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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...

Send us Fan Mail Let's go deep on GenAI, Foundational Models, and LLMs with Armand Ruiz, Director watsonx Client Engineering and John Webb, Principal Client Engineering.  Get a candid view on what is happening in the industy today. 01:40 Meet Armand Ruiz 05:09 Meet John Webb 06:43 The Client Engineering Practice 07:51 GenAI 11:50 IBM's AI Approach 13:50 GenAi in the Enterprise 15:47 Wher...

Send us Fan Mail Ronen Dar, Co-Founder & CTO at Run:ai, talks to 21st century gold. Why are GPUs the gold-standard choice for accelerating AI workloads? Meet Ronen Dar The founding of Run:ai Tech Behind Run:ai Run:ai Differentiation GPU Basics Dealing with Model Size GPU Memory Requirements Advice for Clients New to AI 3 Ways to go with LLMs Run:ai's GTM AI Blackouts GPU Fractioning Predi...

Send us Fan Mail GenAI in Marketing.  Making Data Simple welcomes Michael Cohen, Chief Data Analytics Officer and ML and AI product and marketing expert in consumer data technologies.  Marketing Operations, Automated Decision Activation, Measurement and Analytics, Info Security and Privacy.  01:15 Meeting Michael Cohen 03:33 The Plus Company 08:06 Traditional Approaches to Marketing 12:03 The Futu...

Send us Fan Mail Technology for Mindfulness. How to best utilize technology to your advantage. The new year is always a good idea to revisit best practices. 02:50 Re-introducing Robert Plotkin 07:04 Why Technology for Mindfulness 11:27 Tech Designed for Addiction 15:58 Techniques and Habits for Mindfulness 19:11 Time Blocking 28:37 Breaking Up Big Tasks for Reward 34:22 Hofstadter's Law 44:08...

Send us Fan Mail #MakingDataSimplePodcast welcomes Jaclyn Rice Nelson, CEO & Co-founder of Tribe AI, a network of the world’s top technologists that build advanced AI solutions, AND Coalition Operators, an early-stage venture fund and top women’s operator network.  This week is Part 1 -  Where we simply discuss the state of AI. 01:29 Meet Jaclyn Rice Nelson 06:03 Being learning oriented  08:22...

Send us Fan Mail It's a New Year! Setting your intentions; identifying what's important, and how to prioritize in business. Additionally, harness the superpower of identifying styles. This week's episode is a replay of a highly rated episode with Lynne Snead, founder and owner of Talent Evolution Systems.  Lynne is a behavioral analyst, consultant, training specialist, speaker, coac...

Send us Fan Mail Mind blown!  Meet Casper Skern Wilstrup, CEO of Abzu, inventor of QLattice, and expert on Symbolic AI.  We discuss AI, science, and philosophy.  Get a drink and enjoy… 01:39 Introducing Casper Wilstrup 06:34 Abzu the Name 09:09 Abzu the Mission 12:32 Symbolic AI 22:20 Foundational Models? 24:42 The QLattice Explanation 26:33 Abzu Use Cases 30:57 More on QLattice 32:52 The Abzu Pit...

Send us Fan Mail The intersection of AI and law.  Colin Levy, Director of Legal and Evangelist, Malbek, also named to the Fastcase 50 list of legal innovators in 2022, is a legal tech expert and corporate lawyer.  Hear from one of the most widely followed legal tech voices on legal tech tools, myths, and the impact of AI. ·       01:14 Introducing Colin Levy ·       03:19 The Definition of Legal T...

Send us Fan Mail This week on Making Data Simple, Fred Joyal. Perhaps you've seen Fred on 1-800-DENTIST commercials. Now, he's turned marketing genius into the art of being BOLD.   Show Notes  02:20 Brand Fred Joyal  19:20 Monetization Strategy  20:58 Boldness is a Super Power  23:18 Just Show Up  26:15 Step Up with Exercises  27:00 Failure's are Steps Up, Take Another Swing 38:50 5...

Send us Fan Mail #MakingDataSimplePodcast welcomes Robert Plotkin author of The Genie in the Machine and Founding Partner of Blueshift IP.  Can AI be patented?  Computer Automated Inventing Is Revolutionizing Law and Business.  Part 2. 00:50 Patenting an Algorithm 06:05 The Method for Patentability 13:37 Patent Files versus Approvals 16:09 Patent Costs 20:25 The Future of AI  29:28 Finding Robert...