Ai In Action

Today's guest is Farhad Fetrat, Chief Product and AI Officer at Live Earth. Founded in 2015, Live Earth is a real-time data visualization and data streaming platform. Originally developed for US Special Operations Forces with real-time visibility during classified operations, their common operational analytics platform is designed for enhanced situational awareness. They have continued to innovate the platform for commercial use with a global customer base that includes the world’s top 100 financial institutions, telcos and utilities, as well as government agencies. Farhad is a Data Science and Analytics leader with over then years of hands-on experience in building and deploying machine learning products in finance and digital marketing sectors. He prides himself on a unique combination of technical depth and business acumen and driving successful analytics initiatives by setting the right strategy and vision, building analytical teams and mentoring. He possesses a consistent history of successful outcom

In today's show, we're delighted to welcome back Jeffrey Tefertiller, Digital Transformation Leader, CIO Advisor at Service Management Leadership. Jeffrey is an experienced Chief Information Officer and transformation leader who is laser-focused on business outcomes. He is a Business Continuity leader with 30 years of experience leading initiatives and large global teams, including a broad span of control and P&L responsibilities across many industries such as Health Insurance, Financial Services and Federal Government to name a few. Jeffrey has the ability to take complex problems and create solutions for varied audiences, from the C-level down to all levels of the organization. He is a high performer who has a love for excellence and knows what “success” looks like in several global, geographically-diverse roles. Jeffrey is a believer in analytics and metrics to measure success and opportunities for improvement. With a passionate and positive personality, he brings proven success and experience

Today's guest is Thomas Vladeck, Co-Founder and Co-CEO at Recast. in New York. Driven by a mission to rid the world of wasted marketing spend, Recast are committed to using the world’s most advanced techniques and technologies to solve the most important problems in marketing measurement. By helping marketers better measure and optimize their marketing budgets, Recast is helping businesses grow more profitably and invest more money in improving products rather than wasting money on useless advertisements. Tom co-founded Recast with Michael Kaminsky in 2019, creating the most advanced platform for measuring marketing effectiveness. His focus is mainly on underlying model and applications such as forecasting, optimization and experiment planning. Prior to co-founding Recast, Tom built a quantitative market research firm consulting for clients such as Amazon, McKinsey and Nike. He also holds a master’s degree from the London School of Economics and an MBA from Wharton. In today's episode, Thomas talks ab

Today's guest is Pinaki Pal, Director of Service Management at OUTFRONT Media in New York. As one of North America’s most innovative media companies, OUTFRONT Media leverage the power of creative excellence, unbeatable locations and smart audience data to change the game for advertisers. The company's media powers brands to break through, be relevant and connect with audiences like never before. They leverage the power of technology, location and creativity to deliver impactful and engaging interactions with audiences as they live their lives. Pinaki is a transformational leader with over 20 years of proven international experience leading IT service management and technology operations. He is skilled at optimizing ITSM processes and driving the adoption of industry best practices in ITIL functions to deliver cost-effective services, aligned with business vision, strategy and growth. Pinaki has demonstrated success in developing long term strategies, execution roadmaps, priorities and policies to deli

Today's guest is Chris Fernandez, Executive Chairman and Chief Research Officer at EnsoData in Madison, Wisconsin. Founded in 2015, EnsoData uses artificial intelligence to automate waveform analysis and spotlight disease processes as they manifest over different timescales - whether looking for heart rhythm irregularities over seconds, glycemic index dynamics over minutes, sleep disordered breathing patterns over hours or indicators to preempt heart decompensation over days. EnsoData's first solution focuses on sleep medicine and reducing the time to score sleep studies, but the applications are endless. Their software has the capability of informing health decisions from monitoring patient health in the ICU or through wearables, to detecting and capturing seizure data, to earlier detection of heart disease, diabetes, stroke and Alzheimer’s. It is their goal to make healthcare more accurate, efficient and affordable. In today's episode, Chris talks about: His background and journey to founding En

Today's guest is Adrian Cuc, Senior Vice President – ISO Analytics at Verisk. In 1971, Verisk opened their doors as an insurance rating bureau, focusing on risk analytics and insights. Since then, they have grown to become a valued source of insights that can drive recovery and transform industries worldwide. Verisk works in collaboration with their customers and at the intersection of people, data and advanced technologies. Through proprietary platformed analytics, advanced modeling and interpretation, Verisk deliver immediate and sustained value to their customers and through them, to the individuals and societies they serve, with greater speed, precision and scale. The company take responsibility toward their people, products, processes, communities and the planet seriously. They ethically and relentlessly pursue innovation to help move their customers and the world forward. In today's episode, Adrian will discuss: His background and journey to now, How Verisk aids insurance by sharing data and pro

Today's guest is Jessica Wine, Head of ServiceNow Go To Market at Own Company. Founded in 2015, Own is the leading data platform trusted by thousands of organizations to protect and activate SaaS data to transform their businesses. Own empowers customers to ensure the availability, security and compliance of mission-critical data, while unlocking new ways to gain deeper insights faster. By partnering with some of the world’s largest SaaS ecosystems such as Salesforce, ServiceNow and Microsoft Dynamics 365, Own enables customers around the world to truly own the data that powers their business. Their data platform brings together everything that’s vital to protecting SaaS data, independent of the SaaS applications themselves and in doing so, unlocking more ways to transform the business with it. In this episode, Jessica talks about: An overview of Own Company and expanding to ServiceNow market leadership, How they enhance ServiceNow with specialized data protection solutions, Having the vendor and customer

Today's guest is Gregg Aldana, Global Area VP, Creator Workflows Specialist Solution Consulting at ServiceNow. With 20 years of Innovation and Digital Transformation Experience, Gregg is a passionate and seasoned technology solution consulting leader, GTM strategy innovator and business leader. He possesses a rare blend of in-depth technical knowledge with exceptional communication skills, entrepreneurial spirit, contagious energy and visionary thought leadership. Gregg leads ServiceNow's Global Low-Code Creator Workflows App Engine pre-sales solution consulting business. He is responsible for leading Executive Customer Interactions and Briefings Partners with Sales, Business Units Inbound/Outbound and Marketing on Product Strategy and Pricing/Packaging Input. Gregg supports effective growth and GTM strategies for cross-workflow and cross-product/industry plays and leads collaborations driving ServiceNow's Low Code App Engine Development Platform business. In this episode, Gregg will discuss: Lead

Today's guest is Richard Motteram, Head of Delivery Northern Europe – ServiceNow practice at Eviden. Eviden designs the scope composed of Atos’ digital, cloud, big data and security business lines. As a next generation digital business with worldwide leading positions in digital, cloud, data, advanced computing and security, they bring deep expertise for all industries in more than 53 countries. Eviden expands the possibilities of technologies for enterprises and public authorities, helping them to build their digital future. Based in London, Richard is a fully certified professional with over 14 years of experience in ITSM and over 12 years of experience working in ServiceNow. He has been involved in every kind of ServiceNow implementation from small companies to multi-national enterprises, including leading financial, healthcare, insurance, public sector and pharmaceutical institutions. He previously worked as an Associate Developer at ServiceNow where he was involved in troubleshooting, codebase develo

Today's guest is Eddie Qureshi, Founder and CEO at Valorant Health. Founded in 2018, Valorant Health developed a next-generation virtual care platform to improve quality of care and access for veterans, service members, rural communities and their families. Over 67 Million Americans are in underserved areas across the country and Valorant Health intends to bring next-generation virtual care to all of them. The team continues to build virtual care tools and expand services to all people who are looking to more easily and affordably access healthcare. Eddie has over six years of experience in business development and operations in healthcare, synthetic biology and industrial biotechnology. He is passionate about bringing new and innovative technologies to the market that can impact and change the world. A Forbes 30 Under 30 honoree for 2023 in social impact, Eddie works with a strong and dedicated team at Valorant Health to democratize healthcare and improve health outcomes. In today's episode, Eddie wi

Today's guest is Roman Sandler, Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer at iCardio.ai. Founded in 2019, iCardio.ai develops AI for the interpretation of Ultrasound imaging, with a focus on echocardiograms. Leveraging a proprietary dataset of over 200 million annotated Ultrasound images, comprising possibly the largest privately-owned Ultrasound database in the world, the company's mission ushers in the most cutting-edge innovation in the realm of deep medicine. iCardio.ai serves several leading Ultrasound software and hardware companies in the research and development of AI algorithms. Their establishment coincides with the recent explosive use of hand-held portable Ultrasound across all areas of healthcare to provide real-time interpretation of images either on-device or through the cloud. By setting the standard for deep learning within medical imaging and expanding its potential applications, iCardio.ai is bringing AI to Ultrasound. In today's episode, Roman talks about: His background and jour

Today's guest is Holly Snyder, Director of Consulting at The Anti. Founded in 2017, The Anti realized traditional HR technology consulting desperately needed an overhaul. The company grew a team with expertise in real world HR process design and technology implementation, they aggregated and refined the best practices they had already proven elsewhere, they rejected traditional friction points and they changed consulting culture for the better.  Born from a genuine desire to do better, The Anti deliver measurable value for talent leaders in less time. As the only elite ServiceNow Partner committed to the employee experience workflow products, The Anti enable the current goals and transformational talent visions for many of the world’s most attractive brands. Their unique expertise in the HR Technology industry helps their customers mitigate risk, speed delivery, save valuable resources and anticipate what employees want next as they design employee experiences using ServiceNow. In this episode, Holly talk

Today's guest is Derrick Stuckey, Co-Founder and Chief Data Scientist at Precedent. Founded in 2022, Precedent uses technology and data solutions to streamline attorney-handled claims. Transparency, standardization and automation is significantly lacking in the current process and Precedent's goal is to reduce administrative tasks, eliminate endless back and forth, and minimize stalemates. This saves insurance carriers and law firms money while reducing errors and helps both parties work more efficiently, ensuring fair and reasonable settlement outcomes. Derrick is an experienced data scientist with over 10 years of technical experience in a variety of development and information processing environments. He has a rigorous academic background in statistics, machine learning and optimization techniques, as well as communications skills honed in multiple roles providing analytical support to senior decision makers. Derrick is passionate about using data to drive better decisions. In today's episode,

Today's guests are Theonie Anastassiadis, Co-Founder and Chief Innovation Officer & Stephen Eichhorn, Principal Scientist at Alltrna. Founded in 2018, Alltrna is the world’s first tRNA platform company to decipher tRNA biology and pioneer tRNA therapeutics to treat thousands of diseases. The company has an unprecedented opportunity to advance a single tRNA medicine to restore disrupted protein production, regardless of target, for thousands of diseases with the same underlying genetic mutation. Alltrna have successfully applied machine learning to reveal the unique language of tRNA biology. This language is larger than the number of atoms in the universe and turns powerful biology into programmable medicines. Their first-in-field platform integrates learnings across tRNA biology and the modality space to unlock tRNA’s full therapeutic potential and design tRNA oligos with desired therapeutic properties. In today's episode, Theonie and Stephen talk about: Their background and journey to now, An ove

Today's guest is Derek Nohr, Director of ServiceNow at Avalara. Founded in 2004, Avalara aspire to be part of every transaction in the world. With their tax compliance software solutions, your business can automate manual processes and reduce errors, while increasing compliance and saving time and money. Businesses of all sizes use Avalara to help with tasks throughout the tax compliance process, including registration and licensing, calculation, document management, reporting and e-invoicing. In this episode, Derek will discuss: His role & how he got into the world of ServiceNow, Prioritizing automation, employee experience and ServiceNow updates, Using the platform for workflow solutions and advanced AI adoption at Avalara, How ServiceNow enhanced their processes, efficiency and automation, His advice to focus on maintenance and smart customization in ServiceNow, Building a winning ServiceNow team on a foundation of trust, The potential of AI on the ServiceNow platform, His advice to work hard with

Today's guest is Jason Park, CEO at Empress Therapeutics. Founded by Flagship Pioneering in 2020, Empress makes the discovery of effective, easy-to-take, value-driven medicines more productive with a platform that finds starting points for drugs inside the human body. The company built a proprietary product platform called Chemilogics to canvass the untapped universe within the human body of chemistry encoded in DNA and pioneer a new paradigm in small molecule drug discovery with tremendous potential value to patients and society. Empress ask big questions in pursuit of novel solutions. They operate at the intersection of the latest advances in genomics, synthetic biology and AI/ML with the expectation that these disciplines, harnessed by their ingenuity, hold the answers to finding effective medicines at a fraction of time and cost. The implications of the team's work will be profound and the journey to get there will be exhilarating. Together, Empress are using the chemistry inside each of their emp

Today's guest is Victor Chen, Principal Product Manager – Conversational and Generative AI at ServiceNow. Based in San Francisco, Victor is experienced in product, customer success and technical marketing in cloud enterprise software, chatbot and mobile platforms. He has shipped highly adopted features, released and managed mobile apps, and created technical content and videos used by thousands of developers, partners and customers. In his spare time, he enjoys reading, running and playing the piano. In this episode, Victor will discuss: An overview of his current work with ServiceNow, ServiceNow’s AI history, acquisitions and customer focus, How Customer needs drove AI solutions for productivity, His Generative AI solution in the Vancouver release, Implementing "text to report" for simplified custom report generation, Integrating AI into existing products for enhanced problem-solving, Customer trust, transparency and feedback-driven improvement focus, Code assist and Generative AI enhancing the

Today's guest is Russ Sacks, Co-Founder & EVP of Data Science and Special Projects at Kythera Labs. Founded in 2019, Kythera Labs' data scientists, engineers, statisticians and domain experts are dedicated to building solutions that efficiently collect, organize, standardize, improve and transform data. The company are empowering the Healthcare and Life Sciences industries to uncover insights that lead to better patient outcomes. Russ leads the Data Science and Operations Research team at Kythera Labs. He has over 20 years of experience in operations research, process excellence, data science, and software development. He has implemented data science models and predictive analytics to manage diseases, utilization and revenue cycles at numerous healthcare organizations. Russ is also a Certified Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt. In today's episode, Russ talks about: An overview of Kythera Labs, Challenges in working with Healthcare data, Problems the Data Science team are solving in this space,

Today's guest is Aaron Rzepka, Senior Director of IT Service Delivery at the NFL. The National Football League is America's most popular sports league, comprised of 32 franchises that compete to win the Super Bowl, the world's biggest annual sporting event. Founded in 1920, the NFL developed the model for the successful modern sports league, including national and international distribution, extensive revenue sharing, competitive excellence and strong franchises across the board. Celebrating 10 years with the NFL this month, Aaron is a hard-working management professional with outstanding experience within the field of Information Technology, skilled at offering workable solutions to challenging problems, creating the possibility for successful projects and leading by example. He holds a unique combination of strong technical, interpersonal and management skills; as well as expertise in building teams and managing projects. In this episode, Aaron will discuss: The role of ServiceNow in the NFL,  A

Today's guest is Tom Watson, President and CEO, Founder at AMI in Seattle, WA. Founded in 2003, AMI is a team of curious, brave, honest, hardworking people who make rock star ninja warrior heroes of asset managers. AssetTrack has led the industry as the most innovative hardware asset management product since they started the company nearly 20 years ago. What started as a simple scanning solution has grown into a management system that addresses every aspect of hardware asset management. An experienced ITAM expert, Tom's aim was to help companies accurately track their IT hardware in real-time, all the time. Tom and his team developed AssetTrack software and made sure it worked better than anything else available. It was his goal was to create software that’s easy to use in the field, adaptable to the needs of a global enterprise and delivers accurate data that can be trusted. Expert consulting delivered with care is why companies like United Airlines, Nike, Lockheed Martin, Kaiser Permanente trust AMI