The AI in Business Podcast

This week we're continuing our series on artificial intelligence in compliance. Our guest is Thomas Mangine, Director of AML and Risk Reliance for the Bank of Montreal. In this episode, Thomas shares his unique perspective on staying ahead of adversaries from financial services and defense points of view. He also discusses how data is becoming more valuable and what particular kinds of data are cr...

Our guest on today's AI in Business Podcast episode is VP of Product & Partnerships at OpenAI Peter Welinder. He and Emerj CEO Daniel Faggella discuss the potential impact of the model on numerous sectors, along with the possibility that these tools could have unforeseen consequences when placed at everyone's fingertips. In other words, GPT-3 could unleash many examples that show what we think we...

Today's guest is General Manager of Artificial Intelligence & Innovation at Microsoft David Carmona. David shares his experience at the frontlines of AI enterprise adoption at a legacy tech brand, and all the setbacks they faced along the way. David also discusses how his team found management buy-in on AI capabilities through effective education and developed the kind of long-term strategy necess...

Today's guest is Jackson Hull, former COO of OakNorth, a unicorn company recently listed in Forbes as Europe's most valuable fintech. In a financial services-focused discussion that echoes the theme of our recent Monday series on AI success factors, Jackson highlights a use case in helping banks analyze the risk of their loan portfolio. Jackson also advises business leaders on what they should kee...

Today's guest is Arcangelo Grisi, Head of Market Surveillance for the U.S. at HSBC. As one of the largest financial services organizations in the world, HSBC generates approximately $50B in revenue per year. In this episode, Arcangelo explores the monitoring of trades regarding manipulating the markets and monitoring communications. He goes into detail about how challenging and essential this role...

Today's guest is Dr. Krishna Bulusu. Holding a Ph. D. from the Institute of Cancer Research and completing his post-doctoral research at the University of Edinburgh, Krishna was, until recently,  an Honorary Lecturer for the Department of Neuroscience at the University of Sheffield. Krishna has worked at Astra Zeneca for the last six years and is currently the Director of Early Computational Oncol...

Today's guest is Chris MacDonald, Head of AI and Analytics at PTC. PTC is a multibillion-dollar software firm focused on the service operations industry, and Chris speaks with us this week about the AI adoption journey for folks in service operations. In this episode, we discuss what it looks like for companies to ensure their customers get as much value out of their products as possible while sim...

Today's guest is Kai Schrimpf, Global Head of Transaction Monitoring at UBS. UBS is a financial services organization doing more than $35 billion in annual revenue based in Zurich and Basel, Switzerland. In this episode, we dive into compliance in the banking and financial services space. There are three distinct topic areas in today's episode. First, Kai provides a big-picture perspective on the...

Today's guest is Neil Sahota, CEO of ACSI Labs and Chief Innovation Officer at the UC Irvine School of Law. Neil previously worked with IBM for 12 years as a Master Inventor focused on developing new patents with a particular emphasis on big data and analytics. In this episode, we are focused on the legal space. In the first part of this episode, Neil dives into specific use-cases that highlight w...

In this episode, we're focusing on compliance considerations in the insurance world. Our guest this week is Pardeep Bassi. He is currently Global Proposition Leader of Data Science for WTW, or Willis Towers Watson, a publicly traded financial services firm based in the United Kingdom. This week Pardeep covers two different topics with us. First, he discusses some areas where regulation intersects...

Today's guest is Marshall Choy, Senior Vice President of Product at SambaNova Systems. This episode is part of our AI is Here series, where we've talked about the current impact of AI across industries with practitioners and leaders across the United States and Europe. In this episode, we're focusing on AI adoption trends and what successful AI adopters are doing that others aren't. Marshall discu...

Today's guest is Aakash Indurkhya, Co-Head of AI at Virtualitics. Virtualitics is a venture-backed firm based in Pasadena, California. In this episode, we discuss what it means to explore our data and identify where the gaps in our data quality or potentially the gaps in essential data fields are. Aakash speaks to us this week about not only what exploration, that is to say, why it's valuable conc...

Today's guest is Mark Russinovich, CTO of Microsoft Azure. In this episode, we focus on large language models, and Mark speaks with us about two distinct topics. First, he discusses actual, in-the-field applications of large language models today. Mark goes over several of them, but one use-case with Carmax is particularly useful for natural language generation in an enterprise use-case. Secondly,...

Today's guest is Brandon Carl, EVP of Product Strategy at Smarsh. Smarsh is a substantial player in the compliance domain in financial services, and in this episode, we're focusing on AI applications in compliance for the industry. Brandon discusses three critical points in this interview. First, he discusses what kind of communications data may serve as financial crime signals or, in other words,...

Our guest today is Richard Schak, Senior Technical Account Manager, and Fraud Product Strategy Consultant at Datavisor. In this week's episode, Richard discusses two key topics: how payment processing fraud is detected with AI and what these workflows look like before and after AI is applied. Richard also shares a specific perspective about where data and algorithms fit into the mix and emphasizes...

Today we are focusing on the domain of data collection and quality. Our guest is Christian Rozsenich, Managing Director of Clickworker. In this episode, we talk about a few topics broadly applicable to any industry. The first is the general challenges and importance of data quality and data harmony for AI projects. Christian details the kinds of issues enterprises are running up against and how th...

Today's guest is Caroline Gorski, Chief Executive Officer for R2 Factory at Rolls-Royce. As the world's second-largest aircraft engine maker, Rolls-Royce makes all kinds of large and heavy machinery that require numerous parts. In today's episode, we explore the questions of how to source those necessary parts and leverage AI to achieve greater transparency in our supply chain. Caroline discusses...

Today, we're diving into AI and its applications in the energy sector. Our guest is Andrey Konchenko, Senior Product Manager at DroneDeploy. Andrey previously spent fifteen years at Schlumberger, a gigantic firm with 100k+ employees in the energy sector, and he now works on drones, robotics, and computer vision at DroneDeploy. We discuss three main topics in today's episode. First, what has made a...

In this week's episode, we're discussing a topic that applies across industries for AI projects: where is the data coming from? Our guest is Dora Boussias, Senior Director for Data Strategy and Architecture at Stryker. Stryker is a $17B per year company in the medical device space. She discusses the process of building out a data strategy with a key emphasis on the right questions to ask, such as:...

This is another episode in our AI is Here series. We've covered all sorts of industries in this recent series, from financial services to oil and gas, but we've yet to touch on defense. Our guest today is Jared Dunnmon. Jared is a Ph. D. from Stanford in Artificial Intelligence and is now the Technical Director of AI and Machine Learning for the Defense Innovation Unit (DIU). In this episode, we e...

Today we're discussing the topic of leveling up software tools with AI capabilities. Our guest is Matt Berseth. Matt is the CIO and one of the co-founders of NLP Logix, an AI services firm. A few weeks ago, Matt joined us to discuss the analogy of pizza vs. lasagna or what it means for AI to go from playing at the surface to become part of a software solution. In this episode, Matt gives examples...

Today's episode is the fifth and final part of our series on building an enterprise AI strategy. Our guest is Richard Benjamins, Chief AI & Data Strategist at Telefónica and author of "Data-Driven Company." Telefónica is a $40B firm and one of the largest in the telco space in the EU. In this episode, Richard emphasizes the importance of how we collect and handle data at an enterprise level in a w...

Today is episode four of five in our series, where we're focusing on enterprise AI strategy. Our guest today is Adam Bonnifield. Adam is the CEO of Konux, an AI firm based in Germany. One of the key takeaways Adam emphasizes in this episode is that strategy is as much about what you're not going to do as what you are going to do. He frames the processing of brainstorming about strategy and identif...

Today we dive back into our series on AI strategy and have two more days of episodes coming this week. Today's guest is Sankar Narayanan, Chief Practice Officer at Fractal. Fractal is a unicorn company working on AI-related projects across industries and is well-known for its work in CPG and several other sectors. In this episode, Sankar explores three critical topics in great depth: finding the c...

Today's guest is Anand Mahurkar, CEO and Founder of Findability Sciences. Based in Boston, Findability Sciences has done a lot of work in the ERP space across different sectors. In this episode, Anand discusses some of the challenges of data access and multiple use-cases for how current ERP data can provide predictive value for estimating demand and customizing prices for different products. Anand...