AI and the Future of Work: Artificial Intelligence in the Workplace, Business, Ethics, HR, and IT for AI Enthusiasts, Leaders and Academics

Send us Fan Mail This week's guest has been called “America’s Best Leader” by U.S. News and “The Entrepreneur Whisperer” by ABC, Fox, and NPR. Linda Rottenberg is the Co-founder and CEO of Endeavor , the world's leading community of high-impact entrepreneurs. She's also an accomplished author, speaker, investor, and mentor for global entrepreneurs. Linda's a mom of twins, a com...

Send us Fan Mail Denis Jacquet is concerned that automation is causing traditional jobs to mutate... and governments around the world are mismanaging the opportunity to prepare citizens for the new labor market. He has written extensively on how regulation is stifling innovation. Denis is a serial entrepreneur having started and sold multiple successful companies including EduFactory in the e-lear...

Send us Fan Mail Joe Rehmann went from investment banking to fish farming. His passion for solving the protein problem in Eastern Africa led to one of the most successful aquaculture farms in the world.  Joe's story should inspire entrepreneurs everywhere. No problem is too big to solve. Technology we take for granted can be used in ways we can't imagine... until leaders like Joe redefin...

Send us Fan Mail Philippe Cases has been an entrepreneur and investor in Silicon Valley for more than 25 years. Most recently, he founded Topio Networks to automate the process of generating business insights in tech markets like edge computing, IoT, and blockchain. Philippe has strong opinions about everything from autonomous driving to augmented reality and is paid to influence how they evolve....

Send us Fan Mail Tim Crawford , accomplished CIO, CIO advisor, and influencer, distinguishes transformational CIOs from the rest. For more than 20 years, he has been coaching CIOs about embracing new technologies by first identifying how they'll solve business problems. Tim is a frequent contributor to publications like The Wall Street Journal, CIO.com , Forbes, SiliconAngle and TechTarget. T...

Send us Fan Mail Rory O'Driscoll  has been investing in startups since founding Scale Venture Partners 27 years ago. He and his team have invested in transcendent companies like Box, DocuSign, Omniture, Bill.com, HubSpot, and others. Listen to this one multiple times. You'll learn something new each one. Hear Rory's insights on AI and venture investing... "The venture business...

Send us Fan Mail This week, Wendy Pfeiffer , Nutanix CIO and former CIO at GoPro, shares her journey to becoming a public company exec and how she has grown as a technologist and leader. Hear about Wendy's proudest accomplishment at Nutanix and what she's learned from an eclectic group of role models. Listen and learn... What it means to "lead with grace". Why the future of ent...

Send us Fan Mail Rak Garg recently shifted from Product Management at companies like Atlassian and Redfin to investing at OpenView Venture Partners , the iconic firm behind companies like Datadog, ExactTarget, Instructure, and others. He shares the playbook for enterprise software startups looking to disrupt incumbents like Splunk and Atlassian. His thesis on SIEM (security event management) and l...

Send us Fan Mail Glenn Solomon has discovered and invested in many iconic companies like Slack, Zendesk, and Square. In this episode, he shares his investing philosophy and how he became great at what he does. This one's worth a listen just to hear Glenn share stories from when he first met the founders of Airbnb and HashiCorp. Listen and learn... Why the stock of Domino’s Pizza has outperfor...

Send us Fan Mail Elaine Zelby is an investor at SignalFire , a blogger, podcaster, and former Product Marketer at Capriza and Slack. She shares her perspective on the proliferation of SaaS tools, what's sexy about unsexy markets, and what companies she's ready to fund. Listen and learn... Why entrepreneurs describe SignalFire as the "kind" VC The one technology that will change...

Send us Fan Mail The future of cities, work, and transit all rely on technological advances in the field of autonomous vehicles. On this week's episode, Evangelos Simoudis , acclaimed author, futurist, and investor, discusses  the present and future of everything from robo-taxis to urban planning. Listen and learn... -How ethical implications and regulatory frameworks pose as big a threat to...

Send us Fan Mail Ashu Garg is a General Partner at Foundation Capital, one of the most iconic venture firms in Silicon Valley. Ashu was first an entrepreneur before becoming an investor and discovering amazing companies like TubeMogul, Cohesity, Eightfold, and Databricks. Listen and learn... How Ashu translated his unique brand of hustle into finding and backing amazing entrepreneurs Why Ashu feel...

Send us Fan Mail Great episode to kick off 2021. Dr. Haixun Wang has been at the forefront of introducing AI-based innovation to the world's leading technology companies including IBM, Google, Microsoft, Facebook, and Amazon. He's the current VP Engineering and Distinguished Scientist at Instacart where he focuses on improving the grocery delivery experience with AI. Listen and learn......

Send us Fan Mail Darius Goldman , CEO and Founder of Meratas , discusses the future of education and how income share agreements (ISAs) are making college and trade school more accessible. Meratas partners with educational institutions to offer a financing option to students who can attend courses for free up front and pay later with a portion of future income. Meratas is off to a fast start with...

Send us Fan Mail On this week’s podcast, Michael Shepherd , Distinguished Engineer at Dell Technologies focused on AI, describes the present and future of intelligent software. Fascinating discussion about using AI for good… and what could happen if we lose control. Worth listening to hear when Michael thinks we’ll achieve AGI (artificial general intelligence), where bots are indistinguishable fro...

Send us Fan Mail In this special episode with Dr. Helen Gu, author or co-author of 80+ academic papers on distributed computing and AI for systems management, we discuss the past, present, and future of AI for IT Operations. Listen and learn... How and why the technology behind common problems like image recognition fails when applied to machine data Where Helen and her team were nine years ahead...

Send us Fan Mail Chris Curtin has been on a journey over the past twenty plus years to modernize iconic brands like Disney, HP, and Visa. He has been at the forefront of new payment technologies, consumer channels, and business models. We discussed the future of everything with Chris.  Listen and learn... Why it will soon be as easy to send money to Botswana as it is to send photos or emoji. How C...

Send us Fan Mail This week, we had a fascinating discussion that unveiled the dirty secret of AI and machine learning: algorithm performance is only as good as data quality... and data pipelines break frequently. Data Scientists spend most of their time wrangling data. Barr Moses , CEO and Founder of Monte Carlo , explains how the problem is getting solved and what that means for the future of tec...

Send us Fan Mail This week's special episode of AI and the Future of Work features execs discussing how they use AI to reduce downtime. More important, they share how, as leaders, they're navigating the complicated relationship between humans and machines. Listen and learn from some of the best: Joel Eagle on how McDonald's thinks about managing data at scale to improve the guest ex...

Send us Fan Mail On this week’s episode of AI and the Future of Work, Colin Fletcher shares insights including...  What he meant by “AIOps” when he coined the term and what has happened since then. How the most mature organizations adopt DevOps. How AIOps will change in the next three years.  The new definition of automation everyone in IT will soon be talking about.  ...And of course, the not-so-...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to this week's "best of" episode of AI and the Future Work. Today, we’re opening the vault and re-introducing you to Dave Kellogg , serial high-tech CEO, board member, and of course Dead Head discussing SaaS metrics earlier this year.  I’m proud to share that the podcast just crossed 100,000 downloads so I’m taking this opportunity to thank you for listening...

Send us Fan Mail Patty Hatter , former CIO, COO, and current SVP Customer Services at Palo Alto Networks, shares advice for women about how to break the glass ceiling in Silicon Valley. Hear how Patty went from engineering grad student to global exec by cultivating an authentic leadership style. Listen and learn: How six months in Europe shaped Patty's career. The advice Patty says served her...

Send us Fan Mail This week's discussion is about the pandemic, AI, and mental health. Deryk Van Brunt is a serial entrepreneur, trained epidemiologist, and Professor at the U.C. Berkeley School of Public Health. CredibleMind uses AI to improve access to mental health resources. What once was relegated to the shadows of healthcare is now mainstream. Anxiety and stress have spiked due to social...

Send us Fan Mail New format this week: a special panel discussion with Justin Fitzhugh from Snowflake, Liz Holland from Dell, and Luca Blanzuoli from Credit Suisse... Learn insights about the future of AI in IT Operations from the pros: "We couldn't keep the environment available without AI technology.” -Liz from Dell “It’s time to switch paradigms. It’s not ok to have outages with the s...

Send us Fan Mail This week's guest deserves credit for helping transform Intuit into an iconic technology brand with a reputation for great company culture and values-driven leadership. We get a unique look into the secrets that have made Cassie and Intuit successful and, more important, what Cassie's doing to define the post-pandemic future of work for self-employed entrepreneurs.  List...