The AI in Business Podcast
840 episodes - English - Latest episode: 10 days ago - ★★★★ - 101 ratingsThe AI in Business Podcast is for non-technical business leaders who need to find AI opportunities, align AI capabilities with strategy, and deliver ROI.
Each week, Emerj Artificial Intelligence Research CEO Daniel Faggella interviews top AI executives from Fortune 500 firms and unicorn startups - to uncover trends, use-cases, and best practices for practical AI adoption.
Subscribe to Emerj's weekly AI newsletter by downloading our "Beginning with AI" PDF guide: https://emerj.com/beg1
Homepage Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Episodes
Improving Delivery Efficiency for Propane and Commodities Distributors - with Sanjay Chopra of Cognistx
June 02, 2022 06:00 - 27 minutes - 25.3 MBToday’s guest is Sanjay Chopra, CEO and Founder of Cognistx. Based in Pittsburgh, Cognistx is a firm that works with propane and commodities distributing companies. In this episode, Sanjay discusses the problem with the inefficient delivery of propane. He also provides a lot of detail on the importance of data in terms of what kind of data we need to track and how it can be used to unlock value. Sanjay also shares his perspective on what this particular AI application might mean for the futur...
[AI is Here] - From Manufacturing to Maintenance, the Impact of AI - with Peter Tu of GE Research
June 01, 2022 06:00 - 27 minutes - 25.5 MBToday’s guest is Peter Tu, Chief Scientist for Artificial Intelligence at GE Global Research. In this episode, Peter provides a full-circle perspective on how data can inform maintenance processes and optimize specific outcomes. He also discusses some of the challenges in bringing these applications to life and some of the obstacles that GE has had to overcome. Peter speaks about these challenges as transferable lessons across different elements of heavy industry that have really made AI sta...
Augmentation, Not Replacement: Debunking Common AI Myths Life Sciences - with Emmanuel Walckenaer of YSEOP
May 31, 2022 06:00 - 30 minutes - 28 MBToday’s guest is Emmanuel Walckenaer, CEO of YSEOP. In this episode, we discuss two core questions: first, how are enterprise leaders measuring the success of AI programs that are being used to augment human productivity? The second question is about where humans fit in the loop. In other words, why are humans still critical for certain kinds of workflows and decision-making processes? Emmanuel discusses the concepts of accountability and transparency and how those themes fit into humans’ ro...
Improving Efficiency of Artificial Intelligence for Video Processing - Use-Cases and Adoption - with Arun Iyengar of Untether AI
May 26, 2022 06:00 - 31 minutes - 73 MBToday’s guest is Arun Iyengar, CEO at Untether AI. Untether is a semiconductor firm based in Toronto, but with employees all over North America, including Silicon Valley. Arun previously worked with AMD, another major hardware and software firm in the Bay Area, before stepping into his current CEO role at Untether AI. In this episode, Arun shares some insight on the potential use-cases for video processing with artificial intelligence and some of the existing barriers for AI hardware, and how...
[AI is Here] - Current Use-Cases of NLP in Insurance - with Gero Gunkel of Zurich Insurance
May 25, 2022 06:00 - 25 minutes - 23.6 MBToday’s guest in our second episode of the AI is Here series is Gero Gunkel, COO for Zurich Customer Active Management at Zurich Insurance. He was formerly the company’s Global Head of AI. In this episode, Gero provides his perspective on the accessibility of NLP applications in insurance and where it’s making a difference today. Gero also gives a good idea of why that is, what use-cases he’s seeing make a dent today, and connects those thoughts to what the future of insurance looks like. Thi...
The Importance of Subject Matter Experts in AI Project Success - with Brett Barenek of Nuance Communications
May 24, 2022 06:00 - 15 minutes - 14.2 MBToday, our guest is Brett Beranek, VP and General Manager for Security and Biometrics at Nuance Communications. For an AI company, Nuance is relatively large. Microsoft recently bought the company for over $30B, and they serve a variety of industries. Our topic today is the importance of subject-matter experts. Brett provides essential insights regardless of your industry because subject-matter experts play an important role in AI adoption. Within Emerj Plus, we have a long executive guide o...
The Importance of Subject Matter Experts in AI Project Success - with Brett Beranek of Nuance Communications
May 24, 2022 06:00 - 15 minutes - 14.2 MBToday, our guest is Brett Beranek, VP and General Manager for Security and Biometrics at Nuance Communications. For an AI company, Nuance is relatively large. Microsoft recently bought the company for $19.7B, and they serve a variety of industries. Our topic today is the importance of subject-matter experts. Brett provides essential insights regardless of your industry because subject-matter experts play an important role in AI adoption. Within Emerj Plus, we have a long executive guide on t...
Conversational Banking, Challenges and Applications - with Ian Wilson of Strategy 4 AI
May 20, 2022 06:00 - 20 minutes - 18.8 MBToday’s guest is Ian Wilson, Managing Director at Strategy 4 AI, a strategy and consulting firm based in Cambridge in the UK. He discusses two crucial topics in this particular episode. First, where can AI actually step in, interact with a customer, and not make it worse but potentially improve? Ian talks about some of those use-cases and how to identify them within a financial services institution. The second main topic Ian discusses is some of the challenges and how to identify where humans...
[AI is Here] Energy Sector AI Transformation - with Dan Jeavons of Shell
May 18, 2022 06:00 - 25 minutes - 58.6 MBToday’s episode is part of our new sponsored series called “AI is Here,” where we will speak with AI experts across industries and ask them where AI is impacting their industry today and what that means for the future. In this first episode, we’re exploring the energy sector by speaking to an AI expert at one of the world’s largest energy firms: Shell. Today’s guest is Dan Jeavons, VP of Computational Science, Digital Innovation, and IT. In this episode, Dan speaks about leveraging AI to simu...
Keys to Creating AI-Enabled Digital Products - with Matt Berseth of NLP Logix
May 10, 2022 06:00 - 29 minutes - 66.6 MBToday’s guest is Matt Berseth, Co-Founder and CIO of NLP Logix. NLP Logix is a fast-growing AI services firm based in Florida that serves both the public and private sectors. In this episode, we’re exploring the transition from light involvement in data and data science to much more deep participation, where there are a lot of transferable lessons in adoption ideas. We also discuss the lasagna vs. pizza analogy from an excellent past interview. Matt describes how we can take the data leverag...
[AI Success Factors] - Improving Railways with AI - with Adam Bonnifield of KONUX
May 09, 2022 06:00 - 22 minutes - 20.7 MBToday’s episode is part of our ongoing AI Success Factors series, where we cover one enterprise AI use-case with a measurable ROI and discuss what made it successful every Monday. Today, we’re going to explore the topic of maintaining railways. Our guest this week is Adam Bonnifield, CEO of Konux. Konux applies its AI technology to the rail space, and in this episode, Adam shares his perspective on a unique use-case between Konux and Network Rail, a large railway firm in the United Kingdom. ...
Improving Banking Compliance with Intelligent Document Processing - with Edouard d'Archimbaud of Kili
May 05, 2022 06:00 - 32 minutes - 29.7 MBToday’s guest is Ed d’Archimbaud, Co-Founder and CTO of Kili Technology, based in Paris, France. He has previously worked with large financial institutions such as BNP Paribas, which he speaks about in this episode. We focus on two main topics in this episode: first, we discuss some paperwork-heavy workflows tied to compliance and how AI can provide a solution. The second main topic is data-centric AI and what it looks like to put it into action. Towards the end of this episode, Ed shares ho...
Creating Insurance Policies for AI Applications - with Munich Re's Michael Berger
May 03, 2022 06:00 - 26 minutes - 24.2 MBToday’s guest is Michael Berger, Head of Insure AI at Munich Re. In this episode, Michael brings to bear his perspective as someone with technical experience in the industry and as the leader of Insure AI at one of the world’s largest insurance firms. Michael provides a sense of the risks inherent to large AI deployments, from legal risks to physical threats and more. He also discusses how monitoring and pricing risk from an insurance policy standpoint can be updated and act almost as a livi...
[AI Success Factors] - Feature Engineering as a Key to AI ROI - with Chris Joynt of PTC
May 02, 2022 06:00 - 20 minutes - 18.8 MBToday in our latest AI Success Factors series episode, we are focusing on the world of heavy industry while highlighting lessons that can be applied any and everywhere. Our guest this week and Chris Joynt, AIoT Co-innovation Leader for the Solutions Group at PTC. PTC is a software firm based in the Boston area. In this episode, Chris discusses what it takes to measure ROI across several different dimensions. He also emphasizes the importance of feature engineering, what it is from a conceptu...
AI for Estimating Home Prices - with Stefan Boronea of Proportunity
April 26, 2022 06:00 - 19 minutes - 18 MBToday’s guest is Stefan Boronea, Co-Founder and CTO of Proportunity. Based in London, Proportunity is a company that has raised over $170M. In this episode, we dive into the topic of where machine learning can add value in terms of accurately predicting the price of homes both now and in the future. Stefan highlights the kind of data and features that are important to understand the price of a home in the present and the future. Another critical idea he shares is about the future of the mark...
[AI Success Factors] - Start Small and Show Wins - with Gero Gunkel of Zurich Insurance
April 25, 2022 06:00 - 18 minutes - 17.3 MBThis week’s guest on our ongoing AI Success Factors series is Gero Gunkel of Zurich Insurance. Until recently, he was the Global Head of Artificial Intelligence for Zurich Insurance, and he is now the COO of Zurich’s Customer Active Management or ZCAM. In today’s episode, Gero discusses one particular use-case in helping to handle the extreme volumes of customer support inquiries that Zurich receives during certain seasons. There are two main takeaways: first, where to find the low-hanging fr...
AI for Cyber Insurance Policy Review - with Pamela Negosanti of Expert.AI
April 19, 2022 06:00 - 30 minutes - 30.9 MBToday’s guest is Pamela Negosanti, the Head of Sector Strategies for Financial Services at Expert.AI. In today’s episode, Pamela speaks to us about the policy review process for cyber insurance. There are two main stand-out points: first, how a new technology shift and further regulation make AI almost a requirement for a particular business workflow, and second, some concrete workflow advice for applying artificial intelligence to contracts and text documents. There’s an evident business va...
[AI Success Factors] - Using Decision Augmentation for Client Retention - with Emily Bremner of Signal AI
April 18, 2022 06:00 - 19 minutes - 20.7 MBWelcome back to our AI Success Factors series, where we publish a short episode every Monday highlighting one AI use-case and the most important factor that leads it to a positive ROI. Today’s guest is Emily Bremner, SVP of Product at Signal AI. Based in London, Signal AI is a company that has raised over $100M and is working on leveraging AI to pull in and make sense of various external data streams. In this episode, Emily discusses Signal AI’s long-term work with Deloitte, detailing how the...
What is Data-Centric AI? - with Roey Mechrez of BeyondMinds
April 12, 2022 06:00 - 20 minutes - 21.4 MBToday’s guest is Roey Mechrez, CEO and Co-Founder of BeyondMinds. BeyondMinds is an AI company based in London. Recorded live in London, this episode highlights the topic of data-centric AI. Roey provides a clear definition of this concept and discusses what it implies for the future of enterprise AI projects. He also speaks about the specific ideas that non-technical business leaders need to understand to identify suitable projects and manage them to achieve a return on investment. Roey is ...
[AI Success Factors] - Construction Cost Forecasting as a Business Upside - with Dev Amratia of nPlan
April 11, 2022 06:00 - 17 minutes - 18.7 MBThis week’s Success Factors series episode highlights a use-case of construction and AI. In today’s episode, we speak about one of the UK’s most prominent building and construction companies that used artificial intelligence to better estimate their cost with greater confidence and credibility than their competitors and make a case for why they should win the job. Our guest is the Co-Founder and CEO of a London-based company called nPlan, Dev Amratia. Every Monday, we publish a short episode ...
The Pathway from RPA to AI - with UiPath's AI Leader Sunil Tahilramani
April 05, 2022 06:00 - 24 minutes - 24.8 MBToday’s guest is Sunil Tahilramani, Director of Artificial Intelligence at UiPath. Valued at about $40B, UiPath is one of the robotics processing automation world leaders. In today’s episode, Sunil discusses what the journey from RPA to AI looks like. He details some of the use-cases where AI might be able to add value where RPA can’t and how to get from regular automated workflows to more robust workflows that enable more capability with AI. If you’re interested in Emerj’s best practices and...
[AI Success Factors] - Making AI Come to Life in Heavy Industry - with Nikunj Mehta
April 04, 2022 06:00 - 19 minutes - 20.8 MBToday’s episode is part of our ongoing AI Success Factors series. Every Monday, we publish 15-minute episodes that focus on an enterprise success story where we discuss one particular factor that made the project successful. Today’s guest is Nikunj Mehta, CEO, and Founder of Falkonry. Falkonry is an AI service firm based in the Bay Area, focusing primarily on heavy industry. In today’s episode, Nikunj highlights the extreme importance of subject-matter expertise when it comes to knowing when ...
Use-Cases for an Enterprise Data Fabric - with Amaresh Tripathy of Genpact
March 29, 2022 06:00 - 18 minutes - 19.3 MBToday’s guest is Amaresh Tripathy, Senior Vice President and Global Business Lead for Analytics at Genpact. Genpact has some 80,000 employees, and Amaresh leads a global team of nearly 8,000 analytics experts covering everything from data engineering, machine learning, data insights, and more. This episode focuses on data fabrics and what separates the idea of a data fabric from a data lake, and how enterprise leaders can make sure that this fabric translates immediately to use-cases that ad...
[AI Success Factors] - Inventory Optimization for AI Hardware Manufacturing - with Gopalan Oppiliappan of Intel
March 28, 2022 06:00 - 20 minutes - 21.3 MBThis is our series on AI success factors where we cover one specific enterprise AI project that was a success, highlighting the problem, impact, and what made it a success every Monday. One of our five guests in our recent week-long series on AI ROI was Gopalan Oppiliappan, the Head of the AI Centre of Excellence for Intel. In that episode, he discussed framework thinking for making decisions about AI projects to achieve greater success. In today’s episode, Gopalan shares how he puts those fr...
Building an AI Advantage in an Enterprise Environment - with Ash Fontana of Zetta Venture Partners
March 22, 2022 06:00 - 24 minutes - 22 MBToday’s guest is Ash Fontana, Special Advisor at Zetta Venture Partners based in the Bay Area. After recently publishing his book, “The AI-First Company,” Ash joins us again on the show to discuss some of the core transferable lessons he’s learned. Our topic for this episode is advantage. Ash discusses a way of thinking about building momentum around data and gaining long-term advantage as a result. This episode is one of two episodes Ash recently recorded with us. If you enjoyed today’s epi...
[AI Success Factors] - Improving Product Recommendations at Walmart - with Dr. Charles Martin
March 21, 2022 06:00 - 22 minutes - 20.7 MBToday’s guest is Dr. Charles Martin, Founder of Calculation Consulting. Charles has worked on real enterprise deployments with companies like eBay, BlackRock, and exciting startups like Aardvark, which Google acquired. Today’s episode is part of our ongoing Monday series highlighting one key factor for one specific successful enterprise deployment. In today’s episode, Charles discusses a project with Walmart focusing on the use-case of product recommendations in different languages and geo-re...
[Achieving AI ROI] Go After Tuna, Not Whales - with Falkonry CEO Nikunj Mehta
March 18, 2022 06:00 - 25 minutes - 23.3 MBToday is episode five out of five of this week’s special series on Achieving ROI with Early AI Projects. We’ve heard from leaders from Intel, Oracle, and other big names, and today, we’re wrapping this series up with someone from the startup world. Our guest is Nikunj Mehta, Founder and CEO of Falkonry. Falkonry is an AI services business focused on heavy industry and manufacturing based in the Bay Area. In this episode, Nikunj describes a portfolio approach to find several related AI projec...
[Achieving AI ROI] Data Quality Assessment for Non-Technical Leaders - with Dr. Charles Martin
March 17, 2022 06:00 - 31 minutes - 72.3 MBToday’s episode is part four out of five in our Achieving ROI with Early AI Projects series. This week, we have published one episode per day, starting with the Head of the AI Centre of Excellence for Intel. Today, we’re bringing it down to more of a consultancy and vendor perspective from someone who has worked with some of the largest enterprises in the world. Our guest is Dr. Charles Martin, a Silicon Valley AI Consultant with hands-on machine learning experience with organizations like E...
[Achieving AI ROI] Crawl, Walk, Run - with Raefer Gabriel of Oracle
March 16, 2022 06:20 - 20 minutes - 21.4 MBToday is the third episode of this five-part series being published every day this week on achieving ROI with early AI projects. We’ve heard from the Head of the AI Center of Excellence at Intel and the Head of Insure AI at Munich Re, and today, we speak with the VP of Engineering for Oracle’s Digital Assistant, Raefer Gabriel. Raefer was a previous guest on the show, and he’s also worked on Amazon, including their Alexa platform, and had a startup before then. In this episode, we speak from...
[Achieving AI ROI] Quantifying AI Risk - with Head of AI Insurance at Munich Re, Michael Berger
March 15, 2022 06:00 - 20 minutes - 21 MBThis is the second episode of our five-part series on achieving ROI, with early AI projects taking place this week. This series brings together great perspectives from various leaders around advice that can help us bypass typical mishaps to achieve AI ROI. Today’s guest is Michael Berger, Head of Insure AI at Munich Re. Munich Re is a $60B insurance giant heavily invested in cyber insurance and AI insurance. This episode focuses on risk and, more specifically, what kinds of questions we can ...
[Achieving AI ROI] Best Practices for ROI Measurement - with Intel's AI Centre of Excellence Leader Gopalan Oppiliappan
March 14, 2022 06:00 - 32 minutes - 32.7 MBToday is the start of a five-day series covering achieving ROI from early AI projects. In this series, we interview diverse experts from companies large and small about what it takes to pick AI projects with the highest chance of ROI. Our first guest is Gopalan Oppiliappan, Head of the AI Centre of Excellence at Intel Corporation. In this episode, Gopalan discusses how to structure project selection and AI project management in a purpose-built to find ROI. As we launch this series this week, ...
Improving Drug Development Speed with AI in Life Sciences - with Emmanuel Walckenaer of YSEOP
March 08, 2022 07:00 - 34 minutes - 33.9 MBToday’s guest is Emmanuel Walckenaer, CEO of YSEOP. YSEOP is a natural language generation AI vendor serving life sciences and drug development. In today’s episode, Emmanuel speaks about speeding up the drug development process through the lens of the life sciences industry being in extreme flux and what happens when a new normal is achieved and how companies have to scramble to keep up with it. Emmanuel also talks about the expansion of AI projects and capabilities in the enterprise. Today’...
[AI Success Factors] Detecting COVID's Impact with AI - with Telefonica's Chief AI Strategist Richard Benjamins
March 07, 2022 07:00 - 23 minutes - 23.8 MBIn the third episode of our AI Success Factors series, we’re discussing a public sector application of AI. This Monday series is designed to deliver concise, industry-agnostic insights to start your week with a specific use-case and the most crucial success factor that brought it to life. Today, our guest is Richard Benjamins, Chief AI and Data Strategist at Telefónica. As one of the world’s largest telecommunications companies, Telefónica is a business that makes over $50B in annual revenue ...
Contract Analytics in Action - with Daniele Cordioli of Expert AI
March 01, 2022 07:00 - 32 minutes - 32.2 MBToday’s guest is Daniele Cordioli, Head of Solutions Consulting for EMEA at Expert.ai. In this episode, Daniele discusses what contract analytics means and the concrete use-cases we can get from it. There are two big transferable lessons that Daniele highlights in this interview. The first lesson is determining the low-hanging fruit cases where AI can save money and reduce risk when dealing with your volume of contracts. Second, the proper method to establish where the business value lies in...
[AI Success Factors] Crawl, Walk, Run! - with Beena Ammanath of Deloitte
February 28, 2022 07:00 - 14 minutes - 15.8 MBThis is our second episode of our new Monday series highlighting AI Success Factors. Our guest is Beena Ammanath, the current Executive Director of the Global Deloitte AI Institute. Beena is also the Founder of Humans for AI, an organization that provides AI education for underrepresented female minorities, and recently wrote a new book called "Trustworthy AI". In this episode, she discusses one of GE’s early AI projects around procurement and how using a crawl, walk, run strategy can lead to...
Open Source AI and its Enterprise Potential - with Carlos Escapa of Facebook
February 22, 2022 07:00 - 18 minutes - 19.6 MBToday’s guest is Carlos Escapa, AI Global Business Development Manager at Meta (formerly Facebook), and in this episode, we explore what business leaders need to know about open source. Carlos clarifies what open source is and what is relevant for enterprise leaders, and the kinds of situations in which open source tools might be more suitable. He also discusses where leveling up and retaining talent crosses over with open source. Be sure to join Emerj Plus at emerj.com/p1 to unlock our enti...
[AI Success Factors] Fight the Right Battles - with Raefer Gabriel of Oracle
February 21, 2022 12:15 - 19 minutes - 20.2 MBToday’s episode is the first of our new Monday series, AI Success Factors. This series will feature a short episode every Monday for the next four months geared towards starting your week with a look at what it takes for AI to succeed across industries and sectors. Our first guest of this series is Raefer Gabriel, VP of Engineering for Oracle’s Digital Assistant. Raefer previously worked as Head of Engineering for Conversational AI at Amazon. In this episode, he explores a book recommendation...
The Path Towards Next-Level AI in Business - with Peter Tu of GE Global Research
February 15, 2022 07:00 - 31 minutes - 31.8 MBThis week’s guest is Peter Tu, Chief Scientist for Artificial Intelligence at GE Global Research. Peter joins us to discuss the transition from the previous era of AI into the current “third wave” of AI in a way that will make sense for business people. He also shares insight on what it’ll take for AI to make the leap to contextual adaptation and what this might mean for business leaders in terms of how it could affect their current processes. If you’re interested in discovering AI trends an...
Stages of Enterprise AI Maturity, from a Practitioner's Perspective - with Rajkumar Bondugula of Verizon
February 08, 2022 07:00 - 29 minutes - 29.2 MBThis week’s guest is Rajkumar Bondugula, Fellow and Luminary Scientist at Verizon. Rajkumar holds a Ph.D. in Machine Learning and was previously the Principal Data Scientist at Equifax. In this episode, Rajkumar clarifies some of the critical differences between business intelligence, analytics, and data science. He also discusses how these concepts build upon one another and help businesses level up their services. If you’re interested in more insights on building AI maturity, building prop...
Current Trends of AI in Healthcare - with Stacey Shulman of Intel
February 01, 2022 07:00 - 23 minutes - 24 MBOur guest this week is Stacey Shulman, Vice President Internet of Things Group / GM Health, Life Sciences and Emerging Technologies at Intel Corporation. In this episode, Stacey discusses where she sees AI make its way into healthcare now, how Covid has affected how adoption has been prioritized, and its consequences in the future. Stacey’s insights about how healthcare is evolving are correlated to how other enterprises are also adjusting their strategies or potentially should be in the set...
AI for Inventory Prediction in Manufacturing - with Anand Mahurkar of Findability Sciences
January 27, 2022 07:00 - 35 minutes - 35.3 MBToday’s guest is Anand Mahurkar, Founder and CEO of Findability Sciences. With about 100 employees worldwide, Findability operates in a variety of industries, including manufacturing. In this episode, Anand provides an in-depth overview of the workflows that are impacted in predicting inventory and resource use in manufacturing. He also discusses what it looks like to determine the data sources you’re going to use and influence the workflows you will use to make more informed forecasting dec...
The Future of Anti-Money Launder and Fraud Detection in Banking - with Bob Gaines of SambaNova
January 25, 2022 07:00 - 29 minutes - 29.8 MBToday’s guest is Bob Gaines, Managing Director of Business Development at SambaNova Systems, a firm based in the Bay Area that has raised $1B to date. Bob has worked in financial services and technology with companies like IBM, Cray Supercomputing, Deephaven Data Labs. In this episode, he brings his perspective on how this technology has evolved regarding AI’s impact in finance and where it’s going. He also discusses how AI is being used not just to look at the individual entities exchanging...
The Future of Anti-Money Laundering and Fraud Detection in Banking - with Bob Gaines of SambaNova
January 25, 2022 07:00 - 29 minutes - 29.8 MBToday’s guest is Bob Gaines, Managing Director of Business Development at SambaNova Systems, a firm based in the Bay Area that has raised $1B to date. Bob has worked in financial services and technology with companies like IBM, Cray Supercomputing, Deephaven Data Labs. In this episode, he brings his perspective on how this technology has evolved regarding AI’s impact in finance and where it’s going. He also discusses how AI is being used not just to look at the individual entities exchanging...
The Practical Business Case for AI Governance - with IBM's Chief AI Officer Seth Dobrin
January 18, 2022 07:53 - 24 minutes - 24.9 MBOur guest this week is Dr. Seth Dobrin, the Global Chief AI Officer at IBM, one of the biggest names in artificial intelligence. In this episode, Seth returns to the podcast to speak about AI governance in terms of enabling innovation and driving better results for enterprises. He also discusses the right way to structure and think about AI governance to allow for efficiency and higher quality products. This episode is sponsored by IBM. If you’re interested in reaching Emerj’s business audie...
How AI Can Improve Manufacturing Productivity - with Remi Duquette of MayaHTT
January 13, 2022 07:00 - 28 minutes - 28.6 MBToday’s guest is Remi Duquette, Vice President of Innovation and Industrial AI at Maya HTT. Maya HTT is an engineering and industrial AI services firm that Remi’s been with for twenty years. Remi draws on his hands-on experience to discuss the challenges and opportunities of improving productivity with AI in manufacturing. Today’s episode focuses on the question of where artificial intelligence can be implemented into existing workflows to improve output. This episode is sponsored by Maya HT...
AI Transformation in Agriculture, Use-Cases and Trends - with Gregory Diamos of Landing AI
January 11, 2022 07:00 - 17 minutes - 18.9 MBThis week’s guest is Gregory Diamos, Machine Learning Systems Engineering at Landing AI. Run by one of the most prominent names in the business AI world, Andrew Ng, Landing AI has raised over $50M to date. Before Andrew founded Landing AI, he and Gregory worked together in the Baidu Silicon Valley Research Lab. In today’s episode, Gregory discusses a broad set of AI use-cases in agriculture that he thinks are going to make the most significant impact in the years ahead. If you’re interested ...
Overcoming Hurdles to Making Conversational Interfaces Work - with Joe Bradley of LivePerson
January 04, 2022 07:00 - 33 minutes - 32.9 MBToday’s guest is Joe Bradley, Chief Scientist, SVP Data Science & ML at LivePerson. Joe was previously the Senior Director for Data and Personalization Science at Nike before joining the team at LivePerson. In this episode, Joe breaks down how LivePerson approaches the conversational interface dynamic with their customers. Joe also discusses some of the challenges in getting to a genuinely conversational level and what’s possible today. If you’re interested in more NLP use-cases or want to l...
AI Recommendations for Employee Education and Training - with Bhaskar Deka of EdCast
December 28, 2021 07:00 - 30 minutes - 30.4 MBToday’s guest is Bhaskar Deka, Global Head of Product Management and AI at EdCast. Based in the Bay Area, EdCast has raised over $100M and has more than 400 employees to date. This episode focuses on onboarding new employees and what it looks like to upscale, train, and get new team members up to speed with machine learning to help make our teams more effective. Bhaskar also discusses his genuine take on the issues and concerns surrounding AI ethics and governance. If you’re interested in un...
AI and IoT Applications in the Present and Future - with Joseph Berti of IBM
December 21, 2021 07:00 - 23 minutes - 24.4 MBOur guest this week is Joseph Berti, VP of AI Applications at IBM. In this episode, Joseph discusses the current capabilities of AI and IoT, highlighting specific use-cases where he’s seen value delivered in the industry. He also talks about where this technology combination takes us and what leaders should be aware of future trends. If you’re interested in gaining support, competitive intelligence, or a deeper understanding of the vendor ecosystem with a current AI initiative, visit emerj.c...
Leveling Up from Business Intelligence with Forecasting - to Ramprakash Ramamoorthy of Zoho
December 14, 2021 07:00 - 23 minutes - 24 MBOur guest this week is Ramprakash Ramamoorthy, Director of AI Research at Zoho Corporation. Based near the Bay Area, Zoho is a firm with over $600M in annual revenue that offers various software products, including CRM, business intelligence solutions, and other products included in their proprietary suite. In this episode, Ramprakash walks through the team-building process and how to locate business areas where AI can add value. He discusses considerations such as the kind of talent, collab...