Conversations on Applied AI

The conversation this week is with Dr. Antonio Di Fenza . Antonio has a Master of Arts and a Ph. D. in Romantic Languages, Literature, and Linguistics from Cornell University. He has envisioned and written a project of a chatbot trained on philosophers and poets that is capable of meaningful interactions. Additionally, he is currently a futurist providing inspiration, suggestions, and solutions fo...

The conversation this week is with Panos and George Karagiannis , co-founders of Moveo. AI . Both of these guys are passionate about new technologies and always eager to learn. They love turning ideas into practice by working with people that share the same enthusiasm about technology as they do at their company. They are building a new type of conversational AI platform that works on automating m...

The conversation this week is with George Bryant , a partner of Fulton Analytics . Fulton Analytics is a Minnesota-based data analytics strategy and consulting company committed to delivering data success. Their data success framework aligns people's processes and technology toward agile data transformation. George has a passion for soccer as well as being a head coach for a number of teams a...

The conversation this week is with Sam Cartford . Sam is doing cybersecurity by day and is the co-founder of his own startup called Babbl, which he is working on anytime else. Babbl is a website that tracks stock market news sentiment, it aggregates and runs sentiment analysis on thousands of finance articles to distill high-impact information and ultimately help investors supplement their current...

The conversation this week is with Peter Scott . Peter is the author of Crisis of Control: How Artificial Super Intelligences May Destroy or Save the Human Race. He holds a Master's of Computer Science from the University of Cambridge and worked for NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory for 16 years. But today actually spends his time as an author, futurist and business coach focusing on assi...

The conversation this week is with Lois Melbourne & Ross Melbourne . Lois is an author presenting visions of what if her former life was exciting as a software CEO and entrepreneur, and she is now the Chief Story Officer at My Future Story. Within her nonprofit work for My Future Story she published The STEM Club Goes Exploring, and Kids Go to Work Day. She loves to coach kids and schools thro...

The conversation this week is with Ngan MacDonald . Ngan is the chief of data operations at the Institute for Augmented Intelligence in Medicine, where she is bridging computational methods with human experience to advance medical science and improve human health. Nana's, a 2022 cohort candidate for the Women In Bio 3/8 Initiative, named for the March 8, International Women's Day where h...

The conversation this week is with Cal Al-Dhubaib . Cal is a data scientist, entrepreneur, and Chief Executive Officer of Pandata , where his team empowers organizations to use artificial intelligence competitively. Cal has an emphasis on designing and building trustworthy AI, and is especially passionate about the ethics of AI and how organizations can build the right talent to support their AI i...

The conversation this week is with Fraser Gray-Smith . Fraser is a business strategy professional that specializes in using analytics to drive value in organizations. He takes advantage of his unique mix of technical skills and business acumen to uncover valuable insights, develop business cases, create management buy-in and manage the execution of projects. Outside of work, Fraser likes to learn...

The conversation this week is with Stefan Krawczyk . Stefan is a data-focused leader and polymath engineer. His interest has spanned design, implementation, integration, and peer education of data-related systems. Most recently, his focus has been on futurization and model-serving systems and platforms. He has a Bachelor's in Computer Science and Mathematics from Victoria University at Wellin...

The conversation this week is with Shawn Hymel . Sean is a machine learning DevRel Engineer, Instructor and University Program Manager at Edge Impulse . He creates compelling technical videos, courses and workshops around edge machine learning that inspire engineers of all skill levels. Shawn is an advocate for enriching education through stem and believes that the best marketing comes from teachi...

The conversation this week is with Pete Warden . Pete's mission is simple: Organizing the physical world's information to make it universally accessible and useful. He was the founder and CTO at Jetpac where he built a technical team and created a unique data product that analyzed the pixel data, over 140 million photos from Instagram and turn them into in depth guides for more than 5000...

NOTE: I am excited to announce that all listeners of the Conversations on Applied AI Podcast are eligible to receive a 50% discount at the 2022 Applied AI Conference! Just use the discount code of "podcast" when purchasing your ticket. The conversation this week is with Younes Amar and Mohammed Sabri . Younes is the head of product at Wallaroo , an enterprise platform for production AI....

NOTE: I am excited to announce that all listeners of the Conversations on Applied AI Podcast are eligible to receive a 50% discount at the 2022 Applied AI Conference! Just use the discount code of "podcast" when purchasing your ticket. The conversation this week is with Daniel Kornev . Daniel is Chief Product Officer for DeepPavlov.ai , which is the developer behind the Deep Pavlov Open...

The conversation this week is with Neil Sahota . Neil is an IBM Master Inventor, United Nations AI advisor, Chief Innovation Officer, and globally recognized speaker and author of the award-winning Best Business Book of 2019. Own the AI Revolution . Neil is a founding member of the UN's AI For Good initiative, and is actively helping them build out their ecosystem of strategic partnerships. A...

The conversation this week is with Tom Doyle . Tom is a veteran in the semiconductor industry working in many different areas over the last 35 years, including RF and satellites, analog and mixed-signal integrated circuit solutions, IP software, and sales. He holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from West Virginia University and an MBA from California State University. Tom is the CEO of Aspinity ....

The conversation this week is with Gian Marco . Gian is a tech lead in the machine learning group at ARM and the author of the TinyML Cookbook published in April of 2022. At ARM Gian looks after the ML performance optimizations for the arm compute library, which he co-created in 2017 to get the best performance on ARM Cortex-A CPUs. ARM Compute Library is currently the most performant library for...

The conversation this week is with Blair Newman . Blair is an accomplished executive with more than 25 years of experience creating business value within the information technology industry. He's a decisive leader managing and overseeing PnLs, building pipelines, and generating multimillion-dollar cost savings by acquisitions and IT transformations. He is currently the Chief Technology Office...

The conversation this week is with Amelia Winger-Bearskin . Amelia innovates with artificial intelligence in ways that make a positive impact on our community and the environment. She's a Banks Family Preeminence Endowed Chair and Associate Professor of Artificial Intelligence and the Arts at the Digital Worlds Institute at the University of Florida. She's a 2019-2020 Mozilla Foundation...

The conversation this week is with Bryant Cruse . Bryant has been a pioneer in the application of AI technology to difficult real-world problems. He graduated from St. John's College in Annapolis, Maryland, where he acquired his lifelong interest in the philosophy of Epistemology. Or how we know what we know. After serving for eight years as a naval aviator, he returned to school for an MS in...

The conversation this week is with Rob Telson . Rob is an experienced sales leader with a demonstrated successful history working in the software and semiconductor industry, skilled and driving growth, negotiation, sales management, organizational leadership and technology. He holds degrees from the University of Arizona and Harvard Business School, and is the Vice President of Worldwide Sales and...

The conversation this week is with Brandon Satrom . Brandon is the VP of Developer Experience and Engineering at Blues Wireless , a driven technologist and experienced leader with a background in product management, strategy, architecture, software development and developer advocacy. He describes himself as a technologist first, and loves to use what he knows and learns to teach others how to buil...

The conversation this week is with Jigyasa Grover . Jigyasa recently co-authored a book titled Sculpting Data for ML: The First Act of Machine Learning . The book is a combination of a myriad of experiences from brief stints at Facebook, the National Research Council of Canada, and the Institute of Research and Development France, involving data science, mathematical modeling, and software enginee...

The conversation this week is with Prasanna Balaprakash . Prasanna is a group leader and computer scientist at the Mathematics and Computer Science Division and the leadership computing facility at Argonne National Laboratory . His research interests span the areas of machine learning, optimization, and high-performance computing. He is the recipient of the US Department of Energy 2018 Early Caree...

The conversation this week is with Caroline Sinders . Caroline is a machine learning design researcher and artist. For the past few years, she has been examining the intersections of technology's impact on society, interface design, artificial intelligence, abuse, and politics in digital conversational spaces. Sinders is the founder of Convocation Design+Research an agency focused on the inte...