AI & Data Democratization Podcast

We talked to an amazingly experienced and visionary test engineer to find out all about her challenges and inspirations. Alexandra and Maaret covered a lot of ground in the testing landscape, from everyday testing challenges to best practices and to visions of the future. According to Maaret, testing is about breaking illusions and we couldn't agree with her more. Testing is also like singing...

What does it take to create effective digital policies? Why does the AI Act only go half-way - and what else needs to happen to ensure meaningful regulation of AI? How could the EU and the US overcome the challenges of negotiating transatlantic dataflows? And why should the EU might consider to stop relying on the Brussels Effect and instead get down on the negotiation table? Tune in to this conve...

What's synthetic data's future, and what's behind the synthetic data hype? This episode is all about synthetic data. We spoke to Tobi Hann, CEO of MOSTLY AI, the world's leading synthetic data company about the opportunities and challenges surrounding this important data tool. MOSTLY AI's recent Series B funding round is the biggest investment for synthetic data in Europe...

To celebrate Data Privacy Day 2022, we talked to the godfather of GDPR, Paul Nemitz, about how bigtech threatens democracy, the role law can play in protecting people and societies from adverse effects of technology and why it's time to regulate AI. Tune in to learn more about the upcoming European AI act and find out what role synthetic data is likely to play in this regulated future! 

Axel Voss is  leading the Special Committee on Artificial Intelligence in the European Parliament. He's been working on a report outlining important policy recommendations for the upcoming European AI regulations. Among other things, Axel talked to us about: why the GDPR is due for an update what the future of data protection holds how the EU should compete globally in AI and digital innovati...

Denis Rothman has been an AI practitioner since the dawn of this technology. Denis shares his ideas on the origins of explainable AI, its necessity, the way forward for model agnostic explainable AI and the challenges of natural language processing. 

What does the future hold for the insurance industry? In the latest episode of the Data Democratization Podcast, our host, Alexandra Ebert talked to David Marock, a seasoned insurtech, fintech and proptech expert from London. David shared his insights on the state of AI in the insurance industry and what are the current trends developing in the insurtech space. In this episode you will hear about...

Take an organizational deep-dive into the topic of responsible AI with Maria Axente, PwC's Responsible AI lead! You'll hear lots of hands-on advice for decision makers looking to make their company's AI adoption a success from hiring decisions, organizational structures and the new AI mindset of pause and reflect. 

Clara is a director at IEEE, the world's largest technical organization  founded by Tesla and Edison more than 100 years ago. Today, she is working on developing an ethically aligned design framework to help companies develop safe and effective AI systems. Listen to the 20th episode of the Data Democratization Podcast to find out what the difference is between standards and certifications, wh...

In this episode, Alexandra Ebert, MOSTLY AI's chief trust officer will be talking to one of the founders and the chief data scientist of MOSTLY AI. If you are looking to get a behind-the-scenes view of how data privacy is implemented in practice, you are in the right place! You won't need a math Ph. D. to finally understand how privacy is measured and what is takes to protect personal da...

Lisa Palmer is the chief technical advisor of Splunk, the popular data platform designed to remove barriers between data and action. Besides working for Splunk, she is a university professor, a podcast host, and an author. She spent years at Microsoft, Gartner, and Teradata, building up her unique perspective on data and technology-related business opportunities. In this episode, Lisa shares her m...

In the latest episode of the Data Democratization Podcast, Jim Hu, MOSTLY AI's Data Engineer, talks about the most exciting synthetic data engineering he has been busy doing. Synthetic data is quickly becoming a must-have engineering tool across industries, with new use cases emerging every day. If you want to learn how to leverage synthetic data in insurance and banking, listen to the episod...

Claudette McGowan is an award-winning technology leader with a real passion for cybersecurity. In this episode of the Data Democratization Podcast, she shares her personal journey to the cybersecurity field as well as her perspective on the current state of cybersecurity. Listen to the episode to learn more about how the pandemic changed the threat landscape, how companies should prepare for cyber...

Scott, the Data Whisperer, knows a thing or two about proper data management. If you are in the business of making large scale data projects happen, make sure you listen to this episode and learn about creating visibility and getting executive buy-in for your data projects. Find out how to set your data projects up for success from the beginning through master data, metadata, data governance and d...

Amir Tabakovic has lots of experience in developing banking products, and as a chairman of the AI and Data Privacy Experts Group at Mobey Forum, he has a very good overview of privacy best practices and the most common mistakes in the banking industry. Listen to this episode to learn about how to develop customer-centric banking products and take them to market? How can traditional banks compete w...

Behrang Raji is a data privacy officer for the Hamburg Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information. He is right where legislation happens, knows what drives regulators and has a pretty good understanding of trends and the larger regulatory landscape. Listen to this episode if you are curious about the upcoming European AI regulations, fairness in law and how synthetic data helps fi...

NVIDIA is famous for its graphics cards, but NVIDIA's story is so much bigger than this. Their graphics cards have been used to accelerate AI and data science, and now they offer a whole ecosystem of services and tools for companies ready to make AI happen. Listen to the episode to learn about the top AI use cases in finance and insurance and how to make those happen. Questions you will get a...

Nancy Nemes is an AI expert with 20 years of hand-on experience in implementing frameworks as a leader at Microsoft and Google. She is the founder of HumanAIze, an organization that aims to make AI more inclusive. If you are looking for some practical advice on how to implement responsible AI at the moment, then look no more – In this episode you will learn about all the necessary steps to perform...

Nicolas Passadelis is a lawyer and privacy expert who has been leading the Data Governance team at Swisscom for over four years. In this episode of the Data Democratization Podcast, Nicolas shares his best practices of data governance and provides real-life examples of how Swisscom's data ethics board works. The episode contains an amazing collection of actionable takeaways and great answers...

Paul Tiwald has been part of the MOSTLY AI team since the beginning. He is the mastermind behind the team's research into fairness and the idea of fair synthetic data.  In this episode, you will hear about:  what it's like to work in the field of artificial intelligence (spoiler: it's really fun!) how the idea of fair synthetic data came up how to create machine learning models that...

We talked to one of Europe's most renowned GDPR and data experts, who shared his insights about the regulatory landscape in Europe and elsewhere and gave excellent advice for lawmakers and companies.  In this episode, you will hear more about: recent regulatory developments, including Schrems II, GDPR, and the new AI-regulation proposal from the European Court of Justice why regulation is nec...

In this action-packed episode, John Frushour, Deputy Chief Information Security Officer at New York-Presbyterian Hospital, shares his best frontline data stories. And data stories don't get any more frontline than his. From fighting the opioid crisis to the COVID-19 emergency in New York, John and his team accomplished superhuman achievements with data.  In this episode, you will hear more ab...

Ryan is a Senior Data Scientist at Spotify with extensive experience in developing great customer-centric products with the power of data. He is a data consultant and university lecturer, passionate about data science and understanding the business side of things. In this episode you will hear about: How to start building data infrastructure in your organization, no matter the size. How to embed d...

Punit Bhatia was the Privacy and Protection Officer at ING and has tons of experience in managing privacy and data protection in large international environments. In this episode, Punit shares his best strategic advice for those looking to strategize privacy in their organization.  You will hear about: the three biggest privacy challenges for enterprises and their solutions whose responsibility sh...

In the fourth episode of the Data Democratization pod, we are talking to Sang Shin, serial entrepreneur, investment expert about his adventures in data monetization and he'll share his vision for the future of the data and privacy space.  Topics discussed in the episode: How Been Choice, a privacy protection and data monetization app was banned by Apple What is the data privacy landscape like...