Data Futurology - Leadership And Strategy in Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Data Science

This week, we are joined by Ivan Liu. Director of Engineering at Rokt. He specialised in software engineering, machine learning and cloud architecture. Tune in for the full conversation where Ivan talks about ML ops and ML Engineering. Enjoy the show! Thanks to our sponsor Talent Insights Group! Read the full podcast episode summary here .

In this week’s podcast episode, Felipe spoke with Chris Dowsett, Head of Decision Science and Analytics at Spaceship. Chris has been working in Data Science, Analytics and Decision Science for the past 18 years. His specialty is helping business leaders make decisions and solve business challenges using data science and analytics. Don’t miss this episode as Chris talks about the difference between...

For the first time in Data Futurology podcast, we’ll be having a two-in-one episode. In the first part of this episode, Felipe Flores is interviewed by AI today podcast hosts Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer. Cognilytica's AI Today podcast focuses on relevant information about what's going on today in the world of artificial intelligence. In the latter part of this episode, Felipe interviews Kathl...

In this week’s episode, we are joined by Maggie Shi, Head of Solutions Engineering Facebook ANZ, Japan and Korea. Maggie combines her 20+ years of software development, technical directing and project management experience into her current role at Facebook. She has a strong background in Java/C++ development which she has used as a foundation to lead strong technical teams. Tune in for the full co...

We are joined by Florian Douetteau, a legend in the industry, who built a unicorn company within the data space. He is the CEO of Dataiku, a platform that assists in systemising the use of your data for exceptional business results. Florian is a mathematician by trade, however he found the mathematics world too theoretical for his liking and wanted to move into a space where he could work on pract...

In this episode, we speak with Chris Wexler — CEO of Krunam. Krunam is in the business of removing digital toxic waste from the internet using AI to identify CSAM and other indicative content to improve and speed content moderation.  Krunam’s technology is already in use by law enforcement and is now moving into the private sector. In this sensitive and equally essential topic, we’ll learn fr...

In part 2 of our interview with Steve Nouri, he spoke about AI specializations and share his thoughts about AI innovation in developing countries. He says that AI is quickly evolving and we’re going to see a lot of specialized people working in the AI field in bigger organizations. Also in this episode, we discuss personal branding and its importance for a Data Scientist. Steve shares first-hand e...

We are joined by Steve Nouri, Head of Data Science & AI at Australian Computer Society and member of Forbes Technology Council. With 450k+ followers on LinkedIn,  Felipe calls him  “LinkedIn’s King of AI”. Steve’s background is in software engineering but he got interested in data over 14 years ago. He went on to get a masters degree in Data Analytics and then transitioned into the d...

Organisations are in constant need of innovation to fulfill their end consumer’s needs. That’s why several companies have started innovation areas to help update and grow their main business. Today we are focusing on starting a Machine Learning and AI initiative within these innovation areas to grow the value they are providing, scale their results and positively impact the rest of the organisatio...

In this episode, Felipe speaks about what is going on with artificial intelligence in the retail space. Visual search and recommendations are currently trending in retail. Companies are offering the ability for consumers to search based on a picture. For instance, consumers can take a picture of a pair of shoes and find that product online, similar products, and products that would go well with it...

Christoph Molnar is a data scientist and Ph. D. candidate in interpretable machine learning. He is interested in making the decisions from algorithms more understandable for humans. Christoph is passionate about using statistics and machine learning on data to make humans and machines smarter. In this episode, Christoph explains how he decided to study statistics at university, which eventually le...

Steve Monaghan is the Chief Digital Officer at Riyad Bank. He has a series of investments in banking and insurance using AI and new technologies in order to improve efficiency. He started out as a commercial pilot working 22 hours a day, running the aviation company during the day and flying at night. His first contact with data came when he started using spreadsheets to automate tasks and acceler...

Stuart Long is the CTO Hewlett Packard Enterprise. In his role, he identifies different product portfolios and pulls together solutions for different customer sets, such as public health, education, finance, retail, mining, and determines how to develop the solutions from HP’s product portfolio across all the different stacks. In this episode, Stuart tells us how HPE are moving the analytics to th...

Organisations work hard on creating and building data science capabilities and models that will provide a real positive impact for their users. However, the feedback we’ve had from the Data Futurology audience shows there is a struggle to get ROI from their AI. So what do you do when your models and AI efforts are not living up to their promises? This conversation explores how to ensure that your...

If you are trying to choose what skills you should build as part of your career, no single answer fits everyone. It depends on your strengths and ambitions. Your strengths are the things you are naturally good at. If you're not sure what your strengths are, then think about the things that people come and ask you about. When someone asks you how you do something, most likely that is one of your st...

In part 2 of our interview with Abhi Seth, he tells us that part of his role is to really drive scale for analytics across the ten businesses within TE. We learn how the adoption of analytics is enabled throughout the organization and a big component of that is driving, understanding and building capability within the Centre of Excellence (COE). He says the first 90 days in the COE is about buildi...

Abhi Seth started his journey as an industrial engineer which he describes as his passion, and then found his way into research. His PhD is in mechanical engineering, and human-computer interactions, which he says was kind of a double major PhD. Abhi started working with virtual reality applications for mechanical engineering and says back then it was about how to simulate environments and models...

In part two of the Ultimate Uplevel for Business-focused Data Professionals, with Lillian Pierson, we learn about her data action strategy plan. She created a data evaluation use case workbox with 31 use cases broken down by industry and function and tells us that if you are innovative then it's actually everything you could possibly need. You don't need to read 100 use cases. Lillian says you sho...

We are joined by Lillian Pierson, a very well-known figure in the data space. She started her own business as a data consultant around 2013 and eventually started helping others become better data leaders and entrepreneurs. Currently, she has helped train and educate over a million data professionals! Lillian is not only a great data business mentor, she is also the CEO of Data Mania and a data pr...

In part 2 of this episode, Nitish shares his thoughts on how to ensure that the data scientists expertise are well utilized. He says their key metric last year for the entire team was to hit exactly one number - 100 active users for their data platform with only 50 data scientists! He also says organizations should focus on enabling self service across the business. Nitish talks about the data sup...

When Global Head of Engineering, Nitish Mathew looks back at his journey over the last four years with Afterpay, he describes it as a phenomenal ride and a tremendous learning journey. They have had to reinvent themselves three times in a very real way, getting rid of their first and second platform and building with the view of not assuming that this is for the next 10 years, but building with th...

In Part two of this episode, Nonna talks about the role culture plays in a data-driven organization and the importance of role accountability and the support of leadership. One of the things that Nonna strongly subscribes to is the RMIT vision to support their students in every possible way including a new initiative called the Data Innovation Hub which gives students 12 months of real industry ex...

Born in Moscow Russia, Nonna got her first degree in Engineering but after emigrating to Australia, soon realised there were few engineering jobs around.  Nonna says she had no choice but to do more study and decided on a master’s degree in project management from RMIT. Nonna has spent the last two years at RMIT building a data and governance strategy. In this session, she shares her journey,...

In Part 2 of getting to know Felipe Flores, Felipe answers questions on what types of environments and challenges keep him energised, where he sees the data science industry heading in the next few years, and how job seekers can de-risk decision making for their potential employers. Felipe talks about: Using data to improve Data Futurology The gap between University and industry Which projects sho...

In part one of this special episode, Felipe reflects on the path his career has taken from his first start-up company to how he started Data Futurology and to his latest role in Healthcare.  In this open and honest conversation, he reveals the mistakes he made along the way and the lessons he learned from those failures. Successful people do have struggles, but you must be willing to ask for...