christiansen, Chief Technology Officer at Epic Sciences in San Diego. Founded in 2008, Epic Sciences is developing novel diagnostics to personalize and advance the treatment and management of cancer. Epic’s mission is to enable the rapid and non-invasive detection of genetic and molecular changes in cancer throughout a patient’s journey. The company was founded on a powerful platform to identify and characterize rare cells, including circulating tumor cells (CTCs). Epic's technology helps match patients to targeted therapies and monitor for drug resistance, so that the best treatment path can be chosen at every clinical decision point. Today, they partner with leading pharmaceutical companies and major cancer centers around the world. Their goal is to commercialize our technology to increase the success rate of cancer drugs in clinical trials and improve patient outcomes by providing physicians with real-time information to guide treatment choices. In the episode, Jason will discus

Today's guest is Meghan Gaffney, Founder and CEO at VEDA Data Solutions. Founded in 2015, Veda are on a mission to accelerate patients’ ability to access the care they need, reduce financial loss in the healthcare system and create efficiencies that drive healthcare innovation. They are motivated by a belief that the tools to make a better world are being developed right now by talented scientists around the globe and they can harness those tools to solve the problems impacting people every day. Today, over 15 million people rely on Veda's tools to power the healthcare industry. Meghan provides resources and strategic leadership to our employees and serves as a liaison to their customers and partners. With over 15 years of experience working with federal and state elected officials and consulting on technology opportunities, she has experience helping people– from elected leaders to impact organizations– achieve their goals. She is a passionate advocate for AI and Machine Learning, and believes it will c

Today's guest is Jack Loss, Director of Strategy and Innovation at Improvix Technologies in Virginia. Founded in 2012, Improvix Technologies is a certified IT Services company focused on developing, implementing and managing innovative solutions that help their customers accomplish their mission. To this end, their stellar track record highlights a consistent delivery of cost-effective, strongly-secure, and highly-integrated IT solutions that exceed customers’ expectations and enhance the government’s technology landscape. Improvix pride themselves on providing fully customized solutions based on industry best practices, whether its rearchitecting a custom application before moving it to the cloud or developing a secure means of communication for overseas travel. Their capabilities consist of, but are not limited to, Cybersecurity, Cloud, as well as traditional, IT infrastructure, Splunk, ServiceNow, Application Development, Customer Service, Enterprise Mobility management and mobile application design, Data

Today's guest is Aaron Kwittken, CEO and Founder at Prophet in New York. Founded in 2020, PRophet (owned by Stagwell) is the first-ever AI-driven software-as-a-service platform designed by and for the PR community to help predict media interest and sentiment before a story is pitched. PRophet samples millions of reporters’ stories spanning thousands of print media outlets using a combination of Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning technologies to help perfect a PR professional's pitch to a reporter and maximize results. Aaron is a highly acclaimed industry leader, entrepreneur, and seasoned corporate affairs and integrated communications strategist for more than 30 years. Aaron began his career in public affairs and crisis management, and held numerous senior agency leadership roles before starting his own agency in late 2005. He’s counseled hundreds of organizations, from F100 listed companies to private and high growth brands across multiple sectors. Aaron has received numerous honors, most rece

Today's guest is Samee Zahid, Staff Software Engineer (ML & Data) at Chipper Cash in San Francisco. Founded in 2018, Chipper Cash is a venture-capital-backed Financial technology company that builds software to enable free and instant Peer-to-peer Cross-border payments in Africa and Europe; as well as solutions for businesses and merchants to process online and in-store payments. It is their mission is to provide the most trusted and accessible financial services for people living in Africa and beyond. Samee is a generalist engineer skilled at end-to-end Machine Learning such as data analysis, feature engineering, model training and deployment, data infrastructure, evaluation systems and A/B experimentation. He leads the Intelligence team at Chipper Cash to tackle machine learning and big data problems with an engineering mindset. Samee develops with a strong product focus and big picture instinct, and is excited about emerging tech's ability to transform lives in developing economies. In the episode, Sam

Today's guest is Martin Miller, Director of AI/ML Product Operations at Levi Strauss & Co in San Francisco. Founded in 1853, Levi Strauss pioneered labor and environmental guidelines in manufacturing, and they work to build sustainability into everything they do. Their brands — Levi’s®, Dockers®, Denizen® and Signature by Levi Strauss & Co.™ — stand for freedom and self-expression around the world. For more than 160 years, they have used the strength of their brands to lead with their values and make an outsized impact on the world. Martin's expertise lies in delivering solutions and improving user experience and service delivery. He bring process and building expertise in code-complete design and development, enterprise architecture, deployment, data security and compliance. He has a proven track record of success directing cross-functional and multi-site teams in agile scrum environments, combined with a talent for effective IT projects, capacity planning and implementation. In the episode, Mar

Today's guest is Guruduth Banavar, Founding CTO and Head of Discovery at Viome. Founded in 2016, Viome's mission is to make illness optional by predicting and preventing chronic diseases through a deeper understanding of an individual’s biology at a molecular level. In order to enhance their understanding of the origin and progression of diseases, they use a systems biology approach combined with mRNA analysis and their state-of-the-art AI platform. Their goal is to digitize, decode and decipher human biology to prevent, treat and cure chronic diseases and cancer. Guruduth is a leader in Artificial Intelligence known for his work on Host/Microbe Molecular Data Analysis, IBM Watson AI Systems, Smarter Cities, Services Innovation, Mobile Computing and Distributed Systems. As founding CTO at Viome Life Sciences, Guruduth leads AI and co-leads clinical research. His role encompasses clinical research, epidemiology, machine learning, computational biology, bioinformatics, as well as data and software architecture

Today's guest is Christian Seiberl, CSM & FSM Lead at iTSM Group in Austria. The iTSM Group consists of iTSM Consulting GmbH, as the parent company, and several subsidiaries and affiliated companies. Headquartered in Bodenheim near Frankfurt am Main in Germany, the core business of iTSM Consulting GmbH relates to digital transformation in enterprise service management. All iTSM Group companies support their customers in mastering digital services holistically, from needs analysis to strategy and realization to ongoing operation. The group of companies currently employs more than 200 people and serves around 750 customers from business and public administration. For the Group, "iTSM" stands for "Inspiring & Tailored Service Mastery." In the episode, Christian will talk about: How he got involved in the world of ServiceNow, Why ServiceNow is the platform of choice, Projects he is working on within the iTSM Group, The differences between ITSM vs CSM/FSM, Advice on starting a career in iTSM

Today's guest is Nicole Clark, CEO and Co-Founder at Trellis Research in Los Angeles. Founded in 2017, Trellis is a state trial court legal research and analytics platform with AI-based insights on judges, opposing counsel, motions, dockets and legal issues. They make state trial court data searchable and analyze it to give law firms insights into the way judges are ruling. Legal teams are able to "Google" search state trial court records and uncover key intelligence on opposing counsel, motions, rulings, dockets and other legal issues. Prior to founding Trellis, Nicole was a business litigation and labor and employment attorney who handled litigation in both state and federal courts. She regularly represented multinational corporations in claims ranging from high-profile trade secret disputes to complex class-action litigation. Frustrated by sending internal emails and collecting anecdotes on judges in order to make strategic case recommendations, she built Trellis to solve her own need for access to data, i

Today's guest is Maxime Gariel, Chief Technology Officer at Xwing in San Francisco. Founded in 2016, Xwing is on a mission to build the world’s smartest and cleanest air mobility system. They are transforming the way airplanes fly to make regional mobility radically safer, more efficient, accessible and sustainable than ever. Their software integrates sensors and maps with onboard flight control systems to allow regional aircraft to navigate, take off and land safer than ever before. Xwing's work begins with converting today’s leading cargo aircraft into remotely-operated airplanes, so every regional route can be serviced reliably to give every person in every corner of the world improved access to all the goods and essentials they need. They featured on TIME Magazine’s 2021 Best Inventions List after completing the world’s first fully autonomous cargo flight and making aviation history. Beyond the cargo market, Xwing plan to expand their technology safely to other areas of commercial aviation. In the episode

Today's guest is Keshav Pingali, CEO and Co-Founder at Katana Graph in Austin, Texas. Founded in 2020, Katana Graph helps today’s forward-looking, data-driven organizations turn boundless data into a competitive advantage. Their flagship technology is an AI-powered graph intelligence platform that uses an unparalleled combination of novel graph algorithms, graph neural network architecture and the latest advances in hardware acceleration to power faster, more accurate insights at unmatched scale and performance. From comprehensive fraud detection in real time and 360-degree views of the customer to maximizing R&D time and cost efficiencies, Katana Graph empowers customers to perform and perfect business-critical tasks that help set them apart from the competition. They work closely with customers to identify new ways to make massive data work for them, by supporting decentralized workloads for graph query, analytics, mining and AI to fuel a new era of rich applications and insights never before

Today's guest is Kevin Goldsmith, Chief Technology Officer at Anaconda. With more than 20 million users, Anaconda is the world’s most popular data science platform and the foundation of modern machine learning. Anaconda pioneered the use of Python for data science and continue to steward open-source projects that make tomorrow’s innovations possible.  Their enterprise-grade solutions enable corporate, research and academic institutions to harness the power of open source for competitive advantage, groundbreaking research and a better world. Kevin is an experienced leader in high-performing product, research and shared technology engineering organizations. His technical areas of expertise include service scalability, user experience, consumer product development, GPGPU, multi-core, connected architectures, signal processing, domain-specific languages and graphics. Kevin currently oversees innovation for Anaconda's current open-source and commercial offerings, and develops new solutions to bring data scien

Today's guest is Rachel Warren, Senior Data Scientist at Buzzer in New York. Founded in 2020, Buzzer allows sports fans to discover the live moments that matter the most to them and is the best way to experience “lightning in a bottle” moments live from anywhere. Buzzer work with some of the largest sports leagues in the world such as the NBA League Pass, NHL and PGA Tour. With their partnership deals, they will be identifying, notifying and providing their users access to short-form live content for the best moments in their respective sports. Buzzer is powered by their proprietary algorithm and partners with the most-watched sports leagues and media companies to bring fans thrilling real-time Buzzer Moments. Their team of developers, partner managers, designers, data scientists, product managers and more work diligently and thoughtfully to deliver sports fans these live moments they can't live without. This distributed team of over 50 people was formed in the midst of a global pandemic and they have al

Today's guest is Bharti Sharma, Global Head of ITSM, Service Availability and Service Management Platform at Aon. Bharti is a high-impact professional with over two decades of rich multi-cultural experience in leading IT Strategy, Service Operations & Delivery. She is passionate about developing ideas and driving initiatives towards enterprise service management and digital transformation to enable business outcomes. Bharti is also a strong advocate of Diversity & Inclusion and develop culturally diverse, equitable and inclusive teams. In her current role, Bharti is accountable for designing, managing and reporting on core IT Service Management processes across the enterprise to drive service availability improvements at Aon. She is also responsible for the strategy, design, governance and implementation of ServiceNow as the Enterprise Service Management Platform to enable IT and business teams to deliver high quality, consistent outcomes by leveraging best practices towards driving transformatio

Today's guest is Bradlay Pryde, COO and Co-Founder at OneThree Biotech in New York. Founded in 2018, OneThree Biotech was born out of the largest precision medicine institute in America with the purpose of decreasing the failure rate of bringing therapeutics to market using biology driven AI. Their technology was built in a lab setting, allowing them to engineer their methodologies around real-world results. While working with major biotech and pharma partners, OneThree Biotech validated their predictions through work in target discovery, compound and combination therapy identification, toxicity prediction, biomarker selection and much more. Their predictions have been validated with partners such as AstraZeneca and Jubilant. For example, they predicted the top indication and mechanism of action for Oncoceutics asset ONC201 which was subsequently validated in a Phase II trial. In the episode, Bradlay will discuss: The work he does with OneThree Biotech, The journey of building up the company from scratch

Today's guest is Varun Ganapathi, Co-Founder and CTO at AKASA in San Francisco. Founded in 2018, AKASA believe every dollar spent on healthcare matters because healthcare matters to everyone. AKASA are on a mission to remedy the financial and operational complexity crippling healthcare in America. They have successfully built a team of experts who could develop an entirely new approach to automation that is purpose built for revenue cycle management in healthcare. AKASA is the leading developer of AI for healthcare operations. AKASA scales human intelligence with leading-edge AI and ML securely trained on customer data to learn unique systems, continuously adapt to changing environments, and deliver comprehensive automation and analytics for complex workflows. The result is a seamlessly integrated, customized solution that reduces operating costs, frees up staff to do the work they love and helps health systems allocate resources to where they matter most. In the episode, Varun will discuss: His journey