Me, Myself, and AI
77 episodes - English - Latest episode: 11 days ago - ★★★★★ - 89 ratingsWhy do only 10% of companies succeed with AI? In this series by MIT SMR and BCG, we talk to the leaders who've achieved big wins with AI in their companies and learn how they did it. Hear what gets experts from companies like NASA, Shopify, and others excited to do their jobs every day and what they consider the keys to their success.
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Fashioning the Perfect Fit With AI: Stitch Fix’s Jeff Cooper
April 16, 2024 07:00 - 37 minutesJeff Cooper parlayed his interest in neuroscience and human behavior into a career in data science and today works as a senior data science director for online retail subscription service Stitch Fix. Jeff joins Me, Myself, and AI to share how the company pairs human employees with intelligent technologies to keep up with customer preferences while realizing operational efficiencies. He also talks about how the company sustains extremely high feedback rates from consumers and how humans are tr...
Solving Real User Problems With Generative AI: Slack’s Jackie Rocca
April 02, 2024 07:00 - 33 minutesLike many product leaders in the technology space, Jackie Rocca took a somewhat circuitous path to that role. After beginning her career in management consulting with Bain, she earned her MBA at Stanford and then worked at Google, where she helped launch YouTube TV. Now, she serves as vice president of product at Slack, where she focuses on the collaboration platform’s Slack AI product. As a product leader, Jackie had continually heard from users that they were experiencing a common challenge...
Driving Manufacturing Efficiency With AI: Pirelli’s Daniele Petecchi
March 19, 2024 07:00 - 25 minutesDaniele Petecchi didn’t realize how complex the process of producing tires was until he joined Pirelli, a company that’s been in the business of manufacturing tires for more than 150 years. But now, as head of data management and AI, he’s focused on leveraging the company’s wealth of data to meet the stringent technical, quality, and performance requirements of the Formula One racers and luxury vehicle makers — like Ferrari, Lamborghini, and BMW — that rely on Pirelli’s premium tires. In this...
Bonus Episode: How Can Organizations Better Measure and Manage Artificial Intelligence?
March 12, 2024 06:00 - 21 minutesOn this bonus episode, we head to the World Bank offices in Washington, D.C., where hosts Sam and Shervin joined organizers Jonathan Timmis and Timothy DeStefano from the World Bank and Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business for the day-long conference, “How is Artificial Intelligence Transforming Firms?” in December 2023. In our final of three bonus episodes derived from this event, we explore how AI has shifted policy discussions, and what new types of management are needed. T...
Bonus Episode: Artificial Intelligence Podcasts With Jennifer Strong
February 27, 2024 07:00 - 28 minutesWhile Me, Myself, and AI is on winter break, we hope you enjoy this episode. Jennifer Strong, longtime journalist and creator of the SHIFT podcast, joins Sam and Shervin to talk about their favorite Me, Myself, and AI episode Find the additional podcasts mentioned in the episode below: SHIFT podcast In Machines We Trust WSJ’s The Future of Everything Guest Bio: Jennifer Strong is an audio journalist covering the impact of AI on the way we live and work. She’s the creator of several tech podc...
Bonus Episode: How Is Artificial Intelligence Transforming Manufacturing?
February 20, 2024 08:00 - 29 minutesOn this bonus episode, we head to the World Bank offices in Washington, D.C., where hosts Sam and Shervin joined organizers Jonathan Timmis and Timothy DeStefano from the World Bank and Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business for the day-long conference, “How is Artificial Intelligence Transforming Firms?” in December 2023. In our second of three bonus episodes derived from this event, we explore how AI is used in manufacturing. Sam hosts this panel featuring Shervin alongside Ne...
Bonus Episode: Generative AI Trends for 2024 With Tom Davenport
February 06, 2024 08:00 - 29 minutesWhile Me, Myself, and AI is on winter break, we hope you enjoy this episode. Tom Davenport, President’s Distinguished Professor of Information Technology and Management at Babson College, joins Sam and Shervin to talk about their predictions for AI trends in 2024. Find the additional studies and resources mentioned in the episode below: Tom Davenport’s articles with MIT SMR 2024 CDO Insights: Data & Generative AI(form required for download via AWS) Why Companies That Wait to Adopt AI May Nev...
Bonus Episode: How Is Artificial Intelligence Transforming Retail Organizations?
January 30, 2024 08:00 - 25 minutes*New! for a limited time, please take our short listener survey. We value your feedback!* On this bonus episode, we head to the World Bank offices in Washington, D.C., where hosts Sam and Shervin joined organizers Jonathan Timmis and Timothy DeStefano from the World Bank and Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business for the day-long conference, “How is Artificial Intelligence Transforming Firms?” in December 2023. In our first of three bonus episodes derived from this event, we exp...
Punk Rock, the Peace Movement, and Open-Source AI: The Mozilla Foundation’s Mark Surman
January 17, 2024 08:00 - 34 minutes*New! For a limited time, please take our short listener survey. We value your feedback!* When Mark Surman produced a pro-peace public service announcement for his local TV station as a self-proclaimed “punk rock kid” in the 1980s, he wasn’t thinking about a future career evangelizing fair, equitable, and trustworthy technology access for everyone. But today, as president of the Mozilla Foundation, he is focused on exactly that. Mark went on to study filmmaking and has parlayed his communica...
Making Magic With Gen AI: Capital One’s Prem Natarajan
January 03, 2024 08:00 - 28 minutesGrowing up in a multilingual community, Prem Natarajan became interested in language at a young age. Eventually that interest, aptitude, and curiosity translated into an interest in machine learning and technical development, and today Prem works as the chief scientist and head of enterprise AI at financial services company Capital One. Prem joins this episode to share how Capital One’s technology teams are delivering value to customers by applying artificial intelligence in areas like fraud ...
AI on Mars: NASA’s Vandi Verma
December 19, 2023 08:00 - 26 minutesWhen Vandi Verma saw the Spirit and Opportunity rovers land on Mars while she was working toward a Ph.D. in robotics, it set her on a path toward working at NASA in space exploration., Perhaps unsurprisingly, today, as chief engineer for robotic operations at Nasa’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), Vandi sees the biggest opportunities for artificial intelligence in robotics and automation. She describes the ways in which the Mars rovers rely on AI, including the technology’s use in digital tw...
Operational Safety With AI: Chevron's Ellen Nielsen
December 05, 2023 08:00 - 35 minutesEllen Nielsen, Chevron’s first chief data officer, sees data as the common thread throughout a career that has spanned systems, digital data, procurement, and supply chain. In her current role, she applies what she’s learned to Chevron’s wide-ranging AI and machine learning initiatives, including the use of robots and computer vision to inspect tanks, digital twins to simulate operations, and sensors to monitor equipment in refineries. On this episode, Ellen shares examples of the integrated ...
Micro Utility With Gen AI: Shopify's Miqdad Jaffer
November 21, 2023 08:00 - 35 minutesMiqdad Jaffer brings a background in engineering to his role as director of product for digital marketplace platform Shopify. Users might recognize the commerce platform as one that enables a fast and secure online checkout experience. On the merchant side, Shopify enables business owners to set up e-commerce sites where they can list and sell their products. Using generative AI, the platform also now offers merchants the ability to complete administrative tasks much more quickly, including ...
Marketing With Generative AI: Harvard Business School’s Ayelet Israeli
November 07, 2023 08:00 - 34 minutesAs an associate professor at Harvard Business School and cofounder of the Customer Intelligence Lab at the school’s Digital Data Design Institute, Ayelet Israeli’s work is focused on how data and technology can inform marketing strategy, as well as how generative AI can be a useful tool in eliminating algorithmic bias. One of the products of her recent work is a paper she coauthored with two Microsoft economists and researchers on how generative AI could be used to simulate focus groups and s...
Entrepreneurial AI in the Enterprise: LG Nova's Shilpa Prasad
October 24, 2023 07:00 - 26 minutesA former startup employee herself, Shilpa Prasad knows the level of commitment and effort required to begin a new venture. That’s what led her to join LG Nova, electronics manufacturer LG’s innovation incubator, as an entrepreneur in residence. In her role, Shilpa identifies promising startups — particularly those working with AI — and coaches and nurtures entrepreneurs while keeping a close eye on the products that might one day find their way into LG’s ecosystem. On this episode, Shilpa exp...
Fueling Interdisciplinary Innovation With AI: Volvo’s Anders Sjögren
October 10, 2023 07:00 - 22 minutesStarting a career with the ambition of becoming a medical doctor and ending up a technical leader for a major automaker might seem an unlikely path, but for Anders Sjögren, who leads data and AI innovation projects for Volvo Cars, it was a perfect trajectory. On this episode, Anders joins Sam and Shervin to explain the ways the carmaker uses data and artificial intelligence to inform manufacturing — ensuring that parts are made consistently and as efficiently as possible — as well as driver ...
Protecting Society From AI Harms: Amnesty International’s Matt Mahmoudi and Damini Satija (Part Two)
September 13, 2023 07:00 - 22 minutesAt Amnesty Tech, a division of human rights organization Amnesty International, Damini Satija and Matt Mahmoudi leverage their expertise in technology and public policy to examine the use of AI in the public sector and its impact on citizens worldwide. In Part 1 of Matt and Damini’s conversation with Sam and Shervin, they described scenarios in which AI tools can put human rights at risk and how their work is helping to expose those risks and protect people from the technology’s misuse. In th...
Protecting Society From AI Harms: Amnesty International’s Matt Mahmoudi and Damini Satija (Part One)
August 29, 2023 07:00 - 28 minutesAmnesty International brings together more than 10 million staff members and volunteers worldwide to advocate for social justice. Damini Satija and Matt Mahmoudi work with Amnesty Tech, a division of the human rights organization that focuses on the role of government, Big Tech, and technologies like artificial intelligence in areas like surveillance, discrimination, and bias. On this episode, Matt and Damini join Sam and Shervin to highlight scenarios in which AI tools can put human rights a...
Images and Inspiration With AI: Pinterest’s Jeremy King
August 15, 2023 07:00 - 20 minutesJeremy King leads a team of 1,400 passionate engineers working on the continuous improvement of Pinterest’s image-driven platform. With a background that includes heading up a translation team at eBay and overseeing the technology behind Walmart’s U.S. retail stores and e-commerce business, Jeremy is now responsible for technology operations at Pinterest. To support the company’s mission to inspire people to “create a life that they love,” he and his team rely on advanced AI, machine learning...
Learning From and With AI: Duolingo’s Zan Gilani
August 01, 2023 07:00 - 27 minutesWhen Zan Gilani came to the U.S. from Pakistan to complete his undergraduate studies, he chose to study Chinese because it was rumored to be a difficult language. At the time, the tech industry was booming, and he quickly became interested in applying his passion for foreign languages and learning more generally in a technology-rich environment. Those interests led Zan to Duolingo, where he has been working in product management for eight years and now oversees the app company’s experiential ...
Detecting the Good and the Bad With AI: Airbnb’s Naba Banerjee
July 18, 2023 07:01 - 34 minutesNaba Banerjee’s identity as a “forever learner” led to her become the first female engineer in her family. That curiosity has informed her career choices as well, leading her to companies as varied as Tata, Cognizent, Walmart, and AAA. Now, as director of trust product and operations at vacation rental platform Airbnb, she is continuing let her curiosity be her guide as she applies her previous data science experience to the travel industry. On this episode, Naba joins Shervin and Sam to talk...
Regulating AI Innovation: Aboitiz Data Innovation’s David Hardoon
July 05, 2023 07:00 - 25 minutesAs CEO of Aboitiz Data Innovation, David Hardoon oversees the operations of a technology conglomerate focused on using data science and AI to support its businesses in a range of sectors, including banking, financial services, utilities, agriculture, and construction in Singapore and the Philippines. In his role, David is leading some unexpected — but practical — uses of artificial intelligence, including using voice and image recognition to detect stress in livestock, and analyzing internet-...
The Social Science of AI: Intel’s Elizabeth Anne Watkins
June 20, 2023 07:00 - 33 minutesWhen Elizabeth Anne Watkins started her doctoral program, she landed a research role studying journalists’ use of security and privacy technologies — but she found the security tools confusing and difficult to use. Today, as a research scientist in the social science of AI at Intel Labs, she advocates for other end users faced with understanding and working with new technologies. Elizabeth employs social science to understand the concerns of technicians performing complex chip manufacturing p...
Making Investments in AI: Samsung’s Hina Dixit
June 06, 2023 07:00 - 24 minutesHina Dixit’s interest in supporting people and solving problems has its roots in her family’s call office business, where she helped people place telephone calls when she was growing up in India. Later, after earning her bachelor’s degree in computer science, she was quickly recruited into the tech space, where her problem-solving and customer service skills have served her well as both a software engineer and tech investor. From a developer role at Symantec, to project leader at Apple, to an...
Continuous Learning With AI: Aflac’s Shelia Anderson
May 23, 2023 07:00 - 22 minutesShelia Anderson parlayed a love of learning into studying the emerging field of engineering when she began her undergraduate education. After gaining experience leading IT teams in the technology, airline, and insurance industries, she joined Aflac in the summer of 2022. Shelia joins Sam and Shervin to share how using artificial intelligence and machine learning to automate the processing of somewhat routine insurance claims frees up staff members to spend more time serving customers and proc...
Trust and Fraud Detection at Scale: Instagram’s Stephanie Moyerman
May 09, 2023 07:00 - 28 minutesStephanie Moyerman’s background in cosmology and astrophysics — where she worked with large data sets, looking for a signal among what was mostly noise — prepared her well for a career in data science and ethics. Today, she is the data science director of well-being at Instagram, where she works to enhance trust, safety, and integrity for users of the social media platform. Stephanie joins Sam and Shervin on this episode to discuss how applying artificial intelligence to social media enables ...
Partnerships in AI Drive Conservation Efforts: WWF’s Dave Thau
April 25, 2023 07:00 - 26 minutesWildlife conservation efforts may not be the first thing that comes to mind when one thinks about opportunities to use artificial intelligence and machine learning. But Dave Thau, data and technology lead scientist at the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), can share myriad examples of how these technologies are helping our planet. On this episode, Dave joins Sam and Shervin to discuss WWF’s many uses of AI and machine learning. Among them are applications that predict deforestation, analyze images fr...
Making 600 Billion Decisions With AI: Expedia Group’s Rathi Murthy
April 11, 2023 07:00 - 33 minutesRathi Murthy has always been passionate about technology roles that allow her to drive business transformation and improve customer experience. In her current role as CTO and president of Product & Technology for Expedia Group, she’s able to do both. One of her key goals is to enhance and unify the end-user experience across Expedia’s many brands, among them Hotels.com, Vrbo, and Travelocity. Another transformation goal: helping to modernize the entire travel industry by making Expedia’s AI t...
A One-Stop Data Shop: The Lego Group’s Anders Butzbach Christensen
March 28, 2023 07:00 - 24 minutesAnders Butzbach Christensen began his career in product management before landing his dream job working for the Lego Group in Denmark. Today, as head of data engineering, he’s leading Lego’s digital transformation with a specific focus on designing and building data products, including self-service applications that technology and business teams can all use to better serve their customers. In this episode, Anders joins Sam and Shervin to describe how the Lego Group is approaching digital tran...
A Third Path to Talent Development: Delta’s Michelle McCrackin
March 14, 2023 07:00 - 28 minutesMichelle McCrackin, senior manager of analytics learning and development at Delta Air Lines, never imagined that she’d be an analytics leader when she first joined the airline as an HR business partner. But, faced with the challenge of hiring outside analytics talent, she proposed a solution that would change her career path along with the paths of other Delta employees: an internal analytics training program. Delta Analytics Academy (DAA) enables front-line employees to gain in-demand tech s...
Out of the Lab and Into a Product: Microsoft’s Eric Boyd
February 28, 2023 08:00 - 29 minutesAs a partner with OpenAI — the company that recently wowed the tech world and the general public with its DALL-E image generator and ChatGPT chatbot — Microsoft helped to make those generative AI tools possible. But Microsoft has long invested in developing its own artificial intelligence technologies, for internal and external customers alike. And even when AI is not the centerpiece of a specific software program, it’s often driving how that tool — such as the company’s Bing search engine — ...
Helping Doctors Make Better Decisions With Data: UC Berkeley's Ziad Obermeyer
February 14, 2023 08:00 - 33 minutesWhen Ziad Obermeyer was a resident in an emergency medicine program, he found himself lying awake at night worrying about the complex elements of patient diagnoses that physicians could miss. He subsequently found his way to data science and research and has since coauthored numerous papers on algorithmic bias and the use of AI and machine learning in predictive analytics in health care. Ziad joins Sam and Shervin to talk about his career trajectory and highlight some of the potentially brea...
Bonus Episode: How Encouraging AI Use Will Benefit Your Organization
January 10, 2023 08:00 - 22 minutesWhile Me, Myself, and AI is on winter break, we hope you enjoy this bonus episode excerpted from an MIT Sloan Management Review-BCG webinar based on our 2022 research report, "Achieving Individual — and Organizational — Value With AI." Cohost Sam Ransbotham is joined by BCG Henderson Institute's global director François Candelon for a discussion of our global survey findings. Download a PDF copy of the slide deck from this webinar here. Follow along with our speakers: 1:31-1:53 — Page 4 1:54-...
Bonus Episode: Learn to Make the Most of Your Relationship With AI
December 06, 2022 09:00 - 25 minutesWhile Me, Myself, and AI is on winter break, we hope you enjoy this bonus episode excerpted from an MIT Sloan Management Review-BCG webinar based on our 2020 research report, "Expanding AI's Impact With Organizational Learning." Download a PDF copy of the slide deck from this webinar here. Follow along with our speakers: 1:15-1:35 — Page 3 1:38-1:52 — Page 4 1:53-3:13 — Page 7 3:14-3:38 — Page 8 3:39-4:13 — Page 9 4:14-4:50 — Page 10 4:51-6:10 — Page 11 6:11-6:27 — Page 12 6:28-11:31 — Page ...
Digital First, Physical Second: Wayfair’s Fiona Tan
November 08, 2022 11:00 - 23 minutesWith a background in building enterprise platforms for organizations, including Oracle and Walmart, Wayfair CTO Fiona Tan oversees all of the technology initiatives for the Boston-based e-commerce company. As the home furnishings retailer begins to open brick-and-mortar stores, it’s taking lessons learned from the digital space to inform how it markets its home products to customers in physical locations. On this episode, Fiona joins Sam and Shervin to discuss how artificial intelligence fuel...
Investing in the Last Mile: PayPal’s Khatereh Khodavirdi
October 25, 2022 10:00 - 29 minutesKhatereh (KK) Khodavirdi is focused on using AI to create better customer experiences — a process she compares to creating an “AI Legoland,” in which various technology components fit together to build cohesive solutions for PayPal’s customers. This is an approach she is applying in her role as senior director of data science in the online payment systems company’s consumer products division, where she oversees data science teams for PayPal, its peer-to-peer payment app Venmo, and e-commerce ...
Keeping Humans in the (Feedback) Loop: Orangetheory Fitness’s Ameen Kazerouni
October 11, 2022 10:00 - 24 minutesAmeen Kazerouni, chief data and analytics officer at Orangetheory Fitness (OTF), believes that AI’s role isn’t to replace human experts but rather to help them make better decisions. That’s why OTF collects heart rate and telemetry data during its in-studio fitness classes: so that AI algorithms can turn that data into feedback that empowers people to make real-time choices about their workouts and enables coaches to offer personalized recommendations. On this episode, Ameen joins Sam and She...
The Three Roles of the Chief Data Officer: ADP’s Jack Berkowitz
September 27, 2022 10:00 - 24 minutesAs chief data officer of payroll and benefits management company ADP, Jack Berkowitz has three primary responsibilities. One is to oversee the organization’s data overall, ensuring that functions like data governance, security, and analytics, are running well. Another is to build ADP’s data products, such as people analytics and benchmark tools. But the responsibility that’s of most interest to our hosts is Jack’s oversight of the organization’s use of artificial intelligence. In this episode...
From Data to Wisdom: Novo Nordisk’s Tonia Sideri
September 13, 2022 10:00 - 26 minutesTonia Sideri was a data scientist herself before taking on her role as head of Novo Nordisk’s AI and Analytics Center of Excellence. Now she’s putting her experience to use helping the Danish pharmaceutical company in its quest to develop medicines and delivery systems to treat diabetes and other chronic diseases, such as hemophilia, obesity, and growth disorders. In a highly regulated industry where failures are costly, Tonia’s philosophy is to fail fast through what she calls “data-to-wisdo...
Big Data in Agriculture: Land O’Lakes’ Teddy Bekele
August 30, 2022 10:00 - 21 minutesYou might have seen Land O’Lakes’ dairy products on store shelves without giving much thought to how they got there, but that’s something CTO Teddy Bekele thinks about every day. While the farmers and agricultural retailers of Land O’Lakes work to produce the cooperative’s products, starting from the seeds used to grow animal feed, Teddy Bekele is focused on supporting agriculture’s “fourth revolution” — one that’s embracing technologies like artificial intelligence. On this episode of the Me...
Inventing the Beauty of the Future: L’Oréal’s Stéphane Lannuzel
August 16, 2022 10:00 - 19 minutesStéphane Lannuzel has worked in the beauty industry for 15 years and now directs the Beauty Tech program at L’Oréal. His team uses artificial intelligence to improve customer experience in a variety of ways, including helping them try on cosmetics virtually and providing product recommendations. L’Oréal recently developed TrendSpotter, an AI-based social listening tool that tracks macro-influencer posts and other online content and informs the cosmetics, skin care, and hair products company o...
Precision Medicine in Pharma: Sanofi’s Frank Nestle
August 02, 2022 10:00 - 24 minutesFrank Nestle, Sanofi’s global head of research and chief scientific officer, was inspired to enter the health sciences field after reading an Albert Camus novel and realizing his calling was to help others. In his current role, Frank oversees the pharmaceutical company’s transition from primary care to specialty care, which includes developing medicines for immunology, oncology, and rare diseases. In this episode, Frank explains how artificial intelligence enables Sanofi to work toward drug d...
Me, Myself, and AI Season 5 Trailer
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The Beauty of AI: Estée Lauder's Sowmya Gottipati
June 14, 2022 10:00 - 23 minutesIt might seem like cosmetics and perfume are products shoppers need to try out in person before buying, but artificial intelligence is opening up new avenues for reaching and understanding consumers — as well as new ways to manage supply chains. In this episode, we learn how Estée Lauder’s Sowmya Gottipati leveraged her earlier technology leadership experience in telecommunications and broadcast media to deploy brand technology projects for a portfolio of cosmetics, fragrances, and skin and h...
AI in Aerospace: Boeing’s Helen Lee
May 31, 2022 10:00 - 24 minutesAs Boeing China’s regional director of airspace and airport programs, Helen Lee is helping the aerospace giant work toward improving airport and airspace operational efficiency and enhancing flight safety for its aviation customers. In this episode, Helen discusses ongoing research that involves using AI to analyze the wake turbulence of aircraft with computer vision systems, using speech recognition to analyze interactions between pilots and air controllers to minimize the potential for huma...
Transforming Transactions With Technology: eBay’s Nitzan Mekel-Bobrov
May 17, 2022 10:00 - 27 minuteseBay is familiar as an e-commerce site that facilitates transactions between buyers and sellers. But as eBay’s first chief AI officer, Nitzan Mekel-Bobrov is focused on the role artificial intelligence technology can play in enhancing the user experience for everyone who engages with the platform. In this episode, Nitzan shares examples of the AI tools eBay is building, such as a 3D visualization tool for sellers create their own models, and intent detection tools to enhance customer service....
The Collaboration Muscle: LinkedIn’s Ya Xu
May 03, 2022 10:00 - 31 minutesOver the course of her nine-year tenure at LinkedIn, Ya Xu has held technology roles with increasing responsibility. Today, she heads the data function for the online professional networking platform. Ya joins hosts Sam and Shervin in this episode to discuss AI’s essential role in helping LinkedIn create the best “matches” — content creators with content consumers, job seekers with employers, and buyers with sellers — within its three key marketplaces. Ya also describes how the company has fo...
Turning Sound Into Information: Warner Music Group's Kobi Abayomi
April 19, 2022 10:00 - 25 minutesSpecialized teams — particularly technology teams — often face challenges as they strive to work cross-functionally, especially at legacy organizations. For Kobi Abayomi, vice president of data science at Warner Music Group, addressing such challenges starts with hiring strong talent into the technology function. In this episode, Kobi joins Sam and Shervin to explain how the music company is moving its infrastructure into the digital era, how it leverages vast amounts of consumer data to make...
From Journalism to Jeans: Levi Strauss & Co.’s Katia Walsh
April 05, 2022 10:00 - 29 minutesKatia Walsh began her career as a journalist in her native Bulgaria and is now the global chief strategy and AI officer at retailer Levi Strauss & Co. Over the course of her career, she has developed a passion for three things: the power of information, the power of technology, and the power of machine learning. Her enthusiasm for these subjects is evident as she describes how she is ensuring that a well-known legacy clothing brand remains relevant through technological transformation. In thi...
AI in Your Living Room: Peloton’s Sanjay Nichani
March 22, 2022 10:00 - 21 minutesConsumers have invited AI into their lives with voice-activated personal assistants like Siri and Alexa, but how do they feel about computer vision technologies that can provide visual coaching and feedback in their homes? Sanjay Nichani, vice president of artificial intelligence and computer vision at Peloton Interactive, describes one compelling use case in the at-home fitness space. Sanjay joins hosts Sam and Shervin in this episode to discuss how the company best known for its bikes and t...