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In the latest episode, Episode 113, our esteemed host, Fiona Pawley, engages in a captivating conversation with Gary Brotman, a fervent technology advocate serving as the Chief Executive Officer at Secondmind. With an impressive track record of over two decades, Gary has led teams dedicated to constructing and commercialising product and service lines for top-tier Fortune 500 companies and startups, with a focus on machine learning, mobility, and media. Secondmind is at the forefront of a revolutionary effort to transform the automotive industry. Delve into the discussion to discover how their cloud-based optimisation engine is empowering engineers to craft superior cars at an accelerated pace. Gain insights into Gary's distinctive approach to team-building, anchored in authenticity and diversity, which serves as a catalyst for the company's ongoing success. Join us in exploring the intersection of innovation, technology, and leadership in this insightful episode. Links: Gary Brotman, CEO, Secondmind Secondmind Leave a review! Don't forget to check out the Inside Silverstone website for more great content. Would you like to appear on the podcast? Own a business or work in/around the Silverstone business or motorsport region? Have a story or/and knowledge to share? Get in contact with Chris on insidesilverstone@longhurst.co.uk, or reach out on Twitter @SilverstonePod. ABOUT THE HOSTS Chris Broome Chris is first and foremost a big tech, motor-sport, and gaming fan. So the opportunity to host a podcast focusing on these topics was too good to turn down. In his day-to-day life Chris is a Chartered Financial Planner and Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Insurers. His business, Longhurst, has a niche providing financial advice to clients and businesses who work in the tech, innovation, and engineering sectors. Their head office is located on Silverstone Park, Northamptonshire. 'A business plan without a personal plan is pointless.' Fiona Pawley Fiona brings a unique perspective to leadership and management, drawing from her personal motorsport experience to help people learn how to better tap into their personal power, improve relationships, and establish themselves as leaders in their industry. With a focus on practical techniques and actionable strategies, Fiona's coaching and training is a valuable resource for anyone looking to improve their leadership and management skills. Her aim is to provide a bespoke and enjoyable coaching or training experience, tailored for personal and business needs, helping individuals unleash their potential and make the key changes they need. Whether you're a seasoned business owner or just starting out, the Inside Silverstone podcast is for you. So, tune in and let's explore the world of business together.
After a first rainy visit to Cambridge, in 2019 Gary Brotman made the decision to move his family here to take on a great opportunity with a startup.Gary joined as VP product and marketing and set straight to rebranding the company to Secondmind. He added discipline in product development and commercialisation, and a real sense of purpose, resulting in an opportunity to take on the role of CEO.Gary talks to us about the move to the UK, navigating changes in direction, restructuring, funding and operating in and after a pandemic, plus so much more.We also find out about how the Machine Learning company helps engineers in the automotive industry make better decisions (see also a report by analyst house Frost & Sullivan about the future of automotive product development, featuring Secondmind https://www.secondmind.ai/insights/cloud-based-ml-the-catalyst-transforming-automotive-product-development/)Produced by Carl Homer, Cambridge TV. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
CAREER-VIEW MIRROR - biographies of colleagues in the automotive and mobility industries.
Get set for a roller-coaster ride through the captivating career of Gary Brotman, CEO of Secondmind. Prepare to be hooked as we journey from the dancefloor to the driver's seat, mapping how this former professional DJ and PR whizz now uses his skills to help automotive engineers make cars smarter and faster. It's a story of art and architecture, of music, tech and machines, and ultimately, of mastering the art of storytelling in a rapidly digitizing world.Gary spills the beans on his teenage love affair with a Datsun 280ZX, his battle with imposter syndrome, and how a passion for storytelling played a pivotal role in his transition from PR to product. Listen closely as we wind our way through the digital music ecosystem, with pitstops at Qualcomm, Yahoo, and Musicmatch. You'll hear tales of pitching digital jukeboxes, the launch of the Neural Processing Unit (NPU), and how a knack for telling stories helped Gary to shape the narrative around AI and mobile technology.Finally, we park up at Secondmind, where Gary uses his wealth of experiences to revolutionize the automotive industry. You'll learn how this cloud-based optimization engine is helping engineers to design better cars, faster, and how Gary's unique approach to team-building - rooted in authenticity and diversity - is driving success. So buckle up and join us for an unforgettable ride through the intersection of tech, music, and the automotive world. Be prepared, we're going to change gears and accelerate swiftly into the future!Reach out to Gary:LinkedIn: Gary BrotmanWebsite: SecondmindThank you to our sponsors:ASKE ConsultingEmail: hello@askeconsulting.co.ukAquilaeEmail: cvm@aquilae.co.ukEpisode Directory on Instagram @careerviewmirror If you enjoy listening to our guests career stories, please follow CAREER-VIEW MIRROR in your podcast app. Episode recorded on 29 June, 2023
Designing a car is hard.
The automotive industry is in transformation. Whilst the sector has made huge strides to reduce its environmental impact, pressure to do more increases each day. The result is an engineering design process that is orders of magnitude more complex than anything faced before. Secondmind is on a mission to help automotive manufacturers navigate the increasing complexity of engineering design in its transition to electrification. The technology is underpinned by years of award-winning, practical machine learning and artificial intelligence technology to design cleaner cars, and achieve greater sustainability. Gary Brotman, the newly appointed CEO of Secondmind joins me on the Tech talks Daily Podcast. We discuss how the role of technology will continue to increase as automotive manufacturers move away from creating hardware to software. Gary also shares how AI/ML technology will gradually lead to new approaches like digital twinning and simulation-led manufacturing with AI/ML technology at the forefront. We also talk about the future of automotive and the transition to green will be a multi-decade journey for the industry. It's a complex problem facing the industry on the road to greener mobility beyond fuel emissions. But Gary reveals how Secondmind's technology is helping automotive brands prepare for this future.
Gary Brotman is the CEO at Secondmind - a UK start-up who've raised $51m from VCs like Amadeus, Atlantic Bridge & Passion Capital to help companies achieve sustainability through machine learning. We explored: Is building a purpose-driven culture and brand crucial for any business looking to become a market leader? How does Secondmind leverage ML to help automotive innovators meet future environmental and regulatory challenges? How can you find the signal in the noise to solve business problems? Why are usability and trust top priorities for any SaaS venture? How can SaaS ventures overcome the challenge of scaling products from research “magic” to impactful commercial products? For more insights into Secondmind check out https://www.secondmind.ai/ For advice on successfully scaling B2B software ventures head over to https://alpinasearch.com/
About a year and a half ago, we sat down with our in-house experts Gary Brotman and Kristin Wyman to discuss AI — what it is, how it differs from machine learning and deep learning, and the frameworks for deploying it. To say a lot’s changed since that podcast would be an understatement. Today, we’re catching up and digging a little deeper. One of the biggest evolutions in AI — and a key step in making it ubiquitous — is the transitioning of intelligence to the edge. Smartphones equipped with our on-device AI technologies are engineered to deliver superior, more security-focused user experiences without interruption (just in case you lose your connection). Proof point? Google Lens. The visual search product, which is “giving Google eyes,” is a great example of the powerful utility of on-device AI. While it’s simple to use, behind the scenes it’s anything but. Here to talk about Google Lens, the computer vision that powers it, and the future of smartphones are two of our friends at Google: Director of Product Management for Google Lens Eddie Chung and Director of Product Management for Android AI and Camera Products. Brahim Elbouchikhi . Gary and Kristin are back in the studio with us, too.
This Week in Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence (AI) Podcast
Today we’re joined by Jeff Gehlhaar, VP of Technology and Head of AI Software Platforms at Qualcomm. As we’ve explored in our conversations with both Gary Brotman and Max Welling, Qualcomm has a hand in tons of machine learning research and hardware, and our conversation with Jeff is no different. We discuss: • How the various training frameworks fit into the developer experience when working with their chipsets. • Examples of federated learning in the wild. • The role inference will play in data center devices and more. The complete show notes for this episode can be found at twimlai.com/talk/280. Register for TWIMLcon now at twimlcon.com. Thanks to Qualcomm for their sponsorship of today's episode! Check out what they're up to at twimlai.com/qualcomm.
You don’t have to be an audiophile to get excited for the new and improved AI-enabled audio experiences coming your way. We’re talking personalization, next-gen voice control (that can even function without an internet connection) and premium audio that is bold like never before. Dated multi-speaker surround sound is out, gigantic speaker systems are out, because more immersive audio will soon be available in a wide range of devices across form factors and tiers — from the smart assistants to hi-fidelity soundbars. The future of audio is as much about how your devices listen to you as it is about how you listen to them. And that’s why the new Qualcomm QCS400 SoCs were specifically engineered for the IoT world. In addition to delivering premium sound, they’re enabling some of the most intelligent audio experiences to date. In this episode, we chat with Stephanie Rogers from our Voice and Music team and Gary Brotman from our AI team to learn more about these new SoCs and the future of audio.
This Week in Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence (AI) Podcast
Today we’re joined by Gary Brotman, Senior Director of Product Management at Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. Gary, who got his start in AI through music, now leads strategy and product planning for the company’s Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning technologies, including those that make up the Qualcomm Snapdragon mobile platforms. In our conversation, we discuss AI on mobile devices and at the edge, including popular use cases, and explore some of the various acceleration technologies offered by Qualcomm and others that enable them. We also dig into the state of AI on devices from the application developer’s perspective, and how various acceleration technologies fit together to help developers bring new products to market. Thanks to our friends at Qualcomm for sponsoring today’s show! As you’ll hear in the conversation with Gary, Qualcomm has been in the AI space for well over a decade now, powering some of the latest and greatest Android devices with their Snapdragon chipset. With their strong footing in the mobile chipset space, Qualcomm now has the goal of making AI at the edge ubiquitous, beyond mobile devices. To find out more about what they’re up to, and how they plan to get there, visit twimlai.com/qualcomm. The complete show notes for this episode can be found at twimlai.com/talk/223.
As opposed to many other leaders in AI, the team at Qualcomm is a leader in edge computing that's conducted research for the past decade focused on optimizing, improving, and embracing machine learning and general AI algorithms on mobile processors without the need for a connection to the cloud. So, what's the advantage of on-device computing versus AI cloud players? Aside from improvements in energy consumption, there are actually three that are driving product development: performance, privacy, and reliability. Since 2008, Qualcomm has been looking into neural networks and deep learning, but the past three years have brought an influx of compute capability and an abundance of algorithmic data, which lead to Qualcomm's release of one of the first mobile AI platforms and the Snapdragon 820 processor. Since then, Qualcomm has made numerous new developments and optimizations. Tune in to hear the details and to learn what's on the horizon. To reach out for collaborations or find out about the latest developments, visit developer.qualcomm.com.
How do artificial intelligence and augmented reality work together? Now that you’ve learned the basics of AI, machine learning, deep learning, and neural networks (episode 11), and discovered the world of possibilities with AI and the IoT (episode 12), you’re finally ready to… stick a star on your face? Join our host PJ Jacobowitz for part three of our conversation with AI gurus Gary Brotman and Kristin Wyman to dig into the world of style transfers, filters, stickers, healthcare, and more. More at https://www.qualcomm.com/artificial-intelligence
Artificial Intelligence. The Internet of Things. Host PJ Jacobowitz continues the AI conversation with Gary Brotman and Kristin Wyman, to find out what happens when these tech buzzwords meet. Learn how devices that collaborate can create a personalized experience, what the 5G connection is, and whether you should you care if communication is happening in the cloud or on edge devices. We talk Tesla, distributed learning, and somehow what PJ wants in his fridge.
Join our host PJ on the frontlines of AI. Our resident experts Gary Brotman and Kristin Wyman take us through the basics and explain the differences between artificial intelligence, machine learning and deep learning. We also discuss the different languages, or frameworks, for deploying AI, the show PJ can’t believe he doesn’t watch, and how cool “spiking neural networks” sounds.