All Things Data Podcast

Michael Peter is a Principal Architect for Google. With decades of experience building, architecting, strategy, partnerships in software applications for the enterprise, Michael has a very insightful view of harnessing Artificial Intelligence. Michael communicates the need for a real strategy and leaning in to the recent shifts with Generative AI. The opinions are of the speakers themselves, and not representative of their employer.

ATD welcomes Sarah Medrano, Digital Product Leader at Cargill Business Studio. By combining deep agricultural expertise, Cargill utilizes that domain expertise with digital solutions driving innovation around key supply chain challenges. Hear about there initiative ReSKUed, looking to solve key challenges around food waste with data and predictive analytics.

10 Academy identifies the highest potential recent university grads from Africa (no work experience) and gets them into global AI/Web3 jobs in 6 months. 10 Academy has been designed to scale across the continent and get thousands of brilliant people into work each year. 10 Academy has already achieved financially sustainability, with 100% of operating costs paid through income share from trainees. Selection focuses on work ethic, bias to self-learn, communication skills and bias to build community. There are 10 applicants for every spot on the program.

Tom Marlow (CTO of Black Hills IP) and Dr. Manjeet Rege of University of St. Thomas deep dive into patent analytics and the insight generated regarding innovation and momentum of advanced technologies. Discussions around NLP algorithms and processing patent text, Neural Networks, Deep Learning, Patent Policy/Operations & Adapting the Patent System to AI and NLP technologies.

Dr. Bauer heads research and product development in Artificial Intelligence and Deep Learning at BOSS AI, which uses AI to provide context for data. Dr. Bauer was a leader in developing areas for study in Exa-scale computing at DARPA and has worked on several unique problems in the IC that have worked to keep the United States free from those that would harm us. He is the most excited when presented with an impossible problem to solve – No problem is impossible or intractable! Please visit: https://askboss.ai/ to get a glimpse of the transformational work Dr. Bauer and the team at BOSS AI continue to accomplish. The podcast discusses Federated Machine Learning; Trends in AI Space; and Data Methodologies and how they can positively or negatively impact your costs, effectiveness, and efficiency.

Kirk Marple is the CEO and Founder of Unstruk Data, a new company that is Building the industry's leading Unstructured Data Warehouse for automating data preparation via metadata enrichment, integrated compute, and graph-based search. As a customer-focused technology leader, Kirk has extensive expertise in cloud-based microservices, scalable multimedia data ingestion, knowledge graphs (entity extraction/enrichment), machine learning and computer vision integration, and CPU/GPU-based file and data processing workflows. Kirk has over 25 years of experience developing media management pipelines, leading DevOps at venture backed companies and structuring successful exits. He holds multiple patents and industry awards, and has truly established himself as an industry leader.

Sam Dawes is a digital transformation expert with manufacturers across the globe. Adept at delivering complex cross-functional programs that deliver impact, Sam works with consumer brand manufacturers to design and implement transformative digital solutions that drive operational excellence. He helped a consumer products client identify more than $10 million in annual benefits across material savings, labor productivity, IT spend, and overhead reduction. He was recognized by Consulting Magazine as a “Rising Star of the Profession” (35 under 35) in 2016 for Excellence in Client Service. Sam is passionate about helping manufacturers address workforce challenges, especially the need to attract and retain top talent. He has been published several times offering unique insights on this topic.

Doug Laney is a best-selling author and recognized authority on data and analytics strategy. He advises senior IT, business and data leaders on data monetization and valuation, data management and governance, external data strategies, analytics best practices, and establishing data and analytics organizations. Doug's book, Infonomics: How to Monetize, Manage, and Measure Information for Competitive Advantage, was selected by CIO Magazine as the “Must-Read Book of the Year” and a “Top 5 Books for Business Leaders and Tech Innovators.” Now the Data & Analytics Strategy Innovation Fellow with the consulting firm West Monroe, previously Doug was a Distinguished Analyst with Gartner's Chief Data Officer research and advisory team and was a three-time Gartner annual thought leadership award recipient. In addition, he launched and managed the Deloitte Analytics Institute, is a Forbes contributing writer and has been published in the Wall Street Journal and the Financial Times among other journals. Doug has guest-lectured at major business schools around the world and is a visiting professor with the University of Illinois Gies College of Business where he teaches Infonomics and Business Analytics Executive Overview courses, which also are available online via Coursera. He also co-chairs the annual MIT CDO/IQ Symposium, is a visiting professor at Carnegie Mellon University's Heinz College, is a member of the World Economic Forum's data exchange initiative, and sits on various technology company advisory boards. Follow and connect with Doug via Twitter @Doug_Laney and LinkedIn. #infonomics

Asher is currently working at Target Corp. as Senior Director of Technology, where he leads high performing Software Engineering & Big Data Platforms and Product Engineering teams. Prior to Target, Asher held leadership roles at UnitedHealth Group, Blue Cross Blue Shield and Thomson Reuters where he led teams in both Data and Software Engineering.

Greg has been a technology entrepreneur since 1998. Before Greg founded CryptoStopper, he started Axis Backup, a backup and disaster recovery company for the insurance industry. He saw firsthand the rapid increase in the damage cyber criminals were doing with debilitating malware resulting in high financial loss to vulnerable companies. Between 2012 and 2015, one in five of Axis Backup’s clients was hit by cybercrime. Greg realized effective cyber security could save businesses from costly downtime and compromised systems. In 2015, Axis Backup was acquired by J2 Global, freeing Greg to create CryptoStopper and focus exclusively on cybersecurity.

Michael Peachey is the Vice President of User Experience at RingCentral. RingCentral is a global provider of cloud enterprise unified communications and collaboration solutions. Their revenue in 2019 was upwards of $902,800,000 million with a global team of more than 6,000 employees. In his past, Michael ran an Internet design boutique in San Francisco, build web properties for Hearst Publishing, re-engineered travel systems, and led direct marketing campaigns for American Express. Michael loves talking on all topics ranging from UX strategy to cross-functional team building and UX development. Michael serves on the Board of Directors for the jQuery Foundation, a leading open-source initiative supporting those who support an open and accessible internet.

Doug Miller and Brightworks Group is leading the charge for transparent MSP and cloud offerings that is predictable and allows customers to work on their core business. It is time to rethink IT and start thinking about the digital transformation of your entire IT infrastructure. That’s why Brightworks presents CompleteCloud. CompleteCloud turns your IT into a utility and provides a complete IT infrastructure, from the data center to each and every employee’s desk. CompleteCloud delivers one three key aspects of digital transformation: Providing the highest level of protection and security for your data, Enabling employee productivity, and Bringing predictability to your IT

Tim is the CTO of Microshare.io, an enterprise scale IoT integration for real-time infection control, predictive cleaning, occupancy and asset zoning, smart buildings (without sacrificing privacy). COVID-19 has made "nice to have" health metrics into matters of life and death. Tim speaks about Microshare's Universal Contact Tracing solution. He also speaks about the nucleus of his solution, a governance layer that secures yet enables massive blocks and Enterprise information.

Dr. KP Thai & Dr. Liz Owen have a passion for education, learning, online assessment and gamification. Listen to an extremely relevant conversation under home schooling and distance learning and the changing nature of education.

Dr. Dan Bindman, Chief Data Scientist at Yixue Education. Dan discusses the world of online assessments and testing utilizing A.I. and the changing nature of learning, education, assessments. A fascinating conversation of the differences in global education, testing, A.I., engagement.

Andrew Katon is the Founder and CEO of Cobbler Technologies, an advanced additive manufacturing (3D-printing) technology company. With a focus on manufacturing process and a system uniquely able to handle advanced and complicated materials Andrew has made a place for Cobbler in the industry. Recent highlights have included collaborations with multi-national household brands and graduation from the globally ranked hardware startup accelerator, AlphaLab Gear.

Souleymane is an entrepreneur working in data science in both the private and public sector on AIDS tracking, clinic setup as well as some interesting legal automation and IoT initiatives. Hear the amazing story of student to winning a grant and setting up a thriving business.

Michael Gale, WSJ, Forbes and Amazon bestseller of "The Digital Helix: Transforming Your Organization's DNA to Thrive in the Digital Age" is one of the foremost authors and thought leaders on Digital Transformation. He founded Strategic Oxygen in 2001, widely seen as one of the technology industry's primary data toolsets for marketers, used by over 20 brands and used to model over $4 billion in marketing and sales investments. The company was sold to to Monitor Group...he now with Inc.Digital and hosts Forbes Futures in Focus podcast.

Jote brings over 20-Years of proven experience in Enterprise Architecture, Data Analytics and Information Management strategy development and execution in large enterprises. As an IT Strategist, Jote has extensive experience advising Business and IT executive leaders on data & analytics driven digital transformation strategies. As Non-Profit board leader and a social entrepreneur, Jote has worked on innovative initiatives that are brining vital educational and healthcare services for communities across Africa.

Igor Jablokov, CEO of Pryon - Igor is the CEO and Founder of Pryon. Named an “Industry Luminary” by Speech Technology Magazine, he previously founded industry pioneer Yap, the world’s first high-accuracy, fully-automated cloud platform for voice recognition. After its products were deployed by dozens of enterprises, the company became Amazon’s first AI-related acquisition. Pryon is an AI company that delivers augmented intelligence for the enterprise.

Raef Lawson, Ph.D., CMA, CSCA, CPA, CFA, CAE, is professor-in-residence and vice president of research and policy at IMA. He discusses his research on The Impact of Big Data in Finance Now and in the Future.

Ann McCrackin is the President and Chief Business Development Officer for Black Hills IP as well as a patent prosecution process expert and a highly accomplished patent attorney with extensive experience in both U.S. and international patent prosecution. Ann discusses the data services around docketing automation, both domestically and globally, interoperability with existing systems to have more higher efficiency to assist with IP paralegal professionals. Before becoming President of Black Hills IP Ann was a Professor of Law and the Director of the nationally recognized Patent Prosecution and Procedure Program at Franklin Pierce Law Center (now the University of New Hampshire School of Law). At Franklin Pierce, Ann directed the program and taught courses in advanced aspects of practice before the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). Ann has also taught dozens of continuing legal education courses and seminars on various aspects of patent process and prosecution and has edited and authored a number of legal texts on patent law. Ann is also attorney of record for several Amicus Briefs filed in patent cases before the U.S. Supreme Court and the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. Ann was a Shareholder at the Minneapolis patent firm Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A. for eight years. Ann has an undergraduate degree from Iowa State University and a law degree from Franklin Pierce Law Center.

As a guest on All Things Data, Paul Roehrig, Head of Strategy for Cognizant Digital Business, can reveal how companies can develop a strategy for refining, filtering and making use of this data for profitable purposes. Specifically, they must: Treat data recovery as part of the discovery process; companies must decide: what to gather, how to gather, who will use it, who will analyze it Determine what data is required to deliver the service and what is a surplus; they must codify this beforehand, not collect all the data and then figure it out Determine what they need to do with the data; if they don’t govern it – and monetize it – somebody else will

The blend man and machine is the theme of Rishad's book "Restoring the soul of business in the age of data". Humanity should guide the questions of what matters, storytelling and finding meaning in an increasingly digital society and workplace.

Scott Branum of Evoqua discusses massive change in water technologies and services with Dan and Manjeet. Great insights on how IoT, Data Science and practical workflows are enabling new services in this market.

Dr. Milena Higgins, COO & Director of AI & Thomas Marlow, CTO of Black Hills IP discuss legal technology, automation, Machine Learning and advanced analytics. Black Hills IP focuses on machine-guided or machine-assisted AI in docketing, a paralegal documentation and filing process. Their process and approach has lead to incredible efficiency gains and accuracy that all patent persecution attorneys and firms face to streamline their processes. In addition, their renewals analytics business focuses on millions of data points for the most comprehensive view of patent matters. www.blackhillsip.com

Dr. Milena Higgins, COO & Director of AI & Thomas Marlow, CTO of Black Hills IP discuss legal technology, automation, Machine Learning and advanced analytics. Black Hills IP focuses on machine-guided or machine-assisted AI in docketing, a paralegal documentation and filing process. Their process and approach has lead to incredible efficiency gains and accuracy that all patent persecution attorneys and firms face to streamline their processes. In addition, their renewals analytics business focuses on millions of data points for the most comprehensive view of patent matters.

The podcast centers around real IoT and Data Science considerations to enable the Internet of Things and intelligent operations. With its cutting-edge technologies, digital expertise and industry knowledge, Atos supports the digital transformation of its clients across various business sectors: Defense, Financial Services, Health, Manufacturing, Media, Energy & Utilities, Public sector, Retail, Telecommunications and Transportation. Atos is a leader in digital services with pro forma annual revenue of circa € 13 billion and circa 100,000 employees in 73 countries. Serving a global client base, the Group provides Business & Platform Solutions, Infrastructure & Data Management, Cloud operations, Big Data & Cyber-security solutions. Atos is a global leader in digital transformation with approximately 100,000 employees in 73 countries and annual revenue of around € 13 billion. European number one in Big Data, Cybersecurity, High Performance Computing and Digital Workplace, the Group provides Cloud services, Infrastructure & Data Management, Business & Platform solutions, as well as transactional services through Worldline, the European leader in the payment industry. Julien has been with Atos for 5½ years and has been active in the industry for 22 years. He moved into the role of Global Head of Codex 2 months ago, from having led the Global Digital Practice last year and other practices before that. As Global Head of Codex, he is responsible for the Codex Pillar in terms of the cross-division / company-wide capability, offering portfolio (including IoT, Analytics, BI, AI and Cognitive) and the overall go-to-market. Andrew Stevenson is operating within Atos on a Global basis and focused on enabling organizations to bring their data to life through the use of Data Analytics and Big Data within Cloud environments. Andrew's background is originally in electronics engineering and the marketing & distribution of high technology products. For the past 25 years he has specialized in the application of technology within a marketing and business environment. For further information or to get in contact with Atos Codex: codex@atos.net

The podcast centers around real IoT and Data Science considerations to enable the Internet of Things and intelligent operations. With its cutting-edge technologies, digital expertise and industry knowledge, Atos supports the digital transformation of its clients across various business sectors: Defense, Financial Services, Health, Manufacturing, Media, Energy & Utilities, Public sector, Retail, Telecommunications and Transportation. Atos is a leader in digital services with pro forma annual revenue of circa € 13 billion and circa 100,000 employees in 73 countries. Serving a global client base, the Group provides Business & Platform Solutions, Infrastructure & Data Management, Cloud operations, Big Data & Cyber-security solutions. Atos is a global leader in digital transformation with approximately 100,000 employees in 73 countries and annual revenue of around € 13 billion. European number one in Big Data, Cybersecurity, High Performance Computing and Digital Workplace, the Group provides Cloud services, Infrastructure & Data Management, Business & Platform solutions, as well as transactional services through Worldline, the European leader in the payment industry. Julien has been with Atos for 5½ years and has been active in the industry for 22 years. He moved into the role of Global Head of Codex 2 months ago, from having led the Global Digital Practice last year and other practices before that. As Global Head of Codex, he is responsible for the Codex Pillar in terms of the cross-division / company-wide capability, offering portfolio (including IoT, Analytics, BI, AI and Cognitive) and the overall go-to-market. Andrew Stevenson is operating within Atos on a Global basis and focused on enabling organizations to bring their data to life through the use of Data Analytics and Big Data within Cloud environments. Andrew's background is originally in electronics engineering and the marketing & distribution of high technology products. For the past 25 years he has specialized in the application of technology within a marketing and business environment. For further information or to get in contact with Atos Codex: codex@atos.net

Rajneesh Chhabra is a Sr. Technology consultant with expertise in Blockchain and Cybersecurity. He is a graduate from Harvard Business school, has certificate in Advanced Cyber Security from Stanford and has been consulting with Financial Institutions for over 15 years.

Rajneesh Chhabra is a Sr. Technology consultant with expertise in Blockchain and Cybersecurity. He is a graduate from Harvard Business school, has certificate in Advanced Cyber Security from Stanford and has been consulting with Financial Institutions for over 15 years.

Sam Lightstone is an IBM Fellow and Master Inventor in the IBM Analytics group. He leads a number of technical teams in product development for relational databases, data warehousing & big data, cloud computing, analytics for IoT, data virtualization, ground to cloud data movement, and machine learning. He co-founded the IEEE Data Engineering Workgroup on Self-Managing Database Systems. Sam has more than 60 patents issued and pending and has authored four books and over 30 papers. Sam’s books have been translated into Chinese, Japanese and Spanish. You can follow Sam on social media. His Twitter handle is "samlightstone".

Nagaraj Srinivasan is Senior Vice President of Landmark and Halliburton Digital Solutions. We discuss Data Science applied to best practices with regards to digital and data needs for driving a huge organization like Halliburton from a geophysical point of view, environmental health and safety, etc. Srinivasan joined Halliburton in 2011, focusing on product strategy and delivery of Landmark software. Since then, he has been responsible for the design, build, commercialization and implementation of the DecisionSpace® suite of applications and platform technologies. Srinivasan has extensive experience leading teams in developing and delivering enterprise-class software solutions. Prior to joining Landmark, Srinivasan had a successful 18-year career with Oracle, where he was vice president for Supply Chain Products. He also served as Oracle’s senior director of Advanced Planning for Applications and director of business development for Supply Chain. He holds several patents in technology and supply chain management. Srinivasan serves on the MS Analytics Advisory Board of the Texas A&M University. He holds a master’s degree in business management from the University of California, Los Angeles and a M.S in engineering from the University of California, Berkeley. He obtained his bachelor’s degree in technology from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras.

Dr. Krishna is a Managing Director in KPMG LightHouse, KPMG’s Data & Analytics Center of Excellence. He specializes in helping KPMG clients innovate around Big Data Machine Learning, and next-generation Knowledge Management. Previously he worked at Microsoft Bing as a Senior Researcher, before which, he held the position of Assistant Research Technologist with Arizona State University. He has published over 40 technical journals and conference papers in leading Academic Venues and continues to promote Industrial Machine Learning in various industries.

Dr. Krishna is a Managing Director in KPMG LightHouse, KPMG’s Data & Analytics Center of Excellence. He specializes in helping KPMG clients innovate around Big Data Machine Learning, and next-generation Knowledge Management. Previously he worked at Microsoft Bing as a Senior Researcher, before which, he held the position of Assistant Research Technologist with Arizona State University. He has published over 40 technical journals and conference papers in leading Academic Venues and continues to promote Industrial Machine Learning in various industries.

Daniel Elizade is founder of TechProductManagment.com with the goal of demystifying IoT and providing a real-world guide to Product Managers wanting to build IoT products at scale. He has an online class as well as a course at Stanford sharing product management specifically for IoT. You can find him on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/danielelizalde/ and Twitter at @delizade.

We have the pleasure of speaking with Angela Zutavern, author of the Mathematical Corporation and Booz Allen Hamilton Vice President. Angela has pioneered the application of machine intelligence to organizational leadership and strategy. She is an inventor of the machine intelligence and data science strategies that are now helping business and government organizations make better decisions and gain competitive advantages. Angela led Booz Allen’s most advanced data science R&D efforts, including in the areas of deep learning and quantum machine learning. She has worked with clients in every major U.S. cabinet-level department as well as in sublevel agencies. In addition, she has advised many Fortune 500 companies and led teams across every major industry. She is passionate about data science for social good and helped create the Data Science Bowl, a first-if-its-kind, world-class competition that solves global issues through machine intelligence. A frequent industry, academic, and media speaker on the power of data science, Angela convenes the Chief Data Officer (CDO) Council for the U.S. federal government community. In addition, she is actively involved in strengthening diversity and inclusion, especially in technology, and is an enthusiastic champion of women in data science. Angela also serves on the board of directors of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Foundation, a nonprofit organization that supports ICE employees in their homeland security and public safety missions. Angela can be found on Twitter: https://twitter.com/angelazutavern Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1D69aQbPQF4 The Mathematical Corporation Book: https://www.amazon.com/Mathematical-Corporation-Intelligence-Ingenuity-Impossible/dp/1610397886/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1513702054&sr=8-1&keywords=The+Mathematical+Corporation

Stephen Bashada is executive vice president and general manager of Cloud and Data Services for Siemens PLM Software, a business unit of the Siemens Digital Factory Division. Dan & Steve discuss the AWS-Siemens partnership, Mindsphere, and Siemens PLM history as it extends to IIoT. In this role Bashada leads the MindSphere IoT business. MindSphere is the cloud-based, open IoT operating system from Siemens that connects real things to the digital world, and provides powerful industry applications and digital services to drive business success. MindSphere’s open Platform as a Service (PaaS) enables a rich partner ecosystem to develop and deliver new applications. No other IoT provider can drive closed-loop innovation through complete digital twins for products, production, and performance like Siemens.

Kirk Borne is the Principal Data Scientist and an Executive Advisor at Booz Allen Hamilton management consulting firm since 2015. He advises and consults with numerous organizations, agencies, and partners in the use of data and analytics for discovery, decision support, and innovation. Previously, he was Professor at George Mason University (GMU) for 12 years where he did research, taught, and advised students in data science, machine learning, and data ethics. Prior to that, Kirk spent nearly 20 years supporting data systems activities on NASA space science research programs, including a role as NASA's Data Archive Project Scientist for the Hubble Space Telescope.

Kirk Borne is the Principal Data Scientist and an Executive Advisor at Booz Allen Hamilton management consulting firm since 2015. He advises and consults with numerous organizations, agencies, and partners in the use of data and analytics for discovery, decision support, and innovation. Previously, he was Professor at George Mason University (GMU) for 12 years where he did research, taught, and advised students in data science, machine learning, and data ethics. Prior to that, Kirk spent nearly 20 years supporting data systems activities on NASA space science research programs, including a role as NASA's Data Archive Project Scientist for the Hubble Space Telescope.

Timothy Chou has been lucky enough to have a career spanning academia, successful (and not so successful) startups and large corporations. As President of Oracle On Demand he grew the cloud business from it’s very beginning. Today he serves on the Board of Directors of Blackbaud (NASDAQ: BLKB) and Teradata (NYSE:TDC). He started his career at one of the original Kleiner Perkins startups, Tandem Computers. Today as the Chairman of the Alchemist Accelerator he is focused on next generation enteprise software startups. Finally, he started teaching at Stanford University in 1982 and launched the university’s first class on cloud computing. His second landmark book Precision: Principals, Practices and Solutions for the Internet of Things was recently translated and published in Vietnam.

Timothy Chou has been lucky enough to have a career spanning academia, successful (and not so successful) startups and large corporations. As President of Oracle On Demand he grew the cloud business from it’s very beginning. Today he serves on the Board of Directors of Blackbaud (NASDAQ: BLKB) and Teradata (NYSE:TDC). He started his career at one of the original Kleiner Perkins startups, Tandem Computers. Today as the Chairman of the Alchemist Accelerator he is focused on next generation enteprise software startups. Finally, he started teaching at Stanford University in 1982 and launched the university’s first class on cloud computing. His second landmark book Precision: Principals, Practices and Solutions for the Internet of Things was recently translated and published in Vietnam.

Manjeet and Dan speak with Dr. Louis Rosenberg, CEO of Unanimous A.I., the artificial intelligence company that has been in many high-profile predictions in the press as of late. Louis is a technologist, prolific inventor, entrepreneur, and writer. He attended Stanford University, where he earned his bachelors, masters, and PhD degrees. His doctoral work focused on robotics, virtual reality, and augmented reality, and resulted in the Virtual fixtures system for the U.S. Air Force, the first immersive Augmented Reality system ever built (1992). Rosenberg then founded a number of successful technology companies, including the early VR company Immersion Corporation which went public in 1999 (NASDAQ: IMMR), the 3D digitizer company Microscribe which was used in the making of Shrek, Ice Age, and Titanic, and the mobile / augmented reality company Outland Research. Rosenberg also worked as a tenured professor at California Polytechnic State University. In 2014, he founded Unanimous A.I., an artificial intelligence company that enables human groups to amplify their collective brainpower by forming real-time online swarms. Unanimous A.I. can be found at: http://unanimous.ai/ Recent TEDx talk with Louis: https://youtu.be/Eu-RyZt_Uas

Manjeet and Dan speak with Dr. Louis Rosenberg, CEO of Unanimous A.I., the artificial intelligence company that has been in many high-profile predictions in the press as of late. Louis is a technologist, prolific inventor, entrepreneur, and writer. He attended Stanford University, where he earned his bachelors, masters, and PhD degrees. His doctoral work focused on robotics, virtual reality, and augmented reality, and resulted in the Virtual fixtures system for the U.S. Air Force, the first immersive Augmented Reality system ever built (1992). Rosenberg then founded a number of successful technology companies, including the early VR company Immersion Corporation which went public in 1999 (NASDAQ: IMMR), the 3D digitizer company Microscribe which was used in the making of Shrek, Ice Age, and Titanic, and the mobile / augmented reality company Outland Research. Rosenberg also worked as a tenured professor at California Polytechnic State University. In 2014, he founded Unanimous A.I., an artificial intelligence company that enables human groups to amplify their collective brainpower by forming real-time online swarms. Unanimous A.I. can be found at: http://unanimous.ai/ Recent TEDx talk with Louis: https://youtu.be/Eu-RyZt_Uas

Dr. Manjeet Rege and Dan Yarmoluk speak with Sean Owen, Director of Data Science of Cloudera. Before Cloudera, Sean founded Myrrix Ltd (now, the Oryx project) to commercialize large-scale real-time recommender systems on Apache Hadoop. He is an Apache Spark Committer and co-authored Advanced Analytics on Spark. He was a Committer and VP for Apache Mahout, and co-author of Mahout in Action. Previously, Sean was a senior engineer at Google. The conversation moves from Cloudera solutions, data science skills, Altus as how to harness Big Data in the ever-changing landscape of technology.