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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.
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
Jeff Richards, Managing Director of GGV Capital, speaks with Eniac Ventures’ Founding General Partner Tim Young on board members: what to look for, how expectations when recruiting & building out your early team and how being a founder is a lot like his experience being a father. As a two-time founder with more than 13 years building and operating his companies across the U.S. and Asia, Jeff joined the world of venture capital with a wealth of first-hand experience. Today, at GGV, Jeff focuses on enterprise, cloud, and consumer/internet-based brands. His investments include HotelTonight (just acquired by Airbnb), Flipboard, Voicera and has been involved in Opendoor, Domo, Square and Wish. He currently sits on several boards, including Boxed, Brightwheel, Namely, Tile, to name a few, and most recently joined Electric. Having sat on more than a dozen boards, Jeff digs into all things board members - what to look for, how to optimize, expectations and how to handle bad behavior. He also gives his advice on the biggest differences between your board and team between Seed to A. Jeff discusses when it is time to start building out your team, why it is important to have an org chart, expectations when recruiting top talent and how founders should be building teams outside tier one markets. Jeff also shares some personal anecdotes from his life, like how being a founder prepared him for fatherhood and how he maintained his resilience when his company crashed right before his wedding. He also speaks to his biggest misses as an investor and the worst advice he’s received lately. If you liked this episode, please share and tag us on Twitter: @jrichlive @GGVCapital @timy0ung @EniacVC @seedtoscale Send comments or suggestions to seedtoscale@eniac.vc.
Today, Mohamed El-Geish joins us to talk about the voice AI technology powering Voicea. Gabi is back on the host bench with Mark as we learn how Voicea can improve productivity. EVA, the voice assistant, will record important information for you so you can focus on your meeting and will create tasks lists to help you stay organized. Voicea integrates well with multiple platforms to help accomplish your goals as well. You can send messages to Slack, add tasks to your Basecamp list, and more. Mohamed explains the process of building Voicea and how machine learning techniques and user feedback have helped make it such a useful tool. Now, Voicea is working to incorporate video, allowing users to play back things like important meeting slides. Mohamed El-Geish Mohamed El-Geish is the Chief Architect and co-founder at Voicea (formerly Voicera), a voice AI technology company based in Menlo Park, Calif. Voicea leverages AI technology to harness voice in the workplace to increase productivity through EVA, Voicea’s Enterprise Voice Assistant. EVA listens, takes notes, and automatically provides highlights, actions, and recaps so your meetings can be activated. Voicea can turn talk into action from any conversation with in-person chats, meetings, conference calls, or video conferences. Cool things of the week Query without a credit card: introducing BigQuery sandbox blog Exploring container security: Encrypting Kubernetes secrets with Cloud KMS blog Golden State Warriors power data analytics and fan experiences with Google Cloud blog Seven steps to making DevOps a reality blog GCP Podcast Episode 158: VP of Engineering - Melody Meckfessel podcast The Telegraph UK: Reimagining media with the help of Google Cloud blog Interview Voicea site Voicea Integrations site Kubernetes site GKE site Stackdriver site Docker site Voicea on LinkedIn site Mohamed El-Geish site Question of the week What if I’m working in a terminal in Cloud shell, and I want to move to another computer? How can I continue my work? Where can you find us next? Mark will be at GDC in March, Cloud NEXT, and ECG in April. Gabi will be at the Museum of Natural History for their Brown Scholars program giving a workshop on ML APIs and Cloud Functions. She’ll also be at Cloud NEXT.
حلقة جديدة من AskDeveloper Podcast مع محمد الجيش محمد يشغل منصب Chief Architect في شركة Voicera و له خبرة طويلة في مجالات الأنظمة الموزعة و الذكاء الصناعي في شركات مثلMicrosoft و LinkedIn نتحدث عن خبراته و مواضيع متعددة. Agenda Biography Chief Architect - Voicera Before joining Voicera, Mohamed was an engineering manager at LinkedIn working on feed personalization and relevance in addition to building a human-in-the-loop platform, and incubating venture bets by leading “moonshot” projects. Earlier at Microsoft, Mohamed led a team of engineers working on email delivery for Outlook.com and worked on a PaaS system that powered up online services with 400M+ users. Mohamed finds "ikigai" in machine learning, ultra-scale systems, debugging, and software craftsmanship. Stages 1- In Egypt? Any interesting thing? 2- Microsoft: scaling to hundreds of thousands of machines 3- LinkedIn: ML at scale, A/B testing, moving “faster”, microservices, standardized approach across the company, emphasizing craftsmanship 4- Voicera: moving faster, building from scratch, design choices, growing a team, AI-first approach, Tech 1- Why Go? 2- Computing with Data: the challenges of big data, 3- The skill gap between system engineering and data engineering/statisticians Advices • How did you find your way out of Egypt (A mandatory question for any Egyptian out of motherland)? • What drives you to learn more, and move forward? • What is it like to go from Corporate job to a Startup life? • Looking back, what would you have done differently? • Looking back, what would you wish to have known about or learned earlier? Misc • Your upcoming Book: http://ComputingWithData.com Mohamed El-Geish: http://www.elgeish.com
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.
Cory Treffiletti, Chief Marketing Officer for Voicera, long time digital marketing leader, devoted Dad and massive Pearl Jam enthusiast. You can learn more about Cory here: https://twitter.com/ctreff This episode is brought to you by Authors Unite. Authors Unite provides you with all the resources you need to become a successful author. You can learn more about Authors Unite here: http://authorsunite.com/. Thank you for listening to The Business Blast Podcast! Tyler --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/authorsunite/support
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!
How do you develop young leaders and entrepreneurs in this fast-paced world? What is the power of investing and building multi-million dollar companies? Jeff Richards sits down with Christopher Lochhead to answer these questions and discuss why it's smart to invest in China and Silicon Valley. "There's 7.3 billion people in the world. There's only 300 million in the US. So if your market opportunity is 300 million, you're missing the other 95% of the world." - Jeff Richards Three Things We Learned It's tough for kids these days Because kids have access to social media at an early age, they have a broader preview of the world out there compared to generations past. While it's very encouraging for them to find ways to become successful apart from the traditional get-educated-land-a-job scheme, being exposed to these things as a teenager can be a pitfall. They're hit with the pressure to be creative, innovative, and get together with the right crowd early, existential crises adults back then would often encounter not until after college. Pace of play nowadays is fast Technological advancements have made it quicker to build businesses and make them successful. However, with this quick pacing comes the added pressure that trickles down to entrepreneurs who are throwing so much into the fire in very little time in order to keep up. They have no time to catch a break, and risk many other aspects of their lives because of the swift turnover of things in the tech industry. We need to go back to building brick by brick The satisfaction of building a product with a great foundation springing from doing it right can't be undermined. People need to learn how to build businesses brick by brick, painstaking piece by painstaking piece. We need to slow down and revel the process of becoming successful. So much is going on in the tech world right now that people are compelled to constantly pit themselves into the fray. We must pause and zoom out of the small corner of the world that we're building in order to gain true insights of the world at large. If we're not trying to glean and learn as much as we can, then all our efforts and money will easily go up in smoke. Bio / Story: Jeff Richards A Managing Partner at GGV Capital, Jeff joined the firm in 2008 after spending 13 years as an entrepreneur and operating executive in the US and Asia. Prior to joining GGV, Jeff founded two venture-backed companies, one a success and one a “huge failure” in his own words – “I learned a lot.” His background as an entrepreneur gives him a unique perspective on the challenges of starting and running a venture-backed company, and he works closely with the GGV Talent team on Founders+Leaders. Jeff focuses on the Software and Internet sectors, and currently sits on the boards of or is a board observer at BigCommerce, one of the top ecommerce software platforms, Boxed, a rising star in the ecommerce space, Brightwheel, the leading SaaS provider for the early education vertical, Gladly, a next generation SaaS platform for customer care, Percolate, a leading marketing SaaS platform for global brands,PlushCare, a mobile platform for consumer healthcare, Reebonz, Southeast Asia's leader in luxury ecommerce, Slice, a market network for the pizza industry, and Tile, the platform for location. Jeff also led GGV's investments in Appirio (acquired in 2016 by Wipro), BlueKai (acquired in 2014 by Oracle), Buddy Media (acquired in 2012 by Salesforce), Citrus Lane (acquired in 2014 by Care.com), Evolv (acquired in 2014 by Cornerstone OnDemand), Flipboard, HotelTonight, ShiftGig, Voicera and Zylo, and has been actively involved in GGV's investments in Domo, OpenDoor, Square and Wish. Jeff is a frequent guest on CNBC and often writes on topics like startup management and leadership, venture-backed IPOs and shifts in tech trends across the US and China. Before GGV Prior to joining GGV, Jeff founded two software companies: R4,
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.
Virtual Assistants and collaborative work environments are coming to an enterprise near you and Voicera is leading the way. Join me as I talk to their CMO, Corey Trefilleti, about the state of the market, what to expect on the near horizon and how you can leverage these new technologies to boost productivity.
Cory Treffiletti, Chief Marketing Officer at Voicera, joins the Bowery Capital Startup Sales Podcast to discuss "Partner Marketing Strategies at the Early Stage."
Cory Treffiletti, Chief Marketing Officer at Voicera, joins the Bowery Capital Startup Sales Podcast to discuss "Partner Marketing Strategies at the Early Stage."
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
For this week’s episode of “Marketing Today,” Alan talks with Cory Treffiletti, CMO of Voicera, a technology company that has created an AI virtual assistant named Eva (Enterprise Voice Assistant). Eva can be invited to meetings and will listen and take notes as well as follow up on identified action items and decisions. Previously in his career, Treffiletti was the head of marketing for the Oracle Data Cloud, SVP and CMO of BlueKai, and was co-founder of numerous startups. Treffiletti also writes a long-running column for MediaPost (every Wednesday for the past 18 years, without fail), one of which, “The Future of AI? Just Watch Your Kids,” he discusses with Alan. During the podcast, Trefffiletti also talks about the importance of building teams that are driven by ideas, not egos. “You can set up any kind of culture, and process and incentives, and organizational structures you want,” says Treffiletti. “But the people that you have and their approach to business, and their balance of ego and humility, is going to define the way that business is grown.” Highlights from this week’s “Marketing Today” podcast include: Treffiletti discusses his background and career path. (1:34) Treffiletti draws distinctions between marketing strategies for startups and bigger companies. (2:58) “You should always be learning.” (6:10) Making sure the promise of the brand matches the experience of the brand. (11:07) Humility and authenticity go hand in hand. (13:12) Treffiletti on team building. (17:29) It’s OK to make mistakes, just not the same ones over and over again. (22:00) The future of AI according to Teffiletti: Just watch your kids. (24:14) Support the show.