Podcast appearances and mentions of omar tawakol

Omar Tawakol is a serial entrepreneur. He sold two companies in five years, including BlueKai to Oracle in 2014. But he's in no rush with his new virtual product placement startup Rembrand. He says he's having too much fun. Plus: Meditating on the end of Oracle Advertising.

Like Rocky Balboa and Apollo Creed, the fiercest competitors can sometimes become friends. Omar Tawakol is a prime example. As the founder and CEO of BlueKai, he went head-to-head with Tom, Vivek, and the 'Krux mafia' for dominance in the Data Management Platform arena. A serial entrepreneur with roots in New York and Egypt, Omar eventually steered BlueKai to a successful acquisition by Oracle before creating Voicea, which Cisco acquired. Today, he's pioneering a new venture called Rembrand (rembrand.com), which innovates in product placement through generative fusion AI.Have you ever heard of a 5-year-old CEO? Omar Tawakol made his first sale by pitching coasters to neighbors. From playground profits to knockout big exits, Omar shares how he had “no choice but to build companies” from an early age. What makes the human element the most rewarding part of company building? Are better algorithms or richer data the key to winning in tech? Where does AI stand in the current hype cycle? How do you intertwine AI into human workflows?  And, how not to let success get to your head.Omar joins Tom and Vivek on the latest episode of The {Closed} Session to recount tales from the entrepreneurial ringside, insights from his journey as a serial startup champ, and a sneak peek at his latest venture that's punching above its weight in the AI arena. Plus, a totally unpaid-for-promotion: where to find the best coffee in Menlo Park.Learn more about Rembrand at rembrand.comLearn more about super{set} at superset.comFind more episodes at www.theclosedsession.com

Omar Tawakol is CEO and co-founder Rembrand, a company using generative AI to automate product placement in online videos. Earlier this year, he announced an $8 million seed funding round and this month added several more strategic investors. Rembrand represents a return to Tawakol's roots in advertising technology and his graduate work in AI. He saw there was an underutilized opportunity for product placement at scale that could be delivered cost-effectively for online influencers. AI is enabling the company to significantly expand the market. Tawakol was my guest for Episode 61, in 2018. At the time, he was CEO of Voicera, which later rebranded to Voicea and then was acquired by Cisco 2019. Voicea was an early leader in the automated meeting transcription space and pioneered novel architectures that led to rapid increases in performance. Earlier in his career, Tawakol was CEO of Blue Kai, the leading DMP for enterprise marketers. The company was acquired by Oracle in 2016 and he then served as SVP of Oracle Data Cloud. He was formerly a board director at PlaceIQ and is a board member for Liveramp.

Our latest episode of the Marketecture podcast with Ari Paparo, Eric Franchi from AperiumVentures and Paul Bannister, the CSO at CafeMedia.Cafe Media is always on the cutting-edge of monetization for digital publishers, so we ask Paul to give perspective on the Chrome sandbox, Trade Desk's UID and OpenPath initiatives, and everything else you need to worry about.Also, ad tech veteran Neal Mohan takes the helm at YouTube. And BlueKai founder Omar Tawakol has a new start-up for digital product placements.Visit Marketecture.tv to join our community and get access to full-length in-depth interviews. Marketecture is a new way to get smart about technology. Our team of real industry practitioners helps you understand the complex world of technology and make better vendor decisions through in-depth interviews with CEOs and product leaders at dozens of platforms. We are launching with extensive coverage of the marketing and advertising verticals with plans to expand into many other technology sectors.Copyright (C) 2023 Marketecture Media, Inc.

Omar co-founded pioneering data platform BlueKai and lead Oracle Data Cloud before launching Voicera and now Rembrand - and AI tool for video product placementMore

Omar co-founded pioneering data platform BlueKai and lead Oracle Data Cloud before launching Voicera and now Rembrand - and AI tool for video product placementMore

Omar Tawakol is a serial entrepreneur whose latest company, Voicea, was acquired by Cisco in 2019. On today's episode, Jon Sakoda speaks with Omar Tawakol about his journey to becoming a three-time founder and his advice to new founders caught up in the noise of the industry. Find The Creativity in Every Step of Iteration [01:48-03:19]  - To Omar, being a founder means creating value to bring to the world. While founders can lose this sentiment throughout the process of building a product, listen to hear how Omar infuses creativity in every step of the product market journey. Stay in The Game by Fostering Your Passion [12:44-13:24] - Omar has been in the game for decades and knows a thing or two about staying resilient through the startup journey. Learn about why Omar believes passion is the key to going the full distance as a serial founder.Architect a Team You Can Evolve With [13:02-13:30] - As a serial entrepreneur, Omar has built many teams that have carried their products through multiple iterations. It is impossible to be a successful founder without a team that fills the gap in your expertise. Listen to hear how hiring team members with the same love and persistence for your domain will carry you to the finish line.Surround Yourself With Experts [15:28-16:06] - While it's important to have a vested interest in your domain, it is impossible to know it all as a first-time founder. Omar believes that even with deep knowledge of your domain, it is in a founder's best interest to hire experts who can steer you in the right direction.

UC Today's Tom Wright hosts Omar Tawakol, VP of Webex Growth, at Cisco.

UC Today’s Rob Scott hosts Omar Tawakol, Vice President and General Manager at Cisco Contact Center.

Backed by corporate investors that included Cisco, Google, Microsoft and Salesforce, Omar Tawakol founded Voicea in 2017, and served as the company's CEO until its acquisition by Cisco in September 2019. Voicea's core offering was EVA, an in-meeting AI assistant that transcribed meetings, generated highlights, and pushed relevant meeting content to productivity tools like Slack and Microsoft Teams. EVA is now being rolled into Cisco's Webex Assistant, and Tawakol is currently the VP and GM of the Cisco Contact Center. In this talk, he explores the strategies he employed as he scaled Voicea and landed it at Cisco. He also draws on his experience building BlueKai, a data exchange and data management platform company he founded in 2007 and sold to Oracle in 2014, and draws contrasts between the two very different B2B business models.

Backed by corporate investors that included Cisco, Google, Microsoft and Salesforce, Omar Tawakol founded Voicea in 2017, and served as the company’s CEO until its acquisition by Cisco in September 2019. Voicea’s core offering was EVA, an in-meeting AI assistant that transcribed meetings, generated highlights, and pushed relevant meeting content to productivity tools like Slack and Microsoft Teams. EVA is now being rolled into Cisco’s Webex Assistant, and Tawakol is currently the VP and GM of the Cisco Contact Center. In this talk, he explores the strategies he employed as he scaled Voicea and landed it at Cisco. He also draws on his experience building BlueKai, a data exchange and data management platform company he founded in 2007 and sold to Oracle in 2014, and draws contrasts between the two very different B2B business models.

Backed by corporate investors that included Cisco, Google, Microsoft and Salesforce, Omar Tawakol founded Voicea in 2017, and served as the company’s CEO until its acquisition by Cisco in September 2019. Voicea’s core offering was EVA, an in-meeting AI assistant that transcribed meetings, generated highlights, and pushed relevant meeting content to productivity tools like Slack and Microsoft Teams. EVA is now being rolled into Cisco’s Webex Assistant, and Tawakol is currently the VP and GM of the Cisco Contact Center. In this talk, he explores the strategies he employed as he scaled Voicea and landed it at Cisco. He also draws on his experience building BlueKai, a data exchange and data management platform company he founded in 2007 and sold to Oracle in 2014, and draws contrasts between the two very different B2B business models.

This podcast interview focuses on product innovation that has the power to democratize the skills of great leaders and make every one of us more productive. My guest is Omar Tawakol.Omar Tawakol is Chief Executive Officer of Voicea which was recently acquired by Cisco. Prior to Voicea, Omar Tawakol was the founder and CEO of BlueKai which was the leading Data Exchange and Data Management Platform company in the marketing industry. Oracle acquired BlueKai in 2014. At Oracle, Omar was the SVP & GM of the Oracle Data Cloud (ODC). The ODC pioneered the Data-as-a-Service category and was used by 97 of the top 100 US brands to create a 360o view of their customers across all channels. Omar earned an MS in CS from Stanford (BS, MIT) where he researched and published work on AI agents.Their promise: “Voicea transforms your meetings into time well spent”. This inspired me, hence I invited Omar to my podcast. We explore what’s broken in our busy business life that are increasingly loaded with meetings, and what can be if technology and people blend in the right way. Here are some of his quotes:I was running the Oracle Data Cloud after Oracle acquired my company BlueKai.I'd meet with some great leaders like Satya at Microsoft, of course, Larry Ellison, sir Martin Sorrell, just great business leaders.What struck me when I'd meet them is that they'd be in a meeting with me completely focused on our conversation. They didn't have their laptop open so that they could take notes and then get distracted. They weren't looking at their phone, they were looking at me.And when they left the meeting, there was an email with a follow up, and you realize, of course, they have a staff around them. That's helping them, but they also had some excellent skills themselves. And so, given how much time we spend in meetings, it's one of the largest time sinks of all knowledge workers, I saw that there was an opportunity really to help democratize the skills of these great executives.During this interview, you will learn four things:That a new generation of applications is arising around the concept of a Voice First UI – and that this could open up a wealth of innovation opportunities for youWhy the best way to solve a problem is often to do the very opposite of peoples’ natural reaction. Voicea for example transforms habits such as the fear of missing out to the joy of missing out.How big impact is created by looking for areas where you can have a position of data advantage or ideally data dominance.Why you should aim to embed elements of virality in your solution – elements that people talk about, and create desire amongst others. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This is our very first episode and we're really excited to share it with you. This is a conversation with Omar Tawakol, CEO of Voicea. Omar and I have worked together for close to 7 years now. He was previously SVP and GM of the Oracle Data Cloud and co-founder, CEO of BlueKai. Omar has a history of disrupting categories with technology and a strong sense of what customers will enjoy. Have a listen to his vision for Voicea and the category of voice-activated AI as a whole.

Voicea, the voice collaboration platform is launching a new offering to help people attend fewer meetings. Voicea is powered by an Enterprise Voice Assistant named EVA. EVA uses AI to highlights key takeaways in meetings and creates actionable recaps in real time with either voice command, live tap on the dashboard or simply powered by the AI and your keywords. EVA can join conference lines, on calls, or in-person allowing meeting goers to focus on the conversation knowing that highlights are being captured. Voicea came out of beta in spring 2018 and has already processed more than 9mm minutes in meetings across all sizes of companies from SMB to the enterprise, with almost 1.5mm highlights and actions from those meetings. The end goal is to turn talk into action faster, have “smarter” meetings and help users get more accomplished at work. After recently rolling out Teams, which blows open the collaborative nature of the platform and help meeting goes think like senior executives and choose the meetings to attend and gain highlights from the others. Teams make meetings a structured data asset that can be accessed by entire teams. This enables others who did not attend a meeting to benefit from the ideas and discussions. I felt compelled to find out more and invite them onto my daily tech podcast. Omar Tawakol, Chief Executive Officer of Voicea shares his vision and talks about how he believes we are missing the boat unless we pay attention to Attention Intelligence.

Omar Tawakol is CEO and co-founder of Voicera which he says is creating a conversations inbox and system of record for meetings. The core solution is automated meeting transcription that also generates meeting notes with a highlights summary. Omar goes into detail about how the Ensemble service applies multiple speech recognition engines to address the meeting transcription challenge before applying AI to extract highlights. He earned a Masters degree in computer science from Stanford and engineering degree from MIT. This week's interview goes deep into enterprise voice applications for productivity and even covers the idea of compounding network effects associated with a combination of a data advantage and AI that continually improves.

On this week's Tech Cat Show we talk with Omar Tawakol, CEO of Voicera, who is using AI to solve one of the biggest business problems, making meetings relevant. Voicera has created Eva, a AI virtual assistant. Eva is in your meetings to help you capture what’s important and connect the dots to the rest of your collaboration systems. Omar will share with us how voice and AI can be leveraged to make our work days more actionable as well as some hints to where the future of AI will take us in the workplace. You'll learn alot on this week's Tech Cat Show with Omar Tawakol, from Voicera.

First Segment: Voicera. Omar Tawakol, Founder/CEO. Eva is an in-meeting AI assistant. Eva will take notes for you in meetings you attend. Running late, double booked, had to leave early? Don’t miss out - Eva can take notes for you there too! Eva will listen and pull out important moments - we call these Predictive Highlights. If you want to mark something yourself, just say, "Okay Eva, Action Item" or tap in the app. With Eva in your meetings, they become activated. Voicera doesn’t own your meeting data. It’s your meeting, your data, not ours.   Second Segment: Computer and Technology News. Today's Topics Include: Huawei Becomes Worlds Second Phone Seller AMD Chip Maker Won't Focus On Future Chipsets FCC Made A Podcast! Steam For Linux Adds 1,000 Games In Over A Week Air Pollution Done Are Is Making Stupider And more! For full show notes, check out ComputerAmerica.com!

One of my favorite pieces for how to think about technology platform shifts is Chris Dixon's "What's Next in Computing". Chris notes that if we look at history, we see that irrespective of the way financial markets perform, technology platform shifts happen consistently every 10–15 years. One of the most important platform shifts of the next decade is voice. Consumer markets have started to appreciate the strength of Alexa, Echo and Google Home but the recent demonstration of Google Assistant at Google I/O 2018 really expanded the imagination for what will be possible in a decade as deep learning and natural language exponentially improve. Lately, I've been incredibly interested by the impact voice will have in the enterprise. This week, it was a thrill to chat with Omar Tawakol, one of the key players in today's enterprise voice landscape. Omar is the CEO of Voicera, a voice-activated AI for the workplace; he's raised $20M to leverage AI to augment tasks, make meetings more productive and create more efficient workflows. Eva (Voicera's AI-assistant) in actionPrior to Voicera, Omar was the founder and CEO of BlueKai which built the worlds largest consumer data marketplace and DMP. Oracle acquired BlueKai in 2014 & Omar led Oracle Data Cloud where he scaled the team to over 1,000 people and pioneered the ODC to become the leading Data-as-a-Service provider to 96 of the top 100 US marketers. Omar earned an MS in CS from Stanford (BS, MIT) where he researched and published work on AI agents. Check out the conversation and our other episodes on iTunes.

Omar Tawakol is Chief Executive Officer of Voicera. Prior to Voicera, Omar Tawakol was the founder and CEO of BlueKai which built the worlds largest consumer data marketplace and DMP. Oracle acquired BlueKai in 2014 & Omar served as the SVP & GM of the Oracle Data Cloud. Omar earned an MS in CS from Stanford (BS, MIT) where he researched and published work on AI agents. This episode is sponsored by Liberty Tax, InStitchu, Elitra Health, and Right Networks. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices