Ai In Action

Today's guest is Ivy Ryerson, Principal Strategist - U.S. Federal Inspire Value at ServiceNow. Ivy has over 15 years of experience working with federal and commercial organizations to develop and execute digital transformation and business strategy initiatives that are aligned with policy, business priorities, and risk management programs. In her current role, Ivy is responsible to engage with executives to define and manage bespoke industry-aligned digital transformation advisory engagements at select key customers. Ivy leads discovery workshops with customer leadership and their teams to understand key business objectives, challenges, desired outcomes, and future state of service delivery modernization. She also communicates strategic alignment, presents multi-year roadmaps, and documents the full business case to justify action and investment. Ivy also provides full lifecycle business outcomes and offers value realization advisory to senior leadership. In this episode, Ivy will discuss: Her background

Today's guest is Jens Strandbygaard, Senior Director of Product Management at ServiceNow. Based in Denmark, Jens has more than 25 years international experience as senior executive or founder helping enterprises digitally transform by leveraging cutting edge technologies. He has built and maintained a global network of business partners ranging from software vendors to systems integrators and consulting companies to cloud providers, mainly solving for SAP technology challenges for his partners and customers. In 2021, Jens managed the sale of Gekkobrain to ServiceNow and he is part of the Creator Workflow Business Unit, helping SAP customers modernize and optimize their SAP environments by utilizing ServiceNow's digital workflow platform to build low-code apps. On the personal side, Jens is passionate about technology and people, and thrives in a multinational and multi-cultural environment, meeting and dealing with different nationalities and cultures to mutually solve customers problems and make thei

Today's guest is Kevin Brodie, Director of Machine Learning at Orbital Sidekick. Founded in 2016, Orbital Sidekick is the premier persistent monitoring service helping commercial and government organizations meet their sustainable operations, ESG and security goals. The company's satellite constellation supplies fast, efficient hyperspectral intelligence from anywhere on the planet. They imagine a world where the planet's most pressing operational, environmental and safety problems are solvable. In his role as Director of Machine Learning, Kevin manages a team of Machine Learning scientists to develop technical roadmaps, build models, design ML infrastructure, analyze systems for hardware and software requirements development, and plan ML experimentation. Kevin's goal is to use math, physics, and code to develop new technologies that benefit the world. He enjoys solving problems in natural sciences, remote sensing, biological signal processing and climate change. In the episode, Kevin will tal

Today's guest is Nikolaus Obholzer, Director of Computational Biology at Kronos Bio. Founded in 2017, Kronos Bio are a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company dedicated to the discovery and development of therapeutics that target the dysregulated transcription that causes cancer and other serious diseases. Their team finds meaning in making purposeful connections as the company seeks to bring forward groundbreaking therapies for patients who need them. Nikolaus is an experienced technical manager, thought leader and problem solver who likes to put scientific data to work and communicates the results to drive decisions. He is also a Computational Biologist with more than 15 years of drug discovery and biomedical research experience in vitro, in vivo and in silico. Nikolaus' experience spans across academia, consulting, biotech and pharma. In the episode, Nikolaus will talk about: The interesting work Kronos Bio are doing in the Biotech space, How they are utilizing Machine Learning, His responsibiliti

Today's guest is Ben Person, CEO and Co-Founder at Tenon in Indianapolis, IN. Founded in 2022, Tenon are driven by a singular objective: to transform how enterprise marketers work. The company's dedicated mission is to elevate marketing across the organization, giving them the tools to collaborate across departments to drive visibility, support, and be able to execute and prove the value of their services. Crafted by marketers for marketers, Tenon approach solving this problem with creative energy and empathy that matches a marketer’s passion for creativity and results. Built on ServiceNow, their solution leverages the built-in security, compliance and trust expected at the enterprise level, and provides a unified solution allowing marketing teams to plan, execute and measure the performance of campaigns like never before. In this episode, Ben will discuss: The origins and scaling of Tenon, His approach as an entrepreneur to building Tenon, What makes Tenon stand out and milestones so far, Advice to a

Today's guest is Raghu Dhara, Director of Data Science at Motive in San Francisco, CA. Founded in 2013, Motive builds technology to improve the safety, productivity and profitability of businesses that power the physical economy. The company serve more than 120,000 businesses, across a wide range of industries including construction, field service, agriculture, trucking and logistics, delivery, and more. Motive are committed to building a company that creates products customers love and fostering a culture that enables people to do their best work. Raghu joined Motive in 2019 and is currently the Director of the Data Science team, which launched the company's first wave of data-driven products including a driver safety score, a rewards card for fleet expenses, a fuel efficiency score, and a freight load board. In the episode, Raghu will talk about: The work Motive are doing in trucking and logistics, Day-to-day life of the data science team, What they look for when hiring into the team, Why they focus

Today's guest is David Sutton, Director of Innovation at Featurespace. Founded in 2008, Featurespace is dedicated to making the world a safer place for their clients and their customers. With the support of their customers, Freaturespace have developed market-leading solutions to fight enterprise fraud and financial crime using real-time Machine Learning. They invented Adaptive Behavioral Analytics, Automated Deep Behavioral Networks and ARIC Risk Hub, the most powerful and open technology to combat fraud and financial crime. Featurespace's technology and results are recognized as the best worldwide for fighting enterprise fraud and financial crime. Their achievements are due to their collaborative approach and ability to attract and retain the best customers, talent and investors.  It’s a rare achievement to bring a new technology to market, to achieve financial success and most importantly of all, to make customers proud to be using technology developed to outsmart the perpetrators of real-time ente

Today's guest is Kali Alexander, ServiceNow Customer Advocate at GlideFast Consulting. Founded in 2015, GlideFast Consulting is an Elite ServiceNow Partner that specializes in delivering exceptional solutions on the ServiceNow platform. Headquartered in Waltham, Massachusetts, the company pride themselves on offering industry-leading services, unparalleled expertise and a track record of positive customer reviews. Kali is a Certified ServiceNow System Administrator aimed at helping enterprises and organizations leverage IT automated processes to run at peak performance in order to stimulate growth, while saving time and resources. A curious autodidact keen on creating a technical solution-based flow state, she thrives in situations that challenge her to be a resourceful problem solver and collaborator. In this episode, Kali will discuss: How she got into the world of ServiceNow, Her experience at Knowledge 2023, The possibilities of Generative AI with ServiceNow, What she learned from meeting people at Kn

Today's guest is Shawn Sullivan, Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer at Phase Genomics in Seattle, Washington. Phase Genomics was founded in 2015 by a team of genome scientists, software engineers, and entrepreneurs with the mission of maximizing the impact of genomics on society. With the vast majority of biological information remaining un-explored, the company seek to empower researchers to make breakthrough discoveries using the power of advanced, next-generation genomic tools. The cornerstone of their approach lies in a technology called proximity ligation, which enables unprecedented improvements in the depth and quality of information generated from DNA sequencing efforts. From the discovery of thousands of new bacteria from microbiome samples to platinum quality genome assemblies, their wet lab and computational tools add a new dimension to genomic information. By continuously developing new genomic methods, Phase Genomics seek to bring transformative change to research, industry and the clini

Today's guest is Jack Loss, Vice President of Strategy and Innovation at Improvix Technologies. Founded in 2012, Improvix Technologies is an IT and Services company focused on developing, implementing, and managing innovative solutions that help our customers accomplish their missions. The company's stellar track record highlights their consistent delivery of cost-effective, strongly-secure and highly-integrated IT solutions that exceed customers’ expectations and enhance the government’s technology landscape. Improvix Technologies 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, Improvix’s elite team of consultants and engineers are eager to provide you with end-to-end executive-level service in pursuit of your organization's mission. In the episode, Jack will discuss: New developments they’ve been working on in

Today's guest is John deWysocki, Enterprise Management and Automation Leader. Based in New York, John is an Enterprise Management and Automation expert with broad technical IT leadership experience from startups to multinational firms. He has expertise in supervising geographically disbursed teams, directing large initiatives, projects and people, resolving global issues, and progressing enterprise-wide environments. John has extensive experience successfully overseeing full project lifecycles from development through production implementation, operation and governance. His areas of focus include ITSM, ITOM, ITAM and ITBM, Enterprise Monitoring and AIOps, CMDB Asset & Configuration Management, IT Workflow Automation, Orchestration, Robotic Process Automation, and Physical and Virtual Service Desk Operations. In this episode, John will discuss: His background and experience with ServiceNow, Why ServiceNow is adding so much value to organizations, Overcoming challenges during implementations, Future tre

Today's guest is Varun Dwaraka, Head of Bioinformatics at TruDiagnostic in Lexington, Kentucky. Founded in 2019, TruDiagnostic are on a mission to help people understand, access and benefit from their epigenome. TruDiagnostic are home the largest, private epigenetic database in the world and are leading the way in DNA methylation-based research and discovery. As they continue mapping unforged health information found in the fluid epigenome, the company combine data and AI to develop new methylation-based diagnostic tools. Varun is an experienced scientist with proven experience in the development of Next Generation Sequencing and array based analytical pipelines using univariate, multivariate and Machine Learning methods. He is also an effective communicator, presenting at international and national conferences in poster presentations and talks, while also publishing in international, peer reviewed journals. Varun is passionate about learning and implementing ML methods to advance predictive medicine and

Today's guest is Daniel Wilson, Co-Founder, COO and Head of Product at Legion Health in Austin, Texas. Founded in 2021, Legion Health are building a B2B mental health marketplace to solve one of the hardest problems in healthcare - the 230,000+ deficit of mental health professionals in the United States. The company allows mental health clinicians to see more patients by connecting them to health care organizations that want to scale their mental health offerings quickly. Legion Health was founded by three best friends from Princeton whose families had each gone through a difficult time accessing medical help. Out of these experiences arose a passion to revolutionize healthcare access. Now, every member of their diverse and growing team is driven to innovate and positively impact the mental health space. It is the company's mission to bring quality psychiatric care to all. In the episode, Daniel will discuss: The origins and mission of Legion Health, Problems they are solving for customers in mental h

Today's guest is David Kinlough, Senior Director - Enterprise Business Solutions at Samsung SDS America. Samsung SDS is the digital arm of the Samsung group and a global provider of cloud and digital transformation innovations. They deliver enterprise-grade solutions and services in cloud, secure mobility, analytics, AI, digital marketing and digital workspace. Samsung SDS enables customers in various industries to drive business in a hyper-connected economy to increase productivity, safeguard assets and make smarter decisions. Based in Toronto, David is an experienced senior sales and business development executive with successful exits from startup phase organizations. He has extensive experience in building global strategic indirect channel and alliance programs (including mobile operator distributors) and startup phase sales forces. David is an innovator in the areas of IoT/M2M, mobile devices and networks, Cloud-based and SaaS applications and managed services. In this episode, David will discuss: Hi

Today's guest is Vera Chien, Executive Director, Corporate Research, Data & Insights at Warner Bros. Discovery. Headquartered in New York, Warner Bros. Discovery are a premier global media and entertainment company that offers audiences the world's most differentiated and complete portfolio of content, brands and franchises across television, film, streaming and gaming. The new company combines WarnerMedia's premium entertainment, sports and news assets with Discovery's leading non-fiction and international entertainment, and sports businesses. Vera is an experienced insights & analytics leader with a strong track record of launching products, and driving business growth through innovation and inspiration. She is a thought leader specializing in metaverse, gaming, streaming and youth audiences. In her current role, Vera's responsibilities include directing insights & analytics across product and strategy teams, crafting thought leadership pieces on emerging video, social and ga

Today's guests are Jim Foote, CEO and Noah Berlow, CTO at First Ascent Biomedical. Founded in 2018, First Ascent is a biotech startup with a mission to transform medical oncology through highly individualized, prospective treatment planning technologies that improve survival and advance science. The company have developed a platform that helps patients today through providing individualized cancer treatment plans, accelerates new drugs into the clinic for patients tomorrow, and will reshape cancer treatment for the patients of the future. Jim is an experienced Fortune 250 CIO/CISO who lost his son Trey to bone cancer, which inspired him to set up First Ascent Biomedical. He is also the founder of the Trey Foote Foundation in honor of his son, dedicated to advancing new treatments and cures for osteosarcoma. CTO Noah is a designer/validator of the AI framework and lead author on all AI validation studies. He is also an assistant faculty member at the Children’s Cancer Therapy Development Institute. In the

Today's guests are Alexandra Otte and Marcel Hopp, Senior Consultants at agineo GmbH in Germany. Specialzing in solutions for Enterprise Service Management (ESM), agineo work together with their customers on innovative projects that help to increase the company's success. For more than 30 years, agineo have been designing their customers' business processes to be digital, agile and forward-looking. As a ServiceNow partner, the company rely on established platforms such as ServiceNow cloud technology for their service projects in order to streamline processes and simplify complex workflows. This is how projects succeed particularly quickly and efficiently. This is their proven way of working, with which agineo have established themselves as the largest ServiceNow Elite Partner in the German-speaking region. In this episode, Alexandra and Marcel will discuss: How they both got into the world of ServiceNow, agineo’s interesting work on the ServiceNow platform, Why ServiceNow and HRSD fit so well toge

Today's guest is Mike Salem, Associate Director of Data Science at Gilead Sciences. Founded in 1987, Gilead set bold ambitions to create a healthier world for all people. From their pioneering virology medicines to their growing impact in oncology, they are delivering innovations once thought impossible in medicine. Their focus goes beyond medicines as they also strive to remedy health inequities and break down barriers to care. Gilead empower their people to tackle these challenges and they are all united in their commitment to help millions of people live healthier lives. Mike is an experienced Data Scientist & Mathematician with over ten years of experience utilizing Artificial Intelligence to solve unique problems across multiple domains including robotics, sensors and IoT. He has a demonstrated ability working with large, unstructured and messy data sets, responsible for architecting, building and maintaining automated pipelines. Mike is also a strong technical lead that mentors co-workers by bui

Today's guest is Paul Powers, Founder and CEO at Physna in Columbus, Ohio. Founded in 2015, Physna was launched on the principle that computers should be taught to accurately “think” in 3D – sorting and analyzing geometric objects like written code. The company dream of a future where people have the tools they need to design and analyze the parts and products that shape the world to create and drive innovation in product design, 3D printing, augmented and virtual reality, gaming, healthcare and beyond. In the episode, Paul will discuss: The motivation for founding Physna, Challenges he faced building the company from scratch, Benefits they bring to customers, The launch of Thangs, The current make-up of the team & plans for growth, What’s in store for the near future at Physna

Today's guest is Kunal Kapoor, Director of Global Partner Strategy and Sales at Microsoft in New York. Kunal is a strategic business executive with a track record of leading matrixed multi-year, technology software and services deals globally. He has worked across multiple industries including Financial, Retail, CPG, Hi-tech, Pharma/Life Sciences, Healthcare, Hospitality and Travel. In his current role, Kunal is responsible for formalizing partnerships in Regulated Industries business of Microsoft with ISVs and SIs, as well as sales and business development in the Microsoft Commercial Partner team. Kunal is also focused to grow Microsoft's AI, ML business with a specific focus towards Financial Services industry and the enterprise, SI and ISV customers/partners. In this episode, Kunal will talk about: His role and how he got into the world of ServiceNow, Why ServiceNow is the platform of choice for organizations, Examples of how Microsoft is adding value utilizing ServiceNow, How the Microsoft and Ser