Redefining AI - Artificial Intelligence with Squirro

In this episode:  Lauren Hawker Zafer  is joined by Rasmus Hauch the CTO of 2021.AI Who Can Benefit From This Conversation? This conversation is for all listeners who are interested in understanding what boundaries need to be shifted in a trustworthy AI context in both the private and public sector. You will learn what tools and datasets are necessary when building models for production in machine learning projects and where maintenance and retraining is of essence. In addition, you will learn about how 2021.AI help with the ML OPs cycle in corporations and what processes need to be implemented to ensure that an organisation can confirm that models in production and new models being built are ethical.  Who is Rasmus? Rasmus is the Chief Technology Officer at 2021.AI, an experienced technical leader and self-proclaimed geek with business drive. He is passionate about achieving business objectives and creating a better world using new technologies like AI, ML and IoT.  He is skilled in relationship management and takes pride in people-development and company building. He has worked as a Program Manager, Project Manager, Product and Services Sales, Technical Sales, Product Manager, Product Owner, CTO, People Manager, DPO, Chief/Lead Architect, Senior Consultant and Software Engineer for various international Financial, Insurance, Healthcare, Pharma, Life Science, Industrial, Supply Chain, Energy and Telecom customers. REDEFINING AI is powered by The Squirro Academy - learn.squirro.com. Try our free courses on AI, ML, NLP and Cognitive Search at the Squirro Academy and find out more about Squirro here.

In this episode: Master Data Management and The Insight Engine Lauren Hawker Zafer  is joined by Malcolm Hawker the Head of Data Strategy at Profisee. Who can benefit from this conversation? Master Data Management and The Insight Engine is a conversation for anyone who is interested in the value of Master Data Management (MDM) and how MDM fits into the current data mandala of: data fabrics, the data mesh, data integration, data orchestration and data activation. Take the steps to become truly data driven with Malcolm's experience and insight and start to grasp what the future of MDM holds and the types of technology that will provide the field with optimism; the Insight Engine being one of them. Who is Malcolm? Malcolm Hawker is a thought leader in the field of MDM and Data Governance and has consulted some of the largest businesses in the world on their enterprise information management strategies.  Malcolm is a frequent public speaker on data and analytics best practices, and cherishes the opportunity to share practical and actionable insights on how companies can achieve their strategic imperatives by improving their approach to data management. As the Head of Data Strategy for Profisee, Malcolm’s mission is to raise the awareness of the value of MDM and Data Governance to senior data leaders at companies across the globe.  MDM and Data Governance remain a significant challenge to most companies, but through the application of practical and outcome-driven data management best practices, Malcolm’s goal is to empower companies with the confidence and knowledge needed to become truly data driven. REDEFINING AI is powered by The Squirro Academy - learn.squirro.com. Try our free courses on AI, ML, NLP and Cognitive Search at the Squirro Academy and find out more about Squirro here.

In this episode: What is Trust in AI? Trustworthy AI – Lessons of a Chief Data Officer Lauren Hawker Zafer  is joined by her colleague Dr. Moritz Müller to host a one off conversation with Shameek Kundu, the Chief Strategy Officer and Head of Financial Services at Truera Inc.  Moritz and Lauren talk to Shameek about what trust in AI actually means. The whole conversation opens our eyes to the opportunities that data leaders can create and invites us to explore the candid successes and failures of a Chief Data Officer. As well as fore fronting the importance of building trust around AI and recognising the actual maturity level of data management, Shameek encourages us to think about going big when it comes to AI implementation.  Shameek himself has spent most of his career in driving responsible adoption of data analytics/ AI in the financial services industry. He is a member of the Bank of England’s AI Public-PrivateForum, the OECD Global Partnership on AI, and the Monetary Authority of Singapore-led Veritas initiative on Fairness, Ethics, Accountability and Transparency in AI.  Most recently, Shameek was Group Chief Data Officer at Standard Chartered Bank, where he helped the bank explore and adopt AI in multiple areas (e.g., credit, financial crime compliance, customer analytics, surveillance), and shaped the bank’s internal approach to responsible AI.  Prior to joining Standard Chartered in 2009, Shameek was an Associate Partner at McKinsey in London. REDEFINING AI is powered by The Squirro Academy - learn.squirro.com. Try our free courses on AI, ML, NLP and Cognitive Search at the Squirro Academy and find out more about Squirro here.

In this episode: People in Digital Transformation Lauren Hawker Zafer invites Ema Roloff to talk about why people need to stop working on their business and to start working in it. Having consulted a plethora of customers in her current role on the intrinsics and core processes that pertain to successful digital transformations, Ema empowers our listeners with practical tools and expert knowledge to motion transformation and change accordingly. Ema, is a widely recognized Intelligent Automation and Change Management expert. As the host of the YouTube series Digital Transformation Talks and the Co-Host of the LinkedIn Live series The Third Thursday, where she has conducted over 100 expert interviews in the space of Digital Transformation and Innovation, Ema has been recognized as a young tech leader. She is extremely passionate about motioning change around the way that the industry regards the role of the human/individual in digital transformation. Redefining AI is powered by The Squirro Academy - learn.squirro.com. Try our free courses on AI, ML, NLP and Cognitive Search at the Squirro Academy and find out more about Squirro here.

After years of trying to establish visible progression, awareness-raising and diverse employment efforts, there is still a lack of women and female diversification in the tech industry. Two reasons for this are:  a lack of mentors  a lack of female role models that embody diversity  In this episode: Between the Spreadsheets, Lauren Hawker Zafer invites Susan Walsh - The Classification Guru, to talk about her own experiences in the industry as a prominent female who embodies diversity, and how she consciously strives to break various moulds in the industry. Lauren and Susan's conversation goes from exploring Susan's passion for data, her classification methodology: COAT and its importance in data fabrics, to her brand success with sexualizing data and the processes associated with it. This conversation is for anyone who is interested in learning about data classification and more importantly for those who want to be part of motioning an industry of inclusion and diversification. Join Susan and Lauren to plant a seed of inspiration.  Redefining AI is powered by The Squirro Academy - learn.squirro.com. Try our free courses on AI, ML, NLP and Cognitive Search at the Squirro Academy and find out more about Squirro here.

In this episode: Enterprise Modernisation - AI Ethics, Lauren Hawker Zafer talks to Oriana Medlicott, a senior researcher at Fujitsu about the current reach of ethics and their role in technology and AI. Their conversation focuses on conscious and unconscious biases, as well as the ambiguities that surround ethics and the ethical, especially when considering the cultural specificity of ethics and what is ethical.  With a background in the effects of AI and Biotech on Human Nature, Oriana brings a unique perspective to the discussion that will excite anyone interested in philosophical and technical matters.  Redefining AI is powered by The Squirro Academy - learn.squirro.com, and hosted by Lauren Hawker Zafer - Head of Training and Education at Squirro. Try our free courses on AI, ML, NLP and Cognitive Search at the Squirro Academy and find out more about Squirro here.

Analytical research shows that around 93 percent of all online experiences begin with search. And, this happens because users rarely know what they want! A large proportion may have an idea but search is almost always required - to guide users, to show them what they are looking for and how to retrieve this. Ask yourself: how do you search for information? Have you ever enclosed a search term within quotation marks to prompt the search engine to search for that specific word or phrase, or used Boolean commands? And, what happens to a query once it enters the search bar? Where does it go and how do we end up with the information we retrieve? In this episode: Behind the Search Bar - Question Answering, Lauren Hawker Zafer speaks to Thomas Diggelmann about search, the end of search and the kind of technical journey that our search queries go on. As well as this, Thomas introduces Question Answering - the computer science discipline within the field of information retrieval and Natural Language Processing.  Redefining AI is powered by The Squirro Academy - learn.squirro.com, and hosted by Lauren Hawker Zafer - Head of Training and Education at Squirro. Find out more about Squirro here.

AI in Aviation, Aerospace and Autonomous Driving is an exciting dialogue led by Lauren Hawker Zafer and Dr. Oktay Arslan. The conversation is for all of us who have spent their time wondering about the minds that work on the world's most renowned automation systems and want to take an exclusive dive into the realms and challenges of automation at NASA and TESLA. Dr. Arslan is a well-recognised academic whose research has focused on planning, machine learning and computer vision for robotic systems and autonomous vehicles. He was a Staff Autopilot Software Engineer at Tesla Inc and contributed to the development of autopilot software; namely behaviour planning, path planning and controls for Tesla’s Model 3, S, X cars. He implemented the traffic-aware lane change and merging behaviours in navigate-on-autopilot feature, as well as the path planner for smart summon feature.  Prior to his role at Tesla Inc, Dr. Arslan worked as a Robotics Technologist at NASA/Caltech Jet Propulsion Laboratory where he contributed to several autonomy projects for various robotic platforms such as Quadrotors, Mars Rovers, and Spacecrafts.  Don't miss out on this conversation! Redefining AI is powered by The Squirro Academy - learn.squirro.com, and hosted by Lauren Hawker Zafer - Head of Training and Education at Squirro. Find out more about Squirro here.

Search has progressed over the last few years dramatically and is a former shadow of the simple keyword matching it used to be.  Many companies are passionately striving to produce improved language models, ones that enable more contextual and meaning-based matching of various guises.  So, with search and its advancements breaking down barriers to accessing and retrieving information, how is this effecting professional ecosystems?  From Cognitive Search to Insights is a conversation led by Lauren Hawker Zafer that invites us to explore the topic of search and the wonder that is Cognitive Search with: Dr. Moritz Müller. Redefining AI is powered by The Squirro Academy - learn.squirro.com, and hosted by Lauren Hawker Zafer - Head of Training and Education at Squirro. Find out more about Squirro's Cognitive Search Solution.

The Democratization of Machine Learning is an authentically inspiring conversation that invites us to explore the avenues of Hugging Face's crusade to democratize Machine Learning. In this episode, Lauren Hawker Zafer invites Julien Simon: the Chief Evangelist at Hugging Face to talk about the efforts that are going in to motioning more collaboration and openness, in a field that is still exposed to increasing risks of unaccountability, monopoly & power concentration.  The conversation focuses on the intrinsics of Machine Learning, the social responsibilities that lie with the attempt to democratize it, as well as the sociological consequences of the widespread use of e.g. AI language models, and how that will affect language, and crucially, meaning making, in the future. Julien is the Chief Evangelist at Hugging Face - the AI community that is on a mission to democratize good machine learning, one commitment at a time. Prior to his engagement at Hugging Face, Julien spent 6 years at Amazon Web Services as the Global Technical Evangelist for AI & Machine Learning and served as CTO/VP Engineering in large-scale startups for 10 years. In this particular role, he led large Software and Ops teams in charge of thousands of servers worldwide. If you are interested in building your own machine learning model to publish on Hugging Face, head over to Squirro's No Code AI Model Creator Course to build your own machine learning model. Redefining AI is powered by The Squirro Academy - learn.squirro.com, and hosted by Lauren Hawker Zafer - Head of Training and Education at Squirro.