AI and the Future of Work
240 episodes - English - Latest episode: 14 days ago - ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsHost Dan Turchin, PeopleReign CEO, explores how AI is changing the workplace. He interviews thought leaders and technologists from industry and academia who share their experiences and insights about artificial intelligence and what it means to be human in the era of AI-driven automation. Learn more about PeopleReign, the system of intelligence for IT and HR employee service: http://www.peoplereign.io.
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Peter Voss, AGI Co-inventor and CEO at Aigo.ai, On Making AI Smarter Without Harming Humans
July 08, 2024 13:00 - 36 minutes - 24.9 MBPeter Voss is the visionary founder and CEO of Aigo.ai, a pioneering company at the forefront of conversational AI and natural language processing. Over the past 15 years, Peter and his team have perfected a highly intelligent, hyper-personalized chatbot designed for enterprise customers. In 2009, Peter founded SmartAction.ai, which developed the first AI-based contact center technology. Beyond his entrepreneurial endeavors, Peter is an engineer, inventor, and AI pioneer who writes and prese...
Emil Winebrand, CEO of insoundz and Audio Engineering Expert, on How AI is Improving Audio Quality
July 01, 2024 13:00 - 29 minutes - 20.4 MBEmil Winebrand, the CEO and co-founder of insoundz, is a trailblazer in the AI and audio technology industry. With a master's degree in engineering from Tel Aviv University, Emil's career began deeply immersed in the tech world, taking a significant turn after a decade of service in the intelligence technology unit of the IDF (Israeli Defense Forces), where he developed a keen interest in AI for audio enhancement. Under Emil's leadership, insoundz has emerged as a force in generative AI for ...
Adityo Prakash, Founder & CEO of Verseon, On Extending Life With AI
June 24, 2024 13:00 - 29 minutes - 20.5 MBAdityo Prakash is a serial entrepreneur, high-tech CEO, amateur photographer, and author who transitioned from academia to revolutionize video streaming, and is now transforming drug discovery and commercialization. As the founder of Verseon, Adityo employs deep quantum modeling and AI to expedite the identification and development of innovative pharmaceuticals, potentially reshaping our approach to aging and healthcare. With degrees in math and physics from Caltech and over 40 patents to hi...
Tamara Steffens, MD at Thomas Reuters Ventures, Explains How Corporate VC Works
June 17, 2024 11:00 - 33 minutes - 23.3 MBTamara Steffens is a seasoned tech executive with a remarkable track record in scaling teams, infrastructures, and products. She has contributed significantly to early mobile and SaaS pioneers, including Boingo, Software.com, Fusion One, and Color. Tamara has held executive roles at Microsoft and Openwave, leading large teams and driving innovation. Her tech career began at Sun Microsystems and Silicon Graphics, where she architected partnerships that defined entire industries. Tamara holds ...
Roy Atkinson, CEO of Clifton Butterfield, Shares Insider Tips on Mastering The Customer Experience as an IT Leader
June 10, 2024 13:00 - 33 minutes - 23.3 MBRoy Atkinson is a renowned thought leader in IT service management and customer service. A prolific writer, speaker, analyst, and podcaster, Roy's expertise has been featured in major tech publications. CIO Insight described him as a model for the future digital leader, and Nextiva named him one of the top 50 customer service experts of the decade (2010 to 2020). Roy's extensive career has included roles as an IT supervisor at the Jackson Laboratory, group principal analyst at Informa Tech, ...
Kendall Clark, CEO of Stardog, On Mastering Data Science... If You're Not Technical
June 03, 2024 13:00 - 42 minutes - 29.3 MBKendall Clark is the co-founder and CEO of Stardog, a leading enterprise knowledge graph platform with prestigious customers like Morgan Stanley, Raytheon, Bosch, and NASA. He founded the company in 2016 with a vision of making data access more meaningful. Self-taught in coding during his 20s, Kendall is on a mission to help people experience "aha" moments with data more frequently. Stardog recently launched VoiceBox, a conversational data platform enabling knowledge workers to interact with...
Allison Baum Gates, Venture Capitalist, On The Secrets To A Successful VC Career
May 27, 2024 13:00 - 30 minutes - 20.7 MBAllison has spent over a decade pioneering the of future of work as an employee, investor, and author. Her book, Breaking into Venture, offers a human perspective on succeeding in venture capital. As a General Partner at Semper Virens, she invests in technology transforming workforce, healthcare, and financial services. Allison contributes to Forbes, lectures at Columbia Business School and UC Berkeley Haas, and has a rich background including roles at Goldman Sachs, General Assembly, Fresco...
Jonathan Siddharth, CEO of Turing, On Unleashing Human Potential with AI
May 20, 2024 13:00 - 38 minutes - 26.6 MBJonathan Siddharth is the visionary leader behind Turing, the unicorn AI juggernaut that powers technical recruiting for more than 900 companies, including Pepsi, Dell, Disney, Red Bull, and many others. Turing is the world's most successful AI-powered tech services company. Turing has reimagined tech services from the ground up with AI by providing enterprises with AI-vetted and matched talent, AI-accelerated application delivery, and access to AI transformation experts who built the tech...
Florin Rotar, Chief AI Officer at Avanade, on how to limit AI’s adverse effects
May 13, 2024 13:00 - 35 minutes - 24.4 MBFlorin Rotar is the pioneering Chief AI Officer known for leading Avanade's AI strategy. Avanade is a joint venture between Accenture and Microsoft with 50,000 employees worldwide, established in 2000 to drive innovation on the Microsoft platform. Previously serving as Avanade's CTO, Florin has played a pivotal role in shaping the organization's AI vision and strategy since his early days as a consultant. A seasoned speaker and thought leader in AI, he passionately advocates for AI's poten...
Naomi and Derek, Investors at Menlo Ventures, On Generative AI Businesses That Are Getting Investor Dollars
May 06, 2024 13:00 - 31 minutes - 22 MBNaomi Ionita and Derek Xiao are investors at Menlo Ventures, one of Silicon Valley's most successful and storied venture capital funds. Menlo has backed over 80 public companies, manages over $5 billion in assets, and has been a pillar of the VC community for an astonishing 47 years. You likely know many of Menlo's recent high-profile investments in companies like Anthropic, Chime, and Harness and historical investments such as 3Com, Hotmail, and Roku. Naomi and Derek recently led the firm's...
Steve Truitt, Award-Winning Author & Futurist, On Saving Humanity & Preventing AI From Ruining Us
April 29, 2024 13:00 - 37 minutes - 26 MBSteve Truitt is an award-winning science fiction author, actor, producer, and musician. He received the prestigious Golden Eagle Award for his documentary series on Discovery. Steve's a space enthusiast and NASA history buff. He holds the unique record of having met five moonwalkers. Beyond his creative endeavors, Steve is also a coach and motivational speaker, recognized for his impactful work with the Best Motivational Book of the Year award for "Stop Waiting for Permission". Steve brings ...
Chris Herringshaw, CTO at Janus Henderson Investors, Reveals What Everyone's Missing about the Future of Finance
April 22, 2024 13:00 - 35 minutes - 24.3 MBChris Herringshaw is the Chief Technology Officer at Janus Henderson Investors, overseeing all technology aspects and serving on the Executive Committee. With over 15 years at Citadel Investment Group, he led Global Infrastructure Technology as Managing Director. Chris founded Quova, now part of NuStar, and held roles including Vice President of Engineering and CTO. He holds a BS in computer systems engineering from the University of Michigan, and actively contributes to shaping technology's...
Dmitry Shapiro, CEO of MindStudio, on how he built the AI app platform that's growing faster than OpenAI
April 15, 2024 13:00 - 40 minutes - 28 MBDmitry Shapiro is a serial entrepreneur who most recently founded and is the CEO of YouAi and the popular AI app-builder MindStudio. He has a bold vision to help you index your mind which we unpack in today's conversation. Previously, Dmitry founded and led GoMeta and created the video sharing site Veoh in 2005 which launched a few months after YouTube. Dmitry served as the CTO at MySpace before moving on to Google where was a Group Product Manager working on social graph, identity, and c...
Suresh Vittal, CPO at Alteryx, On His Journey to Revolutionizing Data Analytics
April 08, 2024 13:00 - 37 minutes - 26.1 MBAs the Chief Product Officer at Alteryx, Suresh leads the product, engineering, design, and development teams that deliver innovative and scalable solutions for data science and analytics. He is also responsible for product pricing, packaging, and PLG strategies. Over the past 3 years, Alteryx has transformed into an analytics platform with market-leading end-to-end analytics solutions, covering the entire gamut of users from analysts to data engineers, developers, and data scientists. With...
Ben Kus, CTO of Box, On Responsible AI Use, Innovation Culture, and Future AI Trends
April 01, 2024 13:00 - 28 minutes - 19.8 MBBen Kus is the chief technology officer at Box, where he’s responsible for developing Box's technology vision and strategy. Previously, Ben was the VP of product management at Box. Before joining Box, he was the co founder and CTO of Subspace, an enterprise security solution that was acquired by Box. Ben’s held various leadership positions, including chief architect for IBM and senior director of technology for BigFix. What we discuss: The role of generative AI in enhancing productivi...
Neil Mandt, Emmy-Winning Entrepreneur, Unveils the Future of Hollywood & Media
March 25, 2024 13:00 - 33 minutes - 23.2 MBNeil Mandt is a Hollywood entrepreneur, a five-time Emmy winner, and producer of the 2022 Golden Globes. A pioneer in AR and VR technology, and a pro sports owner, since getting his start in Hollywood at age 10, there's almost no award he hasn't received, and almost no new form of media he hasn't tested and improved. What we cover In this conversation, Neil shares insights into the evolving landscape of Hollywood and the role of AI in content creation and consumption. Neil discusses the...
Babak Hodjat, CTO of AI at Cognizant, on creating Siri and the evolution of AI
March 18, 2024 07:00 - 35 minutes - 24.4 MBBabak is the CTO of AI at Cognizant, the 34 billion market cap provider of tech services with more than 350, 000 global employees. He's the former co-founder and CEO of Sentient, a business responsible for the core technology behind the world's largest distributed artificial intelligence system. Before co-founding Sentient, Babak co-founded and was the CTO and a board member of Dejima where he developed the foundational technology that ultimately became Apple's Siri. He's the primary inven...
Richie Cotton, Data Scientist & Co-host of the DataFramed podcast, discusses the future of data science & AI ethics
March 11, 2024 07:00 - 25 minutes - 17.7 MBRichie Cotton and his co-host Adel have published over 150 episodes of the DataFramed podcast with some amazing guests. Richie's also a data evangelist for DataCamp and a data scientist by training. He helps train DataCamp students and has been instrumental in the company's success. DataCamp has trained data teams at more than 2,500 companies, including 80 percent of the Fortune 100. Richie has degrees in Math from the University of Warwick and the University of York. In our conversation,...
Matt Martin, Co-Founder & CEO of Clockwise, on leveraging AI to create more time in your day
March 04, 2024 14:00 - 32 minutes - 22.4 MBMatt Martin is on a mission to help the world make time for what matters. He founded Clockwise in 2016 to fix the time problem. Since then, he and the team have raised 76 million from exceptional investors, including Greylock, Cotu, Excel, Bain, and a common investor, the Slack Fund. More than 15, 000 organizations run Clockwise. Matt was also an engineering leader at Relate IQ before Salesforce acquired it for $390 million in 2014. In our conversation, we discuss: Interesting ways to i...
Prasad Kawthekar, Co-Founder & CEO of Dashworks, on enterprise AI search tools
February 26, 2024 14:00 - 31 minutes - 21.7 MBPrasad Kawthekar is the Co-Founder & CEO of Dashworks, an all-in-one AI search assistant. It enables users to find any document, message, or email and to accelerate a team's productivity. With over 40+ integrations, Dashworks enables teams to find and organize their internal knowledge across apps from one place and leverage their collective expertise. In our conversation, we discuss: The historical evolution of enterprise search tools The challenges to enterprise search adoption: such as...
Atif Rafiq, CEO & Bestselling Author, on the decision sprint process
February 19, 2024 08:00 - 32 minutes - 22.4 MBAtif has blazed trails in Silicon Valley and the Fortune 500 for over 25 years. After rising through digital native companies like Amazon, Yahoo!, and AOL, Atif held C-suite roles at McDonald’s, Volvo, and MGM Resorts. He oversaw thousands of employees as a global P&L, transformation, and innovation leader. Rafiq was the first Chief Digital Officer in the history of the Fortune 500, a pioneering role he held at McDonalds, and he rose to the President level in the Fortune 300. While leading...
Dr. Eric Siegel, Founder of Machine Learning Week, on 6 steps to usher in successful ML projects
February 12, 2024 14:00 - 36 minutes - 25.4 MBDr. Eric Siegel is a leading consultant and former Columbia University professor who helps companies deploy machine learning. He is the founder of the long-running Machine Learning Week conference series and its new sister, Generative AI World, the instructor of the acclaimed online course “Machine Learning Leadership and Practice – End-to-End Mastery,” executive editor of The Machine Learning Times, and a frequent keynote speaker. He wrote the bestselling "Predictive Analytics: The Power to...
Juliette Powell & Art Kleiner, Entrepreneurs & Professors, Discuss The 7 Principles of Responsible Technology
February 05, 2024 14:00 - 38 minutes - 26.2 MBJuliette Powell is the founder and managing partner of Kleiner Powell International [KPI], a New York City-based consultancy. As a consultant at the intersection of responsible technology and business, she has advised large companies and governments on how to deal with the accelerating change underway due to AI-enabled technological innovation coupled with shifting social dynamics and heightened global competition. She’s also on the faculty at New York University and teaches in the Interacti...
Dave Kellogg, SaaS whisperer and EIR at Balderton Capital, predicts the future of AI, Silicon Valley, and venture capital
January 29, 2024 14:00 - 31 minutes - 21.6 MBDave Kellogg is an advisor, director, consultant, angel investor, and blogger focused on enterprise software startups. He’s the executive-in-residence (EIR) at Balderton Capital and the principal of his own eponymous consulting business. He brings an uncommon perspective to startup challenges having 10 years’ experience at each of the CEO, CMO, and independent director levels across 10+ companies ranging in size from zero to over $1B in revenues. Dave also authors the Kellblog which cover...
Navrina Singh, Founder & CEO of Credo AI, discusses AI governance & ethics
January 22, 2024 14:00 - 36 minutes - 25.1 MBNavrina Singh is the Founder and CEO of Credo AI, a Governance SaaS platform empowering enterprises to deliver Responsible AI. A technology leader with over 18+ years of experience in Enterprise SaaS, AI and Mobile, Navrina has held multiple product and business leadership roles at Microsoft and Qualcomm. Navrina and the team have been on a mission to help organizations create AI that adheres to the most ethical standards since March 2020. Credo has raised over $13 million from an impressi...
Adam Wenchel, Arthur founder and CEO, discusses evaluating AI model performance
January 15, 2024 14:00 - 30 minutes - 20.9 MBAdam Wenchel is the CEO of Arthur, a company with a platform that gives you an immediate comprehensive AI performance solution across LLMs, Computer Vision, Tabular Data, and NLP. Adam and the team have been making AI observable for almost 5 years with Arthur. Arthur has raised over $60 million from a legendary group of investors including Index Ventures, Greycroft Partners, Work-Bench, and others. An equal list of impressive customers they’ve served includes Humana and Plaid, among others...
Sean Behr, serial entrepreneur and Fountain CEO, discusses the ethical implications of using AI in hiring
January 11, 2024 14:00 - 32 minutes - 22.3 MBSean Behr is the CEO of Fountain, the company transforming the hiring process for hourly workers. Sean and the team have helped more than 80M applicants in 75 countries at places like Stitch Fix, sweetgreen, and gopuff. Fountain has raised $225M to date most recently through a $100M series C last June from an amazing list of investors including B Capital Group, SoftBank, DCM, and Uncork Capital. Sean joined Fountain as CEO in 2020 after founding fleet infrastructure platform Stratim, servin...
Subha Tatavarti, Wipro CTO, shares what a tech titan with 250k employees has learned about gen AI demand from 1,400+ enterprise customers
January 08, 2024 14:00 - 34 minutes - 23.4 MBWipro is one of the largest providers of tech and tech services in the world with more than 250,000 employees. It was started in 1945 and is now the third largest software company in India with a market cap of more than $27B. We're lucky to be joined today by the leader driving Wipro's technology vision. Subha Tatavarti joined Wipro as Chief Technology Officer in March 2021 after a distinguished career in tech leadership roles at companies like Walmart and PayPal where she led the product, ...
Wade Foster, Zapier co-founder and CEO, discusses the journey from intern to $5B unicorn
January 01, 2024 14:00 - 35 minutes - 24.5 MBWe've had amazing unicorn CEOs recently on this podcast but today's a first. Wade Foster, CEO and co-founder of Zapier grew his company to a $5B valuation in 2021 on a $1.3M raise in 2012. Let that sink in. The power of product-market fit and listening to your customers is impossible to overstate. Wade and his co-founders Bryan and Mike launched Zapier in 2012 as part of the YC S12 batch. The company has grown to more 800 employees in 40 countries and the product is used by 2.2M businesses...
Bruce Feiler, best-selling author, TED celebrity, TV personality, and New York Times columnist, discusses navigating life transitions
December 18, 2023 14:00 - 40 minutes - 28.1 MBBRUCE FEILER is one of America’s most thoughtful voices on contemporary life. He is the author of seven New York Times bestsellers, including LIFE IS IN THE TRANSITIONS, THE SECRETS OF HAPPY FAMILIES, and COUNCIL OF DADS. His three TED Talks have been viewed more than four million times, and he teaches the TED Course HOW TO MASTER LIFE TRANSITIONS. His latest book, THE SEARCH: Finding Meaningful Work in a Post-Career World (May 2023), is a bold new roadmap for finding meaning and purpose at...
Josh Drean, co-founder of The Work3 Institute, author, and future of work authority, discusses human-centric employment in the era of AI
December 11, 2023 14:00 - 42 minutes - 29.3 MBWe've met future of work visionaries recently like Gary Bolles, Dr. John Boudreau, Mark McCrindle, and Josh Bersin. All have shared unique perspectives on how AI is redefining the employee experience. Today's guest belongs on that Mt. Rushmore of future of work luminaries. Josh Drean is Co-founder & Director of Employee Experience at The Work3 Institute, AI + Work Advisor at the Harvard Innovation Labs, and Co-author of Employment is Dead (Harvard Business Review Press, 2024) His work has ...
Tom Wheeler, former FCC Chairman, CEO, VC, and author of Techlash, discusses how we can take back control from Big Tech
December 04, 2023 14:00 - 37 minutes - 25.7 MBTom Wheeler served as the 31st Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission after being appointed to the role by President Obama in November 2013. His chairmanship has been described as “The most productive Commission in the history of the agency.” Prior to that, he was a venture capitalist and, among other roles, the CEO of the Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association (CTIA) where we first met in 2001. He is the only person to be elected to both the Cable Television Hall of ...
Joanne Chen, General Partner at Foundation Capital and popular TEDx speaker, discusses the future of AI investing
November 27, 2023 14:00 - 29 minutes - 20.6 MBToday’s guest is a General Partner at Foundation Capital, one of the most iconic venture capital firms in the world. Foundation has found and funded companies like Netflix, Solana, Jasper, and the list goes on. Joanne Chen began her investing career at Foundation in 2014 and has sourced and advised an incredible group of companies including Tonkean, Tubi, and CaptivateIQ. Joanne received her BS in EE and CS from Cal and her MBA from the University of Chicago. She's also a popular TEDx speak...
Josh Bersin, HRTech pioneer, author, and CEO, shares how the best performing teams use AI
November 20, 2023 14:00 - 33 minutes - 22.9 MBToday’s guest is one of the most respected thought leaders in the HR and HRTech space. Josh Bersin’s name is synomous with HR thought leadership. He first started covering the space in 2001 before selling Bersin & Associates to Deloitte in 2012. His current namesake company, The Josh Bersin Company, hosts the popular annual conference Irresistible and is a prolific publisher of content related to the future of work, talent management, corporate learning, and leadership. Josh is also the aut...
Amr Awadallah, CEO of Vectara and co-founder of Cloudera, discusses the future of AI search
November 13, 2023 14:00 - 36 minutes - 25.2 MBAmr and I met on a genAI panel and everything he said was both insightful and contrarian. Immediately, I knew I wanted to introduce him to you. Amr is a legend in the search space who, by the way, also founded Cloudera which went public in 2017 at a valuation of over $5B. Dr. Amr Awadallah is a luminary in the world of information retrieval. He's the CEO and cofounder of Vectara, a company that is revolutionizing how we find meaning across all languages of the world using the latest advance...
Dr. John Boudreau, future of work pioneer and former Cornell professor, discusses the new definition of work
November 06, 2023 14:00 - 34 minutes - 24 MBDr. John Boudreau is a luminary in the future of work academic community. He has published more than 50 books and articles. His scholarly research is published in Management Science, Academy of Management Executives, Journal of Applied Psychology, and Personnel Psychology. Features on his work have appeared in Harvard Business Review, The Wall Street Journal, Fortune, Fast Company and Business Week, among others. Dr. Boudreau helped establish and then directed the Center for Advanced Huma...
Paul Allen, founder of Ancestry.com and Soar, discusses how genAI studios launch AI-first companies
October 30, 2023 13:00 - 38 minutes - 26.7 MBToday's guest has been bringing families together online since 1997 when he founded Ancestry.com which has served more than 13 billion profiles, amassed 40 billion people records, and generated over a billion dollars in revenue. He followed that up with FamilyLink which he founded in 2007 and today has more than 50 million users. For the past several years, Paul Allen has been on a new adventure having founded Soar.com in 2017. He and the team are connecting employees to stories from truste...
Denise Hemke, Chief Product Officer at Checkr and former Workday GM, discusses using AI to reduce bias in the hiring process
October 23, 2023 13:00 - 32 minutes - 22.5 MBAnyone who has ever hired a new employee knows how important and broken the background check process is. The experience is awful for candidates and employers. Plus, it's inherently unfair for under-represented and non-traditional candidates. Imagine a world where hiring the best people is easier and faster and all forms of verification data are provided automatically from trusted sources. Today's guest is making that vision a reality. Denise Hemke is the Chief Product Officer at Checkr, the...
Tyler Foster, Evolv AI CTO, discusses the future of AI to help brands connect with consumers
October 16, 2023 13:00 - 38 minutes - 26.6 MBAI is here to accelerate the world's creativity. In fact, it's one of the things generative AI does best. Imagine a world where personalized campaigns help products you love find you. Today's guest did just that and he created Evolv AI to help brands connect with customers across all digital channels. Tyler Foster is the CTO of Evolv AI, a platform that helps brands improve conversion and experiment faster. He started the company with CEO Michael Scharff in 2019 and together they've grown ...
Tim Guleri, Managing Director @ Sierra Ventures, discusses what he's looking to fund in gen AI... and what most entrepreneurs get wrong
October 09, 2023 13:00 - 31 minutes - 21.7 MBTim Guleri has had a remarkable run at Sierra Ventures since 2001. He has invested in transcendent companies including Sourcefire and MakeMyTrip which both went public. Before that, Tim had a successful career as an entrepreneur and exec at companies like Scopus and Octane which was acquired by Epiphany in 2000. Sierra has one of the strongest future of work and AI portfolios that includes companies like Paro, Krisp, and SupportLogic which acquired Emtropy Labs which was founded by great fo...
Adam Nathan, CEO and Founder of Almanac, discusses the future of collaboration for remote teams and how GenAI is improving productivity
October 02, 2023 13:00 - 34 minutes - 24 MBWe've had interesting conversations about remote-first work with leaders like Jordan Husney, Parabol CEO, and Darren Murph who at the time was the global head of remote work at GitLab (thank you Darren for the intro to Adam). Today's guest has been building a platform to make distributed teams productive since long before it was fashionable. Adam Nathan founded Almanac in January of 2019 to challenge incumbents like Microsoft Office and Google's GSuite. Since then, he and the team have ena...
Durga Malladi, Qualcomm SVP and GM and "Godfather of 5G", discusses the future of AI in mobile tech
September 25, 2023 13:00 - 34 minutes - 23.6 MBDurga Mulladi is the SVP & GM for Technology Planning & Edge Solutions at Qualcomm Technologies, Inc., the iconic company best known for enabling cell phones via its CDMA technology and chipsets that were first demonstrated in 1985. Durga has been an integral part of Qualcomm's growth having spent nearly 26 years there in various technology leadership roles. He holds 578 patents, is a senior member of IEEE, received his PhD in '98 from UCLA, and was awarded Qualcomm's IP excellence award. D...
May Habib, CEO of Writer, discusses LLMs and the future of co-pilots for content generation
September 18, 2023 13:00 - 34 minutes - 24 MBIn 2020 when today's guest founded her company the transformer architecture was relatively new and OpenAI was a science experiment funded by Elon Musk to ensure that AGI benefits all humanity. She and her team commercialized an early version of a co-pilot for writing content long before we appreciated the value of next-word prediction. Since then, May Habib and the team have raised $21M from an exceptional group of investors including Insight Partners and Gradient Ventures. Today, Writer he...
Pete Erickson, Modev founder, shares how he built the world's largest community for conversational AI enthusiasts
September 11, 2023 13:00 - 39 minutes - 26.9 MBToday's guest created one of the largest communities for conversational AI and generative AI enthusiasts. Pete Erickson is the founder of Modev which hosts the popular VOICE & AI conference and also others including the GovAI Summit. Pete started the company back in 2009 and has since produced over 150 events across 89 countries that have connected more than 125,000 people. Pete and the team have created communities for tech companies like Samsung and Amazon. Today, we get a glimpse into t...
Nick Adams, Managing Partner at Differential Ventures, discusses how to get your generative AI startup funded
September 04, 2023 13:00 - 40 minutes - 27.6 MBEntrepreneurs wonder what it’s like to be a VC. And VCs without an operating background often don’t understand the grit required to turn an idea into a successful business. The best investors have been successful operators first. Today’s guest is one of those. Nick Adams founded Differential Ventures in 2017 to invest in B2B, data-first seed-stage companies. Since then, Nick and the team have invested in an impressive group of companies including Private AI, Ocrolus, and Agnostiq. Before D...
SPECIAL EPISODE: Vijay Tella, CEO of unicorn Workato, launches his book "The New Automation Mindset" here on the podcast
August 29, 2023 13:00 - 35 minutes - 24.6 MBVijay Tella is an enterprise software legend having founded unicorn and Cloud100 company Workato nearly a decade ago after an amazing run as the founding SVP of Engineering at TIBCO and CEO of Qik which was acquired by Skype. Vijay is a visionary leader who has raised more than $400M and built a team of nearly 1,000 employees. Workato is a leader in the fast-growing enterprise automation space and the company's customer list reads like the Wall Street Journal including organizations like Ad...
Christopher Penn, co-founder and Chief Data Scientist at TrustInsights.ai, discusses the state of generative AI
August 28, 2023 13:00 - 37 minutes - 25.9 MBChristopher Penn writes one of the few newsletters I read weekly. I have no idea how I ended up on his mailing list but I’ll never opt out despite the rainbow “Unsubscribe here” buttons he prominently displays. Christopher provides well-researched, thought-provoking commentary on all topics related to generative AI. Like recent guests Pradeep Menon and Ken Wenger Christopher doesn’t settle for soundbite-level commentary and he often shares unpopular opinions backed up with data. Christophe...
Chris Fernandez, founding CEO of EnsoData, solves your sleep problems... with AI
August 21, 2023 13:00 - 40 minutes - 27.8 MBAbout 54 million Americans and 936 million patients globally suffer from sleep apnea and 80% of cases go undiagnosed. Today’s guest is fixing that problem. Chris Fernandez co-founded EnsoData in June 2015 to use AI to make sleep studies more efficient, cost effective, and accurate. Since then, he and the team have raised more than $30M from an exceptional group of investors including Zetta Venture Partners, M25 Ventures, and Inspire Medical Systems. Chris received his bachelors and master...
Jim McKenna, serial CIO and LegalTech expert, discusses innovation and leadership
August 14, 2023 13:00 - 29 minutes - 20.4 MBWe’ve had interesting recent discussions about AI and the law with great guests like Robert Plotkin. And we’ve had many interesting conversations about AI with CIO legends like Mark Settle from Okta and Carter Busse from Workato to name a few. In over 200 episodes we haven’t yet discussed how to deliver IT service to the legal industry. Jim McKenna has been delivering technology to attorneys and coaching others who do the same for more than two decades. In his current role at perennial Sili...
Kit Colbert, VMware SVP and CTO, discusses 20 years of tech innovation and what's ahead for generative AI
August 07, 2023 13:00 - 38 minutes - 26.6 MBToday’s guest has had a front row seat for every technology platform shift for the past 20+ years. More important, he has played an important role in enabling several of them. Kit Colbert joined tech stalwart VMware in September 2003 and currently serves as senior vice president and chief technology officer. He is responsible for ensuring VMware’s long term technology leadership through research and innovation programs. Kit manages the VMware Engineering Services team, advanced R&D initiati...