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Send us Fan Mail Learn AI Ethics, Risks, and Regulation with Christina Montgomery, IBM's Chief Privacy and Trust Officer.  Yes, Law can be fun AND very interesting.    01:00 Christina Montgomery! 04:36 My Daughter and the Bar 08:36 Chief Privacy and Trust Officer 11:37 Keeping IBM Out of Trouble 13:34 Client Conversations 16:23 Where to Be Bullish and Bearish 20:52 The Risks of LLMs 24:21 NIS...

Send us Fan Mail An avid rock climber and passionate advocate for digital services, Meg Gallagher, Director of Sales, WalkMe.  WalkMe is a digital adoption platform (DAP) that helps businesses simplify the user experience and increase user engagement on their websites, mobile apps, and software platforms.  01:19 Meg Gallagher! 02:09 Favorite Spirits 04:47 Jeff City MO 07:38 Meg's Background 1...

Send us Fan Mail Mastering SEO and Consumer Insights with Sam Torres, CDO of Gray Dot Company. And getting educated on gaming.   Sam Torres is the Chief Digital Officer and co-founder of The Gray Dot Company, Gray Dot Company is a consulting firm that specializes in search engine optimization. Sam outlines expertise in complex digital analytics and consumer insights data.   03:40 Meet Sam Torres 0...

Send us Fan Mail A chat about leading Fortune 100 clients with Clodagh Daly, Director of Account Technical Leaders at IBM for UKI.  So fun.  Stories, sound bites, charisma and lies. 01:41 Introducing Clodagh Daly 05:49 Charisma & Lies 20:40 Account Technical Leader Magic 28:04 C-suite Influence Stories 34:41 The Best Account Technical Leaders 37:06 Continuous Learning Linkedin: linkedin.com/in...

Send us Fan Mail Part 2 : With Roger Premo, General Manager, Corporate Strategy and Ventures.  We transition from 5 truths on GenAI to 5 truths on Hybrid Cloud.  Everything inquiring minds want to know! 01:40 Hybrid Cloud 02:32 Truth #6, ROI on Cloud 13:51 #7, Hybrid Multi-cloud is the Norm 18:06 Hybrid Landscapes Today 20:50 #8, Hybrid is Not Just for Large Enterprises 23:17 Multi-cloud Affordabi...

Send us Fan Mail Part 1 : Let's talk IBM's view on IT Strategy with Roger Premo, General Manager, Corporate Strategy and Ventures.  This is Roger's 5 truths on GenAI. 01:31 Roger Premo is BACK 02:37 IBM's Ventures 08:06 10 Truths of GenAI and Hybrid Cloud 08:39 Let's Start with Facts 13:37 The First Truth : Multi-model  18:41 Second Truth : GenAI will be Hybrid Multi-cloud...

Send us Fan Mail Want to go deep into Intelligent Systems, meet Peter Voss, Founder and CEO of Aigo.ai.  Peter coined the term ‘Artificial General Intelligence’ and is perfecting the hyper-personalized Chatbot, WITH a brain. 01:56 Meet Peter Voss 08:23 Passion for Intelligent Systems 12:54 Why only Aigo 16:31 ChatGPT? A Different View 22:03 A Use Case by Example 30:53 What is Included, What is Not...

Send us Fan Mail This is always a good interview; an interview from last year with Dr. Mindy Weinstein discussing how we try to reach humans through digital marketing, and the power of scarcity. I am reminded of this concept every time I look at the resell price of Taylor Swift tickets. Marketing : The Power of Scarcity with Mindy Weinstein, Founder and CEO of Market MindShift, Marketing instructo...

Send us Fan Mail Kathy Stares, EVP of North America for Provenir talks about AI-powered risk decisioning software, processing more than four billion transactions annually for disruptive financial services organizations in more than 50 countries worldwide. 01:14 Meet Kathy Stares 04:34 The Start of Summer 08:01 AI Powered Risk Decisioning 11:31 The Tech Behind Povenir 13:42 Models 14:32 Data Source...

Send us Fan Mail Part 2: Ayal Steinberg, GM Technical Community and Client Engineering.  A life in Sales is discussed in terms of Tech, leadership insights, and calling your shots.  You're guaranteed to find at least one nugget to operationalize.   00:12 The State of AI 03:45 Instruct Lab, Open & Closed Models 08:49 Exciting Tech 15:51 Ayal the Outlier 16:58 Emerging Tech 18:14 Fearful? N...

Send us Fan Mail Part 1: Ayal Steinberg, GM Technical Community and Client Engineering.  A life in Sales is discussed in terms of Tech, leadership insights, and calling your shots.  You're guaranteed to find at least one nugget to operationalize.   01:24 Tech Community and Client Engineering 05:03 Client Sales versus Technical Sales 07:27 5 to 10% More Productive via Reducing Friction 10:32 T...

Send us Fan Mail This week we chat with Rob Thomas, Senior Vice President, Software and Chief Commercial Officer at IBM. Rob talks health and hobbies, the state of AI, and IBM's overall vision.  01:57 Maintaining Health  03:57 Where is IBM Today?  06:58 Modernizing the Data Center 08:08 Acknowledged Mistakes  10:41 The State of AI  13:48 IBM's Position on AI  17:14 The InstructLab Projec...

Send us Fan Mail David Wynn, Principal Solution Architect at Edge Delta, talks automated observability, ensuring systems are not only monitored but also intelligently guided through root-cause analysis when issues arise 02:07 Meeting David Wynn 03:27 Sorry, David is from Duke 04:41 Google Cloud 08:02 Edge Delta 11:51 Differentiation 14:21 Reactive or Prevention? 16:03 The Practice of Observability...

Send us Fan Mail Cody Schneider Part 2, co-founder of Swell AI and Drafthorse AI : two AI content creation platforms helping businesses scale content production.   Consider this an early stage founder discussion.  A ton of fun topics in this one. 00:12 Short Nvidia?   06:39 THE Platform of Choice 13:51 Brain Rot 14:43 AI Guidance 17:10 Swell AI's Value 22:56 It's Ok to Take Kudos! 25:47...

Send us Fan Mail Part 1.  Getting to know Cody Schneider, co-founder of Swell AI and Drafthorse AI : two AI content creation platforms helping businesses scale content production.  Consider this an early stage founder discussion.   It starts with Marketing and builds to where AI is being used today. 01:31 Meet Cody Schneider 05:27 Differentiating a 2x4 06:52 Avid Skier 10:41 Early Stage Startups?...

Send us Fan Mail Toby Coulthard, CPO at Phrasee talks to Marketing Tech as the interface between human psychology and technology.  Phrasee is a marketing platform that leverages generative AI for natural language generation, optimizing content at scale for enterprise clients such as Walgreens, Macy’s, Currys, and more. 01:21 Meet Toby Coulthard 05:46 MarTech 06:43 Chief Product Officer at Phrasee...

Send us Fan Mail When I need to re-center and remind myself to stay grounded and that growth is accessible to all of us (that's the reskill part) I'm reminded of this episode.  The Mindful Response with Estela Zuheros, Corporate Social Responsibility, IBM.  Come for social responsibility in reskilling the world, stay for lessons in being mindful and being kind to yourself. ·       02:06...

Send us Fan Mail The master of Artificial Intelligence: Ruchir Puri, Chief Scientist of IBM Research, an IBM Fellow, and Vice-President of IBM Corporate Technology.  AI questions you were afraid to ask, from hallucinations to watsonx. #makingdatasimple #watsonx Welcome to the enlightening world of AI with Ruchir Puri, the Master of Artificial Intelligence and esteemed guest on our podcast. Join us...

Send us Fan Mail This is one of my favorite episodes with Nancy Hensley, when she was CMO at Stats Perform.  I've got to get back to my bracket! Money Ball is back! Nancy Hensley, Chief Marketing Officer for Stats Perform, gives us the latest on data analytics in sports. If you like sports don't listen unless you have time to be entertained.   Show Notes   ·      04:09 What does Money Ba...

Send us Fan Mail More AI with Don Finley, Founder of FINdustres, a leading product development agency. Don talks about fusing science, art, and technology into one.  Not your conventional CEO.  01:30 Meet Don Finley 03:50 The Midlife Crisis 06:36 FINdustries 07:02 Kilimanjaro Break 09:40 Work/Life Integration 10:30 Client Profiles 12:00 FINdustries Differentiation 13:43 The 2-min Pitch 14:58 Scien...

Send us Fan Mail A live, impromptu podcast with Kevin Nugent, Data & AI Global Partner Sales @ IBM with the IBM partner community in Toronto.  A quick and fun discussion on the state of AI in the industry. 01:04 Kansas City Chiefs 01:93 Meet Kevin Nugent 02:25 Shorting Nvidia 03:25 State of the AI Business 05:520 What is watsonx 07:22 IBM's Differentiation  08:39 Again, Why IBM? 14:13 Mak...

Send us Fan Mail Let's talk data transformation and what makes a great seller with Co-founder and CEO of Coalesce,  Armon Petrossian.   As more companies move to the cloud the weakness in data transformation is becoming profound. 01:15 Meet Armon Petrossian 02:21 The problem in being data driven 04:28 Introducing Coalesce 07:53 Automation defined 09:56 The ETL to ELT shift 11:54 Typical custo...

Send us Fan Mail Understanding Search, GenAI, RAG methodology, and vector databases with Nixon Cheaz, Engineering Lead at IBM's Experience Engine.   02:24 Meet Nixon Cheaz 04:32 Search without Google 06:35 Experience Engine 08:30 Elements of Good Search 12:46 Search Data Source 15:36 GenAI Use Cases and Vector DBs  19:40 Foundational Models? 22:07 Impact of Vector DBs 25:38 IBM Public Content...

Send us Fan Mail A Data Science level set in 2024.  This episode is a live recording that talks to  Distinguished Engineers at IBM from Client Engineering, Finance, and  Research with Rachel Reinitz, Suj Perepa, and "Beware of simple questions" Darrell Reimer, respectively.  Pardon just a bit of sound quality issues.  00:16 The Field of Data Science 00:50 Meet Rachel, Suj, and Darrell 03...

Send us Fan Mail More on GenAI, Hallucinations, RAG, Use Cases, LLMs, SLMs and costs with Armand Ruiz, Director watsonx Client Engineering and John Webb, Principal Client Engineering.  With this and the previous episode you'll be wiser on AI than 98% of the world. 00:12 Hallucinations 02:33 RAG Differentiation 06:41 Why IBM in AI 09:23 Use Cases 11:02 The GenAI Resume 13:37 watson.x  15:40 LL...