The Human-Centric AI Podcast

Today’s episode features the Founder & CEO of iMotions, and member of the Executive Management team in Smart Eye Group,  Peter Hartzbech . Peter is an entrepreneur who is driven by using technology to make the world a better place. His company, iMotions , is a fully-integrated, hardware-agnostic software platform that allows researchers to use the power of any neuroscience technology, as...

Today’s episode features Dr. Eric Daimler, who is an authority in the Artificial Intelligence community with over 20 years of experience in the field. He currently leads MIT’s first-ever spinout from its Math department and has co-founded six technology companies that have pioneered work in fields ranging from software systems to statistical arbitrage. As a Presidential Innovation Fellow during th...

Today’s episode features Neil Sahota , an IBM Master Inventor, United Nations A.I. Advisor, Chief Innovation Officer, and globally-recognized speaker and author. Neil is a founding member of the UN’s AI for Good Initiative, and I invited him to speak on how to “disrupt the box.” Through his work with Global Fortune 500 companies as a change maker, he created a disruptive thinking framework to show...

The role of a pilot today is different compared to 50 years back. These days, most commercial aviation is largely automated – an innovation that has decreased the number of accidents drastically and made aviation one of the safest ways to travel. In one million take-offs, the average number of accidents is less than one. In the last few years, eye tracking technology has made its impact on the aut...

Would you watch the news online or via a mobile app if it were presented by something that looks human, but is in fact an artificially intelligent virtual human? Today’s episode features Leon Hawthorne . Leon is a media executive, journalist and academic; a former CEO of two satellite TV channels, three cable stations, a TV production company and a dozen web channels. He created web TV channels fo...

Today’s episode features Magnus Brunzell, Vice President and head of business unit Fleet & Aftermarket at Smart Eye. With a Masters in engineering, Magnus has years of experience working with automotive tier-1 suppliers such as Delphi/Aptiv. He has had roles in project management, engineering, sales & marketing and managing director. I invited him to talk today about Smart Eye’s latest Pro...

Today’s episode features Deepak Varna , Head of Neuroscience Insights at Kantar–North America. Deepak has been working with Kantar for over 5 years to improve insight delivery from neuroscience tools, including client-specific training programs, especially focusing on facial coding. He has over 13 years of global experience in neuroscience in the areas of advertising, brand equity, and shopper sol...

Today's episode features our global team of working women at Smart Eye in honor of International Women’s Day. We posed three questions to our team, asking them to talk about their role, background and career journey,  as well as what it means to be a woman in tech to them. Also in response to this year’s International Women’s Day theme of “Break the Bias” what is one recommendation they have...

Today’s episode features Graham Page , Global Managing Director, Media Analytics at Affectiva and Vera Sidlova , Global Brand Manager, Creative at Kantar . Kantar is the world’s leading data, insights and consulting company.  Combining their expertise in human understanding with advanced technologies, Kantar’s 30,000 people help the world’s leading organizations succeed and grow. Vera has bee...

Today we have a very special episode featuring Dr. Taniya Mishra , CEO and Founder of SureStart . Dr. Mishra, who actually worked at Affectiva prior to starting her own company over a year ago, has been an AI scientist for over 10 years, with more than 88 awarded patents. Her company’s mission is to build early opportunity pipelines for a highly diverse tech workforce through technical skills trai...

The next 10-20 years promise to see amazing expansion of human behavioral research, using sensing technologies, both commercially and academically. Technological advances will make it easier, faster, and more cost-effective to understand what’s driving human behavior and decision-making, of which we know more than 95% occurs below conscious awareness. Smart Eye’s recent acquisition of Emotion AI p...

Today's episode features Dr. Rana el Kaliouby, former Co-Founder and CEO of Affectiva, currently Deputy CEO of Smart Eye, speaking with Elizabeth Bramson-Boudreau, the Chief Executive Officer and publisher of MIT Technology Review.  Elizabeth leads the growth, expansion, and modernization of the Review’s media platforms and products. Elizabeth also serves as the Chairman and President of MIT...

Today’s episode features Graham Page, Global Managing Director, Media Analytics at Affectiva. In our conversation, we dove deeper into a recent press release announcing the latest version of Affectiva’s category-defining Emotion AI product. This update to its media analytics offering makes several new features available to its market research customers, including:   Updates to our alread...

So today’s episode features Solmaz Shahmehr , VP and Head of Business Area Research Instruments at Smart Eye.   Solmaz has been with Smart Eye since 2009 in different capacities - she is responsible for directing the Research Instruments organization, and charged with delivering a sustainable, profitable business model there. She also leads global sales, product development and product manage...

Today’s episode features Brian Pluckebaum, Sr. Automotive Marketing Manager at Omnivision. Brian is responsible for regional marketing, product marketing, and building business successes with key partners in OmniVision’s automotive segment. Previously, Pluckebaum worked in engineering and product marketing roles at NEC, Renesas, ST, and most recently with Telechips. With more than 17 years’ experi...

Today’s episode features two industry experts from a company called VI-grade.  Guido Bairati: As Vice President Global Sales & Marketing, Guido helps VI-grade customers streamline their design process and bridge the gap between physical testing and simulation by implementing tools that allow CAE Engineers and Test Drivers to work together earlier in the automotive development phase. ...

Today’s episode features Vera Sidlova, Vera Sidlova , Global Brand Manager, Creative at Kantar. Kantar is the world’s leading data, insights and consulting company. They understand more about how people think, feel, shop, share, vote and view than anyone else. Vera has been focused on creative effectiveness research and helps manage Kantar’s creative solutions portfolio. Vera discussed how Affecti...

Today’s episode features our Media Analytics leaders Graham Page and Alex Duckett joined by Two Ears One Mouth Director, Sarah Gorman. For over 10 years, Two Ears One Mouth has been using statistical evaluation and emotionally intelligent observation to drive more informed decision making, and guide some of the worlds brightest brands to an even stronger future. Sarah is an experienced researcher...

Today’s episode features Dougal Hawes , the Managing Director of Smartbox . Smartbox  is doing some amazing work delivering AAC assistive communication solutions alongside training, support & repairs. Dougal discussed the launch of SmartBox’s new product, Lumin-i . Lumin-i is powered by Smart Eye eye tracking technology, and this new assistive communication solution helps people with disa...

We are very excited to kick off our season finale episode featuring a conversation between Affectiva co-founder and now Deputy CEO Dr. Rana el Kaliouby, and Smart Eye CEO Martin Krantz.  You may have seen , but we were excited to announce that Smart Eye, the global leader in eye tracking and driver monitoring systems, acquired Affectiva ! We are thrilled to join forces with Smart Eye, as our...

Advertising has the ability to influence consumer behavior and can be instrumental in creating and reinforcing positive or negative stereotypes. The advertising industry plays an important role in leading change, and you don’t have to be an activist brand to start positively representing people in ads—it's relevant for all brands.  Today’s episode features our CMO Gabi Zijderveld, Graham Page...

Today’s episode features Dr. Rana el Kaliouby and Graham Page from Affectiva talking with CloudArmy’s President / CSO Neuroscience , Thom Noble, about how Emotion AI paired with neuro implicit technologies can provide market researchers with richer and deeper insights. Affectiva is excited to partner with CloudArmy , a cloud-based neuroscience research technology company. By integrating our techno...

Today’s episode features Affectiva CEO Dr. Rana el Kaliouby interviewing Yashar Behzadi, CEO at Synthesis AI.  Affectiva's AI is built using data-hungry deep learning models. Data synthesis is all about getting more data faster, and synthetic data is artificially created data that we can use to train our models. And because acquiring diverse data at scale for these models is time consuming an...

Today’s episode features Affectiva CEO Dr. Rana el Kaliouby interviewing Dr. Jinmo Lee, Senior Research Engineer at Hyundai.  Dr. Lee was always interested in working in industry to see how his research outcomes turn into products that change customers' lives. Hyundai offered him a job as a senior research engineer for the vehicle aeroacoustics, and today he is in charge of future mobility UX...

Affectiva CEO Dr. Rana el Kaliouby interviews Jennifer Haroon, Executive in Residence at Greylock Partners. Jennifer has an illustrious career in automotive: most recently she was COO and interim CFO at Nauto, and prior the Head of Business Operations for Waymo.  This conversation was the result of Affectiva’s recent collaboration with the organization Women in Autonomy to help drive change b...