Stories in AI by Ganesh Padmanabhan

I spent some time with my friend Milind Shah, who leads Strategy and Digital Solutions at Elevance Health, and he drops wisdom and insights on the state of transformation in healthcare and the role of digital and AI. Take a listen, Milind blends business insights with technology applications and goes really deep in some areas! About Milind: Milind has been in the healthcare industry for over 15 years now and truly enjoys having the opportunity to be a part of having an impact on the industry and truly leaving a legacy. He currently leading up Strategy & Solutions for Carelon Digital Platforms, supporting the overall vision of transforming the company, with a focus on Digital products & solutions focusing on both the Member and Provider. He is responsible for partnering across the enterprise to define the overall Digital focus aligned to the Enterprise strategic priorities, driving Carelon growth/commercialization, and identifying acceleration opportunities through strategic partnerships, while also partnering with Corp Dev on M&A opportunities. A lot of his focus currently is partnering across the Enterprise on areas like transformation through AI and looking at opportunities to leverage the robust “ecosystem” that is being invested in to help accelerate impact at scale for Elevance Health. Throughout his career, Milind has built and led teams that focus on Transformation, Innovation, and Strategy with an emphasis on Growth Strategy, M&A, Post Merger Integration, and Disruptive/Exponential Product and he's had some great opportunities to do things like running Innovation Studios at Salesforce to being a part of the Senior Leadership team at Humana to help with several of their transformation initiatives as the company moved to focusing on their Growth Strategy.   Find him at: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/milinds/

In this episode, I chat with my good friend, Akshay Sharma, Chief AI Officer at Lyric. In this episode, we tackle the topics of AI healthcare solutions and just how the landscape is set to be disrupted by AI. Akshay is a wealth of knowledge and experience in disrupting traditional industries like healthcare and financial services with AI and crypto and he really brought an amazing perspective to this topic. I hope you enjoy this episode, and please like and subscribe!

In this episode, I am joined by the amazing Walter De Brouwer. We dive deep into understanding AI as it co-inhabits our lives alongside humans! It raises new questions, new interaction patterns and new experiences and Walter discussed how to think about AI, treat AI and what AGI will do.    Walter's Bio: Walter De Brouwer (WDB) has established several AI and deep tech companies (1990-now), 2 of which have undergone public offerings in Europe (LSE, Euronext) and 2 in the USA (NYSE, NASDAQ). His latest AI company merged with Atlanta-based ShareCare [NASDAQ: SHCR] and went IPO at a valuation of $3.9B (July 2, 2021). At Sharecare he serves as the Chief Scientific Officer. WDB holds a PhD in computational semiotics and has been a professor at Stanford University since 2018 where he is the course director of MED-205. He is an active contributor and beta tester of Generative AI projects, LLMs and Agent architectures. His research interests are in Multimodal Transformers, AGI, GPT agents and 6G. He is the author of 53 patents. WDB is a General Partner at Claritas Capital (Nashville, since January 2022), a $1B PE fund where he runs the Media and Entertainment (Claritas M&E) sector.  Walter De Brouwer is a member of the Recording Academy (Grammy's), a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the American Mathematical Society (AMS) and the Army and Navy Officers Club of Washington, D.C. He resides with his family in Malibu, CA. Find Walter here: Walter's Ted AI talk: https://www.ai-event.ted.com/speakers-1/walter-de-brouwer-/computational-linguist-- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/wdebrouwer/ X: https://twitter.com/walterdebrouwer

In this new episode of the Stories in AI podcast, I sit down with the Architect of Ethical AI Practice at Salesforce, Yoav Schlesinger. Yoav gives us a great look at how large industry players like Salesforce are implementing AI, looking ahead at future AI developments, and managing all the risks that come with managing large swaths of data. About Yoav: Yoav Schlesinger is an Architect of Ethical AI Practice at Salesforce, helping the company embed and instantiate ethical product practices to maximize the societal benefits of AI. Prior to coming to Salesforce, Yoav was a founding member of the Tech and Society Solutions Lab at Omidyar Network, where he launched the Responsible Computer Science Challenge and helped develop EthicalOS, a risk mitigation toolkit for product managers. Find him at: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/yschlesinger/

I am joined, once again, by my good friend Sanjay Srivastava, SVP & CDO of Genpact. In this episode, Sanjay and I chat about AI from the perspective of enterprises. We dive deep into how AI hit a turning point, developing unique AI solutions for businesses, and how to get started in the field. Hope you enjoy the discussion as much as we did.    About Sanjay: Sanjay Srivastava is senior vice president and chief digital officer at Genpact, a global digital transformation services provider. He runs the company's Data, AI, Analytics, Automation Software, and Technology Services businesses and oversees Genpact's AI-enabled digital business platform, Cora. Sanjay is deeply rooted in the innovation ecosystem and is an advisor to Silicon Valley incubators and several startups, and a limited partner in digital-focused venture funds. Sanjay serves on the MMA CDO Board, is a member of the Digital 50, BCG's Digital Transformation Network, and CNBC's Technology Executive Council was named IDG “Top 10 Digital Transformation Influencers to Follow”, and blogs frequently on LinkedIn. Prior to Genpact, Sanjay was a serial entrepreneur, and built four startups - in edge networks, data center automation, predictive algorithms, and enterprise SaaS that were acquired by Akamai, BMC, SunGard (now FIS), and Genpact, respectively. He also held operating leadership roles at Hewlett Packard, Akamai, and SunGard, where he oversaw product management, global sales, and various product and services P&Ls. Sanjay earned an M.B.A. from the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities and his undergraduate degree at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur. He is based in Seattle, WA. Find him here: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sanjaysrivastava/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/SanjayAndAI 

Had an amazing conversation with Eugenio Zuccarelli, Data Scientist Manager at CVS Health. In this episode, we talk about why large language models are all the hype, and how they will be used to transform the healthcare industry. Eugenio also gives valuable insight into his career as a data scientist, and the keys to climbing the ladder of success.   Bio:  Eugenio is a Business-Focused Data Science Leader, driving the innovation efforts for several Fortune 500 companies across multiple industries, including Healthcare (CVS Health), Automotive (BMW) and Finance (Morningstar). He is a Forbes 30 Under 30, a Fulbright Scholarship recipient and studied across MIT, Harvard and Imperial College. Currently, he leads the innovation efforts for complex chronic care at CVS Health, the #1 Healthcare company in the world and a Fortune 5 firm. In addition, he has been working in the Task Force using analytics to fight COVID-19 and develop policy recommendations for The White House and overall finding solutions to fight the COVID-19 pandemic. You can find Eugenio's work across Forbes, The Washington Post, Bloomberg and Financial Times as well as multiple journals and in the App Store. Previously, Eugenio worked as Data Scientist at Dr Foster - Telstra Health, a leading Fortune 500 healthcare analytics firm based in London working closely to the NHS, after having worked as Data Analyst for a fintech startup, Arkera. He obtained a Master of Business Analytics from MIT, a Master of Science in Biomedical Engineering with Neurotechnology from Imperial College London. While at MIT, he worked as a Researcher at the MIT Operations Research Center and at the MIT Media Lab, while at Imperial College he worked at the Brain & Behaviour Lab under the supervision of Prof. Aldo Faisal, developing state-of-the-art prosthetic technologies as a member of Team Imperial to participate in the first Bionics Olympics, Cybathlon. Previously, he received a Bachelor of Science in Electronic and Information Technology Engineering from the University of Genoa in Italy.

Amir Emadzadeh, Director of Data Science at Genentech, talks about the massive impact natural language processing and generative AI will have on the healthcare industry. We speak specifically about different use cases in life sciences to accelerate drug discovery and getting better treatments to patients. Amir's Bio Amir Emadzadeh holds a PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA). Over his 13 years of work experience, he has been granted an equal number of patents while at top Silicon Valley companies, including Qualcomm, Nvidia, and Google (Waymo). He is a Director of software in the Digital Transformation Office (DTO) at Genentech (Roche). He is also an adjunct Professor at California Science and Technology University (CSTU). Most recently, he was a Director of data science at Gilead sciences, where he led a team of data scientists and software developers dedicated to improving different aspects of clinical trials. Amir is very passionate about employing AI/ML techniques and automation to tackle pharma/healthcare industry challenges. Some of his recent work includes data-driven feasibility analysis for clinical trials (e.g., clinical trial site/investigator ranking, country assessment, diversity analysis & patient enrollment forecasting), extracting insights from clinical trial documents and sentiment analysis using NLP technology, and medical image segmentation/classification using deep neural networks. Find Amir on: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/amiremadzadeh/

I had an amazing discussion with Amr Awadallah, CEO and Founder of Vectara. In this episode, we dive deep into what is really going on behind the scenes with AI? We discuss topics like the opportunities, the fear of AI and how much potential AI growth still has. If you want an expert opinion on all the latest debates and issues surrounding AI, this is the episode for you. Amr Bio: Amr is the CEO and Founder of Vectara. Prior to founding Vectara, Amr served as the VP of Developer Relations for Google Cloud. Amr co-founded Cloudera, where he led the development of enterprise tools to ingest and extract value from big data. Before Cloudera, Amr served as VP of product intelligence engineering at Yahoo after Yahoo acquired his first startup Aptiva, a search engine company. Amr holds a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University and a MA from Cairo University. You can reach Amr at https://www.linkedin.com/in/awadallah/

In this episode, I sit down with Gaurav Rao, EVP & GM Machine Learning and AI at AtScale. In this episode we discuss what it truly takes to deploy a successful machine learning to the public. ChatGPT was a prime example of successful adoption of these technologies, and we dive deep into why it was so successful. Hope you enjoy this conversation. About Gaurav: Gaurav is currently the Executive Vice President and General Manager of Machine Learning and AI at AtScale. He is responsible for defining and leading the business that extends the company's semantic layer platform to address the rapidly expanding set of Enterprise AI and machine learning applications. Most recently, Gaurav served as VP of Product at Neural Magic - innovators in software acceleration for deep learning utilizing sparse model architectures. Previously, he served in a number of executive roles at IBM spanning product, engineering, and sales that were focused on taking cutting edge data science, machine learning, and AI offerings to market. He specializes in model training and serving, mlops, and trusted AI in the context of driving business outcomes for enterprise applications. He is also an advisor to data and AI companies. Outside of work Gaurav is an avid sports fan, foodie, traveler, and enjoys spending time with his wife and kids. Learn More: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gauravraotechenthusiast/ Data Council: https://www.datacouncil.ai/speakers/gaurav-rao?hsLang=en   

I had a fabulous discussion with Rajeev Ronanki, President Elevance Health (parent company of Anthem) on Healthcare, the current exponential technology age, risks and opportunities and the current market. Rajeev is a brilliant thought leader and builder at heart and has really pioneered an AI-first approach to healthcare at Anthem, delivering disruptive value to shareholders, providers and patients! Rajeev's bio: Rajeev Ronanki serves as Elevance Health's (Anthem's parent company) president of digital platforms. Ronanki is responsible for creating and driving plans to commercialize digital capabilities for consumers, care providers, and the health ecosystem as we reinvent care delivery, operations, and interactions. To achieve this transformation, he drives the vision, strategy, and execution of Elevance Health's digital-first approach across the organization's digital, artificial intelligence (AI), exponential technology, service experience, and innovation portfolios. He is reimagining the future of healthcare by enabling Elevance Health to harness the power of AI and data to provide consumers predictive, proactive, and personalized insights into their health. Rajeev has written a book: You and AI: A Citizen's Guide to AI, Blockchain, and Puzzling Together the Future of Healthcare. You can read more on the links below. https://rajeevronanki.com/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/rajeevronanki/ https://twitter.com/RajeevRonanki 

This latest Stories in AI episode features my good friend, Whurley, Founder and CEO of Strangeworks, Founder/GP at Ecliptic Capital. It was amazing to talk to Whurley and discuss the future of quantum computing and the forces driving change in the sector. Please be sure to like and subscribe for more content, and I hope you really enjoy this episode! Whurley's Bio: William Hurley "whurley" is founder and CEO of Strangeworks, a quantum computing startup based in Austin, Texas. Whurley's career has spanned over 25 years, founding startups such as Honest Dollar and Chaotic Moon Studios, as well as working in technical leadership roles for Apple, IBM, and Goldman Sachs. Prior to founding Strangeworks,Whurley was managing director at Goldman Sachs which he came to through the acquisition of Honest Dollar; a fintech startup that offers a retirement savings platform that simplifies and brings transparency to the investment products available for a range of consumers. Whurley is dedicated to fostering collaboration and establishing unified metrics and standards across the quantum computing community. He partnered with StackOverflow to create the world's largest community of quantum computing developers, and currently serves as the Chair of the Quantum Standards Working Group at the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). He is leading the development of the first quantum commuting standards, PAR7130 “Standard for Quantum Computing Definitions” and PAR 7131 “Standard for Quantum Computing Performance Metrics for Performance Benchmarking”. Whurley is committed to making quantum computing more accessible and improving quantum literacy. His latest book, "Quantum Computing For Babies," offers simple explanations of quantum computing for the youngest audiences and is one of the best selling books on quantum computing. His upcoming book, Endless Impossibilities, continues his mission of improving quantum computing literacy and helps readers understand the potential of quantum computing. Whurley is a regular contributor to TechCrunch and regularly speaks around the world on the potential power and impact of quantum computing and what quantum needs to succeed. He has received numerous awards and recognitions including being named a 2018 Eisenhower Fellow, the 2012 International Genius Grant recipient, and an IBM Master Inventor. Whurley is an advocate and works on a range of issues he cares about, including diversity and equality. Whurley is a founding partner of UN Women; ‘EQUALS': The Global Partnership for Gender Equality in the Digital Age bringing together partners across sectors to bridge the gender gap in technology by championing equality of access, skills development, and career opportunities.   Find Whurley at: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/whurley/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/whurley A note about our sponsor: Experian is the world's leading global information services company. We empower our clients to manage their data with confidence and build trusted relationships with consumers, using advanced analytics, decisioning technology, and fraud prevention tools. We help businesses to make smarter decisions and thrive, lend more responsibly, and prevent fraud and financial crime. As the world's leading repository of consumer credit data, Experian is transforming data into solutions that facilitate transactions, ensure financial safety and improve the financial lives of millions of consumers around the world.

On the latest Stories in AI episode, I sit down with Chirag Shah, a professor at the University of Washington and Co-Director of RAISE (Responsible AI Systems and Experiences). As someone who has tremendous experience in both the research and industry side of AI advancement, Chirag provides us with an extremely unique perspective on the current market. We talked about the negative consequences that come with increasingly powerful AI tools and how to solve them.   Chirag's Bio: "I am a Professor at the University of Washington (UW) in Seattle. My research interests include search and recommender systems specifically focused on task-based applications, conversation AI, user experience, multi-objective optimization, and cold start problems. While I apply various Data Science and Machine Learning techniques to make systems "smart", I also care about reducing biases and increasing fairness in search/recommendation and in general in ML/AI systems. I primarily teach in Information Science and Data Science programs - at the undergraduate and graduate levels. I also work closely with industrial research labs on cutting-edge problems, typically as a visiting researcher. The most recent engagements included Spotify (2018), Amazon (2019), Microsoft Research AI (2020), and Getty Images (2021). Some of the problems I have worked on recently include zero-intent and zero-query recommendations (cold start problems), marketplace fairness, and task/journey/mission-based ranking and recommendation. A few of these have led to solutions, features, and products that now affect hundreds of millions of customers in dozens of markets." Find Chirag on: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shah-chirag/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/chirag_shah?lang=en A note about our sponsor: Experian is the world's leading global information services company. We empower our clients to manage their data with confidence and build trusted relationships with consumers, using advanced analytics, decisioning technology, and fraud prevention tools. We help businesses to make smarter decisions and thrive, lend more responsibly, and prevent fraud and financial crime. As the world's leading repository of consumer credit data, Experian is transforming data into solutions that facilitate transactions, ensure financial safety and improve the financial lives of millions of consumers around the world.

Thanks for tuning into the Stories in AI podcast. In this episode, I am joined by Charles Franklin, Head of product development, Analytics & AI at Experian. I had a really great time talking to Charles about a variety of topics, including how Experian is disrupting traditional markets with AI, the drawbacks of utilizing AI, and much more. Charles Bio: Charles Franklin is the SVP of product development for Global Analytics & AI, including Ascend Intelligence Services. He has been with Experian since January 2021 and is working with teams across DA, CIS and Health to build our next generation of analytics solutions. Before joining Experian, Charles was a Partner at Oliver Wyman, where he led the global data science practice. He was a founding member of Oliver Wyman Labs, a business unit creating analytics-powered applications across sectors including finance, travel and retail. Charles moved from the UK to the US in 2014 and now lives in San Francisco with his wife and son. They enjoy exploring the Bay Area by foot or by kayak, as well as trips home to London and France. Find Charles at LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/charles-franklin-90a58357/   A note about our sponsor: Experian is the world's leading global information services company. We empower our clients to manage their data with confidence and build trusted relationships with consumers, using advanced analytics, decisioning technology, and fraud prevention tools. We help businesses to make smarter decisions and thrive, lend more responsibly, and prevent fraud and financial crime. As the world's leading repository of consumer credit data, Experian is transforming data into solutions that facilitate transactions, ensure financial safety and improve the financial lives of millions of consumers around the world.

In this episose of the Stories in AI podcast, I sit down with Jesse Barbour, Chief Data Scientist of Q2ebanking. At their company, Jesse and the team are working to revolutionize the way financial institutions interact and transact with their customers. With this, Jesse provides valuable insight to what it takes to build effect machine learning models to detect fraud and bias. Hope you enjoy it! Jesse's Bio: Jesse Barbour is the Chief Data Scientist at Q2ebanking. He uses machine learning to discover hidden structure, insight, and value from data. His work has paved the way for multiple ground-breaking products including Sentinel, Q2's flagship security offering, and SMART, the company's targeting and messaging platform. Jesse's 14 years in the financial services industry have been driven by a relentless passion to deliver technologies that have a fundamental, positive impact on individuals and communities. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jbarbour/   A note about our sponsor: Experian is the world's leading global information services company. We empower our clients to manage their data with confidence and build trusted relationships with consumers, using advanced analytics, decisioning technology, and fraud prevention tools. We help businesses to make smarter decisions and thrive, lend more responsibly, and prevent fraud and financial crime. As the world's leading repository of consumer credit data, Experian is transforming data into solutions that facilitate transactions, ensure financial safety and improve the financial lives of millions of consumers around the world.

What a great time it was, sitting down with former Microsoft and Compass CTO, Joseph Sirosh. In this episode, we talk about how AI has been disrupting industries and which sectors have seen the most growth. We also dive deep into generative AI, how AI has been able to democratize creativity, and how to identify true AI value over short-term hype.   Joseph's Bio: Joseph is a technologist with a passion for AI, and is currently the Vice President of Alexa Shopping at Amazon.com. We recorded this before he started this role. Most recently, Joseph served as the Chief Technology Officer of Compass Inc, building the real estate industry's first end-to-end platform. Previously, Joseph served as Microsoft's Chief Technology Officer for AI. During his tenure, he held product and engineering responsibility for all enterprise database, big data and machine learning products. At Microsoft, he built Azure ML, the first Machine Learning as a Service platform in the cloud. Prior to Microsoft, Joseph spent nine years as a VP at Amazon where he managed the Global Inventory Platform for Amazon's Consumer Business, and built the machine learning, data warehouse and Transaction Risk Management teams. Joseph holds a PhD in Neural Networks from the University of Texas at Austin. You can follow him on Twitter and read about what he finds exciting in AI on his Generative AI Substack. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/joseph-sirosh-39803b1/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/josephsirosh Substack: https://josephsirosh.substack.com/ A note about our sponsor: Experian is the world's leading global information services company. We empower our clients to manage their data with confidence and build trusted relationships with consumers, using advanced analytics, decisioning technology, and fraud prevention tools. We help businesses to make smarter decisions and thrive, lend more responsibly, and prevent fraud and financial crime. As the world's leading repository of consumer credit data, Experian is transforming data into solutions that facilitate transactions, ensure financial safety and improve the financial lives of millions of consumers around the world.

In this episode, I had an inspiring conversation with Gurdeep Pall. Gurdeep Pall is a Corporate VP and Head of Product Incubations at Microsoft today, and is known in the industry as the inventor of VPN (Virtual Private Networks) and launching Skype for Business/Teams. In this episode we dive deep into the power that AI unlocks for enterprises and just how companies can utilize it to its full potential. We also discuss the power of search engines and language, how to reinvent and transform a mammoth organization like Microsoft, and his inspiring 30+ years career at Microsoft.   Gurdeep's Bio: Pall has been with Microsoft since 1990 – a long and fruitful thirty-one years in which he rose from a software design engineer to the Corporate VP for the Information Platform and Experience team. He was the inventor of VPN (Virtual Private Networks), led the Skype Acquisition and integration at Microsoft and worked on several noteworthy projects, including Windows NT 3.1, Windows XP, Skype for Business (now Teams), and many others. Pall was born in Chandigarh, India. In later adolescence, he considered following in his Brigadier father's footsteps by joining the Indian army. “There was something inside me that kept telling me that this was not what I was meant for,” he told Khushwant Singh at The Global Sikh Trail in an exclusive interview. Instead, he pursued computer engineering at Birla Institute of Technology where he graduated with his undergraduate degree. Connect with Gurpreet at LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gurdeep-pall-0aa639bb/   A note about our sponsor: Experian is the world's leading global information services company. We empower our clients to manage their data with confidence and build trusted relationships with consumers, using advanced analytics, decisioning technology, and fraud prevention tools. We help businesses to make smarter decisions and thrive, lend more responsibly, and prevent fraud and financial crime. As the world's leading repository of consumer credit data, Experian is transforming data into solutions that facilitate transactions, ensure financial safety and improve the financial lives of millions of consumers around the world.

Mini Suri, Co-founder and CEO of Velmeni, joins me to talk about the future of AI and healthcare. Mini started Velmeni with the intention of solving digital problems within the dental industry. With her expertise, we were able to discuss complex topics around healthcare data management and privacy and how AI will continue to impact the world of health.   About Mini Suri: Mini Suri, a brilliant contributor to the tech industry, is an innovative trailblazer in AI/ML/NLP Automation and an advocate for the betterment of others. Mini's deep experience and creative inspiration have led VELMENI to the forefront of AI healthcare through predictive and analytical artificial intelligence in dentistry. VELMENI's platform is evolving as the standard-bearer for dental practices. Mini has acted as Chief Customer Officer at KORE.ai, head of IA for Uber, and Senior Vice President at Citi. With an MBA from MIT's Sloan School, she provides VELMENI with deep-tech strategy, financial skills, and hands-on operational management. A doer and problem-solver, Mini leads product development, raises capital fosters a high-performance culture, and is building the most talented team in the industry. As a Board Member at TiE Silicon Valley and throughout her career, Mini has brought big-picture thinking to foster technology entrepreneurship, youth engagement, and women's leadership initiatives—including The Hunger Project to eradicate world hunger and establish women as a force for change-making. This includes establishing the first robotics and STEM education for girls. Find more at: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/minisuri/   A note about our sponsors: A big thank you to Experian, whom you may know as the credit bureau, but they are at heart a data company. When you are buying a car or a home, sending your kids to college or borrowing to grow your business, Experian is most likely helping you behind the scenes. They unlock the power of data, to make better decisions, get access to financial services, and to prevent crime, unlocking a whole world of opportunities for individuals and organizations. Learn more at https://Experian.com.

On this episode of the Stories in AI podcast, Chandhu Nair, VP of Product and Technology at Lowes, welcomes me and offers valuable insight on what it's like to lead one of the largest retailers in the market. We discuss what it takes for a company like Lowes to undergo a digital transformation, why the customer experience is so important, and much more. Don't forget to like and subscribe for more!   Chandhu's Bio: As vice president, technology omni-channel marketing and customer engagement, Chandhu Nair is responsible for building best-in-class technology products and customer experiences which engage and inspire customers across all Lowe's touchpoints. He leads a global product and engineering team and works cross-functionally across the enterprise and with strategic vendor partners to deliver technology solutions that best enable Lowe's total home strategy. He leads the team accountable for the omni-channel customer platform, enabling segmentation and personalization and a compelling customer loyalty platform and experience. Chandhu also leads efforts including customer engagement, content management and digital marketing. He joined Lowe's in 2020. Chandhu has more than 17 years of experience in technology. Prior to joining Lowe's, he served as CEO and co-founder at Cognitive Retail Inc., a retail tech company providing large U.S. based retailers with an advanced data analytics and personalization platform, and he served as an independent technology consultant for Lowe's. Prior to his recent positions, he was a managing partner and co-founder at Merkatus Partners. He also spent nine years at Staples Inc. in global e-commerce and technology leadership roles. He earned a bachelor's degree in engineering from Bharathiar University, and a master's degree from Harvard University Learn more at: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chandhunair/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/ChandhuNair A note about our sponsor: Experian is the world's leading global information services company. We empower our clients to manage their data with confidence and build trusted relationships with consumers, using advanced analytics, decisioning technology, and fraud prevention tools. We help businesses to make smarter decisions and thrive, lend more responsibly, and prevent fraud and financial crime. As the world's leading repository of consumer credit data, Experian is transforming data into solutions that facilitate transactions, ensure financial safety and improve the financial lives of millions of consumers around the world.

Amazing conversation with  Dheeraj Pandey, CEO of DevRev, ex-Founder/CEO of Nutanix. In this episode we talk about building companies during down market cycles, invisible AI, the ying and yang of AI, developer in the center of the builder universe, product-led sales and much more. Be sure to like and subscribe for more.    Dheeraj's Bio: Dheeraj founded Nutanix in 2009 and built the company from the ground up to over 5,000 employees in just over 10 years. He led Nutanix through its 2016 IPO and exceeded $1 billion in revenue as its tenth anniversary approached. In August 2020, Pandey announced his retirement from the company, seeking to work from home and spend more time with his wife and children. Upon retiring from Nutanix, he co-founded Param Hansa Values and Param Hansa Philanthropies. He has now recently launched his newest venture, DevRev. Prior to founding Nutanix, Pandey worked for Aster Data Systems from 2007 to 2009, first as director of engineering and then as vice president of engineering. Previously, from 2003 to 2007, he was a software development senior manager at Oracle, where he managed the storage engine group and co-authored numerous patents in distributed databases. Pandey began his career as a software developer for Trilogy Software in 1999, moving on to Zambeel Inc. where he worked as a senior software engineer. Pandey has received recognition for his work, including being named Ernst & Young's Entrepreneur of the Year and among Dell's Founders 50. He currently serves on the boards of Adobe and the University of Texas at Austin. Pandey received a bachelor's degree from the Indian Institute of Technology. He also holds a master's degree in computer science from the University of Texas at Austin. Find him at: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dpandey/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/dheeraj   A note about our sponsor: Experian is the world's leading global information services company. We empower our clients to manage their data with confidence and build trusted relationships with consumers, using advanced analytics, decisioning technology, and fraud prevention tools. We help businesses to make smarter decisions and thrive, lend more responsibly, and prevent fraud and financial crime. As the world's leading repository of consumer credit data, Experian is transforming data into solutions that facilitate transactions, ensure financial safety and improve the financial lives of millions of consumers around the world.

Very glad to welcome on Tim Estes, Founder of Digital Reasoning, on to the Stories in AI podcast. In this episode we discuss the model driven approach to AI and technology for enterprises, how companies can be ready to adapt AI into their model, and Tim's personal experience building and scaling one of the earliest AI companies that drove Enterprise value. Hope you enjoy it! Tim's Bio: "Someday all software will learn and every day brings us closer to that day. It is important that it learns in a way that builds up the human race rather than tries to shape or control it for the enrichment or empowerment of a few." Tim Estes founded Digital Reasoning in college and have been its CEO throughout most of its development, and exiting after 20+ years at the helm in 2021. Digital Reasoning built software to automate understanding of structured and unstructured data based on a distinctive, patented mathematical approach to understanding natural language and leverages distributed computing technologies to make these analytics work effectively on Big Data. Digital Reasoning served the Defense, Intelligence, Financial, Enterprise Risk, and Health Care markets with solutions. Tim was one of the first AI founders to really build a business helping institutions and governments generate and create value from all of the data at their disposal. He is a brilliant entrepreneur, mission driven and has a wealth of knowledge and passion in helping other founders navigate the treacheries of entrepreneurship. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/testes/   A note about our sponsor: Experian is the world's leading global information services company. We empower our clients to manage their data with confidence and build trusted relationships with consumers, using advanced analytics, decisioning technology, and fraud prevention tools. We help businesses to make smarter decisions and thrive, lend more responsibly, and prevent fraud and financial crime. As the world's leading repository of consumer credit data, Experian is transforming data into solutions that facilitate transactions, ensure financial safety and improve the financial lives of millions of consumers around the world.

Christopher Wilson is the VP of Portfolio Strategy and Go To Market at Experian, and he joins me to talk about AI deployment amongst businesses in the ever changing landscape of technology. He gives insights on the challenges companies must navigate to utilize AI successfully including consumer trust, data privacy, hybrid work, and more. I hope you enjoy this episode. Chris Bio: Christopher Wilson is Experian's VP of Portfolio Strategy in global credit risk software. He focusses on helping large organisations weather the turbulent waters of Digital Transformation and achieve many of the promises of Big Data and Artificial Intelligence, all without the use of a crystal ball. After a number of years travelling around Asia, Chris now lives with his family in South London where he can be found on his day-off enjoying a diet of 80s cinema and New Wave classics. Find Chris at: LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/christopher-wilson-0990b015/ Blogs: www.experian.com/blogs/global-insights/author/christopher-wilson/ A note about our sponsor: Experian is the world's leading global information services company. We empower our clients to manage their data with confidence and build trusted relationships with consumers, using advanced analytics, decisioning technology, and fraud prevention tools. We help businesses to make smarter decisions and thrive, lend more responsibly, and prevent fraud and financial crime. As the world's leading repository of consumer credit data, Experian is transforming data into solutions that facilitate transactions, ensure financial safety and improve the financial lives of millions of consumers around the world.  

In this latest episode of Stories in AI, Daniel Faggella, CEO of Emerj AI Research, sits down with me to talk about the ROI enterprises are seeing from AI investment. As a detailed researcher of the industry, he offers advice for communicating the value that AI can bring to specific businesses and how the value created can be measured. Give it a listen!   Daniel's Bio: Founder and Head of Research at Emerj Artificial Intelligence Research, Daniel Faggella is an internationally recognized speaker on the use-cases and ROI of artificial intelligence in business. Emerj tracks and maps what's possible and what's working in artificial intelligence in order to help leaders develop winning AI strategies. Emerj's AI Opportunity Landscapes are the industry benchmark of artificial intelligence ROI across sectors. Daniel is regularly called upon by global enterprises in financial services and security, and has spoken for many of the largest and most reputable organizations, including the World Bank, the United Nations, the OECD, INTERPOL, and more. Learn More: AI in Business Podcast: https://emerj.com/artificial-intelligence-podcast/  Website: https://danfaggella.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/danfaggella/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/danfaggella A note about our sponsor: Experian is the world's leading global information services company. We empower our clients to manage their data with confidence and build trusted relationships with consumers, using advanced analytics, decisioning technology, and fraud prevention tools. We help businesses to make smarter decisions and thrive, lend more responsibly, and prevent fraud and financial crime. As the world's leading repository of consumer credit data, Experian is transforming data into solutions that facilitate transactions, ensure financial safety and improve the financial lives of millions of consumers around the world.  

I enjoyed having a dear friend of mine, Rachna Matura, on the latest episode of the Stories in AI podcast. Rachna Matura, Founder & CEO of STEMology Club, opens our eyes to just how valuable teaching STEM ideas early in the education system is. About Rachna: Rachna Mathur is an educator and a computer engineer with over 20 years of combined experience in teaching children and adults coding, AI, robotics, other STEM subjects, dance, and art. She is a computer engineer, classical Indian dance teacher, STEMpreneur, and educational researcher who is currently the founder of STEMology Club, teaching out-of-school STEM programs to K-6 students and teachers, and a Doctoral Candidate at ASU's Mary Lou Fulton Teacher's College focusing her research on elementary-age STEM education. Rachna's diverse experiences and expertise in art, education, and engineering are often interconnected and reinforce critical thinking, critical inquiry, and problem-solving skills through various perspectives. Prior to the world of education and starting her own STEM education non-profit, Rachna spent 10+ years at Intel working on challenging projects as a Software Engineer/Architect and in Software Product Marketing. Her first job as an ASU first-year student was informally teaching coding outside the classroom, sometimes to a room of 100 students! She has served as Director at ID Tech's summer STEM camps, Academy & Marketing Director at prominent Indian dance schools in Austin and Phoenix where she lead and grew company operations, managed instructor staffs, implemented their software platforms, and most importantly, taught whenever needed Learn More: LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/rachnamathur Website: www.rachnamathur.com A note about our sponsor: Experian is the world's leading global information services company. We empower our clients to manage their data with confidence and build trusted relationships with consumers, using advanced analytics, decisioning technology, and fraud prevention tools. We help businesses to make smarter decisions and thrive, lend more responsibly, and prevent fraud and financial crime. As the world's leading repository of consumer credit data, Experian is transforming data into solutions that facilitate transactions, ensure financial safety and improve the financial lives of millions of consumers around the world.

Data is the driver for innovation in every industry, and that's why I invited my good friend, Bret Greenstein, back on the Stories in AI podcast. Being a leader in digital transformations with AI and data, Bret offered valuable insights on how data is being used to shape industries around the world. We also talked about the powerful role Chief Data Officers play in the new age of technology and how important it is for them to apply context to data and keep a mindset driven by data.   Bret's Bio: Bret is the Data and Analytics Partner, PwC US and is focused on helping transform Chief Data Officers transform their businesses through Data Modernization. The Data Practice provides essential capabilities to help companies architect for and adopt cloud, embrace external data, increase accessibility of data, and ensure data governance at scale. Bret is also helping to drive Data transformation across Cognizant's business units and participates in industry advisory boards to shape Data policy, accelerate education, and share best practices. Prior to this, Bret was the SVP and Global Head of AI & Analytics for Cognizant and prior to that, he lead IBM Watson's Internet of Things Offerings, establishing new IoT products and services for the Industrial Internet of Things. He built his career in technology and business leadership across a range of roles throughout IBM in software, services, consulting, strategy, marketing, and as IBM's CIO for Asia-Pacific. He has worked globally in these roles including living in China for 5 years working with clients and transforming IBM's IT environment. He holds patents in the areas of collaboration systems. He holds a bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering and a master's degree in Manufacturing Systems Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.   A note about our sponsor: Experian is the world's leading global information services company. We empower our clients to manage their data with confidence and build trusted relationships with consumers, using advanced analytics, decisioning technology, and fraud prevention tools. We help businesses to make smarter decisions and thrive, lend more responsibly, and prevent fraud and financial crime.   As the world's leading repository of consumer credit data, Experian is transforming data into solutions that facilitate transactions, ensure financial safety and improve the financial lives of millions of consumers around the world.

This conversation with Vilas Dhar, President of the Patrick J. McGovern Foundation, was extremely thought-provoking and exciting. We talked about all the ways AI and technology are making a positive impact on the world, the role governments have in this transformation, and much more. I hope you guys enjoy it. Vilas was just honored as a Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum (WEF) in 2022. Big congrats! Vilas' bio: Vilas Dhar is President of the Patrick J. McGovern Foundation, 21st-century philanthropy advancing artificial intelligence (AI) and data solutions to create a thriving, equitable, and sustainable future for all. Under his leadership, the Foundation bridges technological innovation and social impact with a commitment to justice and equity. These core values sustain his deep optimism that technological advances can ensure a more prosperous and sustainable future for all. Vilas is an entrepreneur, technologist, and human rights advocate with a lifelong commitment to creating more robust social institutions that foster shared opportunities. Vilas has served as an independent Trustee of the Foundation since its inception in 2017 and has served as chair of both the Audit and Investment committees. Fusing his experience as a lawyer, an investor, and a philanthropist, he has dedicated his professional pursuits to exploring solutions for some of the world's largest challenges like child labor, refugee crises, and data privacy and sovereignty. Vilas holds a J.D. from NYU School of Law, a Master's in Public Administration from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, and dual Bachelor's degrees in Biomedical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of Illinois. He is currently completing his doctoral dissertation at the University of Birmingham, where his research drives novel approaches to economic and policy infrastructure for a data-enabled society to support and empower vulnerable populations.   Learn more at: https://www.mcgovern.org/about-president-vilas-s-dhar/ Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vilasdhar/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/vilasdhar   A note about our sponsor: Experian is the world's leading global information services company. We empower our clients to manage their data with confidence and build trusted relationships with consumers, using advanced analytics, decisioning technology and fraud prevention tools. We help businesses to make smarter decisions and thrive, lend more responsibly, and prevent fraud and financial crime. As the world's leading repository of consumer credit data, Experian is transforming data into solutions that facilitate transactions, ensure financial safety and improve the financial lives of millions of consumers around the world.

In this Stories in AI podcast, Dr. Andy Terrel, VP of Data and Algorithms at Xometry, gave me valuable perspectives on how corporations, product managers, and data scientists should view artificial intelligence. If you are looking to advance your career as a data scientist or just in AI, this is a must listen episode. Andy's Bio: Dr. Andy R. Terrel is the VP, Data, and Algorithms of Xometry, Inc. where he is bringing his experience building smart scalable data systems to the manufacturing industry. You will also find him leading the infrastructure committee of the NumFOCUS foundation. As a passionate advocate for open source scientific codes Andy has been involved in the wider scientific Python community since 2006, contributing to numerous projects in the scientific stack. Dr. Andy R. Terrel was previously a Research Associate Scientist for the Computational Hydraulics Group at the Institute for Computational Engineering and Science which is at the University of Texas at Austin and High-Performance Computing researcher at the Texas Advanced Computing Center. Andy's research included utilizing supercomputers with Python and studying methods for speeding up computational fluid dynamics. He graduated from the University of Chicago with a Ph.D. in Computer Science in 2010 and has been programming in Python for the last decade. Andy has contributed to numerous open-source projects notably the FEniCS Project and Sympy. Reach Andy at:  http://andy.terrel.us https://www.linkedin.com/in/aterrel/ https://twitter.com/aterrel A note about our sponsors: Experian is the world's leading global information services company. We empower our clients to manage their data with confidence and build trusted relationships with consumers, using advanced analytics, decisioning technology and fraud prevention tools. We help businesses to make smarter decisions and thrive, lend more responsibly, and prevent fraud and financial crime. As the world's leading repository of consumer credit data, Experian is transforming data into solutions that facilitate transactions, ensure financial safety and improve the financial lives of millions of consumers around the world. Learn more at https://Experian.com.

Listen as I sit down with my good friend Usman Shuja, VP & GM at Honeywell. Usman was able to provide a unique perspective on the current AI industry and just how corporations are using it to their advantage. We also talked about AI & ESG, industrial automation, and the future use cases of technology in the area of sports.   Usman's Bio: As Vice President/General Manager of Connected Buildings, Usman Shuja leads Honeywell's largest and fastest-growing software business. Usman has a chief executive and global P&L responsibility for all functions including product and sales. As the founding executive and CCO at SparkCognition – a Cognitive Analytics startup that is applying artificial intelligence to solve cyber-physical security challenges - he was responsible for developing new markets for Cognitive and AI technologies. Usman has worked as a management consultant at the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) and in product development, sales, and BD roles at IBM and Dell. He holds a bachelor's degree in Computer Science from the University of Texas at Austin, an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, and a leadership certificate from Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. He also is a retired professional cricket player who represented Team USA. Find him at: Website: http://www.usmanshuja.com Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/usmanshuja/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/kshuja A note about our sponsors: Experian is the world's leading global information services company. We empower our clients to manage their data with confidence and build trusted relationships with consumers, using advanced analytics, decisioning technology and fraud prevention tools. We help businesses to make smarter decisions and thrive, lend more responsibly, and prevent fraud and financial crime. As the world's leading repository of consumer credit data, Experian is transforming data into solutions that facilitate transactions, ensure financial safety and improve the financial lives of millions of consumers around the world. Learn more at https://Experian.com.

It was a pleasure to have Tom Davenport, AI Author & Independent Senior Advisor for Deloitte Analytics, on the Stories in AI podcast. It was unbelievably fascinating to talk to him about how businesses are implementing AI into their systems, how to lead AI-driven transformations, and the best way to get returns on your AI investments. Tom's Bio: Tom Davenport is a world-renowned thought leader and author, is the President's Distinguished Professor of Information Technology and Management at Babson College, a Fellow of the MIT Center for Digital Business, and an independent senior advisor to Deloitte Analytics. An author and co-author of 20 books and more than 200 articles, he helps organizations to transform their management practices in digital business domains such as artificial intelligence, analytics, information and knowledge management, process management, and enterprise systems. Find more: https://www.linkedin.com/in/davenporttom/ and at https://www.tomdavenport.com A note about our sponsors: Experian is the world's leading global information services company. We empower our clients to manage their data with confidence and build trusted relationships with consumers, using advanced analytics, decisioning technology and fraud prevention tools. We help businesses to make smarter decisions and thrive, lend more responsibly, and prevent fraud and financial crime. As the world's leading repository of consumer credit data, Experian is transforming data into solutions that facilitate transactions, ensure financial safety and improve the financial lives of millions of consumers around the world. Learn more at https://Experian.com.

Listen to this fascinating conversation with Akshay Bhargava, founder of Bridgeweave, and ex-CEO Barclays Wealth where we explored the changing investment and asset management landscape, the new data driven retail investor, the evolution of the wealth industry to be more enablement focussed, the role of AI, the future of Fintech and much more. I hope you enjoy the conversation as much as I do. Shownotes: Investor Education Resources: https://investorai.co.uk/join-our-webinar Download the InvestorAi App from Apple App Store and Google Play Store: https://investorai.co.uk/ Reach out to Akshaya.Bhargava@Bridgeweave.com if you want to connect with Akshaya, refer my name and this show! :)   Akshaya's Bio: Akshaya Bhargava is the founder of Bridgeweave, a Fintech firm that uses AI models to provide institutional quality research signals and investment ideas to investors, advisors and asset managers. Bridgeweave's flagship product is InvestorAi, available on a mobile for end investors in equity markets. From 2014-2017, Akshaya was the global CEO of Wealth and Investment Management, Barclays plc. Prior to that, he founded InfraHedge, a hedge fund managed account platform, which was acquired by State Street Corporation in 2013 He has been CEO of Butterfield Fulcrum Group (acquired by MUFJ Group) and the founding CEO of Progeon (acquired by Infosys and renamed Infosys BPO in 2006). He started his career at Citibank where he spent 22 years in a variety of senior roles including as Country Manager, Citibank Czech Republic and many other senior roles. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/akshaya-bhargava-15549714/

Listen to the amazing Beena Ammanath, Executive Director of the Deloitte AI Institute and head of Trustworthy AI and Ethics, where we discuss the state of Enterprise AI, how organizations successfully scale their data and AI efforts, the need for diversity in AI, Ethics and trustworthy AI and much more. Beena Ammanath is Executive Director of Deloitte AI Institute and leads Trustworthy AI. Beena is an award-winning senior executive with extensive global experience in AI and digital transformation, spanning across e-commerce, finance, marketing, telecom, retail, software products, services and industrial domains with companies such as HPE, GE, Thomson Reuters, British Telecom, Bank of America, e*trade and a number of Silicon Valley startups. She is also the Founder of non-profit, Humans For AI. A well-recognized thought leader in the industry, she also serves on the Advisory Board at Cal Poly College of Engineering and has been a Board Member and Advisor to several startups. Beena thrives on envisioning and architecting how data, artificial intelligence and technology in general, can make our world a better, easier place to live for all humans. Beena is at https://www.linkedin.com/in/bammanath/ Check out Been's latest book "Trustworthy AI" here: https://beenammanath.com/

Had an amazing conversation with Sanjay Srivastava, SVP & CDO of Genpact. Sanjay gave me his expert insight on the current state of the AI market and all the ways leaders in the industry are creating massive transformations. Amazing customers stories included as well. We also dived deep into ethical AI and dark data.   Sanjay's Bio:  Sanjay Srivastava is senior vice president and chief digital officer at Genpact, a global digital transformation services provider. He runs the company's Data, AI, Analytics, Automation Software, and Technology Services businesses and oversees Genpact's AI-enabled digital business platform, Cora. Sanjay is deeply rooted in the innovation ecosystem and is an advisor to Silicon Valley incubators and several startups, and a limited partner in digital-focused venture funds. Sanjay serves on the MMA CDO Board, is a member of the Digital 50, BCG's Digital Transformation Network, and CNBC's Technology Executive Council was named IDG “Top 10 Digital Transformation Influencers to Follow”, and blogs frequently on LinkedIn. Prior to Genpact, Sanjay was a serial entrepreneur, and built four startups - in edge networks, data center automation, predictive algorithms, and enterprise SaaS that were acquired by Akamai, BMC, SunGard (now FIS), and Genpact, respectively. He also held operating leadership roles at Hewlett Packard, Akamai, and SunGard, where he oversaw product management, global sales, and various product and services P&Ls. Sanjay earned an M.B.A. from the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities and his undergraduate degree at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur. He is based in Seattle, WA. Follow him on LinkedIn. A note about our sponsors: A big thank you to Experian. Experian is the world's leading global information services company. We empower our clients to manage their data with confidence and build trusted relationships with consumers, using advanced analytics, decisioning technology and fraud prevention tools. We help businesses to make smarter decisions and thrive, lend more responsibly, and prevent fraud and financial crime. As the world's leading repository of consumer credit data, Experian is transforming data into solutions that facilitate transactions, ensure financial safety and improve the financial lives of millions of consumers around the world. Learn more at https://Experian.com.

I had a great conversation about AI in defense and national security applications with Dr. Amanda Muller. Amanda is a Technical Fellow leading Responsible AI at Northrop Grumman. We talked about national security use cases, the new age of war, the role of policy and governance and why the government is concerned about AI in everyday lives. Show Notes/Resources: For Northrop Grumman's AI initiatives, visit https://www.northropgrumman.com/what-we-do/artificial-intelligence-and-machine-learning/ Resource Alert: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYO_jab_esuFRV4b17AJtAw is a Youtube channel explaining complex topics in simple terms AI within the DOD/Joint AI Center: https://www.AI.mil Carnegie Mellon University's AI blog: https://www.sei.cmu.edu/our-work/artificial-intelligence-engineering/ Stories in AI: https://www.youtube.com/c/GaneshPadmanabhan/featured for practical insights on AI from the industry LinkedIN: https://www.linkedin.com/in/amandacmuller/ Bio: Dr. Amanda Muller is a Consulting (AI) Systems Engineer and Technical Fellow based in Northern Virgina. Dr. Muller currently serves as the Responsible AI Lead for Northrop Grumman. In this role, she is responsible for coordinating the strategy, policy, and governance efforts related to Artificial Intelligence ethics across the Northrop Grumman enterprise. As a Mission Systems Technical Fellow specializing in User Experience and Human-Systems Integration, she also serves as a subject matter expert on proposals, program reviews, and research efforts. Prior to her current role, Dr. Muller worked for Northrop Grumman Space Systems in Redondo Beach, California, as a Systems Engineer. She led the User Experience teams for several restricted space programs, conducting user research in operational environments around the world. Previously, Dr. Muller served as a Systems Engineer on State Health and Human Services programs, as a Human Factors Engineer in Aurora, Colorado, and as the Human-Systems Integration lead for airborne platforms in Melbourne, Florida. In addition to her program roles, Dr. Muller has been a mentor in the Mentoring the Technical Professional program for over seven years. Dr. Muller's publications include a book chapter in Emerging Trends in Systems Engineering Leadership: Practical Research from Women Leaders (in press), and peer-reviewed articles in Information Fusion, Journal of Defense Modeling and Simulation, WSEAS Transactions on Advances in Engineering Education, and the Annals of Biomedial Engineering. Dr. Muller holds a Ph.D. in Engineering from Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio, and B.S. and M.S. degrees in Biomedical Engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Worcester, Massachusetts. She also holds a graduate certificate in Design Thinking for Strategic Innovation from Stanford University. Dr. Muller is a Certified Systems Engineering Professional (INCOSE), Professional Scrum Master (Scrum.org), and is certified in Professional Scrum with User Experience (Scrum.org).

Listen to this very timely conversation with my friend, Dr. Kam Chana who breaks down the Coronavirus Omicron VOC (Variant of Concern), the Data and AI applications, and best practices in Lifesciences & Pharma, Quantum Computing, and much more, in the latest Stories in AI episode.   Bio Dr. Kam Chana is Director of the Scientific Data and Computing Platforms group supporting research and development at Merck Research Labs. His group consists of Scientific Data Platform, High-Performance Computing, Applied Computing, and Site Reliability Engineering teams providing capabilities and platforms for data science, scientific algorithms and software engineering. In addition, his group supports capabilities for deployment engineering, instrumentation and monitoring of software, infrastructure and lab systems. His team utilizes and supports algorithms and platforms for cutting edge Data Science. Dr Chana has spoken about and is leading an initiative to develop Quantum Computing for life science R&D within Merck. Dr Chana holds a Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics and has 20+ years' experience in scientific computing for the life sciences industry.

Have a listen to my conversation with Ritu Jyoti, Group VP of AI and Automation Research and Advisory at IDC. I loved talking to Ritu because she has a deep industry insight into how modern enterprises are utilizing artificial intelligence to solve difficult problems while maintaining ethical privacy standards. I hope you enjoy this discussion. Ritu's Bio: Ritu Jyoti is Group Vice President, Worldwide Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Automation Research with IDC's software market research and advisory practice. Ritu is responsible for leading the development of IDC's thought leadership for AI Research and management of the Worldwide AI and Automation Software research team. Her research focuses on the state of enterprise AI efforts and global market trends for the rapidly evolving AI and Machine Learning (ML) innovations and ecosystem. prior to joining IDC, Ritu held various executive-level positions in Product Management, Marketing, Solutions, Technology Alliances, and Consulting at companies such as Kaminario, EMC, IBM Global Services, and PwC Consulting. https://www.linkedin.com/in/ritujyoti/ https://twitter.com/ritujyoti Also, check out the IDC FutureScape Webcast: Worldwide Artificial Intelligence and Automation 2022 Predictions By: Ritu Jyoti here: https://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=US48368021 A note about our sponsors: A big thank you to Experian, whom you may know as the credit bureau, but they are at heart a data company. When you are buying a car or a home, sending your kids to college or borrowing to grow your business, Experian is helping you behind the scenes. They unlock the power of data, to make better decisions, get access to financial services, and prevent crime, unlocking a whole world of opportunities for individuals and organizations.

The latest Stories in AI podcast presents you with a deep conversation with Aruna Pattam, head of AI & Data Science at HCL Technologies. In this chat we discuss a wide variety of topics from AI in the Financial Services industry, to job automation, and the challenges that corporations face with AI implementation. I'm sure you will enjoy this one.   Aruna's Bio: Aruna Pattam is a Global AI thought leader and currently is the head of AI & Data Science managing Asia Pacific, Middle East and Japan region. Aruna was recently awarded the “The Most Admired Global Indians 2021” by Passion Vista - Luxury, Lifestyle & Business Magazine; “AI Changemaker Leader Awards 2022” by 3AI – AI & Analytics Association; “AI Global Ambassador 2022” by Swiss Cognitive – World leading AI Network. Aruna has spent the last 22+ years delivering analytics platforms, decision support systems and analytics solutions using analytics, artificial intelligence, and machine learning. She has held many technical and executive leadership roles in Commonwealth bank of Australia, Westpac, AMP financial services, SAS Australia and had implemented solutions covering fraud detection, anti-money laundering, credit risk, privacy and compliance and so on. Aruna is a thought leader, speaker, mentor, blogger, vlogger with the goal of educating and providing awareness on AI to the business and wider community. She regularly shares informative blogs, storytelling videos etc. aimed at demystifying AI and detailing the ever-expanding AI scope for business transformation. LinkedIn http://www.linkedin.com/in/arunapattam YouTube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8_yY-2_KXa5wYrEQFmMp-Q/videos Website https://arunapattam.com/ Twitter https://twitter.com/pattamaruna TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/@arunapattam Instagram https://www.instagram.com/aruna.pattam/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/AI-by-Aruna-Pattam-109033684771898/   A note about our sponsors: A big thank you to Experian, whom you may know as the credit bureau, but they are at heart a data company. When you are buying a car or a home, sending your kids to college or borrowing to grow your business, Experian is helping you behind the scenes. They unlock the power of data, to make better decisions, get access to financial services, and to prevent crime, unlocking a whole world of opportunities for individuals and organizations. Learn more at https://Experian.com.

I had an amazing conversation with the unstoppable Sandy Carter, SVP & Channel Chief of Unstoppable Domains. This podcast is filled with insightful details into the future of decentralization. We talk about various topics ranging from the philosophy of Web 3.0 all the way to the technicals of NFTs and DAOs. If you are looking to learn about web3, NFTs, crypto and what you should be doing now, this is for you!   Sandy's Bio: TLDR: She's OG! Sandy Carter is Senior Vice President and Channel Chief at Unstoppable Domains. In this role, she is responsible for driving new partnerships and integrations for Web 3.0, Blockchain, and NFTs. She is the founder of Women of Web3. Her mission is to onboard the world onto the decentralized web by building blockchain based identity platform. She helps her partners and customers accomplish that through the Unstoppable domain names which are minted as NFTs allowing users to replace hundreds of archaic cryptocurrency addresses with a single human-readable name that simplifies crypto transfers. The domains can also host decentralized websites, act as a chat ID and more. NFT Domains are user owned & controlled, and have no renewal fees. Previously, Sandy was the Vice President for Public Sector Partners and Programs at AWS. In this role, she was responsible for driving next-generation partnering in cloud, machine learning, IoT and blockchain. Her responsibilities include evolving partner models to intensify partner innovation, AWS cloud adoption and creation of mission critical cloud solutions with partners across public sector. She grew the partner ecosystem over 45% as the ecosystem contributed significantly to the success of the business. Sandy has been a founder and CEO of a startup, and her last role at IBM, she ran the Cloud and AI/ML Ecosystem on behalf of the IBM corporation. Sandy is the Chairman of the Board of Girls in Tech, and an adjunct professor at Carnegie Mellon University Silicon Valley. She is also the author of Extreme Innovation: Three Superpowers for Purpose and Profit. Sandy is a Top 100 Chief Tech Leader, Federal 100 Award Winner, member of Fortune Most Powerful Women, and Women Leaders in Data and AI, Stevie Award Winner for Women of the Year Technology, CRN Women of the Channel 2021 Power 100, 2021 Cloud Girls Rising Inaugural Visionary Award, Top 50 Woman Leader in SaaS of 2021, Top 50 Women in Tech Influencers to Follow 2021, Top 50 Influencers, Top 150 Global Cloud Thought Leaders and Next Generation Leaders of 2021, Top 40 Cloud Computing Influencers on Twitter, Top 50 Digital Influencers, Awards Magazine Top 50 Women of Influence, Top 15 IoT Premier League, Lifetime Achievement Winner, 'Excellence in Cloud Achievement', AI Innovator Nominee of the Year, Top 10 AI Influencers 2019, Verdicts ten of the most influential people in artificial intelligence on Twitter during Q4 2020, and the Top 10 Cloud Computing Influencer.   A note about our sponsors: A big thank you to Experian, whom you may know as the credit bureau, but they are at heart a data company. When you are buying a car or a home, sending your kids to college, or borrowing to grow your business, Experian is helping you behind the scenes. They unlock the power of data, to make better decisions, get access to financial services, and prevent crime, unlocking a whole world of opportunities for individuals and organizations. Learn more at https://Experian.com.

Tune into this great conversation I had with Tom Allen, the Founder of The AI Journal. Together we take a deep dive into predictions for the future of technology, workplaces after Covid-19, and the great work he has done at the AI Journal.   Tom Allen Bio: Tom is the Founder of The AI Journal, an AI-based media company that provides companies with research and consulting services. He built the company from his bedroom in February of 2020, and it has already reached over 1 million monthly web views. https://aijourn.com  https://www.linkedin.com/in/tom-allen-515058b7/?originalSubdomain=uk   A note about our sponsors: A big thank you to Experian, whom you may know as the credit bureau, but they are at heart a data company. When you are buying a car or a home, sending your kids to college or borrowing to grow your business, Experian is most likely helping you behind the scenes. They unlock the power of data, to make better decisions, get access to financial services, and prevent crime, unlocking a whole world of opportunities for individuals and organizations. Learn more at https://Experian.com.

Had an amazing conversation conversation with Dr. Babak Hodjat, the CTO of Evolutionary AI at Cognizant. Babak is a deep thinker, researcher and a practical entrepreneur and we discussed evolutionary computing, how to use AI to optimize for multiple outcomes, Data lakes and Lake houses, AI winters and the most important work in Deep Learning today. I hope you enjoy this conversation as much as I did.   Bio: Babak Hodjat (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babak_Hodjat) is the CTO for AI at Cognizant where he leads a team of developers and researchers bringing advanced AI solutions to businesses. Babak is the former co-founder and CEO of Sentient, responsible for the core technology behind the world's largest distributed artificial intelligence system. Babak was also the founder of the world's first AI-driven hedge-fund, Sentient Investment Management. Babak is a serial entrepreneur, having started a number of Silicon Valley companies as main inventor and technologist. Prior to co-founding Sentient, Babak was senior director of engineering at Sybase iAnywhere, where he led mobile solutions engineering. Prior to Sybase, Babak was co-founder, CTO and board member of Dejima Inc. Babak is the primary inventor of Dejima's patented, agent-oriented technology applied to intelligent interfaces for mobile and enterprise computing – the technology behind Apple's Siri. Babak has published many papers in the fields of Artificial Life, Agent-Oriented Software Engineering, and Distributed Artificial Intelligence, and has 31 granted or pending patents to his name. He is an expert in numerous fields of AI, including natural language processing, machine learning, genetic algorithms, distributed AI, and has founded multiple companies in these areas. Babak holds a PhD in Machine Intelligence from Kyushu University, in Fukuoka, Japan. Reach Babak at https://www.linkedin.com/in/babakhodjat/

I had an amazing conversation with Dr. Anand S Rao, Partner and Head of AI at PwC. We discussed similarities between Eastern philosophy and AI, how organizations are realizing value, what use cases are popular, the challenges in value realization, Software 2.0, Ethical AI and much more.    Anand Rao Bio:  Dr. Anand S. Rao is a Partner in PwC's Advisory practice. He is the Global Artificial Intelligence Lead and innovation lead within PwC's Emerging Technology practice. With over 35 years of industry and consulting experience, Anand leads a team of practitioners who advise C-level executives and implement advanced analytics and AI-based solutions on a variety of strategic, operational, and ethical use cases. With his PhD and research career in Artificial Intelligence and his subsequent experience in management consulting he brings business domain knowledge, software engineer expertise, and statistical expertise to generate unique insights into the practice of ‘data science'. Prior to joining management consulting, Anand was the Chief Research Scientist at the Australian Artificial Intelligence Institute. He received his PhD from University of Sydney (with a University Postgraduate Research Award-UPRA) in 1988 and an MBA (with Award of Distinction) from Melbourne Business School in 1997. Anand has also co-edited four books on Intelligent Agents and has published over fifty papers in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence in major journals, conferences, and workshops. He has received widespread recognition for his extraordinary contributions in the field of consulting and Artificial Intelligence Research. He has received the Most Influential Paper Award for the Decade in 2007 from the Autonomous Agents & Multi-Agent Systems organization for his contribution on the Belief-Desire-Intention Architecture; MBA Award of Distinction from Melbourne Business School, 1997 and University Postgraduate Research Award (UPRA) from University of Sydney, 1985; Distinguished Alumnus Award from Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, India; He was recognized as one of Top 50 Data & Analytics professionals in USA and Canada by Corinium; one of Top 50 professionals in InsureTech; and has won a number of awards for his academic and business papers. Anand is an Adjunct Professor in BITS Pilani's APPCAIR AI Center. He also serves on the Advisory Board of Oxford University's Institute for Ethics in AI, World Economic Forum's Global AI Council, OECD's Newtork of Experts on AI (ONE), OECD's AI Compute initiative, Advisory Board of Northwestern's MBA program, Responsible AI Institute, Nordic AI Institute, and International Congress for the Governance of AI. Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/anandsrao/ Twitter:@AnandSRao Medium: https://anandsrao.medium.com/ Semantic Scholar: https://www.semanticscholar.org/author/Anand-Srinivasa-Rao/145946928 

This week, I present to you a very practical conversational with Hemal Shah, SVP of Data Management at Dell. In this episode we dive into the many problems enterprises face with data management, dealing with data privacy, and much more. Be sure to subscribe, and I hope you enjoy! Hemal's Bio: Hemal has been with Dell since 2008, currently serving as the Senior Vice President of all things data.  The Data team defines and drives the global data strategy for Dell Technologies. Prior to this role, he has led multiple IT functions and teams, supporting stakeholders across Sales, Marketing, Services, Global Operations, Supply Chain, Online and Finance. He also led key IT strategy and architecture projects, including Digital Transformation, Mergers and Acquisitions. Before joining Dell, Hemal was with KPMG/BearingPoint Inc. as a Senior Manager for the Customer Value Management team and Oracle practice. He has a master's degree in computer science from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign and a bachelor's degree in computer engineering from Victoria Jubilee Technical Institute in India. He also has taken leadership courses at Yale University School of Management. Hemal currently lives in Bangalore India with his wife and two kids. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hemal-d-shah/ Hemal's Data PoV Blog: https://www.dell.com/en-us/blog/taming-the-new-data-landscape-a-data-strategy-for-the-future/   A note about our sponsors: A big thank you to Experian, whom you may know as the credit bureau, but they are at heart a data company. When you are buying a car or a home, sending your kids to college or borrowing to grow your business, Experian is most likely helping you behind the scenes. They unlock the power of data, to make better decisions, get access to financial services, and to prevent crime, unlocking a whole world of opportunities for individuals and organizations. Learn more at https://Experian.com.

Listen to a unique conversation I had with Peter Voss, the founder and CEO of Aigo.io, and one of the folks who coined the term - AGI. We talk about and debate many interesting topics such as the key features of intelligence, the pitfalls of modern machine learning, and reasons why the world needs artificial general intelligence sooner rather than later.   Peter's Story in AI: Peter is a pioneer in AI who coined the term 'Artificial General Intelligence', CEO and Chief Scientist at Aigo.ai, currently offering highly intelligent and hyper-personalized Chatbot with a Brain for large enterprise customers. Find more at: https://twitter.com/peterevoss linkedin.com/in/vosspeter/ https://aigo.ai/   A note about our sponsors: A big thank you to Experian, whom you may know as the credit bureau, but they are at heart a data company. When you are buying a car or a home, sending your kids to college or borrowing to grow your business, Experian is most likely helping you behind the scenes. They unlock the power of data, to make better decisions, get access to financial services, and prevent crime, unlocking a whole world of opportunities for individuals and organizations. Learn more at https://Experian.com.

Fascinating discussion with Shri Santhanam, EVP, GM for Analytics and AI at Experian, where we discussed the future of finance, how to leverage data to maximize impact, framework to set up an AI Center of Excellence, Scaling Data Science teams and much more.   Shri Bio:  Shri Santhanam is Executive Vice President and General Manager of Global Analytics and AI for Experian's Decision Analytics business division. He is a frequent speaker on Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning. Most recently, he has been quoted or interviewed in CIO.com, Artificially Intelligent podcast, AI in Business podcast and Tech Talks Daily. His industry expertise allows him to show clients how to take full advantage of the opportunities in advanced data analytics. Prior to Experian, Shri was a partner at the international management consulting firm Oliver Wyman. There he co-founded Oliver Wyman Labs, which helps clients use data, technology and advanced analytics to drive transformative business impact. Shri is an engineer by background and while studying at Stanford University focused on data science and analytics in flight control systems.

I had an amazing time sitting down with my good friend, Hrish Lotlikar, who is the Co-founder and CEO of SuperWorld, a platform that gives users access to purchasing virtual land inspired by the real world. If you want the latest insight on what the metaverse buzz is all about, the future of virtual real estate, NFTs, Augment Reality you have to listen to this discussion. Hrish Lotlikar has one of the most unique and interesting biographies out of all the Stories in AI guests. Hrish first started his career as a surgical technician tasked with removing eyes from people (not joking!). He soon changed his career path and began diving into the Management Consulting and Investment Banking world. From there he decided to travel around Europe, building connections that eventually led him into a partnership with Victor Pinchuck at his own VC fund. Later, he co-founded SuperWorld, a fast-growing augmented reality company focused on merging features of gaming with the real world. And oh, I forgot to mention, Hrish and his family are digital nomads, they move to super exciting places all over the world, every year or so - it's incredible the energy, the global perspective and the diversity of thought this brings to him and SuperWorld. Buy Virtual Real Estate: https://Superworldapp.com  LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hrishlotlikar/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/hrishlotlikar    A note about our sponsors: A big thank you to Experian, whom you may know as the credit bureau, but they are at heart a data company. When you are buying a car or a home, sending your kids to college or borrowing to grow your business, Experian is most likely helping you behind the scenes. They unlock the power of data, to make better decisions, get access to financial services, and prevent crime, unlocking a whole world of opportunities for individuals and organizations.

This is a must-listen conversation with the inspiring Amir Husain, where we discuss his extensive knowledge and experience in the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI). We dive deep into topics such as the evolution of machine learning, AI systems used in National Security Defense, and how AI can be used to mediate problems such as global conflicts. Hope you guys really enjoy this one. Amir Husain is an experienced entrepreneur who has founded and served as CEO of two groundbreaking AI companies, SparkCognition and SkyGrid. Amir has been recognized as Austin's Top Tech Entrepreneur of the Year and was awarded the Austin Under 40 Technology and Science Award. He has authored two books, The Sentient Machine and Hyperwar, which gives detailed insight into the real-world implications of AI Technology. Amir also serves on the Board of Advisors for the University of Texas at Austin Department of Computer Science. Website: https://amirhusain.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/amirhusain_tx   A note about our sponsors: A big thank you to Experian, whom you may know as the credit bureau, but they are at heart a data company. When you are buying a car or a home, sending your kids to college or borrowing to grow your business, Experian is most likely helping you behind the scenes. They unlock the power of data, to make better decisions, get access to financial services, and to prevent crime, unlocking a whole world of opportunities for individuals and organizations. Learn more at https://Experian.com.

Listen to this 'magical' conversation with Adam Cheyer. Adam is the reason we speak to our phones today. He founded two companies that built the most popular voice-based AI assistant in our pockets and home devices - one created Siri (acquired by Apple) and the other founded Bixby (Viv Labs acquired by Samsung). We break down a lot of amazing topics in this podcast including AI, magic, social justice, and much more. Take a listen, and I hope you enjoy it as much as I did.    Adam Cheyer helped start four successful companies in recent years. He was the co-founder of the voice assistant Siri, which he eventually sold the technology to Apple. He also co-founded Viv Labs, another ai assistant, which they eventually sold off to Samsung to help create Bixby. He also helped launch Sentient, a widely distributed machine learning software, and Change.org, the largest petition platform in the world. Besides his career in technology, Adam is a highly awarded magician who has performed all over the country for large crowds. Adam has authored more than 60 publications and 38 patents. He has a bachelor's degree in computer science from Brandeis University and a master's degree in computer science and artificial intelligence from UCLA. Learn more at http://adam.cheyer.com/   A note about our sponsors: A big thank you to Experian, whom you may know as the credit bureau, but they are at heart a data company. When you are buying a car or a home, sending your kids to college or borrowing to grow your business, Experian is most likely helping you behind the scenes. They unlock the power of data, to make better decisions, get access to financial services, and to prevent crime, unlocking a whole world of opportunities for individuals and organizations. Learn more at https://Experian.com.