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AI may be having a moment, but for Jana Eggers, it's been a career. Jana is the CEO of Nara Logics, an AI Advisor software company, and she's been building in AI long before it became a buzzword. In this episode live from Startup Boston Week, we talk about separating AI hype from utility, why AI should be built for subject matter experts (not just technical ones), and why she believes AI augments human intelligence, but doesn't mimic it. Also, stick around for one of the best lightning rounds we've ever done.Like this episode? Be sure to leave a ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ review and share the pod with your friends! You can connect with Sean on LinkedIn or subscribe to our YouTube channel.Want to work with Sean? Reach out to him and the team at BeaconGTM to help with GTM execution at your company.Anyone interested in ordering The Revenue Operations Manual can go here and use the code REVOPS20 for 20% off (or buy from any of your preferred booksellers here)!

Hosts Laurie Fitz, Mia Roberts, and Rick Bernardo visit with Nara Logics’ CEO and Board Member, Jana Eggers, for this 2nd broadcast following our 3/1/25 show about AI: In the people-centric restaurant industry, how is AI impacting the business today and how will it in the future? Most every one of us has experience on various…

Hosts Laurie Fitz and Rick Bernardo visit with Nara Logics‘ CEO and Board Member, Jana Eggers, for “What the Heck Is A.I.?” If you want to begin coming to grips with AI—its past and its future implications—now’s your chance. With over 30 years of technology and leadership experience from Intuit, Lycos, American Airlines, Los Alamos National Laboratory, and…

Episode Summary In this episode of Sunny Side Up, Chris Moody interviews Jana Eggers on explainability, trends, and tools in AI marketing. Jana emphasizes the need for transparency to identify and correct biases, urging the prioritization of user needs over technological capabilities. She argues that explainability should not be an afterthought but a fundamental aspect of AI. Chris and Jana discuss trends in AI-driven personalization in marketing, pointing out the need for more nuanced feedback mechanisms. The conversation then shifts to best practices for utilizing AI in marketing strategies. Jana advises a balanced approach, combining trust in AI with human expertise and scepticism.  About the Guest Jana Eggers is CEO of the neuroscience-inspired artificial intelligence platform company Nara Logics. She's an experienced tech exec focused on inspiring teams to build great products. She's started and grown companies and has also led large organizations at public companies. She is active in customer-inspired innovation, the artificial intelligence industry, as well as running and triathlons. She's held technology and executive positions at Intuit, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Basis Technology, Lycos, American Airlines, Spreadshirt, and more.  Connect with Jana Eggers Key Takeaways - Understanding the reasoning behind AI's decisions is crucial for practical sales, marketing, and healthcare applications. - Transparency in AI helps identify and correct biases, ensuring fair and ethical use of technology. - Prioritise understanding user needs over purely focusing on technological capabilities. - Explainability in AI should be viewed not as an add-on but as a crucial element for effective and contextualised user interaction. - Challenge the 'better results' notion to include practical usability and relevance to users' contexts. - Engaging with LLMs helps develop a broader understanding and literacy of AI among users and organisations. - Popular items can sometimes skew AI recommendations, leading to less relevant suggestions. - The goal is to evolve AI systems to a point where users feel that recommendations are genuinely tailored for them. - Don't over-trust AI; use it as a tool while maintaining critical thinking and scepticism. - Employing AI when scaling beyond human capabilities, such as handling multiple data segments, is needed. Quote "Tuning these AI systems without having that explainability is really kind of like surgery with your eyes closed." – Jana Eggers Recommended Resource  Elements of AI: https://www.elementsofai.com ⁠Connect with Jana Eggers⁠  ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠| ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Follow us on LinkedIn ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ | ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Website⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠

Jana is the CEO of AI company Nara Logics. Having worked in software dev and AI for more years than she cares to admit, this is an extremely insightful conversation around the why behind AI, how to approach it, and the value that AI brings. Importantly the difference between explainability and understandability. Jana brings a simple methodology to a complex topic.

Jana Eggers is CEO of Nara Logics. Most of the Artificial Intelligence recommendation engines are based on clustering algorithms and a limited number of parameters. Nara Logics is pushing the envelope on releasing both constraints, and going to a more granular level of personalization.

How can we understand the difference between what the AI machine sees versus what the human sees? Explainability is how (and the why). Join Jana Eggers, CEO of Nara Logics and self-proclaimed math and computer nerd, as she explains the importance of explainability in AI.

As an early or growth stage company, scaling is always top of mind. Skills are scarce and expensive, so machine learning and AI have to be the foundation you build on. And balancing this opportunity with the challenges it brings is key. On this special edition of the Georgian Impact Podcast we'll be getting insights on this fascinating topic from Alistar Croll, Beckie Wood, Leslie Fein, Harper Reed, and Jana Eggers. A group uniquely qualified to bring an expanded view of the role of an AI Project Manager. You'll hear about: The unique challenges of scale-stage growth, and what it means to software developers. How AI Product Managers must navigate between: ethics, technology, business acumen, statistics, design, and customer development. The importance of Product/Market fit, and how tools like V2MOM can help. How the wrong team, set of testers, or almost anything else can make ML and AI products behave badly. The need for a diverse team working towards a common goal, and why sometimes you need to step outside your comfortable tech bubble. Who is Alistar Croll? Alistar Croll is a visiting Professor at Harvard Business School and teaches a course entitled “Big Data and Critical Thinking.” Alistar has been directly involved in the launch of major conferences such as: O'Reilly's Strata, Techweb's Cloud Connect, and Interop's Enterprise Cloud Summit. He graduated from Dalhousie University with a B.Com (Honours) and an advanced major in Strategic Marketing. Who is Beckie Wood? Becky Wood is an advisor at VSCO, and was recently Vice President of Product Management and Insights at Pandora. While there she led both music and non-music content strategic product expansion. Along with her team, Beckie helped launch podcasts for millions of listeners and deliver personalized recommendations. She also provided data-and-user research insights that drove product strategy and prioritization decisions. Who is Leslie Fein? Leslie Fein is an advisor at a firm based in San Francisco called Enjoy the Work. Leslie and Enjoy the Work partner with CEO's and founders of startups through seed and even as far as series C and D funding, teaching the craft of entrepreneurship. Who is Harper Reed? Harper Reed is a technologist that predicts the future for a living. As the CTO of the Obama 2012 campaign Harper brought a tech mentality to a political level. As the co-founder of Modest Inc. Harper garnered the attention of PayPal with the technology he developed leading to PayPal acquiring them only a few years after launch. His roles as Head of Commerce and Entrepreneur-in-Residence at PayPal helped him guide his team into the future of e-commerce. Harper is an MIT Media Lab Director's Fellow, sits on the advisory board for IIT Computer Science and the Royal United Service Institute, and is on the Cornell College Board of Trustees.    Who is Jana Eggers? Jana Eggers is the CEO of Nara Logics, a neuroscience-based artificial intelligence company with a focus on turning big data into smart actions. Her understanding of customers and technology comes from technology and executive positions at Intuit, Blackbeard, Lycos and as CEO of Spreadshirt. Jana received her bachelor's degree in mathematics and computer science at Hendrix College, followed by graduate school at PRI and supercomputing research at Los Alamos National Laboratory.

Episode Summary: In our final episode we bring together Jana Eggers, CEO of Nara Logics, Scott Kirsner, Boston Globe columnist and CEO of Innovation Leader, and Dave Balter, CEO of Flipside Crypto, to discuss the question on every Boston entrepreneur's mind: to build in Boston or Silicon Valley? This episode is a fun and enjoyable listen where you'll get to hear each guest's opinions and theories.Uncovered in this episode: The biggest differences between the two coasts when it comes to starting a businessScott's take on why so many people who start to build in Boston end up leaving to go out West  Strategies for how to keep talented entrepreneurs in Boston The misconception that big companies aren't made in BostonWhy we should stop overthinking things in Boston and “just dance”List of resources mentioned in episode:Articles written by Scott Kirsner: https://muckrack.com/scottkirsner/articlesNara Logics website: https://naralogics.com/Flipside Crypto website: https://flipsidecrypto.com/About Jana Eggers: Jana brings over 25 years of technology and leadership experience to Nara Logics from Intuit, Lycos, American Airlines, Los Alamos National Laboratory, and startups that you've never heard of. Jana is a frequent speaker, writer, and mentor on AI and startups. She is also a marathoner (most recently completing Boston) and an Ironman.About Scott Kirsner: Scott Kirsner has written a weekly column for the Boston Globe since 2000, and before that helped the Globe launch its digital publishing division with Scott Cohen and Frank Hertz, his co-founders at Innovation Leader.Scott has also been a contributing writer for Wired Magazine, Fast Company, Variety, The New York Times, BusinessWeek, and other publications. He is the author of several books on innovation and technology, including “Inventing the Movies,” which explores the challenge of bringing new ideas to a century-old, change-resistant industry: Hollywood.Scott has presented leadership strategies to corporate leaders, technologists and entrepreneurs at Harvard Business School, the MIT R&D Conference, South by Southwest, the Consumer Electronics Show, HubSpot Inbound, Tijuana Inovadora, the Connected Health Symposium, and the NAB Futures Summit. Scott has also appeared on NBC's Today Show, NPR's Science Friday, the Discovery Channel, and WBUR's Radio Boston.About Dave Balter: Dave has been active in the cryptocurrency space for years, and has learned invaluable lessons from not buying during crypto winters and at least one wallet loss.Previously, Dave was the CEO and co-founder of Smarterer, a machine-learning skills assessment company acquired by Pluralsight in 2014. Post-acquisition, Dave was the Head of Transactions at Pluralsight, while also serving as a Board Observer.Before co-founding Smarterer in 2010, Dave founded and was CEO of BzzAgent, a social media marketing company, which was acquired by dunnhumby, a division of Tesco(PLC) in 2011. From 2011 - 2014 Dave sat on the Global Executive Team at dunnhumby, where he led all venture investments and M&A activity.Dave sits on the Board of AdHawk, is an investor and/or advisor to more than 50 startups and is Vice Chairman of Boch Center for the Performing Arts, a nonprofit steward of iconic venues, providing arts, entertainment, cultural, and educational experiences to the greater Boston community.

This week on DisrupTV, we interviewed Jana Eggers, CEO at Nara Logics, Ott Vatter, Managing Director at e-Residency, Byron Reese, CEO, Publisher & Author at Gigaom. DisrupTV is a weekly Web series with hosts R “Ray” Wang and Vala Afshar. The show airs live at 11:00 a.m. PT/ 2:00 p.m. ET every Friday. Brought to you by Constellation Executive Network: constellationr.com/CEN.

In this episode, Jon Prial talks with Jana Eggers, the CEO of Nara Logics, a company with an AI platform that works as a matching engine, helping companies connect their data. They talk about the realities of artificial intelligence, including what it's actually good for, where to use it, and how to run a successful AI project. You'll hear about: - The work that Nara Logics is doing to aggregate data - How the company's synaptic network works - Whether or not AI is a panacea - The key components of a successful AI project - How to think about AI tools and teams For more information, see the show notes: http://bit.ly/2NPwQED

Join me as I sit down with Jana Eggers, CEO of Nara Logics, and learn how they are taking a different approach to using AI to turn big data into smart actions.

This week we learn about AI from Jana Eggers, CEO of Nara Logics and creator of smart tools for big data.

This week we learn about AI from Jana Eggers, CEO of Nara Logics and creator of smart tools for big data.

Jana Eggers, a self-proclaimed math and computer nerd, is CEO of Nara Logics, a company that helps organizations use AI to eliminate data silos and unlock the full value of their data, delivering predictive personalized experiences to their customers along the way. The company leverages the latest neuroscience research to model data the same way our brains do. Jana also serves on Fannie Mae’s digital advisory board, which is tasked with finding affordable housing solutions across the United States. Prior to joining Nara Logics, Jana wore many different hats, serving as CEO of Spreadshirt, and General Manager of QuickBase at Intuit, among other positions. She also knows about good restaurants in PDX! In today’s episode, Jana and I explore her approaches to using AI to help enterprises make interesting and useful predictions that drive better business outcomes and improve customer experience. In addition to discussing how AI can help strengthen personalization and support smarter decision making, we also covered: The power of showing the whys when providing predictions (i.e., explainable AI or XAI). Jana’s thoughts on why some data scientists struggle with inflated expectations around AI Brian’s #facepalm about lipstick and data The power of what-if simulations and being able to remove factors from predictions The power of context and how Nara Logics weighs recent data vs. long-term historical data in its predictions How Nara Logics leverages the wiring of the brain—the connectome—to inspire the models they build and the decision support help they provide to customers Why AI initiatives need to consider the “AI trinity”: data, the algorithm, and the results an organization is aiming for Resources and Links: Nara Logics Follow Jana on Twitter Connect with Jana on LinkedIn Quotes from Today’s Episode “We have a platform that is really built for decision support. How do you go from having […]20 to having about 500 to 2,000 decision factors coming in? Once we get that overload of information, our tool is used to help people with those decisions. And yes, we're using a different approach than the traditional neural net, which is what deep learning is based on. While we use that in our tool, we're more on the cognitive side. [...]I've got a lot of different signals coming in, how do I understand how those signals relate to each other and then make decisions based on that?” — Jana “One of the things that we do that also stands us apart is that our AI is transparent—meaning that when we provide an answer, we also give the reasons why that is the right answer for this context. We think it is important to know what was taken into account and what factors weigh more heavily in this context than other contexts.” — Jana “It is extremely unusual—and I can even say that I've never really seen it—that people just say, Okay, I trust the machine. I’m comfortable with that. It knows more than me. That's really unusual. The only time I've seen that is when you're really doing something new and no one there has any idea what it should be.” — Jana “With regards to tech answering “why,” I’ve worked on several monitoring and analytics applications in the IT space. When doing root cause analysis, we came up with this idea of referring to monitored objects as being abnormally critical and n

Jana Eggers is a math and computer nerd who took the business path for a career. She’s CEO of Nara Logics and active in customer-inspired innovation, the artificial intelligence (AI) industry, and Autonomy/Mastery/Purpose-style leadership. Her passions are working with teams to define and deliver products customers love, algorithms, and their intelligence, and inspiring teams to do more than they thought possible. In her talk, she will address the ways that AI is already present in our lives, helping us understand what artificial intelligence is, where it’s heading, and why we should embrace it.

Jana Eggers, CEO of Nara Logics, is an expert on Artificial Intelligence. In this episode, Brian Ardinger, Founder of Inside Outside Innovation, talks with Jana about the evolution, promises, and risks of Artificial Intelligence. Jana will be speaking at the E.N. Thompson Forum, in Lincoln, NE, on Feb 26, 2019.  Highlights from the discussion: - Jana trained as a mathematician and has worked at organizations like the National Science Foundation, Los Alamos, and a search engine company where she’s always used AI as a tool.  - Computing power is now commoditized, and there's lots of data from databases like ImageNet. These changes have brought Artificial Intelligence to the forefront again. - AI examples - Calendar scheduling, language translation, Waze, and Google - Machine learning vs. AI - e.g., Artificial light vs. natural light. Ask has the machine learned? Did it calculate how to respond? Did it recognize the context? - We need to understanding AI risks, but people should have a realist attitude. Don’t run in fear. We’ll find more things to do as AI takes over the basics.  - Microsoft’s Tay has been live in China for years. Big difference in internet culture in China vs. US. Tech Companies have had major gaffes on AI applications. There is plenty of thought on how to prevent bad things from happening.  - China is using lots of data and getting practice and application with AI. Government is also investing. The US should invest in infrastructure. Could make a big difference. - In Europe, GDPR will allow us to be better custodians of our data.  - Nara Logics has an AI platform which enables engineers to put AI into their products faster. e.g., Proctor and Gamble creates advisor products using AI. One-on-one customer communication. To connect with Jana Eggers, CEO of Nara Logics, find her online or at https://naralogics.com   If you liked this episode, you might also enjoy: Ep. 107 - Azeem Azhar, Author of Exponential View,   Ep. 101 - Daniel Fozzati with IdeaLondon on System Innovation; and Ep. 80 - Ari Popper w/ SciFutures Find this episode of Inside Outside Innovation at insideoutside.io. You can also listen on Acast, iTunes, Sticher, Spotify, and Google Play FREE INNOVATION NEWSLETTER Get the latest episodes of the Inside Outside Innovation podcast, in addition to thought leadership in the form of blogs, innovation resources, videos, and invitations to exclusive events. SUBSCRIBE HERE For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

Jana Eggers, CEO of Nara Logics, is an expert on Artificial Intelligence. In this episode, Brian Ardinger, Founder of Inside Outside Innovation, talks with Jana about the evolution, promises, and risks of Artificial Intelligence. Jana will be speaking at the E.N. Thompson Forum, in Lincoln, NE, on Feb 26, 2019.  Highlights from the discussion: - Jana trained as a mathematician and has worked at organizations like the National Science Foundation, Los Alamos, and a search engine company where she’s always used AI as a tool.  - Computing power is now commoditized, and there's lots of data from databases like ImageNet. These changes have brought Artificial Intelligence to the forefront again. - AI examples - Calendar scheduling, language translation, Waze, and Google - Machine learning vs. AI - e.g., Artificial light vs. natural light. Ask has the machine learned? Did it calculate how to respond? Did it recognize the context? - We need to understanding AI risks, but people should have a realist attitude. Don’t run in fear. We’ll find more things to do as AI takes over the basics.  - Microsoft’s Tay has been live in China for years. Big difference in internet culture in China vs. US. Tech Companies have had major gaffes on AI applications. There is plenty of thought on how to prevent bad things from happening.  - China is using lots of data and getting practice and application with AI. Government is also investing. The US should invest in infrastructure. Could make a big difference. - In Europe, GDPR will allow us to be better custodians of our data.  - Nara Logics has an AI platform which enables engineers to put AI into their products faster. e.g., Proctor and Gamble creates advisor products using AI. One-on-one customer communication. To connect with Jana Eggers, CEO of Nara Logics, find her online or at https://naralogics.com   If you liked this episode, you might also enjoy: Ep. 107 - Azeem Azhar, Author of Exponential View,   Ep. 101 - Daniel Fozzati with IdeaLondon on System Innovation; and Ep. 80 - Ari Popper w/ SciFutures Find this episode of Inside Outside Innovation at insideoutside.io. You can also listen on Acast, iTunes, Sticher, Spotify, and Google Play FREE INNOVATION NEWSLETTER Get the latest episodes of the Inside Outside Innovation podcast, in addition to thought leadership in the form of blogs, innovation resources, videos, and invitations to exclusive events. SUBSCRIBE HERE For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

Jana Eggers is President of Nara Logics, an artificial intelligence company focused on turning big data into smart data.

This week we learn about AI from Jana Eggers, CEO of Nara Logics and creator of smart tools for big data.

This week we learn about AI from Jana Eggers, CEO of Nara Logics and creator of smart tools for big data.