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Welcome to The Doers Nepal Podcast- Nepal's No.1 Business Podcast, where we bring you inspiring conversations with individuals making a significant impact in their respective fields. Mr. Prashant Pokharel is the Head of Finance and Interim Country Manager at CloudFactory. He has been with CloudFactory for over six years. He is also passionate about standup comedy. In 2010, CloudFactory was founded in Nepal, inspired by the belief that talent is equally distributed, but opportunity is not. CloudFactory has helped over 700 clients develop high-quality datasets and high-performing models and launch groundbreaking AI solutions. Listen to this podcast with Mr. Prashant Pokharel where we talk about CloudFactory, Prashant's Life, and some standup comedy. Get Inspired, Be a Doer. Host: Anup Ghimire Anup's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/anup-ghimire-9366aa5a/ Guest: Prashant Pokharel Guest's LinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/prashant-pokharel-33339133/ Follow us: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thedoersnepal/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thedoersnepal Production Partner: Viewfinders Production https://viewfinders.com.np/podcast-as-a-service/ - Explore Digital Creation with Viewfinders - Get all-in-one Podcast services - Services: Set design, content creation, guest recommendations, distribution, and more - Reach out to Viewfinders Production for expert help Podcast page: podcast@viewfinders.com.np  

В этот раз мы пообщались с представителями CloudFactory – крупнейшей компании-разработчика инвестиционно-финансовых и криптовалютных мобильных приложений. Команда CloudFactory разрабатывает продукты класса middle-office для инвестиционных, брокерских, управляющих, страховых компаний, НПФ, микрофинансовых организаций, а также сервисы удаленного банковского обслуживания. Cbonds API – услуга, предоставляющая возможность получать данные по финансовым инструментам в структурированном виде напрямую из БД Cbonds и загружать их в клиентское ПО. Сервис Cbonds API поможет автоматизировать внутренние бизнес-процессы, уменьшить количество ошибок и влияния "человеческого фактора» при сборе и обработке данных, и улучшить качество используемой информации. С помощью Cbonds API возможно получение данных как по российскому финансовому рынку, так и по иностранным ценным бумагам. В ходе семинара спикеры рассказали о возможностях Cbonds API в разработке мобильных приложений, поделились опытом разработки и внедрения мобильного приложения с использованием данных Cbonds, рассмотрели основные клиентские кейсы и рассказали подробнее о самых интересных реализованных идеях. Подробнее ознакомиться с презентациями, представленными на семинаре, можно здесь: https://cbonds-congress.ru/events/118... Контакты: Ольга Штепа, Руководитель по развитию Cbonds API - o.shtepa@cbonds.info Константин Гуськов, генеральный директор CloudFactory - 8 (916) 502-52-76, guskov@cloudfactory.ru Екатерина Фойт, коммерческий директор CloudFactory - 8 (927) 656-43-94, efoyt@cloudfactory.ru

Ed takes us on a guided tour of Odin Intelligence, SweepWizard, CloudFactory and other tech bullshit that sounds like embarrassing nonsense while also contributing in their own way to monetizing, mobilizing, and heightening the eschaton. Stuff we reference: ••• Police Contractor That Promised to Track Homeless People Hacked https://www.vice.com/en/article/xgyjnq/odin-intelligence-hacked ••• Crime App ‘Citizen' Fires Overseas $2 an Hour Workers https://www.vice.com/en/article/pkg5nk/citizen-fires-overseas-kenya-nepal-workers-cloudfactory ••• CNET pauses publishing AI-written stories after disclosure controversy https://www.theverge.com/2023/1/20/23564311/cnet-pausing-ai-articles-bot-red-ventures Subscribe to hear more analysis and commentary in our premium episodes every week! https://www.patreon.com/thismachinekills Grab TMK gear: https://www.bonfire.com/store/this-machine-kills-podcast/ Hosted by Jathan Sadowski (www.twitter.com/jathansadowski) and Edward Ongweso Jr. (www.twitter.com/bigblackjacobin). Production / Music by Jereme Brown (www.twitter.com/braunestahl)

Dal AI Summit 2022 di Londra, intervista a Andy Minshall - Head of Client Success, EMEA - CloudFactory.

This week, we welcome Bay Area DJ, @ChlorAmor, with her groovy, funky mix recorded live from Unison 8! Enjoy the mix! For details on upcoming Unison events, sign up for our mailing list at https://unison.substack.com. About ChlorAmor: Jade Juhl (aka ChlorAmor, aka Grace Dangerous) has been DJing a variety of house, techno, and chill music for more than two decades. She got her start in the San Francisco Bay Area underground rave scene as a member of several collectives, including Cloudfactory, Predawn, Epiphany, and Friends and Family. In recent years, she has played regularly for Rhythm Society, Frolic, Chillits, and other groups and events. More from ChlorAmor: Soundcloud: soundcloud.com/chloramor Instagram: instagram.com/chloramor Twitch: twitch.tv/chloramor

In this HCI Podcast episode, Dr. Jonathan H. Westover talks with Andrew Binns about leading disruption by ideating, incubating, and scaling new businesses inside existing organizations. See the video here: https://youtu.be/LYUTLRi2phg. Andrew Binns (https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewjmbinns/) is the co-founder and managing principal of Change Logic, a strategic innovation advisory firm focused on helping CEOs and senior teams. Andy has over 30 years of expertise in corporate entrepreneurship, innovation, and the future of business. He most recently has worked with clients including Intel, UNIQA, Analog Devices, IMCA, CUNA, CloudFactory, The Atlanta Opera, Zoox, and LexisNexis. Andy is also a frequent guest speaker and lecturer both for companies and business schools. Andy has published widely, including as co-author of ‘Three Disciplines of Innovation' in the California Management Review (named Best Article 2020),  'Ambidextrous CEO' in the Harvard Business Review, the 'Art of Strategic Renewal' in the MIT Sloan Management Review and a book chapter on 'Getting Started with Ambidexterity'. He is an Executive Fellow in the Center for Future Organization at the Drucker School of Management. Check out Dr. Westover's new book, The Alchemy of Truly Remarkable Leadership, here: https://www.innovativehumancapital.com/leadershipalchemy. Check out the latest issue of the Human Capital Leadership magazine, here: https://www.innovativehumancapital.com/hci-magazine. Ranked in the Top 10 Performance Management Podcasts: https://blog.feedspot.com/performance_management_podcasts/ ; Ranked in the Top 10 Workplace Podcasts: https://blog.feedspot.com/workplace_podcasts/ ; Ranked in the Top 15 HR Podcasts: https://blog.feedspot.com/hr_podcasts/ ; Ranked in the Top 15 Talent Management Podcasts: https://blog.feedspot.com/talent_management_podcasts/ ; Ranked in the Top 15 Personal Development and Self-Improvement Podcasts: https://blog.feedspot.com/personal_development_podcasts/ ; Ranked in the Top 30 Leadership Podcasts: https://blog.feedspot.com/leadership_podcasts/

“I’m so excited about this role because I love the mission of CloudFactory. … We have thousands and thousands of these workers that do things like data annotation and data processing for CloudFactory’s clients, and the kind of transformation that CloudFactory has brought to these folks’ lives was so inspiring.”  – Keith McCormick, Chief Data Science Advisor at CloudFactory  Welcome to OneTAKE Live! In this episode, host Ian Barkin speaks with Keith McCormick, the chief data science advisor at CloudFactory, about the complex world of big data, the value of democratizing analysis in an organization, how best to utilize analytics as a predictive tool, and much more!   There’s more data online than ever before — and when you apply just the right predictive model, sometimes it’s possible for organizations to effectively predict the future itself.   But you don’t start with a model; you start with raw, unstructured data. And selecting what variables you consider is where it gets complicated, according to Keith.  “There are still things that humans do so much faster and so much more effectively than the machines, and you’re selling the model short if you don’t widen the data set with those additional sources of information,” Keith explains, referencing an exercise he uses to teach data set modeling where students are asked to design a system to predict lost baggage at airports. “You could look at things like, ‘When did I check in?’ ‘When was the time of the flight?’ ‘Was there a connection?’ You can build a model just based on that structured data, but if you want a really good model, somewhere in there, there was a customer service interaction the day before the flight — you know, something like, ‘Am I allowed to bring this with me?’ or whatever. And if you bring that data in, then you’re going to do better.”   Join us and learn more about how big data and complex analytics are changing how we predict what’s coming next in the future of work on OneTAKE Live!  Episode ResourcesSYKES  Jobs.SYKES.com  SYKES Quarterly  IADSS CloudFactory Keith McCormick LinkedIn Course (Mentioned) Mark Sears OneTAKE (Mentioned) Ian Barkin LinkedIn Learning: Introducing Robotic Process Automation (Mentioned)  

Welcome to the new season of The Doers Season 4, where leaders from across the business spectrum share ideas about how to help build you organization whether working in the non-profit, public or private sectors you will hear tips from emerging or recognized leader that is sure to lighten or inspire.In this episode, we speak  with Anil Ghimire - Aakar, about the mindset right now during COVDID Guest: Anil Ghimire - Aakar https://www.instagram.com/aakarpost/ Host: Anup Ghimire https://www.instagram.com/ghimire.anup/   As always, we're a new podcast with a lot to learn so send us your thoughts, comments, and suggestions either by email (thedoers.2019@gmail.com) We are glad to have IME Pay on board as our Title Sponsor. IME Pay Instant, Hassle-Free, Secured and Reliable services reflect in their brand. https://www.instagram.com/imepaynepal/ We are glad to have ACCA on board as our Knowledge partner. ACCA is a global body for professional accountants. https://www.instagram.com/acca.nepal/   Visit our Website: www.thedoresnepal.com The Doers Nepal, Get Inspired. Be a Doer.

“Impact sourcing is just sourcing, but with a different set of goals.” – Mark Sears How do you make the smartest possible impact? It’s important to use resources effectively but, how do dynamic companies leverage knowledge to work smarter? What about doing good for others? Impact sourcing — responsible outsourcing — might just be the solution that the world needs. Join us this for this week’s episode of OneTAKE Live where Ian speaks with Mark Sears, founder and CEO of CloudFactory, about how strategic companies and powerful machines can work together to impact the future of work — for good. A longtime friend of Ian, Mark has extensive experience as a service innovator, offering high quality solutions for many of the worlds’ problems. His company, CloudFactory, is driven to innovate; focusing on providing opportunity in underserved communities. Though Mark sees his work as for-profit, his mission worldwide brings important access to individuals around the globe that need it most. Though Mark is an entrepreneur, his purpose is to energize underserved global communities, taking advantage of smart automation and data to create success for everyone involved.   Also discussed: how for-profit companies can enact non-profit change, augmenting and supporting innovative, trained data solutions as well as how companies can leverage technology to reach long-term success.Episode ResourcesSYKESJobs.SYKES.com  

It’s no secret that everyone’s day-to-day lives have been turned upside down by the coronavirus. So, in light of current events—the pandemic, along with its economic and social effects—we wanted to bring on a guest to speak into what we’re all experiencing. That’s what brings us to Mark Sears, Founder and CEO of CloudFactory. CloudFactory is using technology to create meaningful work for as many people as possible by building the best on-demand digital workforce known to man. Early on in Mark’s entrepreneurial journey, he faced a global crisis and the way he led his business during that time is an example for Faith Driven Entrepreneurs everywhere. And today, as he leads a company with thousands of employees who live all over the globe, he’s living and working right in the heart of this crisis.So, if you’re feeling a bit lost, overwhelmed, confused, or scared during these trying times, let Mark’s words be a source of encouragement.As always, thanks for listening and stay safe out there!Useful Links:Mark Sears - PraxisCloudFactoryRising Above the DebrisNepal Earthquake

Courtney Wilson has been at CloudFactory for over 5 years and was instrumental in building the marketing infrastructure, programs, and team that transformed the company from its early startup days into what it is now. However, there comes a time when we must pursue other opportunities in order to grow and evolve. Listen as Courtney reflects on the work he’s done at CloudFactory, the legacy he will leave behind, and what the future looks like.

Mark Sears is the co-founder and CEO of CloudFactory which is a distributed workforce company for automating business processes. The company has raised $70 million so far from investors such as FTV Capital, Sovereign‘s Capital, The Social Entrepreneurs Fund, Rockefeller Foundation, Weatherfront Capital, and Dolma Impact Fund to name a few.

Mark Sears is the co-founder and CEO of CloudFactory which is a distributed workforce company for automating business processes. The company has raised $70 million so far from investors such as FTV Capital, Sovereign‘s Capital, The Social Entrepreneurs Fund, Rockefeller Foundation, Weatherfront Capital, and Dolma Impact Fund to name a few.

Derek Edwards is the Senior Director of Sales at CloudFactory where he is leading a team of SDRs and AEs to help their clients with machine learning and agile data. Coaching should be something that is done on a day to day basis and not just when something is wrong. In this episode, we dive into the strategy that you need to have to do coaching properly with your reps and how to forecast accurately.

In der nunmehr zwölften Episode reden wir über das Deployment von Webapplikationen. Themen waren diesmal:   Soll man einen eigenen Server mieten oder doch lieber eine fertige Plattform zum Hosten benutzen? Wie kommt der Code eigentlich auf die Maschine? Was für Services müssen für eine Webapplikation üblicherweise so laufen?   Shownotes Unsere E-Mail für Fragen, Anregungen & Kommentare: hallo@python-podcast.de News aus der Szene Django for Professionals Data Labeling That You Can Feel Good About - Episode 89 mit Cloudfactory Unterstützungsanfrage für Pretalx auf dem CCCamp2019 Projektmanagement Software: Taiga, Trello, Jira Episode #216: Digging into Visual Studio Code PySimpleGUI EPISODE 021 Django Co-Creator - Simon Willison Deployment von Webapplikationen Domain Name System Comic, der DNS erklärt IaaS vs PaaS vs SaaS Divio Wagtail und Django-CMS Hosting Heroku, Pythonanywhere EC2, Lightsale, Digitalocean, Container bei Hetzner Docker, Docker-Compose, Vagrant Ansible, Chef and Puppet, SaltStack Redis, Varnish Caddy, Whitenoise Gunicorn, uWSGI Celery, Flower ownCloud, Dropbox, Google Drive Let's Encrypt OpenVPN MQTT, GraphQL daphne Öffentliches Tag auf konektom

Successful machine learning and artificial intelligence projects require large volumes of data that is properly labelled. The challenge is that most data is not clean and well annotated, requiring a scalable data labeling process. Ideally this process can be done using the tools and systems that already power your analytics, rather than sending data into a black box. In this episode Mark Sears, CEO of CloudFactory, explains how he and his team built a platform that provides valuable service to businesses and meaningful work to developing nations. He shares the lessons learned in the early years of growing the business, the strategies that have allowed them to scale and train their workforce, and the benefits of working within their customer's existing platforms. He also shares some valuable insights into the current state of the art for machine learning in the real world.

Ryan O'Donnell - the Host of PeopleTalk - talks with Elijah Elkins at CloudFactory about Recruiting as a Mission on this episode of PeopleTalk. This episode is proudly sponsored by EmployUs. EmployUs is building a people success platform to help companies recruit and retain their employees. Find out more about EmployUs by visiting their website www.employus.com

We interview Mark Sears founder and CEO of the company CloudFactory - a Kathmandu based AI firm. We discuss Mark's philosophy and how this technology can bring new jobs and opportunities to people far away from the normal tech hubs of the world. Links: CloudFactory @marktsears Follow us and leave us a rating! iTunes Homepage Twitter @artlyintelly Facebook

After doing tech startups in Canada and the US for about 10 years, Mark Sears lived in Nepal for 6 years building CloudFactory. He is driven daily by his passion for technology, business and people. Mark lived in Durham, NC the last 3 years to help grow sales and marketing and now is building out CloudFactory’s global HQ in Reading, UK. Mark’s better half is his beautiful wife Laurel and together they have a lot of fun seeing the world through the eyes of their children Noah and Maya. He started his career as a software developer with Sun Microsystems before finding his groove in the world of startups. Moving into technology evangelism and product management roles he helped a 5 person startup grow to 130 employees across 4 international offices after raising $48 million in venture capital. Mark then raised angel investment, launched and managed his own startup company for 6 years before coming to Nepal and starting the CloudFactory adventure. It isn’t enough to have full-time employees that live in the same location you do anymore. You need to have access to the best talent in the world, and it’s highly likely that those people don’t live within 30 miles of your office. Luckily, there are a lot of options to fill out your business. When you have an important project come along that requires a specific skill to complete, you don’t need to hire a full-time employee to do that work. You can work with a consultant, contractor, freelancer, agency, or a variety of other options to help get that work done, and they don’t have to live in the same city you do. This idea of how to supplement your business using outside talent is one of the topics I talked to my guest Mark Sears about. Mark loves this strategy because it allows your in-house team to focus on the core parts of your business while allowing you to leverage on-demand talent at a high level with really expensive experts but only using them when you need them. Mark says leveraging talent in this way is going to become critical in the years to come. “It’s a huge competitive advantage when you can learn to tap into the talent of the world…when you can build a culture that allows people to really interact and collaborate with your organization no matter where they sit in the world. Those are competitive advantages that are pretty much going to be table steaks in the coming years.” So, next time you’re thinking about hiring someone new because you need some extra capacity, think “how would I do this if I’d never done it any other way before.” If you typically resort to hiring full-time people in your area, that’s not going to suit you well in the long run. That was one of the nuggets from my conversation with Mark Sears that stood out the most to me. Please let me know which stood out the most to you. Thank you for listening today! I appreciate your time so very much. Ways to contact Mark: Website: www.cloudfactory.com Twitter: @marktsears Email: mark@cloudfactory.com

Did you ever go on vacation and never want to come back? Mark Sears is the founder and CEO of Cloudfactory, a tech savvy  outsourcing company he started after he extended a planned two week vacation to Nepal with his wife.  Really.  Listen to episode 24 to hear Mark describe why he stayed to teach Ruby-on-Rails and how now his company provides a "cloud labor" force that is supporting many new artificial intelligence applications and the arms race of self driving cars.   #Kathmandu #Nepal #durhamnc #selfdrivingcars www.cloudfactory.com @marktsears mark@cloudfactory.com @thecloudfactory 03:40s Are we all going to lose our jobs? The future of work 05:42s Speed of change and how it’s affecting job functions 07:55s Machine learning, supervised learning and unsupervised learning 10:32s The human labor component behind artificial intelligence for supervised learning 16:20s Traveling to Kathmandu, Nepal; staying and starting Cloudfactory 19:47s Learning Nepali’s leave their country for two years at a time for opportunity 20:45s Extending a vacation, and teaching Ruby on Rails 23:50s Starting Cloudfactory to offer a tech savvy, outsourced labor service 28:08s Cloudfactory use cases - artificial intelligence work streams 33:02s The arms race of creating training data for self-driving cars 35:25s Cloudfactory mission of creating meaningful work and fostering innovation 38:35s Talent is equally distributed but opportunity is not 41:30s Expanding internet access and the next decade of work, a flattening world 48:15s Continued reinvention with traveling: living / working in different countries “Work is about to be completely disrupted, but it’s just changing. It’s certainly not a matter of there being nothing left for us to do. It’s an opportunity for us to continue working on higher order things” Enjoy this episode? Share it with friends! Click Subscribe in Itunes

My guest today is a CEO, world traveler, and social entrepreneur. He is the founder of CloudFactory. Back in 2008 he and his wife went to Nepal for a two-week vacation — they ended up staying for six years. From training three young Nepali developers around one iMac, he has started and grown CloudFactory into 175 full-time staff and 2500+ part-time cloud workers on three continents. In this conversation, we discuss the ’land and expand’ strategy, scaling tech and people, and building a managed marketplace from scratch. Now, let’s hack… Mark Sears.

DEEP DIVE INTO THE UNKNOWN Life on a placid lake or an unpredictable winding river? Which would you choose? The real question is – would you choose life within your comfort zone or life way beyond comfort and safety? Would you choose to close your eyes and dive into the unknown? Mark Sears chose the unknown. That part of his story began with a vacation to Nepal in the Himalayan mountains. A vacation that became the rest of his life. Discover how Mark’s bold choice led to his enormous success as an entrepreneur. Discover how his success impacted the lives of people around the world. Discover the magic that happens when you marry entrepreneurship with contribution. Discover how the money mindset and the giving mindset can enrich each other and live in harmony. Along the way, you may discover your own new more empowering story. BOOKS IN THIS PODCAST The Good Jobs Strategy: How the Smartest Companies Invest in Employees to Lower Costs and Boost Profits by Zaynep Ton Bold: How to Go Big, Create Wealth and Impact the World by Peter Diamandis and Steven Kotler MARK’S FAVORITE QUOTE “Talent is equally distributed but opportunity is not.” – Leila Janah CONTACT MARK www.CloudFactory.com (https://www.cloudfactory.com/) @marktsears (https://twitter.com/marktsears) mark@cloudfactory.com Tell us what you think and feel. Click “Join The Conversation” below. Let your voice be heard.

About Mark Sears After doing tech startups in Canada and the US for about 10 years, Mark Sears has spent the last 4 years living in Nepal and using his unique blend of technology and business experience to develop CloudFactory towards creating work for 1 million people. What started with Mark training four young Nepali computer engineers around one iMac on a kitchen table has grown into a multinational company with 175 full-time staff and 2500+ part-time data specialists. Mark Sears began his career as a software developer with Sun Microsystems before finding his groove in the world of startups. Moving into technology evangelism and product management roles he helped a 5 person startup grow to 130 employees across 4 international offices after raising $48 million in venture capital. Mark then raised angel investment, launched and managed his own startup company for 6 years before coming to Nepal and starting the CloudFactory adventure. CloudFactory is an on-demand workforce to make data valuable. The CloudFactory team is the human infrastructure behind many great venture-backed startups, and also the assistance behind helping tech companies train their machine learning algorithms. The CloudFactory solutions team, work platform and cloud workforce come together to process hundreds of millions of tasks like data capture from receipts/invoices/medical forms, video captioning, image tagging/moderation, and human-powered screen scraping. Connect with Mark Sears cloudfactory.com Linkedin episode 293

About Mark Sears After doing tech startups in Canada and the US for about 10 years, Mark Sears has spent the last 4 years living in Nepal and using his unique blend of technology and business experience to develop CloudFactory towards creating work for 1 million people. What started with Mark training four young Nepali computer engineers around one iMac on a kitchen table has grown into a multinational company with 175 full-time staff and 2500+ part-time data specialists. Mark Sears began his career as a software developer with Sun Microsystems before finding his groove in the world of startups. Moving into technology evangelism and product management roles he helped a 5 person startup grow to 130 employees across 4 international offices after raising $48 million in venture capital. Mark then raised angel investment, launched and managed his own startup company for 6 years before coming to Nepal and starting the CloudFactory adventure. CloudFactory is an on-demand workforce to make data valuable. The CloudFactory team is the human infrastructure behind many great venture-backed startups, and also the assistance behind helping tech companies train their machine learning algorithms. The CloudFactory solutions team, work platform and cloud workforce come together to process hundreds of millions of tasks like data capture from receipts/invoices/medical forms, video captioning, image tagging/moderation, and human-powered screen scraping. Connect with Mark Sears cloudfactory.com Linkedin episode 293

About Mark Sears After doing tech startups in Canada and the US for about 10 years, Mark Sears has spent the last 4 years living in Nepal and using his unique blend of technology and business experience to develop CloudFactory towards creating work for 1 million people. What started with Mark training four young Nepali computer engineers around one iMac on a kitchen table has grown into a multinational company with 175 full-time staff and 2500+ part-time data specialists. Mark Sears began his career as a software developer with Sun Microsystems before finding his groove in the world of startups. Moving into technology evangelism and product management roles he helped a 5 person startup grow to 130 employees across 4 international offices after raising $48 million in venture capital. Mark then raised angel investment, launched and managed his own startup company for 6 years before coming to Nepal and starting the CloudFactory adventure. CloudFactory is an on-demand workforce to make data valuable. The CloudFactory team is the human infrastructure behind many great venture-backed startups, and also the assistance behind helping tech companies train their machine learning algorithms. The CloudFactory solutions team, work platform and cloud workforce come together to process hundreds of millions of tasks like data capture from receipts/invoices/medical forms, video captioning, image tagging/moderation, and human-powered screen scraping. Connect with Mark Sears cloudfactory.com Linkedin episode 293

About Mark Sears After doing tech startups in Canada and the US for about 10 years, Mark Sears has spent the last 4 years living in Nepal and using his unique blend of technology and business experience to develop CloudFactory towards creating work for 1 million people. What started with Mark training four young Nepali computer engineers around one iMac on a kitchen table has grown into a multinational company with 175 full-time staff and 2500+ part-time data specialists. Mark Sears began his career as a software developer with Sun Microsystems before finding his groove in the world of startups. Moving into technology evangelism and product management roles he helped a 5 person startup grow to 130 employees across 4 international offices after raising $48 million in venture capital. Mark then raised angel investment, launched and managed his own startup company for 6 years before coming to Nepal and starting the CloudFactory adventure. CloudFactory is an on-demand workforce to make data valuable. The CloudFactory team is the human infrastructure behind many great venture-backed startups, and also the assistance behind helping tech companies train their machine learning algorithms. The CloudFactory solutions team, work platform and cloud workforce come together to process hundreds of millions of tasks like data capture from receipts/invoices/medical forms, video captioning, image tagging/moderation, and human-powered screen scraping. Connect with Mark Sears cloudfactory.com Linkedin episode 293

Mark Sears is Founder and CEO of CloudFactory, a rapidly growing startup focused on changing how the world works by using technology to make it super easy for startups and fast-growing tech companies to scale by offloading routine, digital work so they can focus on innovation and growth. CloudFactory believes that talent is equally distributed around the world, but opportunity is not. After doing tech startups in Canada and the US for about 10 years, Mark has spent the last 6 years living in Nepal and the US, using his unique blend of technology and business experience to build CloudFactory. He started his career as a software developer with Sun Microsystems before finding his groove in the world of startups. Moving into technology evangelism and product management roles he helped a 5 person startup grow to 130 employees across 4 international offices after raising $48 million in venture capital. Mark then raised angel investment, launched and managed his own startup company for 6 years before coming to Nepal and starting the CloudFactory adventure.Learn More: www.cloudfactory.comInfluential Influencers with Mike Saundershttp://businessinnovatorsradio.com/influential-entrepreneurs-with-mike-saunders/

Mark Sears is Founder and CEO of CloudFactory, a rapidly growing startup focused on changing how the world works by using technology to make it super easy for startups and fast-growing tech companies to scale by offloading routine, digital work so they can focus on innovation and growth. CloudFactory believes that talent is equally distributed around the world, but opportunity is not. After doing tech startups in Canada and the US for about 10 years, Mark has spent the last 6 years living in Nepal and the US, using his unique blend of technology and business experience to build CloudFactory. He started his career as a software developer with Sun Microsystems before finding his groove in the world of startups. Moving into technology evangelism and product management roles he helped a 5 person startup grow to 130 employees across 4 international offices after raising $48 million in venture capital. Mark then raised angel investment, launched and managed his own startup company for 6 years before coming to Nepal and starting the CloudFactory adventure.Learn More: www.cloudfactory.comInfluential Influencers with Mike Saundershttp://businessinnovatorsradio.com/influential-entrepreneurs-with-mike-saunders/

Anders and Scott discuss Mark Sears' CloudFactory.com, decentralized workers and starting a business in another country.

Featured Guest - Noelle LaCharite, Principal PM at Microsoft AI Noelle shared her thoughts on Microsoft’s recent Build conference on new product releases Partner Alexa with Cortana Both David and Noelle will be Guest Speakers at Voice Summit in July in NJ Microsoft’s new Translator Tool helps break the language barrier Mark Sears from CloudFactory, another guest on a future HumAIn episode was mentioned Discussed about conversational Voices with LyreBird.ai Microsoft held a Hackathon at Abbey Road The Met has integrated AI with Microsoft for Open Access Noelle support Girls Who Code and runs the Lady Coders Conference Microsoft’s new Translation Services are called Cognitive Services Microsoft’s AI Business School helps get everyone involved in AI

On today's episode of HumAIn, Mark Sears shares about How Cloud Workers Enable Modern AI Applications.-Guest speaker: Mark Sears, CEO at CloudFactory-Megvii, designs image recognition and deep learning software that powers humanity with AI.-SenseTime, is an artificial intelligence SaaS company, based in Hong Kong.-Drive.ai, utilizes artificial intelligence to make self-driving systems for cars.-NuTonomy, makes software to build self-driving cars and autonomous mobile robots.-Elon Musk, from Tesla is mentioned with respect to autonomous vehicles and AI.-CloudFactory partnered with Safaricom Foundation, by launching a digital skills initiative in Kenya.-Marc Benioff, CEO of Salesforce, is mentioned with regards to developing work cultures among teams. You can support the HumAIn podcast and receive subscriber-only content at http://www.humainpodcast.com/subscribe.