The AI in Business Podcast

Today's guest is Remi Duquette, Vice President of Innovation and Industrial AI at Maya HTT. Short for Maya Heat Transfer Technologies, Maya HTT is a leading software developer and engineering services provider with nearly 200 employees based in Chicago and specializing in heavy industry solutions. In conversation with Emerj Head of Research Daniel Faggella, Remi explains the growing importance of...

Today's guest is Dorothy Li, Chief Technology Officer of Convoy, a logistics and software company based in Seattle that has raised nearly a billion dollars in funding. Dorothy spent over a decade at Amazon, where she served as vice president of user experience, then of BI and analytic services at AWS. Together with Emerj Head of Research, Daniel Faggella, Dorothy explores a logistics use case for...

Today's guest is Emily Bremner, Fractional Product Leader and Advisor. Emily was the SVP of Product at Signal AI, a software company specializing in external intelligence with over $100 million in funding at the time of this episode's recording. In conversation with Emerj's Head of Research, Daniel Faggella, Emily talks about how AI can not only help companies manage their internal data but also p...

Today's guest is Dr. Peter Day, Chief Technology Officer at Quantcast. Quantcast is a technology firm founded in 2006, working in AI-driven audience metrics and advertising from the industry's earliest days. In conversation with Emerj CEO Daniel Faggella on the AI in Business podcast, Peter offers a tour of his experience building successful AI teams. From recruitment and hiring to finding the pro...

Today's guest is Scott Nowson, Artificial Intelligence Leader at PwC Middle East. Scott has a Ph. D. in natural language processing and has worked for many years before PwC as a consultant for legacy enterprises looking to get started in AI. Not long ago, the AI in Business podcast featured episodes discussing how to hire and build AI teams, focusing on crucial insights most helpful for non-techni...

Today's guest is Caroline Gorski, CEO of R² Factory – a data and tech-focused subsidiary of Rolls Royce. In conversation with Emerj CEO Daniel Faggella, they discuss being a new kind of company underneath a century-old legacy luxury name brand in heavy industry and the benefits of creating a separate experimentation-first culture within a big enterprise. Is it possible to develop subcultures that...

Today's guest is the Director of Engineering, Telecommunications Orchestration, Analytics, and Automation at Google, Mazin Gilbert. Mazin's career is one that has seen its fair share of enterprise teams facing the challenges of legacy data stacks as they enter the age of AI, including AT&T. In discussing his work at Google with Emerj CEO Daniel Faggella, he talks about what he sees on the 'other s...

Today's guest is VP and Chief Supply Chain Executive at Westfall, David Schultz. Westfall is a contract manufacturing firm based in Las Vegas, Nevada, working primarily in plastics and resins. First, David and Emerj CEO Daniel Faggella break down challenges specific to procurement and what makes the process so consequential to manufacturing processes. Later, they examine what the 'guessing games'...

Today's guest is Aktana Chairman and CEO David Ehrlich. Aktana is an AI vendor that helps life science commercial teams go to market with their products. On the AI in Business podcast, David talks about the challenges that marketing and product teams face in getting pharmaceuticals in the marketplace and where these challenges overlap with broader industry applications in banking and retail. Later...

Today's guest is Executive Director, Global Deloitte AI Institute & AI Ethics/Tech Ethics Leader, Beena Ammanath. Beena is the author of the book  Trustworthy AI  and previously served in tech leadership roles at Hewlett Packard, Bank of America, and General Electric before arriving at Deloitte in 2019. In her conversation with Emerj CEO Daniel Faggella, Beena pulls apart putting AI ethics in acti...

Today's guest is the Head of Artificial Intelligence at Maya HTT, Remi Duquette. In today's episode, Remi talks about computer vision or what people imagine when they think about computer vision through a distinctly human lens. With Emerj CEO Daniel Faggella, Remi especially pulls apart how machines can look at things in ways that humans can't, as it turns out. They also discuss tools in job visio...

Today's guest is Symphony AI CEO Sanjay Dhawan. Sanjay took the helm of Symphony last year after leading the automotive AI firm Cerence since 2019. On the AI in Business podcast, Sanjay discusses insights on using highly defined business outcomes to frame up how fast to scale enterprise data strategies, citing examples in banking and CPG. Together with Emerj CEO Daniel Faggella, Sanjay also dissec...

Today's guest is the Head of Research at Bloc Ventures, David Pollington. Previously, David spent nine years leading web services and developing collaborative platforms for GSMA before joining Bloc Ventures, a VC firm based in London that invests in many early technologies based on AI. On the AI in Business podcast, David discusses the possibility of 'complete autonomy' in machinery across several...

Today's guest is VP of Strategy and Offerings at IBM, Marisa Viveros. 5G is a widely misunderstood technology that most might associate with mobile connectivity and telecoms spaces. Still, it stands to make a tremendous impact on a broad spectrum of industrial sectors underneath the surface of its reputation. Marisa joins us to separate fact from fiction and tell business leaders precisely what th...

Today's guest is Divyabh Mishra, Founder & CEO at CrowdANALYTIX. In conversation with Emerj's CEO Daniel Faggella, Divyabh talks about the business challenges in the eCommerce space when it comes to collecting and ensuring the accuracy of product data in high-volume product databases. Among these problems is that retail itself remains plagued with arcane technology, and Divyabh discusses the many...

Today's guest is Christian van Leeuwen, CSO and Co-Founder of FRISS. His company accrued over $88 million to fund a workforce of 200 employees focused on claims underwriting, investigation, and working with the biggest names in the insurance space. In today's episode, Christian talks about insurance leaders' trends in underwriting and claims over the last few years since COVID: what is changing, w...

Today's guest is Aditya Ramesh, Creator of DALL·E, Co-creator of DALL·E 2 at OpenAI. You might already be familiar with how the DALL·E platforms have taken the internet by storm in the past year with their ability to turn text into images in any style the user can imagine. Ramesh discusses how the technology works in layman's terms and sets the stage for where individuals and organizations can tak...

Today's guest is Edmund Zagorin, Founder of Arkestro. Edmund founded Arkestro in 2017, and the company now operates in several industries in addition to the automotive space. In this episode, Edmund discusses two main topics: First, what makes the automotive purchasing process so complex, from buying electronics to seat fabric, the chassis, the tires, and onward. Secondly, Edmund pulls apart the m...

Today's guest is Chris Joynt, who served as AIoT Co-Innovation Leader in the Solutions Group at PTC at the time of our recording. In today's episode, Chris walks the audience through some actual applications of artificial intelligence and IoT in the enterprise. In addition to explaining some of the most important lessons learned for leaders, including a frank discussion on how to think about getti...

Today's guest is Sean Gourley, CEO of Primer, a company that has raised $170 million for pioneering large-scale data analysis. In today's episode, Sean discusses how China's autocratic regime has certain advantages in developing AI capabilities in the theaters of cyberwarfare and virtual reality. Throughout the conversation, Sean offers his expertise advising how the West can maintain its strategi...

Today's guest is Christian Floerkemeier, VP of Product, CTO, and Co-Founder of Scandit. Scandit is an AI firm focused on smart data capture and barcode scanning. Christian received his Ph. D. in Computer Science in Zurich and was the Associate Director for the AI ID Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In this episode, Christian focuses on this retail workflow of checking inventory an...

Today's guest is Kelly Harlin, Director of Solutions Marketing and Commercialization at Sharp NEC. Sharp and NEC collectively have approximately 160 thousand employees as two of Japan's largest electronics manufacturers. Kelly speaks specifically about their computer vision applications in retail in this episode. She opens up with some information retailers wish they knew about people who shop wit...

Our guest today is Christian Floerkemeier, VP of Product, CTO, and Co-Founder of Scandit. Scandit has raised nearly $300 million to address smart data capture, they have hundreds of employees, and logistics and supply chain is one of the spaces in which they operate. In today's episode, we're focusing on two different use-cases that share the use of computer vision. First, we discuss ID verificati...

Today's guest is Mazin Gilbert, Director of Engineering, Telecommunications Orchestration, Analytics, and Automation at Google. Some five or six years ago, Mazin joined us to discuss artificial intelligence in telecommunications when he was with AT&T. Since this last episode, AI has become inevitable in the telco space with substantial AI deployments across the industry. In this episode, Mazin fir...

Our guest on today's episode of the AI in Business podcast is VP of Artificial Intelligence at Samsung SDS America Patrick Bangert. Patrick discusses the efficacy of making minimal workflow changes a goal from the start and how the AI capabilities pioneered at Samsung have made their way to widespread success for other enterprises. In particular, Patrick gives actionable insight into how minimizin...