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

Mary L. Gray is a Senior Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research as well as an E.J. Safra Center for Ethics Fellow and Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society Faculty Affiliate at Harvard University. Mary also maintains a faculty position in the School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering with affiliations in Anthropology and Gender Studies at Indiana University. Mary, an anthropolo...

Scott is a firm believer in “making your data do the work,” and he has enlightened countless business executives to the value of proper data management by focusing on the strategic rationale and business alignment rather than technical implementation and system integration. Scott is more of the strategic WHY than the technical HOW. He has spent over two decades guiding Tech Brand owners to leverag...

Emrah Gultekin is the co-founder and CEO of Chooch. Chooch AI is a complete visual AI platform with an API, a dashboard, and a mobile SDK. Combining computer vision training with machine learning, Chooch offers object recognition and facial authentication, with autonomous labeling, data collection, neural network selection, and more. Chooch is used in the media, advertising, banking, medical, and...

Nic originally trained as an actuary through the University of NSW, Australia. After a few years he found himself naturally being pulled towards data science through his passion for data and statistics. He gave in and made the switch to data science many years ago and has never looked back! Nic has worked in just about every role you can think of in a data science team, from excited newbie to quic...

Tomer Shiran is the Co-Founder and CEO of Dremio, Dremio is the Data-as-a-Service Platform company. Created by veterans of open source and big data technologies, and the creators of Apache Arrow, Dremio is a fundamentally new approach to data analytics that helps companies get more value from their data, faster. Dremio makes data engineering teams more productive and data consumers more self-suffi...

Lasse Rouhiainen is a best-selling author and international expert on artificial intelligence, disruptive technologies, and digital marketing. Finnish in origin but based in Spain, Lasse focuses his work on investigating how companies and society, in general, can better adapt to, and benefit from, artificial intelligence. Lasse has given keynote presentations, seminars, and workshops in more than...

Dr. Ian Oppermann is the NSW Government’s Chief Data Scientist and CEO of the NSW Data Analytics Centre. Ian has 27 years’ experience in the ICT sector and, has led organizations with more than 300 people, delivering products and outcomes that have impacted hundreds of millions of people globally. He has held senior management roles in Europe and Australia as Director for Radio Access Performance...

In this episode, Felipe runs through 12 trends he has noticed developing in AI. The sector field is in a constant state of change and is become more and more integrated into fields outside the data space. Felipe reminds us that through this development it has become exceedingly clear that data is our most precious asset. We need to treat data carefully and prioritize traceability and maintain high...

David Thomas is an executive with significant experience in strategy, data & analytics, and multiple functions that enable organisations. Since 2016, he has been responsible for BNZ's Information Strategy, establishing a market-leading position with a strategy to deliver actionable insight and enhance customer experiences. Change has been a reoccurring theme of his career, including business t...

Beverly has spent over twenty-five years leading and executing Marketing Analytics and Modeling through corporate, consulting, and academic experience. She leads the Data Science Practice for RelationalAI for Atlanta, and serves several companies with data science strategy, insights, solutions, and training. In her role heading Georgia Tech's Business Analytics Center, Beverly managed business com...

In this episode, Felipe spends time discussing empathy as the core of human relationships. Felipe believes to be a leader in the data science space; half is deeply rooted in the people side. Having empathy is the crucial first step to building relationships with stakeholders. Our stakeholders are scared; today data science is math heavy and dominating the business side of operations. The disciplin...

Nufar Gaspar is a Data Science Vertical Manager at Intel focusing on creating a machine learning and big data solutions for the various R&D teams at Intel. The teams in her vertical create a vast range of data-science solutions on Hadoop and Spark-based platforms. The range of their solutions spans running algorithms to compile test lists to optimize resource consumption vs. test quality; solu...

Dr. Mark van Rijmenam is the Founder of Datafloq. He is a highly sought-after international public speaker, a Big Data and Blockchain strategist and author of the best-selling book Think Bigger - Developing a Successful Big Data Strategy for Your Business. He is the co-author of the book Blockchain: Transforming Your Business and Our World, which details how blockchain can be used for social good....

Tony believes that analytic innovation and creativity come from experts directly collaborating with clients on their projects. He joins AlphaZetta with a mission, to create a better way for independent experts to work directly with clients, lowering the costs and opening access to high quality analytics talent to a wider audience. He brings 20 years of deep practical experience globally. He has he...

Angela Wilkins is the founder and Chief Scientist at Mercury Data Science (MDS) where she works with Mercury's portfolio companies to identify solutions for complex data problems. Prior to MDS, Angela was a member of faculty research at Baylor College of Medicine and led projects at the policy think tank, Center of Science and Law. She developed her machine learning knowledge in the biomedical fie...

Michael Brand has over 25 years of cutting-edge, international industry experience in advanced analytics, machine learning, artificial intelligence, machine vision, and natural language processing, Dr. Brand’s data expertise is both uniquely wide and uniquely deep. He served as Chief Data Scientist at Telstra Corporation, as Senior Principal Data Scientist at Pivotal, as Chief Scientist at Verint...

Amy is an Engineer and a multidisciplinary Data Scientist at USAA. She received her B.E degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Minnesota and her M.S. and Ph. D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Texas. Amy is an active promoter for women in STEM and enjoys teaching & organizing community events to increase women's visibility in the field. She...

Ru is a graduate from the University of Cambridge, UK who has built six startups in four countries. His primary interest is to build products with social Value. He is also a mentor of Google Launchpad and a senior AI advisor of EFMA Banking group. Ru has been invited to speak at over 60 events from 21 countries. His talks are about sharing his experiences on growing various startups and building p...

Alex Ermolaev has been involved in the software industry for 20 years, including AI-specific experience at Bell Labs, Microsoft, several startups and now Nvidia. He is currently a leading AI software developer and works with groundbreaking companies that are implementing incredible AI solutions across several domains. In this episode, Alex describes how he started in the data space. Early in his c...

Evan Shellshear has been an entrepreneur for more than a decade, and throughout that time he has always loved getting his hands dirty with building products from scratch and then commercializing them. Evan has a passion for innovation and not just from a managerial perspective but also from a doing perspective. He has a Ph. D. in Game Theory, is published in fields computer graphics to politics, m...

Rachel Fojtik is an Experienced Senior leader in Analytics, influencing change in behaviour, company culture, and improvement with analytics. Managing high performing teams that deliver across a myriad of knowledge areas. She is passionate about delivering information that sees results, using collaborative design and development. A demonstrated history of setting up teams that deliver end to end b...

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. Enjoy the show! We speak about: [02:10] How Christoph started in the data space [09:25] Understanding wha...

Dr. Bülent Kiziltan is an AI executive and an accomplished scientist who uses artificial intelligence to create value in many business verticals and tackles diverse problems in disciplines ranging from the financial industry, healthcare, astrophysics, operations research, marketing, biology, engineering, hardware design, digital platforms, to art. He has worked at Harvard, NASA, and MIT in close c...

Nick loves playing with, analyzing and visualising data and gets a massive kick out of the change it can bring to people, businesses, and the world. At Lloyd's of London, Nick leads a team of great designers and developers helping people automate processes and get more insight from their data. He gets a buzz from saving others time and surprising them with what surprising insights lie in their dat...