Ai In Action

Today's guest is Cindi Howson, Chief Data Strategy Officer at Thoughtspot & host of The Data Chief podcast. Founded in 2012, ThoughtSpot is an AI-Powered Analytics company with the mission to create a more fact-driven world with the easiest to use analytics platform. ThoughtSpot enables everyone within an organization to limitlessly engage with live data in any popular cloud data platform, making it easy to create and interact with granular, hyper-personalized and actionable insights. Cindi is an analytics and BI thought leader and expert with a flair for bridging business needs with technology. Cindi advises top clients on data strategy and best practices to becoming data- driven, and influences ThoughtSpot’s product strategy. She was previously a Gartner research Vice President, as the lead author for the data and analytics maturity model and analytics, and BI Magic Quadrant. She introduced new research in data and AI for good, NLP/BI Search and augmented analytics, and brought both the BI bake offs

Today's guest is Sachin Namjoshi, ServiceNow MVP 2018-2023 & ServiceNow SME at GoDaddy. Founded in 1997, GoDaddy is the world’s largest services platform for entrepreneurs around the globe.  GoDaddy is the place folks come to name their idea, create a compelling brand and a great looking website, attract customers with digital and social marketing, and manage their work. They are on a mission to empower their worldwide community of over 20 million customers and entrepreneurs by giving them all the help and tools they need to grow online. Sachin is a Senior Consultant with more than 15 years of experience in BSM for implementation, integration, customization and upgrade projects on ServiceNow and bmc remedy platforms across life sciences, BFSI, Manufacturing, Retail and banking customers. He joined GoDaddy in 2020 and has developed a Service Portal for HR application using Angular JS, Bootstrap for the company, as well as implementing HR Service Delivery across the enterprise, implementing Employee Doc

Today's guest is Hossein Zahed, Director of Data Science at Capital One. Capital One are one of the largest retail banks in the United States, serving more than 100 million customers across a diverse set of businesses. The company was founded on the belief that no one should be locked out of the financial system. Today, their deep commitment to financial inclusion is reflected in their business, community partnerships, philanthropy and most importantly, support for their customers. They are on a mission to change banking for good. Hossein leads a team of amazing data scientists, engineers, and analysts in Dallas, Texas who design and build AI products that provide more people with financial choices and possibilities. He is leading the AppIntel team who are responsible for building and managing COAF's underwriting risk models used for approve/decline of customers across the business. Hossein also has extensive experience with learning algorithms, statistical modeling, data mining, cloud computing, data

Today's guest is Brandon Nutting, VP of Product Strategy and Data Science at MVPindex in Austin, Texas. Founded in 2012, MVPindex's mission is to build a transparent, modern system of measurement that transforms the business of sports & entertainment. The company's software solutions accurately measure the value of your partnerships and activations, allowing you to compare and contextualize your investments with the most precise and transparent data in the industry. Brandon is a former academic with a non-traditional background at the intersection of computer science, data science, sports, media and communication. He enjoys using non-traditional means for measuring complex tangible and intangible things, and spends a lot of time thinking about how data can be used to identify patterns and insights in a scalable and automated way. Brandon is passionate about the endurance sports community and enjoys training, racing and cheering on his fellow athletes. In the episode, Brandon will talk about: A

Today's guest is Karen Warren, Associate Vice President for Information Technology at Wesleyan University in Middletown, CT. Founded in 1831, Wesleyan University is a diverse, energetic liberal arts community where critical thinking and practical idealism go hand in hand. With their distinctive scholar-teacher culture, creative programming, and commitment to interdisciplinary learning, Wesleyan challenges students to explore new ideas and change the world. Karen is a highly motivated and experienced business leader with expert proficiency in defining and guiding information systems vision, strategy, and execution for major organizations. She leads the vision, strategy, and execution for all facets of information technology and systems at Wesleyan University, along with accountability for long-range capital planning and the oversight of the Infrastructure and Academic Technology teams. In the episode, Karen discusses: Her role and responsibilities with Wesleyan University, How they are utilizing the Servic

Today's guest is Ramesh Durvasula, SVP R&D IT at Eli Lilly in Indianapolis. Eli Lilly was founded in 1876 by Colonel Eli Lilly, a man committed to creating high-quality medicines that met real needs in an era of unreliable elixirs peddled by questionable characters. His charge to the generations of employees who have followed was this: "Take what you find here and make it better and better." More than 145 years later, the company remains committed to this vision through every aspect of its business and the people they serve starting with those who take its medicines and extending to healthcare professionals, employees and the communities in which they live. Eli Lilly pursues pharmaceutical innovation, provides high-quality products and strives to deliver superior business results. In the episode, Ramesh will talk about: His role and an overview of the R&D function at Eli Lilly, An insight into how they work with data, tech and analytics,  Their focus on computational science and data mod

Today's guest is Jason Crites, Founder, CEO and Chief Data Officer at Assurance Health Data in Chicago, IL. Founded in 2019, The Assurance Health Data (AHD) platform is a trusted clinical data ecosystem, enabling data sharing at scale amongst researchers, healthcare providers, patients, & diagnostic and life sciences companies to solve the biggest data problems in healthcare together. They are the industry's go-to partner for high quality, difficult-to-find and source Real-World Data. Jason has 20 years’ experience in data analytics and virtualization. He is a commercialization and data visualization expert with competencies in engineering, management and acquisition integration. As an ex-IBM sales executive, he generated a billion in revenue and led the development of the Federated Data Model and the Global Storage Solution. Jason is a citizen scientist, public speaker, and an early advocate of models for large-scale data sharing and analytics. In the episode, Jason will discuss: The motivation f

Today's guest is Steven Borgman, Director of Application Strategy and Development, Retail at Brookfield Properties. Founded in 1924, Brookfield Properties develops and operates real estate investments on behalf of Brookfield Asset Management, one of the largest alternative asset managers in the world. From office to retail, logistics to multifamily, and hospitality to development, they work across sectors to bring high-quality, sustainable real estate to life around the globe every day. Steven is an accomplished, results oriented leader with several years of experience in providing technology and business solutions. He has a successful track record of designing, implementing, automating, improving and supporting enterprise software applications, as well as experience with Data Center/Project Management, and System Design & Architecture. Making life easier by streamlining processes is what he strives to do as it frees people up to do more important, meaningful work. In the episode, Steven discusses: Hi

Today's guest is Ivan Galea, VP, Head of Data Science at Atlassian. Founded in 2002, Atlassian build tools like Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket, and Trello to help teams across the world become more nimble, creative and aligned. From medicine and space travel, to disaster response and pizza deliveries, Atlassian's products help teams all over the planet advance humanity through the power of software. With a team of 7000+ Atlassians supporting an international group of 250,000+ customers, it is their mission is to help unleash the potential of every team. Ivan is passionate about the power of data to create innovations, change lives and drive business forward. He has over 15 years of leadership experience working with engineering and business applications of new technologies, including at a startup technology firm. Ivan has a proven track record of building and mentoring high-performance teams, and has strong business development experience gained in the technology and financial services industries. In the

Today's guest is Teresa Purdy, Vice President, Technology Global Practice Leader at NewRocket. Founded in 2016, NewRocket delivers meaningful experiences and extraordinary results with ServiceNow. They bring innovative and creative solutions to over 1000 customers around the globe to Financial Services, Healthcare, Government, Insurance, and Technology companies. NewRocket has delivered over 4000 successful projects through world-class implementations and integrated solutions across the entire ServiceNow platform. Teresa is a transformational leader with over 20 years' experience successfully delivering large projects and managing products related to IT Service Management, Human Resources, CSM, GRC, & ERP Technology. She has vast hands-on experience in all aspects of technical design, application installation, system migrations, & security concepts/controls, as well as proficiency in large scale environments implementation, operations support, & life-cycle management within a range of indu

Today's guest is Michael Cunningham, CTO and Co-Founder at Zelta AI in New York. Founded in 2022, Zelta AI helps product teams in B2B SaaS companies prioritize their roadmap with confidence and maximize the value of each decision. They use generative AI to communicate insights on top customer pain points found in companies’ most valuable asset - qualitative sources of customer feedback such as sales call transcripts, support tickets and user surveys. In the episode, Michael will discuss: The origins of Zelta AI, How they help companies prioritize their roadmap more effectively, Examples of the benefits they bring to customers, The role of AI and Data Analytics in the product, Why Zelta AI is a great place to work, What excites him for the future at Zelta AI

Today's guest is Mark Shoun, Chief Data Scientist at Ledger Investing in New York. Founded in 2016, Ledger Investing are a tech-enabled marketplace for connecting insurance risk to capital. The company deploys proprietary software and data analytics covering many types of insurance risk portfolios. This technology enables insurers to securitize risk more efficiently while providing investors, asset managers, pension funds, hedge funds, family offices, and other institutions an opportunity to invest in a new and growing asset class. Mark is a experienced data science professional who's passionate about providing data-driven answers to complex real-world questions. He leads a team at Ledger Investing that focuses on building sophisticated analytics for casualty insurance portfolios, in particular modeling casualty insurance for pricing insurance-linked securities. They are fluent in actuarial practice and in modern statistical techniques, and they seek to combine the best of both worlds to provide robus

Today's guest is Annette Muldowney, Vice President - ServiceNow Lead at Lakeland Bank. Founded in 1969, Lakeland Bank continues to build on its infrastructure of financial strength, profitability, efficiency and quality service as it moves into the future. It is their mission to inspire and enable the communities that they serve to achieve financial stability and success. With a passion for excellence, Lakeland Bank strive to exceed the expectations of their customers, associates and shareholders. Annette has over 20 years Technical Management and Support experience primarily in the telecommunications and service industries, as well as local government.  She is currently responsible for the creation of the ServiceNow roadmap and project development efforts for Lakeland Bank. Her duties include resetting the existing customized version of ServiceNow, the redeployment of ServiceNow as a platform technology solution in the areas of ITSM, ITBM, ITOM, as well as managing the internal ServiceNow development tea

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