The Alldus Podcast - AI in Action

Today's guest is Aaron Kwittken, CEO and Founder at Prophet in New York. Founded in 2020, PRophet (owned by Stagwell) is the first-ever AI-driven software-as-a-service platform designed by and for the PR community to help predict media interest and sentiment before a story is pitched. PRophet samples millions of reporters’ stories spanning thousands of print media outlets using a combination of Na...

Today's guest is Samee Zahid, Staff Software Engineer (ML & Data) at Chipper Cash in San Francisco. Founded in 2018, Chipper Cash is a venture-capital-backed Financial technology company that builds software to enable free and instant Peer-to-peer Cross-border payments in Africa and Europe; as well as solutions for businesses and merchants to process online and in-store payments. It is their m...

Today's guest is Martin Miller, Director of AI/ML Product Operations at Levi Strauss & Co  in San Francisco. Founded in 1853, Levi Strauss pioneered labor and environmental guidelines in manufacturing, and they work to build sustainability into everything they do. Their brands — Levi’s®, Dockers®, Denizen® and Signature by Levi Strauss & Co.™ — stand for freedom and self-expression ar...

Today's guest is Guruduth Banavar, Founding CTO and Head of Discovery at Viome . Founded in 2016, Viome's mission is to make illness optional by predicting and preventing chronic diseases through a deeper understanding of an individual’s biology at a molecular level. In order to enhance their understanding of the origin and progression of diseases, they use a systems biology approach combined with...

Today's guest is Christian Seiberl, CSM & FSM Lead at iTSM Group in Austria. The iTSM Group consists of iTSM Consulting GmbH, as the parent company, and several subsidiaries and affiliated companies. Headquartered in Bodenheim near Frankfurt am Main in Germany, the core business of iTSM Consulting GmbH relates to digital transformation in enterprise service management. All iTSM...

Today's guest is Nicole Clark, CEO and Co-Founder at Trellis Research in Los Angeles. Founded in 2017, Trellis is a state trial court legal research and analytics platform with AI-based insights on judges, opposing counsel, motions, dockets and legal issues. They make state trial court data searchable and analyze it to give law firms insights into the way judges are ruling. Legal teams are able to...

Today's guest is Maxime Gariel, Chief Technology Officer at Xwing in San Francisco. Founded in 2016, Xwing is on a mission to build the world’s smartest and cleanest air mobility system. They are transforming the way airplanes fly to make regional mobility radically safer, more efficient, accessible and sustainable than ever. Their software integrates sensors and maps with onboard flight control s...

Today's guest is Keshav Pingali, CEO and Co-Founder at Katana Graph  in Austin, Texas. Founded in 2020, Katana Graph helps today’s forward-looking, data-driven organizations turn boundless data into a competitive advantage. Their flagship technology is an AI-powered graph intelligence platform that uses an unparalleled combination of novel graph algorithms, graph neural network architect...

Today's guest is Kevin Goldsmith, Chief Technology Officer at Anaconda . With more than 20 million users, Anaconda is the world’s most popular data science platform and the foundation of modern machine learning. Anaconda pioneered the use of Python for data science and continue to steward open-source projects that make tomorrow’s innovations possible.  Their enterprise-grade solutions enable...

Today's guest is Rachel Warren, Senior Data Scientist at Buzzer in New York. Founded in 2020, Buzzer allows sports fans to discover the live moments that matter the most to them and is the best way to experience “lightning in a bottle” moments live from anywhere. Buzzer work with some of the largest sports leagues in the world such as the NBA League Pass, NHL and PGA Tour. With their partners...

Today's guest is Bharti Sharma, Global Head of ITSM, Service Availability and Service Management Platform at Aon . Bharti is a high-impact professional with over two decades of rich multi-cultural experience in leading IT Strategy, Service Operations & Delivery. She is passionate about developing ideas and driving initiatives towards enterprise service management and digital transformation to...

Today's guest is Bradlay Pryde, COO and Co-Founder at OneThree Biotech  in New York. Founded in 2018, OneThree Biotech was born out of the largest precision medicine institute in America with the purpose of decreasing the failure rate of bringing therapeutics to market using biology driven AI. Their technology was built in a lab setting, allowing them to engineer their methodologies around re...

Today's guest is Varun Ganapathi, Co-Founder and CTO at AKASA  in San Francisco. Founded in 2018, AKASA believe every dollar spent on healthcare matters because healthcare matters to everyone. AKASA are on a mission to remedy the financial and operational complexity crippling healthcare in America. They have successfully built a team of experts who could develop an entirely new approach to au...

Today's guest is Ryan Schonfeld, Founder and CEO & Jordan Hill, Head of Product at HiveWatch in Los Angeles. HiveWatch was built on the idea that physical security needs an overhaul. Constantly hearing "because that's the way it's always been done", inefficiencies stemming from disparate systems and antiquated practices plague the security industry. Honing the frustration of security leaders e...

Today's guest is Max Dawson, Managing Director at BlueLabs . Founded in 2013, BlueLabs revolutionizes how organizations approach complex challenges and activate their audiences. Whether the goal is selling a product, signing up individuals for healthcare, turning out the vote, or mobilizing activists and donors, they help their clients change behavior and drive results. BlueLabs digs deep into the...

Today's guest is Noam Fine, Head of AI at Vonage . Founded in 2001, Vonage are making communications more flexible, intelligent and personal to help enterprises the world over stay ahead. Headquartered in New Jersey with offices throughout the United States, Europe and Asia , Vonage provide unified communications, contact centers and programmable communications APIs built on the world's most flexi...

Today's guest is Sivan Bercovici, Chief Technology Officer at Karius in California. Founded in 2014, Karius sees a world where infectious disease is no longer a major threat to human health. With the Karius Test™, they deliver unprecedented diagnostic insights to enable physicians to make rapid treatment decisions. By using genomics and AI to map a patient’s microbial landscape from a single blood...

Today's guest is Ben Kirshner, Director of Data Solutions at Civis Analytics in Chicago. Founded in 2013, Civis Analytics helps organizations use data to gain a competitive advantage in how they identify, attract and engage their audiences. With a powerful combination of best-in-class data, cutting-edge software solutions, and an interdisciplinary team of data scientists, developers and survey sci...

Today's guest is Andrei Duchko, Head of Marketing Intelligence at trivago in Dusseldorf. trivago is a global accommodation meta-search that empowers millions of travelers every month in their search for the ideal hotel. Their team of creative and focused minds from all corners of the globe, wake up every day to build a product, that makes your search of accommodation straight forward, simple-to-us...

Today's guest is Carlos Anchia, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Plainsight . Founded in 2007, Plainsight streamlines vision AI for enterprises with new ways to analyze, share and benefit from valuable visual information. Plainsight helps the world’s most innovative customers realize the potential of their data through smart, easy to use, effective solutions. Their intuitive, low-code pla...

Today's guest is Ariel Utnik, GM and Chief Revenue Officer at Verbit in New York. Verbit is the leading voice AI platform, providing accurate, word-for-word transcripts and captions to diverse customers in the education, legal, media, government and corporate sectors. The combination of Verbit’s in-house Automated Speech Recognition technology with its professional transcribers provides a competit...

Today's guest is Krishna Narayanaswamy, Founder & CTO and Mike Anderson, Chief Digital & Information Officer at Netskope . Founded in 2012, Netskope is a SASE leader that safely and quickly connects users directly to the internet, any application and their infrastructure from any device, on or off the network. Netskope is fast everywhere, data-centric and cloud-smart, all while enabling go...

Today's guest is Evan Vafidis, Head of License Management at Uniper in Germany. From gas fields and power stations to international energy markets, Uniper helps keep energy reliable. Uniper ranks among large generation and trading companies in Europe and combines a balanced portfolio of technologically advanced large-scale assets with outstanding technical and commercial expertise. These assets an...

Today's guest is Dave Jacobs, Co-Founder and Co-CEO & Anika Heavener, VP of Data Strategy and Operations at HomeThrive  in Illinois. Founded in 2018, Homethrive is a technology-enabled healthcare service company that reduces work, worry and stress for unpaid family caregivers, their loved ones and their employers. Dari, Homethrive's family caregiving platform uniquely integrates their dig...

Today's guest is Madhav Khurana, Head of Data Science at rebuy in Berlin. rebuy’s mission is to provide a conscious, low-cost alternative to new products, without compromising in looks or functionality. They have developed a unique refurbishing process that upgrades pre-owned products and increases their value. Since their founding by university students back in 2004, rebuy has grown into a 10.000...