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Nanavati Low is cofounder and CEO at BIB Technologies aka Business-in-a-Box a Los Angeles startup building EV mobile store platforms. Fully powered by solar and battery electric storage, their storefronts are like mobile pop ups accelerating companies to using clean energy to market and sell products with data and ecommerce intrgrated. Today you can visit their stores at La Brea Tar Pits and the Los Angeles National History Museum. Her career includes stints at industry giants Red Bull, SpaceX, Fiat Chrysler, MUFG Union Bank, and venture-backed V7 Labs (formerly Aipoly). Nanavati led emerging technologies product and engineering at Red Bull Media House, grew mobile app innovation for Red Bull TV and Wings For Life Foundation, and launched the world's largest global running event with over 161,000 participants from 192 nations, raising €4.7M. Her proven track record of building successful partnerships includes Emmy-winning projects and “Best of Innovation” at CES. Nanavati's passion for product development began during her time at Fiat Chrysler and SpaceX where she developed manufacturing and digital automation tools for Jeep Cherokee production lines and the NASA Cargo Resupply CRS-7 mission. With her MS from USC and BS in Industrial Engineering Operations Research from UC Berkeley, Nanavati seeks to inspire the next generation of female leaders.
Podcast ep. 108Marita Cheng AMMarita is a former Young Australian of the Year. 11 Years on from that award her work improving the lives of others is quite extraordinary. Marita and her brother were raised by their single mother in housing commission in Cairns. She encouraged education and worked a number of jobs such as a hotel room cleaner and dishwasher to give them every opportunity she could afford. Marita is the founder of Robogals and the founder and current CEO of Aubot, a start-up robotics company. She co-founded Aipoly, an app to assist blind people to recognise objects using their mobile phones and was named as one of the World's Top 50 women in Technology by Forbes in 2018 and was recognised on the Forbes 30 Under 30 list in 2016. On 9 June 2019, Marita was appointed a member of the Order of Australia for significant service to science and technology, particularly to robotics.Former Australian Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd, described her as a leader; an inspiration; a game changer. HEAD to the link in my bio for Marita's podcast episode. www.maritacheng.comVisit instagram @reallyinterestingwomen for further interviews and posts of interesting women in history. Follow the link to leave a review....and tell your friendshttps://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/really-interesting-women/id1526764849If you know of a potential guest or interesting woman in history, email me atreallyinterestingwomen@gmail.com
Timestamps(02:14) Alberto briefly shared his upbringing and education at the Bayes Business School in London.(04:01) Alberto shared key learnings from his first entrepreneurial stint at 19 by developing a 3D printing product for ed-tech.(07:48) Alberto described his overall experience participating in Singularity University's Graduate Studies Program at the NASA Ames Research Park under a Google-funded scholarship in 2015.(12:52) Alberto helped develop the Aipoly product to aid the blind and visually impaired.(17:38) Alberto showed his enthusiasm for federated learning applications within mobile devices.(19:53) Alberto talked about the dichotomy between capitalism and social good in entrepreneurship.(22:29) Alberto shared the backstory behind the founding of V7 Labs.(26:40) Alberto discussed the comparison between biological and artificial neural networks.(28:02) Alberto emphasized the importance of having a good co-founder.(30:27) Alberto dissected the notable features developed within V7's Annotation capability.(33:37) Alberto went over things to look for in a video labeling tool, citing his blog post.(37:21) Alberto unpacked key principles behind V7's robust Dataset Management tool.(40:53) Alberto walked through the powerful capabilities of V7 Neurons that power its Model Automation tool.(43:33) Alberto shared fundraising advice for founders seeking the right investors for their startups.(46:07) Alberto shared valuable hiring and culture-setting lessons learned at V7.(50:12) Alberto emphasized the importance of not losing sight of the ‘ideal customer' for young founders in the AI space.(53:01) Alberto shared the hurdles his team has to go through while finding new customers in new industries.(55:10) Alberto walked through labeling challenges dealing with medical imaging datasets.(57:35) Alberto discussed outreach initiatives that helped drive V7's organic growth.(59:49) Alberto mentioned the importance of collaboration between companies within the MLOps ecosystem.(01:02:01) Alberto touched on the scientific hunger of Europe regarding the adoption of AI technologies.(01:03:49) Alberto briefly mentioned what public recognition means to him in the pursuit of democratizing AI for the world.(01:06:07) Closing segment.Alberto's Contact InfoWebsiteLinkedInTwitterMediumV7's ResourcesWebsiteSoftware 2.0 BlogAcademy TutorialsDocumentationLinkedIn | TwitterMentioned ContentArticles“7 Things We Looked for in a Video Labeling Tool” (Aug 2020)“The Biggest Mistake I've Ever Made: Losing Sight of the Ideal Customer” (March 2021)Talks“An AI Narrator for the Blind” (TEDx Geneva 2016)“If The Blind Could See” (TEDx Melbourne 2018)PeopleGeoff Hinton (for rethinking the ML field fundamentally)Chelsea Finn (for her work on meta-learning)Jeff Clune (for making agents that work at scale in the real world)Book“Start With Why” (by Simon Sinek)NotesV7 is hiring across all departments. Take a look at their careers page for the openings!About the showDatacast features long-form, in-depth conversations with practitioners and researchers in the data community to walk through their professional journeys and unpack the lessons learned along the way. I invite guests coming from a wide range of career paths — from scientists and analysts to founders and investors — to analyze the case for using data in the real world and extract their mental models (“the WHY and the HOW”) behind their pursuits. Hopefully, these conversations can serve as valuable tools for early-stage data professionals as they navigate their own careers in the exciting data universe.Datacast is produced and edited by James Le. Get in touch with feedback or guest suggestions by emailing khanhle.1013@gmail.com.Subscribe by searching for Datacast wherever you get podcasts or click one of the links below:Listen on SpotifyListen on Apple PodcastsListen on Google PodcastsIf you're new, see the podcast homepage for the most recent episodes to listen to, or browse the full guest list.
Our guest today is Alberto Rizzoli, Co-Founder and CEO of V7, an MLOPS platform which enables to collaborate and automate workflows. His work on AI granted him an award from Italian President Sergio Mattarella. V7's products won the CES Best of Innovation Award for two consecutive years in a row. In our conversation, we first dig into 2015 and the beginning of the "AI boom". 2015 is also the year where Alberto started Aipoly, a startup which provides real time computer vision for the blinds and visually impaired. We then dig into the transition from Aipoly to V7, from building algorithms to creating a platform which automates machine learning processes. More specifically, we explore how V7 helps computer vision companies organise and annotate their data as well as training their deep learning models. Alberto finally shares his vision on AI, algorithms and the future of the field. He also gives advice on how to progress and become successful.
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Welcome back to another roundtable, welcoming in 2017. We discuss some of the things to come out of CES, including AIPoly 2, Alexa everywhere, Faraday Future's electric car and the new chip from AMD. Our holiday gifts rate a mention, who doesn't love chocolate oranges! We finish the show by putting our reputations on the line with our predictions for 2017. Enjoy! Download or Play
You may have heard of apps such as Be My Eyes and AiPoly which are image recognition apps. There's another one to add to that list and it's called BeSpecular. But what makes it stand out from the crowd? One of listeners gets in touch to tell us all about it.
There are several apps out there that can identify an object in front of your camera, as well as its color. Apps like TapTapSee for example, use a conventional method to do this called crowdsourcing. This means that as soon as you take a picture of an object, it is transmitted to a server where it is then analyzed by a group of people. Once they determine what the image represents, the result is instantly sent back to you. This insures that you will almost always get accurate results, but then one drawback to this method is that you usually have to wait a while for your image to be recognized; not to mention that the device you’re sending the image from has to be connected to the internet the entire time. Aipoly Vision uses a different approach. Instead of sending your image to a server, Aipoly Vision processes and announces your image on your device, without requiring an internet connection! Unlike other apps, there is no need to take a few pictures and wait a while for your results. As soon as Aipoly is on, it instantly starts to scan and announce anything in its view. As of now, Aipoly recognizes 954 types of colors, and is able to process images at the rate of three times a second. The down side to this method is that you may find that Aipoly vision is not as accurate as other apps, but since it uses artificial intelligence, it learns about new objects every time! Teaching Aipoly vision is as easy as switching to the teach Aipoly mode, and then typing a description of an item in its view. Would you replace other OCR apps with it? Do you think Aipoly has potential? Let us know what you think! eSight enables people with legal blindness to actually see. Want to try eSight? Get in touch with their team by calling : 1 855 837 4448 You can fill out the Try eSight form here.
There are several apps out there that can identify an object in front of your camera, as well as its color. Apps like TapTapSee for example, use a conventional method to do this called crowdsourcing. This means that as soon as you take a picture of an object, it is transmitted to a server where it is then analyzed by a group of people. Once they determine what the image represents, the result is instantly sent back to you. This insures that you will almost always get accurate results, but then one drawback to this method is that you usually have to wait a while for your image to be recognized; not to mention that the device you’re sending the image from has to be connected to the internet the entire time. Aipoly Vision uses a different approach. Instead of sending your image to a server, Aipoly Vision processes and announces your image on your device, without requiring an internet connection! Unlike other apps, there is no need to take a few pictures and wait a while for your results. As soon as Aipoly is on, it instantly starts to scan and announce anything in its view. As of now, Aipoly recognizes 954 types of colors, and is able to process images at the rate of three times a second. The down side to this method is that you may find that Aipoly vision is not as accurate as other apps, but since it uses artificial intelligence, it learns about new objects every time! Teaching Aipoly vision is as easy as switching to the teach Aipoly mode, and then typing a description of an item in its view. Would you replace other OCR apps with it? Do you think Aipoly has potential? Let us know what you think! eSight enables people with legal blindness to actually see. Want to try eSight? Get in touch with their team by calling : 1 855 837 4448 You can fill out the Try eSight form here.
Bespecular, AIPoly and Third Eye are featured in this episode of Main Menu.
This week on AwesomeCast 280, we're talking about awesome things in technology, including: Back from holiday hiatus and getting ready for the first Awesome Cast of the New Year with Chilla and Rob Johnston! Rob is sharing his Awesome Thing Of The Week - HOVERBOARDS! Did you know our Rob is an internet star with his gif! http://gph.is/1Pv6s9f?tc=1 We can't stop watching hover board fails while we're delving into our discussion on this week's show. Chilla's Awesome Thing Of The Week is CES 2016 the Samsung Smart TV. Sorg is sharing his love of the Pebble Time update and functionality for his watch. Sorg is now sharing his Awesome Thing Of The Week the Livestream Movi camera. Return to the hoverboard discussion leads to a shoutout to our friend Lokay and his nice video. We're talking about Adobe Post and the ease of design via an app. Sorg approves. Our App Of The Week is Aipoly. Aimed at the blind it identifies objects in front of them through their phone. Question Of The Episode from Rob - Can Aipoly tell whether the dress is black and blue or white and gold? Discussing Samsung Gear VR in the real world. We're heading into some CES 2016 discussion. Star Wars watch from Sphero lets you control BB-8 with force gestures. (Geeks everywhere rejoice!) LG and Samsung are putting tablets into refrigerators, washing machines, and dryers. Hmm. Amazon Dash built in with Whirlpool appliances? (Yes, please.) Our ease of access delivery service discussion has turned to Pittsburgh with talk about Postmates integration. Talking about how tech has evolved to the point it is now included as standard in our cars. After the show remember to: Eat at Slice on Broadway if you are in the Pittsburgh area! It is Awesome! (sliceonbroadway.com) Follow these awesome people on Twitter: John Chichilla (@chilla), Rob Johnston (@RobOnTheRun) and Mike Sorg (@sorgatron). Thanks to our Awesome Patreons @ThistleSea & @MikeFedorShow! You can support the show too at Patreon.com/awesomecast ! Also, check out sorgatronmedia.com and awesomecast.net for more entertainment; and view us livestreaming Tuesdays around 6:30 PM EST!