The Alldus Podcast - AI in Action

Today's guest is Eran Udassin, VP of Product and Operations at Simplaex's Rivr  in Berlin. Rivr is an AI-powered, traffic shaping library built for the Supply Side of the programmatic advertising ecosystem. Through intelligent filtering, Rivr improves monetization, increases scalability and strengthens demand-supply relationships for their partners. Rivr is on a mission to support supply-side...

Today's guest is Kushal Chakrabarti, VP of Research and Data Science at Opendoor in San Francisco. Founded in 2014, Opendoor’s mission is to empower everyone with the freedom to move by building a digital, end-to-end customer experience that makes buying and selling a home simple, certain and fast. They have assembled a dedicated team with diverse backgrounds to support more than 100,000 homes bou...

Today's guest is Charles Taylor, Founder & Chief Technology Officer at Heartflow in Redwood City, California. HeartFlow is a medical technology company transforming the way cardiovascular disease is diagnosed and treated. With their HeartFlow Analysis, a non-invasive personalized cardiac test, physicians are able to make better care decisions for their patients with suspected coronary artery d...

Today's guest is Sean McDermott, Founder, President and CEO at Windward Consulting in Virginia. As a serial entrepreneur, Sean has worked for more than twenty years to assist hundreds of global clients and the Federal Government in the design, development and operation of large-scale IT networks and data centers. In 1997, Sean founded Windward Consulting Group to help CIOs strategically trans...

Today's guest is Michael Koch, Director of Data Analytics & Artificial Intelligence at Lufthansa Industry Solutions in Norderstedt, Germany. This Lufthansa subsidiary is a service provider for IT consulting and system integration which helps clients with the digital transformation of their companies. Their customer base includes both companies within the Lufthansa Group, as well...

Today's guest is Jason Christiansen, Co-Founder & Co-CEO at Young Alfred in New York. Founded in 2016, Young Alfred unlocks access to home insurance for both homeowners and businesses. With over 40 direct insurance carrier partners, they are on a mission to turn the five-hour nightmare of shopping for home insurance online into an informed 15-minute transaction. Young Alfred's technology analy...

Today's guest is Joanne Chen, VP of Data at Thirty Madison in New York. Founded in 2017, Thirty Madison is a healthcare company bringing specialized care and treatment to everyone. As one of Built In's Top 100 Companies in NYC, Thirty Madison work to improve how millions of people manage their chronic conditions with a patient-first approach that provides care and support from diagnosis...

Today's guest is Fliria Jernigan, Vice President of Technology at LPL Financial , who are a leader in the retail financial advice market. They serve independent financial advisors and financial institutions, providing them with the technology, research, clearing and compliance services, and practice management programs they need to create and grow thriving practices. LPL enables them to provide ob...

Today's guest is Robin Rohm, CEO and co-founder at Apheris in Berlin. Founded in 2019, Apheris is a deep tech company with the mission to fundamentally change how organizations collaborate securely and extract value from data. Their platform enables secure data analyses across organizations while keeping proprietary information private. With Apheris, organizations can build new data solutions and...

Today's guest is Eddie Newland, Director of AI Services at SFL Scientific in Boston, MA. SFL Scientific is a US-based data science consulting and professional services firm that provides data strategy & consulting, engineering, machine learning and Artificial Intelligence services to public and private clients spanning multiple industries. With a globally connected network of technology a...

Today's guest is Erica Cary, VP of Product and Services at Hilton in Dallas, Texas. Erica is a highly accomplished leader responsible for the strategy, design, development, delivery and deployment of global workplace and marketplace technology solutions. She is well known for establishing and maintaining relationships with internal and external business partners and vendors to execute key strategi...

Today's guest is Jack Lampka, Head of Data at MSD in Munich. MSD is a research-based pharmaceutical company and is one of the five largest healthcare companies in the world in terms of sales. They research, develop and manufacture prescription drugs, vaccines, biologics and animal health products. In Germany, MSD is one of the three largest and most important pharmaceutical manufacturers. For more...

Today's guest is Pranav Gandhi, Head of Business & Strategy Analytics at Signifyd . Founded in 2011 and headquartered in California's San Jose, Signifyd is the world’s largest provider of guaranteed fraud protection that enables online retailers to provide a friction-free buying experience for their customers. Signifyd leverages big data, machine learning and domain expertise to provide a 100...

Today's guest is Manny Akintayo, Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer at Gentem Health in San Francisco. Founded in 2019, Gentem Health is a Silicon Valley-based company with a simple mission: Get healthcare providers reimbursed more and faster with minimal administrative cost. Gentem accomplishes this by leveraging technology such as Artificial Intelligence, Automation & Data to streamline...

Today's guest is Ryan Walton - King, AVP Transformation - Technology and User Experiences at AT&T in Dallas, Texas. Ryan is a successful Transformation executive and top performer with over 20 years of experience leading large enterprise teams, defining and executing strategic direction, delivering business outcomes through process and technology transformation. He is an expert at design strat...

Today's guest is Notger Heinz, Principal Engineer Data Science at sennder in Berlin. Founded in 2015, sennder are Europe’s number one digital freight-forwarder platform for Full Truck Loads. With its in-house-developed platform, sennder provides a new level of automation, transparency and efficiency to the European €300 billion road freight market, which until now has been dependent on paper, phon...

Today's guest is Bret Greenstein, SVP and Global Head of AI & Analytics at Cognizant in New York. Cognizant is one of the world's leading professional services companies, transforming clients'​ business, operating and technology models for the digital era. Ranked on the Fortune 500 and consistently listed among the most admired companies in the world, Cognizant's unique industry-based, consult...

Today's guest is Rameez Tase, Co-Founder & CEO at Antenna in New York. Antenna is an early-stage data analytics startup that is shaking up the way subscription businesses in various industries have access to insightful metrics to make strategic business decisions in today's hyper-competitive environment. They help define the metrics that matter, benchmark success standards vs. the competition,...

Today's guest is Emil D. Atanassov, VP of Internationalization at ServiceNow in Dublin, Ireland. Emil is an experienced Vice President with a demonstrated history of working in the computer software industry. He is responsible for providing a meaningful voice to the internationalization strategy and execution at ServiceNow. Headquartered in California, ServiceNow make the world of work, work bette...

Today's guest is Puneet Gangrade, Data Science Team Lead at MightyHive in New York. Founded in 2012, MightyHive is the leading data and digital media consultancy that helps marketers take control. MightyHive delivers sustained results from the ground up through advisory for business transformation, privacy-first data strategy and digital media services. MightyHive is trusted by brands like Autodes...

Today's guest is Shawn Ramirez, Head of Data Science at Shelf Engine in Seattle. Shawn is an accomplished data science leader and SME in causal inference, experimentation, Machine Learning, statistics, optimization and game theory. She drives AI product development building, testing, and leveraging statistical and cutting edge machine learning at scale on high impact problems. Shawn's passion is w...

Today's guest is Richard Ross, Director of Emerging Technology at ICF . Richard is a technology executive with a demonstrated history of leading and implementing complex initiatives across the public and private sectors, setting a strategic vision and executing comprehensive digital & business transformation strategies and IT plans. His expertise includes aligning technology and organizational...

Today's guest is Kolja Dobrindt, VP and Global Head of Analytics at Lidl International in Germany. Kolja is responsible for the end-to-end analytics capability of a $100 billion+, 11,000 store, 32 country organization, ranging from decentralized self-service capabilities to large-scale, operational data products. Lidl are on a mission to build an operational analytics capability from vision and st...

Today's guest is Emily Bailey, Director of Data Products & Machine Learning at Rent the Runway in New York. Founded in 2009, Rent the Runway is transforming the way modern women get dressed by pioneering dynamic ownership and enabling women to rent, subscribe to and purchase secondhand clothing. They have been named on CNBC’s “Disruptor 50” five times in ten years and have placed on Fast Compa...

Today's guest is Emily Capodilupo, VP of Data Science and Research at WHOOP in Boston. Founded in 2012, WHOOP are on a mission to unlock human performance. They believe that every individual has an inner potential that can be enhanced through continuous monitoring. As such, they have built a system across hardware, software and analytics designed to collect and analyze the most important...