How AI Built This

Ben McLoughlin is the Head of Data Science at Webuyanycar in Manchester. Armed with a PhD in Robotics & Computer Vision, Ben has quickly risen through the ranks to lead the considerable data science efforts at a UK household name in Webuyanycar. A fascinating conversation, where we discussed his career journey; some top tips for aspiring data scientists and his approach to building his own per...

Liam & Hannah are the Co-Founders (CEO & CTO respectively) of Frame, a data science consultancy and computer vision organisation based in West Yorkshire. Not only are the Co-Founders, but they're also partners, so we dived into that dynamic on the podcast and how they separate work from life - 'pub Thursdays' play a key part in this ... We also chatted about how their Computer Vision produ...

Rachel is the Head of Data Product, Insights & Data Science at Admiral Group and is our first guest who has spent their entire career at one employer - which is pretty awesome! A real life fan of the show as well, so it was very exciting to finally chat with Rachel about her career, approach to data and the amazing work going on at Admiral. I hope you enjoy! As always, we're brought to you by...

Megan is the Head of Data Science at the BBC in their Product Group. With a PhD in Maths from the University of Cambridge and an impressive data career in the world of media, I loved chatting to Megan about her journey. I hope you enjoy! As always, we're brought to you by the wonderful people at Cathcart Technology, recruitment experts and Infer, the data analytics platform changing how analysts w...

Welcome back to How AI Built This, the show dedicated to data and entrepreneurial story telling. This episode I spoke to Ross Turner, The Chief Product Officer at Natural Language Generation specialists Arria. Ross is Berlin based, working remotely for a now global team at Arria, where they are at the cutting edge of NLG. We had a great chat about his journey, NLG, data in general and of course, s...

Jacopo is a prominent face in the world of MLOps, speaking at various events around the world and giving access to some amazing open source content - as he puts it, gaining karma points! From researching in Italy, to moving to the States and starting his own NLP company which was acquired in only a few years by Coveo - Jacopo has been on an incredible journey and his personality is infectious. You...

Josh is the Director of Retail & Consumer at Faculty, a Machine Learning consultancy who were born out of academia and have a really unique fellowship programme. With a varied background, starting with a Physics Degree, followed up by a few years in big consultancies, Josh ended up in the States as Director of Data at Red Bull, before heading home to start at Faculty. We had a great chat throu...

Massimo is a Data Science Manager at Bumble, where he and his team are responsible for getting machine learning into production and adding value to the business. With previous experience at a start-up, where Massimo identified the need for what we'd now call MLOps, he was in a unique position when he joined Bumble to implement some of this into an environment at a much larger scale. As an individu...

Simon is an experienced MLOps practitioner who has worked for the Amazon of the Netherlands, a large consultancy group and now Transactie Monitoring Nederland (TMNL). With a wealth of experience across Machine Learning, Simon spotted the potential for MLOps whilst consulting and has been involved in this world ever since. He also spotted the potential in growing his personal brand, where using Lin...

Ed is the Head of Developer Relations at Seldon and an open source enthusiast. Seldon are at the forefront of MLOps with several industry leading products, both in the open source community and enterprise world with their Core, Alibi and Deploy products. Ed joined Seldon to spearhead their open source offering through community building, events and essentially be at the heart of their open source...

Hamza is the Co-Creator of ZenML the open-source MLOps framework for reproducible ML pipelines and production-ready Machine Learning. He & the team have created something pretty special and his story is really cool. We had a great chat about his passion for indie hacking; Arsenal; start-ups and how he ended up running an MLOps start-up in Germany. Hope you enjoy! I hope you enjoy! As always, w...

Regina is the Director of Research, Analytics & Data at TvSquared, an Edinburgh headquartered analytics who are the world’s largest measurement and attribution platform for converged TV. We had a great chat through Regina's academic background; career to date including working in a start-up; growing teams and her current role at TVSquared. Really enjoyed this one! I hope you enjoy! As always,...

Sarah is one of the pioneers of using data in football and spent 10 years working for StatDNA/Arsenal as their Head of Analytics. Recently she moved on to join Blue Crow Analytics as a VP, Sarah will still be focusing on using data in football/sport. A really interesting conversation around using data in football, issues with things like the rise of Expected Goals (xG), and clubs not making the mo...

Abigail is the Chief Data Science Officer at Vertice Cloud, an Oracle Solutions Provider specialising in Oracle Cloud. Abigail works across their customer base helping them get value from Data Science & Analytics. We had a great chat about Abi's background; building teams and a fair amount on using data in grassroots football! Really enjoyed this one and I hope you enjoy as well! As always, we...

Leanne Fitzpatrick is back! If you haven't had a chance to listen to Leanne's data story before - go check out episode 15. Since that show, Leanne has moved on to be the Director of Data Science at the The Financial Times and I was keen to bring her back on for a chat about that move and the challenges of working in a much more established organisation. We also touched on being back in Manchester,...

Teodora is the Head of Data Science & Analytics at Saint Gobain UK and Ireland, where she leads a team of Data Scientists, Analysts and BI professionals. We had a great chat about studying in Budapest, then the States and eventually working her away up to leading a team of analytics professionals for one of the biggest companies in France. Teodora is also part of the women's network at Saint G...

Catherine Wilks is a Director of Slalom, helping set up their Manchester Data Analytics Practice. An experienced Consultant, Catherine has a great insight into the world of customer facing data solutions. We had a good chat about her PhD background, working in Consulting and how she builds great data teams. I hope you enjoy! As always, we're brought to you by the wonderful people at Cathcart Assoc...

Heather is the Global Head of Data Science, Analytics & Visualisation at Specsavers managing a team of data scientists and analysts, and advising on best practise as well as Specsavers’ global data science strategy. We had a great chat, going through Heather's career & education, from her thoughts on the PhD experience, to working for start-ups, a massive cruise company, a small sports ret...

Wojtek is the Co-Founder of NannyML, a start-up whose product bridges the gap between business and AI in production, monitoring decisions made by ML systems, and ensuring they are stable and reliable. A Data Scientist by trade who built a successful consultancy firm, he is now building NannyML to help companies get the maximum value out of their investment into AI. They have always been fully remo...

Oguzhan is the Co-Founder and Head of AI at Top Data Science, a data science consultancy HQ'd in Finland. We had a great chat about his PhD experience, setting up a data science consultancy, the work they do and how they ended up being acquired very quickly! A fun chat and a good guy! I hope you enjoy! As always, we're brought to you by the wonderful people at Cathcart Associates. Music by Noisyfi...

Eero is the CEO of Valohai - the last MLOps Platform you'll ever need to try! They provide Machine Learning Infrastructure as a Service - helping companies solve the challenge of MLOps in one easy to use platform - all whilst having lots of fun. A Finnish native who has been shaped by the US start-up scene and was a lot of fun to talk to! I hope you enjoy. As always, we're brought to you by the wo...

Niels is the CEO and Founder of Sprout.ai an insurance technology company using AI to help automate the claims process as well as identifying potentially fraudulent claims for some of the biggest insurance companies in the world. Sprout came about after a personal experience of using an insurance company and realising their was a problem that he could potentially fix. After successfully raising mo...

Sanjay is the Head of Products and R&D at Transwap a fintech who have recently set up shop in Edinburgh with a brand new R&D hub. We had a great chat about how he has turned his passion for AI from a hobby into a career, which is pretty inspiring! Transwap are super interesting and it's cool to see them set up in Edinburgh for their R&D hub. I hope you enjoy! As always, we're brought t...

Chris is the Lead Product Manager at Manchester AI phenomenon Peak. A Data Scientist by trade and someone with a super interesting background and journey into data, it was great to chat to Chris. We also chatted about Peak's upcoming one day data conference, AltitudeX which is being held in Manchester on November 4th - check it out www.altitudex.live or get in touch with me for more information. I...

John is the newly appointed CEO of Edinburgh headquartered Data Analytics start-up Forth Point, focusing on helping organisations realise the potential of industry 4.0 Using his experience of setting up Aquila Insight, growing the team and company all the way to acquisition by Merkle, John is excited to jump back into start-up world and do something awesome! We chatted about everything from his ea...