Who's your Data? Podcast

One of the most rewarding use-cases of AI is providing access of life changing services to minority populations who are underserved. Nowhere is this more true than in the medical field, and specifically in the quote-unquote niche field of LGBTQ Health. Today’s guest is Dr. Roy Zucker, Director of LGBTQ Health Services at Clalit, Israel’s biggest HMO and chairman of the Israeli LGBTQ medical associ...

Generative AI has become a hot buzzword everywhere and it is especially true in the Enterprise Organization space - but how do Enterprise organizations use it and what are the challenges and pitfalls in attempting to implement it? Can it truly be cross-organizational or be relagated to specific tasks in specific departments? To help ponder these questions I chat with Inna Tokarev Sela, founder and...

In the 30th episode of Who's Your Data? I am very excited to host the one, the only Dr. Claudia Perlich - Data scientist extraordinaire, mentor and friend who dives deep into the evolving landscape of AI and data science, navigating the hype around AI's capabilities and addressing ethical concerns. Claudia brings her no-nonsense, real-world insights and tackles everything from the unpredictability...

We’ve heard many stories about how AI has become increasingly responsible for spreading misinformation, whether in politics, health information or otherwise. But did you know that AI can be used to combat misinformation too? In this episode we chat with Amelia Burke Garcia, Director at the Center for Health Communication Science at NORC at the University of Chicago and Rebecca Soskin Hicks, Pediat...

We talk a lot about data and AI and how they influence our work and society, but today we get in the trenches! Today I chat with Mo Villigran, Associate director of insights, analytics and data at Cambrex, a pharmaceutical manufacturing company, about AI projects she is implementing. We discuss what it’s like for data teams to implement AI projects - how to communicate with stakeholders, what uniq...

April 7 marks the beginning of Black Maternal Health week and to honor this important topic I have a chat with Bianca Pryor. Bianca is VP of consumer insights at BET networks but also the co-founder of the Dr. Shalon’s Maternal Action Project, a non-profit organization that seeks to empower Women of color to reach out and find support in their community, utilizing an innovative app called “Believe...

PhySec, or physical security, encompasses everything that physically protects, alerts and monitors us - from burglar alarms to video surveillance. Unsurprisingly, this industry is also being revolutionized by AI. I speak to Don Morron, host of the AI Physec Today podcast, about how AI is changing the physical security industry, and also how they continue to think about privacy and about human and...

I chat with Karlien Kriegler and David Wright, co-founders of Hello Ara, a tech-forward market research company in South Africa that has created a Metaverse environment to run focus groups! What does it mean to create a Metaverse environment for market research? How is AI utilized in several stages of its lifecycle? What are the localization/cultural considerations for South Africa as opposed to t...

Whew! We made it to the end of 2023! Join me as I remember my favorite moments and guests of the year, with my favorite pearls of wisdom that they discussed. It's a cornucopia of knowledge from the HealthTech, Financial Services, Music Streaming, Analytics, Art and other industries.

Generative AI has already started to have major implications in regards to the content we consume - and this is especially true in music! In today’s episode I chat with Eyal Golshani, VP of Data Science at Vevo, the world’s leading music video network, to discuss how data and generative AI influence their work. We explore how their Data Science team uses data, talk about AI generated content, the...

AI is rapidly changing the landscape of innovative healthtech. In this episode I chat with Dr. Yoni Goldwasser, a digital health investor and entrepreneur, about the exciting new trends in healthtech and whether or not AI will advance enough to replace doctors in the future. We discuss how accurate medical models need to be in his opinion, how he and his team of investors evaluate new healthtech s...

Progress in healthcare and medical research requires a lot of data. In the era of Big Data health data is among the most valuable and the most private information anyone can have. Two major hurdles with finding quality medical data are access to that data in a private and ethical way as well as bias on the data due to underrepresentation of women, certain racial or ethnic groups. In this episode I...

In this episode I chat with Rich Edwards, CEO of Mindspan systems, about the changing tech and data landscape for Financial Institutions, especially big banks vs. regional ones - how Mindspan turns tech into a commodity and data from what was once a regulatory liability into a democratized operating asset. In this age of consolidation we chat about how data is the smaller banks’ secret weapon to i...

In this episode I talk to Ryan Janssen and Paul BLankley, the founders of Zenlytic, a company that strives to bring the world Generative-AI-powered self-serve business intelligence. But what does that even mean? How does it work? And most importantly - will it make the Analyst Role obsolete in the future? Join us as we discuss the problem that Zenlytics aims to solve, how LLM’s understand your bus...

Femtech - or Female Health Technology, which includes apps such as period trackers, is experiencing unprecedented growth. But nowhere is this podcast’s tagline - how life affects data and how data affects life - more relevant than in this industry in the shadow of the Dobbs decision by the supreme court overturning Roe V. Wade this year. In this episode I talk to Bethany Corbin, a Femtech innovati...

The field of Public Health has always involved collecting and analyzing data but when a worldwide pandemic hit suddenly, it was necessary to speed up these processes so as to make decisions and recommendations in real time. As the pandemic changed and shifted, with vaccines and treatments, so did the need for public health data. In this episode I talk to Amelia Burke-Garcia and Lucy Rabinowitz Bai...

In this episode we tackle the issue of AI generated art - Recently the news has been abuzz with names like chatgpt, Dall-E, Lensa AI and other services that utilize AI to generate art. Is this the beginning of the end for human creativity and artistry? I am joined by Tery Spataro, an author and creator who uses AI tools to create and enhance her art - we talk about how these tools actually get use...

Did you know that the US has one of the highest if not THE highest maternal mortality rate in the world? This is especially true for Women of color who suffer from lack of access to quality care and cultural sensitivity. Join me for a conversation with Mohamed Kamara, Founder and CEO of InovCares, an app for women, particularly women of color, that provides access to culturally-sensitive clinician...

In this episode I chat with Josh LaMar, who after many years of doing Design Research at Microsoft now heads Amplinate, a Design firm that fast-tracks domestic and international product growth, helping tech companies save millions by building the right product for the right audience in the right markets. We discuss LGBT representation in Tech, what it means to be inclusive when designing software...

In this special episode to commemorate National Coming Out Day on October 11th, I give my perspective on what it means to come out in the workplace, why it's important and why it's not a singular event but rather something that happens continuously throughout our careers.

I chat with Geographer and Data Scientist Peter Lenz, Head of Data Science at Near, about geo-location data - what is it? How is it used and what are some of the ethical concerns around it? We discuss how it’s collected - from cellphones to Satellites, and we talk about the democratization of space and how accessible it has become for private enterprise to launch satellites. Lastly I get Peter’s p...

In this episode we talk to Fara Ashiru Jituboh, Co-Founder and CEO of Okra, a Nigerian Financial tech startup who’s mission is to digitize financial services in Africa and connect a Billion Africans to the Global Economy. We discuss what it means to build Africa’s financial data network, the social consequences like building and strengthening a middle class. We discuss how they think about the fin...

Join the discussion with Dr. Lauren Moores, Head of Data Innovation at Montai Health about her work on the data advisory board of USA for UNHCR, a nonprofit organization that supports the United Nations High Commission for Refugees and builds awareness and support for the global refugee crisis. We discuss how data is utilized in that work to help address the Refugee Crisis, her take on corporation...

I talk to James Hodson, CEO and board member of AI FOR GOOD, an organization that aims to use AI to affect meaningful social change. We discuss how the organization defines social good, how Corporations and Academia are hampered in their ability to push social innovation and how AI For Good seeks to fill that void. We discuss a few of their projects, especially around diversity and inclusion in th...

THIS EPISODE IS FIRE! No, literally, it’s about fire. And water. And Climate Change! I talk to Professor Naomi Tague of the UC Santa Barbara Bren School of Environmental Science and Management about her research predicting and forecasting forest fire frequency and severity in California as well as modeling how water flows through landscapes. We discuss how she does her research, what data is used...